Content enhancement and knowledge services company Scope e-Knowledge Center, India, a Quatrro Group Company, has re-launched its STM news service Knowledgespeak (www.knowledgespeak.com) with new looks and functionalities.
The new functionalities have been integrated within the K-store platform. Designed to be a commercial platform for stakeholders in the print and publishing industry, K-store is an interaction driven utility wherein subscribers can post and view information across three sections - Jobs, B2B Informediary (a virtual directory of storefronts) and Tenders and Contracts.
Registered members can advertise job vacancies, host virtual storefronts and post tenders. The company is currently running an introductory offer where users can simply register and post information for free. This offer is valid for the entire month. Users may please note that K-store currently contains records of about 120 companies that are listed in the current Knowledgespeak directory section. These companies can contact kstore@scopeknowledge.com to claim their account information. Users will be provided a username and password to manage/update/refine their accounts during the first month of the offer period. Others can follow a simple registration form to post their records.
In addition, the site also features a Content Report section. This section will include a series of Short Analytical Feature Reports on key topics that could be of relevance to the global STM publishing industry. The first report titled 'Challenges in scholarly & academic publishing' will look at different challenges being faced by the industry and expert advises now how can the industry overcome these challenges. Topics covered in this report include the changing landscape of publishing, new publishing models, implications of prominent industry trends, issues affecting the industry (copyrights and access related) and finally a summary of challenges ahead and outlook for the industry.
The Forum section allows users to exchange information and ideas on different issues pertaining to the industry.
Launched in June 2005 by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a leading information and research company that help clients build monetizable intellectual property, Knowledgespeak is today the benchmark for Scientific Technical & Medical (STM) publishing news and is widely subscribed by people who matter in the industry in over 80 nations globally. Though the majority of subscribers are senior management professionals of STM publishing companies in the US, UK and Europe, the audience also includes scholarly professionals, scientists, research institutes, scientific/technical/medical organisations, academicians, and libraries.
Knowledgespeak currently registers nearly 1 million hits per month, drawing around 10,000 unique visitors each month and recording an average of 150,000 page views per month (statistics include RSS subscriptions and newsletter subscriptions).
For more information on Knowledgespeak and K-store, please visit https://www.knowledgespeak.com/kspeak/kstore.asp
