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News in Brief ORCID privacy policy gets TRUSTe certification ORCID has been awarded TRUSTe’s Privacy Seal. This signifies that ORCID’s privacy statement and practices have been reviewed for compliance with TRUSTe’s programme requirements including transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection and use of personal information.
Thieme opens office in Rio de Janeiro Thieme has opened a South American office. Thieme Publicações LTDA, which is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has just published the first Portuguese-language clinical book Endonasal: Atlas de anatomica cirúrgica.
The publisher says that its activities in Brazil will target the clinical market. The subsidiary aims to become the leading surgical knowledge provider in Portuguese.
World Health Organization joins Europe PMC The World Health Organization (WHO) will become a member of the open- access repository Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC). The repository already includes 25 other life sciences and biomedical research funders as members. The announcement is said to have been made in preparation for the launch of the WHO policy on open access on 1 July 2014.
Semantico launches US subsidiary Semantico, which supplies digital publishing solutions to the scholarly and professional market, is launching a US subsidiary, Semantico Inc. According to the company, a US subsidiary will give Semantico opportunities to build stronger relationships with academic publishers, scholarly societies, and educational institutes in the USA.
Ideas Box helps refugees connect with information
Libraries Without Borders has launched a new project to help with the intellectual needs of refugee communities. The so-called Ideas Box is described as a portable cultural centre that contains printed books and e-books, video and films, computers and tablets, and satellite access to the internet. According to Patrick Weil, chairman of Libraries Without Borders, ‘each of these items can be customised in the language, culture, and for the special needs of the children and adults for whom the Ideas Box will be delivered.’
Created by designer Philippe Starck and developed in cooperation with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the aim of the Ideas Box is ‘for every refugee to find, as soon as possible, a way to reconnect with the world and to create her or his own future.’
The boxes are aimed at helping refugees ‘reconnect with the world’
The first two boxes have recently been deployed, in cooperation with the UNHCR and IRC, in Burundi for Congolese refugees. The next steps are to deliver Ideas Box kits to Syrian refugees and vulnerable host communities in Lebanon and Jordan. ‘The needs are tremendous in so many
Partnership digitises old medical books
The Wellcome Library and Jisc have signed a new three-year agreement to digitise more than 10 million pages of 19th century published works. These works focus on
medicine and related disciplines and are drawn from university
and other research libraries across the UK. The Wellcome Library is digitising its own 19th century collections and Jisc will support the digitisation of complementary collections housed within universities.
The aim of the project is to create a comprehensive online resource for the history of medicine and related sciences. The Wellcome Library will also provide support to allow non- university research libraries to participate in the project.
Aries System automates transfer of workflow data into peer-review metric
Aries Systems and STRIATUS/ JBJS have announced a development partnership that will allow relevant workflow data to be transferred automatically from Editorial Manager to the PRE-Score peer-review quality metric. This will enable the PRE-Score to be calculated and
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published with the manuscript. Aries anticipates that the new functionality will be available to Editorial Manager customers in late 2014.
PRE-Score, which was acquired by STRIATUS/JBJS in January, aims to provide a standardised way for readers and
research funders to assess the quality of peer review undertaken by scholarly journals. The PRE- Score algorithm uses a variety of inputs stored in the journal’s peer review system such as the number of review cycles to determine the PRE-score for a manuscript.
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places all over the world: the Ideas Box is vital not only in humanitarian contexts but also within disadvantaged areas of developing and developed countries,’ says Weil in an appeal for support. The website gives details of how to provide support to the project.
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