The eiNetwork, a collaboration of the Allegheny County Library Association and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, has opted for the AquaBrowser library software, which provides libraries with visual and faceted search solutions. AquaBrowser will provide eiNetwork’s 44 member libraries — which have holdings of nearly 4 million items — with an independent discovery layer. The Medialab Solutions product seeks to offer users a contemporary web experience without any disruption to the library’s backroom and staff activities.

  Information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced new licensing agreements with medical publisher Cancer Information Group (CIG) Media and A & C Black, which publishes a diverse set of books in a wide variety of subjects and categories, including scientific reference. As a leading aggregator of online scientific information, Ovid works with more than 150 international and society publishers, offering a wide selection of online books, journals, and databases via OvidSP, its leading precision search and discovery platform.

  Publisher Taylor & Francis is set to publish the journal Palynology from Volume 34 in 2010. The journal is the official journal of AASP – The Palynological Society. With Taylor & Francis, the journal will see a number of improvements. These include moving the journal to Taylor & Francis’ informaWorld platform, bringing benefits including HTML versions of articles, forward citation linking, and online publication of articles ahead of the print issue through iFirst.

  GenomeQuest, Inc., a US-based provider of biological sequence search, content and analysis services, has announced an alliance with scientific software company Biomatters Ltd. The deal is to provide researchers a ‘top-down’ discovery methodology for next generation sequencing (NGS) projects. Specifically, the companies will integrate Biomatters’ desktop analysis and visualisation software, Geneious Pro v4.8, with GenomeQuest 6.0Beta, an SDM platform which allows research organisations to manage and mine their sequence data across a portfolio of projects as well as the world of reference data.

  EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services, has signed an agreement with AHC Media LLC (AHC). Under the deal EMpact will serve as sales and marketing representative for AHC’s biotechnology and medical device publications. AHC Media provides news and strategic business information in the rapidly changing biotechnology and medical device industries.

  STM publisher Springer has announced a partnership with the Chinese Society of Oceanography (CSO) to publish the latter’s official journal, Acta Oceanologica Sinica, beginning January 2010. The journal will be published at Springer both electronically and in print, starting with Volume 29, Issue 1.

  Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, has expanded its journal publishing programme in dentistry. The leading society publisher will be publishing its latest journal, the Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry (JICD), from August 2010. Professor Lakshman Samaranayake, Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry in Hong Kong University, serves as Editor-in-chief of the journal. He is supported by a highly respected team of 15 associate editors covering all aspects of dental research.

  Independent academic and professional publisher SAGE has announced a new agreement with the International Headache Society (IHS) to publish their official journal, Cephalalgia. Now in its 29th volume, Cephalalgia provides an international forum for original research papers, review articles and short communications on all aspects of headache.

  Information services provider Thomson Reuters has announced that Associated Content has adopted the OpenCalais service to achieve deeper classification and categorisation within its vast library of over 1.7 million pieces of content. Associated Content is an open content network that enables individuals and media companies to publish quality content on any topic, in any format.

  The European Commission (EC), in a policy document, has declared as its target to bring the number of digitised objects in Europe's multilingual digital library, Europeana, to 10 million by 2010. The EC has also opened a public debate on the future challenges for book digitisation in Europe. The challenges include the potential of the public and private sector to team up and the need to reform Europe's too fragmented copyright framework.

  STM publisher Springer has signed an agreement with The Endocrine Society to co-publish a new journal, Hormones & Cancer, starting in January 2010. Jonathan Li of the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutics at Kansas University School of Medicine will serve as the editor-in chief of the journal.

  Publisher Future Science Group has announced the availability of the Biotechhnology Collection that seeks to provide a forum for commentary and analysis of the rapidly expanding wealth of information in the biotechnology industry. Focusing on the most important advances and highlights, each journal has been designed to deliver essential concise information in an easily assimilated format – projected to be vital for the increasingly time-constrained professional.

  STM and business publisher Inderscience recently published the first issues of four new titles. The journals are: International Journal of Collaborative Engineering; International Journal of Decision Sciences, Risk and Management; International Journal of Global Warming; and International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence.

  RMIT Publishing, a provider of authoritative content from the Australasian region, has announced the launch of the Informit Health Collection ─ new for 2010. A full text online resource, it is expected to deliver instant, cover-to-cover access to core allied health content from the Australasian region. Informit Health Collection will provide access to evidence-based research and case studies of practical support to practitioners and students in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health roles.

  Academic publisher SAGE and the Association for Assessment in Counseling and Education, a division of the American Counseling Association, have announced the 2010 launch of a new journal, Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (C.O.R.E). SAGE will publish the journal bi-annually beginning in 2010.

  Symyx Technologies, Inc., a provider of technologies for R&D, has announced a new release of the Symyx Isentris decision support system. Isentris 3.2 enables scientists to explore, compare and report on information spanning multiple experiments captured in electronic lab notebooks, the Symyx Lab Execution and Analysis software suite, laboratory information management systems and other information management systems.

  Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome has launched with the publisher as the eighth addition to the Independent Journals Portfolio this year. The journal is the official journal of the Brazilian Diabetes Society (SBD). The journal presents original material on any aspect of laboratory, animal or clinical research about the physiology and pathophysiology of diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

  B2B media company Penton Media has announced the launch of Energy Efficiency & Technology and eetweb.com,, a new media resource designed to serve engineers seeking to boost energy efficiency in products and processes to bring clean, reliable, and affordable energy technologies to the marketplace. The publication seeks to help energy-efficiency engineers develop and employ state-of-the-art energy systems and practices by providing a forum for the exchange of information among those involved in energy conversion and efficiency.

  The Special Libraries Association (SLA), a non-profit organisation, has announced the formation of a new professional interest division that will focus on issues related to planning, creating, maintaining and using taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, authority files, and other controlled vocabularies and information structures. The Taxonomy Division of SLA will provide information professionals interested in these topics a focused professional home-base within SLA, cutting-edge learning opportunities, and access to a global network of colleagues.

  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Public Engagement, SPEC Kit 312, which explores the ways in which traditional ‘outreach’ programmes in academic libraries are evolving to address the emergent concept of ‘public engagement’ at the institutional level. SPEC Kit 312 includes documentation from respondents in the form of mission statements, descriptions of library engagement programmes, examples of awards programme, scholarship of engagement information and job descriptions.

  BioOne, a web-based aggregator of research in biological, ecological and environmental sciences, has announced five new titles and their respective not-for-profit publishers to the 2010 BioOne Collections. Four titles will join the BioOne.2 collection, while one title will be added to the BioOne.1 collection. Four of the five titles are ISI-ranked, while the fifth is claimed to be a promising new-start in its third year of publication. Two of the publications are based in the UK and two in Poland. The fifth is US-based, with a long publishing history.

  The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International has announced the launch of e-books to enable users to stay up-to-date on mobility engineering technology. The SAE online bookstore now offers a variety of titles in electronic format, including new releases, best-sellers and out-of-print titles. Customers can choose to order an entire book or a specific chapter. All purchased content is archived in a personal, electronic library.

  Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS has announced that Mark Logic Corporation, a provider of software for information-centric applications, has been selected as TEMIS Business Partner of the Year 2009. The award seeks to recognise a select TEMIS certified partner for delivering exemplary solutions and services to customers. Mark Logic was chosen from among a dozen nominations from around the world, and recognised at the Worldwide TEMIS User Conference 2009, which was held earlier this year in Barcelona.

  Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced that it has expanded its Shibboleth compliance for OvidSP, its market-leading search and discovery platform, to include the Japanese Shibboleth Federation. Now, institutions in Japan that are part of that country’s Shibboleth Federation can establish authorisation rights for end users allowing for secure, single sign-on access to important resources on OvidSP.

  Librarians, legal scholars, authors, publishers and technology companies have announced the formation of a coalition – the Open Book Alliance – that will counter the proposed Google Book Settlement in its current form. The proposed settlement is between Google, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Authors’ Guild. Approval of the settlement plan currently is pending before the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The deal is also currently being investigated by the US Justice Department on antitrust grounds. The Open Book Alliance will seek to inform policymakers and the public about the serious legal, competitive and policy issues in the settlement proposal.

  The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Kent Anderson (Do Publishing Associations Match Publishing Realities?); Aimee Whitcroft (The threat to science publishing); Gideon Burton (Scholarly Communications must be Open); and Philip Davis (Naughty Twins and the Impact of Journals). A service of Knowledgespeak.com, Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of blogspeak Here

  Publisher O'Reilly Media and TechWeb, co-producers of the Web 2.0 Summit, have sought help in choosing three charities that embody the spirit of Web Squared to partner with for this year's Web 2.0 Summit. The summit is slated for October 20-22, 2009, at the Westin Market Street in San Francisco. Moderated by Battelle of Federated Media and O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc., the event will host various experts discussing how the web is evolving according to Web Squared.

  Construction information provider McGraw-Hill Construction, part of The McGraw-Hill Companies, will host a national conference on the ‘Business of BIM’ at the Mission Bay Conference Center at the University of California, San Francisco. The rapid emergence of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) technologies is revolutionising the way architecture, engineering and construction firms work together to communicate, solve problems and build better projects. The event scheduled for September 21-22, 2009, seeks to bring design and construction professionals closer to BIM's benefits.

  Journal subscription services provider EBSCO has announced that its EBSCO A-to-Z (A-to-Z) service now offers enhancements to the Overlap Analysis reporting functionality. The new features are expected to provide librarians with essential tools for comparing coverage overlap in library e-collections. The latest version of Overlap Analysis reporting seeks to eliminate guesswork — library collections can be compared simply and clearly on one page with the option to export directly into Microsoft Excel.

  Library technology solutions provider SirsiDynix has announced that the Libraries in Clackamas County (LINCC) in Oregon has successfully installed and begun operations using the SirsiDynix Symphony Integrated Library System (ILS), SirsiDynix e-Library, SirsiDynix Director’s Station and SirsiDynix Web Reporter business intelligence tools, and other solutions. LINCC is a system of 10 independent city libraries and one county library that cooperate together to share a centralised SirsiDynix Symphony system with a single patron and bibliographic database.

  E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions has announced that Peter McCracken, the company’s co-founder and current Director of Research, will be leaving the company September 30 to pursue technology projects related to his lifelong interest in maritime history. Serials Solutions grew from McCracken’s initial vision for improved management of electronic resources developed while working as a reference librarian at East Carolina University and the University of Washington.