Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced a partnership with FiledBy to provide over 100 Cambridge authors with websites on the FiledBy marketing platform. Cambridge is one of the world's largest university publishers with a programme that encompasses virtually every academic discipline, including science, technology & medicine, humanities, social sciences, reference and general interest books, journals and electronic products. A pilot programme was designed to register 50 Cambridge authors on FiledBy and provide them with powerful premium web tools. Given the success of the pilot program, Cambridge elected to expand with an additional 65 author sites in August.

  The British Library has announced that the UK has made its first major independent contribution of data to the WorldWideScience Alliance project (www.worldwidescience.org) with the upload of the Environment Research Funders' Forum (ERFF) Research Database. The database holds information on some 20,000 publicly funded environmental research projects and programmes that have been funded by ERFF's member organisations since 2005. Although data is being continually added to the ERFF's collections, anyone using WorldWideScience.org will be able to access information through the federated search function.

  Publisher linking services provider CrossRef has announced a collaboration with archiving organisations and publishers to ensure that several journals that have ceased publication remain linkable with the CrossRef DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) originally assigned to the articles. The titles include Auto/Biography and Graft from SAGE and Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention from Oxford University Press (OUP). All three titles are now available through both CLOCKSS and Portico.

  Health information provider MEDai, Inc., part of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that Novant Health, a not-for-profit integrated group of hospitals and physician practices, will roll out MEDai’s Pinpoint Review to its nine hospitals in North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina. Pinpoint Review is a patient-specific early-warning system for hospitals that generates predictions for acute-care patients, focusing on the likelihood of a patient developing a complication, like decubitus ulcers, or at risk for being readmitted. Such events increase hospital mortality rates, boost healthcare costs, compromise patient care quality and safety, and result in lower government reimbursement to hospitals.

  STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it has become one of the Charter Members of the InChI Trust. Originally developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChI) is a non-proprietary, international standard to represent chemical structures as an alpha-numeric character string generated by an algorithm.

  Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary has announced that five new publishers have joined ebrary's Half-Off Sale, adding over 1,800 eligible titles to the industry's biggest cost savings programme of the year. The most recent publishers to make backlist titles available through ebrary at 50 percent off list price through December 15, 2009, are ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, Informa Healthcare, IOS Press, John Benjamins, and University of British Columbia Press. To date 35 publishers have signed up to participate in ebrary’s new programme.

  Hazelden, a nonprofit organisation, and the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC) have announced a partnership to develop a variety of resources for the mental health and addiction treatment industries. These resources, including curricula, books, multimedia tools, and staff-development trainings, will be published under a new ‘Dartmouth PRC–Hazelden’ imprint. The new joint venture will launch with the fall 2009 release of A Guide for Living with PTSD: Perspectives for Professionals and Their Clients, a video on the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

  Print and electronic subscription information provider EBSCO has been selected by the Department of Health, Victoria as the supplier of choice for the next phase of the Clinicians Health Channel. The Clinicians Health Channel is a resource for employees of the Department of Health, Victoria which gives them online access to an array of world class clinical information. As part of the deal, EBSCO will supply, for the first time, MIMS Online, a leading source of online medicines information for Australian health care professionals.

  NextDocs Corporation has announced enhancements to their partnership with Thomson Reuters, a source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Together, the companies have developed and demonstrated effective integration between the NextDocs Document and Quality Management System and the Thomson Reuters Liquent Regulatory software platform, providing a comprehensive solution for managing regulatory content from authoring to publishing and submission.

  B2B publisher PennWell Corporation has announced that its Electronics Media Group is launching a new website, ElectrolQ.com, focusing on electronics and electronics manufacturing. The new site provides a gateway to the content of five different PennWell brands - Solid State Technology, Photovoltaics World, Advanced Packaging, Small Times and SMT. Each brand powers one of the five sections of the new site - semiconductors, photovoltaics, packaging, nanotech/MEMS, and surface mount technology.

  STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new web platform - Elsevier Mental Health. Elsevier Mental Health is a website bringing together information and resources from all of Elsevier’s products and services in clinical psychology, psychiatry and other areas of mental health. It links to online books, journals top cited and top downloaded articles, alerting services, conferences, topical discussion forums and various RSS feeds powered by ScienceDirect and Scopus.

  Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Associazione Differenziamento e Morte Cellulare (ADMC) have announced a new open access journal, Cell Death & Disease. Scheduled for launch in January 2010, the journal will explore the area of cell death from a translational medicine perspective. The editorial team is led by three editors, Gerry Melino, Guido Kroemer and Pierluigi Nicotera, and will include a highly respected international editorial board.

  Clinica World Medical Technology News, published by Informa Business Information, has launched Clinica.co.uk – an online service specially designed to meet the complex news, information and analysis needs of the medtech industry. The new site serves as a single point of access for all Clinica content enabling users to benefit from multimedia reporting, a 24-hour news cycle, a global editorial team and additional analysis and comment from the Clinica team of medtech analysts.

  Forensic Science Policy & Management, published by Taylor & Francis, has launched a discussion forum that seeks to provide readers and the entire forensic science community the opportunity to discuss current issues in forensic science. The Forensic Science Forum aims to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, quality, and operations of forensic science laboratories as well as the education and training of forensic scientists. In addition, it will explore the government and institutional policies that affect the practice and management of forensic science.

  The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced the mid-2010 launch of mBio, a new open access online journal designed to make microbiology research broadly accessible. The focus of the journal will be on rapid publication of research spanning the entire spectrum of microbiology and related fields. Arturo Casadevall, Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, will serve its Editor-in-Chief.

  STM publisher Elsevier has announced the October 2009 launch of a new journal, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Professor Rik Leemans from Wageningen University and Professor Anand Patwardhan from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay will serve as Editors-in-Chief. More than forty internationally-recognised experts will serve on the Editorial Board.

  Information services provider Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of Century of Social Sciences, a superior and unique set of backfiles covering research in the social sciences back to 1900. Century of Social Sciences expands the coverage of Web of Science, available on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform - the world’s largest citation environment of scholarly literature.

  Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced that it has joined SAFE-BioPharma Association, a non-profit association that created and manages the SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and signature standard for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. The membership enables Symyx to implement the SAFE-BioPharma digital signature standard for records signing to safe-guard critical scientific data. The membership also enables Symyx to participate in SAFE-BioPharma working groups to further secure the electronic laboratory environment.

  Market research and data services provider Research and Markets has announced the addition of the ‘The European Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) Information Market’ report to their offering. According to the report, growth in the European STM information market remains resilient despite the current economic and financial problems. The European STM information market growth in 2008 was 4.5 percent, the weakest year-on-year growth since 2001.

  Evidence of publication bias favouring positive results, both in which studies are reported in journals and in how they are treated by peer reviewers, emerged at the recently concluded 6th Peer Review Congress in Vancouver. Dr. Seth Leopold, orthopedic surgeon at the University of Washington School of Medicine, described his group's study, where two variations of a fabricated, CONSORT-conforming randomised controlled trial (RCT) were made. These were sent to 209 peer reviewers for Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. It was found that the paper reporting a positive result received more positive reviews for methodological rigour, was scrutinised less carefully for errors, and was more likely to receive recommendations to publish.

  Editors at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) have released a new study on the prevalence of ghostwriting. According to the study, six of the top medical journals published a significant number of ghostwritten articles in 2008. The authors of 630 articles took an online questionnaire designed by the researchers. Of this, 7.8 percent acknowledged contributions to their articles by people whose work should have qualified them to be named as authors on the papers but who were not listed.

  Market research and data services provider Research and Markets has announced the addition of Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new report ‘Scholarly Communication for Librarians’ to their offering. Written by a well-known international expert on scholarly communications and open access, this report covers the current landscape of scholarly communications and publishing and potential futures, outlining key aspects of transition to best possible futures for libraries and librarians.

  A nationally coordinated approach to technology in education allows learners and researchers to adopt new technologies faster, according to an international study by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Led by JISC in the UK and SURF in the Netherlands, coordinated national initiatives and central funding structure in the two countries have sought to bring the benefits of Web 2.0 to their higher education and research communities. The conclusions come as part of an observational study which provides a snapshot of e-learning and e-infrastructure activities that support the higher education and research communities in 10 countries.

  Global library cooperative OCLC has announced that its board of trustees has convened a Record Use Policy Council. The council will draw upon the fundamental values of the OCLC cooperative and engage with libraries worldwide to develop the next generation of the WorldCat Record Use Policy. The intent is to recommend a new policy that is aligned with the present and future information landscape. The new policy will replace the Guidelines for Use and Transfer of OCLC Derived Records that was developed in 1987.

  STM publisher Elsevier has announced a joint development agreement between its flagship product SCOPUS, an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, and the Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS) and the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). The deal is to develop the Young Women Researcher Awards, the first of its kind in the region. The awards will be presented in four major fields of research - Life Sciences, Medicine, Engineering and Technology and Agricultural Sciences.

  The American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Division has announced full compliance with Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases. The deadline for this was August 31, 2009. The highlights of this updated release include incorporating new protocols designed to mitigate the potentially inflationary effects on usage statistics from federated/automated search engines, Internet robots, and crawlers; providing tools that facilitate the consolidation, management, and analysis of COUNTER usage statistics; improving the COUNTER usage reporting for library consortia; and improving the usage report for journal archive content.

  US-based higher learning institutions - Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley – have announced their joint commitment to a compact for open access (OA) publication. The compact supports equity of the business models. This is done by committing each university to the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication fees for OA journal articles written by its faculty for which other institutions would not be expected to provide funds. Additional universities are encouraged to visit the compact website and sign on.

  Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing has announced that it is making the latest evidence-based flu-related information available for free on the web. The site (www.ebscohost.com/flu) will provide evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed and Nursing Reference Center, EBSCO’s clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from the Patient Education Reference Center.

  The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are John Blossom (It Depends on What "Semantic" Is: NetBase And Natural Language Processing Hit Hiccups with HealthBase); Kent Anderson (E-books: Tasting Blood in the Water); Margaret Somerville (Ethical pitfalls in academic publishing); and David Crotty (New Technologies and the Need for Standards). 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

  Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited has announced that it is exhibiting at the ongoing British Academy of Management Conference. Delegates are invited to visit stand 18 to discover Emerald Management Plus, the company’s new flagship collection of scholarly journals. Emerald Management Plus users will gain access to 212 journals from a range of 22 management disciplines. Also on display is a range of books and book series in the field of business and management, and two eBook series collections that complement Emerald’s business and management portfolio.

  Library technology solutions provider SirsiDynix has announced that Utah State University Library has successfully installed and begun operations using the SirsiDynix Symphony Integrated Library System (ILS) in the Merrill-Cazier Library. The solution is complemented by a host of SirsiDynix tools, including SirsiDynix e-Library and the SirsiDynix Web Reporter business intelligence tool. USU upgraded to Symphony after using SirsiDynix Horizon ILS for over 12 years. USU joins over 1,400 academic institutions that have chosen SirsiDynix solutions for their library technology needs, including almost 300 using SirsiDynix’s pioneering Symphony ILS, unveiled in late 2007.

  Federated search services provider Deep Web Technologies has announced the appointment of Andy Alsop as Vice President of Business Development. Alsop joins Deep Web Technologies with 20 years of experience in information technology. In his new position, Alsop will drive the adoption of Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator through strategic partnerships with companies that want to embrace the power of federated search.

  Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced that Julie Page, vice president of global customer support, will take over European operations, reporting directly to Trevor Heritage, president of Symyx’s software division. In addition, the company has announced personnel additions in consulting services, pre-sales and sales as part of its continued expansion to support the growing customer needs of its software solutions and services in Europe.

  Database aggregator EBSCO Publishing has announced that its products Nursing Reference Center (NRC) and CINAHL Databases offer continuing education (CE) modules for nurses. EBSCO’s Cinahl Information Systems is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurse Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses who use online resources from EBSCO, including those seeking specialty certification, can earn contact hours for relicensure from these resources.