Information management company Infotrieve, Inc. has announced a collaboration with the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI). The agreement covers the provision of document delivery and library services to the Canadian and International research communities through an exclusive five year contract.More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

  Information services provider Thomson Reuters has announced that Halifax Regional Medical Center has signed a multi-year agreement to use Thomson Reuters Micromedex solutions as its source for evidence-based clinical reference information. Halifax Regional Medical Center is a 206-bed acute-care hospital in Roanoke Rapids, in rural North Carolina.More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

  Health information provider MEDai, Inc., part of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that Sharp HealthCare, a 1,700-bed, seven-facility system serving the San Diego area, has selected the company’s Pinpoint Review product. The solution is designed to alert providers to patients at risk for developing hospital acquired conditions or at risk for readmission. Pinpoint Review will provide Sharp with near-time triggers for core measures, hospital/system-wide surveillance of safety risks, physician performance reporting and forecasts of readmissions.
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  Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing and Northern Light have announced a partnership to allow mutual customers directly search and access over 4,000 bio-pharmaceutical, health sciences and general business magazines, journals and other news sources through Northern Light SinglePoint strategic research portals. SinglePoint users who also subscribe to EBSCO’s Biomedical Reference Collection and Business Source Corporate may now opt to have that content integrated with their organisation’s strategic research portal.
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  Scientific information services provider FIZ Karlsruhe and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, recently signed an agreement to further strengthen a partnership that began in 1983 with the foundation of STN International. The recently concluded collaboration agreements cover two new areas - indexing of scientific literature for CAS databases and customer training and support for CAS databases on STN.
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  SpringerWienNewYork, part of STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, and e-publishing technology solutions provider Versita have announced a collaboration for the distribution, marketing and sales of STM journals of Central European societies and other institutions. With this move the companies seek to further strengthen their journal co-publishing partnership in Central European countries.
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  Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has signed an agreement with the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS). Under the deal, EBSCO will make two INIST-CNRS databases - PASCAL and FRANCIS - available on EBSCOhost.More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

  Printing and publishing services provider The Sheridan Group and Stanford University’s HighWire Press have announced the availability of a new service, Sheridan Custom Publishing Direct, on select HighWire-hosted publications. The service allows readers to create their own customised content collections for downloading or print-on-demand.
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  STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it will showcase the new features it is rolling out for its BrainNavigator research tool at the Society for Neuroscience’s Neuroscience 2009 event in Chicago. BrainNavigator is an online, interactive, 3D software tool that maps images of brain anatomy. It seeks to help neuroscience researchers to save time and improve the quality of their daily research.
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  Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced the launch of the Stem Cell Gateway, highlighting the latest articles published in this field across BioMed Central journals. The Gateway complements the publisher’s new journal, Stem Cell Research & Therapy, slated for launch in early 2010.
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  Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary has announced the availability of a new subscription database that supports research and development needs in all aspects of food science through trusted content and powerful technology. The subscription database covers such topics as food manufacturing and processing, safety, quality assurance, nutrition, ingredients, storage and preservation, and government regulations.More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

  STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new scientific journal, Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. The journal’s Editorial Board will be led by the internationally recognised scholar Professor Andrew B. Lawson, Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, USA.
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  STM publisher Springer and the WINFOCUS Society are founding a new publication, The Critical Ultrasound Journal. The journal will serve as the official publication of WINFOCUS (World Interactive Network Focused on Critical UltraSound), a scientific organisation committed to developing point-of-care ultrasound practice throughout in-hospital and out-of-hospital critical scenarios.
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  Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced the addition of leading case report journals - Journal of Medical Case Reports (JMCR) and Cases Journals - to its expanding portfolio. Since their inception, both these journals, which currently provide over 2000 freely accessible case reports, have received widespread recognition and high quality submissions from across the medical community.
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  Emerald Group Publishing has announced the acquisition of the Journal of Financial Reporting & Accounting. Edited by Associate Professor Dr. Lai Ming Ling of the Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia, the journal provides theoretical and empirical research in financial reporting and accounting, and a detailed analysis of financial and accounting theories and concepts.
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  The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced the launch of a definitive guide to its 15 years of work in Open Access as part of International Open Access Week (October 19 – 23, 2009). The guide, Open Access for UK research: JISC’s contributions - Summary of achievements, has been created to showcase the work JISC has achieved for scholarly communications in the UK and tracks the changes in UK policy, opinions and what the future will look like.More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

  STM publisher Springer is set launch a new journal – Translational Stroke Research. The journal’s editorial board, headed by Dr. John H. Zhang of Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California, is made up of leading stroke researchers and physicians from North America, Europe, and Asia. The first issue is scheduled for March 2010.More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

  Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) has announced a new service that provides added value to libraries and publishers by enhancing and delivering data that can work in multiple contexts and systems. The new service, Metadata Services for Publishers, takes publishers' ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their systems.
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  Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and Chemical Industry Press (CIP) have signed an agreement to publish a co-branded Wiley-CIP Series Imprint. Steven Miron, Vice President and Managing Director for Physical Sciences at John Wiley & Sons, formalised the relationship on behalf of Wiley, while Pan Zheng An, Editor-in-Chief at CIP, represented Chemical Industry Press.
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  STM publisher Springer has announced that it will publish Symbiosis, the official journal of the International Symbiosis Society (ISS), effective October 2009. Publication at Springer will begin with Volume 49, Issue 1. Professor David Richardson of Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, will serve as the editor-in-chief.
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  Open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS) has announced that its peer-reviewed online publication PLoS ONE will feature a new 3D molecular animation technology on five newly published articles. This represents the start of a new PLoS ONE collection entitled ‘Structural Biology and Human Health: Medically Relevant Proteins from the SGC’ (Structural Genomics Consortium).More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme

  Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys has announced that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has solidified its e-book strategy with iPublishCentral, an electronic content delivery solution used by over 350 publishers worldwide. AAP is a leading society publisher and professional organisation to 600,000 pediatricians.
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  Medical scientific publisher Informa Healthcare has announced the inclusion of the journal Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods in the US National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE Index. Maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is a premier bibliographic database containing more than 16 million journal article citations. The journal is joining a host of other Informa titles on the bibliographic database.
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  The European Commission (EC) has adopted a ‘Communication on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy’ aiming to tackle the important cultural and legal challenges of mass-scale digitisation and dissemination of books, in particular of European library collections. The Communication was jointly drawn up by Commissioners Charlie McCreevy and Viviane Reding.
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  Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP), a tool devised by the worldwide publishing community to help make copyright work on the web, is being upgraded for the first time since it was first released in November 2007. ACAP Version 1.1 has been released with the aim of making it easier for publishers, search engine operators and other aggregators to implement the tool.
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  The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers has published ‘The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing’, a follow-up to the 2006 report, ‘Scientific publishing in transition: an overview of current developments’. The report is funded by STM, and prepared by Mark Ware Consulting and STM. It aims to collect the available evidence, and provides a comprehensive picture of the trends and currents in scholarly communication.
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  Media industry-focused research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc. has released the second annual ‘Library Market Size, Share & Forecast Report’. The report shows that libraries are shifting from content spending to technology spending - digitising collections, acquiring native digital content, and developing digital storage and retrieval systems. As the Google Books Library Project continues, and new vendors scan and package content, further disruptions are afoot, says the report.
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  Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health) has announced that Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journals, part of its Medical Research business unit, are exhibiting at the ongoing Frankfurt Book Fair. Representatives from Ovid, an aggregator of online information for medical and scientific research, will be announcing a new Chinese-language interface for the OvidSP search and discovery platform. LWW is showcasing its flexible and customisable online journal platform for its society partners.
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  The UK’s Wellcome Trust has called for greater transparency among publishers to counter the argument that access fees are being paid twice - once through subscriptions and again through publication fees. The call comes as the Trust announces a further £2 million to fund open access (OA) publication fees for its researchers over the next 12 months.
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  Symyx Technologies, Inc., a provider of technologies for R&D, has announced the launch of hosted informatics software for researchers working in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries and academia. The new hosted offerings, to be accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model, will seek to combine Symyx software with data archiving capabilities in a secure data hosting and communications facility.
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  The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are Michael Clarke (The 2009 STM Frankfurt Conference); Kristine Roa (Digital Publishing and Libraries Through Kindle and Sony Reader); Myrmecos (On the future of scientific communication); and Kent Anderson (An Old-Age Problem Among Reviewers?). 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.

  The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) has announced that it is organising a one-day workshop titled Interactive Publications and the Record of Science. Open to both members and non-members, the workshop will be held at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, on February 8, 2010.
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  TechWeb and O'Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of Web 2.0 Expo and Web 2.0 Summit, have announced this year's keynotes and new program elements for the Web 2.0 Expo New York event. The event, scheduled for November 16-19, 2009, at the Javits Convention Center, will showcase the latest Web 2.0 business models, development paradigms and design strategies for the builders of the next-generation Web.
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  The European Union launched the EU Bookshop Digital Library at the recently concluded Frankfurt Book Fair. Twelve million scanned pages in more than 110, 000 EU publications are now available free of charge for download in the EU Bookshop Digital Library. The digital library offers all publications edited by the Publications Office on behalf of the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies since 1952.
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  EBSCO Australia has announced the appointment of Julie Boyd-Reynolds as its new regional sales manager, based in the company’s Melbourne office. In her new role, she will be responsible for managing and growing the company’s customer base in Victoria, South Australia, ACT and Tasmania.
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