E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions has announced that US-based digital content services provider Ingram Digital is the latest content player to sign with the Summon web-scale discovery service. The Summon service provides instant searching of library collections – from books and videos to e-resources at the article level, integrated and accessible from a single search box.
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  Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health) has announced that SwedishAmerican Health System has selected ProVation Order Sets as the electronic order set solution for its subsidiary, SwedishAmerican Hospital. ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, is an easily customisable order set authoring and management solution that provides flexible integration into clinical processes to streamline the delivery of standardised care for improved patient safety, outcomes, clinician performance and regulatory compliance.
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  The University of Illinois Press, the publishing division of the University of Illinois, has announced an agreement with JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform that is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA. Under the deal, the University of Illinois Press will make leading journals from the Press available worldwide as part of the Current Scholarship Program.
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  STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it will assume publication of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, beginning with Volume 49, Number 1 (January 2010). The journal is the official publication of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP).
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  Information services provider Thomson Reuters has announced that the Royal Society of Chemistry has chosen ScholarOne Manuscripts to manage submission and peer review for 26 of its journals. The move follows the RSC’s use of ScholarOne Manuscripts for five journals in the past several months.
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  The Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) have signed a three year agreement to bring together the knowledge of UK library professionals with JISC’s expertise in digital technologies. The two organisations will work towards a vision of everyone having equal access to the widest range of resources supporting research, learning and teaching.
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  Publishing sales resource provider Burgundy Information Services Ltd. has signed an exclusive agreement with STM publisher World Scientific Publishing Group. Under the deal, Burgundy will represent World Scientific in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia for the sale of their 112 ejournals and digital archive.
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  STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group has announced the fifth edition of the Color Atlas of ENT Diagnosis focusing on the latest developments in Otolaryngology. This title is part of Thiemes acclaimed Flexibook series of clinical and basic science pocket guidebooks, which have been translated into more than 20 languages.
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  Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of a new journal - Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease. The journal is the latest in SAGE’s Therapeutic Advances series. Philip Sambrook, the current President of the Australian & New Zealand Bone & Mineral Society, serves as Editor in Chief of the journal.
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  Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that its journal Arthritis Research and Therapy (AR&T) has published a comprehensive account of the most important advances in rheumatology research from the past decade. Spanning more than 400 pages, this freely available collection of 38 articles is written by an internationally recognised group of experts.
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  Academic publisher SAGE has announced the January, 2010 launch of the journal - Journal of Primary Care & Community Health (JPCCH). Dr. James E. Rohrer will serve as Editor of the journal.
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  Thomson IP Management Services, part of Information services provider Thomson Reuters, has announced the release of Thomson IP Manager 3.0, an enterprise-scale software solution for managing patents, trademarks, invention disclosures and licensing agreements. This release marks the debut of Thomson IP Manager in Europe, extending the company’s IP management and payment service offerings there.
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  Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the publication of the Wiley Registry of Mass Spectral Data, Ninth Edition. Since its original publication, the Registry has helped chemists around the world solve tough problems ranging from making accurate diagnoses to solving crimes to designing new pharmaceuticals. The Ninth edition is 66 percent larger than the previous edition.
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  The latest quarterly update of the ResNet Mammalian database is now available for subscribers to download. The ResNet 6 update includes new data from PubMed for the Q2 and Q3, 2009.
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  DeepDyve, a research engine for the Deep Web, has announced the launch of an online rental service for scientific, technical and medical research. From a growing database spanning thousands of journals, DeepDyve seeks to give consumers and professionals access to more than 30 million articles. The company is currently offering a 14-day trial that allows users unlimited access to thousands of authoritative journals at no cost.
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  STM publisher Elsevier has announced the release of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, a new single volume comprehensive publication on contemporary aesthetic plastic surgery. Edited by renowned plastic surgeons Dr. Sherrell Aston, Dr. Douglas Steinbrech and Dr. Jennifer L. Walden, this comprehensive text covers all major contemporary procedures in aesthetic plastic surgery.
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  Publisher SciTech Publishing has announced a partnership with the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) of Torino, Italy and the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) to launch a new book series in Radio Science. The Mario Boella Series on Electromagnetism in Information & Communication series will cover applications of electromagnetism in all areas of Radio Science, with special emphasis on information and communication techniques.
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  STM and business publisher Inderscience recently published the first issues of seven new titles. The journals are: International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management; International Journal of Education Economics and Development; International Journal of Experimental Design and Process Optimisation; International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives; International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education; International Journal of Process Systems Engineering; and International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing.
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  Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced that it now offers remote searching of the nature.com platform via nature.com OpenSearch. The new service allows application software to query nature.com, and returns results in a machine-readable format that can be reused and redisplayed.
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  The Harvard Health Publications, the publishing division of Harvard Medical School, has launched an iPhone application focused on the H1N1 flu pandemic. The H1N1 iPhone application draws on the extensive knowledge of the experts at Harvard Medical School along with its long-standing expertise in publishing health information for the general public.
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  STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group has announced a collaboration with the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) to make primary chemistry data accessible worldwide. Primary data will be registered and made available online via the Thieme e-journals website (www.thieme-connect.com/ejournals) using digital object recognition in the form of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI).
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  The Centre for Research Communications (CRC) has announced significant upgrades and additions to the SHERPA service, RoMEO. The RoMEO service – targeted at publishers and authors - is provided by the Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access (SHERPA) team at CRC.
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  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is initiating a new series of invited reports addressing emerging roles for research libraries. The New Roles for New Times series will identify and outline emerging roles for research library staff and present research on early experiences among ARL member libraries in developing the roles and delivering services.
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  Symyx Technologies, Inc., a provider of technologies for R&D, has announced an integration of Symyx Notebook and Thermo Scientific Watson LIMS. The integration is seen to enable scientists engaged in biological and bioanalytical workflows to electronically pass study information, sample lists, experimental results and reports between the electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) and the LIMS.
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  The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has become a founding member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). Inspired from the European DRIVER repositories project, which helps to enhance repository development, COAR takes this vision to an international scale.
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  The Indiana University (IU) has announced that it has received more than $1.8 million from the US’ National Institutes of Health (NIH) to collaborate on VIVO, a $12.2 million, seven-university project designed to network researchers around the country. While the proposed new networking system will contain authentication mechanisms to protect sensitive data and intellectual property, it is being described as a Facebook for scientists.
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  The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the journal Science and Science Careers, the career development arm of AAAS, have announced the launch of a pair of online social networking sites. These are expected to help scientists and science trainees who hope to translate laboratory research into clinical medicine and to help minority scientists navigate their career paths.
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  The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Kent Anderson (Welcome to a Synchronous Digital Hell); Nathan Bransford (And Then Everything in Publishing Changed All at Once…); Sarah Perez (BookServer: A Plan to Build an Open Web of Books); and Joseph Esposito (What is “Library Bypass”?). 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

  Specialist business information provider Incisive Media has named Autonomy, a provider of enterprise infrastructure software, as the headline sponsor for the Information Management Solution Exhibition (IMS) 2009 show. Incisive Media, which organises the show annually, has slated it for December 1-3 this year at Olympia Grand Hall, London.
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  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced that Brinley Franklin, Vice Provost, University Libraries, University of Connecticut Libraries, began a one-year term as President of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), during the ARL Fall Membership Meeting held in Washington DC. He succeeds Tom Leonard, who will continue to serve as a member of the ARL Board of Directors and Executive Committee as Past President.
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  EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services, has announced the appointment of Elizabeth Waddell as director of EMpact Sales. In her new role, Waddell will assume full responsibility for providing publishers with a strong active sales and marketing channel.
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  Science and technology media brand Scientific American has announced the addition of 35 members – including scientists, academics, and entrepreneurs - to its Board of Advisors. Acting Editor-in-Chief Mariette DiChristina introduces the new Board of Advisors in the November issue of Scientific American, published online this week.
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  Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health) has announced a series of initiatives to strengthen its CME organisation and programmes for professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy. The company has made organisational enhancements following strict guidelines set by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). Also, industry leader Dr. Karen Overstreet has been appointed as Executive Director to run the Lippincott CME Institute (LCMEI).
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