The British Library, the national library of the UK, has announced that it expects researchers to benefit from proposals announced recently by Lord Mandelson and IP Minister, David Lammy. The Library has welcomed initiatives to make copyright fit for the digital age. It has also stated that it welcomes and looks forward to the results on the SABIP study on the relationship between copyright and contract law, to be published at the end of 2009.
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  Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced a new licensing agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry, a UK-based professional association and publisher of books, journals, and databases in the chemical sciences. Under the deal, Ovid will provide seamless online access to 46 of its ebooks on the OvidSP platform.
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  STM publisher Springer recently signed agreements to publish two journals in association with the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). The journals are: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society and the new Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA). Both journals will be available in print and on Springer’s online platform www.springerlink.com.
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  The Miami-Dade Public Library System has announced that it has chosen AquaBrowser Library, a discovery tool offering visual, faceted searching that connects to any data source. AquaBrowser is projected to help the library’s members easily and fully explore its vast collection. Existing users of the search tool include over 700 libraries.
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  Publisher Taylor & Francis Group (T&F) has announced a new partnership with UKB, the Dutch consortium of the 13 university libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands. The deal is to provide University researchers in the Netherlands access to quality academic research via the Taylor & Francis Library. Twelve UKB members have purchased Taylor & Francis’ journal content.
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  STM publisher Elsevier has announced a partnership with the University of Miami, under which the institution will use the former’s Scopus custom data (SCD) to track and measure faculty research and scholarly activity. Scopus, an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, was reportedly chosen because the breadth of the content was expected to allow the university to accurately capture faculty research activity from a single data source.
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  EMpact Sales (EMpact), publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services, has announced an agreement with the International Water Association (IWA). Under the deal, EMpact will serve as IWA’s sales agent. The agreement grants EMpact the rights to sell IWA’s electronic and print journals in Italy, Greece, Eastern Europe, United Kingdom, Nordics, Benelux, Ireland and Latin America.
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  India is in talks with the US and various other countries to grant access to its database of Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), media reports have indicated. The aim is to curb bio-piracy – the granting of ‘wrong’ patents – of Indian medicinal plants across the world. In February 2009, India had opened up TKDL to the European Patent Office (EPO) so that existing indigenous knowledge is not patented elsewhere. Negotiations with the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) are in the final stages. Other nations including China and Japan are also holding talks, the reports state quoting sources in the National Institute of Science Communication and Informative Resources (NISCAIR).
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  STM publisher Springer has announced the launch of the seventh edition of AJCC Cancer Staging Manual. The manual has been prepared by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) in collaboration with its member organisations. The latest edition seeks to bring together the relevant, evidence-based criteria for staging of cancer for 52 anatomic primary sites.
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  Knovel, an online resource for engineers, has announced the launch of Engineering Cases, a regular content feature. The feature aims to bridge the knowledge gap for engineers by sharing examples of best practices, rules of thumb, and new uses of applications or technologies.
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  Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health) has announced that Cortland Regional Medical Center (CRMC) has selected ProVation Order Sets, an order set authoring and management solution powered by WK Health’s UpToDate Decision Support. ProVation Order Sets is claimed to be easily customisable, providing 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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  Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health) has announced that Cortland Regional Medical Center (CRMC) has selected ProVation Order Sets, an order set authoring and management solution powered by WK Health’s UpToDate Decision Support. ProVation Order Sets is claimed to be easily customisable, providing 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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  Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced the launch of a new journal - Automated Experimentation. Siu-wai Leung of the University of Macau, David Robertson of the University of Edinburgh, and Dietlind Gerloff of the University of California will serve as the Editors-in-chief of the journal.
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  Publishing software developer Content Data Solutions, Inc. (Content DSI) and Castle Connolly Graduate Medical Publishing (CCGMP) have announced the launch of the latter’s new interactive website. The site brings Castle Connolly Graduate’s Medical Board Review Manuals and interactive study tools online.
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  Safari Books Online, a US-based e-reference joint venture between publishers O'Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, has announced the launch of Safari Books Online 6.0. This release features advancements in the product offering, including new functionality such as an interactive reading experience; dynamic content categorisation; innovative community and collaboration features; and enhanced search functionality.
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  Open access publisher BioMed Central has commenced publishing Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology (AACI), the official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (CSACI). This follows the journal’s decision to adopt an open access format to increase its reach. AACI aims to further the understanding and treatment of allergic and immunologic disease by providing a platform for the dissemination of research and reviews. These are expected to help elucidate normal immune mechanisms and the ways in which these mechanisms become dysfunctional.
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  Reed Technology and Information Services Inc., a LexisNexis business, has announced the introduction of LabelDataPlus – a drug label database available on the web for both industry and consumer use. LabelDataPlus offers more than 5,000 current and archived FDA-approved drug labels with search features that seek to unlock the information contained in the labels (package inserts).
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  Laboratory manuals publisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press) has released the Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive, a complete online collection of its scholarly monographs. The 59-volume archive includes all monographs published by CSHL Press from 1970 to 2009.
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  The CIBER research group at the University College London has announced the completion of its global library survey that examines the challenges, trends and best practices in tough economic times. The results will be presented via a keynote address at the Charleston Conference slated for November 5 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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  India is all set to become an international hub for outsourced publishing services, it was reportedly stated at the Confederation of Indian Industry’s conference, ‘Sustaining India to be the Global Publishing BPO Services Hub’. It was observed that new segments, technological advancements and capabilities would significantly alter the publishing BPO industry. The industry also faces major challenges in the form of increased pressure on margins; the pressing need to reduce staffing and overhead costs; and the growing requirement to standardise products and processes.
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  Business consultancy firm Frost & Sullivan, US, has announced – based on its research - that the global dynamic publishing market posted revenues of $330.7 million in 2006. With a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.4 percent, it marked a 15.6 percent revenue growth from 2005 levels. The study has also predicted CAGRs of 25.3 and 24.5 percent respectively in EMEA and Asia Pacific. The US and Latin American markets are projected to show a CAGR of 15.4 percent. The dynamic publishing market covers page layout and publishing platforms apart from creative publishing and technical publishing services and tools.
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  The British Library has announced that a report – based on a study conducted along with the Research Information Network – seeks to provide an insight into how information is used by researchers across life sciences. The report has revealed that researcher practices diverge from policies promoted by funders and information service providers. The study concludes that ‘one-size-fits-all’ information and data sharing policies are not achieving scientifically productive and cost-efficient information use in life sciences. It found a significant gap between how researchers behave and the policies and strategies of funders and service providers.
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  A study conducted by information services firm Thomson Reuters has revealed that China has witnessed significant growth in research output, well above the rest of the world. If the pace continues, China is likely to overtake the US within 10 years. Titled Global Research Report: China, the report spells out China’s research and collaboration potential for policymakers. It is part of Thomson Reuters’ Global Research Report series. More

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  Publishing Technology, a UK-based provider of services to the publishing industry, has announced that it has joined Breathing Space, a semantic web collaboration between scholarly societies, as a technology partner. Publishing Technology will deploy its pub2web platform for Breathing Space, which is being coordinated by TBI Communications, a strategic marketing consultancy for scholarly publishers. The project seeks to collate content from the European Respiratory Society and American Thoracic Society, who together are said to account for 30% of citations within the field of respiratory medicine.
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  Macmillan Scientific Communications (MSC), part of NPG, and Singapore-based Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have announced the launch of a new open access website, A*STAR Research. The free online publication aims to highlight key research material published by A*STAR’s research institutions (http://www.research.a-star.edu.sg/). By leveraging the editorial, marketing and advertising skills of NPG, A*STAR expects to rapidly raise the profile and awareness of its own scientific research.
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  Academic books and journals publisher Maney Publishing has announced that it has joined the NESLi2 SMP (Small and Medium-sized Publishers) collection. Maney expects the move to make its e-journals available for licensing to a greater number of higher and further education and research communities.
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  Science magazine Scientific American is now available on nature.com for institutional customers at www.nature.com/scientificamerican. Site license access on nature.com includes access to Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, and special issues. Nature.com is Nature Publishing Group's (NPG) website, and platform for its publication and services.
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  The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Kent Anderson (Will the Writing Revolution Beget a Social Revolution?); Roy Tennant (The Next-Gen Repository: Part II); David Crotty (NIH Funds a Social Network for Scientists — Is It Likely to Succeed?); and Joe Konrath (In Defense of Print). 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

  STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it is partnering with several universities from around the globe to launch Scholarly Perspectives 2009, a webinar series for librarians and researchers. Senior researchers and librarians from the University of Aberdeen, Princeton University and the University of Hong Kong (HKU) will discuss best practices and share case studies on a range of topics. The topics include the strategies and tools needed to support multidisciplinary research as well as the role of e-books.
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  Scope eKnowledge Center has announced that it is exhibiting (stall 754) at Online Information 2009, 1-3 December 2009, in London. R. Sivadas, Scope’s CEO, commented “We are delighted to be participating more actively in the information industries’ premier annual event as both an exhibitor and an event partner.”

The Online Information conference draws over 9,000 visitors from 70 countries, and provides an annual meeting place for the global information industry – playing host to thousands of information professionals, information end-users and publishers from around the globe, meeting suppliers of online content, epublishing and library management solutions.
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  Open access (OA) to research will play a central role in research and scholarship for years to come, going by the response to the first International Open Access Week (October 19 – 23), SPARC has stated. Events took place on more than 300 higher education, research and other sites worldwide, purportedly illustrating the dramatic growth of the global network that has emerged in support of OA. The week, designed to raise awareness of open access (OA), highlighted the research community’s deep commitment to the movement, according to SPARC.
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  Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc has announced the appointment of Anna Lister Cheese (UK) and Martin Borbone (US) to the Client Management Group. Both Cheese and Borbone bring with them a wealth of experience from previous roles in client management and business development.
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