Community-governed archive cooperative Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (CLOCKSS) has announced that two new society publishers have recently joined its archive. The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society have signed agreements to join CLOCKSS and preserve their materials in its network of geographically and geopolitically distributed archive nodes.
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  STM publisher Elsevier has announced that Trinity Health, the fourth largest Catholic health system in the US with 44 hospitals across eight states, will install seven of Elsevier’s online clinical decision support (CDS) solutions. With this initiative, Trinity Health seeks to meet the evolving needs of its thousands of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals for evidence-based clinical content.
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  Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health) has announced that Houston’s Medical Center Endoscopy (MCE) has selected its ProVation MD software for procedure documentation and coding. MCE has also opted for the ProVation EHR electronic health record and patient charting solution, which is designed for busy, cost-conscious ASCs.
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  Journal supply chain support provider Ringgold has announced an agreement with Kinokuniya Company Ltd to work together to enhance the accuracy of the entries of the Japanese institutions within Ringgold's OpenIdentify database. Also, the Ringgold Institutional Identifier will be implemented within Kinokuniya systems.
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  Publisher Multi-Science Publishing has announced a partnership with the International Association for Bridge & Structural Engineering (IABSE). Under the deal, Multi-Science Publishing will promote IABSE's publications.
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  Online reference library Credo Reference has signed an agreement to launch a SAGE Reference Publisher Collection. Nearly 70 SAGE Reference titles will now be available through the Credo Reference platform.
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  STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it will assume co-publication of the Journal of Dairy Science, beginning in January 2010 (Volume 93, Issue 1), with the Federation of Animal Science Societies (FASS). The journal is the official journal of the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA).
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  Research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc. has announced a strategic partnership with Scout Analytics to help online paid-content providers —from media companies to business and scientific publishers — increase revenues. Outsell is offering Outsell Scout Analytics, a new subscription service projected to help companies better understand their customers and where the greatest value potential for their content exists.
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  Symyx Technologies, Inc., a provider of information management systems, has announced the release of the Symyx Direct 6.3 chemistry data cartridge. The product is projected to feature new capabilities in the handling of non-specific Markush chemical structures.
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  STM publisher Springer has announced a section called Climatic Change Letters within the journal Climatic Change. Similar in scope to Climatic Change, the Letters will provide a vehicle for rapid publication, offering short articles on new findings of interest to researchers in climate-related disciplines.
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  Academic publisher Brill has announced the launch of Brill Open, a new author service that offers the option of making articles freely available upon publication. Brill Open enables authors to comply with research funding bodies and institutions which require open access.
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  STM publisher Springer will publish Wetlands, the official journal of the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS), starting January 2010. Dr. Darold P. Batzer of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, will serve as the editor-in-chief of the journal.
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  Wiley-VCH, the German subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, has announced publishing responsibility for Steel Research International, beginning January 2010. Wiley-VCH will publish the journal on behalf of Verlag Stahleisen, Steel Institute VDEh, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, The Austrian Society for Metallurgy and Materials ASME, Fédération Française de l’Acier and Jernkontoret (Sweden).
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  Information services provider Thomson Reuters has announced the latest release of Clinical Xpert CareFocus, a clinical surveillance solution that enables hospitals to identify at-risk patients in real-time and respond immediately to improve clinical quality and reduce total cost of treatment. This upgrade is available to current CareFocus customers at no additional cost.
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  Six universities in the UK have announced plans to work as part of a major initiative to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) throughout England and Wales. The universities will develop and initiate activities in their regions as part of the National Higher Education STEM Programme, a £21 million, three-year initiative funded by the Higher Education Funding Councils for England and Wales.
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  Publisher Pharmaceutical Press has announced latest enhancements to its flagship online subscription service, MedicinesComplete. An online drug and healthcare information resource, MedicinesComplete has been redeveloped to better support the information needs of its customers.
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  Medical scientific publisher Informa Healthcare has announced that its journal Good Clinical Practice has been re-launched as Scrip Clinical Research. The change of name is in response to the industry's need for more commercially-minded insights in the field of clinical research outsourcing.
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  The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Chemical Society’s Division of Chemical Education have announced a partnership to publish the Journal of Chemical Education (JCE), beginning with the January 2010 issue of the journal. The journal is edited by Norbert J. Pienta, a professor of chemistry at the University of Iowa.
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  The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) has announced that it is offering open access to two peer-reviewed articles about Charles Darwin and his historic insights into evolution to celebrate the 150th anniversary this month of the publication of the On the Origin of Species. In a similar move, STM publisher Springer has also announced a special issue of the journal Naturwissenschaften. All articles in this special issue will be available for free until December 30, 2009.
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  Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of Sage Reference's new two-volume Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. Co-edited by Prof Albert J. Mills, Prof. Gabrielle Durepos and Prof. Elden Wiebe, the encyclopaedia is projected to be an essential resource for all public and academic libraries.
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  Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary has announced that it has expanded its Library Center to include complimentary e-books for knowledge managers. The new Library & KM Center now features a growing selection of more than 140 titles from leading publishers along with tools that make it easy to find, use, and manage information online.
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  The December 2009 issue of the journal Nursing & Health Sciences has released a special issue devoted to the critical and contemporary topic of disasters and emergencies. The issue entitled ‘Disasters and Emergencies: Preparing, Managing and Experiencing’, is published by Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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  The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has applauded the Chinese government’s recently issued public notice conveying to state-run libraries the importance of strengthening protection for copyright-protected academic and medical journals. The Chinese statement was made at the recent US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) meeting.
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  QStar Healthcare has announced that it is set to launch its new vendor-independent SntryDICOM archive appliance and showcasing the new version of DICOM Publisher with advanced CD and DVD encryption capabilities at RSNA 2009. SntryDICOM seeks to provide a vendor independent and storage technology neutral image archive solution with a fully compliant DICOM 3.0 interface.
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  Portable medical reference provider Tarascon publishing, an imprint of Jones and Bartlett Publishers, has announced the release of the Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia iPhone application. The new Pocket Pharmacopoeia iPhone application offers continuous updates to critical drug dosing information important to healthcare providers at the point of care facing evolving medical challenges such as H1N1 (‘swine flu’) and other infectious diseases.
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  Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released EBSCOhost Mobile, allowing researchers to access their EBSCOhost databases via smartphones and other handheld devices. The product seeks to provide a convenient way for customers using mobile devices to find quality content. The main EBSCOhost Mobile screen offers a number of options including choosing which EBSCOhost database(s) to search plus setting search options, accessing field codes and specifying preferences.
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  Incisive Media, the UK-based organiser of the Online Information and IMS 2009 conference, has unveiled a comprehensive programme of over 110 free educational show floor seminars. The programme offers show visitors the chance to hear from some of the leading lights in the industry.
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  Database and research services provider Scope eKnowledge Center, a Quatrro Group Company, has announced that it has been selected to participate in the Online Information 2009 show floor seminar programme in the STM Information theatre. Frank Stumpf, Scope’s Board Advisor for STM publishing, will be the speaker, offering Scope’s ideas on the topic ‘Maximizing the value of STM content through semantic enrichment’.
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  The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that it is providing its institutional library customers with advanced electronic archiving services to preserve their electronic resources. These services, provided by Portico and CLOCKSS, are aimed to help the scholarly community obtain reliable, secure, deliverable access to their digital collection of scholarly works.
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  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced a webcast on November 20, 2009. It will be held in conjunction with the SPARC Campus-based Publishing initiative, a programme and web center designed by a panel of advisors from the library and university press communities to support successful publishing partnerships.
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  STM publisher Elsevier has announced the winners of the 2009 Semantic Web Challenge, which took place at the International Semantic Web Conference held in Washington, D.C. A jury consisting of eleven leading experts from both academia and industry awarded the four best applications with cash prizes of 2750 Euro in total, sponsored by Elsevier.
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  STM publisher Springer has announced that it is offering all journal articles and book chapters written by this year’s Nobel Prize laureates free of charge on its online information platform www.springerlink.com. The articles and chapters will be available to print out or download from now until December 31, 2009.
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  The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are David Crotty (Participation Value and Shelf-Life for Journal Articles); Richard Smith (The beginning of the end for impact factors and journals); Kent Anderson (Scientists Are Using Social Media Tools (and May Be Using Social Networks, To)); and Don Linn (Caught in the Middle: Publishing’s Other Customers). 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

  Adis, a Wolters Kluwer business, has announced a new tiered pricing model for institutions subscribing to its leading pharmacology titles in 2010. The new tiered pricing model is designed to make Adis’ publications more affordable for their recession-hit customers.
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  Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health) has announced the appointment of Anne Dabrow Woods to the new position of Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) in a move to strengthen the nursing strategy of its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journals and Ovid brands. As CNO, Woods will lead the nursing strategy across both the LWW journals and Ovid businesses.
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  Publisher Reed Elsevier has announced that Ian Smith has resigned as Chief Executive Officer by mutual agreement and has with stepped down from the Boards. Erik Engstrom, currently CEO of Elsevier, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Reed Elsevier with immediate effect.
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