Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the Bavarian State Library has selected the Rosetta digital preservation system, which will preserve and provide access to the extensive and rapidly growing digital collections of the Bavarian State Library. The Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system enables institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access to institutional documents, research output in digital formats, digital images, Web sites, and other digitally born and digitised materials, for perpetuity.
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  Scholarly publisher Edinburgh University Press has announced an agreement with JISC Collections to provide EUP journals to the UK academic community via the NESLi2 SMP initiative in 2010. NESLi2 SMP features e-content from 22 publishers around the world which are licensed by more than 190 higher and further education institutions and research councils.
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  Social publishing company Scribd has announced an agreement with academic dissertations and theses publisher ProQuest to make selected graduate dissertations and theses available for purchase on Scribd. The agreement will provide Scribd readers access to tens of thousands of original research and papers from leading academic institutions.
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  Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, has announced a publishing partnership with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB). Under the deal, the global publisher will publish the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, as well as the new title Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research.
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  The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that it has agreed to participate in the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) of more than 1,000 US Government member libraries to facilitate their access to the ACM Digital Library (DL). FEDLINK is the business subsidiary of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC).
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  Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced a partnership with Quertle LLC to add over 60,000 published articles into the latest version of Quertle’s online biomedical search tool. Quertle is projected as a query site for more effective searching of scientific literature.
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  The American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) have announced an agreement to work cooperatively to contribute to global efforts aimed at developing sustainable energy, providing abundant food and clean water, and seeking to address other global challenges that threaten sustainability of planet Earth. As part of the agreement, each Society will utilise its considerable scientific expertise to address some of the world's most challenging issues.
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  Academic publisher Maney Publishing has announced the purchase of two quarterly journals from John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The journals, Cochlear Implants International and Deafness & Education International, together establish a decisive publishing commitment to the clinical treatment and education of the deaf.
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  STM publisher IOS Press BV has announced an agreement with publisher Taylor & Francis for the transfer of four journals to its publishing programme. IOS will commence publication of these titles in 2010.
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  Subscription services provider Swets has announced that SwetsWise Online Content has been successfully audited for compliancy with Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice. This audit means that COUNTER 3 compliant data can be downloaded directly within SwetsWise Online Content and is also available for analysis within SwetsWise Selection Support and the ScholarlyStats platforms.
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  STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it will assume publication of the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, beginning with Volume 104 (2010). The journal is the official journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI).
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  Pharmaceutical and healthcare information provider IMS Health has announced the forthcoming launch of IMS Oncology Quantifier, a comprehensive, clinically rich analytical tool. Available starting in January 2010, IMS Oncology Quantifier enables the company’s clients to assess treatment opportunities and guide commercial decisions in the $48 billion global oncology market.
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  The Umeå Centre for Global Health Research and publisher Co-Action Publishing have announced the publication of a cluster of articles published in the international peer reviewed open access journal Global Health Action. The article cluster, titled ‘Climate Change and Public Health: linking science and policy’, comes with a forward by Maria Neira of the WHO.
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  STM publisher Elsevier has announced that research tool ‘Reflect’, winner of Elsevier’s Grand Challenge 2009, will be piloted on the research articles in the November 12th issue of journal Cell. The Cell-Reflect pilot is the next step in Elsevier’s ongoing Content Innovation effort with the scientific community to determine how a scientific article is best presented online.
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  Academic publisher SAGE has announced a major upgrade to its SAGE Journals Online (SJO) platform. More than 560 SAGE journals will be available on the next generation platform, supported by HighWire Press’ 2.0 technology (H2O), by the end of 2010.
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  E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions has announced the development of a new E-Books Metadata Normalization process for Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase. As a result of this new process, KnowledgeWorks will now be able to deliver the best possible access to e-Books through 360 services and OPACs.
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  STM publisher Springer has announced that it is founding a new journal Food Digestion, dedicated to a quickly growing area of research – food science combined with the physiology of digestion. Roger Lentle from the Institute of Food Nutrition and Human Health at Massey University in New Zealand and Peter Wilde from the Institute of Food Research in Norwich, UK, will serve as Editors-in-chief of the journal.
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  Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary has announced that it has created a publicly available research center featuring a highly interactive, searchable database of documents pertaining to the H1N1 influenza pandemic. The new site contains a growing selection of reports, papers, newsletters, posters, and other important materials from government agencies and other trusted sources.
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  WebWorks.com, part of publishing platform solutions developer Quadralay Corporation, has announced the 2009.3 release of its ePublisher platform. Content developers and corporate publication teams can now apply the same degree of control and customisation to their print documents that they have been able to bring to their online deliverables, directly from within the ePublisher Pro design tool.
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  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released the World Ocean Database 2009, a collection of scientific information about the oceans with records dating as far back as 1800. This product is part of the climate services provided by NOAA.
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  Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health) has announced that Tufts Medical Center has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to automate the creation, maintenance and system-wide deployment of evidence-based order sets. Tufts Medical Center, a 451-bed academic medical center, will also serve as a reference site for the electronic order set solution.
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  Construction information provider Reed Construction Data (RCD) has announced updates for two of its leading BIM solutions, SmartBIM Library (SBL) and SmartBIM QTO, to help Autodesk Revit users increase efficiency and organization in the design phase. SmartBIM Library is a Revit family cataloging tool for architects, designers and engineers that provides search and management capabilities. SmartBIM QTO allows architects and engineers to rapidly perform quantity takeoffs from a Revit project and generate design-level cost estimates using RSMeans cost data.
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  The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Philip Davis (Open Access Memberships: Are Libraries Paying Too Much?); Joe Wikert (Is the eReader Financial Model Upside Down?); Kent Anderson (Breaking the Chain of Inquiry — When Journals and Journalists Fall Short); and Joshua Kim (Audiobooks, E-readers and Accessibility). 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 Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has released a study, according to which media companies could counter the effects of the advertising slump and benefit from a major boost in profits if they start charging for online news. A new research, released by BCG, shows that consumers are willing to spend small monthly sums to receive news on their personal computers and mobile devices.
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  The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has released a report as part of its ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’ activity, which launches at the end of November. The new ‘Open Science’ report trails key research trends that could purportedly have far-reaching implications for science, universities and the UK society.
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  The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Dutch funder Hivos have published the 2009 edition of the annual report, Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch). This year’s edition is titled Access to online information and knowledge – advancing human rights and democracy.
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  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) E-Science Working Group surveyed ARL member libraries in the fall of 2009 to gather data on the state of engagement with e-science issues. An overview of initial survey findings was presented by E-Science Working Group Chair Wendy Lougee, University Librarian, McKnight Presidential Professor, University of Minnesota Libraries, at the October ARL Membership Meeting.
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  A group of 41 Nobel Prize-winning scientists, including 16 chemists, are urging the US Congress to require the results of federally funded research to be made freely available online. In an open letter to lawmakers the Nobel laureates endorse the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009.
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  Internet search services provider Google, Inc., the Authors Guild (AG) and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) recently released their revised book settlement proposal in an attempt to revise the existing legal agreement. According to Open Book Alliance co-chair Peter Brantley, none of the proposed changes appear to address the fundamental flaws illuminated by the Department of Justice and other critics that impact public interest.
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  E-resource access and management solutions provider TDNet Ltd. recently announced a new ‘discovery to delivery’ platform for corporate libraries and information centres. The TDOne TDNet platform is projected to integrate access to all of the internal and external information resources available across the enterprise using TDNet's search and browse technology.
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  STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of MD Consult Mobile. Optimised for iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smartphone devices, MD Consult Mobile allows clinicians to consult the same MD Consult content available from a laptop or desktop computer.
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  STM publisher Elsevier has announced that the physician-members of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, will receive free access to MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com), its electronic clinical decision support (CDS) tool. Elsevier will donate a free subscription to MSF for each annual individual MD Consult subscription purchased between November 16 and December 18, 2009.
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  Life sciences software provider CambridgeSoft Corporation has announced that it has completed a private equity investment by Health Evolution Partners and a follow-on investment by Goldman Sachs. In connection with the investment, Adam Grossman will represent Health Evolution Partners on the CambridgeSoft Board of Directors. Raheel Zia, vice president of Goldman Sachs, will continue serving on the Board, based upon Goldman Sachs’ original investment in 2008.
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  The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has launched its investment plan for the academic year 2009/2010. JISC will invest over £7 million to advance the innovative use of digital technologies in UK colleges and universities.
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  Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) have announced that prices for site licence access to the EMBO Journal and EMBO reports will be reduced by 9 percent in 2010. The 9 percent reduction is net of an annual inflationary price increase. Print and personal subscription prices are unaffected.
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  Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced that two researchers have been selected as the recipients of the seventh annual ‘SPSJ Wiley Award’. The award is sponsored by Wiley in conjunction with the Society of Polymer Science Japan (SPSJ).
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  TechWeb, a division of United Business Media, has announced the appointment of Sarah Milstein as General Manager and Co Chair of Web 2.0 Expo brands, including the annual events in San Francisco and New York. In her new position, she will lead the content, strategy and execution of Web 2.0 Expo, working closely with TechWeb's partners at O'Reilly Media.
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  Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest has announced plans to expand its presence in East Asia. The company has appointed Boe Horton as Senior Vice President and Managing Director, East Asia Pacific, to lead the effort.
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  Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced that the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) has appointed Dr. Betty Ferrell as the new editor of The Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing. With more than 32 years of oncology nursing experience, Dr. Ferrell has focused her clinical expertise and research in pain management, quality of life, and palliative care.
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