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Wiley-Blackwell study predicts impact of economic downturn on publishing partners Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, recently conducted a study examining the potential impact of the economic downturn on its society publishing partners. Sixty percent of professional and scholarly societies believe that the global economic downturn might be a stimulus to introducing efficiencies within their organisations, according to the survey. Fifty-seven percent think it might provide opportunities for launching new activities or services for their members.
Sixty-eight percent characterised the global economic downturn as moderately negative, while 17 percent stated that it would have minimal negative impact or may even be beneficial. Asked to rank the expected impact of the economic downturn on each category of their organisation’s revenues or assets, more than 75 percent of society officers believed that there would be a very or slightly negative impact on their membership dues and conference income. The most concern was expressed about endowments and investments. Thirty-two percent did not anticipate any change in income from publishing, forty-seven percent believed it could be slightly affected, while 17 percent felt this area may be very affected.
In terms of strategies to ride out the economic crunch, 41 percent said that they would consider downsizing while a further 41 percent said they would consider expanding. More than half felt that the way to navigate the recession was outsourcing some of their core activities, such as publishing. Two-thirds thought that their publishing needs would not change during the recession, while one-third thought they would. Typical of the feedback was the comment to ‘Help us to weather the storm – you all have a lot more collective experience than we do individually’ and the request for ‘more guidance and monitoring of the economic climate and proactive recommendations’.
The study was presented at the recently held Wiley-Blackwell Executive Seminar at the Royal Society in London. This was the second Wiley-Blackwell seminar for society executives based on the theme, ‘Journal Publishing in an Uncertain Market,’ each of which attracted more than 100 delegates to hear a range of speakers and to participate in panel discussions. The previous seminar, held in May 2009 in Washington, D.C., included a keynote by Wiley author Clint Swindall, who spoke on leadership and, in particular, how organisations can maintain employee engagement during times of change.
The survey, carried out by Wiley-Blackwell in Spring 2009, was completed by 47 officers from scholarly and professional societies ranging in size from less than 500 members to more than 25,000, and from a variety of subject disciplines. The majority of respondents were based in Europe and the US. The Wiley-Blackwell Executive Seminars are run annually in the US, UK, Scandinavia and Asia, and are a forum for society executives and journal editors.
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 Publisher - STM Publishing JISC Collections, Gale partner to make Eighteenth Century Collections Online Part 2 available to UK academic community E-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, and JISC Collections have announced an agreement to make Part 2 of the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) digitisation project freely available to all UK academic institutions currently subscribing to ECCO.
With 45,000 new titles selected from the English Short Title Catalogue, ECCO Part 2 adds about seven million pages to the size of the collection. As with Part 1, ECCO Part 2 includes almost 13,000 titles from British Library’s extensive holdings of eighteenth-century material.
First released in 2003 and originally acquired by JISC Collections in 2006, ECCO quickly established itself as the world’s largest digital library of the print book, with over 200,000 volumes of key 18th century works. Since then, the English Short Title Catalogue has uncovered a wealth of valuable new material and new holdings of previously unavailable titles. The material in ECCO Part 2 includes both new titles that have been added to the ESTC as well as newly reported holdings information.
Scholars can delve into ancient and contemporary times, voyages and discoveries, biographies and memoirs in history and geography. They can also investigate how diseases were treated in medicine, look into science, technology and study other celebrated novelists, poets and playwrights in literature and language.
The new release includes an enhanced user interface with new features and contextual tools to make the database more accessible to students and valuable to advanced researchers. Institutions that already participate in the JISC Collections ECCO agreement will have access to ECCO Part 2 and the new interface from August 1, 2009 with no further action required on their part.
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Institute/Association/Council/Academy/ Society/Organisation - Web-based information services The EASL and Elsevier renew publishing deal Serials Solutions 360 Core now available with enhanced functionality Nielsen Book applies BIC E4Libraries initiative to BookData Online service Nielsen Book, part of global information and media group Nielsen Company, US, has announced that it is applying the BIC E4Libraries initiative to its core online service, BookData Online. BookData Online users can now search by E4Libraries Category Headings.
The BIC E4Libraries initiative, of which E4Libraries Category Headings are a key part, aims to reduce costs, streamline workflows and automate the categorisation process in order to improve stock selection, management and display. These goals are shared by Nielsen Book which provides a range of services for libraries that improve processes and workflow. BookData Online, the company’s flagship service, has displayed the E4Libraries categories for each of the 8.9 million titles it holds since the beginning of the year. Users are now able to use E4Libraries categories as a search criterion allowing them to search directly using the classification scheme.
Nielsen Book offers a wide range of data and transaction services for libraries, which include BookData Online, Catalogue Enrichment, UKMARC and MARC21 outputs, BookScan for Libraries, BookNet EDI and its recently launched borrowing collection service LibScan.
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Service provider - Data Management SAE International’s Aerospace Magazine to go all digital Biomedical journals available via OvidSP included in SLA’s top 100 journals Information research solutions provider Ovid, US, has announced that 27 journals available electronically on its platform OvidSP have been selected as among the 100 most influential biology and medical journals of the past 100 years. The journals were selected by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Biomedical and Life Sciences Division (DBIO), and honored at the association’s recent annual meeting in Washington, DC. Of the 27 journals, five are from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW). Both Ovid and LWW are part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The other journals are from publishers such as Elsevier, Oxford University Press, BMJ and Wiley-Blackwell.
The five LWW journals include AJN: American Journal of Nursing, Circulation, Neurology, Anasthesia & Analgesia, and Critical Care Medicine. Three of these titles are published with the support of medical societies - Neurology is the official publication of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN); Critical Care Medicine that of the Society of Critical Care Medicine; and Circulation that of the American Heart Association.
Journals in the DBIO Top 100 were determined by the votes of nearly 700 librarian members, after being nominated by an international panel of subject matter experts. The fields represented include clinical medicine, allied health sciences, molecular and cellular biology, and natural history.
On OvidSP, institutional users can search a list of more than 1,200 journals and journal collections. Advanced search and browse functionality allows for simultaneous searching of multiple journals as well as journals, books and databases with just one search query. Electronic tables of contents (eTOCS) provide content updates via e-mail or RSS feed. Single-article access is also available using Ovid’s PayPerView service.
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