Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it has been chosen by the American Academy of Ophthalmology to create an online educational resource center for Ophthalmologists.

Slated for launch in late 2007, the new tool - The Ophthalmic News and Education Network (O.N.E. Network) - is projected to help the Academy's 27,000 members fulfill the American Board of Ophthalmology's Maintenance of Certification requirements. Also, it will further the Academy's mission of providing lifelong learning opportunities for its members.

In addition, the O.N.E. Network will include practice standards; cases; presentations; self-assessment tests with online remediation; the ability to earn and manage CME; educational videos of procedures; focused news and alerts; tools to maintain certification resources; journal articles; and other related materials. Academy members who use the O.N.E. Network will receive high-quality information, news and education tools on demand.

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Energy information provider Platts, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, US, has announced the launch of a new publication, Steel Markets Daily. The publication provides price benchmarks, news and market commentary on steel. Francis Browne, a steel expert formerly with Stemcor, MAN Ferrostaal AG and Coutinho Caro, will serve as Executive Editor. He will retain the title of Platts Global Managing Editor of Steel.

Steel Markets Daily will provide market commentary and news from the world's major trading hubs and industry specialists across the globe; government and regulatory news on trade developments from the US Commerce Department and the EU as well as reports on government activities such as policy and legislation. It is projected to offer a high degree of editorial quality and expertise from an international team of industry experts and journalists; and analysis of market fundamentals that impact the whole steel supply chain. Also, Platts intends to extend its coverage of steel prices geographically and to other steel products.

In addition, the new publication will include spot domestic and import prices for hot-rolled coil, the most widely produced flat-rolled steel which is used for construction, appliance and automotive purposes; and reinforcing bar (rebar), used in construction of buildings, roads and bridges. The publication will target the steel, construction and automotive industries as well as commodities-focused money managers.

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The Wiley Foundation, US, has announced that the sixth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences will be awarded jointly to Dr. F. Ulrich Hartl, Director at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, in Munich, Germany, and Dr. Arthur L. Horwich, Eugene Higgins Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at the Yale University School of Medicine, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The presentation coincides with the beginning of the global publisher's year-long bicentennial celebration.

Dr. Hartl and Dr. Horwich were chosen for their elucidation of the molecular machinery that guides proteins into their proper functional shape, thereby preventing the accumulation of protein aggregates that underlie many diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

The Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences recognises contributions that have opened new areas of research or have advanced new concepts or their applications in a particular biomedical discipline. It honours a particular contribution or a series of contributions that demonstrate significant leadership and innovation. The award includes a $25,000 grant and an opportunity to present a public lecture at The Rockefeller University, the venue for the awards ceremony.

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The EU petition to guarantee open access to publicly funded research has reportedly been signed by more than 10,000 researchers, senior academics, lecturers, librarians and citizens from across Europe and around the world. The petition calls on the European Commission (EC) to adopt polices to guarantee free public access to research results and maximise the worldwide visibility of European research.

Senior representatives from more than 500 education, research and cultural organisations are also supporting the initiative. This includes CERN, the UK's Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the Italian Rector's Conference, the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts & Sciences (KNAW) and the Swiss Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW). This is apart from the petition's sponsors - SPARC Europe, JISC, the SURF Foundation, the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Danish Electronic Research Library (DEFF).

The EC will host a meeting in Brussels in February 2007 to discuss its position regarding widening access. The petition is intended to convey the overwhelming level of public support for the recommendations of the EC study.

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Journal of Vision (JOV), a peer-reviewed e-publication of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), has announced that it has adopted an Article numbering system as of January 1, 2007. The publication will no longer use consecutive pagination throughout a volume.

All articles appearing in the journal will begin on page one with a final page number that reflects the length of that article. This change will make it easier to prepare multiple papers in advance and to publish online immediately without an entire issue having to be allocated page numbers.

Published by ARVO, JOV covers all aspects of visual function in humans and other organisms. JOV's Impact Factor ranks the journal in the top five journals in the Ophthalmology category. The articles are published exclusively in HTML and PDF digital formats. Full-text articles may be accessed for free via the Internet.

Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced the appointment of Chris Beckett as Vice President of Sales & Marketing, effective February 1, 2007. He succeeds Martin Marlow, who will now focus on other areas of corporate development.

In his new position, Beckett will be responsible for overseeing sales, marketing, and customer development. He has over 25 years of senior executive experience in product development and sales and marketing. He was a Co-Founder of Scholarly Information Strategies, a consultancy that specialised in assisting publishers, libraries and infomediaries to develop and deliver electronic products and services. Earlier, he also served Blackwell Information Services, CatchWord, and Ingenta.

Martin Marlow, who has driven Atypon's sales & marketing growth over the past year, will continue to lead the Atypon international office in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

B2B information provider Reed Business, US, has announced the retirement of industry veteran James Casella from his post as Vice Chairman, effective January 31.

Casella joined the company in 2002 as CEO of Reed Business Information-US, where he oversaw the steady improvement of operating margins and earnings in North America. In 2005, he moved into the post of Vice Chairman for Reed Elsevier's global business-to-business division, Reed Business, focusing on the expansion of its footprint in Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRIC markets).

Before joining Reed Business, Casella held such posts as Chief Operating Officer at IDG, President and CEO of PennNet (now PennEnergy), President of ABC Consumer Magazines (a division of Capital Cities/ABC), and Vice President of Sales and Marketing for HBJ Media Systems at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced an agreement with the International Union of Forest Research Organisation's (IUFRO) Small-scale Forestry Group. Under the deal, Springer will publish the latter's journal, Small-scale Forestry. The journal, the first issue of which is slated for release in March 2007, will be included in the OARE, AGORA and CGIAR initiatives. These initiatives provide scientists, researchers, and policymakers in low-income countries with free or very low-cost online access to Springer journals.

A quarterly, Small-scale Forestry focuses on small-scale forest issues. The cross-disciplinary editorial board will include representatives from Asia, Australia, North America, and Europe. The journal seeks to provide an international platform for high-quality, peer-reviewed papers on pure and applied research in small-scale forestry. It is expected to benefit policymakers and forest managers as well as forest researchers.

Springer will publish the journal in both print and electronic formats. The journal will be available via Springerlink, Springer's online information platform, and will include Online First, a feature where articles are published online before they appear in print. In addition, all potential authors have the option of publishing their articles using the open access publishing model, via the Springer Open Choice program.

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Publisher F-D-C Reports, Inc., US, part of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced the launch of beta version of PharmAsia News, an Asian Pharma news and regulatory website. The new beta website is in response to growing demand for business and regulatory coverage of the rapidly expanding Asian biomedical industry.

PharmAsia News provides free weekly articles, news summaries and updates about key developments in China, India, Japan and other Asian countries. Though the portal primarily focuses on pharma, it also features original reporting from various FDC publications including coverage of OTCs, biotech, devices, consumer health and regulatory issues. In addition, PharmAsia News' free weekly email update includes news summaries, events, updates and more.

Through its diverse publications, F-D-C Reports provides up-to-date information on the health care and pharmaceutical industry worldwide. Its publications include The Pink Sheet(R), The Gray Sheet(R), The Rose Sheet(R), The Tan Sheet(R), Research Policy Alert, and Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly.

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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Africa, has adopted the open document format (ODF) in support of access to information and as an enabler of the adoption of open source software (OSS). Under the terms of the adoption of the standard, CSIR word processor, spreadsheet and presentation files will be in ODF, wherever possible. The organisation-wide adoption of ODF is part of CSIR's migration to OSS and standards that are set to be completed during 2007.

OpenOFfice.org, the open source office suite that supports ODF, was introduced to more than 2500 workstations at the organisation's main site in Pretoria and at its regional offices. The adoption of ODF represents an important milestone for the CSIR and positions the organisation alongside lead adopters in India, Europe and the US.

The CSIR's adoption of the standard will support the efforts of the South African Government Information Officers' Council, which has concluded that the role of OSS should be explicitly recognised in e-government policy. The Council has already initiated the first phase of implementation of an OSS strategy. Furthermore, the National Advisory Council on Innovation has produced a discussion document that looks at the role of OSS in education and innovation systems.

ODF allows users to employ the tool of their choice to open, view, change, edit and store data. It also allows free exchange of information, irrespective of the software used. It is an ISO standard controlled by the non-profit Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

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Publisher University of California Press' Journals and Digital publishing division has announced that its online content platforms - Caliber and AnthroSource - are now compatible with RefWorks citation manager. Also, AnthroSource will be made available for archiving through LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), which ensures preservation and security for the over 40,000 articles that are a part of the online resource for anthropologists.

RefWorks facilitates the easy management of references and quick generation of bibliographies and footnotes. These tools reduce the reference management burden on scholars and researchers, decrease the chance of errors, and offer significant flexibility when making changes. LOCKSS is an open source software that provides librarians with an easy and inexpensive way to collect, store, preserve and provide access to their own local copy of purchased, authorised content. Running on standard desktop hardware, LOCKSS converts a PC into a digital preservation appliance, creating low-cost, persistent, accessible copies of e-journal content as it is published.

Established in 1893, University of California Press brings out a range of publications, from inventive first books by young academics to journals expressing the results of the research of several well-known scholars. The Journals and Digital Publishing Division of the Press currently publishes over 50 scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

Information solutions provider Thomson Scientific and Dialog, part of The Thomson Corporation, US, have announced their continued sponsorship of the Australia & New Zealand Chapter of the Special Library Association's (SLA) Information Professional of the Year Award, and joined chapter leaders in calling for nominations. This was announced at a special session during the recently concluded Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Information Online 2007 conference in Australia. Past winners of the Australia & New Zealand Information Professional of the Year Award were also honored during the event.

The award, sponsored by Thomson Scientific and Dialog for the third consecutive year, is open to all information professionals in Australia and New Zealand. All nominations are required to be submitted on or before May 11, 2007. The winner will be announced at the SLA 98th Annual Conference, to be held from June 2-7, 2007, in Denver. The recipient of the 2007 Australia & New Zealand Information Professional of the Year Award will receive a prize of AUD$2,000.

Dialog also annually recognises current and potential leaders through its InfoStar Awards and the Roger K. Summit Scholarship for future information professionals, named in honor of the founder and chairman emeritus of Dialog.

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Pharmaceutical and healthcare information provider IMS Health, US, has announced the full deployment of Next-Generation Prescription Services, a large-scale enhancement to IMS's core prescription offerings in the US. With this implementation, the company's industry-standard information services - IMS National Prescription Audit, IMS Xponent and IMS PlanTrak - are projected to become more vital to clients and researchers studying the use and effectiveness of pharmaceutical products.

Next-Generation Prescription Services provide accurate and timely view of dispensed prescriptions across all channels. This helps clients and researchers to keep pace with fundamental shifts in the composition of pharmaceutical product portfolios. By incorporating patented and patent-pending methodologies as well as product-level projections, IMS Next-Generation offerings are seen to deliver precise product-level insights on all pharmaceutical products, especially those with specialty distribution profiles. In addition, information is consistent across time periods and geographic views.

In addition, IMS's Next-Generation Prescription Services initiative sets the stage for other advances, including further integration of core prescription information with IMS anonymised patient-level offerings, as well as enhanced analytic and consulting applications.

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Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced the acquisition of three controlled-circulation publications from Carpe Diem Communications, Inc., US. The publications are: Food Quality, Pharmaceutical Formulation & Quality (PFQ and Contamination Control.

This acquisition is projected to further expand Wiley's global controlled-circulation portfolio of life and physical science offerings. The titles are available both in print and online at no charge to qualified readers. In addition, the global publisher has also acquired the Carpe Diem name, which will now be known as a Carpe Diem-A Wiley Company. Rick Biros, Founder/President Carpe Diem Communications has joined Wiley as Publisher.

Food Quality, which debuted in 1994, was one of the first magazines to focus on food safety and quality in the US. A leading publication for the food industry for over a decade, Food Quality is an American Society of Business Press Editors (ASBPE) award winner. PFQ covers trends and advances in product development, formulation, quality control, regulations, and drug delivery. With readers in North America and Europe, the journal has developed into one of the leading magazines serving the drug development industry over the past decade. Launched in 2005, Contamination Control, focuses on the life science industry, covering the technology and methods used to prevent contamination in the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, and medical devices.

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The US Department of Energy (DoE) has signed an agreement with the British Library, UK, to develop a global science gateway that will make science information resources of many nations accessible via a single Internet portal.

The resource, called Science.world, will be available for use by scientists in all nations and by anyone interested in science. Following the model of Science.gov, the US interagency science portal that relies on content published by each participating agency, Science.world will rely on scientific resources published by each participating nation. Other countries have been invited to participate in this international effort.

Objectives of the new initiative include: to search dispersed, electronic collections in various science disciplines; provide direct, seamless and free searching of open-source collections and portals; build upon existing and already successful national models for searching; complement existing information collections and systems; and raise the visibility and usage of individual sources of quality science information.

The DoE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information will work with the British Library and international counterparts to develop a prototype of Science.world later in the year.

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The European Commission (EC) is reportedly preparing new guidelines for the € 3 billion-a-year European scientific publishing industry. The new guidelines are expected to put pressure on major firms such as STM publisher Elsevier and Oxford University Press to give free access to articles based on EU-funded work.

The guidelines follow a January 2006 Commission report, outsourced to Belgian and French academics, which put forward a suggestion that research be made public six months after it is published. The suggestion was made in the context of rising subscription fees for academic journals and falling publication costs due to the growth of digital publishing. According to the report, the EU should consider framing a policy mandating published articles arising from EC -funded research to be available after a given time period in open access archives. The EU is planning to allot € 33.2 billion in research grants between 2007 and 2013.

The guidelines will take the form of a 'communication' to be issued on February 15, 2007. The document reportedly has no legal force but creates political pressure, perhaps leading to future legislation.

Library solutions provider the Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced Athens-based General Data Business (GBD) as the exclusive distributor for Ex Libris products in Greece. GBD will be responsible for sales and customer support for the full range of Ex Libris software products for managing electronic resources and services in the digital environment.

Established in 1990, GBD specialises in designing and implementing a range of technological solutions for storage management and backup, communications and networking, and Internet applications. GDB partners with such leading companies as Cisco Systems, Hitachi, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems.

The Ex Libris Group is a worldwide supplier of software solutions and related services for libraries and information centers. The Company's suite of products has been customised to serve users' functional and linguistic needs in over twenty different languages. It serves a diverse installed base of 2,500 customers across 62 countries, including 70 of the top hundred universities worldwide, and 45 of the top fifty universities in North America.

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TechNet Magazine, a premier source for technical information for IT professionals, was recently honoured with four awards from the Society of Technical Communication (STC). STC is an individual membership organisation dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication.

The magazine was honoured with the award of excellence in the scholarly/professional journals category. Also, it received an award of excellence in the software guides category for the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Component Jigsaw poster in the March/April 2006 issue.

In addition, the magazine received awards of merit in the scholarly/professional articles category for two articles, 'Playing with Exchange in a Sandbox' by Greg Taylor and Simon Shepherd and 'Deconstructing Common Security Myths' by Jesper Johansson and Steve Riley. Produced jointly by Microsoft Corporation and CMP Media LLC, TechNet Magazine is the source for in-depth technical information for IT professionals using Microsoft products and technologies.

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Aviation Week, part of The McGraw-Hill Companies, US, recently announced the relaunch of its website at http://www.aviationweek.com.

AviationWeek.com boasts a current average of over 800,000 page views and 180,000 unique visitors per month. This includes executives and engineers from aerospace and defence manufacturers, airlines, armed forces, government agencies, MRO service providers, educational and R&D institutions. The redesigned site offers more content, as well as an enhanced interface for the global aviation, aerospace and defence community.

Aviation Week claims to be the largest multimedia information and services provider to the global aviation, aerospace and defence industries. It includes publications such as Aviation Week & Space Technology, Defense Technology International, Business & Commercial Aviation, Overhaul & Maintenance, ShowNews, Aviation Daily, The Weekly of Business Aviation, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report and the World Aerospace Database. The group also produces 12 major conferences and exhibitions in the MRO, defence and programs sectors.

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Publisher McGraw-Hill Professional, part of McGraw-Hill Companies, US, has announced the launch of AccessEmergency Medicine (http://www.accessEM.com). A complete online service, AccessEmergency Medicine allows users to quickly search for the clinical features, diagnosis and treatment for the entire scope of problems present in the Emergency Department.

The latest addition to McGraw-Hill Professional's offering of online medical resources, AccessEmergency Medicine is part of a series of specialty-focused sites that build directly upon the success of AccessMedicine, an online service that provides access to numerous McGraw-Hill medical references for general practitioners and medical students. The web-based resource is seen to be an invaluable resource for emergency physicians, as well as an ideal tool for resident and student education, and for emergency nursing and paramedic information.

The service includes instructional videos for key clinical procedures, decision rules, and crisis interventions performed in the Emergency Department. Developed in conjunction with the American College of Emergency Physicians, AccessEmergency Medicine offers complete coverage of common and rare procedures in the emergency department with all the information physicians need to retrieve and review quickly. The information service provides multimedia resources, illustrations, imaging studies, algorithms and clinical presentations fully integrated with the text to help in quick diagnosis and treatment decisions. Complete drug information throughout the site offers immediate access to chemical structure and dosing information, adverse reactions, indications and contraindications, as well as patient education in English and Spanish and full-color photos of all formulations.

Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced an agreement with the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA). Under the deal, Wiley's journal, Depression and Anxiety, will become an official publication of ADAA. Complimentary subscriptions to the journal will be made available to the professional membership of ADAA.

Led by Editor-in-Chief Dr. Thomas Uhde, Depression and Anxiety publishes original research and synthetic review articles covering a range of aspects of anxiety, stress, and mood disorders and related phenomena in humans and animals. The journal is widely read among psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychopharmacologists, and healthcare professionals in the behavioral sciences.

ADAA is a leading national, non-profit organisation dedicated to informing the public, healthcare professionals and legislators that anxiety disorders are real, serious and treatable. It promotes the early diagnosis, treatment and cure of anxiety disorders, and is committed to improving the lives of the people who suffer from them. Members include clinicians, researchers and consumers.

Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that all the electronic content from one of its publisher participants - the American Mathematical Society (AMS) - has now been preserved in the Portico archive. AMS has chosen Portico as the archive for the current e-content of 11 journals (including the entirety of its three e-only titles). With this inclusion, more than 375,000 articles have been preserved within Portico.

The archive has fully preserved all the bibliographic data, PDF page content and supplemental files of over 10,000 articles published between 1995 and the present. It will now preserve new content from each of these 11 journals as it is published. In addition, AMS has designated Portico as an official delivery platform for post-cancellation access claims. Also, it will make an annual financial contribution to support Portico's ongoing operations.

AMS is focused on pure and applied mathematical research and scholarship. It publishes the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematics of Computation among other titles. Since 1996, AMS has been archiving its four flagship print publications with JSTOR. By archiving its e-current content with Portico, it seeks to assure the future availability of the complete publication run of these four titles for future scholars, practitioners, researchers and students.

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ProQuest Information and Learning, a division of ProQuest Company, US, recently announced an agreement with STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands. Under the deal, ProQuest will continue to distribute the acclaimed medical journal The Lancet to libraries worldwide. The renewed contract allows libraries to access the journal integrated within ProQuest's several STM databases.

Published by Elsevier, The Lancet is one of the most influential medical journals in the world. The journal is known for its independent, authoritative voice in global medicine. Its commitment to international health is delivered through research and analysis from all regions of the world and its thought-provoking opinion is communicated by three editorials every week.

The agreement is part of ProQuest's ongoing strategy to support its STM customers with highly respected and authoritative titles. The content from The Lancet is available through such ProQuest databases as ProQuest Medical Library and ProQuest Health and Medical Complete. Backfiles will extend to January of 1990 and new articles will be available 60 days after their original publication date.

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The Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (JSTAT) is currently seeking entries for the annual prize for the best paper written by young scientists. A prize of 500 Euro will be awarded to the author(s) of the best paper as judged by a panel from the editorial board. All entries should be submitted on or before December 31, 2007.

To be eligible for the award, scientists must have had a paper accepted for publication in JSTAT. Also, they should have completed PhD within the past five years at the time of submission. In case a group would like their paper to be considered, all members of the group must fulfill the criterion.

A multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, JSTAT brings together cutting-edge research in all aspects of statistical physics. Being an online journal, it offers authors the opportunity to publish large data sets, tables and figures, as well as multimedia attachments. The journal offers web-only submission and aims for rapid publication. Click here to read the original press release.

Pharmaceutical and healthcare information provider IMS Health, US, has announced that Gilles V.J. Pajot, executive vice president and president, Global Business Management, has been named the company's chief operating officer. Also, Leslye G. Katz, IMS vice president and controller, has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer. Both executives will report to David R. Carlucci, IMS chairman and CEO.

In his new position, Pajot will assume responsibility for driving IMS's business operations, in addition to his current duties. He has over 30 years experience in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, and has served in a number of senior-level regional and global roles. He joined IMS in 1997 and has held executive positions with responsibility for IMS operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

As senior vice president and chief financial officer, Katz, will lead IMS's worldwide finance organisation and have responsibility for finance and accounting, treasury, internal audit and investor relations.

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Medical education provider The Curry Rockefeller Group, LLC (CRG), US, has announced the appointment of Dr. Jennifer Kuo as Project Editor. In her new position, she will report to Linnéa C. Elliott, Senior Vice President, Editorial.

Prior to this, Dr. Kuo served as Project Manager for JL Shapiro Associates, Inc., a healthcare communications and marketing firm.

CRG is focused on providing medical education and coaching for healthcare professionals. While CRG Oncology caters to the cancer treatment market, CRG Neuroscience targets the neuro-psychiatric and neurology markets. CRG Connect is engaged in arranging teleconferences and dinner meetings for enterprises. CRG Publishing brings out handbooks, articles and textbooks covering various clinical and scientific areas.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has assumed publication of the Annals of Vascular Surgery, starting with Volume 21. Dr. Ramon Berguer, Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan, and Dr. Edouard Kieffer, Professor and Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, will continue to serve as editors.

Now in its 21st year of publication, the Annals of Vascular Surgery is the official publication of the French Society for Vascular Surgery, the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society, and the Southern California Vascular Surgical Society. The journal provides peer-reviewed coverage of clinical and experimental work in vascular surgery. Each bi-monthly issue provides readers with clinical research; basic science research; case reports; scholarly reviews of the existing literature on relevant topics; surgical news of interest; coverage of all the latest surgical techniques; historical vignettes from the early days of vascular surgery; and announcements of meetings and courses of regional, national, and international significance.

Elsevier will provide institutional subscribers with online access to the full text of the journal through its electronic journal and book platform, ScienceDirect. This includes current and archived issues back to 2003. Members of the affiliated societies and individual subscribers can access the journal at www.annalsofvascularsurgery.com.

Scientific publisher Springer-Verlag, Germany, has announced a software licence and services agreement with text analytics solutions provider TEMIS to integrate the latter's indexing engine with its SpringerLink platform. Under the deal, Springer will deploy TEMIS Luxid Annotation Factory and Luxid Information Mart software for its Semantic Linking project. The project is aimed at giving instant access to complex scientific documents and providing innovative navigation capabilities in online journals and encyclopaedias.

The next-generation SpringerLink platform will facilitate users reading a text in a specific domain, to be automatically connected to other specialised publications and encyclopaedias. The flexible and automated solutions of TEMIS are projected to help Springer leverage its high volume of scientific content.

As a provider of text analytics solutions for the publishing industry, TEMIS addresses the unstructured multilingual data management needs of content providers using concepts and meaning extraction, automatic classification and relationships representation. With the Springer collaboration, TEMIS seeks to expand its existing customer base in the publishing industry, which includes Thomson Scientific, MDL Elsevier, Juris and Lexis-Nexis.

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Clinical software vendor Allscripts, US, and medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, have announced a multi-year agreement to deliver the latter's industry-leading clinical content to users of Allscripts Electronic Health Record solutions. The new deal is an extension of an existing alliance between the two companies.

The agreement will initially integrate WK Health content into TouchWorks Version 11, the latest and most advanced version of the leading ambulatory Electronic Health Record, and will be rapidly extended to other Allscripts product lines. WK Health will work closely with Allscripts and its clients to develop customised clinical content including customisable documentation templates, order sets, care plans and best practices for use in the TouchWorks and HealthMatics Electronic Health Record solutions and other Allscripts applications.

In addition, the agreement enables Allscripts to offer clients integration between Allscripts applications and Wolters Kluwer Health's products, such as ClinicalResource@Ovid, a comprehensive and trusted source of scientific and clinical information about drug therapies and evidence-based treatment guidelines to support clinical decisions.

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Publisher linking services provider CrossRef, US, has announced that UK's autonomous scientific academy, the Royal Society has registered all of its historical back-file content with CrossRef. The Oldenburg Epistle Dedicatory, dating from 1665 and published in the first volume of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, is the latest publication linkable via CrossRef DOI.

The Royal Society joins several CrossRef member publishers who have recently completed, or are in the process of, vast retro-digitisation initiatives. This includes Elsevier, Springer, Sage, Kluwer, Wiley, Blackwell, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science among others. Non-profit organisation JSTOR, US, another CrossRef member, deposited over a million and a half DOIs in 2006.

The complete archive, available at http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/archive, comprises material from historically significant events such as the early experiments to demonstrate Newton's Law of Gravity and Harvey's theories of circulation, as well as the drawings that Charles Darwin produced while he was developing the theory of evolution.

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Technology search service provider TechXtra, UK, has announced that it has added new sources to its cross-search. With this addition, researchers can now search across 31 major collections (over 4 million items) for articles, e-prints, technical reports, books, theses & dissertations, teaching & learning resources, the latest industry news and job announcements. A free source of information in engineering, mathematics and computing, TechXtra is an initiative of the ICBL and the Library at Heriot-Watt University, UK.

TechXtra has also partnered with US-based search engine and online engineering community operator GlobalSpec to offer a free Patents and Standards search facility. In addition, it has added a number of new sources to its OneStep Industry News and Job Announcement services.

The new collections now covered by TechXtra's cross-search include Emerald, JORUM and Institution of Civil Engineers Virtual Library. These collections join others like arXiv, CISTI, CiteSeer, DOAJ, Inderscience, IoP and NASA Technical Reports.

Healthcare solutions provider Thomson Healthcare, part of The Thomson Corporation, US, has announced that regional clinical laboratory, Spectrum Laboratory Network, will deploy MercuryMD across its affiliated network of hospitals in North Carolina and Tennessee. Thomson Healthcare solutions will allow Spectrum's physician clients to access critical laboratory results and patient information faster and more conveniently, thereby helping them to make better decisions at the point of care.

Spectrum processes more than 11,000 laboratory orders a day for in-patient and out-patient medical care. With MercuryMD, over 20,000 doctors in the network will have immediate access to test results and all laboratory data pertinent to a given patient via a smartphone or PDA, regardless of location. The service will also be available to all independent physicians and physician groups within Spectrum's five-state market.

Doctors can access the service by having it installed by Spectrum representatives on their smart phones or PDAs for continuity of patient care. All data is encrypted and password protected to protect patient privacy.

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Publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced its highest customer usage ever, as recorded by Internet statistics authority Alexa and the new Emerald Insight platform launched in 2006. During October and November 2006, Emerald experienced full text downloads of over 1.5 million each month, nearly double the previous year figures.

The download figures correlate directly with a steadily increasing ranking by Alexa, which provides an objective measure of page views, traffic rank and reach among Internet users. Article download figures for October and November 2006 were 1,549,681 and 1,684,822, respectively.

Emerald celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2007. Throughout the year the company will highlight 40 years in academic publishing with the launch of eight new journals and special presence at conferences. The first year of the Welcome to Emerald Program for library and information science graduate students will also be commemorated.

Academic and professional publisher Sage Publications, US, has reportedly acquired the remaining 76 percent stake in its Indian arm, Sage India, for an estimated Rs. 120 million. Vivek Mehra will be the new managing director of Sage India.

The company, which produces nearly 100 titles every year, seeks to further strengthen the current Indian publishing programme. The number of new titles is projected to rise 20 percent annually for the next five years. Sage India's business books imprint, Response, is expected to lead with a growth rate of 25 percent. In addition, the company aims to enter core text book publishing, catering mainly to the domestic market. It is also exploring the potential of vernacular publishing beginning with translations of Sage's major English language books.

The company also inaugurated India's new corporate office in Delhi. The newly established Asia-Pacific office in Singapore will act as the regional headquarters for Sage's sales and marketing activities in the Asia-Pacific market.

Information solutions provider Thomson Scientific, US, part of Thomson Corporation, has announced the initial release of the Manuscript Management Toolset. These tools integrate elements of ScholarOne Manuscript Central with Thomson Scientific's Web of Science and EndNote. This helps authors to create their manuscripts in EndNote and seamlessly submit them for review using Manuscript Central. The launch is the first phase of a programme that provides authors, editors and reviewers with tools to enhance each stage of the manuscript review process.

In addition, the Thomson toolset will give reviewers and editors using Manuscript Central direct one-click access from the manuscripts to times cited, related records and links to full record files in Web of Science. New task-focused tools developed for Manuscript Central will interact in real time with Web of Science, so editors can easily find reviewers and check references for completeness. Also, reviewers can place an author's new work in its entire research context with a single click.

Blackwell Publishing, the pilot partner in this initiative, will support the release by enabling a select group of its journals to take advantage of the new tools to accept and manage manuscript submissions through Manuscript Central. All of ScholarOne's other publishing clients will soon be able benefit from these tools as well.

Healthcare education and information provider CMPMedica, UK, part of United Business Media plc, has announced the launch of SearchMedica Primary Care, the second vertical search engine offered through SearchMedica.com. SearchMedica.com is a free web-based service that connects physicians and other medical professionals to credible, medical websites, online journals and other clinical resources. The company plans to further expand SearchMedica.com with the launch of SearchMedica Oncology later in the first quarter of 2007.

SearchMedica.com indexes reliable medical information, approved for inclusion by medical editors and a physician editorial board. Medical professionals can now get a much more relevant, smaller set of search results. All SearchMedica search results are independent, unbiased and ranked according to relevance. They contain well-known, credible journals, peer-reviewed research, and evidence-based articles written for practicing healthcare professionals. In addition, SearchMedica also organises results into such categories as practical articles and news, research reviews and editorials, evidence-based articles and meta-analyses, practice guidelines, clinical trials for patients, continuing medical education, and alternative-complementary medicine.

Practical articles, research reviews, evidence-based medicine and practice guidelines focus results specifically on documents that address a physician's unanswered clinical questions. Clinical trials and alternative and complementary medicine provide useful information for patient encounters, as do patient education materials, which will be incorporated in the future. Continuing medical education offers information about course work and online continuing medical education opportunities. This help clinicians pursue opportunities for lifelong learning and stay up to date in certification.

Web-based information services provider Knovel Corporation, US, has announced a new partnership with the Adhesive and Sealant Council, a leading trade association in the global adhesive and sealant industry community. Under the partnership, ASC and Knovel have developed a customised e-Library that provides its members with essential research data and unique problem-solving technology.

The service offers complementary access to industry-related references that present faster, more convenient solutions for tackling difficult, time-consuming tasks. It gives ASC members online access to full-text versions of 27 reference books spanning topics like material weathering, solvents and fillers, polymer coatings for electronics, adhesive bonds and packaging.

Knovel's specialised collection of interactive analytical tools help scientists and engineers extract information from traditionally static graphs and tables for mathematical calculations, equation solving, and sorting and exporting of tabular data. It brings together essential content and advanced workflow solutions to provide researchers with practical new ways of quickly finding and applying critical data. The Adhesive and Sealant Council joins other professional societies such as the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers who have partnered with Knovel in the recent past.

Web merchandising and marketing services provider ECNext, US, was recently recognised by Tech Columbus as Central Ohio's Outstanding Technology Team under 50 People during the TopCAT award ceremonies. The company was announced finalist in three TopCAT categories.

The annual TopCAT awards recognise outstanding achievements in technology leadership. Other winners included organisations and individuals focused on nanotechnology, chemistry and medical research.

ECNext was recently honoured as one of the fastest growing companies in Central Ohio by Business First's Fast Fifty list. It specialises in helping publishers market, sell and deliver business information online. Its family of solutions, including publisher-branded sites, MANTA and various web marketing programmes, offers publishers additional channels to reach online content buyers.

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Information solutions provider LexisNexis, US, has announced the appointment of Catherine Morales as senior vice president, Government and Academic Markets. She will report directly to Kurt Sanford, president and CEO, US Corporate and Public Markets.

In her new position, Morales will assume responsibility for federal, state and local government markets. In addition, she will also manage the LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions (A&LS) business. A seasoned general manager and business developer in information technology and business consulting, Morales has 25 years of experience working in North America, Europe and Asia. Prior to this, she served as vice president, CGI Federal, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CGI-AMS. Earlier, she also worked at the Library of Congress for several years.

LexisNexis, part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, is a leading publisher of research collections and reference solutions for libraries worldwide. The firm offers research services to a wide range of professionals in the academic, corporate, legal, government, risk management, law enforcement and accounting sectors.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has developed a new method to index full-text information about individual drugs. The new technique is projected to significantly reduce the time pharmaceutical companies have to spend keeping up-to-date with research about their own and competing products. The 'Drug-Specific Indexing' technique will be available via Elsevier's forthcoming service, Emscopes.

A new kind of online product literature database, Emscopes will combine tailored content selected for each customer, with Elsevier's new standard drug-specific indexing process and a simple search interface. Available from February 2007, Emscopes will provide up-to-date, instant and comprehensive reports of the research literature on any drug.

The indexing method goes deep into the full text of every article to extract detailed information for each drug. This includes adverse drug reactions, drug comparisons, administration routes and dosage. Bringing together this data in Emscopes would mean that everyone in the company from Medical Advisors to Drug Safety to Sales & Marketing will effectively have the full-text read and summarised for them.

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Information solutions provider Thomson Scientific, US, part of Thomson Corporation, has announced that it will supply key journal literature information to the Patent Board for a study of scientific research trends. The Patent Board is an independent provider of best practices research, tools and metrics for patent analysis and intellectual property investment. It tracks and analyses innovation, movement and business value of patent assets across every industry worldwide.

The US' National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a contract to the Patent Board to develop key science metrics. The Board is using journal literature information from Thomson Scientific, in the form of Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, in compiling its study. These databases form part of ISI Web of Knowledge, a research platform for the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

The Patent Board will be analysing vast amounts of scientific data to develop indicators which measure trends in worldwide scientific research. Metrics developed by the Patent Board will enable the NSF to measure collaboration patterns, emerging areas of research and the connections between research and practical applications around the world. The results will be published in the NSF's biennial Science and Engineering Indicators, beginning 2008.

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Abstracting and indexing database Scopus, part of STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has signed strategic content deals with various publishers and societies. These include Springer, the Nature Publishing Group, the American Physical Society, and the American Institute of Physics.

The move to offer more abstracts dating back to volume 1, issue 1 to all Scopus users for free, is based on feedback received from end user research programmes and the Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board. Both groups strongly recommend that bibliographic information including abstracts, rather than offering backfiles containing just the references, will significantly strengthen Scopus' content. This is particularly seen to be the case in subject areas where older materials are used more regularly. As a result, Scopus will focus on adding abstracts in subject areas such as physics, chemistry and social sciences.

All publishers that signed the agreement have digitised their full text content back to volume 1, issue 1. These agreements mark the start of an ambitious programme to add 7 million records from these publishers in addition to Elsevier to complement and enrich the existing 15 million pre-1996 records. As with all content added to Scopus, these backfiles will be included in the subscription price of Scopus. They will be made available to all existing customers on a continuous basis as they are loaded into Scopus starting in 2007.

Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has announced the University of Texas as its latest partner to its Books Library Project. Under the initiative, Google will digitise more than a million books from the university's collection. As the fifth largest academic library in the US, the University of Texas Libraries contains some of the nation's leading collections.

Researchers worldwide will now be able to search more than one million books and materials from the University of Texas, including works from early Latin American history. Scholars searching for books protected by copyright will be able to see the basic background such as the book's title and the author's name, at most a few lines of text related to their search. They can also find information about where they can buy or borrow a book.

The Google Books Library Project digitises books from major libraries worldwide and makes their collections searchable on Google Book. Other libraries who are currently working with Google to digitise portions of their collections include the University of Virginia Library, University of California, Harvard University, University Complutense of Madrid, University of Michigan, the New York Public Library, Oxford University, Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Publisher SciTech Publishing, US, has announced the publication of the second edition of Fundamentals of Electromagnetics with MATLAB. MATLAB is a powerful way to motivate and reinforce EM Principles. The Second Edition increases the utility of MATLAB as a computational and visualisation tool for current day's computer-savvy students.

Authored by Karl Lonngren, Sava Savov, and Randy Jost, the textbook has been adopted by several prestigious university programmes. Based on adopter and advisory board feedback, the new edition contains separate chapters on electrostatic and magnetostatic Fields. In addition, the chapter on transmission lines has been edited so that it is independent from other chapters. Each substantive text section has at least one corresponding problem. Also, there are worked solutions for instructors.

SciTech specialises in technology (engineering) books, electronic products and custom projects. It forges partnerships and deals among authors, professional associations, training companies, online content providers, domestic and foreign distributors and traditional publishers to ensure the long shelf life and wide distribution of authoritative works on the subject.

Non-profit organisation JSTOR, US, has announced an agreement with information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, to develop a new software platform. Co-developed by JSTOR and Atypon, the new platform is projected to support the delivery and use of scholarship archived with JSTOR by faculty, researchers, and students. JSTOR is a community-supported archive of over 800 scholarly journals.

The platform will utilise the existing Atypon Premium software as its base. Atypon Premium is a complete e-publishing solution for publishers who wish to manage the entire process of delivering and managing their content online. The software will be deployed on JSTOR's globally load-balanced server infrastructure in the US and UK and managed by JSTOR staff. When completed, the new platform will replace the existing JSTOR delivery system. This effort will result in a more flexible platform to support access to the growing set of journals and other scholarly content archived with JSTOR.

Both companies also intend to work together in the future to deploy new applications on the system specifically aimed at maximising utility and other benefits that the online environment offers for scholars.

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Semantic web technologies company Arity Corporation, US, has announced the launch of LexiLink, a new application for managing all enterprise lexicons and ontologies.

Developed in cooperation with Pfizer, Inc., LexiLink can import many of the widely used lexicons and ontologies in the biomedical field such as UMLS extracts, MeSH, MedDRA, GO, GOA and ChEBI. It can manage vocabularies with millions of entries.

The tool allows scientists to view concepts, similar terms and detailed information to instantly see relationships and hierarchies. They can quickly and easily annotate entries, view full synonym expansion and establish links between terms across lexicons. LexiLink generates alerts whenever a linked concept is modified internally or externally. Also, it can automatically fix logic errors in imported data.

Companies can incorporate their existing, proprietary vocabularies as well as create new ones within LexiLink. They can also use the tool to export these vocabularies to feed text mining and other applications within the organisation. LexiLink ships with extended web service APIs to set the stage for a range of knowledge management applications. It can be used alone or as a companion product to Arity's @tlas and EXPRESSway investigative research applications.

European library cooperative OCLC PICA, UK, has announced the appointment of Eric (H.L.M.) van Lubeek as Director of Operations & Services, effective March 1, 2007. Eric will also assume the role of board member of OCLC PICA.

Prior to this, Lubeek served as Managing Director at Infor Libraries Division (formerly known as Geac). He brings with him twenty years of experience in the library and information field which he acquired while working in consulting, sales and management positions.

Eric van Lubeek will use the OCLC PICA head office in Leiden (Netherlands) as his base, but will be visiting other OCLC PICA offices in Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, Australia and USA frequently.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced the launch of a new peer-reviewed journal - NanoEthics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale. The journal is projected to provide a multidisciplinary forum for exploration of ethical issues related to nanotechnology. Professor John Weckert of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, serves as Editor-in-Chief.

Supported by an international editorial board, NanoEthics will focus on philosophically and scientifically rigorous examination of the ethical and societal considerations as well as the public and policy concerns inherent in nanotechnology research and development. Topics covered include environmental and health aspects, social and economic consequences, threats to culture and tradition and to political and economic stability. The journal will target researchers, scholars and students; scientific and technological policymakers; as well as decision-makers in corporations involved in nanotechnology.

Springer will publish the journal three times a year in both electronic and print formats. The journal will be available via SpringerLink, Springer's fully integrated, online information platform, and will include Online First, Cross Reference Linking, and Alert services. In addition, all NanoEthics authors have the option of publishing their articles using the open access publishing model, via the Springer Open Choice program.

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Publishing services provider Allen Press Inc., US, has announced a new publishing partnership with the Royal Academy of Sciences. Under the deal, Allen Press will provide publishing services for the journal Ambio on behalf of the academy, beginning with Vol. XXXVI, No.1 in February 2007.

A non-profit, multidisciplinary English language journal, Ambio addresses the scientific, social, economic, and cultural factors that influence the condition of the human environment. Indexed in over 40 international databases, the journal is distributed in more than 100 countries. Coverage in Ambio spans ecology, environmental economics, geology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, hydrology, water resources, oceanography, earth sciences, meteorology, and physical geography. The journal is also published in Chinese and is available online at http://ambio.allenpress.com.

Founded more than 70 years ago, Allen Press, Inc. provides a comprehensive portfolio of integrated services in the broad areas of content management, content delivery and association management and publishing services. It plays a key role in the dissemination of knowledge and information by partnering with organisations in the STM community.

The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), as part of a group of European organisations, has launched a petition to the European Commission, calling on it to support public access to research outputs shortly after publication.

Organised by SPARC Europe, JISC, SURF, the German Research Foundation and Denmark's Electronic Research Library, the petition has urged the Commission to follow the lead of other research funding agencies in this matter. It has recommended mandating the publication of articles arising from EC-related funding after a given time period in open access archives. Also, it calls on the Commission to explore a European-wide approach to policies and practices surrounding the development of digital repositories. This, it says, will be a means of making more visible the fruits of European research and maximising the return on public investment in research.

In January 2006, the Commission published the Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication. The Study noted that dissemination and access to research results is a pillar in the development of the European Research Area and it made a number of recommendations to improve the visibility and usefulness of European research outputs. Now, a year after publication of the Study, JISC, along with its partners, is urging the EC to endorse the recommendations in full.

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E-book technology and services firm ebrary, US, has announced the immediate availability of the eBook Ordering Platform (eBOP), its new online ordering platform. eBOP is projected to help librarians easily preview thousands of e-books and other authoritative content, purchase and subscribe to individual titles, or create a custom collection on-the-fly.

Additionally, ebrary has integrated eBOP with YBP's Global Online Bibliographic Information (GOBI) databases and Blackwell's Collection Manager. This allows librarians to acquire ebrary content within their existing workflow. eBOP and the ebrary platform can also be licensed by organisations that need to distribute and sell their own PDF content online.

eBOP allows librarians to search from thousands of e-books and other documents from more than 260 leading publishers. Also, they can preview titles in full text before making a purchasing decision. ebrary offers both subscription and ownership pricing options for each title. All subscription titles are simultaneous, multi user access. The company offers both single and multi-user access for most purchased titles. In addition, librarians can automatically calculate costs for purchased titles, instantly create a custom collection, create a personalised portal that stores and manages selected titles, and view title recommendations across all eBOP selectors within an organisation.

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Search engine provider WebFeat, US, has announced the release of version 2.0 of its WebFeat Express federated search prism. The new version will be demonstrated at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle.

The latest version of WebFeat Express includes results clustering, expanded customisation options, support for seven languages, thesaurus and WebFeat API integration. New enhancements to the WebFeat Administrative Console (WAC) enable WebFeat Express systems to be configured in a fraction of the time of traditional federated search engines. WebFeat users can now select a variety of on-the-fly merge & sort options for results, including clustered, grouped by resource and sorted by date, author, title and relevancy.

WebFeat's results clustering capabilities are projected to deliver both conceptual and contextual analysis and clustering of retrieved content, offering a deeper level of linguistic sophistication than is typically found in other clustering engines.

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Search engine and online engineering community operator GlobalSpec, US, has announced that it achieved record results in 2006. Record-setting achievements include a revenue growth of 48 percent and growing e-newsletter circulation to 3.5 million. Also during 2006, the company exceeded three million registered users, a 50 percent year-over-year increase. It continues to add registered users at a rate of over 20,000 per week.

GlobalSpec's specification-based search technology, SpecSearch, also experienced significant growth during the year. Registered users now have the ability to search over 153 million parts in 2 million product families from over 21,000 digitised catalogs by product specification.

The company launched a complete suite of targeted, product-centric e-newsletters for advertisers interested in reaching engineering, manufacturing, technical and industrial professionals. GlobalSpec's flagship e-newsletter, Techs & Specs, reached a milestone circulation level of over one million engineering and manufacturing professionals during the year. Additional user-focused products were also launched. This includes CR4, an online community site for news and peer-to-peer discussion, and Engineering News, a breakthrough daily news service compiled from hundreds of sources across the Web.

In addition, GlobalSpec expanded its reach in 2006 through various new and enhanced partnerships with publishers and publications. This includes CMP Technology's Electronics Group, Interference Technology and Machine Design. Also, content from CMP Technology's Electronics Group's portfolio of Web sites has been indexed on GlobalSpec, making it discoverable among GlobalSpec's registered user base.

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Accucoms BV, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, has announced the appointment of two new sales managers, Doug Mitchell and Stefania Scala, for North America and Europe. The move follows four more signings for the ACCUCOMS sales representation service.

The Royal Society, The Royal Society of Medicine Press, American Psychiatric Publishing and the internationally renowned journal CHEST now join the National Academy of Sciences and Future Science Group in appointing ACCUCOMS to represent them for online sales to the institutional market.

Accucoms sales managers, based in North America and Europe, research leads, visit potential customers, give demonstrations, arrange trial access and negotiate site licence access for individual institutions, large corporations, multi-nationals and consortia.

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Search and filter technology developer Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), Norway, has announced that STM information resource ScienceDirect, part of Elsevier, Netherlands, has deployed its FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP). FAST ESP was recently voted 'Top Search and Retrieval Technology' in Information Today's People's Choice Awards and is a finalist for the 2007 SIIA CODiE Awards.

FAST's flexible and scalable enterprise search platform seeks to elevate the search capabilities of enterprise customers and connect people to the relevant information they scour for, regardless of medium. Researchers will now be able to quickly find the most relevant information in their area of interest and expertise from over eight million full-text STM articles in ScienceDirect.

ScienceDirect recently reached a major milestone by supporting its one-billionth full article download. Through the use of FAST ESP, ScienceDirect expects to continue to support this high volume of search and download activity.

FAST works with other Elsevier products and services, including Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. By using FAST search technology, ScienceDirect and Scopus will be able to improve the interoperability of the sites and further streamline the user experience for professionals who use both resources for research.

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Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc., US, has announced the launch of a new journal - Laser & Photonics Reviews (LPR). The journal will focus on the current range of laser physics and photonics, both theoretical and experimental, from recent research to specific developments and novel applications.

Every full-colour issue will contain invited review articles, topical reports, scientific news and concise conference reports. An experienced in-house editorial team, assisted by an international board with experts in all subject areas of modern laser science and photonics, will cooperate with potential authors to qualify for a publication in LPR. The journal will target applied physicists, laser specialists, theoretical physicists, optical engineers as well as scientists working in the optical industry and laboratories.

LPR will be available both in print and online via Wiley's online publishing platform, Wiley InterScience. The first print issue will be launched in 2007. Complimentary online access is available to all institutions throughout 2007. Librarians can register at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/newjournals.

Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, has announced that Internet services firm Microsoft Corp. has selected its Global Books In Print database to provide basic and value-added data to enhance descriptions of books included in the new Live Search Books search service from Microsoft.

Bowker's Global Books In Print provides complete bibliographic details on more than 14 million books organised in its global database. As part of the content licensing agreement with Microsoft, Bowker is also making available its 'Publisher Authority' database, which contains company and contact information for over 200,000 publishers worldwide. Also, it comprises a wide range of other value-added data modules that offer detailed descriptions of books, author biographies, award citations, book review citations, cover images, tables of contents and lists of bestsellers dating back to 1920.

Live Search Books is part of a project by Microsoft to scan millions of books and index them for online searching. The search engine allows users to search the full-texts of scanned books and is currently restricted to out-of-copyright books scanned from the collections of leading libraries such as The British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto. It is expected that Microsoft will also add copyright works that publishers have given permission to include in the project in the future.

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Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it will publish the fourth edition of The Handbook of Dialysis. Authored by Dr. John T. Daugirdas, Dr. Peter G. Blake and Dr. Todd S. Ing, the Handbook is widely used by doctors and nurses who care for patients with kidney disease.

The new revised edition features new evidence and recently published guidelines to reflect the ever-advancing field of kidney disease. Also, it includes completely new chapters on how to treat kidney disease before a patient needs dialysis, how to set up daily or nocturnal dialysis, and the principles and practical points of using hemodiafiltration and hemofiltration instead of hemodialysis.

The Fourth Edition retains its practical handbook layout, and is stocked with internet website references to ensure the reader to always have a source for the latest advances. A number of new authors, including nephrologists from Europe and Asia, have contributed to ensure that the Handbook is intuitive to understand by both US as well as non-US physicians.

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Information and publishing services provider Ingenta, UK, has announced that it closed 2006 with 40 new publisher clients, demonstrating a 100 percent increase in publisher signings in comparison with 2005. In addition, 41 existing publisher clients have extended their e-publishing partnerships with the company. The total number of publishers to which the company currently provides online services is 266.

New publishers to join the service in December 2006 are: Berghahn Books; The Clifford Beers Foundation; Improbable Research, Inc; MIDIRS (Midwives Information and Resource Service); Opulus Press; Royal Archaeological Institute; Society for Cooperative Studies; Springer Publishing Company; Vittorio Klostermann Verlag; and World Maritime University Publications. All the newly-signed publishers are projected to benefit from IngentaConnect's proprietary content enhancement software which adds key functionalities to PDF articles. Publishers can also utilise IngentaConnect's pre-registered user base and traffic.

IngentaConnect provides over 25,000 libraries with access to over 10,000 e-journal, book and monograph titles and over 20,000 fax- and Ariel-delivered publications. The site enables users to view full text via subscription and through a variety of different payment models such as library payment accounts, individual subscription sales and article pay-per-view access.

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E-book technology and services firm ebrary, US, has announced a partnership with YBP Library Services, US, a leading provider of materials to the academic library community. Libraries can now easily acquire eBooks and other authoritative content from world-renowned STM, academic and professional publishers.

Under the agreement, ebrary will integrate its platform and growing selection of eBooks and other titles with YBP's Global Online Bibliographic Information (GOBI) databases. With the ebrary platform, libraries can preview titles in full-text, choose a payment and access model for each title, and then create a custom collection directly through GOBI.

YBP customers who subscribe or purchase ebrary titles through GOBI will benefit from the unique features of the ebrary platform. This includes the ability to seamlessly integrate every title with their catalogue, other library resources, and information on the web through ebrary's InfoTools software. Also, it provides sophisticated research tools such as personal bookshelves, multiple search and navigation options, and automatic, customisable citations with a URL hyperlink back to the source when text is copied and pasted or printed.

ebrary's growing selection of eBooks and other valuable content span all academic subject areas. More than 260 of the world's leading publishers contribute to the selection. This includes McGraw-Hill, Springer, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, and many university presses such as Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press.

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Content aggregator Dialog, part of Thomson Corporation, US, has announced that it is seeking applicants from North America for the 2007 Roger K. Summit Scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded at the Special Libraries Association annual conference, to be held in Denver from June 4-7, 2007.

This scholarship of $5,000 is given annually to a promising graduate student in library and information sciences. All applications are due by April 30, 2007. Applications are available at gep.dialog.com/scholarship/application.shtml.

Dialog awards two scholarships annually, one to a student enrolled in an accredited library or information sciences program in North America and one in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, or Africa. A panel of North American information professionals will select the winner after reviewing academic achievement, interest in electronic information services, proficiency using Dialog online services and faculty recommendations.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the company initiated 24 new journal publishing partnerships with leading international organisations in 2006, ensuring the continuing growth of its society journal publishing programme. Over the years, Elsevier has developed relationships with many prestigious partners and currently publishes on behalf of over 500 learned societies, professional associations and research institutes.

Among the new partners are: Ambulatory Pediatrics Association; American Association of Endodontists; American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics; Australian College of Critical Care Nursing; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chinese Chemical Society; Chinese Society of Particuology; European Federation of Biotechnology; International Association of Hydraulic Engineering; International Society for Clinical Densitometry; National Lipid Association; and Society of Cardiovascular and Computed Tomography.

Working in tandem with the global science and health communities, Elsevier publishes more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year. In addition, it offers a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect, MD Consult, Scopus, bibliographic databases and online reference works.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the launch of Nature Education, a new venture to develop innovative educational resources and tools for science students and their professors.

The new initiative will seek to build upon NPG's reputation with educators and students as a source of timely, relevant information. It will focus primarily on creating leading edge, digitally-based, learning solutions in biology, chemistry and physics, taking a non-traditional approach to the college education market.

Vikram Savkar has been appointed Publishing Director of Nature Education. Prior to this, he served as Director of New Ventures with Pearson, where he was responsible for conceiving and implementing the company's strategy related to content, including content customisation, digital content management and institutional relationships.

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Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to preserve the organisation's periodicals and conference proceedings. This inclusion brings the number of titles in the Portico archive to over 6000.

Under the agreement, Portico will preserve IEEE's 137 periodicals (journals, transactions, magazines, and newsletters) and 163 conference proceedings for future generations of scholars, practitioners, researchers and students. Also, IEEE has agreed to make an annual financial contribution to support Portico's ongoing operations.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology. It produces nearly one-third of the world's literature in the fields of electrical and electronics engineering and computer science, as well as develops over 900 active industry standards. The international association serves engineers, scientists and other professionals in 160 countries and has over 365,000 members worldwide.

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Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), US, have announced an agreement to launch InfoPOEMs for Hospitalists. Slated for launch in spring 2007, InfoPOEMs for Hospitalists will be published in print as a stand-alone publication. The bi-monthly will be mailed with the Journal of Hospital Medicine, the official peer-reviewed journal of SHM.

In addition, hospitalist physicians who are SHM members will receive syndicated POEMs (Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters) by email to support them in providing general medical care for hospitalised patients. InfoPOEMs are summaries of evidence-based medical research filtered from over 120 leading peer-reviewed journals graded for validity and relevance to patient outcomes. About one in 40 eligible studies is converted into a POEM and each POEM is reviewed by at least 15 physicians and/or physician editors prior to publication.

An evidence-based medical content and web-based search tools provider InfoPOEM, Inc.'s, flagship services form the basis of a medical information management system that improves patient care and increases clinical efficiency. POEMs are published in several leading medical journals and are highly regarded for their utility and quality in keeping clinicians up-to-date on the latest and most relevant evidence published in the medical literature.

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Chemical and oil information provider ICIS, part of Reed Business Information, US, has announced the launch of the ParaXylene to Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) monthly report.

ICIS forecasting's methodology forecasts prices by incorporating the output of the index in the forecasting model of each feedstock product (e.g., PX, PET). The price generated by incorporating the Market Sentiment Index is provided separately in the monthly report. This is the seventh product chain included in ICIS forecasting. In 2006, the service launched reports for the Polystyrene, Polyethylene, Polypropylene and Phenol-Acetone markets in the US and the Polyethylene market in Asia.

ICIS forecasting is completely independent from ICIS price reporting and is based on statistical analysis of historical assessments plus textual analysis of news files.

Web-based information services provider Knovel Corporation, US, has announced a new partnership with the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA). Under the deal, A&WMA will launch an electronic library powered by Knovel, which will provide its members with access to industry-related interactive references.

The new service gives A&WMA members online use of full-text versions of 35 relevant reference books. It will provide more than 9,000 professionals with current information on topics such as environmental health and safety, recycling, and air quality management. Along with showcasing a platform of claimed high-quality interactive titles with strong scientific value, Knovel's partnership with A&WMA allows members to navigate through and electronically manipulate the content, as part of their membership benefit package.

Knovel has a specialised collection of interactive analytical tools that help scientists and engineers extract information from traditionally static graphs for calculations, equation solving and sorting and exporting of tabular data. Its interactive platform brings together essential content and advanced workflow solutions to provide researchers with practical new ways of quickly finding and applying critical data.

Niche information services provider United Business Media plc, UK, has announced that Geoff Unwin has informed the Board of his intention to step down as Chairman and as a member of the Board at the end of 2007.

Geoff Unwin was appointed to the board as a non-executive director in 1996, and became chairman in November 2002. He was previously chief executive officer of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, an IT consulting firm.

In accordance with the requirements of the Combined Code, the process to appoint a successor will be led by the Board's Nomination Committee.

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Nature Clinical Practice (NCP), the medical publishing arm of Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that a selection of its content is now available via Nature Publishing Group's (NPG) Advance Online Publication (AOP) program.

The AOP program allows users and subscribers to gain advance access to the journals' unique Practice Point articles, which put original research articles into context and offer expert opinion on best practice. The Practice Point articles are available in each of the eight journals in the NCP series. With the addition of the AOP feature, content will now be available online before the print issue of the journal appears.

Nature Clinical Practice journals deliver timely, authoritative interpretations of major research developments, translating the latest findings into clinical practice. Content includes editorial and opinion pieces, highlights from the current literature, commentaries on the application of recent research to practical patient care, thorough reviews and in-depth case studies.

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Test developing and publishing firm Harcourt Assessment, US, has announced the publication of the second edition of Differential Ability Scales (DAS-II) under its PsychCorp brand. DAS-II is an individually administered, clinical instrument for assessing the cognitive abilities that are important to learning. It is claimed to build upon the strong cognitive foundations of its predecessor with additional subtests and features.

The latest edition contains new features to make administration easier and evaluation more comprehensive. Beyond the features of the original DAS, this edition translates cognitive development and cognitive process research findings into easily administered and interpreted subtests. DAS-II has 20 cognitive subtests, including 17 subtests from the original DAS. The other new features include updated normative sample representative of the general US population; a set of items for young children in the Matrices subtest; expanded clinical samples; and more engaging and contemporary artwork.

DAS-II is authored by Dr. Colin D. Elliott. Currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Dr. Elliott is also an active member of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP).

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Healthcare education and information provider CMPMedica, UK, part of United Business Media plc (UBM), has announced the acquisition of MediReach Healthcare Communications (MHC), China, for an initial payment of $1.1 million and $2.75 million contingent on future performance.

The acquisition further strengthens CMPMedica's global portfolio of communications solutions. MHC' expertise and track record is projected to accelerate the development of CMPMedica's consultancy services within the areas of continuing medical education and medical events. The company's local presence as well as strong relationships will enable CMPMedica to rapidly expand the range of pharmaceutical marketing consultancy services it offers in China.

A Shanghai based consultancy, MHC provides medical and pharmaceutical marketing consultancy services to multinational pharmaceutical companies across China. CMPMedica provides healthcare information and education to primary care physicians, specialists, pharmacists and patients around the world. Through its journals, magazines, directories, drug databases, other electronic databases, websites, face-to-face meetings and other valuable resources, the company also delivers comprehensive communication solutions for the pharmaceutical and related industries.

Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced that selected contributions from the Nanoscale 2006 seminar held at the Swiss Federal Office of Metrology (METAS) in April 2006 are now available online in Nanoscale Metrology. Nanoscale Metrology is a special issue published in the February issue of Measurement Science and Technology.

Contributions in this special issue are divided into three parts - developments and improvements of instrumentation and measurement methods; calibration of instruments and standards; and applications. The articles will be freely available until February 10, 2007.

A monthly publication, Measurement Science and Technology covers the theory, practice and application of measurement in physics, chemistry, engineering and the environmental and life sciences from inception to commercial exploitation.

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Publisher EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that it is now offering Continuing Medical Education credits (CMEs) through its DynaMed point-of-care reference database. The CMEs available through DynaMed are American Academy of Family Physicians and American Medical Association prescribed credit for documented point-of-care learning activities.

Additional enhancements have been made to the DynaMed interface to further improve the research experience of users at the point-of-care. This includes improved result screen navigation and usability; a new Print Preview functionality; new e-mail functionality; and an expanded list view to increase awareness and accessibility of key recently updated information. Also, DynaMed customers may elect to subscribe to the new DynaMed Weekly Update, a weekly e-mail newsletter.

In order to enrich health records and improve access to information at the point-of-care, DynaMed can be integrated into any type of Electronic Health Records (EHR). Adding DynaMed's evidence-based clinical content to EHRs through integration solutions helps clinicians rapidly select topics from an EHR and retrieve the contextually relevant, evidence-based condition or procedure summary from EBSCO's point-of-care tools such as DynaMed. Making clinical content available from within health records may speed up the adoption of EHRs and improve their usefulness in the clinical workflow.

Thomson ResearchSoft, a unit of Thomson Corporation, US, featured EndNote X for Mac OS X, a bibliographic desktop product, and EndNote Web, a new web-based research and writing tool, at the recently held Macworld event in San Francisco. Attendees were shown about the latest version of EndNote, designed for Intel Core, and the new EndNote Web, a bibliographic tool that complements and integrates seamlessly with EndNote desktop and the ISI Web of Knowledge research platform. EndNote Web can be used with all popular browsers, including Safari. EndNote Web supports EndNote desktop users who desire a web component to their bibliographic solution and expands the EndNote community to undergraduate students who can benefit from the fundamental features in EndNote Web.

Researchers, scholarly writers, librarians and students can use EndNote to search online bibliographic databases, organise references, images and PDF files in any language, and create bibliographies instantly. EndNote X introduces a new way to manage PDFs, wherein users can simply drag and drop a PDF file on to an EndNote record. EndNote X for Mac allows users to customise toolbars for working with libraries and references, and EndNote X search results in Mac OS X Tiger Spotlight searches now include descriptive details, making individual references more identifiable.

EndNote Web, available as a site-wide licence, offers the basic bibliographic management features found in EndNote desktop plus the collaboration opportunities of an online environment. Users can search ISI Web of Knowledge, PubMed and hundreds of online library catalogues, organise references in folders, and create bibliographies in over 1,300 publishing styles. The Cite While You Write technology is available as an optional plug-in for Microsoft Word users to create bibliographies instantly.

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ProQuest Information and Learning Digital Commons staff and a delegation from Okayama University recently assembled at the ProQuest headquarters to discuss best practices and capabilities of institutional repositories.

The university and ProQuest partnered last year in a major e-publishing initiative designed to promote and offer access to the institution's scholarship across the world. The recently launched website of Okayama University is the first installation of the ProQuest Digital Commons institutional repository service in Japan. Okayama University's Digital Commons site is expected to serve as a model for other international universities striving to make their research available to the global community.

Institutional repositories are centralised digital collections of a university's intellectual heritage, making its scholarly works freely available on an open access basis to researchers via the Internet. Digital Commons is a service offered by technology partners ProQuest and the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress), which allows institutions to create peer-reviewed e-journals, provides user-friendly features, and includes Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliance. This makes it easy to locate the repository's content in a variety of ways, including from outside search engines such as Google or Yahoo.

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Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced that it has extended its electronic publishing partnership with US based information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc. for five more years.

Under the deal, Atypon will continue to undertake the supply, development and maintenance of Mary Ann Liebert's online content delivery platform. The company will work with the publisher as trusted technology partner, until 2011.

Atypon offers a suite of e-publishing software and related services for scholarly publishers and other content providers. Its primary services, Atypon Premium and Atypon Link, together with other custom offerings, provide services to more than 65 publishers. Atypon Premium is a complete e-publishing solution for publishers who wish to manage the entire process of delivering and managing their content online. Atypon Link offers a cost effective, aggregated hosting platform for publishers who require a well managed, outsourced e-publishing service.

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Society publisher Blackwell Publishing, UK, has announced the launch of its newly redesigned online delivery platform, Blackwell Synergy (www.blackwell-synergy.com). The new design has been developed with feedback from researchers and librarians during the development and testing phase.

Blackwell Synergy allows its users to search 1 million articles from over 850 leading scholarly journals across the sciences, social sciences, humanities and medicine. The redesign provides easier navigation, faster loading times and improved access to tools for researchers, as well as meets the latest accessibility standards. The new Blackwell Synergy website retains all the essential benefits that researchers, librarians and authors value and uses the same URL structure. In addition to the new look, features have been repositioned to highlight options more clearly to users and enable them to make best use of the suite of tools available such as most read and most cited articles, citation alerts, download to reference manager software, and the ability to email the article to a friend. Full-text online access to the journals on Blackwell Synergy is available at thousands of institutions worldwide.

The first version of Blackwell Synergy went live in 1999 hosting Blackwell Science's STM journals. In 2002 the site was relaunched with a new design and in 2003 the STM journals were joined by social science and humanities titles following the merger of Blackwell Science and Blackwell Publishers. The journals program has continued to grow with 49 titles added for 2007.

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Publisher University of Michigan Press, US, has announced a new collaborative programme between the press, the library and the Scholarly Publishing Office. Under the initiative, the Press's new Digital Culture imprint will sell books as well as offer the full-text of those books freely on its Digital Culture Books website.

Digital Culture Books is the first publishing effort of the Michigan Digital Publishing Initiative (MPDI), a collaboration of the University of Michigan Press and the University of Michigan Library. MDPI engages in both the theory and practice of digital scholarly publishing. The imprint debuted with the 2006 third quarter publication of The Best of Technology Writing 2006, edited by journalist and Sunday New York Times business columnist Brendan Koerner. With UM press editor Alison MacKeen, Koerner selected 24 pieces from several hundred submissions. A 2007 volume, to be edited by Newsweek's Steven Levy, is currently accepting nominations.

Press seeks to use the Digital Culture imprint to develop an 'open and participatory publishing model' that seeks to 'build a community' around its content. The goal is to give each project a robust online and print presence. Not only can scholars be introduced to a range of publishing choices but publishers can also collect data about how consumption habits vary on the basis of genre, age and discipline.

Business and technical publisher Inovar Communications Ltd, UK, has announced the March 2007 launch of its new journal - Powder Injection Moulding International - for the powder injection moulding (PIM) industry.

Published quarterly, the journal is projected to offer in-depth industry coverage of the metal, ceramic and carbide injection moulding industries. Editorial content will include invited industry expert comment and analysis. Each issue will cover special features such as regional reports and technology reviews; industry and company news; invited and submitted technical papers; company profiles; association reports; research focus; patent reviews; conference reports; book reviews; and suppliers guide.

The journal is currently accepting manuscripts for its inaugural issue. The deadline for news and editorial submissions is February 9, 2007.

The CMP Channel Group, US, has announced the launch of the CRN Perspectives Series, a monthly series devoted to key topics driving the channel. Through market, technology and news analysis the CRN Perspectives Series seeks to help Solution Providers boost sales by understanding issues that directly affect them. This month's CRN Perspectives Series will focus on the topic of 'managed services'.

Forthcoming issues will focus on profitability, emerging vendors, demand generation and international markets as well as CRN's signature franchise issues such as Channel Chiefs, Channel Champions, Fast Growth 100 and the Sourcing Study. The launch follows last week's launch of the redesign of CRN magazine which included expanded online news coverage, a crisp analytical focus of news in print, a sleek new design as well as new advertising opportunities for marketers.

CRN provides solution providers and technology integrators with the information and analysis they need to drive their company's sales. With nearly 25 years of experience, CRN is projected as a trusted source for channel professionals.

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Information solutions provider Thomson Scientific, US, part of The Thomson Corporation, has announced the availability of version 3.5 of its regulatory submission software, InSight Publisher. The tool is designed to accelerate the publishing process for drug submissions to regulatory authorities worldwide.

The latest version allows pharmaceutical companies to quickly create all the components of both electronic and paper submissions from a single assembly structure. It seeks to help streamline the entire regulatory submission process, enhancing efficiency and helping to bring new drugs to market faster. InSight Publisher is built on the same platform as InSight Manager, which offers sophisticated registration management and submission tracking capabilities. The entire platform is adaptable to many different organisational processes and designs, including centralised and decentralised publishing.

Regulatory affairs professionals can evaluate how InSight Publisher can fit into their organisation by visiting Liquent's booth at the 20th Annual DIA Conference for Electronic Document Management Reconnecting the Process to the Delivery of Safe and Effective Medical Products. The event is to be held in Philadelphia from February 6-9, 2007.

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Publisher EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that the company has extended its full-text content agreement with the University of Chicago Press Journals Division. Under the deal, full-text coverage of 32 scholarly journals published by the University of Chicago Press will continue to be made available via all applicable EBSCOhost databases.

The University of Chicago Press is one of the largest American university presses. The Journals Division publishes periodicals and serials in a wide range of disciplines, including several journals that were the first scholarly publications in their respective fields. Online since 1995, the Journals Division has also been a pioneer in electronic publishing, delivering original, peer-reviewed research from international scholars to a worldwide audience.

EBSCO Publishing offers a suite of over 200 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a vast library of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports, etc from renowned publishers, EBSCO seeks to serve the content needs of a wide range of researchers.

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Publisher HarperCollins, US, has announced a partnership with digitising services provider LibreDigital, a division of NewsStand, Inc., US. Under the deal, both companies will jointly create, market and operate digital services for the publishing industry. The two companies will share technology and resources to help bring more book content online with comprehensive control.

In addition, HarperCollins announced that it has made a strategic investment in NewsStand, and Brian Murray, Group President of HarperCollins, will join the NewsStand board of directors. Through this alliance, both companies seek to offer publishers an end-to-end solution of digital services in discrete, modular segments including digital typesetting, production, digital warehousing, Internet distribution, and online marketing.

In 2006, HarperCollins and NewsStand entered into an initial multi-year arrangement as part of the former's broader digital strategy to protect authors' works and create a digital library of content for marketing purposes. So far, HarperCollins has digitised over 10,000 books and has enabled the 'Browse Inside' application for several thousand.

Mobile medical references provider Skyscape, US, has announced that it has been nominated as a finalist in the Software and Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 22nd Annual CODiE Awards to be presented on April 17 in San Francisco, US.

Skyscape MedAlert, a service that delivers the most comprehensive up-to-the-minute medical information to user's mobile device or cell phone, was selected by the SIIA and an independent panel of software industry leaders in the 'Best Medical and Health Information Product' category.

The CODiE Awards showcase the best-in-class companies, products and services in the software and information industry. The 2007 CODiE finalists were chosen from a field of nearly 1200 submitted by more than 600 companies.

Academic and professional publisher Sage Publications, US, has announced the debut issue of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (AJLM). The issue looks at controlling cardiovascular diseases, which is seen to be the most common cause of death in the US.

The headline article, co-written by journal editor-in-chief Dr.James M. Rippe, along with Theodore J. Angelopoulos, PhD, MPH, and Linda Zukley, MA, RN, thoroughly explores this lifestyle concern. The article titled 'The Rationale for Intervention to Reduce the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease,' can be accessed free for a limited time at http://ajl.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1/1/10.

A bi -monthly, AJLM is the official publication of the American Lifestyle Medicine Association. The journal will publish a wide range of articles to help primary care providers and other health professionals guide their patients to lead healthier lifestyles. The bimonthly will focus on emphasising the interaction between traditional therapies, such as pharmaceuticals, and lifestyle choices, in treating disease to achieve the best outcomes. In addition, it will provide commentaries and research reviews on nutrition and diet, cardiovascular disease, obesity, anxiety and depression, sleep problems, metabolic disease, and more.

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and EurekAlert, a global science-news source, have selected six promising journalists from China to attend and cover the forthcoming AAAS Annual Meeting. These reporters are the winners of the 2007 AAAS Fellowships for Science Reporters in Developing Regions, sponsored by STM publisher Elsevier.

The award brings science writers to the 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting, where they can cover the latest research and mingle with their fellow science writers from around the world. Originally launched in 2004, the 2004 fellowships programme had brought 10 reporters from China to the 2004 AAAS Meeting.

Winners of the 2007 competition are: Gong Yidong from China Features; Jane Wu from China Daily; Yanhong Wang from Xinhua News Agency; and Samuel Guo from Beijing Times. In addition to the fellows identified through the judging process, two honorary fellows were chosen in recognition of their excellence and efforts to champion accurate, unbiased coverage in the world of science journalism. The 2007 honorary fellows are Ding Yimin from Xinhua News Agency and Jia Hepeng from China Daily and SciDev.Net.

The Montana State University and the University of Montana have collaborated on an initiative to protect both schools' valuable collections of electronic scholarly journals. Under the initiative, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library at the University of Montana and the Renne Library at Montana State University have become charter subscribers to the Portico archive initiative.

Portico is a non-profit organisation offering a permanent archive of electronic scholarly journals, thereby providing protection against the potential loss of access to e-literature integral to a library's collection.

Libraries at both schools subscribe to scholarly journals on subjects ranging from microbiology to macroeconomics. Such journals have traditionally been paper and stored on shelves.

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Content aggregator Dialog, part of Thomson Corporation, US, has announced that it has added the Engineering Index Backfile to the Dialog platform. The new archival backfile from Engineering Information adds over 1.7 million records back to 1884, offering researchers information about engineering innovations over the past 120 years.

The addition of the Engineering Index Backfile provides Dialog customers with an enhanced collection of physical science engineering content. The archival backfile is now available as part of the Ei Compendex (File 8 on Dialog) database, with data from 1884 to the present, and as a separate database (File 988), with just the historical data from 1884 to 1969.

The Engineering Index Backfile is the most recent major addition to Dialog's engineering content collection. Searchers can use the archival backfile to find references to some of the most important innovations of the late 19th and the majority of the 20th century. Some of the other engineering offerings Dialog has recently made available includes Inspec Archival Backfile; and CSA scientific and technical content, including CSA Technology Research Database, CSA Aerospace and High Technology Database and METADEX .

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Informatics and database solutions provider Elsevier MDL, US, has announced an enhanced version of the MDL Isentris system for integrating information and software applications into scientists' workflows. MDL Isentris 2.0 features various new capabilities and performance improvements that are projected to give pharmaceutical, biotech and life sciences organisations better ability to improve R&D productivity. This is claimed to be achieved through better data management, lowered cost of ownership, faster workflow processes and easier information access and reporting.

The Isentris 2.0 release features proven performance on databases of over 5 million reactions and 20 million structures. Reaction fast search gives substantial performance improvements over previous cartridge-based search engines, up to 100 times faster in some cases. Isentris now offers up to 15 times faster browsing over wide area networks than ISIS. It also allows scientists to load scientific data into Microsoft Excel as much as six times faster, and copy, paste and sort the data twice as fast. Isentris can support hundreds of simultaneous users on a single mid-sized server.

Isentris lets scientists search multiple databases with a single query, save and reuse sophisticated searches and create personal data views without IT assistance. Scientists can find information faster, explore structure-activity relationships, collaborate, pursue hypotheses and gain insight for informed, intelligent decisions.

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Web-based information services provider Knovel Corporation, US, has announced a new content partnership with the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP). NCRP is a leading resource for information, guidance and recommendations on radiation protection and measurements.

Through this partnership, researchers will be able to use Knovel's interactive database to search, analyse and manipulate data within NCRP's reports and commentaries. NCRP has been active in the areas of radiation protection and measurements since its inception in 1929. Radiation protection and measurements are integral to developments in aerospace and defense, electronics, medicine and medical engineering, public safety and industrial hygiene, and waste management.

Knovel's specialised suite of built-in analytical tools provides researchers with practical new ways to find and apply critical information. In addition to trusted content, engineers rely on Knovel for data extraction, calculations, tabular data analysis and equation solving. NCRP joins other Sci-Tech publishers such as McGraw Hill, Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier, Springer and World Scientific among others who have partnered with Knovel in the recent past.

EMR and practice management solutions provider EMR Experts, Inc., US, has announced the completion of its free eBook, titled 'Electronic Medical Records eBook'. The 48 page eBook is designed to help healthcare organisations learn more about the concept of electronic medical records (EMR) and educate them on how to purchase and implement an EMR.

The eBook contains valuable information such as a chapter on how to plan for purchasing an EMR including a tutorial for conducting return-on-investment and cost-benefit analysis studies. Also, it includes special focus on the implementation phase, describing how to select the right hardware for the project and implement a quality network. In addition, an up-to-date list of electronic medical record software vendors, a glossary of healthcare IT terms and a list of additional resources is also available.

The Electronic Medical Record eBook is available in both HTML and PDF format on the EMR Experts website at www.emrexperts.com. A hard copy of the eBook will be available in the first quarter of 2007 with a revised version expected in the second quarter.

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Multilingual language processing technologies provider Teragram, US, has announced that B2B media company Reed Business has opted for Teragram's proprietary categorisation, entity extraction and taxonomy management software to automatically organise its online media properties. In addition, Reed Business has integrated Teragram's technologies into its B2B search engine offering, Zibb.

Teragram's software is seen to have extended Reed Business site visitors' ability to find relevant, B2B specific answers, not only from Reed Business sources, but also from throughout the web. Zibb scours B2B sites from throughout the web and within Reed Business media to find relevant, specific information.

Reed Business online media users can now easily find information by category and simplify their search using Teragram's technology. Teragram's software is projected to help Reed Business to provide targeted answers to its subscribers. Teragram's Automatic Categorization and TK240 taxonomy management system further organises the content into categories and sub-categories, to simplify and increase the relevancy of search within the Reed Business system.

Market intelligence products and services provider MarketResearch.com, US, has announced a partnership with research and consulting firm Daedal Research. Under the deal, Daedal Research's content will be marketed through MarketResearch.com.

Business professionals will now be able to view complete product descriptions and tables of contents from research publications provided by Daedal Research on MarketResearch.com. In addition, they can also purchase the material directly through MarketResearch.com's secure server.

Daedal-Research offers one of the largest portfolios of reports in terms of industries analysed, geographic coverage, and companies profiled. Daedal-Research Reports provide a mix of market information, insight, analysis and projections based on qualitative and quantitative research. Industries covered include pharmaceuticals, biotech, chemicals, energy, telecommunications, banking, insurance, asset Management, retail and real estate.

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Health information services provider Healthline Networks, US, has announced the appointment of Katy Henrickson as director of Client Services.

In her new position, Henrickson will help manage the company's growing network of blue chip customers including US News & World Report, PacifiCare, Eons, Merck, Mitsui, Reed Elsevier and Merriam-Webster. She most recently served as senior analyst in the Healthcare & Life Sciences practice at Forrester Research, a leading industry analyst firm.

Healthline Networks offers an innovative approach to meeting the needs of health information seekers. The company's unique consumer healthcare taxonomy powers a suite of intelligent health search, navigation and content services. The company has an extensive network of distribution partnerships with leading medical, healthcare, Internet companies and consumer brands by providing a "Powered by Healthline" search offering to their health-related content areas.

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The UK PubMed Central (UKPMC), a new online resource to promote free access to research and further biomedical discovery, has gone live and is now freely available. Based on a model currently used in the US, UKPMC will provide free access to an online digital archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences. Also, it will ensure that the digital archive of published articles resulting from research paid for by any of the funding consortium will be freely available, fully searchable and extensively linked to other online resources.

The first phase of the project will involve mirroring the American PubMed Central database. The partners will then establish the technical infrastructure of the service, including the facility for ingesting articles, and will also begin to engage more widely with the user communities.

In July, 2006, a nine-strong group of UK research funders, led by the Wellcome Trust, awarded the contract to develop UKPMC to a partnership between the British Library, the University of Manchester and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). The British Library will run the service, promote it to researchers, as well as offer support for those who want to include their research papers in UKPMC. The University of Manchester hosts the service - on servers based at MIMAS (Manchester Information and Associated Services) - and will support the process of engaging with higher-education users. EBI, which is part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), will contribute its biomedical domain knowledge and text-mining tools to integrate the research literature with the underlying bioinformatics databases.

Data warehouse appliance vendor Netezza, US, has announced that Healthcare Analytics, a unit of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has opted for the Netezza Performance Server (NPS) data warehouse appliance. The Netezza appliance seeks to provide on-demand analytics to enhance delivery of key market data to pharmaceutical industry professionals.

The NPS replaced the old system's server, operating system, database and disk storage systems of Healthcare Analytics. NPS data warehouse has become the core component of a new grid processing environment that is projected to scale to meet the needs of thousands of concurrent users, while also quickly analysing and segmenting data. The NPS-powered grid system can process more than 40 queries that were not previously executable.

The NPS is built specifically to analyse terabytes of detailed data 10 to 100 times faster than existing data warehouse options, at half the cost. The system stores, filters and processes terabytes of records within a single unit, analysing only the relevant information for each query. The company's clientele includes Ahold, Amazon.com, Cingular Wireless, CNET Networks, Debenhams, Department of Veterans Affairs, Epsilon, Orange UK, Premier, Inc., Ryder System, Inc., Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation, The Carphone Warehouse and The TJX Companies.

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Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that the complete journal of one of its first publisher participants - the UK Serials Group (UKSG) - is now fully preserved within the Portico archive. The journal, Serials, is the international journal for the serials community, published three times a year by the UKSG. With this inclusion, the Portico archive now contains over 330,000 articles.

Portico has preserved the over 900 articles which constitute Serials' entire 18-year publication history. Also, bibliographic metadata has been normalised to Portico's archival format and preserved alongside all the original source files. To ensure continued usability, Portico will further transfer source files in the future. Portico will continue to receive, normalise and preserve new Serials content as it is published.

A non-profit membership organisation, UKSG seeks to promote the discussion and free flow of information on serials matters and associated technology. The Group's publication, Serials, contains topical articles written by librarians, publishers, aggregators and other experts within the global serials industry, as well as conference reports, editorial comment and people in the news.

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Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced that it will add eight new titles to its portfolio of materials sciences, humanities and healthcare in 2007. This addition brings the company's journal list to over seventy titles, making Maney one of the biggest independent academic publishers outside London.

The new journals are: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies; The Hardy Review; Materials Research Innovations; Materials Technology; The Pain Clinic; Seventeenth-Century French Studies; Survey Review; and Tribology - Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces. All these journals will join the MORE (Maney Online Research E-journals) collections where universities and institutions can access the journal content online.

While Tribology - Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces is a brand new journal published jointly by Maney and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, The Pain Clinic, Materials Research Innovations and Materials Technology were acquired in 2006. The Thomas Hardy Association, the Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies and the University of Florida are the latest groups to choose to publish with Maney.

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Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced the appointment of Prof. Laura H Greene of the University of Illinois, as Editor-in-Chief of Reports on Progress in Physics. She will succeed Professor Colin Humphreys, the journal's Editor-in-Chief for the past six years.

In her new position, Greene will lead a fully international Editorial Board with expertise in all areas of physics. Currently a member of the editorial board, she is keen to bring her expertise and enthusiasm for physics to the editorship to ensure that the very best authors continue to write for the journal.

Reports on Progress in Physics publishes authoritative reviews in all areas of physics, including a number of traditional reviews. Each article in the journal is authored by a world-leading expert, invited by a member of the editorial board, who retains responsibility for the article up to approval of the final version. This is to ensure that articles are authoritative and that the journal covers all the most important emerging areas of physics that readers need to know about. Articles survey the development of selected topics within the wider context of physics. Authors combine a critical evaluation of their field for established workers with a reliable and accessible introduction for newcomers and specialists in other fields.

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Academic and professional publisher Sage Publications, US, has announced a special issue of Integrative Cancer Therapies (ICT), which examines the question of whether evidence-based medicine (EBM) is sufficient for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) research.

The December special issue of the journal presents articles that explore EBM and alternative strategies to EBM for evaluating CAM. In particular, it looks at options for conducting CAM research on cancer. The issue discusses whether clinical research on CAM using randomised placebo-controlled trial designs is the best strategy for making evidence-based decisions in clinical practice. It also describes strategies that use "whole systems" and "integrated evaluation models" as potential new standards for research on CAM for cancer.

ICT is claimed to be the first journal to spearhead and focus on a new and growing movement in cancer treatment. The journal emphasises scientific understanding of alternative medicine and traditional medicine therapies, and their responsible integration with conventional healthcare. Integrative care includes therapeutic interventions in diet, lifestyle, exercise, stress care and nutritional supplements, as well as experimental vaccines, chrono-chemotherapy and other advanced treatments.

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Clinical knowledge solutions provider Thomson Micromedex, US, part of Thomson Corporation, has announced a partnership with consumer health information provider A.D.A.M., Inc., US. The two will jointly provide consumer-oriented health, drug and lab information to hospitals, health plans, health web portals and pharmaceutical companies.

Under the deal, the companies will co-develop new integrated solutions that combine A.D.A.M.'s award-winning health information with evidence-based drug information from Thomson. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Available first quarter, the health education information resource features comprehensive illustrated health and drug encyclopaedias, a drug interaction checker, personalised health risk assessment tools and interactive treatment option tools. Healthcare organisations can integrate these solutions with web portals and hospital information systems and customise them to reflect their unique brand identity.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the launch of BMC Systems Biology, the first open access journal to focus solely on the entire emerging subject of systems biology.

A peer-reviewed online journal, BMC Systems Biology considers articles on systems-level analysis of biological events, whether experimental or theoretical, at the level of molecules, cells or organisms. The journal particularly welcomes quantitative analyses and those that integrate different levels of information to understand how biological systems function or can be perturbed. In addition, articles involving the modeling or engineering of biological systems, and synthetic biology are also published.

The journal is projected to be an open-access bridge between active researchers in this new field of research and the broad scientific community. It will be edited by an in-house team and supported by an international editorial board. BMC Systems Biology is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE and Google Scholar.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new journal - Journal of Hydro-environment Research. Slated for launch in April 2007, the journal is a collaboration between Elsevier, the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering (IAHR), its Asia Pacific Division (IAHR-APD) and the Korea Water Resources Association (KWRA).

A quarterly, the Journal of Hydro-environment Research is projected as an international platform for the dissemination of research and engineering applications related to water and hydraulic problems in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to research articles, the journal will also publish review papers, invited contributions, book reviews and technical communications.

The journal is the official publication of the Asia Pacific Division of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research. Regular features of the journal will include the publication of top papers presented at the biennial IAHR-APD Congresses and topical reviews by experienced APD researchers and engineers.

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Scientific publisher Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland, has announced the publication of International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation (IJHFMS), a new journal on human factors modelling and simulation. Dr. Karim A. Malek of The University of Iowa serves as editor-in-chief.

A quarterly publication, IJHFMS publishes peer reviewed original papers, review papers, technical reports, case studies, selected conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news. Also, special editions on related human factors modelling and simulation issues will be published periodically.

The journal focuses on the development and use of computer simulations and computational algorithms to advance knowledge and understanding of the field of human factors. It readership includes professionals in human factors, ergonomics, animation, modelling and simulation of humans and human factors, academics, researchers, policy makers, and designers.

Journal subscription services provider EBSCO Information Services, US, has announced that it has included Live Search Academic as one of the OpenURL-enabled sources for its LinkSource link resolver. This allows EBSCO A-to-Z customers to activate their online resources through the Live Search Academic search engine.

End users at participating schools who use Live Search Academic will now be able to see article-level links displayed for items in their institution's online collection. These links will lead to the library's LinkSource menu, from which the user can access the appropriate copy of the article, bringing the licensed electronic full-text to just a click or two from the Live Search Academic search results. Microsoft has provided the technologies to bring library resources into the Live Search Academic search service.

All A-to-Z customers can avail of this service at no additional charge. Libraries interested in participating in this programme can contact A-to-Z Customer Care at atozfeedback@ebsco.com.

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Library automation solutions provider Auto-Graphics, Inc., US, and information solutions provider LexisNexis, US, have announced the integration and deployment of the former's AGent Search federated search solution to search LexisNexis. Following the deployment, students and faculty can use AGent Search to search LexisNexis content together with other sources through a single interface.

The integrated solution has been beta tested and deployed, and is now in use at a number of collegiate campuses. Schools already using the new service include Southern Connecticut State University, Capitol Community College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hartford. The move is projected to give students easy access to the LexisNexis repository that includes more than 6,000 news, medical, business, legal and reference publications.

AGent Search allows users to search multiple databases simultaneously and deliver aggregated results, allowing LexisNexis records to be displayed as part of a larger result set. Additionally, AGent Search allows results to be e-mailed, saved for later use or exported to bibliographic software.

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Publisher SciTech Publishing, US, has announced the promotion of Susan Manning to the position of Operations Director effective January 1, 2007. She will report directly to CEO and Founder Dudley Kay.

In her new position, Manning will oversee Customer Service, Finance, Production, and Manufacturing. She most recently served as production director at SciTech Publishing.

SciTech specialises in technology (engineering) books, electronic products and custom projects. It forges partnerships and deals among authors, professional associations, training companies, online content providers, domestic and foreign distributors and traditional publishers to ensure the long shelf life and wide distribution of authoritative works on the subject.

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Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with Essential Learning, US, to offer behavioural health professionals continuing education credits through a new book-based online education programme. Essential Learning is one of the largest providers of E-learning services in the behavioural health and human services industry.

This partnership makes possible the approval of more than 80 Wiley books, developed for mental health professionals, for continuing education credit through organisations such as the American Psychological Association, American Nurses Credentialing Center, Association for Social Work Boards, National Board of Certified Counselors, National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors, as well as many state licensing boards.

The Wiley professional books available for continuing education credit can be found at www.wiley.com/ceuLearn. The books are tagged 'CE Credit' on the site and in the catalogue of Wiley Books and Resources for Mental Health Professionals. After reading a particular book, professionals can log on to www.cequick.com/Wileyto access the test and other information associated with the book.

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Web-based information services provider Knovel Corporation, US, has announced a new content partnership with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a leading resource for aerospace information. The addition of AIAA's aerospace science content is projected to make Knovel a must-have service for aerospace engineers.

Through this partnership, Knovel seeks to expand its offering for the aerospace industry to include topics such as Aeroacoustics and Space Logistics. The agreement is one of several publishing partnerships the company has concluded in the recent months. AIAA joins other Sci-Tech publishers such as McGraw Hill, Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier, Springer, SciTech Publishing and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers among others.

Knovel's specialised suite of built-in analytical tools provides researchers with practical new ways to find and apply critical information. In addition to trusted content, engineers rely on Knovel for data extraction, calculations, tabular data analysis and equation solving.

The Library Corporation (TLC), US, and Medialab Solutions BV, Netherlands, have agreed to renew TLC's status as an exclusive reseller of AquaBrowser Library in the US and other countries for three more years. AquaBrowser Library is a visually engaging search engine that works with any integrated library system. Search features in the product allow the user to enter one or two familiar words and successfully retrieve the best results by following interesting trails.

In 2006, 71 libraries and schools using a variety of automation systems purchased AquaBrowser from TLC. The total number of AquaBrowser sales via TLC since the two companies partnered in 2004 is 120. Medialab serves over 200 libraries worldwide.

The companies expect to expand their current relationship through new additional sales distribution channels and joint partnerships in the field of library search and accessibility.

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Publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced that it is piloting a new Open Access (OA) publishing model - Emerald Asset (Accessible Scholarship Shared in an Electronic Environment). The no-fee hybrid programme for the company's engineering journals will run a trial period via the Emerald Engineering web portal.

Unlike existing models, which require authors to pay a fee for OA publication, the new Emerald trial offers authors the opportunity to contribute in kind, rather than in cash. It requires authors to submit a summary of their research findings highlighting their practical application in exchange for open publication. Summaries will be considered for publication on the Emerald Engineering website. Each summary will include a link to enable readers to gain free access to the full text of the published article.

Additionally, outlines of the summaries will feature in Emerald Engineering e-newsletter, which will be distributed free of charge to all website registrants and further serve to increase awareness of each featured author's work.

Online automotive information provider Edmunds, Inc., US, has announced the appointment of Michelle Krebs as Senior Editor - Industry. Krebs has covered the automotive industry for more than 20 years, regularly writing for publications such as Automotive News, The New York Times, Parade magazine and Popular Science. Also, she has written a column for Inside Line, Edmunds' high-speed online car magazine and automotive enthusiast web site, since its launch two years ago.

In her new position, Krebs will continue to produce her column and will deliver additional site content including coverage of automotive announcements, events, executives, marketing efforts and industry buzz. She will also attend events, participate on panel discussions and interact with other media on behalf of Edmunds.

In a related announcement, automotive journalist Michael Jordan joins Edmunds as Executive Editor of Inside Line. Prior to this, Jordan served as Automobile's Los Angeles Bureau Chief.

The Digital Library Federation (DLF), US, has announced the appointment of Peter Brantley as executive director, effective February 5, 2007. He succeeds David Seaman, who left DLF in December 2006. Katherine Kott, DLF Aquifer director is currently serving as interim director.

Brantley currently serves as director of strategic technology for academic information systems in the University of California's Office of the President. He has 20 years experience in systems development and management, including academic computing services at UC Berkeley and academic information systems management and digital library development at UC San Francisco and New York University. Earlier, he also served as director of technology for the California Digital Library.

Founded in 1995, the Digital Library Federation is a partnership organisation of 40 academic libraries and related organisations that are pioneering the use of electronic-information technologies to extend their collections and services. DLF provides leadership for libraries by identifying standards and best practices for digital collections and network access, coordinating research and development in the libraries' use of technology, and fostering projects and services that libraries need but cannot develop individually.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it has been chosen by the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) to publish a new journal Hepatology International, starting March 2007. The peer-reviewed journal will focus on new and emerging technologies and advances in liver and biliary disorders.

A quarterly publication, Hepatology International will publish original research articles, covering both clinical aspects and basic research, as well as reviews, selected article summaries, case reports and video submissions. The first issue will be made available to all delegates of the APASL Kyoto 2007 meeting in March, and will contain peer-reviewed articles as well as all the abstracts presented at the Kyoto conference.

Springer will publish the journal in both electronic and print formats to serve the needs of librarians and readers worldwide. The journal will be available via SpringerLink, Springer's fully integrated, online information platform, and will include Online First, Cross Reference Linking, and Alert services. In addition, Hepatology International offers all authors, via the Springer Open Choice program, the option of publishing their articles using the open access publishing model.

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Niche information services provider United Business Media, UK, has announced that its healthcare division CMPMedica has acquired MediReach Healthcare Communication (MHC), China. The deal involves an initial cash consideration of $1.1 million, with a further deferred consideration of up to $2.75 million contingent on future performance.

MHC provides medical and pharmaceutical marketing consultancy services to multinational pharmaceutical companies across China. The acquisition further strengthens CMPMedica's position in the Chinese market as a leading provider of medical and pharmaceutical marketing consultancy services.

CMPMedica is a global provider of healthcare information and education. It has a unique portfolio of professional media products including newspapers, magazines, drug directories, electronic databases, websites and events.

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Online reference products provider Farlex, Inc., US, has announced the addition of Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Care Consumers to its flagship site, TheFreeDictionary.com.

Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Care Consumers is based on the content of Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, which has been the premier dictionary for health care professionals for more than a century. This inclusion further complements TheFreeDictionary.com's medical dictionary, which includes more than 45,000 entries from all areas of medicine and healthcare. Dorland's contains nearly 40,000 entries and over 350 illustrations, and provides concise definitions for a wide range of terms used in the health sciences. This includes anatomy, physiology, diseases, drugs, tests and procedures, and more.

TheFreeDictionary.com is an online dictionary and encyclopedia which gathers information from a variety of sources. Along with its medical dictionary, it also offers other free and valuable research tools including legal and computer dictionaries, a thesaurus, several encyclopedias, a literature reference library, and a search engine. The resource is a prime online vehicle for active information seekers.

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Medical and scientific publisher Karger Publishers, Switzerland, has announced a new service called Author's Choice. The service allows authors to choose whether their articles are to be distributed under the traditional publishing model, or whether they will be freely available online in exchange for payment of a publication fee.

Authors opting for Author's Choice will be required to pay a publication fee of $2,500. Also, they will be required to sign a licensing agreement to re-use their content for educational and research purposes, on condition that the author and journal are duly acknowledged. The service will in no way affect any editorial decisions. All articles will continue be peer-reviewed, copy-edited and professionally produced, and made available both online and in print. To this effect, the choice will be offered to authors only after their work has been accepted for publication.

Karger is currently conducting a trial with eight journals. This includes Cytogenetic and Genome Research; Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders; Dermatology; Developmental Neuroscience; European Neurology; Medical Principles and Practice; Neurodegenerative Diseases; and Pathobiology.

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The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, has announced the official launch of Soft Matter as an independent publication. The journal was initially launched 18 months ago within the pages of the premier materials journal, Journal of Materials Chemistry.

Soft Matter publishes research on soft matter, with a particular focus on the interface between physics and chemistry. The first solo-edition of the journal (January 2007 issue) features a collection of papers including research articles from Jay Groves, David Weaire and Ullrich Steiner. The first issue can be read for free at www.softmatter.org.

The Royal Society of Chemistry is the largest organisation in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences. With a network of over 43,000 members worldwide and various publishing business, its activities span education and training, conferences and science policy, and the promotion of the chemical sciences to the public.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that NeuroRx, the official journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics (ASENT), will be changing its name to Neurotherapeutics, starting with the January 2007 issue.

A quarterly, Neurotherapeutics publishes critical reviews on selected topics in therapy of neurological disorders. Each issue provides critical reviews focused on a single important topic relating to the treatment of disorders of the nervous system, written by international authorities. The journal delivers a multidisciplinary view on the frontiers of translational neuroscience; provides perspectives on current research and practice; and covers social and ethical as well as scientific issues.

Citations for prior issues of the journal, which is indexed by PubMed Central and MEDLINE, will be available under both NeuroRx and Neurotherapeutics.

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Management and library & information science publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced the acquisition of new titles in the fields of engineering, accountancy, management, real estate and property, and marketing. The new titles are Asian Review of Accounting; Pacific Accounting Review; International Journal of Conflict Management; International Journal of Organizational Analysis; Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology; Construction Innovation; and Young Consumers.

Emerald acquired Asian Review of Accounting from the Victoria University / Curtin University of Technology in Australia. Pacific Accounting Review, an international, refereed journal for accounting, auditing and finance academics, practitioners and students, was acquired from the Pacific Accounting Review Trust. Emerald acquired International Journal of Conflict Management and the International Journal of Organizational Analysis from the Center for Advanced Studies in Management, US. The Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, meanwhile, was acquired from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa. Construction Innovation and Young Consumers were acquired from the UK-based Hodder Arnold and the World Advertising Research Centre, respectively.

The new titles are projected to add strength and depth to Emerald's existing array of journals and publications in various domains. The company is an international publisher of academic and professional literature in the fields of management and library and information services.

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Informatics and database solutions provider Elsevier MDL, US, has announced the release of MDL Assay Explorer 3.1. The product is an enhanced version of the company's life science experiment management tool that allows biologists to capture methodology and to manage results within one flexible system.

MDL Assay Explorer is a customisable and extensible biological data management system that provides biologists with the ability to capture, analyse and store all their experimental results within an Oracle database. Each member of a project team can access data generated by his/her group to ensure the sharing of all experimental data. The new release features Assay Explorer for Excel, which allows biologists to create, view and analyse experiments in a familiar spreadsheet environment while capturing the data in a central repository. This enables project teams to make decisions faster and better.

As part of the Assay Explorer analysis package, Assay Explorer for Excel includes the same comprehensive set of curve fitting routines appropriate for data collected during lead generation and lead optimisation experiments. Assay Explorer 3.1 is claimed to be ideal for biologists conducting non-plate-based experiments since they already use Excel. This familiarity is a time saver for scientists because there is virtually no learning curve; data is captured, calculated, analysed and saved to a database directly from Excel.

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Content management specialists Access Innovations, Inc. (AI), US, has announced that it is working with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), US, one of the largest publishers of technical research, to improve the group's online research services.

Under the initiative, AI has updated IEEE's in-house thesaurus, and also created a new taxonomy to structure the content. The new taxonomy provides another basis for guided navigation of the content pool, in addition to Inspec-controlled terms presently used. Also, IEEE will deploy AI's Data Harmony taxonomy creation and management software. The software features an advanced content indexing and text structuring system, which will enable IEEE to offer a sophisticated search engine that generates more accurate, relevant results. IEEE publishes nearly one third of the world's technical literature, focused in the fields of electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.

The assignment is the latest in a series of projects undertaken by Access Innovations for numerous professional associations and industry groups. In recent years, the company's clients have included the American Chemical Society, The American Society for Information Science & Technology, the American Water Works Association, the New Jersey Hospitals Association and the Special Libraries Association.

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Niche information services provider United Business Media, UK, has announced that its Commonwealth Business Media division has acquired UK-based Aviation Industry Group Ltd (AIG). The deal involves an initial cash consideration of £6 million, with a further consideration of up to £1 million being payable depending on certain conditions being met.

AIG offers a comprehensive presence and a broad range of promotional opportunities within the aviation and airline industries. The group organises 21 annual exhibitions and conferences for the aviation industry, supported by three print titles and associated online platforms.

The acquisition is projected to extend Commonwealth Business Media's geographical reach and enhance its product portfolio for the aviation industry, which includes BACK Aviation Solutions and the OAG business acquired in December 2006.

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Publishing services provider Cadmus Communications Corporation, US, has announced that it will expand its current print production services to the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) to include the Society's monthly magazine, ASBMB Today. The production services include copyediting, composition and printing.

In addition, the journal production services that Cadmus currently provides for ASBMB's Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) and Molecular and Cellular Proteomics (MCP) will be supplemented by XML conversion services for JBC, under a separate deal.

Cadmus Communications Corporation provides end-to-end, integrated graphic communications services to professional publishers, not-for-profit societies and corporations. It is one of the largest providers of content management and production services to STM journal publishers. The company recently made a $50 million capital investment in state-of-the-art printing and finishing equipment to support the changing needs of their customers.

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Journal subscription services provider EBSCO Information Services, US, has announced its addition in the 2006 EContent 100, EContent magazine's list of the companies that matter most in the digital content industry, for the sixth consecutive year.

EBSCO Information Services is the leading service provider for e-journal, e-package and print subscriptions, a suite of e-resource management tools, full-text and secondary databases and related services for all types of libraries and research organisations. As the 'e' agent of the industry, more than half of the subscriptions handled by EBSCO have an electronic component. The company's comprehensive solutions include proven systems to consolidate ordering, invoicing, claiming and renewals as well as assistance with licensing and registration requirements for e-journal and e-package customers worldwide.

The 2006 EContent 100 list is available in the December 2006 issue of EContent magazine and can be accessed online at www.econtentmag.com.

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Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group, UK, has announced the launch of a new journal - International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. Prof. S C Wong of the University of Hong Kong and Prof. Chang-Ho Park of the Seoul National University, serve as Editors-in-Chief of the journal, the first issue of which is scheduled for release in March 2007.

A quarterly, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation provides a discussion forum for the exchange of innovative ideas on sustainable transportation research in the context of environmental, economical, social, and engineering aspects, as well as current and future interactions of transportation systems and other urban subsystems. In addition to the peer-reviewed papers, the journal also features case studies, surveys, and expository papers in international and local contexts.

The scope of the journal includes the examination of overall sustainability of any transportation system, including its infrastructure, vehicle, operation, and maintenance; the integration of social science disciplines, engineering, and information technology with transportation; the understanding of the comparative aspects of different transportation systems from a global perspective; qualitative and quantitative transportation studies; and case studies, surveys, and expository papers in an international or local context.

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The British Library, UK, has announced the launch of a new digitisation service for publishers who wish to digitise archival material from their journal collections. The service, called Publisher Digitisation Service, will make use of the Library's collections as well as its expertise in converting large volumes of print material into digital format.

According to the Library only few publishing houses have maintained comprehensive archives of all their titles. It also noted that some publishers have had to source as much as 75 percent of their archival content from third parties to carry out digitisation. Apart from offering the full range of the UK national library's collections, the Publisher Digitisation Service also offers logistical advantages. Content is located and digitised in one place and can be delivered to the publisher by File Transfer Protocol. This helps to reduce risks and costs associated with obtaining material physically from a variety of sources.

One of the earliest customers of the service was SAGE Publications. The company began its journals backfile digitisation project this time in 2006 and looked to complete it in 12 months. The original scope of the project was approximately two million pages but grew to over 2.8 million as the project progressed and SAGE acquired more journals.

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Database services provider ProQuest Information and Learning, US, has announced a deal with the Taiwan National Science Council (NSC). Under the deal, NSC will utilise ProQuest's Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) databases for a major national digital archives project.

All higher education institutions in Taiwan will now be able to access these databases. The deal is seen to represent a major milestone in commercial digital archive history in Asia. The databases were selected through a careful screening process, with recommendations from professors across Taiwan. The national licence covers over 170 higher education universities, designated public libraries and government-funded research institutions.

The EEBO database presents classic early English works as they appeared in their original format. The complete collection includes over 125,000 titles beginning with the earliest printed works in the English language. PAO provides an online archive of digitised full-image journal articles. The database offers complete backfiles of a growing body of journals from a wide range of publishers.

B2B media and information company 1105 Media, Inc., US, has announced the acquisition of the operating assets of US based Fawcette Technical Publications, Inc. (FTP), publisher of print and online resources and producer of conference and event activities. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Under the deal, FTP will now become part of 1105 Media's Redmond Media Group (RMG). This acquisition further strengthens RMG's position as the dominant media outlet serving all facets of the Microsoft IT, Channel Partner and Developer Communities. Other properties of the group include Redmond Magazine, Redmond Channel Partner, and the recently-launched Redmond Developer News, related websites, and the semi-annual TechMentor conference.

1105 Media provides integrated information and media in targeted business-to-business markets, including specialised sectors of the information technology community; industrial health, safety and compliance; security; environmental protection; and home healthcare. Its offerings span print and online magazines, journals and newsletters; seminars, conferences and trade shows; training courseware; and web-based services.

Information services provider McGraw-Hill Companies, US, has announced its participation at the forthcoming Citigroup 17th Annual Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications conference.

Harold McGraw III, chairman, president and CEO, will discuss prospects for the Corporation during the conference. McGraw is scheduled to speak on January 10, 2007 from 11:45 am to 12:30 pm. The presentation, entitled "Outlook 2007," will be Webcast and may include forward-looking information.

The audio-only webcast will be available at the scheduled speaking time through the Corporation's Investor Relations website at www.mcgraw-hill.com/investor_relations. An audio replay will also be available beginning two hours after the end of the presentation, and will remain accessible for seven days, ending on January 17, 2007. The prepared remarks and slides will be available for downloading from the site on January 11.

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Internet search services provider Vivisimo, Inc., US, has announced that the U.S. News & World Report has selected Vivisimo Velocity enterprise search platform to improve and optimise search engine resources for its editorial staff.

Vivisimo Velocity will index and federate original content, third-party resources and news feeds used by editors and reporters at the U.S. News & World Report to research stories for the magazine and its website. These resources include popular media research tools such as EBSCO, ProQuest, Lexis Nexis and select RSS feeds. The search platform's clustering feature enhances manageability by categorising all search results into topical folders that help end-users quickly review and recall relevant themes.

The Vivisimo Velocity platform provides enterprises with innovative search solutions that allow users to find, access, explore and manipulate all available content, regardless of location.

B2B information services provider DTN, US, has announced that it has acquired The Progressive Farmer magazine from Time Inc., a subsidiary of Time Warner, for an undisclosed amount. With a subscriber base of over 600,000, the magazine claims to be one of the largest publications focusing on the information needs of the farm lifestyle market. It serves several advertising categories, including automotive, apparel, tractor, retail and outdoor sporting goods.

Under the deal, DTN will maintain the magazine's current focus, while enhancing its product and service offerings. The publication and staff will continue to be based in Birmingham, Alabama.

DTN provides real-time market, news and weather information services to agriculture, energy trading markets and other weather-sensitive industries. The company delivers on-demand market information, commodity cash prices, industry news and in-depth analysis, and location-specific weather to over 120,000 subscribers.

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The Hartcourt Companies, Inc., Germany, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire China Princely Education Technology Development Company Ltd., China, for US$308 in cash and 5.4 million of Hartcourt stock. The transaction, expected to be completed in March 2007, is subject to certain preconditions being satisfied, including the receipt of all necessary governmental approvals.

Xinmao Huang, former Deputy Commissioner of Zhejiang Provincial Education Bureau, has been appointed the acting Chief Executive Officer of China Princely.

Founded in December 2004, China Princely is an authorised accrediting organisation for vocational education in China. It provides Internet-based distance vocational education and technical training services, approved by the Central Institute of Vocational and Technical Education (CIVTE) of the Ministry of Education.

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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB), UK, recently announced that it has published the first edition of Pharmacy Now, a new e-newsletter targeted at the Society's members in England. The newsletter is available at the Society's website at http://www.rpsgb.org.

Pharmacy Now will cover news and views from the Society in an easy to read format. Designed to appeal to busy pharmacists, the e-publication will complement the existing Society publications produced for pharmacy audiences in Scotland and Wales.

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) is the professional and regulatory body for pharmacists in England, Scotland and Wales. It also regulates pharmacy technicians on a voluntary basis, which is expected to become statutory under anticipated legislation. The primary objectives of the Society are to lead, regulate, develop and represent the profession of pharmacy.

Database services provider ProQuest Information and Learning, US, has announced that the Choice magazine, a publication of the American Library Association, has named three of its research solutions as Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006. The recipients - ABI/INFORM Complete and ABI/INFORM Archive, African Writers Series, and Literature Online with MLA - were each praised as 'highly recommended' by Choice.

Featuring almost 4,000 journals, ABI/INFORM Complete claims to be the most comprehensive business database on the market today. The combination of products forms a business database package that offers nearly 3,000 full-text titles covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. Included in ABI/INFORM Complete is ABI/INFORM Archive, which provides cover-to-cover full images, complete with illustrations and advertisements. The database contains complete runs of key business and management journals.

The African Writers Series offers access to key works from the highly acclaimed Heinemann's African Writers Series. The series provides seminal works from the canon of African literature of the twentieth century, covering such authors as Steve Biko, Ama Ata Aidoo, Nadine Gordimer, and Buchi Emecheta.

Literature Online is the leading online resource for the study and teaching of literature in English. This fully integrated service combines the texts of over 350,000 works of literature with huge resources of criticism and reference.

This year's Outstanding Academic Title list, which includes 597 print products and 43 electronic resources, was chosen by the Choice editorial staff from among the 6,816 titles reviewed during the past year. These outstanding works have been selected for their excellence in scholarship and the significance of their contribution to the field-often the first treatment of their subject.

Translation and localisation research firm Common Sense Advisory, US, has released a report for global enterprises and language service providers on translation technologies in multilingual publishing. The paper, titled 'Translation Workflow Management: Managing Workflow for Multilingual Publishing and Website Globalization', examines factors driving demand in the sector. It defines four buyer types, maps system features into meaningful subcategories, and outlines the adoption strategies available for translation management systems (TMS).

According to the report, a marketing, publications, or translation manager who oversaw 500 content transactions in 2006 can expect that number to grow as high as 160,000 equivalent transactions by 2009. The research is seen to be directly relevant both to enterprise buyers of translation services and technology as well as to language service providers looking to automate their translation operations.

The report, which was written by the firm's senior analyst, Ben Sargent, and Chief Research Officer, Don DePalma, covers three distinct system types that encompass translation workflow within their feature sets. Later this year, Common Sense Advisory will publish related research on TMS. This will include measuring adoption, sizing the market, and a worksheet to determine selection criteria based on business and technical requirements. It will also feature a scorecard methodology to help buyers quickly match existing platforms to those basic needs.

Society publisher Blackwell Publishing, UK, has published a paper in the latest issue of the Japan Journal of Nursing Science, according to which the attrition rate of novice nurses in Japan is very high. While 4 percent of novice nurses in the country quit within nine months on the job, 8.5 percent quit within one year.

The paper seeks to clarify the relationship between the level of assertiveness of the novice nurses and the incidence of burnout in their first year at university hospitals. It also attempts to catalogue the factors vital in assertion training in order to arm the novices against the seemingly inevitable burnout. The study, conducted by researchers from the Japan Academy of Nursing Science, demonstrated that the effect of assertiveness of novice nurses directly impacted the incidence of serious burnout during their first year. This indicates that provision of assertiveness training is vital in enabling nurses to deal with the stresses of the job and avoid career burnout.

A biannual, the Japan Journal of Nursing Science is the official English language publication of the Japan Academy of Nursing Science. It provides a mechanism to share knowledge related to improving healthcare and promoting the development of nursing.

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The British Medical Association (BMA), UK, has announced plans to collaborate with the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to exchange scientific know-how and to provide more opportunities for medical graduates to train in Britain, it has been reported. This was announced at the recently held 81st national conference of the IMA, which was attended by BMA president, Dr Praveen Kumar.

Another likely sector of the collaboration will be publication of medical journals. The BMA will also try to reduce the price of the British Medical Journal and clinical evidence journals for Indian doctors to benefit from.

Founded in 1832, the British Medical Association seeks to promote the science of medicine. It represents doctors from all branches of medicine all over the UK. It has a total membership of over 138,000, including over 2,500 members overseas and more than 19,000 medical student members.

Professors at the State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland are reportedly turning to online publishing due to increased pressure to publish, and rejection rates of over 70 percent at several academic journals. Within the next year, SUNY Cortland professors will publish three electronic scholarly journals. This includes the New York Sociologist; Disabilities Studies and Special Education; and Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies, which started in 2004.

Slated for launch in January 2008, The New York Sociologist will specialise in research across the social sciences. Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Cortland, Mark P. Worrell will serve as the general editor of the journal. Disabilities Studies and Special Education is a new publication that will enter cyberspace next fall. In its first year, the journal will publish work by faculty and students at SUNY Cortland. It will gradually solicit contributions from other SUNY colleges and eventually from scholars across the US.

Now in its third year of publication, Wagadu was created to fill a gap in the field of postcolonial studies relating to gender issues. The journal is published annually at http://web.cortland.edu/wagadu in several languages, including German and Spanish.

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Researchers at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have published a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) on the long-term use of an anti-allergy drug. According to the report, the drug cromolyn, in use for over 40 years, significantly reduced tumour growth in animal models of human pancreatic cancer and also increased the effectiveness of standard chemotherapy.

The JNCI study demonstrates that combining cromolyn with chemotherapy was nearly three times better at retarding growth of pancreatic tumours in mice compared to the chemotherapy agent gemcitabine alone. The finding may lead to a treatment advance for patients with pancreatic cancer, believed to be the most lethal of all cancers.

Published twice monthly, JNCI brings out up-to-date news and information from the rapidly changing fields of cancer research and treatment. For the past several years, the journal has been ranked as the most-cited original-research cancer journal by the Institute of Scientific Information in its annual Journal Citation Reports. Published by Oxford University Press, JNCI is not affiliated with the US National Cancer Institute.

The Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML), one of the most used libraries in the US, has announced that it will deploy the AquaBrowser Library search engine.

AquaBrowser Library is a visually engaging search engine that works with any integrated library system. Search features in AquaBrowser allow the user to enter one or two familiar words and successfully retrieve the best results simply by following interesting trails. The library now joins a growing number of libraries that offer AquaBrowser Library with their SirsiDynix, DRA, Geac, or other integrated library systems. Over 100 libraries have chosen AquaBrowser from TLC. This includes the Episcopal Academy Learning Center, Marshall Public Library, Anne Arundel County Public Library and Atlantic County Library System.

CML has 21 locations, along with Outreach Services. The library also operates the Northwest Library in cooperation with Worthington Libraries, while sharing resources with Worthington and Southwest Public Libraries. In 2005, customers borrowed over 16 million items and visited the library 8.2 million times.

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Publishing trade association International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM), UK, has issued a position statement on 'The Use of Orphan Works.'

The United States Copyright Office has recently recognised the problems of 'orphan works' that authors, libraries, and other institutions are seeking permission to re-use. Similar issues have been raised by the European Union also. According to STM, solutions can be found to solve these problems, and efforts to locate and obtain permission should be encouraged. The principles outlined in the STM position statement on orphan works is projected to serve an effective guide to resolve the several issues that have been identified. Also, STM will be working with other publishing associations and stakeholders of all kinds on these points.

An orphan work is a copyrighted work for which the user is not able to identify and/or contact the legitimate holder to obtain permission to use the work. Due to this, orphan works risk exclusion from the cycle of creation and exploitation, since users may choose non-use over the risk of liability for copyright infringement.

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Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced that it will publish Medical Acupuncture, a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal. The first 2007 issue is scheduled in February. Dr. Richard C. Niemtzow, Chief Medical Consultant for Alternative and Complementary Medicine for the US Air Force Surgeon General, serves as the journal's Editor-in-Chief.

Published quarterly, Medical Acupuncture is the official publication of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture. Patients are increasingly seeking treatment with acupuncture for a variety of medical conditions. Written by physicians, the journal seeks to keep physicians informed about the safety and efficacy of this modality.

The journal publishes authoritative, evidence-based clinical papers, case reports, and research findings that integrate concepts from traditional and modern forms of acupuncture with Western medical training. Topics covered include the use of acupuncture in arthritis, pain relief, cancer, stroke, pulmonology, urology, OB/GYN, gastroenterology, and more.

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Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, US, has announced that the Czech University of Agriculture (CUA) in Prague has chosen ALEPH 500 as its new integrated library system. The system implementation, which started in November 2006, is expected to reach full operation later this year.

CUA's academic library, the Study and Information Centre, provides information support and library services to the students and teaching staff of the university's four faculties and two institutes. The library's collection holds over 140,000 print volumes, with approximately 7,000 items acquired annually. With the introduction of the ALEPH 500 integrated library system at the Czech university, the company seeks to expand into the specialised scientific library market.

Ex Libris' integrated library solution, ALEPH, has been installed at more than 1,700 sites worldwide. Built on an Oracle database, the solution offers full Unicode support, employs system-wide XML technology, and offers third-party integration through an XML gateway as well as standard protocols such as Z39.50 and ODBC.

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Medical journal the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) recently published studies, according to which treating anemia in kidney disease patients with the drug erythropoietin, or EPO, may lead to medical complications. According to reports, efforts to treat anemia in such patients with EPO, as recommended by the National Kidney Foundation, appear to increase the risk of heart failure and the need for dialysis. The journal spiked an opinion piece from one of its senior writers that was critical of the foundation's reliance on multimillion-dollar donations from the companies that make such drugs.

The journal later published a less-critical editorial on the studies co-written by Dr. Julie Ingelfinger, a nephrologist and deputy editor at the journal. Dr. Ingelfinger is also the immediate past president of the Massachusetts-based chapter of the National Kidney Foundation and a member of the state group's medical advisory board. The editorial, however, did not mention the foundation's industry funding. Also, Dr. Ingelfinger's relationship with the foundation was not disclosed.

Meanwhile, Dr. Robert Steinbrook, author of the spiked editorial, presented it to the British medical journal Lancet, which is one of JEJM's chief rivals. Lancet published a version on its web site a day after the NEJM published its reports on the matter. According to the article, the foundation's guidelines have been questioned because of the group's close relationship with the drug industry. The article also noted that the foundation received more than half of its support from corporate and organisational partners in 2005.

The editorial published in NEJM also expressed doubt on the kidney foundation's guidelines but failed to address the industry funding of the foundation. The handling of the two articles has once again ignited debate on the journal's standards. Earlier this year, the journal was critisised for not being more aggressive in rooting out problems with a study it published in 2000 on Merck & Co.'s painkiller Vioxx. The painkiller was removed from the market in 2004 because of safety concerns.