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 Survey on the impact of digitisation on book publishing - 30 Sep 2009
The Frankfurt Book Fair and German trade magazine Buchreport in cooperation with Publishers Weekly, a publication serving all segments of the US book industry, have released the results of a survey on the impact of digitisation on book publishing.
The survey received responses from 840 publishers across the globe. Just over 72 percent of publishers taking part in the survey said the development of new business models, new multimedia products and effective marketing strategies are the biggest challenges facing publishers as they make the transition from print to digital. What forms the new business models should take and how publishers will charge for content generated no consensus.
Charging readers a flat rate that would allow them access to all of a information provider’s online content similar to a traditional subscription model was favoured by 25 percent of respondents, especially those from Europe. Paying for snippets of content through micropayments was favored by 23 percent. The premium model, under which users would pay for selected online content, found support from 16 percent of respondents. The survey further noted that e-books generated the most revenue, although publishers remain unsure on how to price these titles. The survey found that the majority of publishers support pricing e-books below the price of print books. Only 19 percent said e-books should be as expensive as the print book or more expensive.
Sixty percent of publishers said sales of digital products are expected to represent less than 10 percent of total revenue in 2009, although that is expected to change in the next two years. About 50 percent of respondents said they believe more of their revenue will come from digital products than print by 2018.
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 BioMed Central partners with AuthorMapper to add publishing metadata - 30 Sep 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has teamed up with AuthorMapper.com and SpringerExemplar.com to add data for its more than 60,000 published articles to both platforms.
Launched in February of 2009, AuthorMapper is a free analytical online tool for discerning trends, patterns and subject experts within scientific research. Since its launch, the scientific community has given valuable input to assist in the growth and success of the platform.
AuthorMapper.com searches over three million journal articles to deliver a variety of useful analyses including an interactive Google map of the results, keyword tag clouds, and "Top 5" bar charts for various important metrics. This allows exploration of scientific research patterns, identification of trends in the literature, discovery of wider scientific relationships, and locating other experts in a field of study.
SpringerExemplar.com provides a useful way to see the context in which different keywords are used within the full text of BioMed Central’s articles.
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Thomson Reuters predicts Nobel Laureates for 2009 - 30 Sep 2009 Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the 2009 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates researchers likely to be in contention for Nobel honours. Thomson Reuters claims to be the only organisation to use quantitative data to make annual predictions of Nobel Prize winners.
Each year, data from ISI Web of Knowledge, the world’s largest citation environment of high quality scholarly literature, is used to quantitatively determine the most influential researchers in the Nobel categories of Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Economics. These high-impact researchers are named Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates and predicted to be Nobel Prize winners, either this year or in the near future, based on the citation impact of their published research. Since 2002, 15 Citation Laureates have gone on to win Nobel Prizes.
Citation Laureates are selected by assessing citation counts and the number of high-impact papers they have produced while identifying discoveries or themes that may be considered worthy of recognition by the Nobel Committee. The Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates typically rank among the top one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of researchers in their fields, based on citations of their published papers over the last two or three decades.
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ARL brings out special report on liaison librarian roles - 30 Sep 2009 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released a report on liaison librarian roles as a special issue of Research Library Issues (RLI). Guest edited by ARL’s Karla Hahn, this special issue of RLI focuses on the evolution of new roles and institutional strategies for liaison work.
Five articles identify emerging roles and consider the challenges of developing corresponding liaison capabilities. Authors from Minnesota, Berkeley, MIT, British Columbia, and NYU each reflect on their experiences and offer insights to fellow travellers mapping out their own routes to a new vision of liaison work.
Research Library Issues is a Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC (RLI). The freely available, online-only publication is released six times per year by the Association of Research Libraries. RLI focuses on the major issues that affect the ability of research libraries to meet the academic and research needs of the diverse communities they serve.
ARL, a nonprofit organisation of 123 research libraries in North America, aims to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. It seeks to advance the goals of its member research libraries; provide leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities; foster the exchange of ideas and expertise; and shape a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organisations.
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 Dr Stephen W. Borron named medical editor-in-chief of ToxED - 30 Sep 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Dr Stephen W. Borron has been named Medical Editor-in-Chief of ToxED, an online clinical toxicology reference that provides clinicians with quick access to concise and comprehensive drug, poison and chemical information at the point-of-care.
Dr. Borron is an Attending Physician in Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology at University Medical Center of El Paso in Texas, a Level-1 trauma center and university teaching hospital. In addition, he is President and Chief Medical Officer at International Toxicology Consultants, LLC, a medical toxicology consulting firm providing regulatory and general toxicology consulting, contract clinical and laboratory research, litigation support and workplace disease investigation. Also, Dr. Borron is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology at Texas Tech University Health Science Center’s Paul L. Foster School of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine (Surgery) and Director of Emergency Medicine Research at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
ToxED, a Gold Standard/Elsevier product, is written by practicing clinical toxicologists and emergency medicine clinicians and overseen by an Editorial Board composed of leaders in clinical toxicology. ToxED provides emergency medicine clinicians and other healthcare practitioners poisoning and drug overdose information specifically designed for use in patient-care settings.
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Platts announces 2009 finalists for the 11th annual Platts Global Energy Awards - 30 Sep 2009 Energy information provider Platts, part of the McGraw-Hill Companies, US, has announced the 2009 finalists for its annual Platts Global Energy Awards.
Established in 1999, the Platts Global Energy Awards has become one of the most recognised awards programme in the industry. The award recognises innovation, leadership, and superior performance in categories spanning the entire energy industry. New or updated categories for 2009 include Green Energy Initiative of the Year, Energy Efficiency Program of the Year, Deal of the Year, Infrastructure Project of the Year and Energy Producer of the Year.
Finalists in 17 performance categories were chosen from a list of over 200 nominations, based on the criteria for each category, taking into consideration the company's profile and financial performance from within the designated time-frame. The Energy Company of the Year will be selected from this overall list of finalists by the independent panel of judges including former regulators, past heads of major energy companies, leading academics and international energy experts.
Winners of the 2009 Platts Global Energy Awards will be announced on December 3, 2009, at a black-tie dinner and awards ceremony in New York City at the Cipriani Wall Street. The event is expected to draw more than 500 senior energy executives from around the world.
In advance of the Platts Global Energy Awards, finalists, economists and others will join in lively debate on the viability of numerous energy sustainability solutions at the Platts Global Energy Outlook Forum on December 2nd in New York City.
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US judge agrees to delay Google book-scanning project case hearing - 29 Sep 2009 The hearing over a settlement between Google and US authors and publishers has been postponed considering objections on copyright and anti-trust grounds. The US District Court Judge Denny Chin agreed with the request from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the US Authors Guild to delay the October 7 hearing on the legal settlement.
The judge's order came on the same day as French publishers and authors took Google to court in France over the book-scanning project. Supported by France's 530-member Publishers' Association and its SGDL Society of Authors, the plaintiffs are contesting Google's campaign to digitise books without prior authorisation of publishers or authors. The French case has been adjourned until December 18.
Facing objections from the US Justice Department and others to the deal, the authors and publishers asked the New York judge to delay the hearing on the settlement. According to the judge, Google and the authors and publishers were in negotiations with the Department of Justice, which "will result in significant changes to the existing settlement agreement."
The request for a delay in the hearing came four days after the Justice Department advised Chin to reject the settlement. According to the Justice Department the book-scanning project has the potential to breathe life into millions of works that are now effectively off limits. The project however raises copyright and anti-trust issues in its current form. The agency encouraged the parties to continue their discussions.
Google and the authors and publishers reached the settlement in 2008 to a copyright infringement suit they filed against the search services company in 2005. Under the settlement, Google agreed to pay $125 million to resolve outstanding claims and establish an independent Book Rights Registry. The registry provides revenue from sales and advertising to authors and publishers who agree to digitise their books.
Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! have filed objections to the settlement with the court, along with the French and German governments, privacy advocates and consumer watchdog groups.
Earlier this month, the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Association of Research Libraries submitted a supplemental filing with the New York District Court. The purpose of the supplemental filing was to address developments that have occurred since the groups submitted their filing on May 4.
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Elsevier launches SciVal Funding Solution - 29 Sep 2009 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of SciVal Funding, a comprehensive funding intelligence solution for US research institutions. The platform helps researchers locate the most appropriate grant opportunities in order to maximise their potential to receive funding.
SciVal Funding is designed to optimise the pre-award stages of the process, leading researchers and research administrators to grants with the greatest potential for success by integrating current funding opportunities with publication information and historical award data. The solution allows users to routinely search over 5,000 grant sources, including federal funding bodies and private foundations. Updated daily, funding opportunities can be explored by subject area, award type, deadline or amount. In addition, by fully cataloguing limited submission programmes, research administrators may set up necessary internal review mechanisms in a timely way.
Moreover, the solution provides customised recommendations and alerts by matching funding opportunity data to pre-populated research profiles that are continuously updated. This eliminates the need to create a summary of each investigator’s body of work and allows users to run searches on their own as well as other researchers’ profiles. These recommendations can also serve as guideposts to junior faculty regarding which funding sources to pursue, particularly as the early grants in a young researcher’s career are critical to building a solid track record.
Another advantage of the solution is the integrated funding award information. The historical data on what grants were awarded to which researcher and at which specific institution, provides vital insight into the funding environment. This intelligence enables researchers to more accurately estimate their award chances, tailor their proposal, find collaborators and ultimately better compete for grants. Research administrators may also use this award information for performance measurement, evaluation and strategic planning purposes.
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BioMed Central unveils 200th open access journal - 29 Sep 2009 Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the launch of the Journal of Angiogenesis Research. With this launch, the number of journals in BioMed Central’s portfolio reaches 200. The launch is seen to reflect a growing trend as senior academics and learned societies turn to OA to publish their new journals or to improve the reach and visibility of their existing journals.
Journal of Angiogenesis Research publishes original research and timely reviews on recent advances in the understanding of the processes responsible for neovascularisation and pathological angiogenesis. The journal’s articles are archived at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. It is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.
According to observers, the success of any scientific journal, OA or subscription based, depends on it receiving a good number of high-quality papers in its area of interest. In this scenario, BioMed Central has recently seen an increasing number of institutions and societies choosing to take the OA route, either to launch new journals or increasingly to convert their existing journals to OA. Additions to its portfolio this year include Genetics, Selection and Evolution, owned and supported by the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, and Journal of Biomedical Science, which is supported by the National Science Council of Taiwan. These are claimed to be established journals with impact factors and good rankings in their subject categories in the Journal Citation Report.
Also moving towards a re-launch with BioMed Central is Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology, the official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. In addition, several societies have launched new journals with BioMed this year, including Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation, Therapy & Technology and Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome.
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Knovel forms Editorial Advisory Board - 29 Sep 2009 Online technical information provider Knovel, US, has announced the formation of its Editorial Advisory Board. The Board will provide deep engineering experience and leadership and steer the development and prioritisation of Knovel’s ongoing additions of content and editorial features. Members include Adel Sedra, James Speight, Meyer Rosen, Jung Han, Eric A. Grulke, Frank Matthewson and Jack Mattingly.
Knovel delivers trusted engineering reference information produced by top societies and publishers. As part of an ongoing effort to ensure content and feature development initiatives remain aligned with engineers’ needs, the Board will provide insights into engineering challenges and developing areas of opportunities across industries including aerospace and defence, engineering design and construction, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing, and specialty chemicals.
Knovel is an online resource that helps engineers find reliable technical information. Knovel's reliable content, optimised search and interactive tools, help engineers solve problems faster by providing answers at the point of need, in turn helping organisations increase the productivity of their engineering staff. Knovel's thousands of customers worldwide include 70 of the Fortune 500 companies and more than 300 leading universities.
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Cambridge Journals and International Society for Developmental Origins of Health launch new journal - 29 Sep 2009 Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press (CUP), US, in association with the International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease has announced the launch of a new journal - Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (JDOHaD). The journal will focus on developmental origins of health and disease. Michael Ross of the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, California, USA, will be the Editor-in-Chief. He will be supported by seven international Associate Editors and a global and multi-specialty Editorial Board.
The Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease seeks to bring together researchers across a range of disciplines, from physiology, nutrition, developmental and molecular biology to clinical sciences, epidemiology, social science, economics and policy. The journal will publish original research articles, short communications and reviews, with regular themed issues from guest editors.
JDOHaD will be available in print and via Cambridge Journals Online, issued six times a year from 2010. Articles are now being considered for publication and from October 1, 2009, will be available via First View on the Cambridge Journals Online platform, including an article linking prenatal effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic with cardiovascular disease. Authors can submit papers online now via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
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Emerald to publish Advances in Ecopolitics as a book series - 29 Sep 2009 Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced the recent acquisition of Advances in Ecopolitics. Previously published as a journal, the title will be published by Emerald as a book series from Volume 4 onwards.
This series profiles a diverse range of topics ranging from environmentalism, sustainability and related disciplines. Each edition collates fresh contributions from international contributors who examine a common theme from the world of ecopolitics. Focusing attention on climate change, sustainable development and green lifestyles, each paper explores these salient ecological concepts with an underlying vigour.
Volume 4, The Transition to Sustainable Living and Practice is due to publish in December 2009. Subscribers to Emerald Online Subject Collections will automatically gain access to various new and existing titles including Advances in Ecopolitics.
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Dear Subscriber - 29 Sep 2009 SPARC highlights proposals for OA funding schemes - 28 Sep 2009 The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is highlighting two approaches to establishing and maintaining open access (OA) funds in a new SPARC Member Profile. The coalition is also preparing to launch a new initiative to provide additional information and resources detailing options for other institutions that may be considering such funds.
Last year, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Calgary were among a handful of institutions that established pools of money, through their libraries, to cover the cost of OA journal fees. This approach – aimed at supporting a new academic publishing model that could ultimately relieve at least some of the burden of expensive journal subscriptions – has reportedly been well-received by researchers on these two campuses.
At UC Berkeley, the Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) provides faculty, post-doc and graduate students up to $3,000 to cover the cost of publishing an article in an OA publication. It also offers up to $1,500 for opening an article that requires copyright transfer to the publisher. During the 18-month pilot project, the fund covered 52 articles at an average cost of $1,500 for OA publications and $1,280 for articles requiring copyright transfer. During Calgary’s first 13 months, the library’s Open Access Authors Fund received 67 official submissions to cover OA fees at an average cost of $1,538 (in Canadian dollars).
The cost of journal subscriptions at times is crippling for libraries and the Canadian university wanted to experiment with a different way of encouraging OA. The Berkeley initiative set out to encourage a more sustainable scholarly communication environment. The new SPARC resource for OA funds will be announced this fall.
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Elsevier releases 7th Edition of Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases - 28 Sep 2009 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the release of Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 7th Edition. Marking 30 years since its initial publication, it remains a respected reference source of its kind, and maintains its relevance in the face of the emergence of newly recognised infectious diseases, including new strains of the swine (H1N1) and avian influenza viruses.
Edited by renowned experts Dr. Gerald L. Mandell; Dr. John E. Bennett; and Dr. Raphael Dolin, Mandell, Douglas and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases provides comprehensive, global guidance on diagnosing and treating the full spectrum of infectious diseases. Contributions from hundreds of the world’s most noted authorities provide fresh perspectives and expanded global insights.
Users of this 7th edition can access the full text online with regular updates, downloadable image library, drug database, and more at Elsevier's Expert Consult website. The first edition was published in 1979. Given that Infectious Diseases is a dynamic specialty, when compared to the 6th edition, the latest edition contains extensive revisions even to the chapters that have appeared previously.
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O'Reilly to distribute Microsoft Press titles - 28 Sep 2009 Publisher O'Reilly Media, US, and software vendor Microsoft Corp., US, have announced a joint arrangement to support and expand Microsoft Press from production through distribution, co-publishing and content development, marketing and management. Through this strategic relationship, on November 30, O'Reilly will become the distributor of Microsoft Press titles in North America with a global rollout in a phased approach. Both the partners will develop Microsoft Press titles.
The collaboration is projected to take advantage of O'Reilly's digital publishing innovations and social media know-how to increase Microsoft Press' reach and develop its content for multiple, multimedia channels. Microsoft Press books seek to help people understand and use Microsoft technologies. By bringing that content to digital and mobile devices and platforms worldwide, millions more are expected to obtain access to that content.
Microsoft will continue to produce training content and leverage O'Reilly's expertise in global manufacturing, distribution, sales and marketing. This is expected to fuel market potential for Microsoft Press and greater responsiveness to new opportunities while allowing customers to continue buying books through current online and retail channels.
According to the company, the key benefits of partnering with O'Reilly include marketplace agility, increased visibility and new opportunities for authors. O'Reilly is the host and founder of several conferences for developers including the Tools of Change for Publishing Conference.
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Questia Media makes entire collection available through new research application - Questia Library - 28 Sep 2009 Online library provider Questia Media, Inc., US, has announced that it has made its entire collection available through a new research application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The application, called Questia Library, provides mobile access to the full text of 74,000 books and over 2 million journal, magazine and newspaper articles. The collection consists mostly of copyrighted works and is selected and organised by professional librarians to facilitate academic research in the humanities and social sciences.
The application makes browsing for research purposes easier, allowing users to quickly navigate Questia's subject category schema and drill down to one of 6,700 research topic pages where they can view the top librarian-recommended books and articles for that topic.
In addition to having mobile access, Questia Library users can log in to their accounts through any computer with an Internet connection and access Questia's full suite of research tools to create project folders, quote and cite publications, generate automatic bibliographies, bookmark pages, add items to a bookshelf, take digital notes, and highlight text. The bookmark, bookshelf, and view highlight features are available in the application now with the other tools scheduled to release in a later version.
Questia Library for iPhone/iPod Touch is now available, giving users permanent access to 5,000 public domain books and 1 week of access to every publication in Questia Library.
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Impelsys partners with Audiomedia Production to offer complete talking eBook solution - 28 Sep 2009 Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has announced a strategic partnership with Audiomedia Production (AP), an audio production vendor to leading educational and trade publishers. The deal is to offer audio content for Impelsys’ VirtualPages. VirtualPages is a reader that quickly and cost-effectively converts print into electronic editions. Publishers can now have a single-vendor solution for all eBook production needs.
Together, Impelsys and AP enable the VirtualPages Talking eBook. Impelsys’ VirtualPages technology plus AP’s audio content transforms standard printed books into virtual electronic books that offer a variety of illustrative and audio features such as narration, individually clickable words and read-along colour-coding of words. Some other features include user customisation features to turn on/off the text highlights and/or audio Page flip feature; zoom in and zoom out; thumbnail view; jump to page; and links to Word Glossary 'Email to friend' option.
Impelsys and AP plan to continue to enhance the eBook experience, push technological limits and lead the direction in which the electronic publishing industry is headed. With a partnership like this in place, publishers and other industry affiliates will be able to take advantage of production and management cost savings by working with one vendor to implement a complete online strategy and offer a more attractive eBook production solution to clients.
Impelsys also offers a self-service electronic content delivery platform called iPublishCentral. iPublishCentral allows publishers of any size to make content available for sale online and promote their brands and titles across the Web through viral marketing. With minimal to no cost, publishers can transition content online and can offer readers a high-resolution digital reading experience with viewing/previewing, buying, renting and promotional capabilities through iPublishCentral, iPublishWidget and ViewInside.
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BMJ Group names new clinical director for Evidence Centre - 28 Sep 2009 Medical information publisher The BMJ Group, UK, has announced the appointment of Dr Rubin Minhas as Clinical Director of the Group’s Evidence Centre, which was launched last year. Dr Minhas joins the Evidence Centre having spent a year as a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice at the RAND Corporation and the Southern California Evidence Based Practice Centre in Santa Monica, USA.
Dr Minhas, a GP by background, acquired his appreciation of the systems approach to healthcare delivery while working under Professor Roger Boyle and during ten years spent working as a regional advisor in the UK NHS. His interest in implementation science led to a national appointment to the NICE Technology Appraisal Committee in 2002. Dr Minhas has co-developed NICE guidelines for cardiovascular disease, and gained national and international experience of applying evidence based decision making and improving healthcare quality.
The BMJ Evidence Centre is internationally renowned for its independent, thorough and robust analysis and synthesis of clinical research. It publishes Clinical Evidence, Best Health (formerly Best Treatments), Evidence Updates and commissioned evidence reviews. Also, it provides point-of-care and reference tools to healthcare professionals.
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 DigiTool goes live at the National Library of Luxembourg - 28 Sep 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the DigiTool digital asset management solution has gone live at the National Library of Luxembourg. Using the DigiTool platform, the National Library - which also runs the Ex Libris Aleph integrated library system, MetaLib gateway and metasearch portal, and SFX OpenURL link resolver - has made the nation’s 160-year-old newspaper archive available online at www.eluxemburgensia.lu.
The archive contains over 800,000 historical news reports, analyses, articles, advertisements and pictures from 100,000 newspaper pages, including items in German, French, and Luxembourgish. The National Library of Luxembourg utilises DigiTool to manage digitised daily newspapers and make them publicly available. The National Library also plans to digitise its entire printed archive of over six million documents in the coming years.
The compliance of DigiTool with METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) and the product’s incorporation of ALTO (analysed layout and text object) technology were important factors in the National Library’s selection of this Ex Libris solution. METS and ALTO enable DigiTool to perform a full-text search and to display results at the article level and page level, with the item from the search highlighted in the display of the results.
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Latest edition of blogspeak now online - 28 Sep 2009 The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Hope Leman (A Fusion of Science 2.0, Open Science, Research 2.0 and Social Networking); Kent Anderson (A New Word: “Diffintermediation”); Kim Hannula (Blogging geoscience meetings); Michael Nielsen (There is no single future for scientific journals); and Philip Davis (Peer Review Survey 2009). A service of Knowledgespeak.com, Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of blogspeak Here
Online Information and IMS 2009 conference exhibition introduces XML Pavilion - 25 Sep 2009 Incisive Media, the UK-based organiser of the Online Information and IMS 2009 conference, has announced that the XML Pavilion, sponsored by Mark Logic, is a brand new addition to the information industry’s largest event. Online Information and IMS 2009 is scheduled from December 1-3, 2009 at Olympia Grand Hall, London, UK.
The main objective of the XML Pavilion is to provide visitors with a clear understanding of some of the leading technologies available that can help maximise the effectiveness of current production environments. This interactive feature will focus on publishing production and will address business technology and implementation issues as well as case studies and expert panels. The XML Pavilion is expected to bring together some of the leading solutions to date. Particular consideration and options will be offered to those who are just beginning to look at using XML. In addition, the pavilion will provide the necessary resources to help companies and organisations prepare for any future XML publishing projects.
The XML Pavilion has been specifically designed to deliver valuable information to a range of industry disciplines. Information management professionals, executives and publishing executives and publishing staff from commercial publishers, typographers/graphic designers and documentation production companies that are responsible for day to day publishing production will all benefit.
Exhibiting companies within the Pavilion include Antenna House, Aptara, Brandforce, DeltaXML, Doczone, eGloo Technologies, JustSystems, Mark Logic, Ovidius, Rsuite, Typefi Systems and X Window.
Consisting of an exhibition attracting over 9,000 visitors from 70 countries, a conference and a show floor seminar programme, Online Information and IMS provides an annual meeting place for the global information industry. The driving force behind this year’s event is the goal to equip information professionals with the skills and knowledge required for their organisations to succeed in the changing and challenging information world. Visitors to the event will witness the latest developments, launches and innovations first hand from more than 230 international exhibitors. The event covers 6 main sectors: Online content resources, ePublishing, Library Management Systems, Content Management, Web 2.0 Technologies and Search Solutions.
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Elsevier journal to offer Continuing Education Units for reviewers - 25 Sep 2009 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Editors of Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice (JEBDP) will begin offering continuing education units (CEUs) to its recognised experts and valued peer reviewers. JEBDP is a leading publication of information about evidence-based dental practice.
With this new policy, JEBDP becomes one of the first US dental journals, and the first publication in the burgeoning area of evidence-based dentistry, to award CEUs to reviewers. Under the new programme, reviewers will be entitled to claim up to 15 CEUs per year for their work in evaluating and developing content for JEBDP. Credits will be awarded by the Continuing Dental Education Program at the UCLA School of Dentistry.
Awarding CEUs is especially appropriate in light of the journal's unique Article Analysis and Evaluations (AAEs). The AAEs are 'mini' articles in which the reviewer actually creates authoritative analysis on topics of clinical importance, providing concise, structured summaries of new articles of interest. Reviews are accompanied by ratings of levels of evidence, commentaries, and recommendations, with an emphasis on objectivity. The AAEs are indexed in Medline by the name of the author/reviewer.
Billed as ‘The Clinical Connection to Evidence and Innovation,’ JEBDP is designed to close the gap between the best research evidence and translate it to benefit the practice of dentistry. Each quarterly issue also offers Feature Articles and Clinical Opinion pieces on key issues affecting dental practice and oral health, highlighting and evaluating the current clinical research.
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Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions unveils new version of drug pipeline database - 25 Sep 2009 Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions, Inc., a US-based provider of market data and competitive intelligence to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, has introduced a new version of its Adis R&D Insight global pipeline database. Available immediately, the enhanced product seeks to quantify probability of approval and revenue potential for thousands of drugs in development. According to the company, the new Adis R&D Insight is the first research tool to become available that combines quantitative forecasting capabilities with a comprehensive collection of research on pipeline drugs.
Adis R&D Insight is projected to utilise the intelligent forecasting of inThought, the company’s pharmaceutical research service, to assign approvability ratings and generate revenue forecasts. Every active-development drug in the database is assigned an inThought Approvability Index (IAI), which assesses the progress of a drug candidate through clinical development. An evidence-based score is assigned for specific line items relating to safety, efficacy, trial design and other factors in each phase of clinical development. InThought analysts continually update these scores based on clinical trial announcements, results, regulatory activity and other factors.
Complementing the IAI are detailed revenue models, addressing the market potential of approved drugs as well as developmental agents. Employing a proprietary model, inThought applies a consistent set of criteria across each assessment. Revenue models forecast seven years into the future and provide three years of historical data, and are developed separately for the US, Europe and Japan.
Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions developed the product in a bid to provide unfettered access to the rationale behind its analysis. It is expected that the tool will allow the customer to drill down into the source data to reveal events in the marketplace that influenced the analysis. For example, when an IAI is upgraded, a customer can link to abstracts associated with the event that led to the change.
Adis R&D Insight is intended for pharma teams responsible for competitive intelligence, business development, and partnership and licensing research — all of whom are tasked with developing their own revenue projections, market forecasts, and competitive intelligence research. Now these groups have an alternative resource to which they can compare their analysis.
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Seven BioMed Central journals accepted for coverage in AGRICOLA - 25 Sep 2009 Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that seven of its journals have been accepted for inclusion in AGRICOLA. AGRICOLA is an indexing service from the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library.
The journals are: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, BMC Ecology, BMC Plant Biology, Carbon Balance and Management, Nutrition Journal, Nutrition & Metabolism and Plant Methods. Content from these journals will appear in AGRICOLA from the start of 2010. In addition, all of these titles are included in PubMed, PubMed Central and Scopus.
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) serves as the catalogue and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century.
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SAGE announces publishing partnership with ICRS - 25 Sep 2009 Academic publisher SAGE has announced a partnership with the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS) to launch a new journal – Cartilage. SAGE will publish the journal on behalf of the ICRS beginning in January 2010. The journal will be edited by UCLA Professor of Medicine, Dr. Roy D. Altman.
A quarterly publication, the peer-reviewed journal will focus on both clinical and basic scientific perspectives in cartilage research and repair. It will seek to be a forum for the exchange of ideas for the many types of researchers and clinicians involved in cartilage biology and repair. The journal will publish full-length original manuscripts on all types of cartilage, including: articular, tracheal/bronchial, nasal, auricular, and intervertebral disc fibrocartilage, as well as on clinical and laboratory research. Review articles, editorials, and letters will also be included.
Cartilage aims to bridge a gap in the literature by focusing on both clinical and basic science perspectives of the diverse disciplines in cartilage research and repair. It is the official journal of the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS).
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Beta version of SPIE eBooks made available in SPIE Digital Library - 25 Sep 2009 The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Inc. (SPIE) has announced that SPIE Press Field Guides, handbooks, monographs and tutorial texts are now available in the SPIE Digital Library with the recent beta launch of SPIE eBooks. By year-end 2010 SPIE eBooks will include about 140 titles covering key topics in optics, photonics and imaging.
SPIE eBooks are fully integrated into the SPIE Digital Library, enabling researchers and students to cross-search and access journals, proceedings and books on a single site. Institutions may purchase collections of SPIE eBooks. As with technical articles, eBook chapters are also available for individual purchase. Selected chapters are open-access in order to enable free exploration of the site. New titles will be available online ahead of print.
The SPIE Digital Library is hosted on the American Institute of Physics’ Scitation3 platform. It is claimed to comprise the world's largest resource for optics and photonics research with nearly 285,000 journal and proceedings articles from 1990 to the present. Topics span the broad interdisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging, with applications spanning biomedicine, communications, energy, aerospace, defense, manufacturing, computing, entertainment and electronics.
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ICIS Pricing launches weekly Asia Polyethylene (PE) Pipe Grade Resin Price Report - 25 Sep 2009 Pricing and market intelligence service provider ICIS Pricing, US, part of Reed Business Information, has launched a new weekly price report for Asian polyethylene (PE) pipe grade resins covering China and Southeast Asia. The new report follows the successful launch of a similar report, Polyethylene Pipe Grade Middle East/South Asia report, last month.
The Asia PE pipe grade price report adds much-needed clarity for industry players to underpin commercial contracts and to support key business decisions in this volatile market. The report covers two industry-grade high density polyethylene (HDPE)-based pipe resins: natural and black compounded PE80 & PE100 grades. Price assessments include CFR China and CFR Southeast Asia, as well as insightful news and commentary. In addition, the new report brings exclusive transparency to the PE pipe grade resin market with up-to-date market data and vital price assessments in Asia.
ICIS pricing provides chemical and oil markets with reports published daily, weekly or monthly on more than 120 products. The pricing information is gathered by teams of experienced reporters in London, Houston, Singapore and Shanghai to offer complete, authoritative and up-to-the minute independent market information available.
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Dear Subscriber - 25 Sep 2009 YBP Library Services and ebrary to co-sponsor CIBER’s library survey - 24 Sep 2009 Baker & Taylor’s YBP Library Services has announced that it is co-sponsoring CIBER’s library survey with ebrary, a US-based digital content products and technologies provider. Based on input from more than 170 librarians worldwide, the CIBER survey will examine electronic resources challenges, trends and best practices in tough economic times.
The survey questionnaire will be available to all libraries later this month. Results will be announced at the Charleston Conference, scheduled from November 4-7 in Charleston, SC.
CIBER has published a number of studies regarding digital information use, ejournal use and impact, cultural heritage online, impact of electronic course texts, information-seeking behavior of business students, and the like. Its expertise lies in mapping, monitoring and evaluating of digital information systems, platforms, services, roll-outs and environments, using robust, big picture and innovative research methods, especially deep log analysis.
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Jones & Bartlett unveils enhanced version of CDX Automotive - 24 Sep 2009 Educational publisher Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. (J&B), US, has announced a new release of CDX Automotive, an advanced learning solution for automotive training. The enhanced version is claimed to offer more media–rich content, features and functionality to further increase student engagement and improve learning outcomes.
Dean Fossella, Executive VP and Chief Technology Officer of J&B, has overseen strategic development of the CDX Automotive platform since the company’s acquisition of CDX Global in March. The platform seeks to improve learning outcomes in automotive education by increasing student engagement and performance through personalised learning.
CDX Automotive is projected to offer a turnkey solution to high schools, vocational schools, community colleges and skill centres wishing to join the e-learning initiative recently announced by the National Automotive Technicians Education Foundations (NATEF). The initiative allows programmes to qualify for a reduction in curriculum hour requirements through the implementation of e-learning completed outside of regular programme hours. CDX Automotive now includes easy-to-use learning performance management tools to help schools manage and report student performance data that meet NATEF’s ASE e-learning certification requirements.
CDX Automotive is the first in a series of CDX products in development aimed at addressing demand for proven, effective e-learning solutions in a wide range of fields, in particular those requiring certification or professional licensure.
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Cindy Peternelj-Taylor to be new editor of Journal of Forensic Nursing - 24 Sep 2009 The International Association of Forensic Nurses has announced Cindy Peternelj-Taylor as the new editor of its official journal, Journal of Forensic Nursing (JFN), effective January 1, 2010.
Taylor is a past Associate Editor of JFN and has served as an editorial board member and manuscript reviewer for numerous scholarly publications. She is currently a Full Professor with the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan. Much of her career has focused on professional role development for students and nurses who practice with vulnerable populations in forensic mental health and correctional settings.
Published by STM publisher Wiley-Blackwell, the Journal of Forensic Nursing reaches more than 3,500 health professionals, faculty, and students in over 20 countries. The journal features peer-reviewed, thought-provoking articles representing research by some of the world's leading forensic nurses.
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Dear Subscriber - 24 Sep 2009 Bowker and AAP to host webinar on consumer book buying patterns - 24 Sep 2009 Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) will host a webinar for industry professionals on consumer book buying. Set for October 22, ‘The Big Picture’ is projected as a sneak peek into book buying trends for the first half of 2009.
Publishers, booksellers and other industry professionals will have the opportunity to understand consumer book buying behaviour, according to the organisers. The webinar is powered by Bowker’s PubTrack Consumer, which provides data analysis on consumer book buying behaviour. Moving beyond basic book sales data, the webinar is projected to provide insight into who today’s book buyers are, what they buy, where they buy books and what motivates their purchase.
Highlights of the webinar will include the most recent book consumer population demographics (who’s buying what); types of books being purchased (fiction, nonfiction, mystery, romance, juvenile, young adult); where readers buy their books; how they learn about new titles; the impact of the Internet; interest in e-books and audiobooks.Attendees will be able to follow the audio presentation and ask questions in real time. Kelly Gallagher, Vice President, Publisher Services, Bowker, will present, with the virtual audience Q&A facilitated by AAP Vice President Tina Jordan.
The October 22 event is the first of what is expected to be a series of webinars the two organisations will host in the coming months. A second webinar, ‘Emerging Book Trends for 2009,’ is scheduled for December 9, 2009. That programme will provide an overview of the changing climate of book buying in 2009. This includes e-book buzz, online social networks and marketing, changing channels, and buying versus library patronage. The programme will also highlight the connection between what publishers publish and what consumers buy.
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Brazilian Academic Consortia joins Portico to support digital preservation - 24 Sep 2009 Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that more than 150 academic libraries in Brazil have begun participation in the Portico archive. These libraries joined Portico as part of a digital preservation initiative directed by the 'Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento do Pessoal de Nivel Superior' (CAPES).
CAPES is a governmental foundation affiliated to the Ministry of Education in Brazil, that supports and sponsors research initiatives and the scientific development of Brazilian researchers and professors. The Brazilian libraries join more than 460 libraries from 13 countries in supporting Portico and digital preservation.
CAPES assists the Brazilian Ministry of Education in the formulation of national policies related to post-graduate study. Through CAPES, which was founded in 1951, the Brazilian government provides access to quality information for professionals, professors and students at member universities and research institutes.
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Outpatient Surgery Center of Jonesboro selects WK Health’s ProVation MD software for procedure documentation and coding - 24 Sep 2009 Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Outpatient Surgery Center of Jonesboro has selected its ProVation MD software for procedure documentation and coding. The software will be used to document Gastroenterological (GI) procedures at the facility. Outpatient Surgery Center of Jonesboro is a full service, multi-specialty Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) dedicated to providing outpatient services in a comfortable atmosphere and efficient manner.
ProVation MD software, available in a full range of medical specialties, replaces dictation and transcription and allows physicians to efficiently document procedures at the point of care. ProVation software produces complete, coding-ready and image-enhanced procedure notes that result in greater efficiency, increased profitability and clinician satisfaction.
Created by clinicians, ProVation MD software produces complete procedure documentation that results in greater efficiency, streamlined workflow and clinician satisfaction. The software interfaces seamlessly with patient demographic and other healthcare IT systems, allows images taken during the procedure to be integrated directly into the report, and has market-leading query/reporting capabilities for quality or other initiatives.
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Symyx Technologies releases Symyx Notebook 6.3 - 24 Sep 2009 Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced the release of Symyx Notebook 6.3, a major version upgrade that significantly enhances the Symyx vision of an enterprise electronic lab notebook (ELN) to support many scientific disciplines. Previous versions of Symyx Notebook had focused on biology, analytical and synthetic chemistry – version 6.3 rounds out the offering by adding parallel chemistry support for synthetic and medicinal chemistry.
Symyx Notebook enables researchers to manage experimental workflows, capture intellectual property and share knowledge to gain scientific insight – all while optimising time and resources in the laboratory. Symyx Notebook 6.3 improves support for synthetic chemists, analytical chemists and biologists in regulated and nonregulated environments by offering many new capabilities including support for parallel synthesis, library enumeration, searching of enumerated reactions and solid phase organic synthesis.
Key features of version 6.3 include support for in-depth chemical representation combined with highly configurable library enumeration capabilities; expansion of exact and substructure searching, which permits the retrieval of fractional salts and hydrates; enablement of solid phase organic synthesis through the implementation of loading units and calculations; and new ‘QuickData’ capabilities that speed information capture with enhanced procedure editing and standard phrase lists for procedural text.
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Scope e-Knowledge Center names Elizabeth Donohue as Associate VP-Content Consulting - 23 Sep 2009 Content Enhancement and Knowledge Services provider Scope e-Knowledge Center, a Quatrro Group Company, has announced the appointment of Elizabeth Donohue as Associate Vice President-Content Consulting, effective immediately. In her new position, Elizabeth (Betsy) will report to Frank Stumpf, Board Advisor to Scope e-Knowledge Center, and be responsible for building commercial relationships with publishers in North America.
Betsy has more than 11 years experience in business development and marketing. Before joining Scope, she was Director, North American Publisher Relations with Swets, the global subscription services company. In that position, she was responsible for developing and executing commercial strategies with publisher partners. Prior to this, she was Marketing Director at Dorland Healthcare Information. She has also worked with Springer, ECRI and Mealey Publications.
Scope is a leading provider of world-class content enhancement and knowledge services to global information providers. The company has developed a unique and hybrid ‘assisted automated’ approach that blends the use of appropriate technology with domain expertise for scalable, high value output with a rapid turnaround. Scope’s teams of medical professionals, scientists, engineers, MBA’s, CPA equivalents, business editors and other subject matter experts are capable of adding value to content in many disciplines, while adhering to guidelines, processes and procedures established by its clients.
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Nature Publishing Group set to launch Nature Communications – an online-only journal with OA option - 23 Sep 2009 Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the launch of a new journal - Nature Communications. The journal will publish high-quality peer-reviewed research across the biological, chemical and physical sciences. It will be the first online-only Nature-branded journal. The journal will begin accepting submissions in October 2009, with the first issue published online in April 2010. Dr.Lesley Anson has been appointed Chief Editor.
Nature Communications will publish research papers in all areas of the biological, chemical and physical sciences, encouraging papers that provide a multidisciplinary approach. According to the publisher, the research will be of the highest quality, without necessarily having the scientific reach of papers published in Nature and the Nature research journals, and as such will represent advances of significant interest to specialists within each field. A team of independent editors, supported by an external editorial advisory panel, will make rapid and fair publication decisions based on peer review, with all the rigour expected of a Nature-branded journal.
To ensure Nature Communications responds to changes in journal publishing, authors will be able to publish their work either via the traditional subscription route, or as open access through payment of an article processing charge (APC). Authors who choose the open-access option will be able to license their work under a Creative Commons license, including the option to allow derivative works. Authors who do not choose the open-access option will still enjoy all of the benefits of NPG's self-archiving policy and manuscript deposition service.
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OCLC and ABES in deal to add French Sudoc records to WorldCat - 23 Sep 2009 Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and ABES (l’Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur), France, have signed an agreement to load 9 million records from Système Universitaire de documentation (Sudoc), the cataloguing system for French academic libraries managed by ABES, into WorldCat. WorldCat claims to be the largest global online resource for finding information in libraries. As a result of this agreement, collections of 110 participating Sudoc institutions that represent over 1,000 libraries will be visible to searchers worldwide through WorldCat.org.
The addition of Sudoc records in WorldCat, planned for the first quarter of 2010, will increase visibility of collections from the French academic world.
The agreement to load Sudoc records into WorldCat follows that of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), which signed a similar agreement in June of this year. Since 2002, ABES has been cataloguing with Sudoc, which is based on OCLC's Central Bibliographic System (CBS). Loading CBS records into WorldCat makes possible the option for real-time updates from CBS into WorldCat, via SRU update, which is currently being used effectively for the Dutch union catalogue and the union catalogue of Australia.
With Sudoc records in the WorldCat database, these libraries will be able to use other useful and efficient tools such as WorldCat Collection Analysis, which allows libraries to compare their collections with those of peer libraries.
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Elsevier to host Third Global Vaccine Congress in Singapore in October - 23 Sep 2009 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its journal Vaccine will organise the 3rd Vaccine Global Congress from October 4-6, 2009, in Singapore. For those who cannot attend the congress, Elsevier is organising Vaccine Virtual. The interactive event will allow people to sample - from their desk – the content and networking opportunities provided by the congress and exhibition.
Last year, the event was held in Boston. The meeting in Singapore will seek to serve as an international interface between academics in research and development, regulatory and governmental agencies, charities, and health and industry professionals.
The congress is organised in collaboration with the International Society for Vaccines. Both GSK and Novartis will present their latest data on H1N1 flu vaccine research. To supplement a number of invited keynote speakers, multiple oral and poster presentations have been selected to cover all facets of vaccinology, including: human vaccines for infectious and non-infectious diseases, veterinary vaccines, adjuvants, drug delivery, production, safety and regulatory aspects.
In addition, Elsevier is offering a taste of the 3rd Vaccine Global Congress by video broadcasting live and on-demand keynote presentations and related Q&A, scheduled on October 5 and 7, respectively. Virtual delegates will be able to attend presentations from top international speakers, submit questions in real time, network and chat with their online peers, and navigate the show via a virtual fully interactive platform. Registration for the Vaccine Virtual Congress is free for the first 250 registrants.
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Thomson Reuters launches forecasting tool for pharma industry - 23 Sep 2009 Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has launched a new forecast tool for the pharma industry, called Thomson Pharma Partnering Forecast. The product seeks to combine competitive intelligence and sales forecast data to enable quick and credible assessment of the sales potential of pipeline and marketed drugs. The product will be demonstrated at two upcoming conferences: Pharma Forecasting Excellence USA in Boston on October 8 and 9, and Bio Europe 2009 in Vienna from November 2-4.
Thomson Pharma Partnering Forecast contains a consensus of analyst forecasts for strategic drugs across the major pharma therapy areas, and combines these forecasts with downloadable, patient-based revenue models for drugs in over 100 indications. The models include transparent assumptions on incidence and prevalence, eligible numbers of patients, estimated timing of approval, pricing, and market share within the indication.
The data is linked with various resources that offer data on the industry pipeline, allowing customers to assess the competitive position of a drug and quickly forecast its sales potential. The product combines data captured from Thomson Reuters’ own drug monitoring team, including assessments of multiple analyst forecasts. It then integrates this data with drug assessments, patient-based forecasts and approval timelines licensed from the company’s recently announced partnership with BioMedTracker.
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Credo Reference adds Encyclopaedias from Springer - 23 Sep 2009 Online reference library Credo Reference, US, recently signed an agreement to integrate four key Springer Science+Business Media encyclopaedias into the Credo General Reference collection. With a focus on science, technology, medicine, architecture, business and transport, Springer Science+Business Media publishes books, journals and internet products for the global academic and professional markets.
The full-text, aggregated, high-quality content of four important Springer reference works will now be integrated into Credo Reference’s award-winning platform. These include the Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology; the Encyclopedia of Public Choice; the Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender; and the Encyclopedia of Women's Health.
Credo Reference has been offering completely customisable reference collections for libraries since 1999. Credo’s General Reference and Specialist Reference services combine extensive content from multiple publishers with unique cross-referencing technology, effortlessly delivering authoritative answers to millions of researchers worldwide.
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Toby Green to succeed Robert Parker as next Chair of ALPSP - 23 Sep 2009 Toby Green, Head of Publishing at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has been elected as the next Chair of the Association of Learning and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP). Toby will be the first ALPSP Chair based outside of the UK.
Toby joined OECD in 1998 and became Head of Publishing in 2007. He was instrumental in the launch of SourceOECD in 2000 and since then OECD has continued to carve out a reputation as one of the most innovative and forwarding-thinking publishers in the non-profit sector. He began his publishing career in 1982 and has previously worked for Academic Press, Elsevier and Pergamon Press.
Toby served as a Member of the Council of ALPSP from 2002-2006 and will re-join Council as Chair on January 1, 2010. He succeeds Robert Parker (Royal Society of Chemistry) who will continue to serve on Council as Past-Chair.
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Dear Subscriber - 23 Sep 2009  PMC Canada to make Canadian health research accessible to all - 22 Sep 2009
Canadians will soon have access to the latest health research findings with the launch of PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada). Building on the successful PubMed Central archive developed by the US National Library of Medicine, PMC Canada will help accelerate the creation of knowledge and facilitate its use by providing a freely accessible, Canada-based archive of peer-reviewed health science literature.
PMC Canada is the result of a three-way partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, and the US National Library of Medicine. It will be part of the larger PubMed Central International network, which currently includes the US PubMed Central and UK PubMed Central. The long term goal is to create a global network of digital archives that facilitates the sharing of locally deposited content with others in the network. This international network will help researchers across the globe build upon one another's work and speed up the discovery process to address important health challenges.
PMC Canada will support CIHR's Policy on Access to Research Outputs, which requires that all peer-reviewed publications resulting from CIHR funding be freely accessible online within six months of publication. This archive will provide CIHR researchers an outlet to deposit their peer-reviewed publications and allow them to reach a much broader audience, which has the potential to increase the value and impact of their research.
The first phase of PMC Canada will be launched during Open Access Week - October 19-23, 2009. It will include a manuscript submission system to enable CIHR researchers to deposit articles that are accepted for publication by peer-reviewed journals.
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NPG outlines publishing strategy for 2010 in annual letter to customers - 22 Sep 2009 Steven Inchcoombe, the Managing Director of scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), has outlined publishing endeavour and other initiatives for 2010 in an annual letter to customers. NPG has announced plans to continue innovation in web offerings, publishing processes and business models, with a focus on functionality and value.
The letter mentions NPG’s pricing strategy for 2010. Site licence list prices for NPG-owned journals will increase by an average of 3.5 percent. Also during the year, the publisher will launch a new online only peer-reviewed journal, Nature Communications. The journal will seek to offer rapid publication for research across the biological, chemical and physical sciences. Starting April 2010, Nature Communications will have a mixed business model and authors can choose either traditional subscription access or open access through payment of an article processing charge (APC) for their research papers. NPG plans to introduce several open access journals in its academic and society journal programme in 2010. The company recently announced the January 2010 launch of its first online open access journal, Cell Death & Disease.
According to the letter, NPG’s advances in innovative publishing functionality provided in Nature Chemistry will be applied to Nature Chemical Biology, Nature and other group journals. Also, NPG’s physical science portfolio will expand to include society publishing, as it will publish Polymer Journal with the Society of Polymer Science, Japan.
During 2010, NPG expects to continue to build its consumer media division with Scientific American, which became part of the company in 2009.
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Presentations from American Chemical Society’s 238th National Meeting now online - 22 Sep 2009 The American Chemical Society (ACS) has made recordings of more than 150 presentations from its 238th National Meeting, available online without charge. With this move the Society seeks to expand access to scientific sessions at its national meetings.
The sessions include about 150 cutting-edge research papers on topics ranging from sustainable energy to moving new discoveries out of the laboratory and into the marketplace. The recordings consist of the scientists’ oral presentations and PowerPoint slides. Almost 14,000 scientists and others attended the meeting, held in Washington, D.C. from August 16-20. The sessions are available online at http://www.softconference.com/ACSchem/am.asp.
ACS made 38 presentations from its 237th National Meeting available online after the meeting concluded in March in Salt Lake City. Plans call for online posting of about 300 presentations from ACS’s 240th National Meeting scheduled for March 21-25, 2010 in San Francisco.
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EBSCO partners with key consortia to make renewal of e-journal packages simpler - 22 Sep 2009 EBSCO and a number of library consortia are working together to help consortia members reduce the cost and burden of processing e-journal package renewals by using EBSCO’s RapidRenewal service, available via EBSCONET. EBSCO's RapidRenewal, an online tool for managing the renewal of licensed e-journal collections, is designed to ease the administrative burdens associated with renewing e-journal packages. By partnering with consortia, EBSCO is able to provide an e-package renewal tool to more customers for managing contract data at a consortial level.
Library consortia have been able to negotiate large content deals successfully with major publishers and offer membership terms and conditions that are unique to their respective consortium. RapidRenewal, developed in cooperation with many of the major STM publishers, enables libraries to process these licensed deals in a more efficient manner by incorporating consortial contract terms and limitations, title detail and custom pricing into a single online interface.
The RapidRenewal interface provides a single portal for processing the renewal of multiple packages while eliminating the cumbersome exchange of spreadsheets, e-mail and other communication. The library can modify and approve package title lists as the system enforces the terms of the consortial contract and ensures that renewals are handled correctly each year. Authority levels allow renewals to be approved at the consortial or library level, depending on the preferred process of the consortium or publisher.
As a result of using RapidRenewal, libraries within a consortium can take advantage of the negotiated terms and conditions, easily renew their collections according to their contract terms, and have the title-by-title analysis that is often needed in today’s shrinking budget environment.
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Berkeley Electronic Press joins Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certification programme - 22 Sep 2009 E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that academic publisher Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) has joined its KnowledgeWorks Certified Program. As a KnowledgeWorks Certified content provider, bepress will supply data for 51 journals to more than 360 libraries, guaranteeing mutual subscribers the most current and highest quality metadata.
Supplying KnowledgeWorks Certified data to Serials Solutions means libraries will have easier and more extensive access to bepress’ content. Bepress is the 35th KnowledgeWorks Certified content provider. According to the publisher, its journals are rigorously edited and peer-reviewed by some of the world’s best-known and most widely-published scholars.
The KnowledgeWorks Certification program helps Serials Solutions develop the best possible relationships with content providers, enabling Serials Solutions to maintain the highest quality bibliographic metadata for journals and eBooks in KnowledgeWorks. Greater collaboration with content providers also helps librarians to more quickly resolve issues if they occur.
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NextBio raises $8 million in Series C funding led by Newbury Ventures - 22 Sep 2009 NextBio, a US-based provider of life sciences software, has announced that it has closed an $8 million Series C round of financing led by existing investor Newbury Ventures. Various other private investors participated in the round. Nextbio offers a platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover and share knowledge from public and proprietary data.
The company will use the capital to expand sales reach and channels, global operations, and in technology. Since its launch, NextBio's research platform has been adopted for use by researchers at many of the world's top commercial and academic institutions, according to the company. It recently partnered with STM publisher Elsevier to offer NextBio to subscribers of ScienceDirect.
NextBio's platform is claimed to seamlessly combine powerful tools with correlated content to transform information into knowledge, providing the foundation for new scientific discoveries. It is delivered as a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution, resulting in quick deployment and rapid return on investment.
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Dear Subscriber - 22 Sep 2009 Researchers’ perceptions of research assessment affect publishing channel: report - 21 Sep 2009 The Research Information Network (RIN) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) have published the findings of a new report titled ‘Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings’. The report shows how researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about the channels they should use to communicate their research findings. It highlights the need for more consistent and effective guidance from funders and higher educational institutions. If they wish to encourage researchers to disseminate their work through a variety of channels as well as in high-status journals, they must give stronger and more positive messages about how those channels will be valued when it comes to assessing researchers’ performance, says the report.
The rise in investment in research over the past 10 years has been accompanied by an increasing emphasis on measuring, assessing and evaluating research, its outputs and impact, it has been observed. This report investigates how researchers’ perceptions of how they are being assessed affects their decisions on when, where and how to publish and disseminate their findings. It seeks to demonstrate the significant variations between researchers in different disciplines not only in the dissemination channels they use, but also in their patterns of collaboration (and how they acknowledge the contributions that members of a team have made); and in how they decide cite the work of others.
All these patterns of behaviour are changing, in part as a result of technological developments, it is observed. There are signs that the citation practices, for instance, of younger researchers are different from those of their more senior colleagues. The readiness with which outputs in the form of scholarly journal articles can be assessed and measured is seen to have underpinned their increasing dominance over all other forms of publication and dissemination. Researchers’ perceptions and understanding of the messages they receive from funders and from universities may often be mistaken, but they influence what researchers publish and how, and they give rise to real concerns. Many researchers see a damaging tension between their desire to communicate via channels which enable them to reach and influence their intended audiences – often beyond academia – as rapidly as possible, and the pressures to publish in high-status journals. Changes in assessment procedures, whether via the Research Excellence Framework (REF) or from other sources, will change researchers’ behaviour further. Many are already considering citing their colleagues’ work more often.
The report provides evidence for funders and policy makers, as well as for the research community, in the continuing consultations about the future mechanisms for assessing research performance. It also shows that it is necessary for this to be an ongoing process to keep monitoring the changes in technology and research practices. It is important that changes in those mechanisms are based on a detailed understanding of both the behaviours and the motivations of researchers across the full range of disciplines and subjects.
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Elsevier and the Thai Research Fund partner to form Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board - 21 Sep 2009 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a collaboration with the Thai Research Fund (TRF), to establish a Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB). Scopus claims to be the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.
As research becomes more interdisciplinary and global, researchers face the challenge of finding relevant information for their research. Scopus has committed itself to helping researchers to overcome problems they face in their daily work. As part of this commitment, Scopus has established a content strategy that puts the research community’s voice at its core by developing the independent Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB). The partnership with TRF is part of this ongoing mission.
To honor this collaboration, Elsevier and the Thai-Journal Citation Index (TCI) Center recently organised a two-day symposium. Close to 200 representatives from the academic, corporate and government sectors attended the symposium in Bangkok. Of the attendees surveyed, the majority saw an immediate benefit to the introduction of a local CSAB, including improved quality of existing Thai journals as well as the potential for greater visibility of Thai research. Almost all attendees (94%) approved of the approach of the local CSAB, providing additional validation to the selections.
The TRF appointed Professor Dr. Narongrit Sombatsompop, Head of Thai-Journal Citation Index (TCI) Centre to implement and oversee the evaluation and selection process of locally published journals. During the symposium, attendees were exposed to Scopus’ vision regarding a local CSAB and explore how main CSAB processes can then be mirrored in Thailand. The symposium was designed to be educational in nature to the CSAB’s systematic and impartial journal selection process. For journals selected, full text of articles can be in the local language while all titles and abstracts have to be in English.
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SAGE launches new journal - Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology - 21 Sep 2009 Academic publisher SAGE has launched a new journal - Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology. The journal publishes latest research and reviews on systemic cancer treatments including chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, biological therapy and immunotherapy. Charles Coombes will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the new journal.
Publishing bi-monthly, Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology (http://tam.sagepub.com) is the sixth title in SAGE’s Therapeutic Advances (TA) series, following successful launches in cardiology, respiratory disease, neurology, gastroenterology and urology. All the titles, including this one, will be freely available on the SAGE Journals Online platform for the first three years of publication.
The journal is currently seeking submissions for reviews, perspectives and original research articles.
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EBSCO Publishing announces availability of new Food Science Source database via EBSCOhost - 21 Sep 2009 Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced the release of Food Science Source for those looking for food-related scientific information. Designed for food industry experts and information professionals of all types, this collection provides full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas integral to the food industry.
Food Science Source encompasses sectors such as food science, food service, processing, packaging and shipping. It offers cover-to-cover content from hundreds of publications, including journals, monographs, magazines, and trade publications all dealing directly with food industry-related issues. Researchers will also have access to more than 1,000 key food industry and market reports as well as tens of thousands of additional highly-relevant articles, benchmarks, and best practices selected from thousands of trade and industry publications.
The release of this new resource marks another addition to the collection of scientific and technical databases offered via EBSCOhost. FSTA- Food Science and Technology Abstracts provides over three quarters of a million records with retrospective coverage from 1969 to the present. Academic Search R&D is a full-text database, geared specifically toward addressing the needs of research and development. Food Science Source further complements these resources and provides users with extensive coverage on one platform.
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PLoS ONE wins 2009 ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation - 21 Sep 2009 Open access (OA) publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS) has announced that its peer-reviewed online publication PLoS ONE has been presented with the 2009 award for Publishing Innovation during the 2009 annual awards of the Association of Learning and Professional Society Publishing. This award is made annually in recognition of a truly innovative approach to any aspect of publication.
Applications were judged on their originality and innovative qualities, together with their utility, benefit to their community and long term prospects. Any area of innovation is eligible.
The innovations that PLoS ONE has implemented have ranged from their innovative editorial criteria. All submissions are judged based purely on whether they deserve to join the scientific literature, and not on some subjective measure of 'impact' or 'quality; their innovative features and functionality (such as Commenting, Note Making and Rating functionalities); their innovative outreach to the community (via, for example, their blog, twitter stream, facebook page, FriendFeed presence and employment of an online discussion expert); and their continuing innovation (for example, their article-level metrics programme).
PLoS ONE is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. The journal features reports of original research from all disciplines within science and medicine. By not excluding papers on the basis of subject area, PLoS ONE facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers whether within or between disciplines.
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Hundreds of encyclopedias added to Credo’s reference platform - 21 Sep 2009 Online reference library Credo Reference, UK, has announced that just after a year since it released its new platform, it has substantially expanded the academic content available on the platform. These are available at no additional cost for Credo Unlimited customers.
Some of the highlights of the augmentation of Credo’s content in the past year are: 173 new subject encyclopedias and dictionaries; 10 new publishers; and coverage of 15 core undergraduate subjects. Currently more that 150 Credo titles are found in Choice’s list of ‘must-have’ titles for US colleges and universities (Resources for College Libraries). More than 25 existing titles were updated at no expense to customers.
Credo Reference has been offering completely customisable reference collections for libraries since 1999. Its General Reference and Specialist Reference services seek to combine content from multiple publishers with cross-referencing technology, delivering authoritative answers to millions of researchers worldwide.
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KMWorld names Luxid Trend-Setting Product of 2009 - 21 Sep 2009 Text Analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has announced that its Information Intelligence solution Luxid has captured its second major industry award of 2009. KMWorld Magazine, premier publisher of the content, document and knowledge management markets, has designated TEMIS’s flagship software solution Luxid the prestigious award ‘Trend-Setting Product’ of 2009.
The KMWorld award is granted to software and systems innovations that have expanded the reach and effectiveness of information management. KMWorld’s Trend-Setting Products awards began in 2003. This year, more than 800 products were assessed by the judging panel which consists of KMWorld expert editors, analysts, system integrators, vendors themselves, line-of-business managers and end-users.
Luxid is a collaborative corporate solution for analyzing and discovering strategic Information. This scalable platform gives immediate access to non obvious information and delivers industry-specific knowledge from internal and external data sources. It brings long-awaited answers to the challenge of information discovery and knowledge extraction from unstructured data, which represent 80% of all data available in the Enterprise for decision-making processes.
In June, Luxid as awarded with the most innovative Software award at the iExpo/KM Forum 2009 in Paris. This award is organized by GFII (Association for Professionals of the Information Industry) and recognises leading software vendor of the information industry for its innovative capabilities and user interfaces.
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Latest edition of blogspeak now online - 21 Sep 2009 The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Kent Anderson (Google Makes Nice with News Publishers); Philip Davis (Cornell Open-Access Publication Fund); and John Blossom (An Adless Recovery? The Rise of Social Media as a Major Marketing Investment). A service of Knowledgespeak.com, Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of blogspeak Here
Advanstar launches digital vertical search tool for pharma professionals - 18 Sep 2009 Media company Advanstar Communications, Inc., US, has announced that it has launched FindPharma.com, a digital vertical search destination that will enable pharma professionals to find and filter relevant industry information, high quality suppliers and career assistance.
Powered by global media brands - Pharmaceutical Executive, BioPharm International, Pharmaceutical Technology and Applied Clinical Trials – the new web product is projected to accelerate knowledge acquisition. The aim is to provide access to mission-critical content for more effective decision making in the rapidly changing pharmaceutical sector.
FindPharma.com consists of three separate elements – Search, Suppliers and Careers. Search seeks to provide relevant answers quickly with a selective search engine featuring 2,500 sites hand-picked for reliability. Suppliers allow users to build their own source list across 5,600 industry categories of product and service providers in development, clinical trials and manufacturing. Careers provide access to a career search engine, with practical career resources that include industry salary surveys and a resume building tool.
The interactive suite of digital products aimed at helping to navigate the pharma universe can be found directly at www.FindPharma.com or via one of the four branded websites currently run and maintained by Advanstar's Pharma Science business unit - www.PharmTech.com, www.BioPharmInternational.com, www.PharmExec.com and http://appliedclinicaltrialsonline.com.
Each of these sites is aligned with a print magazine and a group of associated products. Together, these brands are seen to have more than 100 years of collective experience. They seek to provide perspective on news, trends and the dynamics of the pharma industry across the functional areas of development, clinical trials, biopharm manufacturing, marketing, sales and strategy.
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 Elsevier’s Science &Technology division China and Science News Bi-Weekly launch ‘Scopus Young Scientist’ award - 18 Sep 2009
Elsevier’s Science &Technology division China and Science News Bi-Weekly have announced the launch of the ‘Scopus Young Scientist’ award, locally referred to as the Scopus’ Future Star of Science award. The award is designed to promote the cultivation and growth of the next generation of scientists in China. Registration for the award has already started and will end October 20, 2009.
This is the second collaboration between the Science News Bi-Weekly and Elsevier S&T China. The two parties successfully held an ‘Evaluating Academic Talent Flow Summit’ in June 2009. Four individual outstanding young scientists will be awarded a gold medal in the fields of nanosciences, information sciences, environmental sciences and biological sciences. There will also be silver medals for runner-ups and others will be recognised as excellent candidates.
The Scopus Young Scientist Awards are part of Elsevier’s global initiative to promote science at an early age, particularly in developing nations. The plan is to supplement the system that currently lacks awards for young scientists in China.
The Scopus' Future Star of Science award will honour scientists under the age of 40, by first evaluating their papers for innovative research, as indexed in Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and index database. The short-listed candidates will then be submitted to a selection committee consisting of leading scientists such as Shi Yigong of Tsinghua University, Gao Fu, Wan Lijun and Chen Tongbin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Qian Depei of Beihang.
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Springer expands use of CCC’s Rightslink - 18 Sep 2009 Copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, has announced that STM publisher Springer, Germany, has expanded its implementation of Rightslink on the Springer online platform, springerlink.com. Springer has been using Rightslink successfully since 2007 to instantly license customer requests to reuse content from its 2,000 journals.
Springer processes thousands of permission requests each month for its journals. By automating this process with Rightslink, obtaining permissions for use of digital content and reprints from the Springer website will be easier than before. A more intuitive design and new, easy-to-use, drop down help menus will also help speed up the process.
Rightslink has also enabled several new options that were previously unavailable to end users, including the ability for users to pay with a variety of currencies, and the ability to ship reprints to multiple locations.
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McGraw-Hill Medical wins 2009 BMA Medical Book of the Year award - 18 Sep 2009 Print and digital resources provider McGraw-Hill Medical, part of McGraw-Hill Professional, US, won a number of honours and awards at the British Medical Association's Medical Book Competition awards ceremony, including two category first prize awards and the contest's top prize, Medical Book of the Year.
In total, eleven McGraw-Hill Medical titles were 'highly commended' for the 2009 competition - the most honours received by the publisher in a single year to date. All books receiving this distinction were automatically shortlisted for first prize in their respective categories. Of the seven books shortlisted in the Surgery category, three were published by McGraw-Hill Medical with Robotic Surgery taking first prize before winning the competition's overall award.
The BMA Medical Book competition has been conducted annually since 1994 by the
BMA's Board of Science and administered by the BMA Library. It aims to encourage and reward excellence in medical publishing and patient information. All entries are reviewed by physicians and educators who are asked to consider accuracy, currency, originality, book production quality, and whether the title meets the needs of its audience. This year the competition received 684 book submissions.
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 World Scientific and Stevens Institute of Technology announce publishing partnership - 18 Sep 2009
Scientific publisher World Scientific Publishing Company (WSPC), Singapore, has announced that it has been selected by Stevens Institute of Technology as publisher for the Systems Research Forum journal and the Systems Research Book Series.
The journal will investigate systems via case studies and original research papers and will be published annually while the book series will highlight significant research in the areas of systems thinking, systems engineering and enterprise systems. Leading authors from around the world will be sought to contribute articles from diverse domains, including aerospace, defense, physical and cyber infrastructure, medical and health care, maritime and border, security, energy, environmental, transportation, finance and economy, information, education and training.
Dr. Dinesh Verma, Dean of the School of Systems and Enterprises at the Stevens Institute of Technology, and Brian Sauser will serve as the Book Series Editor and Editor-in-Chief for the journal respectively.
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Dear Subscriber - 18 Sep 2009 Public Library of Science releases online usage data for journal articles - 18 Sep 2009 Open access (OA) publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS) has announced the release of an expanded set of article-level metrics on its scientific and medical journal articles (about 14,000 articles across seven titles). The article-level metrics programme was launched in March 2009, and with the latest addition of online usage data, PLoS seeks to transparently provide a set of information on every published article. Such information is expected to be of value to researchers, readers, funders, administrators and anyone interested in the evaluation of scientific research.
The PLoS article metrics include the new online usage data (HTML page views, PDF downloads and XML downloads) that are compliant with the industry standard, COUNTER 3.0 http://www.projectcounter.org/code_practice.html. Also included are citation counts, comments, ratings, social bookmarks and blog coverage. Usage data will be updated daily and currently include more than four years of statistics from all seven peer-reviewed PLoS journals. With this growing and detailed set of metrics on every article, PLoS aims to demonstrate that individual articles can be judged on their own merits rather than on the basis of the journal in which they are published. In order to place the new usage data in context, PLoS is providing summary tables to allow users to see how an article compares with various average measures.
PLoS is still in the early stages of the article-level metrics programme, but claims that this is the first attempt by a major publisher to place such a broad range of data on each article. It hopes that the provision of these data will encourage other publishers to make such data available, which will lead ultimately to broader improvements in scholarly communication and research assessment.
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Emerald and EFMD partner to launch Research Link - 18 Sep 2009 Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced a partnership with the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) to launch Research Link, a management learning and development tool specifically for EFMD members.
Research Link is projected to be of value to EFMD and the international network as it delivers the latest ideas from the world’s top companies and business schools via articles, case studies and thought-leader insight. Practising managers will now be able to access quality-validated content which can be applied with confidence in the workplace to help users deal with day-to-day business issues.
With more than 700 member organisations in 80 countries the EFMD provides an opportunity for information, research, networking and debate on management development.
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CMPMedica and EBSCO partner to provide Victorian health care workers with access to MIMS Online - 17 Sep 2009 Print and electronic subscription information provider EBSCO has been selected by the Department of Health, Victoria as the supplier of choice for the next phase of the Clinicians Health Channel. The Clinicians Health Channel is a resource for employees of the Department of Health, Victoria which gives them online access to an array of world class clinical information.
As part of the deal, EBSCO will supply, for the first time, MIMS Online, a leading source of online medicines information published by CMPMedica, to Australian health care professionals. The contract also gives access to MIMS DrugAlert Online, an evidence based drug interaction checker designed to assist with the quality use of medicines and MIMS for PDA.
EBSCO offers access, authentication and management solutions to a variety of customer organisations including individual libraries, library consortia, and state-wide information services. In addition to managing the purchase and delivery of content, EBSCO’s solutions encompass content platforms, searching and linking technologies, resource discovery services, access and identity management and other electronic resource management services.
The company is currently the major supplier of clinical health content and related technologies to Victorian health libraries, as well as most state and/or national consortia in Australia and New Zealand.
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Symyx joins SAFE-BioPharma to safe-guard critical scientific data - 17 Sep 2009 Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced that it has joined SAFE-BioPharma Association, a non-profit association that created and manages the SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and signature standard for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. The membership enables Symyx to implement the SAFE-BioPharma digital signature standard for records signing to safe-guard critical scientific data. The membership also enables Symyx to participate in SAFE-BioPharma working groups to further secure the electronic laboratory environment.
Symyx customers can utilise SAFE-BioPharma digital signature within Symyx Notebook, an enterprise electronic lab notebook (ELN). Symyx Notebook supports multiple scientific disciplines including biology, chemistry, formulations development, and analytical laboratories where protecting intellectual property, avoiding patent interference, and satisfying regulatory agency submissions are critical activities. It enables scientists to plan, execute and analyse experiments across the spectrum of research, development and analytical QC labs while providing data and document workflow transparency to life sciences and chemicals businesses.
Symyx Notebook experimental entries provide key documentation for the intellectual properties of Symyx’s pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers, establishing the date of record for invention which is vital to patent claims and patent defense litigation. The Symyx Notebook platform also enables scientists to connect with their existing laboratory instrumentation and software tools to gain compliance protection without redeveloping operational business practices.
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Five US universities form compact to support open access publication - 17 Sep 2009 US-based higher learning institutions - Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley – have announced their joint commitment to a compact for open access (OA) publication. A full account of the motivation for the compact can be found in the article ‘Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing’ published in the OA journal Public Library of Science Biology.
OA scholarly journals have arisen as an alternative to traditional publications that are founded on subscription and/or licensing fees. The economic downturn is observed to underscore the significance of OA publications. With library resources strained by budget cuts, subscription and licensing fees for journals have come under increasing scrutiny, and alternative means for providing access to vital intellectual content are identified. OA journals are seen to provide a natural alternative.
Since these journals do not charge subscription or other access fees, they must cover their operating expenses through other sources. These include subventions, in-kind support, or, in a sizeable minority of cases, processing fees paid by or on behalf of authors for submission to or publication in the journal. While academic research institutions support traditional journals by paying their subscription fees, no analogous means of support has existed to underwrite the growing roster of fee-based open-access journals.
The latest compact supports equity of the business models. This is done by committing each university to the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication fees for OA journal articles written by its faculty for which other institutions would not be expected to provide funds. Additional universities are encouraged to visit the compact website and sign on.
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ACS Publications announces compliance with Release 3 of COUNTER - 17 Sep 2009 The American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Division has announced full compliance with Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases. COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) is a global initiative serving librarians, publishers and their intermediaries by instituting standards for reporting online usage statistics in a consistent way across multiple publishers and platforms. ACS Publications has achieved full compliance with the third release of COUNTER, the deadline of which was August 31, 2009.
The highlights of this updated release include incorporating new protocols designed to mitigate the potentially inflationary effects on usage statistics from federated/automated search engines, Internet robots, and crawlers; providing tools that facilitate the consolidation, management, and analysis of COUNTER usage statistics; improving the COUNTER usage reporting for library consortia; and improving the usage report for journal archive content.
The implementation of the SUSHI (Standardised Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) protocol will further enable easy access to COUNTER compliant statistics by facilitating the transmission of COUNTER usage reports into local electronic resource management systems (ERMs).
In addition, ACS Publications is fully compliant with Release 1 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works. All titles in the newly digitised ACS Symposium Series and Advances in Chemistry series are now available online with fully COUNTER compliant usage reporting.
This online book collection includes all titles from the ACS Symposium Series and Advances in Chemistry book series. The content addition is fully integrated with the ACS Journals website, and expected to allow for a powerful multi-product search experience, spanning across 800,000 original research articles and nearly 20,000 book chapters. Advanced features include related content linking, personalisation tools like saved searches and favourite articles, and dynamic reaction and substance links to SciFinder.
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Growth in the European STM information market remains resilient despite the current economic crisis, says report - 17 Sep 2009 Market research and data services provider Research and Markets, Ireland, has announced the addition of the ‘The European Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) Information Market’ report to their offering. According to the report, growth in the European STM information market remains resilient despite the current economic and financial problems. The European STM information market growth in 2008 was 4.5 percent, the weakest year-on-year growth since 2001.
According to the report, the healthcare sector continued to be a main driver of sales with clinical decision support solutions, particularly those at the point of care, leading sales growth. Sales to the pharmaceutical industry remained weak, following declines in drug launches and reductions in promotional spending. The report further states that while the academic market continues to face budget cuts, interest in open access increased substantially in the last 12 months driven by demands for mandatory open access publishing by research funding bodies, more investment in open access publishing models by leading publishers, and increased understanding of open access among STM authors. Also, significant rise in E-books sales was a major contributor to sales growth in the sector. After a number of years on the margins, the supply of, and demand for, e-books witnessed a significant rise in the last 12 month.
It was observed that declines in advertising spending had a limited impact on most STM information segments. The majority of revenues came from subscription services which are seen to be less affected by cyclical trends and downturns.
Further, the report notes that Web 2.0 developments are likely to play an increasing role in the exchange and use of STM information. Interest in STM networking and collaborative sites is beginning to grow. A survey of academic STM researchers noted that relatively few were using these sites at the start of 2009 but a majority are expecting to turn to these sites in the next year or so.
In addition, the report provides an analysis of market trends and issues (with data from 2005-2008), market forecasts for 2009 and 2010, profiles of key STM information providers, a review of emerging STM networking sites, and results of surveys of UK STM researchers and information professionals undertaken in November/December 2008.
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Scopus, TWOWS and TWAS announce Young Women Researcher Awards - 17 Sep 2009 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a joint development agreement between its flagship product SCOPUS, an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, and the Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS) and the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). The deal is to develop the Young Women Researcher Awards, the first of its kind in the region.
The need to nurture women scientists as they move through their career has been recognised by academic institutions as well as public and private organisations, alike. The Young Women Researcher Awards will be presented in four major fields of research - Life Sciences, Medicine, Engineering and Technology and Agricultural Sciences. It will be open to most countries in Asia (except Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan) with the award ceremony commencing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from November 8-10, 2009. The event will be held in conjunction with a two-day symposium in Kuala Lumpur. The first day will be a presentation of the finalists for the TWAS-TWOWS-SCOPUS Young Researchers Awards in the four categories. The second day will engage these women and other participants, including other young researchers and eminent women scientists, policy makers and administrators in a discussion on issues and challenges pertaining to the development of women researchers in science during their career.
Short-listed candidates from each award category will be invited to present their work at the Regional Young Women Scientists Symposium 09, ‘Bridging the Science Gender Gap in Developing Countries’ in Kuala Lumpur. Twelve panellists comprised of prominent scientists in the region will select the winners among them.
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Hazelden and Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center announce publishing partnership - 17 Sep 2009 Hazelden, a nonprofit organisation, and the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC) have announced a partnership to develop a variety of resources for the mental health and addiction treatment industries. These resources, including curricula, books, multimedia tools, and staff-development trainings, will be published under a new ‘Dartmouth PRC–Hazelden’ imprint.
This collaboration between Hazelden and the Dartmouth PRC is the result of the success of a project between Hazelden and Dartmouth Medical School - the 2008 publication of the Co-occurring Disorders Program, the first comprehensive, evidence-based programme for the treatment of non-severe co-occurring disorders. This programme has been adopted by several organisations, including the U.S. Navy and the Adult Mental Health Division of the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
The new joint venture between Hazelden and the Dartmouth PRC will launch with the fall 2009 release of A Guide for Living with PTSD: Perspectives for Professionals and Their Clients, a video on the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Future products will compose a continuum of evidence-based resources for working with those who have a mental health disorder or co-occurring addiction and mental health disorders, including an updated, expanded, and serviceable version of the Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment program, which will feature a new relapse prevention component. These products and trainings will be designed to serve a broad range of professionals, including counselors, social workers, nurses and psychiatrists who work in mental health agencies, the military, treatment centers, corrections departments, state governments, and industry associations.
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Dear Subscriber - 17 Sep 2009 OCLC convenes council to study and develop new WorldCat Record Use Policy - 16 Sep 2009 Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that its board of trustees has convened a Record Use Policy Council. The council will draw upon the fundamental values of the OCLC cooperative and engage with libraries worldwide to develop the next generation of the WorldCat Record Use Policy. The intent is to recommend a new policy that is aligned with the present and future information landscape. The new policy will replace the Guidelines for Use and Transfer of OCLC Derived Records that was developed in 1987.
The formation of this council was one of the recommendations contained in the final report of the OCLC Review Board on the Principles of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship. This report was formed in January 2009 to represent the membership and inform OCLC on best practices for sharing library data.
The Policy Council is also charged with carrying out the other recommendations contained in the final report, including development of a policy to enable expanding the role and value of WorldCat in the broad information ecosystem. The members of the OCLC Record Use Policy Council have agreed to undertake a significant body of work to canvass the current and future information needs of the library community and provide a broad and inclusive set of perspectives and experiences.
Over the next seven months, the council will review key values and principles underlying the current guidelines developed in 1987; develop success criteria for a revised policy or guidelines; conduct and disseminate the results of an environmental scan of data-sharing policies; evaluate findings from the environmental scan and draft a new policy and recommendations for implementation; and develop a formal, transparent and well-managed process for vetting the new draft policy with the OCLC Regional Councils and the OCLC Global Council as the representatives of the OCLC membership.
The Record Use Policy Council will begin its work soon. The group will define an approach and timeline to carry out this charge. The council will submit a new draft policy and recommendations for implementation to the Chair of the OCLC board of trustees and OCLC President and CEO, for review and approval by the trustees in midyear 2010.
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Elsevier launches new web platform on mental health research - 16 Sep 2009 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new web platform - Elsevier Mental Health. Elsevier Mental Health is a website bringing together information and resources from all of Elsevier’s products and services in clinical psychology, psychiatry and other areas of mental health. It links to online books, journals top cited and top downloaded articles, alerting services, conferences, topical discussion forums and various RSS feeds powered by ScienceDirect and Scopus.
The need to provide mental health resources is becoming increasingly apparent as governments around the world are investing heavily in mental health service provisions, and encouraging many more evidence-based treatment methodologies to be available. The field continues to expand in importance.
Elsevier Mental Health is intended to be a one-stop information resource for researchers, scientists and practitioners working in the field of mental health. As well as containing essential information about Elsevier’s offerings in the field of mental health, individuals with subscriptions to ScienceDirect will be able to access full journal articles.
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Nature Publishing Group set to launch new open access journal - Cell Death & Disease - 16 Sep 2009 Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the Associazione Differenziamento e Morte Cellulare (ADMC) have announced a new open access journal, Cell Death & Disease. Scheduled for launch in January 2010, the journal will explore the area of cell death from a translational medicine perspective.
Cell Death & Disease is devoted to the biology of cell death in the pathogenesis of human diseases or relevant animal models. The journal aims to publish papers that present novel observations in the field of cell death, with pathophysiological or medical implications. Particular emphasis will be given to clinical, translational and applied research through its five sections: Experimental Medicine, Cancer, Immunity, Internal Medicine and Neuroscience. The journal is currently accepting submissions at www.nature.com/cddis.
An online only journal, Cell Death & Disease will make all content freely available to all researchers worldwide. The editorial team is led by three editors, Gerry Melino, Guido Kroemer and Pierluigi Nicotera, and will include a highly respected international editorial board.
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Clinica launches new online service for global medtech industry - 16 Sep 2009 Clinica World Medical Technology News, published by Informa Business Information, has launched Clinica.co.uk – an online service specially designed to meet the complex news, information and analysis needs of the medtech industry.
Clinica.co.uk serves as a single point of access for all Clinica content enabling users to benefit from multimedia reporting, a 24-hour news cycle, a global editorial team and additional analysis and comment from the Clinica team of medtech analysts. The new site offers the learnings and views of Clinica's leading medtech analysts in a news analysis and commentary service which includes sections on Expert View, Market Insight, Medtech Ventures and Patent Watch - all designed to meet the specific needs of the medical technology industry. In addition, Clinica.co.uk offers a premium new service, Ask the Analyst, which allows users to submit questions to the publication's team of industry experts and to address questions arising from Clinica's news and information coverage.
Clinica.co.uk will be available as part of the Clinica subscription. Customers will continue to benefit from the printed publication with the added benefit of the immediacy, depth and tailored intelligence of the web service and Clinica's team of medtech experts.
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EBSCO’s Nursing Reference Center and CINAHL Databases offer CE modules for nurses - 16 Sep 2009 Database aggregator EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that its products Nursing Reference Center (NRC) and CINAHL Databases offer continuing education (CE) modules for nurses. EBSCO’s Cinahl Information Systems is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurse Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses who use online resources from EBSCO, including those seeking specialty certification, can earn contact hours for relicensure from these resources. The CE modules from Cinahl Information Systems are found in the suite of CINAHL databases available on EBSCOhost such as CINAHL Plus with Full Text and in NRC.
The CE modules from Cinahl are seen to allow nurses using NRC, a nursing point-of-care resource, to earn contact hours — combining their continuing education with evidence-based clinical practice.
CINAHL and NRC continuing education modules are interactive, allowing nurses to satisfy CE requirements online. They contain the latest topics on patient care and drug administration. Each CE module consists of course material, an interactive review and a competency test with a certificate of successful completion.
The modules in EBSCOhost nursing and allied health resources are claimed to be rigorously reviewed by objective standards. NRC has a growing collection of CE modules, and it is expected that the more than 300 modules in NRC will double within the year. The CINAHL databases contain more than 100 continuing education modules.
Cinahl Information Systems is also approved as a provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training.
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Emerald Management Plus at the British Academy of Management Conference 2009 - 16 Sep 2009 Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced that it is exhibiting at the ongoing British Academy of Management Conference. Delegates are invited to visit stand 18 to discover Emerald Management Plus, the company’s new flagship collection of scholarly journals.
Emerald Management Plus users will gain access to 212 journals from a range of 22 management disciplines. In addition to this extensive content, subscribers will receive automatic access to all newly launched and acquired titles as soon as they are available online. Also on display is a range of books and book series in the field of business and management, and two eBook series collections that complement Emerald’s business and management portfolio.
Emerald has been committed to expanding its portfolio through the acquisition and the launch of quality titles, identifying gaps and emerging areas in the research field. Throughout 2010 Emerald will publish a range of 13 new titles reflecting emerging management research trends in all parts of the world; including its first management journal from Africa.
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Dear Subscriber - 16 Sep 2009 Thomson Reuters launches Century Of Social Sciences - 16 Sep 2009 Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the launch of Century of Social Sciences, a superior and unique set of backfiles covering research in the social sciences back to 1900. Century of Social Sciences expands the coverage of Web of Science, available on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform - the world’s largest citation environment of scholarly literature.
Culled from over 300 prestigious journals, information dating back to 1900 is now available to researchers, faculty, authors, and students. They can now track research trends, authors, and articles over the entire century and identify seminal studies that form the basis for today’s research.
These social science journals represent a collection of the oldest and most prestigious sources in their respective fields. Full bibliographic and cited reference data is available in disciplines such as communication, education, geography, history, law, political science, and public health. Century of Social Sciences also features extensive coverage of high-impact psychology journals, including key titles associated with Sigmund Freud.
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Peer Review Congress sees further evidence of positive bias - 15 Sep 2009 Evidence of publication bias favouring positive results, both in which studies are reported in journals and in how they are treated by peer reviewers, emerged at the recently concluded 6th Peer Review Congress in Vancouver.
Dr. Seth Leopold, orthopedic surgeon at the University of Washington School of Medicine, described his group's study, where two variations of a fabricated, CONSORT-conforming randomised controlled trial (RCT) were made. These were sent to 209 peer reviewers for Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. Peer reviewers were randomised to receive each version of the paper, which were identical apart from the direction of the finding. It was found that the paper reporting a positive result received more positive reviews for methodological rigour, was scrutinised less carefully for errors, and was more likely to receive recommendations to publish.
A further analysis was made of published vs. unpublished Food and Drug Administration (FDA) data on antidepressant trial outcomes, which now includes ‘published’ trials if they appear in review articles. It was found that negative trial results were bundled with positive ones in reviews, rather than being fully published. Of eight trials reviewed by the FDA in the study period, half of which were deemed positive and half negative, outcomes were reported positively 103 times compared to eight times negatively.
Two other abstracts presented on September 11 investigated the time to publication of manuscripts rejected by major biomedical journals. A common finding was that a quarter of manuscripts in the samples remain apparently unpublished, even after a number of years.
These findings - although not yet published in peer-reviewed journals - seem
to add to the evidence of publication bias favouring positive results. The
findings are also seen to suggest that certain 'gaps' in research studies
and wasted research efforts continue to take place.
The Peer Review Congress - held every four years - aims to improve the quality and credibility of biomedical peer review and publication and to help advance the efficiency, effectiveness, and equitability of the dissemination of biomedical information throughout the world.
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ERFF adds research database to WorldWideScience Alliance science gateway - 15 Sep 2009 The British Library has announced that the UK has made its first major independent contribution of data to the WorldWideScience Alliance project (www.worldwidescience.org) with the upload of the Environment Research Funders' Forum (ERFF) Research Database. The database holds information on some 20,000 publicly funded environmental research projects and programmes that have been funded by ERFF's member organisations since 2005.
Although data is being continually added to the ERFF's collections, anyone using WorldWideScience.org will be able to access information through the federated search function.
WorldWideScience, developed and maintained by the US Department of Energy, counts the British Library as one of its alliance members. The global science gateway seeks to offer researchers the ability to search over 50 national databases simultaneously, providing anyone interested in science with free access to quality, authoritative information on the latest in scientific research. Chaired by Richard Boulderstone, Director of E-Strategy and Information Systems at the British Library, the project currently makes available over 357 million pages of scientific information covering energy, medicine, agriculture and the environment. It continues to seek new partners to expand the resource and help stimulate revolutionary advances in science.
The ERFF aims to maximise the coherence and effectiveness of environmental research in the UK by bringing together 19 public sector funders (government departments, agencies and the devolved administrations). It seeks to provide long term strategic direction for environmental research in the UK and the underpinning evidence on which this depends.
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CrossRef collaborates with archiving organisations and publishers for continued access to archives of ceased publications - 15 Sep 2009 Publisher linking services provider CrossRef, US, has announced a collaboration with archiving organisations and publishers to ensure that several journals that have ceased publication remain linkable with the CrossRef DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) originally assigned to the articles. The titles include Auto/Biography and Graft from SAGE and Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention from Oxford University Press (OUP). All three titles are now available through both CLOCKSS and Portico.
An archive 'trigger event' occurs when a published journal or other content
is no longer available from the publisher. Trigger events can occur for a
variety of reasons. Both SAGE and OUP have had agreements in place with
archive organisations for several years. According to CrossRef, the
discontinuation of journals published by these publishers mark for the first
time that such agreements have been implemented for real-world cases.
Access to triggered content is available to the more than 600 Portico participants at http://www.portico.org/news/trigger.html.
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Novant Health rolls out MEDai’s patient-specific early warning system to nine hospitals in three states - 15 Sep 2009 Health information provider MEDai, Inc., US, part of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that Novant Health, a not-for-profit integrated group of hospitals and physician practices, will roll out MEDai’s Pinpoint Review to its nine hospitals in North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina.
Pinpoint Review is a patient-specific early-warning system for hospitals that generates predictions for acute-care patients, focusing on the likelihood of a patient developing a complication, like decubitus ulcers, or at risk for being readmitted. Such events increase hospital mortality rates, boost healthcare costs, compromise patient care quality and safety, and result in lower government reimbursement to hospitals.
Pinpoint Review provides real-time predictions utilising MEDai’s superior modeling methodology to alert care providers to patients at risk for developing several of the conditions that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) no longer reimburse, called ‘never or non reimbursable events,’ which can cost hospitals millions of dollars. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations consistently encourages hospitals to deliver a higher quality of care and fewer medical errors.
Pinpoint Review is the latest addition to a complete suite of MEDai-developed tools, which includes Pinpoint Quality and Pinpoint Compliance. Pinpoint Quality provides robust retrospective analysis that helps hospitals and physicians quickly identify areas for improvement, making it possible for clinicians to improve performance, outcomes, patient satisfaction, efficiency and cost savings. Pinpoint Compliance provides a simple, time-saving Web-based solution for organisations to collect, report and submit data to the Joint Commission and other regulatory agencies allowing hospitals to participate in initiatives related to accreditation, quality improvement and compliance. Pinpoint Review expands the suite by adding the element of real-time decision support, including the application of alerts and predictive models to patient data while patients are still in the hospital.
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NextDocs and Thomson Reuters announce partnership - 15 Sep 2009 NextDocs Corporation has announced enhancements to their partnership with Thomson Reuters, a source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. NextDocs provides Microsoft SharePoint-based document and quality management solutions for life sciences companies.
Together, the companies have developed and demonstrated effective integration between the NextDocs Document and Quality Management System and the Thomson Reuters Liquent Regulatory software platform, providing a comprehensive solution for managing regulatory content from authoring to publishing and submission. In addition, the two companies also announced that NextDocs will support the Liquent SmartScribe set of document templates from Thomson Reuters.
The integration between the NextDocs Document and Quality Management System and the Liquent InSight Platform allows the two systems to work from a common set of SharePoint-based documents. With SharePoint as a common repository, NextDocs system and the Liquent Regulatory Software are able to seamlessly interact with one another.
As part of the enhanced partnership, NextDocs will be offering Liquent SmartScribe from Thomson Reuters. These templates enable users to create common technical documents quickly, efficiently and in a constant standard. The user friendly templates help to ensure all documents comply with format requirements.
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PennWell launches new web portal focusing on electronics and electronics manufacturing - 15 Sep 2009 B2B publisher PennWell Corporation, US, has announced that its Electronics Media Group is launching a new website, www.ElectroIQ.com, focusing on electronics and electronics manufacturing. The new site provides a gateway to the content of five different PennWell brands - Solid State Technology, Photovoltaics World, Advanced Packaging, Small Times and SMT. Each brand powers one of the five sections of the new site - semiconductors, photovoltaics, packaging, nanotech/MEMS, and surface mount technology.
Users can easily navigate through these branded sections and associated topic centers to find a wide variety of content, including technical articles, industry news, product updates, videos, white papers, webcasts, blogs, podcasts, upcoming events, magazine archives, and more. The site also features search and advanced search functionality that allows users to find relevant content across all five brands.
With topically aligned content, ElectroIQ delivers information readers need to make decisions about selecting new technologies, products and suppliers. The site runs on PennWell's Platform 7, a next generation content management system and web platform, consisting of a modular set of functionalities, as well as best practice processes. Other recently deployed portal sites within PennWell include OptoIQ.com, DentistryIQ.com and PennEnergy.com.
Coinciding with the new launch, PennWell's Electronics Media Group has restructured and expanded. Debra Vogler, based in San Jose, will handle technical feature content and submissions for four semiconductor brands: Solid State Technology, Advanced Packaging, Photovoltaics World and Small Times. Steve Smith has taken on Managing Editor responsibilities. Heading up SMT editorial efforts is Meredith Courtemanche, who continues to handle editorial submissions and inquiries, for SMT feature articles, technical content, and news.
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Dear Subscriber - 15 Sep 2009 National approach to technology in education shows benefits, says JISC study - 14 Sep 2009 A nationally coordinated approach to technology in education allows learners and researchers to adopt new technologies faster, according to an international study by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Led by JISC in the UK and SURF in the Netherlands, coordinated national initiatives and central funding structure in the two countries have sought to bring the benefits of Web 2.0 to their higher education and research communities.
The study looked at activities and developments in e-learning and e-infrastructure in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the US and the UK. The researchers examined the geographic, economic and cultural factors which shape the way these programmes are developing across the world.
The conclusions come as part of an observational study which provides a snapshot of e-learning and e-infrastructure activities that support the higher education and research communities in 10 countries. Various reviews also identify the UK as among the leaders in areas such as e-infrastructure, digitisation and data repositories along with countries such as Germany and the US. The introduction of the UK Access Management Federation in 2008 also means that the UK has a nationally-coordinated identity and access management system in place across the education and research sectors.
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Forensic Science Policy & Management journal launches discussion forum - 14 Sep 2009 Forensic Science Policy & Management, published by Taylor & Francis, has launched a discussion forum that seeks to provide readers and the entire forensic science community the opportunity to discuss current issues in forensic science. The Forensic Science Forum moderator Barry Fisher will launch discussions based on articles published in the journal as well as other timely topics.
Along with Forensic Science Policy & Management, the Forensic Science Forum aims to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, quality, and operations of forensic science laboratories as well as the education and training of forensic scientists. In addition, it will explore the government and institutional policies that affect the practice and management of forensic science.
Forensic Science Policy & Management does not focus on the science of forensic science, but rather on how scientists, managers, and policy makers practice and use that science. The journal seeks to provide a vital forum for exploring both current practice in forensic science and methods for improving and advancing the field so that it can meet rapidly increasing public needs and expectations. Authors and readers include scientists, practitioners, laboratory supervisors/directors, and policymakers in academia, government, and forensic science laboratories around the globe.
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Elsevier joins InChI Trust as a Charter Member - 14 Sep 2009 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has become one of the Charter Members of the InChI Trust. Originally developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChI) is a non-proprietary, international standard to represent chemical structures as an alpha-numeric character string generated by an algorithm.
InChIs are machine readable and therefore allow chemistry and chemical structures to be much more navigable and discoverable. The InChI Trust is a not-for-profit organisation established to develop and improve on the current InChI standard and thereby further enable the interlinking of chemistry and chemical structures on the web.
Recognising that scientists need to navigate through a range of information sources, Elsevier has already implemented InChI Keys within Reaxys, the leading workflow solution for synthetic chemists. The use of InChIs also ties into the broader Elsevier strategy of Content Innovation in which research articles are enriched to provide more depth, value, and context to our users. For the chemistry journals available on ScienceDirect, the incorporation of InChI keys will improve the discoverability and organisation of compounds within the chemistry scientific literature, facilitating and accelerating connectivity to other research tools and content sources.
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American Society for Microbiology to launch new open access journal ‘mBio’ - 14 Sep 2009 The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced the mid-2010 launch of mBio, a new open access online journal designed to make microbiology research broadly accessible. The focus of the journal will be on rapid publication of research spanning the entire spectrum of microbiology and related fields. Arturo Casadevall, Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, will serve its Editor-in-Chief.
Every published research article in mBio will be accompanied by a brief non-technical summary written by the author in language that conveys the importance of the work to non-specialists in that area of research.
The new term ‘ASM Access’ has been coined to reference mBio’s particular definition of open access, which otherwise varies among scientific publications. Full text of mBio articles and supplemental materials will be accessible by the public immediately upon publication. Full text of the articles also will be deposited in PubMed Central with access immediately upon publication. mBio authors will be asked to sign a licensing agreement granting publishing rights to ASM and permitting unrestricted non-commercial reuse by others.
The new journal will be linked with the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), the leadership arm of the ASM. The relationship is expected to allow mBio to draw on the expertise of the Academy’s members to serve in an editorial capacity. ASM already brings out nine specialised primary research journals. Like these, mBio will also be hosted on the HighWire platform at www.journals.asm.org.
A formal ‘Call for Papers’ will be issued in December 2009, and the journal launch is planned for May 2010.
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Utah State University selects SirsiDynix Symphony integrated library system - 14 Sep 2009 Library technology solutions provider SirsiDynix US, has announced that Utah State University Library has successfully installed and begun operations using the SirsiDynix Symphony Integrated Library System (ILS) in the Merrill-Cazier Library. The solution is complemented by a host of SirsiDynix tools, including SirsiDynix e-Library and the SirsiDynix Web Reporter business intelligence tool. USU upgraded to Symphony after using SirsiDynix Horizon ILS for over 12 years. USU joins over 1,400 academic institutions that have chosen SirsiDynix solutions for their library technology needs, including almost 300 using SirsiDynix’s pioneering Symphony ILS, unveiled in late 2007.
Symphony’s open architecture design allowed USU to seamlessly install a third-party material handling system supporting an extensive remote storage facility during the implementation. The technology upgrade completes the University’s library improvement project, providing the USU community improved, robust access to over 1.5 million volumes in the 305 thousand square foot Merrill-Cazier Library.
Symphony incorporates open, industry-standard technologies, offering libraries an expansive list of features and capabilities. These include an open n-tier architecture, software-as-a-service (SaaS) options, powerful search and discovery solutions, comprehensive integrated library management and productivity solutions, Java-based staff clients for all modules, fully documented application programming interfaces (APIs) that support unparalleled customisability and integration capabilities, Unicode support, advanced business intelligence and reporting tools, support for API, SIP2 and NCIP and embedded and full Oracle database support.
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Deep Web Technologies names Andy Alsop as VP Business Development - 14 Sep 2009 Federated search services provider Deep Web Technologies, US, has announced the appointment of Andy Alsop as Vice President of Business Development. Alsop joins Deep Web Technologies with 20 years of experience in information technology.
In his new position, Alsop will drive the adoption of Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator through strategic partnerships with companies that want to embrace the power of federated search. Prior to this, he served as CEO of Packet Analytics Corporation, a venture-backed Los Alamos National Laboratory spinout that focused on network forensic search of high-volume network data. His expertise fuses tactical mastery, technological proficiency, operating know-how and an ability to develop strong corporate relationships to help drive the growth of young technology companies.
Deep Web Technologies creates custom, sophisticated federated search solutions for clients who demand precise, accurate results. The tool of choice when needing to access the deep web, federated search performs real-time, parallel searches of multiple information sources, merging the results into one page. Serving Fortune 500 companies, a number of leading federal government organizations, and a variety of other customers and partners, Deep Web Technologies has built a reputation as the ‘researcher’s choice’ for its advanced, agile information discovery tools.
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Latest edition of blogspeak now online - 14 Sep 2009 The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are John Blossom (It Depends on What "Semantic" Is: NetBase And Natural Language Processing Hit Hiccups with HealthBase); Kent Anderson (E-books: Tasting Blood in the Water); Margaret Somerville (Ethical pitfalls in academic publishing); and David Crotty (New Technologies and the Need for Standards). A service of Knowledgespeak.com, Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of blogspeak Here
Ghostwriting in medical journals is highly prevalent, says JAMA study - 11 Sep 2009 Editors at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) have released a new study on the prevalence of ghostwriting. The move follows recent reports that scientific research has been contaminated by ghost writers funded by drug companies.
According to the study, six of the top medical journals published a significant number of ghostwritten articles in 2008. The authors of 630 articles took an online questionnaire designed by the researchers. Of this, 7.8 percent admitted contributions to their articles by people whose work should have qualified them to be named as authors on the papers but who were not listed.
Responding authors reported a 10.9 percent rate of ghostwriting in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), the highest rate among the journals. An NEJM representative has questioned the study’s methodology while informing that the publication is currently tightening its ghostwriting policies. The study also reported a ghostwriting rate of 7.9 percent in JAMA and 4.9 percent in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
It was found that ghost authors were most prevalent in research articles, as against opinion pieces like reviews or editorials. The new study, yet to be peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal, was made public at an international meeting of journal editors in Vancouver.
Ghostwriting refers to medical writers who, sponsored by a drug or medical device manufacturer, make major research or writing contributions to articles that are then published under the names of academic authors.
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Elsevier launches new journal on environmental sustainability - 11 Sep 2009 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the October 2009 launch of a new journal, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Professor Rik Leemans from Wageningen University and Professor Anand Patwardhan from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay will serve as Editors-in-Chief. More than forty internationally-recognised experts will serve on the Editorial Board.
Available on ScienceDirect from September 2009, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability aims to address all the scientific, economic, social, technological and institutional aspects related to the challenge of environmental sustainability by focusing on integration across academic disciplines and insights with implications for societal practices and processes. The journal was developed by the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) to ensure that specialists keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in the interdisciplinary research area of environmental change and sustainability. It is divided into six major sections - Climate Systems, Human settlements and habitat, Energy systems, Terrestrials systems, Carbon and Nitrogen cycles, and Aquatic systems. Reviewed once a year, each section aims to cover the latest advances and trends on the environmental dimensions of sustainability and provides the views of invited experts on recent literature, with particular emphasis on articles published in the past two-three years. Access to the first two issues will be complimentary for first three months.
The ESSP is a science partnership of the four international global environmental change research programmes – an international programme of biodiversity science (DIVERSITAS), International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Change (IHDP), and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) - for the integrated study of the Earth system, the ways that it is changing, and the implications for global and regional sustainability.
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Cambridge University Press and FiledBy partner to provide websites for academic and professional authors - 11 Sep 2009 Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced a partnership with FiledBy to provide over 100 Cambridge authors with websites on the FiledBy marketing platform. Cambridge is one of the world's largest university publishers with a programme that encompasses virtually every academic discipline, including science, technology & medicine, humanities, social sciences, reference and general interest books, journals and electronic products.
The companies started working together before the FiledBy platform launched in the spring of 2009. A pilot programme was designed to register 50 Cambridge authors on FiledBy and provide them with powerful premium web tools. Given the success of the pilot program, Cambridge elected to expand with an additional 65 author sites in August. Since FiledBy websites are pre-assembled and all published authors and their books are represented, the sites are easy for an author to claim and enhance with photo, biography, videos, documents, podcasts and links.
FiledBy is an online directory of author sites providing web tools, e-commerce and community-building solutions for published book authors and contributors - co-authors, illustrators, photographers, artists, translators and editors. FiledBy provides authors and readers with social tools to connect with each other and includes more than 3 million pre-assembled author and contributor websites and 8 million book pages that can be discovered through a single database.
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 Research and Markets adds Scholarly Communication for Librarians report to their offering - 11 Sep 2009
Market research and data services provider Research and Markets, Ireland, has announced the addition of Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new report ‘Scholarly Communication for Librarians’ to their offering.
The Scholarly Communication for Librarians report explains complex concepts in a clear, concise manner. It is designed to quickly bring the reader up to speed on scholarly communications. Written by a well-known international expert on scholarly communications and open access, this report covers the current landscape of scholarly communications and publishing and potential futures, outlining key aspects of transition to best possible futures for libraries and librarians.
Research and Markets provides the latest data on international and regional markets, key industries, the top companies, new products and the latest trends. The company holds thousands of major research publications from most of the leading publishers, consultants and analysts. Earlier this month, the company announced the addition of the ‘The Future of the Academic Journal’ report to their offering. The report contains contributions from leading international figures from universities and publishers. It looks at a fast moving and vital area for academics and publishers.
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EBSCO makes evidence-based flu resources freely available online - 11 Sep 2009 Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that it is making the latest evidence-based flu-related information available for free on the web. The site (www.ebscohost.com/flu) will provide evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed and Nursing Reference Center, EBSCO’s clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from the Patient Education Reference Center.
The information provided under the ‘For Physicians’ and ‘For Nurses’ sections are expected to consolidate key evidence from multiple sources along with the latest evidence-based content. These are projected to help healthcare providers stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses.
The ‘For Patients’ section includes current, easy-to-understand articles written for non-medical professionals. The site adds patient education information in 17 languages including: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese. It is expected that the information will allow hospitals to have resources to provide to their diverse local communities. Also, people can obtain access the latest treatment and condition information about the pandemic H1N1 and seasonal influenza.
Medical institutions, organisations, universities, schools and public libraries can add links to the EBSCO influenza portal at their own flu resources pages and websites.
In April, EBSCO Publishing announced that it was the first clinical information provider to make the clinical summaries on the pandemic H1N1 virus available for free. The www.ebscohost.com/flu site pulls together the information collected about the H1N1 outbreak and other strains of the flu in a bid to ensure key medical evidence is easy to find going into the 2009-10 flu season.
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Five new publishers join ebrary’s Half-Off Sale programme - 11 Sep 2009 Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that five new publishers have joined ebrary's Half-Off Sale, adding over 1,800 eligible titles to the industry's biggest cost savings programme of the year. The most recent publishers to make backlist titles available through ebrary at 50 percent off list price through December 15, 2009, are ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, Informa Healthcare, IOS Press, John Benjamins, and University of British Columbia Press. To date 35 publishers have signed up to participate in ebrary’s new programme.
More than 51,800 titles are now available through ebrary's first-of-its-kind sale from publishers such as Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Cambridge University Press, Wiley, Springer, and many others. The selection may be previewed at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/librarytitles1/home.action.
ebrary offers a growing selection of more than 170,000 digital books, handbooks, reports, maps, journals and other valuable content from over 350 of the world’s leading publishers under flexible subscription, purchase, and usage-based models. Additionally, the company offers e-publishing services for customers to cost-effectively distribute their own PDF content online on ebrary’s servers or their own. With this new initiative, ebrary is offering an opportunity for libraries, corporations, and other organisations to purchase and own authoritative content at discounted rates from an esteemed group of renowned publishers. Simultaneously, the company is providing participating publishers with new revenue opportunities for their backlist selections.
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Dear Subscriber - 11 Sep 2009 Symyx strengthens operations in Europe - 11 Sep 2009 Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced that Julie Page, vice president of global customer support, will take over European operations, reporting directly to Trevor Heritage, president of Symyx’s software division. In addition, the company has announced personnel additions in consulting services, pre-sales and sales as part of its continued expansion to support the growing customer needs of its software solutions and services in Europe.
Symyx has offices in Geneva, Switzerland and Basel, Switzerland; in addition to field staff throughout Germany, France, Italy and Scandinavia. Julie Page, now vice president of global customer support and European operations, will oversee sales, facilities, HR, and customer support and services for the entire region. Page has been with Symyx for nearly 20 years in various sales, consulting and marketing roles. She is based in the United Kingdom.
Symyx provides a suite of software, content, and technology to support R&D scientific information management. Symyx software gives scientists immediate access to personal, laboratory, enterprise, proprietary and third-party information across different projects and platforms.
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Online Information 2009 Conference announces opening keynotes - 10 Sep 2009 Incisive Media, the UK-based organiser of the Online Information 2009 conference, has announced that the event will feature three opening keynote sessions. The keynote sessions will be dedicated to each of the conference tracks taking place from December 1 – 3, 2009, at Olympia, Conference Centre London. Each track will be keynoted by expert speakers.
‘Information + Conversation = Collaboration + Innovation’ is the common theme of the 2009 event and the three diverse tracks with dedicated keynotes will seek to deliver vital and thought provoking sessions. The opening keynote will be delivered by Dame Wendy Hall and Prof. Nigel Shadbolt, both part of the Semantic Web movement. The second day will be keynoted by Blaise Cronin, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. On the last day social media expert Charlene Li, Co-author of Groundswell – Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, will explore how organisations need to transform themselves to harness the ever changing social web. All of these opening keynote sessions will seek to give an insight into the three strong conference programme tracks set to showcase innovation and signpost emerging trends for 2010.
Online Information’s closing keynote panel will take a look at how cloud computing is driving the evolution of the web. Moderated by Stephen Arnold, President of Arnold Information Technologies, the panellists include - Charlie Hull, Lemur Consulting, UK; and Nicolas Maquaire, President and CEO, EntropySoft, France.
According to the organisers, the conference regularly attracts over 800 delegates from across 40 countries. The conference format is made flexible so that delegates can tailor their own personal experience of the event. The topics from the three different tracks can be individually mixed and matched, there are in-depth pre-conference workshops and a dedicated conference social network to facilitate meetings with industry peers from across the globe. Delegates also receive automatic free entry to the Online Information and IMS 2009 exhibitions which run alongside the conference.
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American Institute of Physics launches new web-based tool for Physicists - 10 Sep 2009 American Institute of Physics (AIP) and knowledge discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc., US, have announced the launch of a new web-based tool for the physics community - AIP UniPHY. The new networking site can be viewed at http://www.aipuniphy.org.
AIP UniPHY is a scientific networking site for physical scientists. It allows them to search for collaborators, see what competitors are up to, communicate with colleagues, and exhibit their own latest work. Unlike other social networking sites that rely upon outside users to join and populate their databases with a galaxy of linked information, AIP UniPHY comes pre-populated with the profiles of hundreds of thousands of scientists from more than 100 countries, all interconnected by virtue of their publication histories.
Any scientist who has published at least three articles over the past ten years in one of the more than 100 journals in the Searchable Physics Information Notices (SPIN) database (http://scitation.aip.org/jhtml/scitation/spincodens.jsp) has a profile on AIP UniPHY. Each profile is connected to a network of other profiles that belong to a person's co-authors on any paper. And each profile is also connected to all the co-authors of any co-authors — whether that profile belongs to a graduate student, post-doc, professor, Nobel laureate, or the U.S. Secretary of Energy.
On the existing site, users can look at other authors publishing records, view lists of co-authors, and browse for collaborations by research category. The site will evolve over the coming months to include many additional collaborative features, data sources, and social networking functions.
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Library associations submit supplemental filing for Google Book Search deal - 10 Sep 2009 The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) have submitted a supplemental filing with the US District Court that is overseeing the proposed Google Book Search settlement. The purpose of the supplemental filing is to address developments that have occurred since the groups submitted their filing on May 4.
While the library associations’ position has not changed since their initial filing, the groups believe that recent activity should be brought to the court’s attention. These include an amended agreement reached between Google and the University of Michigan, the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Google’s recent public statement regarding privacy; and the library associations’ communication with the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ). In their supplemental filing, the associations call upon the court to address concerns with pricing review, to direct Google to provide more detail on privacy issues, and to broaden representation on the Books Rights Registry.
Both the filings emphasise that vigorous oversight by the court is needed to ensure the proposed Google settlement does not erode core library values, such as equity of access to information, patron privacy and intellectual freedom. Google plans to sign the settlement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers.
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CAS REGISTRY registers 50 millionth chemical substance - 10 Sep 2009 Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced that it recently recorded the 50 millionth substance in CAS REGISTRY. The CAS REGISTRY claims to be the most comprehensive and high-quality compendium of publicly disclosed chemical information. This milestone comes only 9 months after CAS registered its 40 millionth substance. The recently registered substance is a novel arylmethylidene heterocycle with analgesic properties.
REGISTRY is the only integrated comprehensive source of chemical information from a full range of patent and journal literature that is curated and quality controlled by scientists working around the world. For more than 100 years, CAS scientists and colleagues in several nations have meticulously analysed and indexed publicly disclosed global scientific information to build up the unique REGISTRY resource that provides not only chemical names, the unique CAS Registry Number, and vital literature references but also ancillary information such as experimental and predicted property data (boiling and melting points, etc.), commercial availability, preparation details, spectra, and regulatory information from international sources.
The 50 millionth substance (CAS Registry Number 1181081-51-5) was uncovered by CAS scientists from the Examples section of a nearly 200-page patent issued by the World Intellectual Property Organization on August 13, 2009. According to the patent, "Few therapeutics are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory agencies for the treatment of neuropathic pain." To address this concern, a series of novel arylmethylidene heterocycles were synthesized, which included the most recent substance registered by CAS.
CAS REGISTRY is available to scientists through CAS' SciFinder, and its STN family of products. With these advanced search and analysis technologies, CAS helps scientists find reliable information that is vital to their research process.
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Elsevier announces publishing partnership with the Canadian College of Health Service Executives - 10 Sep 2009 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a new publishing partnership with the Canadian College of Health Service Executives (CCHSE). Under the deal, Elsevier will publish the College’s official journal, Healthcare Management Forum (HMF), beginning 2010. Kevin Mercer, District Manager of ParaMed Home Health Care, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. He will be supported by an eminent Editorial Board.
Healthcare Management Forum is projected as a trusted resource for innovative solutions and leading practices related to health leadership. Widely recognised for its high-quality contributions and rigorous review process, HMF serves the needs of a diverse and changing health leadership community by linking scholarly inquiry with new ways of thinking about professional practice.
Healthcare Management Forum publishes four times annually with issues appearing in April, July, October and December. Elsevier will begin publication with Volume 23 (2010). Several sections of front matter, the featured article and all abstracts will appear in English and French. The journal is currently indexed and abstracted in MEDLINE and PubMed.
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The University of Amsterdam selects Ex Libris’ Aleph integrated library system - 10 Sep 2009 Library solutions provider Ex Libris (Deutschland) GmbH has announced that the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has successfully gone live with its new Aleph integrated library system (ILS).
Aleph provides academic, research, and national libraries with the efficient, user-friendly tools and workflow support they need to meet the increasing requirements of the industry. Customisable components accommodate the requirements of institutions of all types and sizes, from single-branch libraries to the largest of consortia. Installed in scores of countries worldwide, Aleph offers full Unicode support, which enables both public and staff users to interface with the system in their preferred language.
Aleph, which was selected following an extensive and thorough RFP process including both national and international vendors, has replaced the University’s former LBS system.
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NPG names new editors for the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism - 10 Sep 2009 Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism have announced the appointment of the new Editors of the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (JCBFM). Dr. Ulrich Dirnagl and Dr. Martin Lauritzen take up their positions with immediate effect.
Dr Dirnagl is based at the Charite University Medicine Berlin where he holds the positions of Director of the Department of Experimental Neurology; Executive Director of the Center for Stroke Research; Co-Director of the Department of Neurology; Deputy Director of the Neuroscience Center; and program director of the International Master/MD-PhD Program 'Medical Neurosciences'. He takes up his position as Editor having previously served JCBFM as Deputy Editor.
Dr Lauritzen is Professor, Chief Physician and Chairman of the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology at University of Copenhagen at Glostrup Hospital. He is the head of an experimental research group that studies the relationship between changes in neuronal function and brain circulation and metabolism. Prior to his role as Editor of JCBFM, Dr Lauritzen served on the journal's Editorial Board.
The JCBFM editors will be joined by two new Editorial Managers. Catherine Aubel will support Dr Dirnagl. Louise Juhl Bony will support Dr Lauritzen. Candace Berryman, who served as Editorial Manager during Dr Traystman's editorship, is stepping down.
Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism is published by NPG on behalf of the International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. The journal stands at the interface between basic and clinical neurovascular research, and features timely and relevant research highlighting experimental, theoretical, and clinical aspects of brain circulation, metabolism and imaging.
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Dear Subscriber - 10 Sep 2009 European groups raise objections over Google book-scanning initiative - 09 Sep 2009 Internet search services provider Google, Inc.’s book-scanning project has been criticised by a group of authors, publishers and the governments of France and Germany, it has been reported. According to them, the plan would give Google too much control over out-of-print books.
The complaints were raised at a EU hearing in Brussels that is reviewing how a $125 million settlement between Google and US publishers will affect the EU. A group that represents Google rivals including Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. has alleged that the deal would create a cartel involving thousands of publishers.
Google is currently working with Oxford University’s library and six others in Europe to scan out-of-print books that are no longer copyright protected. The project, which began in 2004 with books from Harvard University, the New York Public Library and other sources, has digitised over 10 million books. According to Google, the agreement will ‘bring back to life’ millions of books that are moldering on library shelves and will create a new market for out-of-print books.
Germany has called the electronic copying of books without the consent of copyright owners as unacceptable and has asked European regulators to look into how the settlement affects EU rights. German publishers are concerned that their books, which are still commercially available in Europe, would be considered “out of print” if they are not sold in the US. While Germany submitted its objections on August 31, France recently presented objections over the deal to the US court ahead of the October 7 hearing.
The US settlement, which is yet to be approved by a judge, covers orphan works - titles for which no one can be identified to give permission for digital use.
In 2005, Google had been sued by authors and publishers who said their copyrights would be violated by scanning books and making them available online. In October 2008, the company agreed to settle two copyright lawsuits with authors and publishers over its book-scanning service, which could make it the primary source for millions of out-of- print books.
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Co-op, web most relevant in books marketing today, says survey - 09 Sep 2009 Online publishing newsletter Publishing Perspectives has released the results of a survey, conducted among publishing and ad execs in the US, discussing the issue of declining marketing budgets. The survey revealed that one stable area of the marketing spend is on ‘co-op,’ or the cash paid to retailers for a premium in-store display, such as on tables, end caps or in windows. The co-op marketing channel can cost tens of thousands of dollars per week, per title, for premium placement within a single national retail chain. However, most publishers vouch for its effectiveness.
It has also been observed that the online medium is a highly effective means of marketing books. Amidst tight budgets, marketing money is largely being directed toward online ads and campaigns, efforts that are becoming increasingly prevalent, even for high profile titles. In particular, publishers are finding online campaigns especially effective at generating pre-pub publicity for titles. Still, for many marketing executives raised on traditional print and television media, online marketing can still be perceived as a compromise. It may be viewed as something done as an inexpensive alternative to more costly print and television campaigns — a perception that remains difficult to change.
A recent study by Kelley Gallagher, Vice President of Publishing Services at RR Bowker, substantiates the need for online marketing in the current scenario. The study’s results were presented in May 2009 at the Book Industry Study Group’s Sixth Annual Making Information Pay conference. Gallagher’s research revealed that of 30,000 consumers who were asked in what medium they were first made aware of a new book, 54.1% cited online/internet advertising, while only 21.2% said TV, radio, and newspaper magazine advertising.
With the recent economic downturn, book advertising is seen to be on the decline. The majority of US publishers have cut their marketing budgets by 50-70 percent over the past year. While some ad prices have been depressed, prices have not dropped far enough to make them a viable way to advertise most books.
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Elsevier to make 250 Health Sciences eBook titles available via ScienceDirect - 09 Sep 2009 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that nearly 250 health sciences titles published and/or publishing in 2009 and 2010 will be launched in October. These new eBook collections cover clinical content in clinical medicine, veterinary medicine, and health professions. Elsevier will make these titles available electronically through ScienceDirect, its online scientific research platform. These new eBook collections follow the May release of titles published from 2000 to 2008, bringing the total Health Sciences eBooks on ScienceDirect to more than 870 titles.
Elsevier’s Health Sciences books are published under the imprints W.B. Saunders, Mosby, Churchill Livingstone, and Hanley & Belfus, publishers with a rich medical and health science publishing heritage dating back to 1688. The inclusion of these books on ScienceDirect will allow even more researchers across the world to access these valuable content resources.
Until May of this year, Elsevier’s medical and health sciences book titles had only been available through MD Consult for clinical practitioners and medical education; Evolve eBooks for health professions education; and Veterinary Consult for veterinary medicine education. The thousands of authors represented in the Elsevier medical and health sciences collections on ScienceDirect can now enjoy greater market visibility, increasing the potential for research collaboration and recognition.
The addition of the Elsevier Health Sciences 2009 and 2010 eBook Collections follows the successful launch of over 600 Health Sciences titles published from 2000 to 2008. These titles further contribute to the evolution of the ScienceDirect platform into a comprehensive and complete source of global scientific knowledge.
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Royal Society of Chemistry launches new book series on Green Chemistry - 09 Sep 2009 The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced the launch of a new book series on Green Chemistry. Green Chemistry is one of the rapidly growing concepts in modern chemistry. Through national awards and funding programmes, national and international course, networks and conferences, and a dedicated RSC journal, Green Chemistry is now widely recognised as being important in all of the chemical sciences and technologies, and in industry as well as in education and research.
The RSC Green Chemistry book series is a unique venture aimed at providing high level research books at the cutting edge of Green Chemistry. The books are projected to be a valuable resource for industrialists, researchers and academics worldwide as well as others interested in the practical means that are being used to reduce the environmental impact of chemical processes and products. Topics covered will include green chemistry metrics; chemicals from biomass; greener pharmaceutical products; alternative energy sources; green chemistry in water; intensive chemical processing; catalyst heterogenisation; organic synthesis using green chemistry methods; green chemistry using biological systems; solvent-free synthesis; and more.
Professor James Clark of University of York Heslington and Professor George Kraus of Department of Chemistry Iowa State University will serve as the series editors.
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UK Library and Information Science Research Coalition makes first appointment - 09 Sep 2009 The newly formed UK Library and Information Science Research Coalition has announced the appointment of Dr Hazel Hall to provide strategic leadership.
The remit of the Coalition is to facilitate a co-ordinated and strategic approach to Library and Information Science (LIS) Research across the UK. It was founded in March this year by the British Library (BL), the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the Museums Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and the Research Information Network (RIN). Dr Hall is the Coalition’s first appointment.
The Coalition aims to bring together information about LIS research opportunities and results; encourage dialogue between research funders; promote LIS practitioner research and the translation of research outcomes into practice; articulate a strategic approach to LIS research; and promote the development of research capacity in LIS. It will provide a formal structure to improve access to LIS research, and maximise its relevance and impact. The Coalition is governed by a Board of Directors comprising a representative of each member organisation.
Dr Hall currently serves on the editorial boards of two major LIS journals (Library and Information Science Research and the Journal of Information Science). She is also on the Executive Committee of the Online Information conference, the largest annual information industry conference and exhibition. She is an Associate Consultant at TFPL, a London-based specialist professional services company focusing on knowledge, information, library, records and web and content management.
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BioMed Central names Bev Acreman as Commercial Director - 09 Sep 2009 Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the appointment of Bev Acreman as Commercial Director. Acreman comes to BioMed Central from Taylor & Francis, where she has played a significant role in growing the company to its present position as a major player in STM publishing.
With the proven success of the open access publishing model, BioMed Central is experiencing rapid growth in manuscript submissions, has many exciting new products in development and sees many opportunities for exciting partnerships and relationships with academic institutions, libraries and societies. In her new role, Acreman will use her wide experience of STM publishing to ensure that BioMed Central continues to lead the way in delivering excellent service to authors, readers and institutional customers. Her extensive previous involvement with learned society journal publishing will be a major asset as BioMed Central continues to develop its own rapidly expanding society publishing programme.
BioMed Central is an STM publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model. All peer-reviewed research articles published by BioMed Central are made immediately and freely accessible online, and are licensed to allow redistribution and reuse. BioMed Central is part of Springer Science+Business Media.
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Dear Subscriber - 09 Sep 2009 NIH makes funding data, research results and products searchable via new tool - 08 Sep 2009 The US’ National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the availability of funding information for grants and contracts through RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER), a new search system on its Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT). RePORTER is expected to allow users to locate descriptions and funding details on NIH-funded projects along with research results that cite NIH support. It seeks to combine NIH project databases and funding records, PubMed abstracts, full-text articles from PubMed Central and information from the US Patent and Trademark Office with a robust search engine.
User-defined searches allow the public to refine, export and analyse results and provide insights into NIH spending, as well as research results across NIH-funded projects, institutions, investigators or scientific concepts. Searching for grants funded by the Recovery Act is seen to be made especially easy by a checkbox that limits searches to that area of interest. Plans for improvements in RePORTER include allowing users to personalise their experience. NIH seeks to provide users the ability to save favourite searches, set alerts for new grants, publications and patents, and even export the entire RePORTER database.
RePORTER is the latest tool on the RePORT website, NIH's online repository of reports, data and analyses of research-related funding. RePORT provides data on NIH's research-related grant and contract funding, including general reports and statistics, funding by research, condition and disease categories, and new data visualisation tools. Dynamic reports and geographic mapping tools are claimed to offer unparalleled access to information on NIH's Recovery Act grant funding on an individual project, state or national level.
RePORT is available at RePORT.nih.gov. The project search tool, RePORTER, is available through the RePORT site or by going directly to ProjectRePORTER.nih.gov.
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Scopus and Thailand Research Fund to present TRF-CHE Researcher Awards - 08 Sep 2009 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Scopus, its abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, in joint partnership with the Thailand Research Fund (TRF) and Commission on Higher Education (CHE) Thailand, will present the TRF-CHE Researcher Awards. The Awards recognise outstanding and exemplary new researchers and mid-career researchers who have received grants from TRF and CHE.
Recognising the critical importance of using clear and transparent indicators to evaluate outstanding research performance, Scopus citation data and Scopus H-index were used to provide the measurement of the applicants’ research performance, thereby determining their influence in the discipline.
The TRF-CHE Researcher Awards will be given out on two levels – Distinguished Researcher Award for recipients of mid-career researcher grants co-funded by TRF and CHE, and Distinguished Young Researcher Award for recipients of the New Researcher Grants that are co-funded by TRF and CHE or TRF alone. They will be presented in six major categories - Life Science, Health Sciences, Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Physical Sciences, Engineering and Multidisciplinary Technology and Humanities and Social Sciences. The awards will be given out at the 2009 TRF-CHE Annual Congress on October 15, 2009.
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EBSCO Publishing unveils new resource addressing health policy - 08 Sep 2009 Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has released a new resource addressing health policy, an area seen to be of critical significance. Health Policy Reference Center provides extensive coverage of all aspects of health policy and related issues.
Designed to assist those involved in the creation, implementation, and study of health policy & the health care system, Health Policy Reference Center is projected as a vital tool for researching health policy issues. This collection is a valuable information source for corporate entities as well as for large hospitals and other medical facilities, particularly those with a large role and interest in community health. Academic institutions as well as governmental agencies & departments and government policymakers will also benefit from this research tool.
Health Policy Reference Center offers cover-to-cover content from more than 300 publications, including journals, monographs, magazines, and trade publications as well as government-produced content such as GAO (Government Accountability Office) reports. Many areas integral to health policy are covered. This includes healthcare access and delivery; healthcare administration; healthcare financing and economics; healthcare quality; healthcare reform; health services research; and public health.
Health Policy Reference Center is designed to provide users with quick and easy access to vital information, including complete full text with images, tables, charts, and other graphical content. The database also covers tens of thousands of additional highly relevant articles, selected from thousands of industry publications.
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ARL calls for proposals for 2010 National Diversity in Libraries Conference - 08 Sep 2009 |
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