STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has collaborated with Tsinghua University Department of Computer Science and Technology in Beijing to introduce four new research productivity enhancing applications for SciVerse Applications.
The applications – GeneTUKit, Company Search, Patent Search and Topic Cloud – seek to help researchers identify the hottest topics being published, find relevant companies, patents or experts, and automatically discover genes within articles.
GeneTUKit recognises gene mentions in article and abstract content within SciVerse ScienceDirect or SciVerse Scopus and links the concepts to knowledge databases like NCBI. Company Search identifies companies relevant to a SciVerse ScienceDirect search query and links to profile information on PatentMiner. Patent Search finds patents related to a SciVerse Hub or SciVerse ScienceDirect search query, ranks results based on relevance and links to patents on PatentMiner. Topic Cloud displays top subtopics related to a SciVerse ScienceDirect query as a word cloud.
Elsevier began collaborating in late 2010 with Associate Professor Jie Tang at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University to develop Expert Search, an application that identifies computer science experts through Arnetminer, followed by the development of the Company Search, Patent Search and Topic Cloud applications. Elsevier partnered with Assistant Professor Minlie Huang to create the GeneTUKit application.
The ongoing collaboration has also led to the launch of the China Science Challenge, an online competition open to university students to develop solutions that help researchers in their research tasks.
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Publishers Nature Publishing Group (NPG), Digital Science and Palgrave have issued a joint statement on the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) legislations in the US. NPG, Digital Science and Palgrave provide a range of publications, information and digital services to a wide variety of customers, including scientists, scholars, teachers and students, as well as members of the public.
The parties are concerned that the approaches proposed by the SOPA and PIPA, currently under consideration by the US federal government, are likely to create unintended counterproductive effects in many of the communities they serve, and to the functionality of the Internet itself. NPG, Digital Science and Palgrave have therefore decided not to support SOPA or PIPA.
The companies have said that they support appropriate and proportionate initiatives to protect copyright and other forms of intellectual property for the benefit of its creators and society as a whole. While they support actions that effectively target the systematic illegal sharing of copyrighted works, they do not support approaches that would undermine and put at risk the legitimate activities of their customers and other responsible users.
The publishers have stated that as innovative and progressive publishing and technology companies, they seek to enable the open exchange of ideas, especially in scholarly communities. This is because, according to them, it is ultimately the main way in which human knowledge is created and disseminated, a process that they exist to support. They believe that the proposed legislation could unintentionally harm this process. In addition, the proposed interference with the infrastructure of the Internet is seen to risk unintended consequences that could reduce its benefits for everyone.
The companies were represented by Timo Hannay, Managing Director, Digital Science; Steven Inchcoombe, Managing Director, Nature Publishing Group; and Dominic Knight, Managing Director, Palgrave.
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STM publisher Springer has announced that it is bringing Open Choice, its hybrid open access option, in line with the fully open access journals published by BioMed Central and SpringerOpen. As a result, all open access content at Springer will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.
In 2004, the hybrid open access option Open Choice was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer's Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles with open access for the majority of Springer's subscription-based journals. The articles are immediately freely available for anyone worldwide in exchange of paying an article processing charge. The copyright remains with the author.
In addition to Open Choice, Springer offers fully open access journals under the SpringerOpen brand. The portfolio of more than 60 journals was recently joined by SpringerPlus, an interdisciplinary open access journal, publishing research in all STM disciplines.
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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that its Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute (LCMEI) has renewed its accreditation with the Accreditation Council of Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). Re-accreditation included Accreditation with Commendation, a designation only awarded to the top 25 percent of CME providers, and provides for a six-year term of accreditation.
As the publisher of premier medical, nursing and allied health journals, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, provides American Medical Association category 1 credits, which all physicians need for maintenance of the professional licenses. Accreditation with Commendation enhances the value of CME and affirms the level of quality of LWW content to individual physicians, societies, and industry.
The LCMEI is also an accredited provider of continuing pharmacy education with the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Educators (ACPE).
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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that the creators of Points of View Reference Center (POV) from EBSCO have released the Points of View Debate Blog. The blog is projected as a forum for students to discuss topics in the news and debate them with their peers. It is a free companion service for schools subscribing to EBSCO's Points of View Reference Center.
Students can access Points of View Debate Blog directly from their library's Points of View Reference Center database, gaining the ability to both research topics and voice opinions about them. Additionally, a corresponding Twitter account, @PointsofView_EP, will direct users to the blog website (http://ebscohost.com/pov-blog) and provide an avenue for discussion.
A $200 prize will be awarded monthly to the student submitting the most thought-provoking and well-crafted comment to that month's blog topic. According to company representatives, the blog is designed to provide a forum for wider debate and the award is designed to provide incentive and recognition.
Points of View Reference Center offers users information about key news topics each month, and explores the basics of debate. Points of View Debate Blog invites users to join the discussion and share their views, building on knowledge gained from using the reference centre.
A monthly e-newsletter also accompanies the blog. It will highlight the winner of the best student commentary, and preview the next month's Points of View Debate Blog topic. It will also keep subscribers up to date on announcements about the service.
Points of View Reference Center is said to help students research their opinions and develop persuasive arguments across subject areas, for their own debates and research papers. It presents a searchable collection of the most important social, political and cultural moments of the era. Offering topical overviews, multiple viewpoints, and guides to critical analysis, Points of View Reference Center is said to offer users a balanced perspective on current issues.
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Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that following a successful five-month trial, the Article Exchange feature is now available within the WorldCat Resource Sharing service and, where available, through an ILLiad add-on. This new feature is available at no charge to OCLC libraries that use WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad Resource Sharing Management Software, and will be offered in WorldCat Navigator, in regions where available, and VDX later this year.
Article Exchange provides a single, secure location where lending libraries can place and borrowing libraries and their users can retrieve requested articles obtained through interlibrary loan. Lending libraries scan documents and upload them to the site and notify the borrowing libraries of the documents' availability. The site generates a unique URL and password for each document. An e-mail button enables the lender to insert the borrower's e-mail address and send the link directly to the library.
Once a file has been retrieved, it remains available for five days or five views. After 30 days, unviewed files will be removed. A file can be picked up a maximum of five times for each URL/password combination. Access to the current experimental site will end on January 31.
An OCLC Resource Sharing and ILLiad Users Group Meeting will be held on January 22 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. at the Dallas Convention Center, Room D227, during the ALA Midwinter Meeting. For those unable to attend the ALA Midwinter Meeting, OCLC will hold an OCLC Resource Sharing and ILLiad Users Group Virtual Meeting on January 26, from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m., Eastern Time. Interested parties may register for this event through the OCLC website.
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Alma Swan, who co-founded Key Perspectives Ltd., a scholarly communications consultancy in 1996, has more than two decades of experience in medical cell biology research and scholarly publishing. In her new position, she will be responsible for leading SPARC's advocacy programmes throughout Europe, with a concentration on regular outreach to the European Commission and European Parliament.
Lars Bjørnshauge, a long-standing member of the SPARC Europe Board, has been serving as SPARC's Interim European Director since October, taking on the overall management of the 93-member library organisation. He will continue to lead SPARC's high-level education and outreach programmes, capitalising on his more than twenty years' experience in the library community. Prior to his decade-long service as Director of Lund Libraries, he held management positions at the Technical Knowledge Center & Library of Denmark (DTV) in Lyngby, as well as serving as head of department at the Royal Danish School of Librarianship in Copenhagen.
Both Swan and Bjørnshauge are well known for championing Open Access and providing high-level strategic leadership and expertise to the development of innovative programmes and policies. They will work closely with the SPARC member organisations in Europe, as well as SPARC staff in North America and Asia to continue to spearhead campaigns to strengthen the adoption of Open Access in the global scholarly community.
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Cambridge University Press (CUP), the publishing division of the UK's University of Cambridge, has announced that Chief Executive Stephen Bourne will step down from his post at the end of April 2012. Bourne joined the Press in 1997, becoming Chief Executive in 2002. He has steered the Press through momentous changes in the publishing industry.
Under his leadership, the Press has embraced new technologies; grown substantially a publishing business that was already world-renowned for its high quality; committed significant resources to the developing world; and changed the Press's staff profile to support innovation, including a major restructure of the Press Board, announced in December 2011. The Press Syndicate, made up of 18 senior academics from the University of Cambridge who govern the Press, will immediately begin the process of selecting Bourne's successor.
Bourne will stand down as Chief Executive at the end of April. He has then accepted an invitation to become President of Cambridge University Press for a further period, focusing on international relations and helping the new management team with a range of transitional matters.
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Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that in recent months, numerous academic and research libraries in North America have selected the Primo discovery and delivery solution, raising the number of Primo sites worldwide to over 900.
Institutions that have recently selected Primo, including the Primo Central Index of scholarly e-content, include the Fort Hays State University, Idaho State University, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Hawaii, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Virginia Community College System and WISPALS Library Consortium.
Ex Libris provides automation solutions for academic libraries. The company provides efficient, user-friendly products that serve the needs of libraries today and will facilitate their transition into the future.
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Content solutions and services provider Really Strategies, US, will introduce the newly released DocZone Book Publisher at the forthcoming Digital Book World Conference 2012 in New York City (stand 31). The Digital Book World Conference 2012, to be held from January 23-25, 2012, offers trade publishers hard data on the state of the book business, as well as actionable, proven strategies for taking immediate advantage of opportunities as they develop in today's publishing industry.
DocZone Book Publisher claims to be the only end-to-end book publishing solution that automates output to both print and ebook formats, as well as provides online editorial tools, workflow, and language translation. Some of the world's leading publishers use DocZone Book Publisher to increase revenue with faster time-to-market and achieve an XML-first publishing process.
Really Strategies seeks to accelerate publishers' revenue and profit growth through better content management. Since 2000, the company has provided award-winning content solutions and services to publishers, media companies, and other content-centric companies. From content creation to delivery, Really Strategies helps bring strategy, content, and technology together to analyse, architect, and implement appropriate tools and technologies.
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Elsevier and Tsinghua University Department of Computer Science and Technology collaborate to introduce new research productivity solutions
NPG, Digital Science, Palgrave express concerns over SOPA and PIPA
Springer Open Choice adopts Creative Commons Attribution license
Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute renews accreditation with the ACCME
Ex Libris expands Primo customer base in North America
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