Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has launched two new interdisciplinary review publications - WIREs Developmental Biology and WIREs Membrane Transport and Signaling.
WIREs Developmental Biology will focus on how single cells and fertilised eggs produce a complex, fully patterned adult organism. Edited by John C. Gerhart of the University of California, Berkeley, Gail R. Martin of the University of California, San Francisco, and Eric F. Wieschaus of Princeton University, this new resource is published in partnership with the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB).
WIREs Membrane Transport and Signaling will explore the regulated transport of molecules through cell membranes and the transmission of extracellular signals by cellular receptors. Both are essential processes for cell survival and cell-cell communication. The publication is edited by Alexej Verkhratsky of The University of Manchester and Maiken Nedergaard of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews, known as WIREs, are unique hybrids of encyclopaedias and journals which emphasise the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in research and education.
Each title provides authoritative, encyclopaedic coverage of diverse scientific fields with high-quality reviews commissioned from international expert contributors. Each review article is fully citable and qualifies for abstracting, indexing and ISI ranking.
Access to both WIREs titles is free for the first two years.
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US trade association Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has announced an all-new conference aimed at providing insight and solutions for content creators who publish across multiple platforms. Called Content VIA Platforms, the new event is projected to help publishing, media and information companies overcome challenges associated with getting content effectively published and distributed across multiple existing and emerging platforms. These include mobile, social and even aggregation platforms.
Content VIA Platforms will be held May 9-10 in San Francisco. SIIA will preview the event during a free, one-hour webinar on March 1 at 1:30 p.m. Eastern. Members of the media are invited to attend the conference and participate in the webinar. The webinar will provide an introductory overview of key content platforms and discuss strategies for harnessing these platforms to drive visibility. The basic tools introduced during the webinar will be covered in more depth at the Content VIA Platforms conference in May.
The March 1 preview will be led by digital content strategists Ann Michael, President of Delta Think, and Barry Graubart, Vice President for Customer Development at Crowd Fusion and SIIA Member Chair of Content VIA Platforms.
The Content VIA Platforms conference will feature a number of mobile, publishing and technology thought leaders and key executives from the information industry. Panels and presentations will focus on equipping participants with tools and strategies to successfully utilise a variety of different platforms, monetization strategies, devices and app distribution models.
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Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has signed new agreements with leading publishers worldwide and has added important new content and collections to WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery and delivery service that offers users integrated access to more than 922 million items.
WorldCat Local offers access to books, journals and databases from a variety of publishers and content providers from around the world; the digital collections of groups like HathiTrust and Google Books; open access materials, such as the OAIster collection; and the collective resources of libraries worldwide through WorldCat. WorldCat Local is available as a stand-alone discovery and delivery service, and as part of OCLC WorldShare Management Services. Through WorldCat Local, users have access to more than 1,700 databases and collections, and more than 650 million articles.
OCLC recently signed agreements with content providers to add important new collections - including some searchable full text - to WorldCat Local, WorldCat.org and OCLC WorldShare Management Services. These content providers include: US-based Alexander Street Press and The Philosophy Documentation Center; UK-based IOP Publishing, Rock’s Backpages, Royal Society of Chemistry's RSC Publishing division and The Taylor & Francis Group; Netherlands-based STM publisher Elsevier; Belgium-based Brepols Publishers; Denmark-based Nordic Council of Ministers (Norden); and South Africa-based Sabinet.
OCLC continues to negotiate access to critical library content on behalf of the cooperative to ensure access to libraries’ most popular resources. A complete list of databases and collections available through WorldCat Local from these and other publishers is available online.
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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released ‘A New Day for Website Archiving 2.0,’ an updated analysis by copyright expert Jonathan Band of the legal arguments available to support website archiving by research libraries.
Most websites reportedly contain copyrighted works and may themselves be subject to copyright. Research libraries interested in collecting these materials will therefore need to consider whether and how their projects can be carried out within the law. Asking permission to copy websites is often difficult or impossible, so the doctrine of fair use, which allows copying without permission, will play an essential role in justifying these practices.
Band's analysis focuses on the fair use doctrine and takes account of key developments in the case law, as well as a very helpful memo by the US Patent and Trademark Office, and the recent release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. In his original 2006 analysis, Band argued that website archiving by libraries was strongly supported by fair use. The updated analysis concludes that the arguments in support of this practice have only gotten stronger, as practice in this area has gone unchallenged for six years, and the courts continue to endorse a progressive interpretation of fair use.
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The Charlesworth Group has signed an exclusive three year China agency deal to market and sell the American Diabetes Association (ADA)'s top English language journals. With this move, the company seeks to substantially develop sales and ADA's brand in the market, and help bring crucial information about diabetes care and treatment to researchers, practitioners and patients in China and across the world.
The Charlesworth Group will be responsible for sales of print titles and online access, and also sponsored pharmaceutical reprints that will be distributed throughout academic and research institutions. The company’s long-standing presence in China allows it to provide key market knowledge and strategic advice for successful delivery of this important research into Chinese medical communities.
The American Diabetes Association funds research to prevent, cure and manage diabetes; delivers services to hundreds of communities; provides objective and credible information; and gives voice to those denied their rights because of diabetes. Founded in 1940, the Association aims to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
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The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is organising a webinar on February 29 at 13.30 that will offer a practical demonstration of the Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP). Jo Lambert, senior development officer at Mimas and Angela Conyers of Evidence Base, will highlight the time and cost saving benefits one can achieve by using JUSP to manage usage statistics. The JUSP is projected as a 'one-stop shop' for academic libraries to download and analyse their journal usage.
Using open source software could also improve the efficiency of an organisation, it is suggested. A team from OSS Watch will be leading the following two webinars in March.
The first webinar will offer advice to open source project managers on how to increase the chances of sustainable community engagement in their project. The second webinar will discuss how to increase the longevity and sustainability of an academic project or research outputs by choosing the right open source licence.
Future webinars will explore how to increase the citations of research data, extend a Virtual Learning Environment for the benefit of students and access and use a wealth of free online moving images and sound to enhance teaching and research.
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UBM Medica Australia, the medical division of United Business Media (UBM), has announced that it has implemented Elvis DAM as their central digital asset management solution.
Employees of the flagship title Medical Observer will use Elvis DAM to manage selection, editing processes and further distribution of their digital content. The main benefit is the centralisation of the growing amount of images, news articles and layouts, previously stored in various locations. The produced content for print, online and epaper will be automatically archived in Elvis DAM.
Australian implementation partner for Elvis DAM, Creative Folks will supervise and perform configuration analysis, implementation and training. Creative Folks have been implementing Elvis in Australia since its initial release.
Elvis DAM 2.6 is a digital asset management software that helps companies manage, control and monetise their digital content. Elvis DAM has a powerful media search engine, an intuitive user interface and a powerful API with open source web interfaces and desktop client plugins.
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Oakstone Publishing, US, a provider of interactive educational tools for physicians and dentists as well as corporate wellness resources, has appointed H. Montgomery (Monty) Rains as its new Vice President of Corporate Development.
In his new position, Rains will be responsible for managing strategic alliances, corporate partnerships, and channel development and will also serve as a member of the Senior Executive Management team at Oakstone.
With more than 20 years serving as an executive in the complex, solutions-based healthcare environment, Rains brings a wealth of knowledge from his client leadership roles with American Hospital Supply, Baxter International and Cardinal Health. He was one of the founding members of HCORP, Inc., a venture-funded healthcare IT company in the bedside computing space.
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Wiley-Blackwell launches new interdisciplinary review publications
The Charlesworth Group in deal to market and sell American Diabetes Association journals in China
JISC webinar to offer demonstration on benefits of Journal Usage Statistics Portal 
UBM Medica Australia selects Elvis DAM as their central digital asset management solution
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online