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Science societies to launch federated vertical search portal, scitopia - 18 Apr 2007
Thirteen science and technology societies from across the world are set to launch scitopia.org, a free federated vertical search portal, in a bid to create more direct access to their collective content. The new portal, to be launched in June 2007, will enable users to explore the research most cited in scholarly work and patents in a single click. Founding partners include the American Geophysical Union, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Electrochemical Society, IEEE, Institute of Physics Publishing, Optical Society of America, SPIE, Society of Automotive Engineers and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Other organisations will be invited to join as the project progresses. Scitopia.org will aggregate the entire electronic libraries of key players in major science and technology disciplines. Users will be able to search from more than three million documents, including peer reviewed journal content and conference proceedings, spanning 150 years of science and technology. Visitors to scitopia.org will be presented with a simple, but function-rich interface. They will be able to search for full text articles using a fielded approach, for example, by article title or author name. Researchers at institutions with subscriptions to the content will be automatically authenticated and will be able to click through to it. Members of partner societies will also be able to access full text, depending upon the association's membership policies. Pay-per-view options will allow others to purchase as many articles as they choose. As a federated search, no new subscriptions will be needed to use the portal. Additionally, because scitopia.org links directly to each society's digital library, searching will access real-time information, providing the most current research. Click here to read the original press release.
LexisNexis partners with Elsevier to provide exclusive scientific and technical journals - 18 Apr 2007
Information solutions provider LexisNexis, US, has announced a partnership with STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands. The agreement grants LexisNexis the exclusive license to provide full-text journals to law firms, corporate legal departments, and government entities worldwide. Under the agreement, LexisNexis customers will be able to search Elsevier titles from the LexisNexis platform. An initial release of 75 journals of particular interest to intellectual property attorneys and librarians will be followed by offerings in other scientific and technical disciplines. This will include more than 1600 Elsevier publications in all. LexisNexis suite of Elsevier content is just one of the many offerings of the LexisNexis Total Practice Solutions, its overarching portfolio of solutions to help lawyers and law firms succeed in the business and practice of law. The company's offerings are designed for the way legal professionals work, in all areas essential to their success, including Client Development, Research Solutions, Practice Management and Litigation Services. Click here to read the original press release.
McGraw-Hill Professional launches online pharmacy education resource - 18 Apr 2007
Publisher McGraw-Hill Professional, part of McGraw-Hill Companies, US, has announced the launch of AccessPharmacy, an online content solution designed to keep pace with the changing demands of pharmacy education. The web-based resource is in response to a US Department of Labor study, according to which nearly 300,000 practicing pharmacists will be needed to serve an ageing population in the US in the next five years. AccessPharmacy uses a curricular-based approach modelled after the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) national guidelines. It leverages the content of key pharmacy resources including Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, 6th edition; Pharmacotherapy Casebook, 6th edition; Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 11th edition; Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 9th edition; and Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th edition. In addition, the editors of Goodman & Gilman's will provide monthly updates to AccessPharmacy. The resource offers case-based learning through more than 150 drug therapy cases with related Q&As as well as care plans to provide pharmacy students with an interactive, practical and real-world learning experience. Students, depending on their specific learning needs, can select from over 500 core curriculum topics, browse by organ system, review textbooks online or search the entire web-based resource. In addition, a fully integrated drug database, in both English and Spanish, allows quick access to complete chemical structure and dosing information, adverse reactions, indications, contraindications and full-colour photos of all formulations. Click here to read the original press release.
Newstex unveils BlogAlerts service for enterprise customers - 18 Apr 2007
Metasearch technology provider MuseGlobal, Inc., US, and content-on-demand provider Newstex, US, have announced the availability of BlogAlerts, a new product that delivers blog content to information providers and enterprise customers. Powered by technology from MuseGlobal, the new product complements the existing Newstex Blogs on Demand product, which is a full-text blog service. BlogAlerts seeks to help professionals in enterprises filter desired blog content from the tens of millions of individual blogs commenting on literally every subject imaginable. Newstex BlogAlerts operates via two steps. Enterprise customers first specify topics of interest, from which Newstex in turn generates personalised alerts drawn from the content of millions of scanned blogs. The resulting blog content matches are then further refined by the Newstex NewsRouter system, which in real-time automatically tags each blog post with key company names, stock tickers, notable executives and government officials. It also categorises each post by topics using a high-precision, relevance-based processing engine. This allows Newstex to deliver the resulting feed of refined blog content in easy-to-integrate NewsML format to downstream redistributors and enterprise customers for use in their respective content offerings. Click here to read the original press release.
DocZone.com announces new low-priced license structure - 18 Apr 2007
Software firm DocZone.com, Netherlands, has announced a new licensing configuration to provide technical publications and training organisations with an affordable way to rapidly deploy an end-to-end XML/DITA solution for managing and producing multilingual content deliverables. The new 'DocZone 1-2-3' quick start programme comprises 1 full-use DocZone license for a year-long contract, 2 days of on-site consulting and training to tailor the DocZone suite to a customer environment, and 3 DocZone reviewer licenses to support collaborative annotation and editorial review of content, for a total cost of $10,000. This limited-time offer is available until June 30, 2007. DocZone.com provides a 'Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)' XML content management platform, including XML authoring, content management, automated workflow, server-based translation memory, and single-source publishing. In addition, it offers what it claims is the industry's only guaranteed rapid deployment methodology to bring customers into production within 30 days. Click here to read the original press release.
Helena Kravitz joins Macmillan Medical Communications as Director of Client Services - 18 Apr 2007
Medical communications agency Macmillan Medical Communications (MMC), part of Macmillan Publishers Limited, UK, has announced the appointment of Helena Kravitz as Director of Client Services. She will report directly to John Elduff, Senior VP of Sales. Prior to this, Kravitz served Excerpta Medica where she was directly responsible for the timely delivery of multifaceted medical education programmes. She has managed programmes ranging from website development to strategic publication and meeting planning. Macmillan Medical Communications is a strategic medical communications agency that provides customised products and services for partners in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and biotechnology industries. As part of the Macmillan Group, MMC has exclusive access to some of the world's leading journal content, including journals from NPG, publishers of Nature, the international journal of science, Nature Medicine, the Nature Clinical Practice series of journals and a large number of major medical society titles.
Allen Press, Inc. receives Forest Stewardship Certification - 18 Apr 2007
Printer and publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc., US, has announced that it has recently been awarded the Forest Stewardship Certification. Allen Press can now offer chain-of-custody proof of responsible forest management for paper used in printing journals, magazines and other products, as monitored by the SmartWood Program of the Rainforest Alliance. Accredited by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the SmartWood Program is an international organisation that administers a programme for certifying that paper used in printed products originates from sustainable forests. To date there are fewer than 150 printing companies in the US that are FSC certified printers. The FSC stamp of approval guarantees that products have come from a forest which has been evaluated and certified as being managed according to agreed social, economic and environmental standards. Allen Press, Inc. provides a comprehensive portfolio of integrated services in the broad areas of content management, content delivery and association management and publishing services. It plays a key role in the dissemination of knowledge and information by partnering with organisations in the STM community.
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