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Wiley and AIChE extend publishing partnership - 12 Jul 2007
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that it has extended its agreement with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) for the publication of the latter's flagship journals - AIChE Journal, Environmental Progress and Process Safety Progress. The renewed agreement extends the AIChE-Wiley publishing partnership through 2017. The original agreement was signed in 2003. Now in its 53rd year of publication, the AIChE Journal is one of the premier research journals in chemical engineering and related fields. Edited by Stanley Sandler of the University of Delaware, this peer-reviewed monthly journal reports the latest technological advances in chemical engineering, as well as other relevant engineering disciplines, including biotechnology, electrochemical engineering, and environmental engineering. A quarterly publication, Environmental Progress provides practical, industrially relevant coverage of advances vital to engineering professionals dealing with environmental issues. Edited by Martin Abraham of the University of Toledo, it addresses environmental management; wastewater; pollution minimization, control, and remediation; sustainability; and environmental software, literature, and regulation. Process Safety Progress offers practical process safety information, covering such areas as chemical and hydrocarbon process safety, loss prevention, and health.
Publishers to provide developing nations with access to scientific literature - 12 Jul 2007
More than 100 STM publishers, including Elsevier, Springer and Blackwell, and three UN organisations (WHO, FAO and UNEP) have announced the extension of programmes that provide free, or almost free, access to online peer-reviewed journals to several developing nations that lack access to information and training. Information technology leader Microsoft has also announced its support of technical assistance to enhance access to online research for scientists, policymakers, and librarians in these countries. The three sister programmes - HINARI (research on health), AGORA (research on agriculture) and OARE (research in the environment) - provide online research access to more than one hundred of the world's poorest countries. All three programmes have official commitment from their partners until 2015, marking the target for reaching the Millennium Development Goals. In a World Health Organisation (WHO) survey conducted in 2000, researchers and academics in developing countries ranked access to subscription based journals as one of their most pressing problems. In countries with per capita income of less than $1000 per annum, 56 percent of academic institutions surveyed had no current subscriptions to international journals. These three programmes, which are in line with the UN Millennium Development Goals, hope to solve this problem and make research as easily accessible in countries such as Sierra Leone as it is in England and the USA. Click here to read the original press release.
Harrison's Practice-Answers on Demand now available on MerckMedicus - 12 Jul 2007
Merck & Co., Inc., US, has announced that Harrison's Practice-Answers on Demand is now available on MerckMedicus, an online resource from Merck that provides healthcare professionals with unbiased, credible medical information. This advertising-free medical portal for healthcare professionals combines breaking medical news, a variety of online learning resources, cutting-edge diagnostic tools, and even the patient's perspective on the world of medicine. Harrison's Practice - Answers on Demand is an innovative tool developed by McGraw-Hill Professional in collaboration with Unbound Medicine, Inc. It answers questions on demand at the point of medical care. Registered users of MerckMedicus can access the tool at http://www.merckmedicus.com/ with no access fees. Users can view over 700 topics relating to the diagnosis and management of common medical conditions, searchable by topic, specialty or ICD-9 Code. Also, they can receive continuous updates on their desktop computer, PDA and wireless devices including their PDA, Blackberry or other smartphones. New Harrison's Practice content is backed by the same Editorial Board that developed Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 16th Edition, and is organised in standardised templates for efficiency. Links to Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and PubMed provide additional in-depth information.
The Berkeley Electronic Press to market its Institutional Repository platform - 12 Jul 2007
Publisher Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress), US, has announced that it would begin selling its Institutional Repository platform directly. The bepress platform has been licensed exclusively by ProQuest for the past three years. Hereafter, all new licenses will be made directly by bepress. Currently, nearly 1/3 of American Research Libraries have Institutional Repositories with many more still in the planning stages. The bepress Institutional Repository platform currently powers the eScholarship Repository of the University of California system as well as over 50 schools under the name of Digital Commons sold by ProQuest. The company recently appointed Tim Tamminga as Vice President of Global Sales, bepress services, to spearhead bepress' sales effort. He brings with him a wealth of experience in educational technology systems and an expertise in digital preservation. Founded by academics in 1999, bepress is both a publisher of peer-reviewed electronic journals and a software developer, having created the institutional repository platform currently marketed by ProQuest as Digital Commons. The company produces tools to improve scholarly communication via innovative and effective means of content production and dissemination.
Accucoms launches sales outsourcing service for Latin American market - 12 Jul 2007
Accucoms BV, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, has announced the launch of a new sales representation service for publishers wishing to increase their sales in Latin America. Outsourcing sales in the region to Accucoms is being projected as a low risk, low investment route into a potentially lucrative market. The company recently conducted a research, according to which the market in Latin America for scholarly content is growing and librarians are keen to expand their online collections. Currently, language barriers, differences in time zones, access to marketing information and the lack of communication from publishers based in North America and Europe make it very difficult for Latin American librarians to buy their products. Accucoms is now offering publishers worldwide a sales representation service that will include face-to-face selling, account management, representation at library events, telesales and local language marketing activities. The service will be headed by Steve Fallon and Anouk Snijders. Click here to read the original press release.
British Library makes key software available for other establishments - 12 Jul 2007
The British Library has announced that libraries across the globe will now be able to license the latest version of Turning the Pages, the 3-D software used by it to bring rare and valuable books online. Since its launch in 2004, Turning the Pages has reportedly grown to become one of the most popular resources at the British Library. With the launch of Turning the Pages 2.0, and a completely re-built software platform developed by Armadillo Systems, May 2007 has also witnessed the launch of a new "toolkit". The toolkit allows other libraries and museums worldwide to create their own Turning the Pages galleries. It helps to create high-quality digital replicas of some of the most valuable books in the world and make them available to anyone with access to the Internet. The British Library provides information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers access to a vast and comprehensive research collection. The Library's collection has developed over 250 years and exceeds 150 million separate items representing every age of written civilisation. It includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, newspapers and sound recordings in numerous written and spoken languages.
Keio University joins Google's Book Search Project - 12 Jul 2007
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has announced that it has signed Japan's Keio University's libraries as its latest partner to its Books Library Project, which digitises books from major libraries worldwide and makes their collections searchable on Google Book Search. Keio University is reportedly the first Japanese university to join forces with Google. Under the initiative, Google and the Keio University Library will digitise nearly 120,000 public domain books from the combined collections of the Keio University libraries, which total over two million printed works. Readers across the globe can now view, browse, read and even download public domain materials by simply searching online at books.google.co.jp. Keio is the 26th library to join Google's Books Library Project. It joins several other libraries who are currently working with Google to digitise portions of their collections. This includes the Harvard University, University Complutense of Madrid, University of Michigan, the New York Public Library, Oxford University, Stanford University, the Library of Catalunya and Bavarian State Library.
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