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Thomson Reuters to expand its Order Set Solution - 18 Aug 2008
Thomson Reuters, a US-based provider of information for businesses and professionals, has announced that it is working with enterprise content management (ECM) vendor HealthGate Data Corp, US, on a next generation document lifecycle management application to enhance its Order Set Solution. The Thomson Reuters solution provides evidence-based order sets with more than 900 titles for 280 medical conditions. For hospitals, the enhanced Order Set Solution is projected to streamline and accelerate order set management and governance - the creation, review, management and updating of clinical order set content. Hospitals can use the enhanced solution to tailor evidence-based order set content to their own institutional protocols. The new enhanced solution adds capabilities for managing Thomson Reuters Order Set content as well as common document types. By providing versioning controls, alerts, collaboration, and review tools, the enhanced solution will streamline the governance, control, and updating processes necessary for effective order set use. This will in turn simplify the management of reviewer feedback and the incorporation of clinical changes, greatly reducing the time and effort required for effective order set management.
EBSCO Publishing, NewsBank announce integrated search partnership - 18 Aug 2008
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO publishing (EBSCO), a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., US, has announced an agreement with NewsBank, inc., a premier information provider serving publishers, public libraries, colleges and universities, schools, government and military libraries, genealogists, professionals and researchers worldwide. Under the deal, customers subscribing to databases from EBSCOhost and NewsBank, will now be able to link to NewsBank results using the EBSCOhost interface. Through integrated search technology imbedded in EBSCOhost, mutual subscribers will be able to access results from NewsBank after launching a search in EBSCOhost. The service is free to mutual customers of both EBSCOhost and NewsBank full-text news databases. A new link on the EBSCOhost interface allows users to go directly to their NewsBank results based on the EBSCOhost search. EBSCOhost is a leading search platform and is used as the primary research interface in tens of thousands of libraries around the world. This agreement allows mutual customers to search the widely used EBSCOhost interface to find NewsBank results and then access them in the NewsBank interface.
SAGE joins Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certification programme - 18 Aug 2008
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it has become a Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certified content partner. KnowledgeWorks Certified is a new publisher certification programme that helps Serials Solutions to maintain the highest quality bibliographic metadata for e-resources. With this move, the publisher seeks to ensure that bibliographic data relating to SAGE journals and SAGE journal packages are as accurate and up-to-date as possible in the Serial Solutions KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase. Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks enables librarians to manage their constantly changing electronic collections and present reliable access to library patrons. This knowledgebase holds bibliographic metadata on a vast range of e-resources and is a primary component of Serials Solutions' 360 e-resource access and management services. SAGE delivers fresh data each month to Serials Solutions to enable KnowledgeWorks to be as up-to-date as possible for the benefit of SAGE and Serials Solutions' shared library users globally. Serials Solutions has also provided SAGE with access, enabling SAGE to verify that its metadata is accurately represented in KnowledgeWorks. SAGE and Serials Solutions are members of the KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools) working group which is a joint initiative of UKSG and NISO set up to improve the flow of information in the knowledgebase supply chain.
RefWorks improves service with new features and enhancements - 18 Aug 2008
RefWorks, the research tools arm of ProQuest, LLC, US, has announced the latest release of features and enhancements to its web-based research management, writing and collaboration service for the academic and research communities. Many of these enhancements have been made in direct response to requests by RefWorks users. Users can now further their research and collaboration efforts by learning more about authors through the new Author Linking feature. The feature links author names from the user's RefWorks database to possible matching profiles within the COS Scholar Universe database. Scholar Universe is a multi-disciplinary database containing profiles of over 1.7 million authors, university faculty and other scholars. Organisations subscribing to the database will automatically have access the complete profiles; non-subscribing organisations are provided with a more concise complimentary version of the scholar profiles. RefWorks has new features for users with non-English or multi-language bibliographies. These features include special handling and automatic formatting of ordinal numbers; ignoring leading articles in titles when sorting the bibliography; and the ability to customise output styles for formatting in multiple languages. In response to recent changes in publication formats by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), new fields have been added to RefWorks. These include PubMed ID and PubMed Central ID. Accordingly, import filters have been adjusted to accommodate these new fields, and output styles can be modified to include such fields. In addition, for users with visual difficulties, RefWorks has upgraded its interface to offer greater screen-reader compliance. This feature is easily enabled from several access points throughout the RefWorks service. To help users more easily update their database of citations, a Global Edit feature now enables moving, deleting or replacing of information throughout all references. Several other additions and improvements have also been made, including enhancements to search functionality, attachment file sizes, user-defined fields and administrator functions.
Publishing Technology opts for Aptify platform for new software applications - 18 Aug 2008
Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology, UK, has announced that it has chosen Aptify Corporation, a software technology and business solutions company, to power the company's next generation of enterprise software. Publishing Technology is seeking to leverage its industry knowledge gained from more than 30 years of servicing the publishing industry. The aim is to focus more precisely on building and delivering applications that empower its clients to better integrate online and offline content and maximise returns. As part of this effort, Publishing Technology has chosen Aptify's Application Lifecycle Platform as the foundation for its new line of software applications for the publishing industry. Aptify's Application Lifecycle Platform is projected to provide Publishing Technology's new applications with significant levels of flexibility. Customers can expect to more quickly and easily adapt and excel in the rapidly evolving publishing industry, where traditional competitive advantages are now challenged in this digital age, according to Publishing Technology. Aptify's Application Lifecycle Platform is projected as a framework for developing, deploying and maintaining enterprise business applications with flexibility and efficiency. It provides a layer of sophisticated technology on top of Microsoft .NET that complements and extends the .NET Framework.
Pensoft Publishers launches new OA journal of systematic zoology - 18 Aug 2008
Scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers has launched a new open access journal - ZooKeys - on systematic zoology. The journal will be published both online as well as in print. Both versions will be published on the same date in compliance with current International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature requirements. ZooKeys is a peer-reviewed, open-access, rapidly disseminated journal launched to accelerate research and free information exchange in taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography and evolution of animals. The journal seeks to apply the latest trends and methodologies in publishing and preservation of digital materials to meet the highest possible standards of the cybertaxonomy era. ZooKeys will publish papers in systematic zoology containing taxonomic/faunistic data on any taxon of any geological age from any part of the world with no limit to manuscript size. The journal will consider for publishing works on topics such as new descriptions of taxa, if they are accomplished with proper diagnoses, keys and/or revision of at least at species group level; taxonomic revisions of extant (or ''recent'') and fossil animal groups; checklists and catalogues; phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses; papers in descriptive and/or historical biogeography; methodology papers; data mining and literature surveys; monographs, conspecti, atlases; and collections of papers, Festschrift volumes, conference proceedings.
WebJunction launches new online learning experience for the library community - 18 Aug 2008
WebJunction, an online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience in close collaboration with partners in 15 state libraries. The new site builds on the deep repository of helpful content, relevant courses, and active discussions that have been the hallmark of WebJunction since 2003. The new capabilities make it easier for librarians and staff to connect with peers, and colleagues from across the library community using powerful new social tools such as friends, public profiles, groups, discussions, tagging, and recommendations; create their own content, conversations, and spontaneous communities with fast, fun and easy-to-use tools; and learn the skills they need to thrive in their careers with new and more flexible online courses covering general business, technical, and library skills, complimented by social and learning management tools that add depth to the experience. Originally launched five years ago with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, OCLC, and partners from across the library community, WebJunction has grown to over 30,000 registered members and has delivered thousands of courses. Along with the new central site, 15 state libraries launched branded WebJunction portals for libraries and staff in their states. Eleven existing partners migrated from their prior sites to the new platform in the past few months. WebJunction has also announced that four new state library portals are launching for the first time - Georgia Public Library Service, the Idaho Commission for Libraries, the State Library of Ohio, and Rhode Island Office of Library & Information Services.
Dear Subscribers - 18 Aug 2008
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