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 Cone study emphasises need for organisations to establish social networking with customers - 29 Sep 2008
Strategy and communications agency Cone LLC recently conducted a study, according to which almost 60 percent of Americans interact with companies on a social media website, and one in four interacts more than once per week. Recent years have witnessed an increasing penetration of social networking in the STM publishing sector. Science media company Seed Media Group recently launched a new technology that will help scientists make use of the explosion of discussions in the blogosphere surrounding published peer-reviewed science.
Earlier last month, the American Chemical Society (ACS) launched a free social networking site for ACS members and student affiliates at www.acs.org/membernetwork. Also, Indiana University School of Medicine informatics researchers introduced a web-based solution to address the complex problems of scientific collaboration. Called Laboratree (http://laboratree.org/), the solution seeks to streamline research and enhance collaborative social networking for the science community. In a similar move, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) launched a new online social networking community called Asklepios that makes it easier for physicians from coast-to-coast to connect, share best practices, and learn from each other.
The 2008 Cone Business in Social Media Study presented the findings of an online survey conducted September 11-12, 2008 by Opinion Research Corporation among 1,092 adults comprising 525 men and 567 women 18 years of age and older. According to the survey, 93 percent of Americans believe a company should have a presence in social media, while an overwhelming 85 percent believe a company should not only be present but also interact with its consumers via social media. In fact, 56 percent of American consumers feel both a stronger connection with and better served by companies when they can interact with them in a social media environment.
 Springer to publish the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia - 29 Sep 2008
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it will partner with the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society (CAS) to publish the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia / Journal canadien d'anesthésie (CJA), starting in January 2009. CJA is projected to enhance Springer's expanding portfolio of books and journals in the field of anesthesiology. Dr Donald R. Miller an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at the University of Ottawa, and staff anesthesiologist at The Ottawa Hospital, will serve as Editor-in-Chief. He will be supported by an editorial board providing international perspective and exposure.
A monthly publication, the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia / Journal canadien d'anesthésie gives readers access to the latest advances in anesthesia, acute and chronic pain, perioperative medicine and critical care medicine. The journal publishes peer-reviewed, high-profile clinical research, basic research with an impact apparent to clinicians, and expert reviews and opinions.
Springer will publish CJA both online and in print. The journal's back issues to Volume 1 (1954) will be available on Springer's online information platform, www.springerlink.com. Features include fast, electronic publication in Online First, Cross Reference Linking and Table of Contents Alerts.
'Health and Human Rights' adopts open access model - 29 Sep 2008 The journal Health and Human Rights (HHR) this month has published its first open-access edition. Volume 10, Issue 1 will continue to appear in print, and is still published by the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB Center) at the Harvard School of Public Health. Paul Farmer, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will serve as the new editor-in-chief of the journal.
The journal was previously available only in print, and only by subscription. It is now free to access and aligns itself with a global movement for the democratisation of scientific knowledge production. The move follows the desire expressed by a group of Harvard-affiliated health practitioners including Farmer for free access to health information, a step they say will save lives and more democratically communicate an emerging wealth of scientific knowledge.
The journal has been published for more than a decade as a forum of debate on global health and rights concerns. The new HHR provides an inclusive forum for action-oriented dialogue among human rights practitioners. It endeavors to increase access to human rights knowledge in the health field by linking an expanded community of readers and contributors.
The journal includes two sections: 'Critical Concepts' and 'Health and Human Rights in Practice.' Critical Concepts focuses rigorous scholarly analysis on the conceptual foundations and challenges of rights discourse and action in relation to health. The Practice section seeks to bring new voices to this kind of venue by highlighting the innovative work of groups and individuals in direct engagement with human rights struggles. Complementary and mutually reinforcing, these two sections will seek to foster engaged scholarship and reflective activism.
HRR will be published twice a year, with a goal to move to a more frequent publication schedule over time.
SAGE and Alexander Street Press to add new transcripts from Verilogue to mental health research and training database - 29 Sep 2008 Academic publisher SAGE and publisher Alexander Street Press, US, have announced that research and training mental health resource - Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works - is being enhanced by the addition of hundreds of new transcripts from Verilogue over the next year.
Verilogue digitally records live interactions between patients and physicians and, once anonymised, the transcripts are provided to professionals and students in the mental health discipline to enhance understanding of disease and treatment. Now, with this new agreement, database users will be able to research an additional 4,000 pages of content on topics such as depression, bipolar disorder, adult ADHD, and, for the first time, schizophrenia.
Created by SAGE and Alexander Street Press, the Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works database contains 40,000 pages of actual therapy sessions and first-person accounts, including first person diaries and memoirs, letters, autobiographies, and oral histories, as well as 25,000 pages of SAGE reference works. The database opens a world of primary sources for therapists, clients, and students to explore and analyse.
UC Press selects Ingram Digital's CoreSource platform to archive and distribute digital assets - 29 Sep 2008 Digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, has announced that academic publisher University of California Press (UC Press) has selected its CoreSource platform to archive, manage and distribute its digital assets. Ingram Digital, an Ingram content company, delivers solutions for digital content management, hosting and distribution.
In addition to providing archiving and distribution services on its CoreSource platform, Ingram Digital will assist the publisher with digitisation of its non-digital titles. CoreSource is claimed to be the industry's most robust digital warehouse. The platform ensures that digital content is properly archived, file integrity protected, and versions controlled. It functions as a hub from which the publisher controls the delivery of digital files, metadata, and associated promotional materials to all its partners. UC Press will also be able to leverage print-on-demand, offered through Ingram's Lightning Source business, to further monetise its digital assets. UC Press has about 4,000 titles in print and adds, on average, 200 new titles a year.
Ingram offers university presses a full suite of services created to help them capitalise on emerging digital opportunities in a safe, cost-effective way. Earlier this month, RPS Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, announced an agreement with MyiLibrary to distribute its pharmacy publications via the MyiLibrary Ebook platform. An Ingram Digital Group company, MyiLibrary specialises in the production of technology solutions for the distribution and hosting of electronic books, journals and other content. It provides e-Book titles from academic, commercial, and governmental publishers throughout the world. Stockley's Drug Interactions, Martindale's Drugs Restricted in Sport and Clarke's Analytical Forensic Toxicology are amongst the growing list of available titles.
AAUP and Tizra announce e-book partnership - 29 Sep 2008 The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has announced a new cooperative venture with e-publishing service provider Tizra, Inc., US. Through this agreement, AAUP members will be eligible for discounted access to the Tizra Publisher platform.
The Tizra Publisher platform is a web-based application for distributing and selling electronic books and similar content. Publishers signing up for the service will get their own customised ebook websites, and retain complete control over the presentation, organisation and sales terms of their content through an easy-to-use web control panel. MIT Press recently launched an ebook site providing an example of the capabilities at http://cisnet.mit.edu.
The AAUP-Tizra discount programme is particularly well-suited to presses with staff who are taking on more responsibilities as they balance print and electronic format publishing. The non-exclusive agreement provides discounted subscription rates at all product tiers to AAUP members, modest revenue back to the association, and the opportunity for presses of any size to move into the electronic sale and delivery of content collections with very little technology expertise needed.
AAUP will begin arranging webinars with Tizra for interested members in the first week of October. Tizra will be inviting participating presses to sign up for the first, free tier of their hosted platform's service, and will be ready to answer any questions AAUP members have about the service or the new discount programme.
 Swets represents eleven international publishers at the Beijing International Book Fair - 29 Sep 2008
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, represented eleven international publishers at this year's Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), held in Tianjin from September 1-4, 2008. The publishers are: CSIRO Publishing, EDP Sciences, Euromonitor International, IWA Publishing, OECD, The British Psychological Society, Pavilion, E.Schweizerbart Science, Professional Engineering Publishing, Schattauer Publisher, and Asia Weekly.
Swets undertook several market research activities on behalf of the publishers and showcased a selection of their material at the Swets booth. The company also took this opportunity to offer various value-added services to publishers in order to enhance their brand promotion and sales in China.
The annual Beijing International Book Fair is considered as one of the top international book fairs in the world and as China's number one book exhibition, attracting a wide range of both local and overseas' publishing professionals. This year's book fair attracted more than 1,300 publishers from over 50 countries. Most of China's key universities and research institutions were also in attendance.
Phillip Cates to lead organisational advancement for Sigma Xi - 29 Sep 2008 Scientific research society Sigma Xi, US, has announced the appointment of Phillip K. Cates as director of organisational advancement. This new department combines the society's development and membership departments.
Cates comes to Sigma Xi from Compassionate Capital, a capacity building and resource development consulting firm he founded, which is focused on public, private and faith-based organisations. He is a former director of partnerships and strategic initiatives for the Public School Forum of North Carolina. He was also a consultant and trainer for SERVE, the southeastern regional federal education laboratory located at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has also served as executive director of the Chatham Education Foundation, one of North Carolina's leading rural local education funds.
Founded in 1886, Sigma Xi is the international honour society of research scientists and engineers, with more than 500 chapters at colleges and universities, government laboratories and industry research centers. Over the years, more than 200 Sigma Xi members have received the Nobel Prize. In addition to publishing the American Scientist magazine, the non-profit society awards hundreds of grants annually to student researchers and sponsors a variety of programmes that support science and engineering.
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