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SUSHI Schemas updated to support latest release of COUNTER Code of Practice - 11 Nov 2008
The NISO SUSHI Standing Advisory Committee has announced the approval and final release of the schemas (and related files) providing full support of Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases. Notable in the latest release is the requirement that content providers implement the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) as a means of delivering their reports. With the schemas now finalised, content providers can expect to set their development agendas for implementing SUSHI. The SUSHI standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.93 - 2007) defines an automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic resource usage data utilising a web services framework. Designed as a generalised protocol extensible to a variety of usage reports, it also contains an extension designed specifically to work with COUNTER usage reports. COUNTER reports have become a mainstay of collection analysis for many libraries. SUSHI serves to automate the time consuming and error prone process of manually running, retrieving and loading these reports. NISO's SUSHI Standard Advisory Committee, formed last summer to maintain the standard, has used community feedback to identify additional needs for implementation and to examine the standard for areas that may need updating or improving. In addition to addressing the needs of the schemas, the Committee's charge includes the goal of making SUSHI easier for implementers to understand and work with. As part of that effort, the schemas have been annotated with descriptions and examples for key elements, and the website (www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi) now includes clear graphical representations of the schemas. In addition, the FAQs on the site are being updated and include sections specifically for librarians and developers. Also on the site is a link to the draft, 'How to Start Building a SUSHI Service.' This work in progress by Thomas Barker, Software Engineer, IT and Digital Development at the University of Pennsylvania Library, is seen as a valuable tool for those interested in getting started with building a client. Launched in 2002, COUNTER is designed to help librarians and publishers in the recording and exchange of usage statistics for electronic resources. By following COUNTER's Code of Practice, vendors can provide libraries with data using standardised formats and data elements. The SUSHI protocol is a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) request/response Web services 'wrapper' for the XML version of COUNTER reports.
Society for Endocrinology releases archive going back to 1939 - 11 Nov 2008
The Society for Endocrinology has unveiled its new online archive charting the history of endocrinology over the past 70 years. The archive, which comprises a collection of material published from 1939 to late 1997, will be available from January 2009. It is hosted by online services provider HighWire Press. The archive contains more than 10,726 articles and 93,000 pages. It includes papers from the Journal of Endocrinology from Volume 1 in 1939 to September 1997, from Journal of Molecular Endocrinology from Volume 1 in 1988 to August 1997, and from Endocrine-Related Cancer, the latest journal, from 1994 to 1997. All the papers published from 1997 up to 12 months before the current issues will continue to be available for free to all users. As a non-profit organisation, the Society for Endocrinology is dedicated to the advancement of scientific and clinical education and research in endocrinology. The new archive is projected to provide the endocrine community with a valuable source of key papers. Key papers within the archive will be available online for free from October 2008 until January 2009.
Vienna hosts 'Research Meets Practice' Information Retrieval Symposium 2008 - 11 Nov 2008
The annual Information Retrieval Facility Symposium (IRFS 2008) 'Research meets Practice' was recently conducted in Vienna, Austria. The IRFS seeks to promote, facilitate and enable Information Retrieval (IR) research in close cooperation with experts from the Intellectual Property (IP) community and to offer an environment for large scale experimentation. In 2007, more than 100 attendees contributed to building significant bridges between the practical world of professional patent searching and the world of IR research. Building on the IRFS2007, world leading information retrieval scientists and IP information specialists from all industries once again gathered to share their experiences and emphasised on the need to work together towards solutions. The main themes of this year's speeches were multilingual retrieval, annotations and ontology, retrieval in non-textual documents and the improvement of user interfaces. Latest scientific projects from the fields of semantic and linguistic retrieval, text mining, automated quality control and machine translation were presented for the first time. The main sponsor of the event, the Austrian company, Matrixware, presented its patent database, 'Alexandria', and its retrieval and development environment, 'Leonardo'. All speeches can be downloaded via LiveStream under www.ir-facility/livestream.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins set to publish the Journal of Neuroscience Nursing - 11 Nov 2008
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has signed an agreement with the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. Under the deal, LWW will publish the Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, beginning January 2009. The Journal of Neuroscience Nursing is the official journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. The bi-monthly publication offers original articles on advances in neurosurgical and neurological techniques as they affect nursing care, theory and research, and commentary on the roles of the neuroscience nurse in the health care team. It provides information to nurses and health care professionals working in diverse areas of neuroscience patient care, such as multi-specialty and neuroscience intensive care units, general neuroscience units, combination units (neuro/ortho, neuromuscular/rehabilitation, neuropsychiatry, neurogerontology), rehabilitation units, medical-surgical units, pediatric units, emergency and trauma departments, and surgery departments. Founded in 1968, the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses is committed to working for the highest standard of care for neuroscience patients by advancing the science and practice of neuroscience nursing. The association accomplishes this through continuing education, information dissemination, standard setting, and advocacy on behalf of neuroscience patients, families, and nurses.
MuseGlobal, MyThum partner to enable access to enterprise content from mobile devices - 11 Nov 2008
Metasearch technology provider MuseGlobal, Inc., US, has announced a strategic partnership with MyThum Interactive, Inc., a leading mobile media company. Under the deal, MuseGlobal will leverage MyThum to build customisable mobile applications for third parties, providing quick and easy mobile access to key business information from both internal and external data sources throughout the enterprise. Enterprise mobile applications are often pared-down versions of existing websites, sacrificing depth and breadth of information for ease-of-use. Conversely, too much information in a mobile application can result in too much clutter. MuseGlobal and MyThum will tackle these inconsistencies by helping enterprises to efficiently build mobile portals that allow user access to preferred databases on a single and customised mobile platform. With MuseGlobal's more than 5,500 connectors and MyThum's proven track record in mobile platform integration, enterprises can bypass long development cycles to quickly capitalise on a custom mobile content solution. In leveraging MuseGlobal to distribute content, MyThum will now able to provide its own customers with integration access to thousands of content sources including internal and external databases, subscription content sources, data feeds and Web mining applications. MuseGlobal has established and maintained connectors in broad categories, including healthcare, mainstream media, legal, finance, technology and science.
Informa Pharmaceutical Science names new editor for Critical Reviews in Microbiology - 11 Nov 2008
Informa Pharmaceutical Science, the Pharmaceutical Science division of Informa Healthcare, has announced the appointment of Dr Malcolm Richardson as the new editor-in-chief of Critical Reviews in Microbiology. Critical Reviews in Microbiology is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes comprehensive reviews covering all areas of medical microbiology. Areas of interest include bacteriology, virology, microbial genetics, epidemiology, and diagnostic microbiology. Dr Richardson, currently an associate professor in medical mycology at the University of Helsinki in Finland and a consultant at Helsinki University Central Hospital, joins the journal with extensive laboratory, professional and editorial experience. In addition to his professorship and roles in Helsinki, Dr Richardson acts as the General Secretary of The International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM). He also is a member of the WHO Group on Development of Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality, acts as an advisor for the European Food Safety Authority, and is a sought-after international speaker. He most recently served as a specialist reviewer for several infectious disease and mycology journals - among which is the Informa title, Medical Mycology. He also acts as an Editor of the Journal of Medical Microbiology and is the author of Fungal Infection: Diagnosis and Management, 4th Edition, The Pocket Guide to Fungal Infection, 2nd Edition, and Therapeutic Guidelines in Systemic Fungal Infection, 4th Edition.
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