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 Online Information & IMS 2009 announce free educational show floor seminar programme - 06 Nov 2009
Incisive Media, the UK-based organiser of the Online Information and IMS 2009 conference, has unveiled a comprehensive programme of over 110 free educational show floor seminars. The programme offers show visitors the chance to hear from some of the leading lights in the industry. The full programme is now live and ready to view on the event’s website at http://www.online-information.co.uk/online09/seminars_2009_new.html.
Seminars within the Online Information Exhibition arena are all encompassing. Many of the sessions address the unique challenges currently facing Information Professionals. In response to high demand several of the subject areas have been extended with an additional whole day of seminars. Both the STM Information in Focus and Libraries and Ebooks sessions will now run over two days and The Global Business Information Forum will be held on three full days of the event.
The e-publishing session will include a Wiley custom select case study ‘Next-Generation Custom Publishing’, presented by Simon Atkinson, Managing Director, Mark Logic UK Limited. In addition, Samir Kakar, CTO, Aptara, will present ‘Digital-First Publishing Solutions’ that will uncover new revenue opportunities with multi-channel, mobile delivery. The STM Information in Focus session will be keynoted by Andrew Richardson, Managing Director Europe, Vice President Business Development, Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research. A presentation on ‘User-centric publishing’ by Toby Green, Head of Publishing, OECD Publishing, will look at how books, journals and data can be published seamlessly online for the benefit of users and librarians. Maxim van Gisbergen, Product Manager eBooks, Swets, will talk on ‘What librarians have to say on eBook acquisition’ and Matthew Cockerill, Managing Director, Biomed Central, will discuss the ‘Latest developments in Open Access publishing’, at the Libraries and e-books session. The Global Business Information Forum session will feature a session entitled ‘Emerging Business Models for the New Information Order’ presented by Caspar de Bono, Managing Director, FT Business and B2B, Financial Times. Stephen Phillips, Vice President, Business Information Services, Morgan Stanley, will also present ‘Business strategies for new realities.’
A strong line-up is also on the agenda for the IMS free show seminars. Content Management includes a presentation on ‘Web Content Management Technology Circa 2010’, by Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch. On Day 2 of the event the whole morning will be dedicated to open source with three intriguing sessions. Enterprise Search will see Peter Sejersen, Analyst, J.Boye, talk on ‘Going Google’ lessons for the Enterprise. Following a highly successful introductory session in 2009, the Marketing through Social Media theme is back by popular demand, and will take place in a larger theatre to accommodate the anticipated increase in attendees. This theme is Keynoted by David Cushman, Director of Social Media, Brando Social with his controversial session ‘ Why “using” social media must fail - participating is the winning strategy’.
Consisting of an exhibition attracting over 9,000 visitors from 70 countries, a conference and a show floor seminar programme, Online Information and IMS provide an annual meeting place for the global information industry.
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 Elsevier and the American Dairy Science Association announce publishing deal - 06 Nov 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will co-publish the Journal of Dairy Science, beginning in January 2010 (Volume 93, Issue 1), with the Federation of Animal Science Societies (FASS). The journal is the official journal of the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA).
A monthly, the Journal of Dairy Science (JDS) is a peer-reviewed publication featuring original research and review articles that present the latest scientific and technical findings. It covers dairy foods; physiology and management; nutrition, feeding and calves; and genetics and breeding. With an Impact Factor of 2.486 and a 5-year Impact Factor of 2.978, according to the 2009 Journal Citation Reports, JDS ranks first (of 45 titles) in the agriculture, dairy and animal science category. JDS is also ranked as the number 1 journal in the category by Eigenfactor score.
JDS readers represent education, industry and government, including research, teaching, administration, veterinary medicine, extension, management, quality assurance, product development and technical services in more than 70 countries. The journal is also of interest to professionals in biochemistry, breeding, economics, engineering, environment, food science, genetics, microbiology, nutrition, pathology, physiology, processing, public health, quality assurance and sanitation.
In addition to print publication, the Journal of Dairy Science will be made available online via ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s world-class electronic platform, serving more than 11 million users. ADSA members and other individuals will also be able to access the journal online via a dedicated site. All content back to the journal’s inception in 1917 will be made available in electronic form.
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 Springer introduces new section in Climatic Change journal - 06 Nov 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced a section called Climatic Change Letters within the journal Climatic Change. Similar in scope to Climatic Change, the Letters will provide a vehicle for rapid publication, offering short articles on new findings of interest to researchers in climate-related disciplines.
Climatic Change focuses on climatic variability and change, from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Climatic Change Letters will publish brief articles that would be of interest to the same community. Articles will include original findings from models, experiments, observations, theoretical approaches, frameworks, applications and methods relevant to the multitude of disciplines covered by the main journal.
Beginning in November 2009, hardcopy versions of the journal Climatic Change will contain a Letters section every other month, composed of up to eight articles, running some four pages each. Letters articles will appear online individually on Springer’s electronic platform www.springerlink.com, as soon as they have been processed for publication.
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Brill launches journal OA service, Brill Open - 06 Nov 2009 Academic publisher Brill, Netherlands, has announced the launch of Brill Open, a new author service that offers the option of making articles freely available upon publication. Brill Open enables authors to comply with research funding bodies and institutions which require open access.
The Brill Open option will be available for all 135 journals published under the imprints Brill, Martinus Nijhoff and VSP. Articles will be put in online open access in exchange for an article publishing fee to be arranged by the author.
In order to ensure that authors' funder requirements have no influence on the editorial peer review and decision-making, Brill Open will be made available to authors only upon acceptance of their paper for publication. Those authors who do not wish to use this service will be under no pressure to do so, and their accepted article will be published in the usual manner. Brill's strategic intent is to adjust the future subscription price of a journal to reflect an increase in Brill Open fees.
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 Outsell partners with Scout Analytics to offer subscription analytics services - 06 Nov 2009
Research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc., US, has announced a strategic partnership with Scout Analytics to help online paid-content providers —from media companies to business and scientific publishers — increase revenues. Outsell is offering Outsell Scout Analytics, a new subscription service building on the Scout Analytics platform. It is claimed that companies using the platform have surfaced opportunities to improve subscription revenues by an average of 10-15 percent.
It has been observed that as publishers and information providers offer more diverse online content ranging from articles to podcasts to workflow tools, they have opportunities to further monetise subscriptions. Yet, publishers are leaving money on the table by overlooking the needs and interests of customers, resulting in ‘defections,’ lost renewals, and untapped cross-selling and up-selling opportunities.
As the economic downturn puts new pressures on revenues, information companies cannot afford a one-size-fits-all approach to subscriber relationships, it is felt. Outsell Scout Analytics helps these firms better understand their customers and where the greatest value potential for their content exists. According to the company, early adopters of the product are finding that the service uncovers customer insights with a significant financial impact. For instance, an international business information provider discovered that 23 percent of its accounts had unlicensed use — a large revenue opportunity for it to monetise.
Outsell Scout Analytics seeks to give companies a window into their customer demand at the corporate and user ID levels. Companies can monetise demand by analysing unauthorised use, focus attention on customers who are at risk of not renewing, and offer active customers products they may not currently use.
The technology platform for Outsell Scout Analytics is seen to transparently monitor user sessions and aggregate a digital signature associated with a customer’s access and usage, such as device, location, identity, domain, institution and content. The technology is expected to give clients richer segmentation information and deeper visibility into content usage and demand for each customer segment, as illustrated through dashboards. Outsell works with clients to analyse the findings, and determine marketing, sales and service strategies for specific customer segments. In addition, the technology platform integrates with sales force automation (SFA) and other software to trigger sales contacts, marketing emails, or customer service follow-up.
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Adis announces new pricing model for recession-hit customers - 06 Nov 2009 Adis, a Wolters Kluwer business, has announced a new tiered pricing model for institutions subscribing to its leading pharmacology titles in 2010. The new tiered pricing model is designed to make Adis’ publications more affordable for their recession-hit customers.
The new model offers 3 tiers of pricing which will deliver significantly lower prices for small and mid-sized organisations and a price freeze for the largest organisations. The model is based on the number of FTEs within pharmaceutical companies, the number of staffed beds in hospitals; and the number of relevant FTE across health faculties across academic institutions.
Adis journals are projected to be a must-have resource for anyone with an interest in independent reviews and original research to support better therapeutic decisions. The portfolio features many leading titles on drug development, therapy and pharma co-evaluation including Drugs, PharmacoEconomics and Drug Safety.
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Latest version of Symyx Direct supports Markush structure storage and retrieval - 06 Nov 2009 Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of information management systems, has announced the release of the Symyx Direct 6.3 chemistry data cartridge. The product is projected to feature new capabilities in the handling of non-specific Markush chemical structures. Symyx Direct enables researchers to register, search and retrieve molecular structures and reactions stored in Oracle relational databases. Claimed to be used by more than 80 percent of life sciences organisations worldwide, the cartridge offers performance with databases containing over 17 million reactions and over 30 million structures.
The new Markush functionality in Symyx Direct seeks to support combinatorial library design and patent claim analysis in drug discovery by greatly expanding the techniques available for managing and exploring large numbers of related chemical substructures. A Markush structure represents a large number of compounds as a single, generic entry by identifying a core structure and listing all possible variants or substitutes using Rgroup notations and substituent lists. Markush structures make it possible to generate and index all possible permutations of a specific chemical entity without creating an unmanageable information repository.
The Symyx Direct chemistry cartridge is positioned as a central component of the chemistry engine underlying Symyx Notebook, Symyx Isentris and related scientific workflow applications including Symyx Registration software. It supports Rgroup, Sgroup, flexmatch, 2-D and 3-D exact and molecule substructure searching; structure similarity searching; reaction similarity searching; searching of tetrahedral stereoisomers and non-tetrahedral stereoisomers; storage and retrieval of sequences including peptides, oligonucleotides and oligosaccharides—and now Markush structure storage, searching and retrieval.
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