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ARL, partners receive grant to study value of academic libraries to students, faculty - 13 Jan 2010
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Libraries and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), has received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The funding will be used to study the value of academic libraries to students, faculty, policymakers and funders. The three-year grant, entitled ‘Value, Outcomes, and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries (Lib-Value),’ will work to enrich, expand, test, and implement methodologies measuring the return on investment (ROI) in academic libraries. Academic libraries actively participate in the many changes in scholarship, such as the move to e-science, collaborative and participatory scholarship, and focus on new materials such as data, multimedia, and born-digital assets. To remain relevant and central to the academic mission in the future, academic librarians need to be able to demonstrate the value that the academic library provides to the campus community using proven methods of measurement. The results of the study will provide evidence and a set of tested methodologies and tools to help academic librarians demonstrate how the library provides value to its constituents and ROI to its funders; and to measure which products and services are of most value to enhancing the university’s mission. The project is expected to expand upon earlier studies to consider multiple measures of value that the academic library brings to teaching/learning, research, and social/professional/public engagement functions of the academic institution. To ensure that the process will be rigorous, realistic and highly visible in the academic library and university community, an experienced team of academic librarians and researchers are projected to bring their leadership to the project. The project is also engaging an advisory committee of noted information science researchers. Search for more industry study reports Discuss this NEWS
Case Studies/Industry study reports > Library Information - Management
SAGE expands list of titles offering open access through SAGE Open - 13 Jan 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it has extended the list of titles included in its SAGE Open initiative. Ninety SAGE journals will now offer open access through SAGE Open. SAGE Open initiative is a hybrid open access publishing model allowing authors the option to pay to make their primary research articles freely available on publication. The initiative was introduced to enable authors to comply with funding body requirements. It seeks to ensure that relevant journals are compliant with NIH/Wellcome Trust and other grant funder requirements. Originally including only titles in SAGE’s biomedical publishing programme, the list of journals now includes titles from across the science, technology and medical disciplines including some material science and engineering, psychology and nursing titles. Authors can select the SAGE Open option on acceptance of their paper for publication. Payment of the SAGE Open fee will enable articles to be immediately available on SAGE Journals Online to non-subscribers, as well as to subscribers to that journal. It will also permit authors to submit the final manuscript to their funding agency’s preferred archive if applicable. SAGE will post to PubMed Central (PMC) and its international equivalents, such as UKPMC or PMCI, on behalf of authors where their funder requires it. Search for more publishing models Discuss this NEWS
Open Access > General information - Publishing Models
Portico to preserve OA content from BioMed Central - 13 Jan 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it will preserve BioMed Central's entire collection of 60,000 open access online articles and all newly published articles going forward. With the inclusion of all articles from BioMed Central's 205 online journals, over 10,700 e-journals, including over 400 open access journals, and 34,000 e-books from 91 publishers have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Open access publisher BioMed Central, a unit of Springer Science + Business Media, will participate in Portico under the journal archive license agreement already in place between Springer and Portico. With this initiative, Springer furthers its digital preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico since 2007 on behalf of 824 journals and, since 2009, on behalf of 21,000 e-books. Launched in 2000 as an independent publishing house, BioMed Central provides free access to peer-reviewed research in the biomedical sciences. Acquired by Springer in October 2008, BioMed Central claims to be the largest open access provider in the world with 205 peer-reviewed open access journals. Search for more archiving services Discuss this NEWS
Accessibility/Conversion/Preservation/Archiving
CABI Agricultural Collection now available via Credo Reference platform - 13 Jan 2010
Online reference library Credo Reference, US, has signed an agreement to launch a new Publisher Collection from CABI. A set of CABI’s reference resources will soon be added to the Credo Reference platform. CABI is a non-profit international organisation that provides information to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. The CABI Agricultural Collection on Credo will include all of CABI’s key subject encyclopaedias and dictionaries devoted to the applied life sciences. They will be available by subscription or purchase on the Credo Reference platform. Planned titles for the collection include: The Encyclopedia of Farm Animal Nutrition; The Encyclopedia of Fruit & Nuts; The Encyclopedia of Seeds: Science, Technology and Uses; A Dictionary of Entomology; Dictionary of the Fungi, 10th Edition; Fungal Families of the World; and The Encyclopedia of Applied Animal Behavior and Welfare. Credo Reference has been offering completely customisable reference collections for libraries since 1999. Credo’s General Reference and Specialist Reference services combine extensive content from multiple publishers with unique cross-referencing technology, effortlessly delivering authoritative answers to millions of researchers worldwide. Search for more reference tools Discuss this NEWS
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Mosby holds conference for nursing educators to update tech and curricula - 13 Jan 2010
Mosby, the medical reference arm of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that its Faculty Development Institute conference, held January 3-5, 2010, brought together nursing educators from across the US with industry leaders. The three-day educational conference sought to address challenges in the nursing industry from a variety of perspectives. The Mosby meet is designed for both new nurse educators and veteran nurse faculty. More than 450 attendees from 47 states had the opportunity to collaborate with other industry professionals on a range of topics including legal issues, teaching strategies, simulation and virtual experiences. The event sought to focus on not only introducing new technology to nurse educators but aiding them in integrating it into their existing curricula. The Institute’s main conference breakout session included virtual clinical experiences, integrating simulation throughout the curriculum and using new aspects of technology in the classroom. By simulating real-world situations, attendees aided each other by sharing everyday tips, tools and techniques for better teaching outcomes. Mosby has been holding the annual conference over the past 20 years. Search for more such events/conferences Discuss this NEWS
Conference proceedings/Debates/Workshops/Seminars > Medical information - nursing/healthcare
Atypon to power next generation informaworld publishing platform - 13 Jan 2010
Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced that academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group has selected its software to power the next generation of the informaworld publishing platform. A division of Informa plc, Taylor & Francis Group includes such imprints as CRC Press, Psychology Press, and Routledge. It publishes more than 1,400 journals and 3,000 new books each year and maintains an e-book backlist of 25,000 titles and a print backlist of 50,000 titles. Atypon will host the next-generation informaworld platform. According to Atypon, this is expected to bring in significant cost savings to the publisher. The platform will be fully integrated with Taylor & Francis’s internal systems, allowing for seamless identity and access management, commerce and more. Search for more online hosting services Discuss this NEWS
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Industry veterans join Copyright Clearance Center Board of Directors - 13 Jan 2010
Copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, has announced the election of Laura N. Gasaway and Tarja Koskinen-Olsson to its Board of Directors. Gasaway is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. She teaches courses in Copyright Law and Cyberspace Law in the Law School and Copyright Law for Librarians in the School of Information and Library Science. Additionally, she is past president of the American Association of Law Libraries, a Fellow of the Special Libraries Association and has served on and chaired various committees of both associations, including their Copyright Committees. Koskinen-Olsson works as an international advisor on intellectual property issues, with rights management as a special focus. She served as President of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO) from 1993 to 1999 and then as Honorary President from 2001 to 2009. In 2006, Koskinen-Olsson was elected a Member of the High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries, a flagship initiative of the European Commission. Today, she lectures extensively at various training programmes organised by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and local organisers, such as the Patent and Registration Office in Sweden, the Norwegian Copyright Development Association (NORCODE), the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) and the Organisation Africaine de la Propriete Intellectuelle (OAPI). Copyright Clearance Center provides innovative licensing solutions for the seamless sharing of knowledge. The company’s licensing services, combined with its Web-based applications and tools, allow corporations, universities, law firms and government agencies to use and share published information with ease. Discuss this NEWS
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