The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) have announced a new educational initiative called ‘Greater Reach for Your Research’. The campaign encourages Canadian authors to use their campus digital repository to increase the use and impact of their research outputs.

The initiative features a new brochure and matching web portal, a slidecast on the importance of retaining copyright, the SPARC Canadian Author Addendum and updated brochure. The other resources available include a video interview with Ernie Ingles, Vice Provost and Chief Librarian at the University of Alberta. Faculty associations and repository advocates are invited to print or order copies of the brochure and access the suite of resources available through the CARL and SPARC websites. A US version of the brochure will be released in 2009.

The campaign lays emphasis on the practical benefits of repositories - such as more exposure for researchers’ articles, universal access to research literature and long-term preservation. Citation research has reportedly shown that articles posted to a digital repository are cited more frequently than articles appearing only in journals.

Digital repositories are online archives maintained by universities, colleges, funding agencies, and other institutions to collect, preserve and provide unrestricted online access to all types of institutional research outputs. These include published articles and research data, and are seen as key components of the emerging digital research infrastructure.

Media industry forecast and analysis firm Simba Information has released a report according to which global recession will lead to slower growth in professional publishing markets through 2010. However, e-publishing activities, such as online services, abstracting and indexing tools, electronic databases and Web directories, will plow through the economic doldrums.

According to Simba's Global Professional Publishing 2008-2009, the global professional publishing market has been growing in the 4.5 percent to 6.5 percent range for the past several years. Simba Information projects that the market will grow at a compound annual rate of only 3.6 percent through 2011. E-publishing services will fare much better than the average, while medical publishing - the second largest segment after legal publishing - will suffer from poor advertising sales particularly from the slumping pharmaceutical industry.

The newly released Simba report provides market sizing, strategic and competitive analysis, forecasts and critical insight into the markets for scientific, technical, medical, business and legal publishing. The report gives the financial outlook for the global professional publishing market based on specific research and analysis of the leading competitors and market performance in six content delivery categories.

Ex Libris Asia Pacific has announced that the National Library of New Zealand has chosen to expand its suite of Ex Libris products with the Primo solution, which will provide users with a unified interface for the discovery and delivery of the library’s vast collections. The National Library of New Zealand is the fifth national library to join the rapidly growing international Primo community, which now includes more than 150 institutions.

In addition to Primo’s interoperability with the Library’s existing systems, the product’s open interfaces, which enable institutions to develop unique extensions to meet their specific needs, were key to the National Library’s choice of Primo.

Primo is claimed to be a one-stop solution for the discovery and delivery of local and remote resources, such as books, journal articles and digital objects. It assists libraries in fully utilising their collections and offering users an up-to-date discovery and delivery experience. Primo services can be embedded in commonly used applications such as course management systems and institutional portals, helping library serve users wherever they are.

Digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, has announced a significant increase in the student and faculty adoption of VitalSource, its interactive e-textbook platform. In January 2009, the platform saw more than a 600 percent rise over the same period in 2008.

VitalSource allows publishers to reach out to emerging digital markets while also protecting their content from illegal use and piracy. The interactive format allows users to search, highlight and annotate their texts. VitalSource-powered e-books can be downloaded to a user’s PC or Mac, making them accessible anywhere, anytime – even when the user is no longer connected to the Internet. The VitalSource Bookshelf application stores, indexes and displays the e-books and functions as a virtual meeting place for readers to trade notes, tips and techniques.

Bookshelf, an interactive e-book reader, is claimed to experience continued exponential growth as e-books are increasingly adopted by the higher education community. After adding 100,000 new users over the course of its first 10 years, the number of users has tripled since June, surpassing 300,000 users in January 2009. In January alone, 44,453 users downloaded Bookshelf.

The Bookshelf platform enables social networking in the classroom by allowing students and faculty to share their notes with each other – another feature seen to be contributing to its rapid adoption. In January 2009, over 3 million notes and highlights were shared. Professors are also choosing to share their notes with students.

The latest version of the platform, Bookshelf 5.1, incorporates changes based upon feedback from users. It features faster search capabilities, cited as the most valuable feature by students, as well as improved print functions and enhanced organising and downloading capabilities.

Information services company Baker & Taylor, Inc., US, has launched the first phase of its integrated digital media distribution platform through a strategic worldwide licensing partnership with US-based e-book technology firm ebrary.

The partnership enables Baker & Taylor to develop its own digital content products and services, as well as to integrate tens of thousands of e-books and other titles that ebrary has aggregated from more than 350 leading publishers. The new Baker & Taylor digital media distribution platform will be seamlessly integrated to efficiently deliver physical and digital content across its broad customer markets.

ebrary seeks to help libraries, publishers and other organisations disseminate information to end-users, while improving end-user research and document interaction. The company has developed a flexible e-content platform, which customers may use in a number of different, integrated capacities.

ebrary is a leading provider of e-content services and technology. The company helps libraries, publishers, and other organizations worldwide disseminate valuable information to end-users, while improving their research and document interaction. ebrary customers may purchase or subscribe to e-books and other content under a variety of pricing and access models, and they may license the ebrary platform to distribute, sell, and market their own content online. All options are delivered using a customizable interface and include a choice of ebrary Readers with QuickView for instant viewing in a browser and InfoTools software which provide contextual searching and integration with multiple online resources.

ebrary currently offers a growing selection of more than 170,000 e-books and other titles from more than 350 leading publishers and aggregators.

Academic and reference books publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced the appointment of Nigel Portwood as the new Chief Executive. His role will commence in the summer of 2009 upon the retirement of OUP’s current Chief Executive, Dr Henry Reece.

The appointment of the new Chief Executive was made by the Delegates of Oxford University Press - the committee of Oxford academics appointed by the University to oversee the affairs of the Press. The Chief Executive of OUP is also known as the Secretary to the Delegates.

Portwood has more than a decade’s senior management experience in the global publishing industry. He is currently Executive Vice President (EVP), Global Operations for the Penguin Group, based in New York. He has direct responsibility for several Penguin businesses including Dorling Kindersley and Penguin South Africa, as well as global responsibility for operational functions across Penguin, with an emphasis on modernisation and global co-ordination.

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.

A recent gathering of research, education and IT experts reportedly found that there is a need for a UK Research Data Service (UKRDS), based on a ‘cooperative service model’. The service would build on existing good practice in data management and fill gaps in the UK’s provision. More than 700 researchers at four case study universities were interviewed as part of the investigations. Nearly 200 delegates gathered in London recently to debate the issue.

The study was funded under the HEFCE shared services programme with additional funding from JISC, Research Libraries UK and the Russell Universities Group IT directors.

According to JISC representatives, institutional repositories could fill gaps left by the lack of suitable subject repositories. If subject repositories in all disciplines cannot be created, a horizontal vision across institutional and disciplinary repositories would be required, they stated. This would include subject practitioner advice on what to save and how.

Most of the subject-specific data centres were established by researchers in response to a research need, the conference heard. Examples include protein and genome databases maintained by the European Bioinformatics Institute and environmental data centres managed by the Natural Environment Research Council. The initiative behind the UKRDS study, however, came largely from the library and information communities.

The meeting also heard that researchers are often not good at managing data beyond the lifetime of a funded project. Generally, data is never fully analysed by the researchers who generate it. Most data is stored locally if no national or international facility is available. It was also found that while 88 percent of researchers already share data, even if only with collaborators or through informal peer exchange networks, 43 percent say they would like to access others’ data.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) has announced the July 2009 launch of a new peer-reviewed medical journal - Osteopathic Family Physician. Jay H. Shubrook Jr., Director, Diabetes Fellowship, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. He will be supported by an eminent Editorial Board.

Osteopathic Family Physician is the official publication of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians. It will deliver information that helps osteopathic family physicians care for their patients and improve their practices. Reflecting the interests of Association members and other health professionals, the journal’s content will cover such diverse topics as preventive medicine, managed care, osteopathic principles and practices, pain management, public health, medical education and practice management.

Providing a forum for careful systematic reviews of primary care, Osteopathic Family Physician’s particular emphasis will include an active forum for the presentation of family medicine research in diverse settings, involving medical students, residents, fellows and practicing professionals.

Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter’s online collection of 12 journals. With this inclusion, more than 8,400 e-journals and more than 5,600 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive.

Through this agreement, INFORMS seeks to further its preservation strategy. Since 2000, INFORMS has worked with JSTOR to provide a trusted archive of the back issues of seven of its publications. Through Portico, it will provide for the ongoing preservation of its electronic current issues. As part of this agreement, INFORMS will make an annual financial contribution to Portico.

INFORMS is a society for professionals in the field of operations research. It was established in 1995 with the merger of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) and The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS).

Federated search services provider Deep Web Technologies, US, has launched their advanced alerts service in Scitopia.org, the free, federated search portal powered by Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator. Scitopia.org Alerts delivers science and engineering content of interest to users through email and RSS feeds automatically, rather than forcing users to come to scitopia.org to perform searches themselves. The service makes it easy for users to stay current on research from the deep web libraries of major science and engineering societies, such as IEEE, Institute of Physics, American Physical Society as well as patent databases and government sources.

Scitopia.org, designed for direct access to the best in science and technology research, provides a one-stop search interface to more than three and a half million peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings, fifty million patents, and full-text documents from government websites. Founded in 2007, scitopia.org spans 350 years of data, federating the scholarly content from twenty-one societies, and six government information sources. Each search is run against all or selected digital collections. Results are then aggregated, de-duplicated and ranked for maximum search efficiency.

Scitopia.org Alerts service automatically runs searches requested by users on the terms and those societies they choose to include in their search. The technology “remembers” which search results have already been delivered to the user and sends only new results, making it a powerful tool for researchers to identify new publications and articles in their areas of interest. Alerts can be created for any term or field, including author, abstracts, and affiliations. The technology also recognizes institutional subscriptions to society content and automatically authenticates those users, allowing them to click through to the full text from the Alert. Others can purchase full text on a pay-per-view basis.

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that the Society has adopted UK-based data solutions provider DataSalon Ltd’s product MasterVision to establish a complete ‘single customer view’. The solution cleans and integrates all of the RSC’s existing data sourced from 12 different systems, and builds a single record for each customer.

This new, fully-integrated customer view presents major new opportunities for the RSC’s sales and marketing teams. The detailed analysis and segmentation which is now possible will further enhance the relevance of customer communications, and different types of customer data will be cross-referenced to create targeted cross-selling campaigns closely tied to each contact’s interests.

MasterVision is a fully-managed web-based service which provides users with an interface to search, analyse and export their customer data. The system also provides a rage of visual reports including pie charts, bar charts, cross tabs and maps: all enabling staff to explore and visualise their customers in a variety of different ways. Management dashboards are also included, combining charts and tables into a single view to provide one-click access to essential management stats and trends.

The latest quarterly update of the ResNet Mammalian database is now available for subscribers to download. The ResNet 6 update includes new data from PubMed for the Q4 2008.

The ResNet Mammalian includes curated signaling and cellular process regulation pathways, ontologies and annotations. Also, it contains a database of over 1.5 million molecular interactions and functional relationships extracted from the entire PubMed (17,000,000 abstracts) and 61 full text journals.

ResNet Mammalian can be used for data mining and pathway building. It contains information on over 1.5 million functional relationships for human, rat, and mouse, linked to all of their original literature sources.

Educational publisher Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. (J&B), US, has announced the first two titles in the new Ugly’s Electrical Reference Series – Ugly’s Electrical Safety and NFPA 70E and Ugly’s Referencias Eléctricas.

Ugly’s Electrical Safety and NFPA 70E is the first pocket-sized summary of recently approved NFPA 70E 2009 as well as current OSHA regulations, and the 2008 National Electrical Code. With the industry’s increased emphasis on electrical workplace safety, this reference guide has been designed to provide quick access to - and clear explanations of - the most critical safety codes, standards, and regulations. The title focuses on the safety requirements of electrical systems operating at or below 600V, and includes safe electrical work practices, personal protective equipment and life-saving first aid procedures. J&B is co-publishing this title with the National Fire Protection Association.

Ugly’s Referencias Eléctricas is based on Ugly’s Electrical References. The Spanish translation covers critical industry topics most requested by electrical professionals for the country’s rapidly growing Spanish-speaking workforce. Ugly’s, which was first published in the late 1970s, is completely updated for today’s codes and standards. It features many resources that make it what is claimed to be the industry’s best-selling pocket reference, including mathematical formulas, National Electrical Code tables, wiring configurations, conduit bending and voltage drops.

The next titles in the Ugly’s series include Ugly’s Electric Motors and Controls; Ugly’s Electrical Calculations; Ugly’s Electrical Desk Reference, 2008 Edition; and Ugly’s Residential Wiring.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published its first e-only bimonthly report, Research Library Issues (RLI), which now sports a new look and title. The e-only format enables broad distribution of the articles and the introduction of new features, such as audio excerpts from speaker presentations. The focus of the publication continues to be on the major issues that affect the ability of research libraries to meet the academic and research needs of the diverse communities they serve.

The first issue of RLI features two ARL statements - on the university’s role in the dissemination of research and scholarship, and on the global economic crisis - and an article by University of Washington’s Elisabeth Jones on “Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum.” In addition, ARL’s Martha Kyrillidou writes on “Redefining Serial Counts and Remaining Relevant in the 21st Century.”

RLI is a continuation of the publication ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues from ARL, CNI, and SPARC. RLI continues the numbering of this serial with no. 262. Current and back issues of the publication are freely available as PDFs on the ARL website.

Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, UK, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has announced the autumn 2009 launch of two new peer-reviewed titles - Nanoscale and Analytical Methods.

Nanoscale will be a collaborative venture between RSC Publishing and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) in Beijing, China. The journal will publish experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It will have monthly issues containing a full mix of research articles including communications, reviews, and full papers. Nanoscale will appeal to scientists, researchers and professionals interested in nanoscience and nanotechnology, including the areas of medicine, materials, energy/environment, information technology, detection science, healthcare and drug discovery, and electronics. Chunli Bai, Director of NCNST and Executive Vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will be Editor-in-Chief of a new Asia-Pacific editorial office for the journal. Markus Niederberger of ETH Zurich and Francesco Stellacci from Massachusetts Institute of Technology will head two further regional offices in Europe and North America.

Analytical Methods will highlight new and improved methods for the practical application of analytical science. The journal scope includes pharmaceutical and applied industrial analysis, agricultural and food analysis, forensic analysis and heritage science. It will particularly focus on fundamental and applied modern analytical science, and will provide a forum for the wider scientific community, appealing to both academic and industrial scientists.

From launch, the latest issues of both journals will be freely available to all readers via the website. Free institutional online access to all 2009 and 2010 content will be available following a simple registration process.

Academic publisher SAGE has signed an agreement with the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) that will widen access to its two journals – Building Services Engineering Research and Technology Journal (BSER&T) and Lighting, Research & Technology Journal (LR&T). CIBSE members can now benefit from free online access to BSER&T, while Society of Light and Lighting members (SLL), a CIBSE society, can view copies of LR&T. Together, the two journals will reach more than 20,000 members.

The agreement coincides with CIBSE renewing their journals contracts with SAGE in January 2009. In addition to current content, members will also have access to the full archive of each journal – 40 years of publications for LR&T and 30 years for BSER&T.

BSER&T publishes original research relevant to today’s Built Environment. It covers the full range of energy and environmental services in buildings. This includes heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical services and water supply.

LR&T publishes papers on all aspects of the subject of light and lighting ranging from the human response to light, to all aspects of the science of light generation, light control and measurement.

Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced that it is sponsoring the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) conference in Seattle, Washington, to be held March 12-15, 2009.

Emerald will be exhibiting its new eBook series collection at the event. These two collections both complement the focus of existing Emerald journals and extend it into new subject areas such as Psychology and Sociology. The Business, Management and Economics collection includes 65 series titles covering subjects like strategy, accounting and finance. The Social Sciences collection complements the current portfolio, with titles in sociology, education and psychology. In total, they represent over 500 volumes and feature leading international authors in each field covered.

The ACRL 14th National Conference, ‘Pushing the Edge: Explore, Engage, Extend’, offers an opportunity to meet with and influence the decision-makers in academic and research libraries. More than 3,000 registered librarians, 300 "exhibits-only" guests, and others will come together for three-and-a-half days of learning and networking.

Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced ten new journals for 2009, taking Maney's list to almost 90 titles. The new journals are: Bubble Science, Engineering and Technology; International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology; Ming Studies; T'ang Studies; Dutch Crossing; Early Medieval China; Folk Life; Italian Culture; Language and History; and Tel Aviv.

The company continues to grow its society journal publishing partnerships. The American Association for Italian Studies, the Association for Low Countries Studies, the Early Medieval China Group, Inc., the Society for Ming Studies and the T'ang Studies Society are amongst its new clients in 2009.

With the publication of the International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology and Folk Life, Maney extends long-standing relationships with the Newcomen Society and the Society for Folk Life Studies, with whom it has worked for several years now. The three Chinese studies journals - Early Medieval China, Ming Studies and T'ang Studies - represent a new subject area for Maney, which already publishes many language, history and cultural studies journals in European, American and Middle-Eastern studies.

Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University joins Maney's exceptional archaeology and heritage list, and complements titles such as Levant and Palestine Exploration Quarterly.

Bubble Science, Engineering and Technology has been launched in response to a rapidly growing interest in the production and control of bubbles in numerous disciplines. The journal's coverage includes drug and gene therapy, food science, medical physics, materials science and engineering, climate engineering, environmental engineering and biotechnology.

The journals also come to Maney with complete archives which will be made available online via IngentaConnect.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Dr. Lajos P. Balogh, as the new Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine (Nanomedicine: NBM).

Dr. Balogh has been involved in nanotechnology research since 1996 and is presently active in various interdisciplinary directions. He has published over 180 scientific papers and has been awarded 12 patents on dendrimers, nanocomposites, cancer imaging and treatment, analytical chemistry, separation science, technology, polymer synthesis and characterisation.

An online journal published by Elsevier, Nanomedicine: NBM presents basic, clinical, and engineering research in the field of nanomedicine. Article categories include basic, diagnostic, experimental, clinical, engineering, pharmacologic, and toxicologic nanomedicine. The journal is indexed in MEDLINE from Volume 1, issue 1 and is available online at www.nanomedjournal.com.

Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has announced that it was named by KMWorld Magazine to its prestigious ‘100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management’ for 2009. The company is recognised for the third consecutive year for its customer-driven agile innovation.

KMWorld’s list of 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management is compiled by KMWorld practitioners, theorists, analysts and vendors, as well as the publication’s customers and colleagues. The ‘KMWorld’s 100 Companies that Matter In Knowledge Management’ list recognises companies capacity for agile and customer-driven innovation.

Founded in 2000, TEMIS is a leading provider of corporate text mining and text analytics software solutions for the enterprise. The company’s flagship information intelligence solution Luxid 5.0 provides powerful Text Analytics capabilities supporting the increasing needs for agile solutions, enabling customers to make better decisions and deliver higher quality products whilst reducing the costs of information delivery.

Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with International Institute for Learning Inc., (IIL). Under the deal, the global publisher will publish books for the Project Management market that also supplement IIL course offerings.

The new series of books will produce best practice insights for project managers and those responsible for sponsoring and supporting projects, including executives, in the global marketplace in which both Wiley and IIL play critical roles. The first books in the series are expected to publish in the fall of 2009.

The series will generate four to six books a year on topics such as, Project, Program, and Portfolio Management, Lean Six Sigma, Business Analysis, and Business Strategy. The first series of breakthrough books will be written by best-selling project management expert authors, Harold Kerzner and Frank P. Saladis, PMP. Titles include: Value-Driven Project Management, What Executives Need to Know about Project Management, and What Functional Managers Need to Know about Project Management. The books are seen to be a strong strategic fit with Wiley's successful list of titles on project management in global corporations.

Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that it will be conducting a scientific programme ‘Frontiers of Retrovirology: Complex retroviruses, retroelements and their hosts’ in Montpellier, France. Scheduled for September 21-23, 2009, the conference will bring together leading human retrovirus researchers to review current progress and to chart future challenges.

Internationally renowned speakers will present their insights into the principles guiding the life cycle of endogenous retroelements, complex human retroviruses, and their pathogenic interactions with the hosts. The event is co-sponsored by the Institut Pasteur, Agence National de Recherches sur le Sida and the Institut de Génétique Humaine.

The scientific programme is relevant for scientists working across the full range of subspecialties. Dialogue will be fostered via keynote and plenary lectures. All participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. A significant number of talks will also be selected from registrants. Deadline for submission of abstracts is June 26, 2009.

Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, US, has signed new beta development partners and new content providers to its Summon unified discovery service. University of Sydney and University of Liverpool join Dartmouth College and Oklahoma State University as beta development sites for the new service. New content will be contributed from the American Physics Association (APA) and Alexander Street Press, both acclaimed sources of scholarly journal content. The new beta site and content additions are part of the Summon service's aggressive growth and development program in preparation for its launch mid-year.

Announced in January, the Summon service addresses what research shows is a fundamental barrier between libraries and users: a simple, obvious starting point for searches. The service is being developed in close cooperation with library beta partners, with a goal of not only bringing the researcher back to the library, but providing a channel for greater return on the library's content investment.

The participation of content providers is also vital component of the service's development. The Summon service surpasses federated search in favour of a single search against pre-harvested content enabling fast results, in true relevancy-ranked order. With lead participants ProQuest and Gale, the Summon service's list of contributors has expanded dramatically in two months. The journals of APA and Alexander Street Press are significant scholarly scientific and humanities contributions that join the works of Springer, Taylor & Francis, SAGE Publications, and other prestigious organizations.

Energy information provider Platts, part of the McGraw-Hill Companies, US, has announced the launch of a new online service, LNG TraderNet. The web-based service is designed to provide traders, analysts, and other members of the LNG community with ‘one-stop’ market intelligence and analytical tools.

LNG TraderNet features a comprehensive range of resources, including price assessments, fundamental market data, decision-support tools, and news from Platts' global editorial team. Key features include access to Platts' LNG Tracker database which provides detailed information on existing and proposed regasification terminals and liquefaction facilities; a calculator that helps gauge opportunities and potential netback pricing up to three years into the future using Platts proprietary forward curves; interactive global map that provides profiles of terminals, facilities and ports and shows tanker movements and their estimated times of arrival; summary data on deliveries of LNG cargoes and actual prices paid; and searchable and archived news coverage of the global LNG market.

In addition, in the near future, subscribers will be able to access weather-related information that shows how weather conditions are affecting selected shipping routes and LNG cargoes. Subscriptions are offered on either a global or regional basis (Asia, Americas, or Europe, Middle East & Africa), with pricing based on the number of users. A free two-week trial is available to qualified prospects.

Medical publisher CIG Media Group, US, has announced its participation in the 2009 Gateway to China programme through Swets and China Educational Publications Import & Export Corporation (CEPIEC). The China Road Shows programme is a unique exhibition with the purpose of promoting journals and electronic resources from global publishers to Chinese end users (http://journalfair.cepiec.com.cn).

All seven of CIG Media Group's -reviewed, tumor-specific clinical oncology journals will be on display during the China Road Shows program, offering online trial access to participating institutions. Fifty-eight universities and research institutions, including the Library of the Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Peking University Health Science Library, and Capital Medical University Library, will have free online trial access to the journals from March 10, 2009 to June 10, 2009.

CIG Media, a subsidiary of Medical Media Holdings, LLC, publishes peer-reviewed, tumour-specific medical oncology journals, all of which are indexed in PubMed. Each year, the company also publishes multiple tumour-specific journal supplements that provide oncology professionals with opportunities to earn American Medical Association-accredited continuing medical education credits.

Web and print resources provider H.W. Wilson Company, US, has announced the appointment of John Regazzi to the newly created position of Chief Strategy Officer. He will report to H.W. Wilson President and CEO Harold Regan.

In his new position, Regazzi will focus on a broad range of initiatives, including new products, product enhancements, business development, and marketing. He currently serves (and will continue on) as a full professor in the College of Information and Computer Science at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.

Regazzi has earlier served H.W. Wilson as Vice-President of Computer Services, overseeing the company's conversion from print to electronic publishing, from 1981 to 1988. In 1988, he was appointed President & CEO of Engineering Information, Inc., and in 1999, when Ei became part of Elsevier, Inc., he was appointed to the position of President & CEO of Elsevier, Inc. with responsibilities for electronic publishing. In 2004, he assumed the additional role of Managing Director, Market Development, where he was responsible for research and development, advanced technology and new strategic market initiatives.

H.W. Wilson provides researchers with references produced with editorial integrity. More than 60 H.W. Wilson databases - indexes, abstracts, full text resources, plus the acclaimed Retrospective Collection - meet the research needs of customers around the globe.

Health science publisher BC Decker Inc, Canada, has announced the appointment of Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel as the new Editor-in-Chief of its critically acclaimed internal medicine reference, ACP Medicine. The journal is the official publication of the American College of Physicians (ACP).

Dr. Nabel is an internationally renowned researcher and has been the recipient of many awards of distinction and is renowned worldwide for her contributions to medicine. Dr. Nabel is the third Editor-in-Chief of ACP Medicine since its inception 30 years ago.

In addition to many changes, Dr. Nabel envisions adding teaching videos to the online home of ACP Medicine, www.acpmedicine.com. She also intends to expand the scope of the content by infusing the opinions of multiple expert authors into each chapter, providing different perspectives on varying medical topics. Together with Decker, Dr. Nabel will expand the scope of ACP Medicine into the global medical education community and will strive to make ACP Medicine an internationally adopted medical reference.

Pharmaceutical and healthcare information provider IMS Health, US, has announced that its Board of Directors has elected Dr. Bradley T. Sheares as a director, effective April 21, 2009. Dr. Sheares’ career spans more than 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry. Most recently, he served as chief executive officer of Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company with integrated sales, marketing and development expertise that marketed a portfolio of branded cardiovascular medicines.

Dr. Sheares is the former chair of the Board of Directors of the National Pharmaceutical Council, which focuses on broadly communicating the economic, clinical and societal value of pharmaceuticals. He serves on the boards of directors of Honeywell International, a diversified technology and manufacturing company; The Progressive Corporation, one of the nation’s largest insurance holding companies; and Covance, a global leader in drug development services.

Operating in more than 100 countries, IMS Health offers market intelligence products and services that are integral to clients’ day-to-day operations. These include portfolio optimisation capabilities; launch and brand management solutions; sales force effectiveness innovations; managed care and over-the-counter offerings; and consulting and services solutions that improve ROI and the delivery of quality healthcare worldwide.

Scotland’s university researchers are set to benefit from Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL), a shared digital library that will widen access to over 1,500 specialist journals and publications. JISC Collections negotiated this pilot scheme, which will be led by the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries. Three academic publishers - Cambridge University Press, the American Chemical Society and Springer - have already signed up.

The initiative, seen to be the first of its kind in the UK, is also expected to encourage collaboration between institutions as it gives researchers access to journals on the fringes of their chosen disciplines. SHEDL is considered vital to the development of Scottish-based research, over half of which was rated internationally excellent or world-leading in last month’s Research Assessment Exercise.

SHEDL has been backed by all of Scotland’s higher education institutions, who hope it will support research, learning and teaching. It is also expected to stimulate research both across different disciplines and between institutions.

The Bradford University Repository Project (BURP) is ready for launch. The Project Team of the 1-year project has announced the forthcoming launch of Bradford Scholars - the University of Bradford online research archive. The archive is already available to users for viewing existing materials and contributing new content.

The archive currently hosts about 400 full digital objects ranging from traditional journal articles and conference papers to theses and video recordings. Scholarly materials hosted in Bradford Scholars may be browsed on-site at http://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk or located via any search engine. Furthermore, content is completely open access and free to any web user.

Bradford Scholars is registered with a number of repository registries, hubs and search services, including OpenDOAR, ROAR, Scientific Commons, Intute Repository Search and NDLTD. The archive also interacts with the University’s current Blackboard VLE, Metalib and the forthcoming new library catalogue Encore. The new content management systems soon to roll out on campus will also permit staff to receive live feeds from the repository to their personal webpages.

Springer India Pvt. Ltd., in collaboration with FMC, part of the specialist publishing group Springer Science+Business Media, has announced the inaugural issue of the Indian edition of Dentistry, the UK Business Magazine of the Year 2008. First published in 1995, Dentistry claims to be the UK's highest circulation dental journal. The journal focuses on the latest news and information in the field of dentistry.

The announcement was made during the Indian Prosthodontic Society‘s 11th National Post Graduate Student Convention, hosted by the Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, New Delhi. Dr. Mahesh Verma, Director Principal of the Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences (MAIDS), has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Indian edition.

The bi-monthly Indian edition of the publication will include articles about the most current trends in dentistry in India as well worldwide. In addition, the journal will include key sections on implantology and prosthodontics, endodontics and conservative dentistry, cosmetic dentistry and periodontics.

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture have jointly announced the first international Open Access Week (October 19 – 23, 2009). Open Access Week builds on the momentum generated by the 120 campuses in 27 countries that celebrated Open Access Day in 2008.

The now-annual event, expanded from one day to a full week, presents an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public. Key new contributors, who will help to enhance and expand the global reach of this popular event in 2009 include eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries), OASIS (the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook); and the Open Access Directory (OAD).

This year’s programme will highlight educational resources on Open Access that local hosts can use to customise their own programmes to suit local audiences and time zones. OASIS will serve as the centerpiece of the 2009 programme, delivering resources for every constituency and every awareness level. The Open Access Directory will again provide an index of participants on five continents, as well as their growing clearinghouse for all OA resources. Through the collaborative functionality of the two initiatives, OA videos, briefing papers, podcasts, slideshows, posters and other informative tools will be drawn from all over the Web to be highlighted during Open Access Week.

The organisers will also work with registrants to develop a variety of sample programme tracks, such as ‘Administrator’s introduction to campus open-access policies and funds,’ ‘OA 101,’ and ‘Complying with the NIH public access policy’ that take full advantage of available tools.

The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced an upcoming international bibliometrics conference on research evaluation. Jointly organised with The University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane from April 16-17, the conference will address issues and challenges of metrics-based research evaluation.

National and institutional perspectives will be presented by a distinguished panel of international and Australian speakers in the field of higher education research. Additional discussions will address the role of university libraries in supporting research evaluation and the practical aspects of integrating publication management systems. Associate Professor Robert Tijssen will lead an extended session on measuring research excellence.

The conference will be held at the UQ Queensland Brain Institute Auditorium. Conference abstracts and podcasts of speakers’ presentations will be available to delegates shortly after the conference. More information on the conference programme is available online at http://isiwebofknowledge.com/realnumbers.

American Business Media, an association of business information providers, has announced the availability of a new whitepaper that helps B2B media companies leverage Web 2.0 and social media tactics and technologies. Created by ABM’s Media Marketing Committee, the whitepaper is entitled “Leveraging Web 2.0 for B2B Media – Ideas & Best Practices,”. It focuses on education for those B2B media executives who are not familiar with many of the latest Web 2.0 applications or whose companies have been slow to implement them.

A survey of ABM members, in conjunction with the whitepaper, shows that only 15 percent consider themselves ‘pros’ on the latest Web 2.0 technology, while 54 percent say they are actively trying to learn more. The same survey shows some interesting statistics in regards to how B2B media companies use Web 2.0 and social media tactics. According to the survey, the main purpose of B2B media websites is to increase reader engagement, followed closely by generating advertising revenue.

It was observed that executives with 20-plus years of industry experience – the leaders of many B2B media companies – are far less familiar with Web 2.0 tactics and technology than less-experienced executives. The survey noted that small-sized companies are significantly more familiar with Web 2.0 tactics and technology than their medium- and large-sized competitors. It was also found that respondents rank video, search content archives, and forums/discussion boards most successful at achieving their main goal of increasing reader engagement.

The whitepaper contains definitions and examples of various Web 2.0 tactics used by B2B media companies, including blogs, forums, podcasts, social networking, social bookmarking, video and wikis. It also contains a glossary of Web 2.0 terms and websites.

Online submission system provider Aries Systems Corporation, US, has announced that its Editorial Manager peer-review system has been selected by the Sudanese Journal of Ophthalmology (SJO).

SJO is published by Sudan Eye Center (SEC) in collaboration with Sudanese Eye Research Group. The journal publishes original research, clinical studies and reviews, with a special emphasis on the ophthalmic problems of the Sudan and neighboring regions. Authors, reviewers and editors will now be able to conveniently collaborate on research that will help address the ophthalmic problems of the region.

The Editorial Manager online submission system is used by more than 2,900 scholarly journals and processes tens of thousand of manuscripts per month. Earlier this month, EMH Swiss Medical Publisher Ltd announced an agreement to deploy Aries’ Editorial Manager online peer-review system to journals published by EMH. The project will begin with deployment of Editorial Manager to two of the publisher’s leading journals - Swiss Medical Weekly (SMW) and Kardiovaskulare Medizin.