Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that NBD Biblion has selected the Company's Primo discovery and delivery solution, and the Aleph integrated library system. Reaching five million citizens of the Netherlands, NBD Biblion offers products and services to hundreds of public libraries in the Netherlands, including central IT services, a national distribution service, and a central online catalogue of over 600,000 titles.

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. The solution's Deep Search technology, a component of the Ex Libris strategic commitment to provide quality discovery for all research-library resources, enables library data from all sources to be seamlessly integrated.

Aleph provides academic, research, and national libraries with the efficient, user-friendly tools and workflow support they need to meet the increasing requirements of the industry. Customisable components accommodate the requirements of institutions of all types and sizes, from single-branch libraries to the largest of consortia. Installed in scores of countries worldwide, Aleph offers full Unicode support, which enables both public and staff users to interface with the system in their preferred language.

Ex Libris is a leading provider of automation solutions for academic, national, and research libraries. Ex Libris maintains an impressive customer base consisting of thousands of sites in more than 70 countries on six continents. Dedicated to developing creative solutions in close collaboration with customers, Ex Libris enables libraries to maximise productivity and efficiency. By empowering users to discover and obtain the information they need, libraries ensure their position as the bridge to knowledge.

HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has announced a marked increase in the growth of its books programme. Over 30 new titles have been launched online so far this year and hundreds more are scheduled through 2009 and early 2010.

For many years, HighWire has developed and hosted non-journal content, such as books, reference works, databases, continuing education and conference proceedings sites. According to the company, the quantity of books and reference works going live or planning to launch with HighWire has increased in recent years as publishers are seeking greater integration between journals and other online content. Recent book and reference work sites launched on HighWire include Oxford Medical Handbooks, published by Oxford University Press; Handbook of Practice Management, published by The Royal Society of Medicine Press; CSH Symposia on Quantitative Biology, published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; The Lyell Collection, Special Publications, published by the Geological Society of London; and The Carlyle Letters Online, an historical correspondence site, published by Duke University Press.

In addition to over 100 books, reference works, and other non-journal content sites, HighWire hosts the definitive editions of over 1,200 full text journals in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities. It also hosts cross-content products for niche markets that combine content from many different sources.

In addition to a rich feature set, HighWire's long-standing focus on discoverability and flexible content display options has served the new book and reference work sites well. Work with the library community is seen to ensure that this content fits well into library information systems and catalogues to make it easy for patrons to find and use the resources.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Chris Dillon has joined Elsevier Health Sciences as Managing Director for the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) group. Dillon will assume responsibility for all CDS operations and strategy, including product development, marketing and sales. He will provide overall vision to further the CDS mission to help healthcare organisations improve outcomes, streamline workflow and enhance care.

CDS is Elsevier Health Sciences' point-of-care, payer, provider and eLearning business unit, offering solutions for every member of the healthcare team, from providers (physicians, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals and educators) to administrators in finance and operations. Working with feedback from customers, Dillon will help the CDS business unit to refine Elsevier's knowledge solutions – from drug information and interactive task guidance to care planning and process improvement.

Dillon brings more than 30 years of experience in marketing, management and sales of healthcare products and services to Elsevier's CDS unit. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President of Marketing at Misys Healthcare Systems, a leading physician practice EMR provider, where he implemented 'go-to-market' strategies. He also served as the Vice President/General Manager of McKesson's specialty business, which provides physicians with distribution, technology and clinical and educational solutions.

Medical scientific publisher Informa Healthcare, UK, has announced that with access to more than 170 peer-reviewed journals, the new Informa Healthcare site will have over 276,000 articles from leading pharmaceutical science and medicine journals. The new site seeks to provide users with a comprehensive collection of content, in both original article and review format, spanning the drug discovery and clinical medicine fields from bench to bedside. This includes a comprehensive and easy-to-use archive service.

The combination of Informa Healthcare's clinical medicine, allied health, life science, toxicology and pharmaceutical science journal portfolio on a single platform is expected to simplify the customer experience. All journal titles currently listed on informapharmascience.com and informaworld.com will be combined on the new InformaHealthcare.com site. The new site will offer the option of online trials, advanced searching, alerting and single article purchases.

The informahealthcare.com site will utilise the online content management and delivery system provided by Atypon Systems, Inc. The beta site is scheduled for release in summer 2009 and the complete transition will continue through to the end of this calendar year. There will be a dual-hosting period with the informaworld platform, which currently hosts the medicine content, through 2009 allowing for a gradual migration. The site will provide reports and statistics to help subscribers analyse usage.

Informa Healthcare is encouraging customer feedback throughout the transition process.

Scientific and medical publisher The BMJ Group, UK, has announced that it will publish additional themed editions of the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM), supported by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The BMJ Group co-owns British Journal of Sports Medicine with the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM), which first published the journal in 1964.

The themed editions, which focus on injury prevention and health protection, will be launched in September 2009, with the first issue dedicated to sudden cardiac death in athletes. Subsequent editions will appear quarterly in print and online. As well as being distributed to all BJSM subscribers, the Injury Prevention and Health Protection editions will be sent to all 205 National Olympic Committees as well as more than 35 major sports federations.

The themed editions stem from the IOC's concern for athlete's health and injury prevention, and the development of sports as an important means of improving health, based on solid research evidence. The new editions signal the continuing expansion of sports and exercise medicine as a specialty, and the increasing international focus on prevention in recent years. Lars Engebretsen, professor of orthopaedics at the University of Oslo's Medical School in Norway, and head of scientific activities at the IOC, will take the editorial lead on these special editions. He will be supported by IOC Medical Commission members, including its chairman Professor Arne Ljungqvist.

Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, and e-content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, Inc., US, have announced a joint-marketing programme that will enhance the discoverability of more than nine million titles that are commercially available in Bowker's Books in Print catalogue. Integrated within Bowker's new SEO Title Cards, Impelsys' iPublishWidgets will enhance Bowker's capacity to effectively market and sell books to consumers.

Bowker's SEO Title Cards and iPublishWidget, a component of the iPublishCentral tool suite from Impelsys, are currently offered as value-added services to publishers who provision bibliographic meta-data to Bowker or purchase ISBNs from the US ISBN Agency. Publishers can opt to control the affiliate sales channeling elements with iPublishWidget on Bowker's SEO Title Cards for a small monthly fee and can further enhance the widgets to include links to their own online catalogues through Bowker's MyIdentifiers.com title management platform.

iPublishWidget is a viral marketing tool that helps publishers promote their brand and market books on the Internet. Readers and authors can use iPublishWidgets to spread information about a title of interest on social networking web sites like Facebook and MySpace. Readers and authors can also easily add book widgets to their personal blogs. This viral marketing tool enhances visibility, sustains interest and enables sales conversions for any title.

Digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, has announced that it has been selected by BookMasters, Inc. to enhance its e-content capabilities with next generation digital asset management technology as well as tools for content discovery, sampling and marketing online. With a 40-year legacy in book printing, fulfillment and distribution, BookMasters acts as a full-service partner to publishers.

The agreement with Ingram Digital enables BookMasters to offer digital services alongside its manufacturing and distribution services. BookMasters customers will be able to utilise Ingram Digital's digital asset management and distribution platform, CoreSource, to streamline file digitisation, format conversion and distribution to multiple channels. In addition, BookMasters will use Ingram Digital’s Retail Solutions for secure and efficient e-book fulfillment.

Ingram Digital will also provide BookMasters' customers with the ability to make print books searchable in order to drive content discovery and sales online. Ingram Digital's 'Browse and Buy' widget, a tool that enables publishers to leverage Web 2.0 technology to create awareness for their products, will also be available to BookMasters' publisher clients. The agreement between the companies will make up to 23,000 titles available in digital formats from BookMasters' roster of STM, trade and university publishers.

Online reference library Credo Reference, US, has announced a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) with the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK), to provide its online service to participating US federal libraries at a discount.

FEDLINK acts as a purchasing and resource-sharing consortium for federal libraries and information centers. With this new agreement, participating institutions are eligible for discounted pricing on subscriptions to Credo's collection of cross-searchable entries, all on one innovative and enhanced interface that also provides seamless searching from Credo into other library resources.

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.

Web-based content verification technology provider iThenticate, US, has announced the addition of the 51st publisher to its CrossCheck user community. CrossCheck comprises publishers and societies across the world who use iThenticate technology in the editorial process, as well as deposit their respective published scholarly articles in iThenticate's comparison databases.

Launched in June 2008, CrossCheck is a cooperative service from CrossRef and iParadigms. It provides publishers with web-based text analysis and a growing database of scholarly publications against which to compare manuscripts and papers for duplication.

Growing at a rate of 20 million pages a day, the iThenticate database enables its web-based plagiarism prevention services to rapidly check information for originality against an unprecedented volume of public and proprietary information. The database itself boasts billions of articles from the web and a wide variety of publishing partners including American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Physics, American Psychological Association, Association for Computing Machinery, British Medical Journal, Elsevier, Informa UK Ltd, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. New content is being added as additional CrossRef members join the initiative to assure their content’s originality.

An anti-piracy web tool launched by the Publishers' Association, UK, in February has reportedly recorded about 800 illegally uploaded texts. The tool has successfully helped to remove almost 90 percent of these from the web.

The Association's Copyright Infringement portal fights online piracy by targeting those websites that offer titles for free download. Publishers register the details of an infringement and the portal and notify the ISP with a request to take it down. The portal also tracks if an appropriate response has been made.

However, association representatives have sought ‘proactive and dynamic’ work in view of the speed with which new sites appear. Over the next quarter, the portal is looking to tackle ‘torrent sites’ that offer peer-to-peer sharing of infringing copies via multiple users sharing content.

Meanwhile, publishers worldwide are in continuing discussions with content sites Scribd and Wattpad over illegal downloads. In the US, where Scribd met with the Association of American Publishers last month, an e-mail on online piracy circulated by Hachette Book Group (HGG) said Scribd had committed to various anti-piracy policies. HBG is also looking to persuade Wattpad to bring in more robust procedures.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the journal Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care has become the official journal of the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN). The AAHFN recently announced its collaboration with the global publisher for adopting the journal as the official publication of the Association. Dr. Nancy S. Redeker will serve as associate editor representing AAHFN.

Heart & Lung presents original, peer-reviewed articles on techniques, advances, investigations and observations in acute and critical care, respiratory and heart failure nursing. The journal’s acute care articles focus on critical care provided for a short time, often outside the intensive care unit. Other sections focus on infection control, neonatal nursing, advanced practice nursing, pharmacotherapy, ethical issues and patient education. Many articles provide nurses with a framework for applying research results in clinical practice.

Dr. Redeker is Professor and Associate Dean of Scholarly Affairs at Yale University School of Nursing. Her programme of research is focused on sleep, sleep disorders and circadian rhythms of activity-rest in persons who have heart disease. She has also conducted studies on symptoms of home care clients with heart failure and psychosocial responses of patients with heart disease. Her clinical interests and experience include sleep and cardiovascular nursing in community as well as acute care and home care settings.

Scientific publishers World Scientific Publishing Company (WSPC), Singapore, and Nature Publishing Group, UK, have announced their first co-publishing project. Entitled ‘Nanoscience and Technology: A Collection of Reviews from NATURE Journals’, the publishers will launch the publication in October 2009 at Frankfurt Book Fair.

Nanoscience and Technology is a collection of more than 30 review articles by internationally-renowned researchers working in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The review articles were first published in a variety of Nature-branded journals. Among the topics covered are: nanomaterials and nanostructures; molecular machines and devices; nanoelectronics; nanophotonics; nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine; and applications of nanotechnology.

Nanoscience and Technology is targeted at chemists, physicists, material scientists, engineers, biomedical scientists and anyone interested in nanoscience and nanotechnology. More information on the publication is available online at http://www.worldscibooks.com/nanosci/7439.html.

Science media company Seed Media Group, US, has announced the launch of several new initiatives and innovations in scientific communication. Seed CEO Adam Bly launched these initiatives during the recently concluded Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD. Among the new initiatives are: A new Information Science channel on ScienceBlogs for the 10,000 librarians who regularly visit the site; the new release of ResearchBlogging; and RB Connect, a new service for scientific publishers.

A new Information Science channel launched on ScienceBlogs will feature several prominent librarian-bloggers and information scientists. The channel will focus on open access and open science, digital and print publishing, intellectual property and ownership, data visualisation, and other revolutions in information science.

A preview of the ResearchBlogging software was also made to SSP attendees. The software from Seed Technology connects scientific papers to scientific blogs, enabling researchers to make use of information about current science in the blogosphere. The new release of ResearchBlogging includes support for citation data from ArXiv and PubMed, and streamlined citation generation.

RB Connect, a new service that enables scientific publishers to link articles to aggregated blog posts from ResearchBlogging, was also launched. RB Connect will be launched on the websites of PLoS One from the Public Library of Science, the pioneering open access publisher, and the Royal Society, the prestigious British scientific society and publisher.

Seed Media’s portfolio spans magazines, online and social media. It formed ScienceBlogs in an alliance with German magazine publisher Hubert Burda Media in September 2007. ScienceBlogs is claimed to be the largest blogging network dedicated to science.

The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) is set to launch a new, peer-reviewed scientific journal - The International Journal of Applied Glass Science (IJAGS) - dedicated to glass research. Dr. L. David Pye, dean and professor of glass science, emeritus, at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, has agreed to serve as the founding editor of the journal. He will be supported by an international advisory board.

IJAGS will be produced in partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US. ACerS and Wiley-Blackwell already have a strong publishing track record and jointly produce two other peer-reviewed journals - The Journal of the American Ceramic Society and the International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology. These journals are among the most cited ceramic publications.

IJAGS will be published quarterly with the first issue being released in March 2010. The journal seeks to advance all of the branches of materials science and engineering, and will support the growing role of glass applications throughout society.

Non-profit copyright licensing solution provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, has announced that The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has expanded its use of Rightslink. Rightslink is an online service from CCC that provides a content licensing solution for publishers. By expanding its use of the Rightslink service, AIP seeks to provide a quick and easy way for authors and customers to order reprints, purchase published works and manage charge processing in an efficient, online environment.

AIP initially implemented Rightslink in 2004 to manage permission requests. The expanded implementation integrates Rightslink with the publisher's manuscript processing system, enabling AIP and its publisher partners to provide links to authors throughout the manuscript processing schedule that take the author directly into the order processing system. Authors can select the product and/or service they wish to purchase and pay online via credit card or request an invoice for offline payment. All these features have been integrated into AIP's standard communications with the authors, replacing the need for time-consuming and labor-intensive author forms, faxes and email requests.

Rightslink's real-time management system provides AIP with an instantaneous view into daily operations. The system will also be integrated with AIP's print suppliers so that orders will flow seamlessly into the appropriate print workflow.

Rightslink is tagged on more than 17 million articles and manages hundreds of millions of rights globally. It is in use with more than 3,000 scientific, academic and professional journals and hundreds of leading publications, including Elsevier, the American Chemical Society, IEEE, Nature Publishing and many more.

RPS Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, has announced an agreement with Norwegian Electronic Health Library to allow all citizens of Norway access to the British National Formulary for Children online. Citizens of Norway will now have access to detailed paediatric drug information on the publisher's innovative digital platform, MedicinesComplete. The British National Formulary for Children on MedicinesComplete provides fully searchable essential information for prescribing, dispensing, monitoring, and administration of medicines to children.

The BNF, a joint publication of the British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, is an up-to-date resource, for rapid reference by practicing healthcare professionals, which encourages sensible, cost-effective and safe use of medicines. The BNF is available in print, on CD ROM (for intranet use), on PDAs, on the internet at http://bnf.org, and as part of the MedicinesComplete collection of drug and healthcare reference resources.

MedicinesComplete is the online database resource from RPS Publishing. It provides access to some of the world's leading drug and healthcare references, including Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference, AHFS Drug Information, Stockley's Drug Interactions, Pharmaceutical Excipients and the British National Formulary.

The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Kent Anderson (E-reading in Academia; The Real-Time Web Emerges); Stevan Harnad (Against Squandering Scarce Library Funds on Pre-Emptive Gold OA Without First Mandating Green OA); David Crotty (The End of "Free"); and Peter Murray Rust (Should the Foology Society sell its journals to commercial publishers). A service of Knowledgespeak.com, Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of blogspeak Here.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its online resource for authoritative drug safety data, PharmaPendium, has significantly expanded its coverage of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval documents with the launch of the FDA Classic Collection. This collection contains all available historical FDA approval documents up to and including those issued in 1991 – all indexed and made searchable for the first time. With the addition of the FDA Classic Collection, PharmaPendium claims to have become the only integrated, searchable source of all FDA drug approval documents.

The combination of PharmaPendium's current FDA database and the FDA Classic Collection creates an entire searchable library of documents written by the FDA on the approval of drugs and their pharmacokinetics, efficacy and safety. The FDA Classic Collection may be searched simultaneously with the current file (1992-present) or as a discrete database.

Most of the documents in PharmaPendium's FDA Classic Collection were previously available only through direct requests to the FDA/Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Freedom of Information Office and had to be pulled from microfiche. The FDA Classic Collection may be added to new or existing PharmaPendium licenses for an additional fee.

PharmaPendium is designed to meet the needs of preclinical safety assessment teams, toxicologists, pharmacokineticists, safety pharmacologists, regulatory affairs staff, pharmacoepidemiologists, clinical researchers and information specialists. It enables text-search of FDA Approval Packages and European Medicines Agency (EMEA) European Public Assessment Reports (EPAR) Approval Documents as well as other data sources. Adverse events and toxicity data are carefully extracted from preclinical and clinical studies from all of these sources.

InnoCentive,Inc., the provider of a global open innovation marketplace, and scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, have announced the launch of the nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion. Jointly hosted on InnoCentive.com and nature.com, the website seeks to provide a hub for scientific collaboration and open innovation.

Companies and not-for-profit organisations (known as 'Seekers') can post 'Challenges' in life sciences, physical sciences and clinical medicine on the nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion. These 'Challenges' are briefs that allow Seekers to tap into external expertise to solve research problems or drive development of new products and technologies. Successful Solvers receive financial rewards. Seekers can call on the expertise from nature.com’s five million monthly visitors and InnoCentive's community of more than 175,000 Solvers.

The nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion provides the nature.com user community and InnoCentive's Solver community with a set of challenges to tackle, specifically tailored to their interests and expertise. InnoCentive and NPG will work together to maximise the visibility of these challenges to nature.com users, readers of NPG journals, and current InnoCentive Solvers. Nature.com users will be invited to become InnoCentive Solvers; a larger pool of expertise is seen to increase the chances of solving issues of worldwide concern. Current InnoCentive clients will have the opportunity to post challenges in the nature.com Pavilion, taking advantage of this new larger community of Solvers.

There are already five Challenges at the nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion, with a cumulative award amount of $125,000. The Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) will be one of the first Seekers to post a Challenge. Other Challenges include finding efficient chromosome doubling method in plants, new end uses for cotton, and experimental ways to avoid condensation in highly charged, crosslinked hydrogels.

InnoCentive claims to have built the first global web community for open innovation, enabling scientists, engineers, professionals and entrepreneurs across the world to deliver solutions for innovative research and development companies. InnoCentive’s Solver community numbers more than 175,000 from 175 countries. The partnership with NPG is projected to further expand this Solver base.

NPG and InnoCentive had first announced a partnership in March 2009.

Non-profit copyright licensing solution provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, and publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, have announced that they will integrate Rightsconnect licensing functionality with the scholarly hosting platform, IngentaConnect.

Publishing Technology's publishers will now be able to offer their users instant permission to license and reuse their content right where they view it, all in a matter of minutes. Users simply click the "Get Permissions" button and they can instantly search, price and pay for permission to use and share content. CCC handles royalty collection and automatically distributes checks back to the publisher.

IngentaConnect is a fully outsourced e-publishing solution that provides comprehensive collection management, current awareness and document delivery facilities for over 13,500 publications. The convenience of the integration with CCC helps improve the online experience for IngentaConnect’s more than 1 million end users, while simplifying publishers' permissions processes and helping them derive additional revenue from the secondary use of their content.

CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business, has announced the launch of IntelliConnect, an online research platform, across Asia Pacific. Built from the ground up based on understanding the customers research needs, IntelliConnect is a global platform that has been localised to meet the needs of professionals in the Asia Pacific region.

IntelliConnect is faster and easier to navigate, saving businesses time and money by combining many functions customers are already familiar with. From the three panel interface, to search functions that offer the same ease of use as popular consumer web search engines, IntelliConnect simplifies research of CCH's premier, authoritative content. Customers can now have better access to the same high quality content, and have the added benefit of being able to customise their searches to their own specialised needs, thanks to the flexibility of the innovative new platform.

The Asia Pacific release of IntelliConnect will be the second stage of a global release and follows closely behind the successful US launch of earlier this year and it will be followed by releases in Canada and Europe.

Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced the acquisition of the journal Agricultural Finance Review from Cornell University, US. The journal is edited by Professor Calum G Turvey, who currently holds the W.I. Myers Professor of Agricultural Finance position at Cornell University, USA.

This acquisition will lead to expansion of the journal to become international in content, having previously been based predominantly in the US. The journal will remain current and relevant, providing a medium for the exchange of ideas for developed and developing agricultural economies.

Agricultural Finance Review focuses on issues relating to agricultural and agribusiness finance. It provides research that is both rigorous and relevant to the field, which fits the 'Research you can use' publishing philosophy championed by Emerald. The journal covers a variety of topics including agricultural finance; agricultural lending and credit issues; farm credit; businesses and financial risks affecting agriculture and agribusiness and rural credit in developing economies.

Agricultural Finance Review will be is published by Emerald from volume 69, issue1 and is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/afr.htm. Issues 60 to 68 are also currently available on the journal homepage.

Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced the availability of new collections in Engineering and Business under flexible subscription and purchase models. These collections can be enhanced with purchases of individual titles and discounted bundles as well as a corporation's own mission critical documents submitted into the ebrary system.

Additionally, ebrary has announced the recent expansion of its corporate sales team with the appointment of Matt Shill as Director, North American Corporate & Government Sales. Shill has over 14 years of sales management experience with companies such as EBSCO Publishing, Ovid Technologies and SirsiDynix.

ebrary now offers subscription databases of technical handbooks, e-books, manuals, reference works and other materials from publishers such as Pennwell, CRC Press, AMACOM, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill Professional and John Wiley & Sons.

Corporations may enhance their subscriptions by purchasing pre-packaged subject bundles or choosing from more than 100,000 titles available for purchase individually. They may also use the same ebrary system to integrate their own content (manuals, handbooks, reports – anything in PDF). ebrary’s e-publishing services are available as a hosted solution or developer toolkit.

The Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) has announced the delivery of their Annual Meeting posters and abstracts with online commenting through Poster Hall 2.0, developed by Conference Archives, Inc. The SBS e-poster website, accessible to SBS members, brings together posters and abstracts from the 2008 and 2009 SBS Annual Conference & Exhibitions.

The Poster Hall 2.0 e-poster solution was designed to enable associations to not only extend access to their meeting posters but to also facilitate discussion of the research. The online poster archive enables SBS members the ability to browse or search for posters by keyword and metadata, and then post comments about an individual poster. Further, the SBS poster website allows poster presenters to upload an audio version of their poster presentation.

The Society for Biomolecular Sciences, now in its 15th year, is a leading non-profit scientific society dedicated to advancing the science of drug discovery and related disciplines through education and information exchange among professionals globally. The society offers its 2,000-plus members a variety of publications and programmes, most notably the Journal of Biomolecular Screening and SBS News. The cornerstone of the society's educational efforts is the Annual Conference & Exhibition.

The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) has announced that online registration for the Managing Data for Science ICSTI 2009 Conference will close on June 3, 2009, at 23:59 EST. Registration will however be available onsite. The ICSTI 2009 conference will be held from June 9-10, 2009, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. For registration and more information, visit www.icsti2009.org.

The conference will address how sharing research data is essential for effective collaboration and examine how researchers, librarians and publishers can work together to create structures for managing and communicating scientific data. Speakers include 14 data management experts from Europe, US and Canada. Conference attendees will be able to learn how digital libraries and e-publishers can accelerate scientific discovery; understand how your organisation can benefit from emerging eScience strategies; and network with sponsors and colleagues from research, government, publishing, information and library communities.

As Canada's national science library and leader in promoting and supporting national collaborative research data initiatives, NRC Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) is organising the conference.

The UK's JISC has announced that researchers, librarians, publishers and policy makers will be gathering in Gloucestershire on June 30 and July 1 to discuss the issues they face in creating, delivering and sustaining digitised content.

As JISC's digitisation programme enters a new phase of enhancing previously unseen and difficult to access materials, experts from across libraries, museums and the private sector will look into future opportunities and challenges at the event. Over 17 collections are already available due to JISC funding, and another 25 projects are digitising new content for research and teaching to be made available from September 2009. This is seen to make now the ideal time to stage the conference.

The conference is looking to share the challenges facing education and information professionals in managing information on the Internet when the speed of technology is changing rapidly.

There are many issues surrounding digitisation and access of information through the web, whether that be representing fragile materials in digital form or the complexities of licence agreements, copyright and ownership of works. The conference will explore these topics and bring together experts from various spheres to share best practice.

Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has chosen Confirmit Horizons, a multi-mode platform for customer/employee feedback and market research, as its end-to-end customer feedback solution.

Confirmit Horizons will enable NPG to survey its readers and deploy reader panels for its flagship weekly scientific journal, Nature, and for its scholarly website, www.nature.com. It will enable NPG to better understand what its readers and users most value and to use this feedback to enhance the structure and content of Nature and nature.com on an ongoing basis.

NPG's decision to invest in Confirmit was based on the need to simplify and automate its customer feedback programme. Confirmit Horizons will also enable the publisher to offer co-branded online surveys to its advertising customers, providing an alternative method of reaching NPG's highly sought -after niche readership.

DeepDyve, a US-based provider of research engine for the deep web, has released a trio of free tools that allows websites to incorporate powerful search capabilities for a more compelling user experience. These tools complement the company's recently announced suite of publisher tools which utilise DeepDyve's search technology to make publisher content more findable from anywhere on the web.

DeepDyve's new tools enable websites and bloggers to quickly and easily display related articles and search results directly within their sites and blog posts. Visitors can now discover new, authoritative information seamlessly as they read and browse through websites that utilise DeepDyve's technology. These tools can be implemented by copying/pasting a few lines of code into the site, or by installing a WordPress plug-in.

The More Like This Content API tool automatically displays results from DeepDyve that are similar to the information displayed on the current page. It is designed for use by any website that would like to include a 'related articles' functionality, regardless of whether their content has been indexed by DeepDyve. A Content Highlight Widget enables websites to integrate search with their users' normal reading and browsing behaviour. DeepDyve's WordPress plug-in allows bloggers using this platform to automatically include links to 'related articles' directly in their blogs. The plug-in utilises DeepDyve's 'More Like This' technology to use the text of the blog as a query and return relevant search results.

As users have become more accustomed to searching for information online, it is now becoming clear that search behaviour is evolving. A recent Hitwise report found that queries of eight words or more had grown from less than 1 percent of queries in 2004, to nearly 4 percent of queries by February 2009. This increase suggests that users are not only growing more proficient in their use of search, but they are forced to write longer queries to find what they want, given the volume of data that is returned. In April 2009, DeepDyve unveiled a suite of tools designed specifically for the publishing community. The products are designed to first make the publisher's content more discoverable in search engines. From there, other tools are available to increase the engagement at the publisher's site by allowing users to quickly find related articles based on what they are viewing.

DeepDyve is demonstrating its publisher tools and free widgets at booth #230 at the ongoing Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

STM and business publisher Inderscience, Switzerland, recently published the first issues of four new titles. The new titles are: International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies; International Journal of Critical Accounting; International Journal of Industrial Electronics and Drives; and International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology.

Edited by Prof. Claudio Turchetti of the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies focuses on experimental, theoretical and application aspects of computational intelligence. Particular emphasis is given to latest techniques in the fields of image processing, pattern recognition, and signal processing in general. A free download of the papers from this issue is available online at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=279.

Edited by Prof. Aida Sy, Manhattan College, New York, and Prof. Tony Tinker, Baruch College at the City University of New York, International Journal of Critical Accounting is concerned with theoretical and empirical aspects of critical accounting and related issues and is intended for academia and the professional accounting community. Papers examine emerging trends in critical accounting and fast-changing concerns faced by corporations, government and regulators from a comprehensive range of areas. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available online at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=328.

International Journal of Industrial Electronics and Drives presents state-of-the-art research work in the area of industrial electronics, power converters and drives with an emphasis on those investigations which have significant potential for industrial applications. Edited by Dr. Chandan Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, the journal highlights new topologies and control methodologies and reports on the limitations faced by existing industrial drives and converter units. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available online at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=316.

International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology covers technical, economic, policy and commercial aspects of all types of renewable energy. The journal is edited by Dr. Ahmed F. Zobaa, University of Exeter, UK. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available online at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=317.

The UK-based Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER) research group has announced that it will conduct a global library survey to understand electronic resources challenges, trends and best practices in tough economic times. Sponsored by ebrary, a provider of digital content products and technologies, the survey will be available in Fall 2009 to all libraries. It is based on input from more than 170 librarians, and results will be announced during the Charleston Conference, November 4-7 in Charleston, SC, USA.

Over the past few years, ebrary has collaborated with librarians to learn their perspectives as well as those of students and professors with regard to the use of digital content. As sponsors of this survey, the company believes that it will help vendors, publishers, aggregators and others who serve the library community better understand and address librarians' issues and concerns in a difficult economic climate.

CIBER is focused on the mapping, monitoring and evaluating of digital information systems, platforms, services, roll-outs and environments, using robust, big picture and innovative research methods, especially deep log analysis. It has published a number of studies regarding digital information use, e-journal use and impact, cultural heritage online, impact of electronic course texts, information-seeking behavior of business students, and the like.

Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, UK, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has announced the 2010 launch of a new peer-reviewed journal - Polymer Chemistry - encompassing all aspects of synthetic and biological macromolecules, and related emerging areas. Professor David Haddleton of the University of Warwick will serve as Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

The new journal will showcase ongoing efforts driving polymer chemistry, highlighting the creativity of the field and previously inaccessible applications. Monthly issues will contain a full mix of research articles including communications, reviews, and full papers. The journal will have a broad scope, covering areas of polymer chemistry of interest to materials scientists and bioscientists, as well as all traditional areas of the field.

From launch, the latest issue of Polymer Chemistry will be made freely available to all readers via the website. Free institutional access to all online content during 2010 and 2011 will be available following a simple registration process.

Non-profit copyright licensing solution provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, has announced that the University of Texas System has expanded its adoption of CCC's Annual Copyright License from its Austin campus to the entire UT System, covering more than 150,000 undergraduate and graduate students and nearly 13,000 faculty members. The nine academic campuses and six health institutions comprising the University of Texas System make it one of the largest higher education systems in the US.

Adopted initially by the UT System at its Austin campus in 2008, the Annual Copyright License makes it easy for faculty and staff to license published materials for use in coursepacks, e-reserves, course management systems, research collaboration and more. For a single annual fee, CCC's Annual Copyright License provides librarians, faculty, copy shop staff and others with pre-approved permission to use and share content from millions of books, scholarly journals, newspapers, magazine, and e-books.

Since its launch in late 2007, dozens of colleges and universities across all Carnegie classes have adopted CCC's annual license, including; The University of Massachusetts Medical School, Middlebury College, Marquette University Law School, and the United States Army Command & General Staff College. The Annual Copyright License comes with comprehensive training and implementation support services, and builds on CCC's decades of experience providing licensing solutions to businesses and academic institutions.

Academic publisher SAGE has announced a publishing partnership with the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. Under the deal, SAGE will publish the Australian Journal of Management from 2010.

The Australian Journal of Management (AJM) aims to encourage and publish research in the field of management. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research in accounting, applied economics, finance, industrial relations, political science, psychology, statistics, and other disciplines, provided the application is to management, as well as research in areas such as marketing, corporate strategy, operations management, organisation development, decision analysis, and other problem-focused paradigms.

The journal joins SAGE's business and management collection, including titles such as Human Relations, published in association with the Tavistock Institute, London; Organization Studies, published in association with the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS); and Journal of Management, the Official Journal of the Southern Management Association.

The first issue to be published by SAGE will be vol. 35 issue 1, year 2010. The journal will publish three issues per year from 2010. The new website on SAGE Journals Online will be http://aum.sagepub.com.

Science media company Seed Media Group (SMG), US, has announced that ResearchBlogging.org, the blog platform for discussions surrounding peer-reviewed research, now supports blogs in Spanish. Spanish is the third language supported by the site, which has been collating research-related posts in German and English since August 2008. Bloggers Evaristo Rojas-Mayoral, César Tomé López, and Efraín De Luna will serve as the first Spanish-language administrators of the site, and will lead the way in sharing their thoughts on peer-reviewed research, written in Spanish.

Visitors to ResearchBlogging.org can specify their language preferences on the site, receive RSS feeds in each language, and follow Twitter feeds in English, German or Spanish.

ResearchBlogging.org helps scientists make use of the explosion of data in the blogosphere surrounding published peer-reviewed research. ResearchBlogging.org is powered by Seed Media Group Technology, and was created by ScienceBlogs blogger Dave Munger in coordination with leading members of the scientific blogging community.

Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced enhancements to Learning Centers and Business Basics, its suite of corporate learning resources. The aim is to make it easier for corporate learning and training professionals to offer premium learning content in their formal and e-learning programmes. EBSCO’s Learning Centers and Business Basics are projected to offer broad coverage of current thinking on a wide range of core competencies, as well as information for new managers and managers covering new areas within a corporation.

EBSCO's 10 learning centres offer resources leveraging periodical content refined to support specific learning and training needs. Each of the learning centres provides ideal current learning content for corporate training and development applications. These databases are seen to support the ongoing career development needs of management and other professionals through access to relevant articles from renowned magazines and journals.

Business Basics provides more than 500 concise overviews of key business terms, concepts and practices that modern managers encounter. The overviews average 3,000 words and are designed to help managers develop an understanding of a given topic while also enabling readers to apply the concepts to their jobs.

The articles are organised in sections to assist users in quickly locating the most relevant parts of each article including executive summaries of each topic; keywords pertinent to the article; an overview of the topic; applications to outline how the points in the overview can be applied to business; critical issues to enable managers to develop a critical perspective on the topic; and a glossary of terms and concepts.

EBSCO's Learning Centers and Business Basics join Business Book Summaries (executive summaries of top business books) to round out the suite of products EBSCO offers to corporate learning departments. Content from the Learning Centers and Business Book Summaries may be mapped to applicable competencies and utilised in both formal and informal learning environments. Departmental subject matter experts can use the full-text content from all these EBSCO resources to create training guides for staff at all levels.