Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced new features and new index terms to ABI/INFORM business database, a digital gateway to more than 4,000 business journals. A new ‘browse’ feature helps to surface the content most sought after by users, and new subject indexing terms serve an increasingly global user base.

The new ‘browse’ tab will help users quickly find and zero in on highly sought information such as market research reports and articles, industry reports, company information and annual reports, country reports, commodity reports, dissertations, and working papers. The tab will also include quick links, which help users quickly drill down to results based on a variety of content types, such as SWOT analyses, market share, industry trends and forecasts, and CEO profiles and interviews.

To address an ever-widening set of international users and business globalisation, the controlled vocabulary in ABI/INFORM is expanding to include more globally focused business terminology, including numerous commonly used terms from Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. As a result, searchers seamlessly uncover more content that is unique and insightful. With these latest additions, users outside of the US can use natural language searching within the ProQuest Thesaurus to quickly and easily find the index terms they need.

ABI/INFORM is expanding with new content to provide users with the latest information on the global business world. Daily Briefing Service and Country Reports from Oxford Analytica provide current analysis of worldwide business and economic events and in-depth economic, political and geographical outlook. Country Finance and Forecast reports from Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) include country-focused reporting of financial conditions, techniques, and regulations and 5-year economic and business forecasts. First Research reports from Dun and Bradstreet provide US-focused industry reports on products, operations, technology, competition, indicators, finance, regulation and news. Lastly, EIU World Commodity reports offer quarterly and annual reports of hard and soft commodity fundamentals and forecasts up to 2 years.

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The Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced that it is joining Research4Life to provide the developing world with access to critical scientific research. Special editions of ISI Web of Knowledge that include Current Contents Connect, Medline, EndNote Web, and ResearcherID, will be available to select developing countries identified by Thomson Reuters and Research4Life partners.

Thomson Reuters is working through Research4Life to support Health Access to Research (HINARI), Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) and Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE)

Research4Life is the collective name for three public-private partnerships which seek to help achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals by providing the developing world with access to critical scientific research. Beginning in 2002, HINARI, AGORA and OARE, have given researchers at 4,500 institutions in 108 developing world countries free or low cost access to over 7,000 journals provided by the world’s leading science publishers.

The ISI Web of Knowledge research platform delivers easy access to high quality, diversified scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities, as well as search and analysis tools that enhance this content. The platform provides users the ability to search the right content and find relevant information — whether that information is found in international journals, open access resources, books, patents, proceedings or web sites.

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Scitopia.org, a free, federated search portal created by leading science and engineering societies, has signed three new content partners, expanding its single-search access to include the digital libraries of the Association of Facilities Engineering (AFE), Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST). Further, functionality has been enhanced with a browser plug-in that enables scitopia.org searches to be launched from the user's toolbar. The enhancements were announced at the Special Libraries Association conference and centennial celebration in Washington, D.C.

AFE will contribute global journal content related to plant and facility engineering, operation and maintenance, especially for Fortune 500 manufacturers, universities, medical centers and government agencies. SEG's content contribution focuses on expert and ethical practice of geophysics. ICST will provide peer-reviewed journal articles that examine innovation and technology transfer in information technologies, their management and their applications.

With scitopia.org's new browser plug-in, users can launch searches of scitopia.org content from their Internet browser's toolbar, making access fast and easy. The site uses a unique federated search engine, developed by Deep Web Technologies, that accommodates continuously growing content without slowing the search process. Each partner uses a standardised XML gateway to handle search queries, resulting in fast, accurate results. Search efficiency and precision are seen to be essential as scitopia.org now includes more than 3.5 million documents - primarily peer-reviewed journal content and conference proceedings - spanning 350 years of scholarship.

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The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced plans to begin publishing the print editions of most of its journals in a ‘rotated and condensed’ format that will fit two pages of content on one printed page. The plan, which will go on stream in July 2009, is expected to reduce paper, printing and distribution costs for ACS.

Although demand for the web editions of ACS journals is seen to be growing, demand for print editions has declined sharply. This trend is prompting the society to change the format and dissemination of its printed issues.

The new format is expected to have a positive impact on libraries because a single year of the print editions of all ACS journals currently requires 30 linear feet of shelf space.

ACS will not increase prices for its print journals next year, but it will stop offering deep discounts on print subscriptions to libraries that have online subscriptions. Customers will also be offered incentives to switch to electronic-only access.

Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has released a database of journals, magazines, books and other content addressing the needs of the corporate R&D community. Built specifically for corporate access, Academic Search R&D (ASR&D) is claimed to be the world’s most comprehensive source for scientific, technical and medical (STM) information from the world’s foremost publishers. The resource is projected as a premier full-text content solution encompassing basic research, applied research and experimental development.

Corporations subscribing to major subject indexes via EBSCOhost, such as AGRICOLA, CAB Abstracts, GeoRef, Inspec and Petroleum Abstracts TULSA Database, can now expand their access to STM information. With ASR&D, users may link directly from the citation-only records to the corresponding full text in Academic Search R&D, allowing corporate users to access the full-text version of highly-sought after articles in these subject areas.

ASR&D provides users with access to vital information from several thousand titles, including academic journals, magazines, reports, books and monographs, trade publications and other sources. Academic Search R &D contains cover-to-cover information — complete full text articles with images, tables, charts and other graphical content — from more than 3,600 titles. ASR&D also includes more than 2,800 peer-reviewed journals, many of which are available in native (searchable) PDF format.

The collection seeks to offer full-text coverage of information relevant to many areas integral to R&D.

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced a number of new features that make it quicker and easier to discover, use, and manage information online.

ebrary has enhanced its QuickView Reader, which does not require any software downloads or installations. New QuickView features include InfoTools, which networks every word with other online resources; copying; highlighting; annotating; and the ability to turn text into hyperlinks. Last month ebrary added printing to QuickView as well as integration with RefWorks and EndNote for easy citation management.

Additionally, ebrary has enhanced its bookshelf feature. End-users can now email folders containing notes, highlights, hyperlinks, and bookmarks to peers.

ebrary helps libraries, corporations, publishers, and consumers get the most out of their digital content. The company offers a growing selection of more than 170,000 digital books, handbooks, reports, maps, journals and other valuable content from over 350 of the world’s leading publishers under flexible subscription, purchase, and usage-based models. Additionally, ebrary offers e-publishing services for customers to cost-effectively distribute their own PDF content online on ebrary’s servers or their own.

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Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced an agreement with non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US. Portico provides a service to permanently preserve scholarly research in electronic form so that this information will remain accessible to scholars in future years.

Portico will receive Emerald content via an electronic data feed, which will be converted to a standardised archival format. They will maintain and operate the archive on behalf of Emerald. Each new publication will be added as and when published, with a view to archiving back issues in the future.

This development will provide Emerald with security in the event of potential loss. Emerald joins the growing list of publishers who have entrusted their e-journals and e-books to the Portico archive.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has awarded the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Prize 2009 to Phuong Huynh, Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen and Gianluigi Rozza for developing the software package rbMIT, used in solving parametrised partial differential equations by the reduced basis method. The rbMIT software package is being used for both research and CSE education. The CSE Prize, established this year by Springer, is accompanied by US$ 10,000.

The CSE Prize recognises the importance of the cross-disciplinary, teamwork-oriented nature of computational science and engineering. The prize will be awarded biannually to teams of scientists, the members of which represent at least two different fields. The winning team is selected by the editors of the Springer book series Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering.

Phuong Huynh is currently a research fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the National University of Singapore. Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen is a research scientist in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gianluigi Rozza is a senior research scientist in the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing and Lecturer at the Doctoral School of Mathematics, both at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

If every scientific and scholarly article were publicly available, it would save the Netherlands EUR 133 million a year, according to a SURFfoundation study. The figure is given by Australian economist Prof. John Houghton in a study that SURFfoundation presented to the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.

The study found that currently, research universities and ‘universities of applied sciences’ [hogescholen] pay millions of euros every year for access to scientific and scholarly publications. Businesses, smaller hogescholen, and other organisations often cannot afford the expensive licences needed for access. If the ‘Open Access’ model were to be applied globally, there would be increased access to research results for both researchers and the public at large.

The study titled ‘Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation’ compares three publication models. The greatest advantage is offered by the Open Access model, which means that the research institution or the party financing the research pays for publication and the article is then freely accessible. According to the study, adopting this model could lead to an annual saving of EUR 133 million. It further notes that even if the Netherlands were the only country to adopt this publication model and continued to pay for licences to access periodicals, there would still be a saving of EUR 37 million.

The report concludes that the advantages would not just be in the long term; in the transitional phase too, more open access to research results would have positive effects.

The study was commissioned by SURFfoundation and forms part of a series of similar studies carried out in Denmark, Germany, and the UK. A survey will soon be published of the advantages that Open Access publication offers in those countries.

The full text of the study is available online at http://www.surffoundation.nl/economicstudyOA.

The Strategic Content Alliance and the Collections Trust have published a report according to which access to over 50 million items held in trust by publicly funded agencies such as libraries, museums, archives and universities are being prevented from being available online due to current copyright laws. The report ‘In from the Cold’ shows that millions of so-called ‘orphan works’ risk becoming invisible because rights holders are not known or easy to trace.

The report was commissioned to find the scale and impact of ‘orphan works’ on public service delivery. The report shows how the UK is in real danger of losing 20th century materials due to the current copyright laws, the levels of resources needed to trace the rights for each orphan work and the potential lock down of access to these important works. Of the 13 million works represented in the on-line survey, it would take in the region of six million days to trace the rights holders, around 16,000 years.

Over 500 organisations took part in the online survey to establish the impact of orphan works across the museums, archives, libraries and universities.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Scopus, its abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, has almost doubled its current arts & humanities (A&H) titles to 3,500. Scopus has added various global journals using the European Science Foundation's European Reference Index for Humanities (ERIH). This marks the first time that many of the ERIH titles will be available through a global citation database at no additional cost, according to Elsevier.

Founded in 2001, ERIH provides scholars, libraries and other institutions with lists of high quality A&H journals to raise awareness of the titles as a resource for content and an avenue for publishing original research. Journals are included in the ERIH lists and categorised based on audience, distribution and reach, as well as influence and scope by expert scholarly panels from around the world. Scopus users can now search and access top-level A&H journal titles from all three categories included on the initial ERIH lists.

With the addition of the ERIH's titles, Scopus seeks to provide researchers with better access to national and international A&H journals. Subjects with the most journals include literature and literary theory, general arts and humanities, history and visual/performing arts. More than half of the journals are published from the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region, followed by 38 percent from the Americas and 2 percent from Asia-Pacific.

Like the existing titles in Scopus, the new journals contain cited references that make previously unavailable bibliometrics data accessible. This information is expected to help A&H scholars more efficiently assess and measure research sources and output, as well as illustrate the broader influence of journal articles published. In addition, Scopus allows tracking of citations belonging to scholarly books via the MORE tab.

Other journals now included in Scopus include Mind (Oxford University Press), Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Cambridge University Press) and Modern Philology (University of Chicago Press). To acquire back content of many journals, Scopus has partnered with Project MUSE, a not-for-profit platform founded by John Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library (MSEL) at John Hopkins University.

A coalition of national and regional college student associations has issued a statement titled ‘Student Statement on the Right to Research.’ The statement calls on universities, research funders and researchers to take action in support of open access (OA) to research. Coalition partners include the American Medical Student Association, the Student PIRGs, Students for Free Culture, the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, the Trinity University Association of Student Representatives and the California Institute of Technology Graduate Student Council. Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) helped to coordinate discussions that led to the launch of this statement and sponsors the statement website.

Students rely on access to academic journal literature for their research and education. However, even before the recent economic crisis, many colleges have struggled with the high costs of journal subscriptions, restricting access for students and scientists alike. The statement points out that learning and inquiry are impeded when scholars lack access to fellow researchers’ work, and when students lack access to the work of scholars before them. At the same time, digital technologies have opened new opportunities for research. New tools facilitate faster discoveries, speed the development of new technologies, and accelerate the progress of science. Patients could have access to the latest medical research, citizens could evaluate scientific information on environmental impacts, and developing countries could apply the most recent scholarship to public health and development efforts. But access barriers leave these opportunities under-explored.

The ‘Student Statement on the Right to Research’ closes with a call to action, urging universities, governments and other research funders, researchers, and additional student organisations to support OA. It also implores them for a commitment to back OA in their activities.

The full text of the statement is available online at http://www.righttoresearch.org.

Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US. Under the deal, Portico will preserve more than 300 periodicals published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), Adis International, and Facts & Comparisons.

Through this agreement with Portico, WK Health seeks to ensure that these online journals are preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. The Company has also named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims and agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico.

With this inclusion, more than 9,100 e-journals and 6,480 e-books have been entrusted to the Portico archive.

Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced a partnership with e-resource access and management services provider Serials Solutions, US, to become KnowledgeWorks Certified. The KnowledgeWorks Certified programme helps Serials Solutions maintain the highest quality bibliographic metadata for e-resources.

Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks enables librarians to manage their constantly changing electronic collections and present reliable access to library patrons. This knowledgebase holds bibliographic metadata on a vast range of e-resources and is a primary component of Serials Solutions' 360 e-resource access and management services.

Wholly owned by the Institute of Physics, IOP Publishing is an international leader in scientific publishing and electronic dissemination of information and news in the field of physics.

General aviation solutions provider Aircraft Technical Publishers (ATP), US, has announced an exclusive agreement with GE to distribute all digital engine technical publications for the CF700 and CJ610 engines. The GE engine publications and ADs are available separately or can be purchased with other ATP libraries.

All ATP digital libraries are provided with the NavigatorV platform for compliance and safety information management. NavigatorV improves productivity, safety, and compliance by providing expedited access to view, search and manage your maintenance publications and FAA & EASA regulations and ADs.

Aircraft Technical Publishers claims to be the general aviation industry's single-source for aviation maintenance, regulatory, compliance and safety information products and services. It maintains the world's largest digital collection of regulatory and maintenance information for a global consumer base that includes civil aviation authorities, maintenance facilities, repair stations, FBOs, aircraft operators, flight schools, and universities.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a new partnership agreement with NextBio, provider of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data. This agreement allows for an integration of NextBio’s set of ontology-based semantic tools and a compilation of high quality sources of public data on Elsevier’s online scientific research platform, ScienceDirect.

While most scientific information on genes, pathways, diseases, tissues and compounds is available online, it currently resides in various disconnected locations. Enhancing ScienceDirect with NextBio’s biomedical ontology framework enables life sciences, health sciences and chemistry researchers to analyse ScienceDirect content and search ScienceDirect peer-reviewed literature together with publicly available research data from PubMed, clinical trials, experimental data, and news articles, on one single platform.

NextBio’s platform seamlessly combines powerful tools with unique correlated content to transform information into knowledge, providing the foundation for new scientific discoveries. NextBio is delivered as a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution, resulting in quick deployment and rapid return on investment.

The new enhancement will become available on ScienceDirect and accessible to subscribed users in summer 2009.

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Bibliographic databases, books and interactive electronic resources publisher CABI, UK, has launched a new and improved version of its database platform, CAB Direct. Designed and built by Semantico, the new version of CAB Direct includes CAB Abstracts and Global Health, two bibliographic databases in life science information.

The new CAB Direct is projected to provide a better experience for students and researchers as they search for important life science information. While the content has not changed, the new design is seen to improve its discoverability, saving researchers time and effort. Other enhancements include MyCABDirect, a personalised area where users can set up e-mail alerts and RSS feeds based on their search results, share information and save important searches; faceted searching, where users can finely filter information to fit their research needs based on CABI’s indexing terms and metadata; capability to view full text at the search results level; improved user experience through a more intuitive interface; and suggestions for spelling variations.

The new CAB Direct is fully Shibboleth compliant. It will also abstract snippet views at search results level; save searches to social book marking sites; and provide COUNTER compliant usage statistics.

Semantico not only contributed design and build to the project, but also user research and testing, and deployment of its new marketing tool, FragR, a fragment editor that allows easier communication via the platform.

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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that it is providing its corporate and academic library customers with an enhanced web analytics platform to measure the usage of the ACM Digital Library (DL) full-text and bibliographic database. The new platform, provided by Scholarly iQ, enables librarians to access past and current usage statistics and receive timely COUNTER usage reports that comply with the industry standard for measuring online usage data of scholarly journals. Scholarly iQ provides solutions to improve the quality of online usage reporting for publishers and librarians.

The platform, to be introduced in July, also includes an automated request and response model known as SUSHI, which utilises a web services framework to increase the flexibility of library access to ACM’s electronic resource usage data.

The ACM DL comprises an online collection of more than two million pages of full-text articles from ACM publications as well as a comprehensive bibliographic database. It includes an index of more than 7 million references, 1.25 million citations and over 500,000 journal articles. ACM’s full-text database consists of many of the highest impact titles in the computing field dating back to 1954. It includes content from ACM’s wide range of journals, magazines, conference proceedings, ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) newsletters, technical reports and multimedia files.

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Risk and regulatory management solutions J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc., US, has announced the availability of a new, free white paper, ‘Economic Impact: How Information Professionals Are Coping with Change.’ The white paper seeks to provide information professionals with valuable insight into the creative ways their peers are coping with staffing and budget changes. It features the results of a survey in which information professionals revealed their recession survival strategies.

The survey, conducted on J. J. Keller’s behalf by Free Pint Ltd., was promoted to subscribers of ResourceShelf, a FreePint-published resource of web-based resources used by information professionals in North America and around the world. A J. J. Keller-sponsored mailing, sent to all subscribers, invited participation in the survey this spring. Most of the 308 respondents reported that they work in professional services, in organisations with more than 5,000 employees; a significant portion of respondents work in academic libraries and nonprofit organisations.

Making use of free resources is seen to be the most important tactic for coping with reduced content budgets, the survey revealed. According to the survey, using technology and/or automation is most relevant for coping with staffing changes. Also, it noted that doing more with less is the information professional’s new mantra.

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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has teamed up with two physics organisations - the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and AVS - to offer a new subscription package. The package is available through the IEEE Xplore digital library (www.ieee.org/ieeexplore). Developed for corporations and government research centres, the AIP/AVS Applied Physics Library offers subscribers unlimited access to five journals in applied physics, including archives dating back to 1930. AVS is a technical society devoted to materials, interfaces and processing.

The new subscription will provide full-text access to more than 250,000 articles from five AIP/AVS journals that will be fully integrated into IEEE Xplore. These titles include Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Review of Scientific Instruments from AIP; Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films and Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures published by AVS.

The AIP/AVS Applied Physics Library, available via IEEE Xplore, can be purchased as a stand-alone corporate subscription or added to an existing IEEE Xplore corporate subscription. Users may also purchase individual articles from IEEE Xplore.

IEEE, AIP and AVS already have an ongoing collaboration. The magazine Computing in Science and Engineering, a joint publication of the IEEE Computer Society and AIP, has been published since 1999. It covers computational science and engineering research for a broad range of technical fields. In 2007, all three societies were active participants in launching Scitopia.org, a free, federated search portal created by various science and engineering societies.

The AIP/AVS Applied Physics Library will be available via IEEE Xplore in June 2009.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced a partnership with the Association of Medicine and the Person to publish the Journal of Medicine and the Person. The peer-reviewed, international journal is aimed at medical practitioners and scientists interested in broadening their knowledge in the field of ethics and quality of life. The first issue at Springer, Vol. 7, No. 1, is now available. Professor Giancarlo Cesana of the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

The Journal of Medicine and the Person publishes original scientific papers, state-of-the-art reviews, short communications, case reports, book reviews and society news. Topics include specialised expertise and a multidisciplinary approach to the patient, new methodologies and technical approaches to health care problems, health care as a profession with a worldwide perspective, and public health and social medicine.

Springer will publish the journal three times a year in both print and electronically. It is available via www.springerlink.com, Springer’s online information platform, and includes fast, electronic publication in Online First, as well as Cross Reference Linking and Table of Content Alerts. All potential authors have the option, via the Springer Open Choice programme, of publishing their articles using the open access publishing model.

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The Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that King Fahd University For Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) has purchased Web of Science data back to 1900. KFUPM is the first university in the Saudi Arabia Consortia, and in the Gulf region, to purchase more than a century of vital data.

Web of Science claims to be the world's largest citation database, providing researchers, administrators, faculty and students access to more than 11,000 actively covered, high impact journals and 110,000 conference proceedings, totaling 45 million documents and more than 1 billion cited references.

Since KFUPM purchased Web of Science in 2004, the number of articles published by university researchers has increased 15 percent between 2004 and 2008, and the number of citations to the works of KFUPM researchers has increased 90 percent during the same period. The addition of Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and back year editions of Arts & Humanities Citation Index will now provide users access to millions of additional source items and cited references.

KFUPM is one of the Gulf region’s leading universities and is highly regarded for its excellence in science and engineering programmes. It leads universities in the region in terms of the articles published in by its faculty and researchers, specifically in the areas of engineering and pure sciences.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that information on ongoing federally funded projects is now available through EBSCOhost. Federal Research In Progress (FEDRIP) provides information for ongoing research in the fields of engineering, physical & life sciences. The database is seen to be an important component to the technology transfer process in the US.

Federal Research in Progress offers a unique structure as a non-bibliographic information source of research in progress. FEDRIP project descriptions generally include project title, keywords, start date, estimated completion date, principal investigator, performing and sponsoring organisations, summary, and progress report.

By incorporating FEDRIP into their research, users avoid research duplication and complement searches of completed research. Researchers are also able to identify gaps in areas of investigation, identify leads in literature, locate individuals with expertise, locate sources of support, and stimulate ideas for planning.

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Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, has announced that application vendors QUOSA and TDNet have integrated CCC's rights advisory and management tool, Rightsphere, directly into their knowledge management applications. By integrating Rightsphere, users of these applications can instantly check the rights status of content against their rights database in Rightsphere without having to leave their content management workflow.

Launched in 2006, the web-based Rightsphere application allows librarians, researchers and other information professionals to aggregate all of their company's content rights at a very granular level. It also provides knowledge workers with instant answers regarding their rights to use and share specific content. Rightsphere has been adopted by various players in the pharmaceutical, aerospace and consumer goods industries and is being integrated into applications from application vendors in those markets.

US-based Cubist Pharmaceuticals is among the first customers to implement a complete literature workflow solution, based on its QUOSA literature management platform integrated with Rightsphere. In addition, Cubist uses Reprints Desk for document delivery, which also includes Rightsphere integration.

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Seedmagazine.com, the primary online presence of Seed Media Group - publishers of Seed Magazine – has launched the Seed Bookstore, which carries all titles recommended by Seed’s editors since the magazine first started its Book Review section in October 2005. The Bookstore will provide Seed Magazine with a new tool for connecting its readers with top science content. Books will be available for sale directly through the Seed Bookstore, powered by Amazon.com, as well as through the Seed Picks book reviews on Seedmagazine.com.

To celebrate the opening of the Seed Bookstore, Seedmagazine.com has announced the launch of a Daily Book Giveaway. One winner per day will receive a free copy of a recently reviewed book.

Seedmagazine.com seeks to provide readers with relevant, insightful and entertaining original science content on the web. Updated 6 days a week, the site includes everything from breaking news and in-depth features to columns and reviews, including articles from Seed Magazine.

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Information services and publishing company Wolters Kluwer, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Shasha Chang as its new CEO of Wolters Kluwer China. In her new role, Chang will oversee all Wolters Kluwer activities in mainland China and Hong Kong, including legal, tax and accounting, and health information.

Chang, a seasoned international professional with strong knowledge of the Chinese information market, has previously worked with McGraw-Hill Companies in several management functions, among them General Manager of McGraw-Hill China and Director of Standards & Poor’s Beijing office.

Wolters Kluwer provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal, and regulatory sectors. The company maintains operations in over 35 countries across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

The Research Information Network (RIN) has released a new report titled ‘Creating Catalogues: bibliographic records in a networked world’. The report is projected as a timely overview of the process of producing and disseminating bibliographic data for scholarly journals, journal articles and for printed and e-books. According to the report, there are considerable benefits to be gained if libraries, along with other organisations in the data supply chain, were to operate more at the network level. However, there are currently significant barriers to making effective moves in that direction, says the report.

Within the Web 2.0 environment, there are increasing opportunities for innovative use of datasets – including the metadata that are used to make up catalogues - that are freely available to all. Open data is an increasingly hot topic, and there is growing interest from governments and others in making information created by public sector organisations more widely available for re-use, in order to generate greater economic benefit, social gain and improvements to public services.

The report explains how bibliographic data are created and used from publishers through a range of intermediaries (including libraries), to the end users. It points out that there are pressures to make these data more freely available. However, each player in the process has its own motivations and business models in creating, adding to, using or re-using bibliographic data, many of which hinder moves to open up this data. Creating catalogues identifies key issues in the process and aims to stimulate the debate on possible ways forward, both to eliminate wasteful duplication of effort, and to make the data more freely available for re-use and innovation. The report provides a number of recommendations for all involved in the process.

RIN will work with the academic library community and others in the supply chain to raise awareness and understanding of the issues in this report; of the benefits to be achieved by moving to new models; and to identify ways in which we might work towards achieving them. The report and supplementary notes are available at www.rin.ac.uk/creating-catalogues

It has been observed that Web 2.0 developments are creating a complex landscape for the creation and use of the traditional bibliographical data. Last year, the Library of Congress Working Group on the future of bibliographic control issued a report which indicated that cataloguing activity must be shared more broadly and equitably among all libraries. In January 2009, LibLime announced an open source web-based cataloguing tool called biblios.net and proposes that the records catalogued using it will go into ‘The world's largest database of freely licensed library records’.

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Healthcare knowledge management solutions provider Unbound Medicine, US, has announced an application for iPhone and iPod touch devices in institutions that subscribe to uCentral. uCentral, a custom point-of-need solution for institutions, delivers trusted medical information where and when it is needed.

Among the references now available for iPhone within the uCentral application are 5-Minute Clinical Consult, Harrison's Manual of Medicine, The Merck Manual, Davis's Drug Guide, and Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary.

The rapid adoption of iPhone technology by members of the health care community has significantly increased demand at medical libraries for mobile content. Medical Students and physicians at Yale University School of Medicine and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University have just completed a beta test of uCentral. When surveyed, all participants reported that the uCentral application was simple to download and use. Eighty-one percent stated that they referred to uCentral while with a patient, whether at the bedside or in the clinic.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO, US, has announced a new feature of its A-to- Z listing service which enables researchers to browse e-journal tables of contents and directly access articles to more quickly discover the information they need for their research.

The system’s new point-of-need authentication option allows libraries greater freedom to display appropriate resources to all users while restricting access to e-journals in accordance with publisher agreements. The new feature allows all users to access a library’s A-to-Z Reader Site—including listings for e-journals subscribed to through EBSCO—without needing to authenticate. When users attempt to view an e-journal’s table of contents, they will be authenticated through the method the library administrator has selected. Once authentication is successfully completed, users will be able to access the table of contents for any other e-journal for the remainder of the A-to-Z session.

In addition, the powerful A-to-Z Administrator Site features allows libraries to control the appearance of the table of contents pages for all e-journals, including the display of important notes that alert researchers to specific details about e-journal access or coverage.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will host the Tetrahedron Virtual Conference. The event is projected as a real-time virtual platform offering low cost online access to the high quality content to be presented at the Tenth Tetrahedron Symposium in Paris on June 24-26, 2009.

From June 24, virtual delegates will have access to real-time video webcasts of selected presentations during the three days of the symposium and to the archived content for three months after the event. As well as access to various speakers, including a chemistry Nobel Laureate, virtual delegates have access to selected posters presented at the conference; the opportunity to visit virtual exhibitor booths; take part in scheduled chat sessions with selected speakers; and network with other online delegates.

The Tenth Tetrahedron Symposium also celebrates 50 years of Tetrahedron Letters and will bring together 1,150 delegates to hear from the speakers. Topics to be addressed span the full range of organic chemistry, including new developments in synthetic methodology, objectives in total synthesis, functional and mechanistic studies of biological systems, and advances in new materials.

Online delegates can watch real-time presentations detailing the latest research by speakers including Carlos Barbas of the Scripps Research Institute, USA; Thomas Carell - University of Munich, Germany; Jean-Marie Lehn - University of Strasbourg, France; Steve Ley - University of Cambridge, UK; Kim Janda - Scripps Research Institute, USA; Richard Schrock - MIT, USA; Masakatsu Shibasaki - University of Tokyo, Japan; Barry M. Trost - Stanford University, USA; and George Whitesides - University of Harvard, USA. The new virtual platform is seen to enable greater participation from the global organic chemistry community in the celebratory symposium.

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The Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access (SHERPA) team at the University of Nottingham has announced the formation of the Centre for Research Communications (CRC).

Based at the University of Nottingham, CRC will house the portfolio of open access projects, services and initiatives currently undertaken by the University. These include the home of the SHERPA partnership; the open access services RoMEO, Juliet and OpenDOAR; the Repositories Support Project (RSP), and the University contribution to the European and international projects DRIVER, Dart-Europe and NECOBELAC. In addition, CRC will also explore innovative research and development activities across the whole field of research communications.

The formation of CRC is yet another boost to the growing open access movement. As demonstrated by the recent award of open access institute of the year award, Nottingham University is now at the forefront of supporting and informing changes in the way that research is communicated around the world.

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Swets has announced that it has recently been awarded a new ISO 9001:2008 certificate, covering all of its operating offices worldwide. The ISO 9001 certificate has been revised in order to ensure that organisations keep up with recent developments in management system practices. Swets has been globally ISO certified for more than a decade.

ISO 9001:2008 – the fourth edition of the standard – introduces clarifications to the requirements existing in the previous standard ISO 9001:2000, based on user experience over the last eight years, and changes that are intended to improve further compatibility with the ISO 14001:2004 standard for environmental management systems. The amended version of the quality management standard ISO 9001 was published on November 15, 2008.

With clients in over 160 countries and more than twenty offices worldwide, Swets claims to provide the most comprehensive and sophisticated e-commerce platform currently available in its field. The company has been included in E-Content Magazine's '100 companies that matter most in the Digital Content Industry' for the past five years.

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Integrated media firm Ziff Davis Enterprise (ZDE), US, has hired three key executives: Matthew Sweeney, former CEO of the Computerworld and InfoWorld brands at International Data Group (IDG); sales executive Peggy Schecter of United Business Media’s TechWeb; and Eric Lundquist, formerly Content Director, New Media at IDG.

Matthew Sweeney has joined the company as President of Sales and Marketing following a long tenure with IDG where he was CEO of the Computerworld and InfoWorld brands. A successful and well known executive in the enterprise IT industry, he was previously Executive Vice President and Publisher of Computerworld, leading their national sales efforts for two and a half years through a period of tremendous revenue growth. In his new role at Ziff Davis Enterprise, Sweeney will work with Senior Vice President of Sales Dave Colford and Senior Vice President of Integrated Marketing/Client Services Josh Heitsenrether to drive the sales and marketing efforts for the company's entire platform of products and solutions. He will also be at the forefront of new product development.

Peggy Schecter joins Ziff Davis Enterprise as Vice President, Eastern Regional Sales Manager, after spending more than 15 years at United Business Media LLC and its predecessor companies CMP and Miller Freeman. In her new role with Ziff Davis Enterprise, Schecter will manage East Coast sales efforts for the company’s entire portfolio of products and solutions, leveraging her expansive industry knowledge, account relationships and creative online experience.

Eric Lundquist returns to Ziff Davis Enterprise as Vice President/Strategic Content, returning from IDG where he was the Content Director, New Media Products. He previously worked at Ziff Davis Enterprise where his positions included editor-in-chief of eWEEK for over a decade and editor-at-large for CIO Insight. In his new role, Lundquist will develop content in a wide range of formats and media, leveraging multimedia, social networks, online and conference content to fully meet the needs of the company’s active and sophisticated audience of technology buyers.

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The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Stuart Shieber (Are the Harvard open-access policies unfair to publishers?); Philip Davis (Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars); Casey Johnston (Tag networks on social sites may predict next Internet fad); and David Crotty (Bing and Wave: New Technologies with Different Aims). 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

e-communication and clinical information solutions developer EPG Health Media, UK, has announced the launch of a new interactive cystic fibrosis knowledge centre within www.epgonline.org, its web-based medical education resource for Healthcare Professionals (HCPs). Cystic Fibrosis is one of the more common, life-shortening, inherited diseases among Caucasians and affects about 70,000 people worldwide.

The EPG cystic fibrosis knowledge centre is designed to provide information and support to the wide range of health professionals involved in the treatment and care of cystic fibrosis sufferers through all stages of the disease. Detailed information is provided on management of the lung, through various therapies and approaches, as well as the digestive system, liver and gall bladder and pancreas.

The new cystic fibrosis knowledge centre is the latest addition to the EPG Online 'library' of more than twenty knowledge centres. Other disease knowledge centres focus on a range of chronic and acute conditions including asthma, renal anaemia, migraine, diabetes, thrombosis and various types of cancer. In addition to disease knowledge centres, EPG Online includes a database of drugs (searchable by name and indication), clinical trials, guideline information and original medical news articles.

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Thieme Publishers, part of STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced that the Atlas of Anatomy has won two Benjamin Franklin Awards, presented by the Independent Book Publishers Association.

The Benjamin Franklin Awards recognises excellence in independent publishing. Publications are grouped according to genre and then judged based on editorial and design by top practitioners in each field. This year, the awards were presented during a gala awards ceremony at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, New York.

For the 2009 awards, Atlas of Anatomy picked up two first place wins in the Education/Teaching/Academic and Science categories while Anatomy Flash Cards received a nomination in the Science category. Edited by Anne M. Gilroy, Brian R. MacPherson, and Lawrence M. Ross, Atlas of Anatomy is based on the work of Michael Schuenke, Erik Schulte, and Udo Schumacher, with illustrations by Markus Voll and Karl Wesker. Anatomy Flash Cards is a learning and review tool edited by Anne M. Gilroy based on Atlas of Anatomy.

Atlas of Anatomy features more than 2,000 images which lead readers step-by-step through key regions of the human body. The highly portable flash cards include more than 350 full-colour illustrations as well as questions and answers that help users commit key anatomical concepts to memory.