Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced a new release of the Symyx Isentris decision support system. Isentris 3.2 enables scientists to explore, compare and report on information spanning multiple experiments captured in electronic lab notebooks, the Symyx Lab Execution and Analysis (LEA) software suite, laboratory information management systems and other information management systems.

Symyx Isentris is projected as a cross-experiment data access, analysis and reporting tool for any LIMS system - driving better informed decisions in scientific experiments and studies. The latest version supports the ongoing collaboration between Symyx and Thermo Fisher Scientific aimed at integrating Symyx Notebook and Symyx Isentris software with Thermo Scientific’s industry-leading LIMS including Watson LIMS used in DMPK/bioanalytical research.

Isentris 3.2 seeks to significantly extend the current analysis and reporting capabilities of Symyx LEA software. It enables LEA researchers to easily aggregate data from multiple information sources in a single view and to report on chemical structures, images, chromatograms, spectra and XY datasets, all within the Microsoft Excel environment.

With the Isentris software developer kit, R&D organisations can extend existing reporting functionality with cross-experiment analysis and reporting, thereby combining additional information sources into analyses and reports on an experiment-by-experiment or study-by-study basis. Scientists can rapidly validate findings by comparing experimental results. They can improve the design of future experiments through comparisons with past experiments and expect to make better decisions by combining information from disparate sources.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome has launched with the publisher as the eighth addition to the Independent Journals Portfolio this year. The journal is the official journal of the Brazilian Diabetes Society (SBD).

Through reporting on basic research and clinical studies exploring any area of research into diabetes and metabolic syndrome, the journal hopes to provide a means of increasing knowledge and stimulating research in the field. The journal aims to benefit health care providers by acting as a point of reference for improvement in the management of people afflicted by these conditions.

The journal presents original material on any aspect of laboratory, animal or clinical research about the physiology and pathophysiology of diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Through offering a high-visibility forum for new insights and discussions, the journal seeks to help health care providers improve the management of people afflicted by these syndromes by increasing knowledge and stimulating research in the field.

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B2B media company Penton Media, US, has announced the launch of Energy Efficiency & Technology and eetweb.com, a new media resource designed to serve engineers seeking to boost energy efficiency in products and processes to bring clean, reliable and affordable energy technologies to the marketplace.

Energy Efficiency & Technology and EETweb.com helps energy-efficiency engineers develop and employ state-of-the-art energy systems and practices by providing a forum for the exchange of information among those involved in energy conversion and efficiency. Emphasis is on technical content and the technical aspects of the design, manufacture and application of devices, circuits and systems related to technology for energy conversion and efficiency. Content includes technical articles written by practicing professionals and edited by engineers, overviews describing the latest developments in industry, tutorials that cover wide-ranging energy efficiency topics and a showcase of new technologies and products.

Penton Media, Inc. is a leading business-to-business media company serving more than six million business professionals every month.

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The eiNetwork, a collaboration of the Allegheny County Library Association and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, has opted for the AquaBrowser library software, which provides libraries with visual and faceted search solutions.

AquaBrowser will provide eiNetwork’s 44 member libraries — which have holdings of nearly 4 million items — with an independent discovery layer. The Medialab Solutions product seeks to offer users a contemporary web experience without any disruption to the library’s backroom and staff activities. It also seeks to provide technology that empowers users with an intuitive and attractive interface on top of an existing catalogue. The library internally keeps working the way it always has, but customers get the kind of search and Web 2.0 experience they’ve come to expect on the Internet.

Existing users of AquaBrowser include 600 libraries. Other large consortia offering AquaBrowser to their users include Ramapo Catskill Library System (NY), Metropolitan Library Network System (MN), Upper Hudson Library System (NY), Southeastern Libraries Cooperating System (MN), Library Integrated Network Consortium (IL), MARINet (CA) and Prairie Area Library System (IL).

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Academic publisher SAGE and the Association for Assessment in Counseling and Education, a division of the American Counseling Association, have announced the 2010 launch of a new journal, Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (C.O.R.E). SAGE will publish the journal bi-annually beginning in 2010.

This new journal will provide counselor educators, researchers, and other mental health practitioners with outcome research and programme evaluation practices for work with individuals across the lifespan. Addressing ethical, legal, and cultural concerns in the assessment of dependent variables, implementation of clinical interventions, and outcome research, C.O.R.E. will address topics such as treatment efficacy; clinical diagnosis; program evaluation; research design; and outcome measure reviews.

SAGE also publishes Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development with the Association in Counseling and Education.

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E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that Peter McCracken, the company’s co-founder and current Director of Research, will be leaving the company September 30 to pursue technology projects related to his lifelong interest in maritime history.

Serials Solutions grew from McCracken’s initial vision for improved management of electronic resources developed while working as a reference librarian at East Carolina University and the University of Washington. In 2000 he joined forces with his two brothers, Steve and Mike McCracken, and a friend, Chris Pierard, and founded Serials Solutions.

McCracken is a member of the Founding Board, University of Washington Information School, Seattle and currently serves on the Board of Visitors for the University of North Carolina School of Information & Library Science. He is also the Co-Chair of the NISO/UKSG KBART ((Knowledge Bases and Related Tools) Working Group.

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The Special Libraries Association (SLA), a non-profit organisation, has announced the formation of a new professional interest division that will focus on issues related to planning, creating, maintaining and using taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, authority files, and other controlled vocabularies and information structures. The Taxonomy Division of SLA will provide information professionals interested in these topics a focused professional home-base within SLA, cutting-edge learning opportunities and access to a global network of colleagues.

SLA is organised into divisions representing subject interests, fields or types of information-handling techniques. SLA Divisions conduct professional development, networking and knowledge programmes during the Association's Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO. The new Taxonomy Division will join the ranks of functional, cross-industry professional interest groups such as the knowledge management, competitive intelligence and information technology divisions.

The division will focus its professional development and networking activities around strategies to organise and structure information so that content is accessible and useful. The division's focus encompasses traditional and emerging approaches to organising information, and the full range of settings in which taxonomies are applied. Areas of interest include strategies for planning and creating taxonomies; implementation, maintenance, and use of controlled vocabularies for all types of information and all relevant contexts; standards, governance, and management of taxonomies and other controlled vocabularies; and new and emerging approaches to organising information, such as the semantic web, ontologies, folksonomies, and tagging, including relationships between user-generated tags and formal controlled vocabularies.

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Librarians, legal scholars, authors, publishers and technology companies have announced the formation of a coalition – the Open Book Alliance – that will counter the proposed Google Book Settlement in its current form. The proposed settlement is between Google, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Authors’ Guild. Approval of the settlement plan currently is pending before the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The deal is also currently being investigated by the US Justice Department on antitrust grounds.

The Open Book Alliance will seek to inform policymakers and the public about the serious legal, competitive and policy issues in the settlement proposal. Members of the Alliance include Amazon, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, Internet Archive, Microsoft, New York Library Association, Small Press Distribution, Special Libraries Association and Yahoo!

In 2005, AAP and the Authors’ Guild filed a suit against Google, objecting to the company’s mass digitisation of millions of books on copyright violation grounds. The parties privately settled for $125 million and devised a scheme that would permit Google to charge libraries and consumers for access to the digitised books. Under the deal, Google, the Authors Guild and the AAP would gain significant new powers to control the fledgling market for digital books. The Open Book Alliance’s contention is that any digital library controlled by a single company and small group of colluding publishers would lead to higher prices and sub-par service for consumers, libraries, scholars and students.

The New York court considering the settlement has established a September 4 deadline for submissions on the settlement and indicated it planned to make a final decision on October 7.

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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Public Engagement, SPEC Kit 312, which explores the ways in which traditional ‘outreach’ programmes in academic libraries are evolving to address the emergent concept of ‘public engagement’ at the institutional level. It also looks at the degree to which the library is integrated into campus-level efforts to promote public engagement.

By the March deadline, responses had been submitted by 56 of 123 ARL member libraries for a response rate of 46 percent. Of the 56 responding libraries, 88 percent reported providing such programmes as part of their service profile. Respondents identified a wide variety of programmes that they characterise as ‘public engagement.’ The top four areas of library activity reported were programmes in the areas of K-12 education (80%), cultural engagement (75%), government information/e-government (68%), and lifelong learning (66%).

SPEC Kit 312 includes documentation from respondents in the form of mission statements, descriptions of library engagement programmes, examples of awards programme, scholarship of engagement information and job descriptions. The table of contents and executive summary from this SPEC Kit are available online at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/spec-312-web.pdf.

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BioOne, US, a web-based aggregator of research in biological, ecological and environmental sciences, has announced five new titles and their respective not-for-profit publishers to the 2010 BioOne Collections. These new titles are seen to further enhance the company’s resource offerings for organismal, ecological and conservation biology research.

Four titles will join the BioOne.2 collection, while one title will be added to the BioOne.1 collection. Four of the five titles are ISI-ranked, while the fifth is claimed to be a promising new-start in its third year of publication. Two of the publications are based in the UK and two in Poland. The fifth is US-based, with a long publishing history.

As a result of these additions, in 2010, BioOne will be home to 159 total publications, 111 (70 percent) of which are ISI-ranked. Furthermore, 70 (44 percent) of BioOne’s titles have their current content available online exclusively through BioOne’s new platform which debuted in January 2009. BioOne continues to host 11 open access publications, freely available to all users and fully integrated with the subscription-based collections.

In recognition of library constraints amidst a troubled economy, BioOne has frozen 2010 pricing at 2009 rates for both collections.

The titles that will make their debut on BioOne in January 2010 include International Forestry Review, published by the Commonwealth Forestry Association; Acta Ornithologica, published by the Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences; Annales Zoologici, published by the Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences; Freshwater Reviews, published by the Freshwater Biological Association; and Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, published by the Entomological Society of Washington.

Additionally, effective January 2010, titles that will no longer add current content to BioOne include Evolution, published by the Society for the Study of Evolution; Wetlands and the SWS Bulletin, published by the Society of Wetland Scientists; Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, published by the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry; and Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, published by the Wilderness Medical Society.

In accordance with both BioOne standard policy and Project Transfer guidelines, all departing title content currently hosted on BioOne will remain accessible to subscribers in perpetuity.

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Construction information provider McGraw-Hill Construction, part of The McGraw-Hill Companies, US, will host a national conference on the ‘Business of BIM’ at the Mission Bay Conference Center at the University of California, San Francisco. The rapid emergence of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) technologies is revolutionising the way architecture, engineering and construction firms work together to communicate, solve problems and build better projects. The event scheduled for September 21-22, 2009, seeks to bring design and construction professionals closer to BIM's benefits.

More than 200 design and construction professionals and affiliates will convene to discuss the business benefits of BIM, present projected effects on the bottom line, and detail case studies that have demonstrated real, measurable results. Attendees will have direct access to BIM technologies, including those new to the market, and will have the opportunity to analyse trends alongside the foremost BIM thought-leaders.

The ‘Business of BIM’ is produced by McGraw-Hill Construction. The buildingSMART alliance and the Mechanical Contractors Association of America, Inc. are Silver Association Sponsors. Association Media Event Sponsors include the American Institute of Architects California Council, the Society for Marketing Professionals, and the U.S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles Chapter.

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STM and business publisher Inderscience, Switzerland, recently published the first issues of four new titles. The journals are: International Journal of Collaborative Engineering; International Journal of Decision Sciences, Risk and Management; International Journal of Global Warming; and International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence.

International Journal of Collaborative Engineering deals with collaborative decision making in engineering. Collaborative engineering studies the interactive process of engineering collaboration, whereby multiple interested stakeholders resolve conflicts, bargain for individual or collective advantages, agree upon courses of action, and/or attempt to craft joint outcomes which serve their mutual interests. A free download of the papers from the first issue is available at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=161.

International Journal of Decision Sciences, Risk and Management publishes scholarly empirical and theoretical research articles that have a high impact on the field of management and decision making. It considers theoretical and practical views, case-based experiences and state-of-the-art applications that shape contemporary management and decision making trends in the highly competitive SME sector and in large organisations, institutions and the public sector. A free download of the papers from the first issue is available at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=254.

International Journal of Global Warming brings together all disciplines for both local and global solutions to combat global warming and its consequences. It focuses on remediation, avoidance, efficiency, cost effectiveness, design, resource utilisation, environmental quality, energy security, and sustainable development.action, and/or attempt to craft joint outcomes which serve their mutual interests. A free download of the papers from the first issue is available athttp://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=331.

International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence deals with the techniques, systems, methods and applications that help the World Wide Web to transform from a static data and information repository into an interactive, dynamic, transparent and secure knowledge and service network. A free download of the papers from the first issue is available at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=284.

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The European Commission (EC), in a policy document, has declared as its target to bring the number of digitised objects in Europe's multilingual digital library, Europeana, to 10 million by 2010. The EC has also opened a public debate on the future challenges for book digitisation in Europe. The challenges include the potential of the public and private sector to team up and the need to reform Europe's too fragmented copyright framework.

Presently, a user can find 4.6 million digitised objects on Europeana, compared to 2 million nine months ago. However, the substantial progress made with Europeana also brings to the surface the challenges and problems linked to the digitisation process. At the moment, Europeana includes mainly digitised books which are in the public domain and are thus no longer protected by copyright law (which extends to 70 years after the death of the author). It includes, for legal reasons, neither out-of print works (some 90% of the books in Europe's national libraries), nor orphan works (estimated at 10–20% of in-copyright collections) which are still in copyright but where the author cannot be identified.

Europeana also shows that licensing of copyright-protected material in Europe still takes place under a very fragmented legal framework. Earlier this year, a French aggregator had to withdraw photographs from Europeana, since it only had the right to disseminate the material on French territory.

To address all these issues, the EC has launched a public consultation on the future of Europeana and the digitisation of books that will run until November 15, 2009. Questions the EC asks include: How can it be ensured that digitised material can be made available to consumers EU-wide?; Should there be better cooperation with publishers with regard to in-copyright material?; Would it be a good idea to create European registries for orphan and out-of print works?; and How should Europeana be financed in the long term?

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Publisher O'Reilly Media, US, and TechWeb, co-producers of the Web 2.0 Summit, have sought help in choosing three charities that embody the spirit of Web Squared to partner with for this year's Web 2.0 Summit. The summit is slated for October 20-22, 2009, at the Westin Market Street in San Francisco. Proposals are being accepted at the Web 2.0 Summit Facebook page at http://bit.ly/W2Charities. Deadline for submissions is September 7.

Web Squared, this year's event theme and the title of the white paper by Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle, addresses the evolution of the web from the emergence of Web 2.0 to its current and future state. The authors see a new direction for the web, one that opens new business opportunities and new possibilities for impacting the world's most pressing problems. Web 2.0 Summit is therefore looking for charity organisations that are innovative and affecting change on a broad scale as partners for this year's big event.

Moderated by Battelle of Federated Media and O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc., the event will host various experts discussing how the web is evolving according to Web Squared. Now in its sixth year, the invitation-only event investigates how the web is making business more efficient, culture more vibrant, and society more tolerant. Attendance at the summit is limited to maintain an intimate setting and foster dialogue among participants.

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Information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced new licensing agreements with medical publisher Cancer Information Group (CIG) Media and A & C Black, which publishes a diverse set of books in a wide variety of subjects and categories, including scientific reference. As a leading aggregator of online scientific information, Ovid works with more than 150 international and society publishers, offering a wide selection of online books, journals and databases via OvidSP, its leading precision search and discovery platform.

As part of its agreement with CIG Media, 8 journals are scheduled to be available for annual subscription in September. These include Clinical Breast Cancer; Clinical Colorectal Cancer; Clinical Genitourinary Cancer; Clinical Lung Cancer; Clinical Leukemia; Clinical Lymphoma & Myeloma; Clinical Ovarian Cancer; and Supportive Cancer Therapy. CIG Media publishes peer-reviewed, tumor-specific content from key specialists and opinion leaders in various types of cancers and hematology fields.

UK publisher A & C Black has an extensive selection of books, including dictionaries and handbooks for students and researchers. Five of these will be available on OvidSP in September, including Black’s Medical Dictionary, a the bestselling medical dictionary which includes over 5,000 definitions, medical terms and concepts, as well as illustrations; Dictionary of Nursing, with over 11,000 nursing terms; and Black's Veterinary Dictionary, a bestseller for over 70 years; as well as two brand-new titles - The Sports Injuries Handbook and The Complete Guide to Abdominal Training. Ovid’s global customer base can access these titles on Books@Ovid, OvidSP’s ebooks platform, as either an annual subscription or as a one-time purchase, which gives them perpetual access on Books@Ovid.

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Publisher Taylor & Francis, UK, is set to publish the journal Palynology from Volume 34 in 2010. The journal is the official journal of AASP – The Palynological Society. Edited by James B. Riding at the British Geological Survey, Nottingham, UK, Palynology publishes original, peer-reviewed research papers.

Palynology covers the science of palynology, especially as it relates to stratigraphic applications, and aims to disseminate palynological research and encourage the scientific collection, study and publication of palynological data. With Taylor & Francis, the journal will see a number of improvements. These include moving the journal to Taylor & Francis’ informaWorld platform, bringing benefits including HTML versions of articles, forward citation linking, and online publication of articles ahead of the print issue through iFirst. A Manuscript Central online submission and review system for the journal will also be set for the journal to further speed the peer review process and maximise outreach to international authors. Back issues of Palynology from Volume 1 to 33 will be fully digitised and available online, alongside Volumes 1 to 15 of Geoscience and Man, the predecessor title to Palynology.

The Editorial policy will remain under the exclusive control of the Editor and AASP – The Palynological Society.

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GenomeQuest, Inc., a US-based provider of biological sequence search, content and analysis services, has announced an alliance with scientific software company Biomatters Ltd, New Zealand. The deal is to provide researchers a ‘top-down’ discovery methodology for next generation sequencing (NGS) projects.

Specifically, the companies will integrate Biomatters’ desktop analysis and visualisation software, Geneious Pro v4.8, with GenomeQuest 6.0Beta, an SDM platform which allows research organisations to manage and mine their sequence data across a portfolio of projects as well as the world of reference data. The new integrated product service will allow researchers to perform global mining on their NGS projects to identify areas of interest, complete their local investigations with familiar desktop analysis and visualisation tools, and manage their sequence data throughout the process.

Both companies share a vision for increasing the ease and speed with which researchers will be able to mine, manage and share sequence data, leading to shorter discovery periods and cost-saving efficiencies. The technical launch of the integrated product service is planned for October 2009.

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EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services, US, has signed an agreement with AHC Media LLC (AHC). Under the deal EMpact will serve as sales and marketing representative for AHC’s biotechnology and medical device publications. AHC Media provides news and strategic business information in the rapidly changing biotechnology and medical device industries.

According to the agreement, EMpact will promote BioWorld Today, Medical Device Daily and several other online titles in China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Hong Kong, Macau, Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean and Africa.

As part of the EBSCO group, EMpact brings to the sales process an expanded team of experienced sales and marketing personnel, many of whom have been working with publishers and libraries for many years. With the support of 31 fully staffed offices in 23 countries worldwide, EMpact's global reach makes it possible for content providers to take advantage of opportunities they might otherwise miss.

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The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International, US, has announced the launch of e-books to enable users to stay up-to-date on mobility engineering technology. The SAE online bookstore now offers a variety of titles in electronic format, including new releases, best-sellers and out-of-print titles. Customers can choose to order an entire book or a specific chapter. All purchased content is archived in a personal, electronic library.

E-books are ideal for the engineering professional who needs to access information while travelling, or who benefits from having content from multiple resources saved in one, easily portable medium. To acquire an e-book, customers purchase a downloadable file from SAE International and the content is delivered to their personal computer or hand-held device, such as the Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader or Apple iPhone. The reading experience is dependent upon the device, but common functions include searching, highlighting, bookmarking and linking to outside sources.

E-books are available for purchase on SAE International’s newly redesigned online bookstore at http://books.sae.org. The site has been enhanced to promote easy browsing, categorising titles by best-sellers, new releases, special offers and editor recommendations. Titles also are grouped by appropriate audiences, including new engineers, experienced engineers, executives, researchers and students.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced a partnership with the Chinese Society of Oceanography (CSO) to publish the latter’s official journal, Acta Oceanologica Sinica, beginning January 2010. The journal will be published at Springer both electronically and in print, starting with Volume 29, Issue 1.

Acta Oceanologica Sinica provides a forum for high-quality research papers in the field of oceanography from all over the world. It encourages submissions from all branches of oceanography, including marine physics, marine chemistry, marine geology, marine biology, marine hydrology, marine meteorology, ocean engineering, marine remote sensing and marine environmental sciences. All papers are subject to peer review and will be published online on SpringerLink.

The journal appears six times a year and was previously published by the CSO itself. It joins Springer’s Chinese Library of Science, a collection of more than 90 high-quality, English-language research journals from China.

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Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, has expanded its journal publishing programme in dentistry. The leading society publisher will be publishing its latest journal, the Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry (JICD), from August 2010. Its editorial board has already begun accepting author contributions.

An international journal from Asia Pacific, the Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry will be dedicated to the rapid dissemination and knowledge transfer of cutting edge science on all aspects of oral and maxillofacial sciences. The editorial board seeks to develop JCID into a premier research journal in dentistry from the Asia Pacific region and beyond. The journal aims to make significant contributions to the community of practitioners and researchers in this field.

Professor Lakshman Samaranayake, Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry in Hong Kong University, serves as Editor-in-chief of the journal. He is supported by a highly respected team of 15 associate editors covering all aspects of dental research.

Authors will benefit from rapid peer review and online publication. Not only will publication charges in the journal be waived, users will also be able to register for free access to the journal from August 2010 to December 2011.

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Independent academic and professional publisher SAGE has announced a new agreement with the International Headache Society (IHS) to publish their official journal, Cephalalgia.

Now in its 29th volume, Cephalalgia provides an international forum for original research papers, review articles and short communications on all aspects of headache. A monthly publication, readers receive timely cutting edge communications on clinical and basic research, as well as news on events within the headache community.

This transition is the latest in a number of high profile journals moving to SAGE in 2010. SAGE claims to be the world’s fifth largest journal publisher, with more than 520 titles across many disciplines in, science, technology and medicine, humanities and social sciences. Cephalalgia joins a growing collection of Neuroscience and Neurology journals, including The Neuroscientist; Neurorehabilitation & Neural Repair, Multiple Sclerosis, Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders and the Journal of Child Neurology.

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Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that Associated Content has adopted the OpenCalais service to achieve deeper classification and categorisation within its vast library of over 1.7 million pieces of content. Associated Content is an open content network that enables individuals and media companies to publish quality content on any topic, in any format.

Associated Content joins Thomson Reuters, CBS Interactive / CNET, The Huffington Post and more in ushering in a new wave of innovation in digital media and online publishing. In particular, it is using OpenCalais to inform the placement of advertising across its network in an effort to optimise the return it provides to its partners.

OpenCalais helps publishers compete. Found at OpenCalais.com, the automated tagging service is claims to be the fastest way to enhance the value of content, incorporating open data assets and increasing its relevance and search accessibility on the Web. OpenCalais also makes it easy to streamline content operations, increase user engagement, and extend distribution and reach - with decreased workload for writers and editors alike. In a unique application of semantic intelligence, Associated Content is also using OpenCalais to inform the process by which it assigns stories to its growing pool of more than 300,000 contributors.

OpenCalais uses natural language processing (NLP) to ‘read’ an article, extracting the 'who, what, when, where and how' from the story. Breaking content down into its basic elements makes it easier to manipulate and automates the creation of 'recommended reading' widgets, topic hubs and microsites.

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RMIT Publishing, a provider of authoritative content from the Australasian region, has announced the launch of the Informit Health Collection ─ new for 2010. A full text online resource, it is expected to deliver instant, cover-to-cover access to core allied health content from the Australasian region. Many of the peer reviewed titles it includes are uniquely available through Informit, seen to offer new perspectives of benefit to allied health professionals and students.

Informit Health Collection will provide access to evidence-based research and case studies of practical support to practitioners and students in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health roles. Subjects covered include alternative medicine, biotechnology, children's health, continence and urology, counselling, epidemiology, geriatric health, indigenous health, nursing, rehabilitation and rural health.

The collection, developed by RMIT Publishing in response to the growing demand for online allied health information, will replace its more clinical and selectively indexed predecessor – Meditext - from January 1, 2010.

RMIT Publishing previews the new Informit Health Collection in Brisbane at the International Congress on Medical Librarianship throughout this week. The collection will be available to libraries and institutions on annual subscription from January 2010. Trials will commence on October 1, 2009.

Informit, a brand and online platform of RMIT Publishing, offers databases with a content focus on the Asia Pacific region. RMIT Publishing is a business unit of RMIT Training and a wholly owned subsidiary of RMIT University.

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Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has announced that Mark Logic Corporation, a provider of software for information-centric applications, has been selected as TEMIS Business Partner of the Year 2009. The award seeks to recognise a select TEMIS certified partner for delivering exemplary solutions and services to customers. Mark Logic was chosen from among a dozen nominations from around the world, and recognised at the Worldwide TEMIS User Conference 2009, which was held earlier this year in Barcelona.

Mark Logic provides an XML server that helps organisations rapidly build and deploy information-centric applications. To help unlock the value of information, MarkLogic Server is claimed to combine the capabilities of a database management system for storing content with an advanced query and search engine for accessing it. This is coupled with an application server to deliver it. As a key component of information infrastructures, MarkLogic Server is projected to empower organisations with the functionality and flexibility needed to adapt quickly to changing market conditions and new product requirements.

Both companies are already collaborating in several organisations in the media and enterprise spaces to develop information-centric applications. Existing customers of the duo include Nature Publishing Group, the McGraw-Hill Companies and the Society of Automotive Engineers.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has signed an agreement with The Endocrine Society to co-publish a new journal, Hormones & Cancer, starting in January 2010. Jonathan Li of the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutics at Kansas University School of Medicine will serve as the Editor-in chief of the journal.

Hormonal cancers include two of the most deadly cancer subtypes - cancers of the breast and prostate. In addition to these cancers, Hormones & Cancer will include research articles covering other less-commonly occurring cancer subtypes, such as thyroid, gynecologic and pituitary cancer. The journal will help bridge the gap between those working in the two often disconnected fields of endocrinology and cancer research.

Hormones & Cancer is projected to be a translational journal, including basic scientific, epidemiological and clinical research papers. Because of the inherent multidisciplinary nature of the field, it is anticipated that the journal's focus will be on all aspects of hormone action on cancer causation, progression, dependence, prevention, resistance and treatment. Translational studies, especially those utilising novel cancer agents selectively designed to exert their action at hormone target tissues, will also be welcomed.

The journal will be published bimonthly both electronically and in print. The journal will include Cross Reference Linking, alert services, and online first, a feature by which articles are published online before they appear in print. The journal will be available on SpringerLink.com, a comprehensive collection of scientific, technological, and medical journals, books and reference works.

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Journal subscription services provider EBSCO, US, has announced that its EBSCO A-to-Z (A-to-Z) service now offers enhancements to the Overlap Analysis reporting functionality. The new features are expected to provide librarians with essential tools for comparing coverage overlap in library e-collections.

EBSCO A-to-Z is a web-based tool for organising and providing links to a library’s e-resources with comprehensive reporting for analysis and evaluation of a library’s complete e-collection. The existing version offers multiple reports, including reporting on usage, link-outs and knowledge base changes. It also offers Overlap Analysis reporting that features an at-a-glance evaluation for library collections.

The latest version of Overlap Analysis reporting seeks to eliminate guesswork — library collections can be compared simply and clearly on one page with the option to export directly into Microsoft Excel. The new functionality allows the tool to filter reports by coverage dates to focus the analysis on the all-important current content. It can also easily identify unique and overlapping titles with the simplified summary report format; view ‘Years of Unique Coverage’ on the title-details drill-down report, allowing librarians to see at a glance what titles in which packages offer the most unique coverage; and allow export reporting to Excel quickly and efficiently with one step. Overlap Analysis reporting seeks to provide the complete picture of a library’s e-collection, benefiting librarians who need to make important decisions that affect their library collections.

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Publisher Future Science Group, UK, has announced the availability of the Biotechhnology Collection that seeks to provide a forum for commentary and analysis of the rapidly expanding wealth of information in the biotechnology industry.

Titles in the collection include Biomarkers in Medicine, Immunotherapy, Nanomedicine, Personalised Medicine, Pharmacogenomics and Regenerative Medicine. Focusing on the most important advances and highlights, each journal has been designed to deliver essential concise information in an easily assimilated format – projected to be vital for the increasingly time-constrained professional. The publisher is offering free online access to the collection for one month, with full access to all titles in the range.

The biotechnology industry is observed to be one of the most research-intensive industries in the world. The billions of dollars spent on research and development each year are resulting in hundreds of advances. These include new biologics, cell and gene-based therapies, vaccines and diverse approaches to address major conditions such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, neurological diseases and autoimmune disorders.

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Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it has expanded its Shibboleth compliance for OvidSP, its market-leading search and discovery platform, to include the Japanese Shibboleth Federation. Now, institutions in Japan that are part of that country’s Shibboleth Federation can establish authorisation rights for end users allowing for secure, single sign-on access to important resources on OvidSP.

Currently, Ovid is Shibboleth-compliant with the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research, as well as with federations in France and Germany. Ovid continues to work with other countries to support their authentication needs by establishing Shibboleth compliance.

Content vendors use a variety of authentication mechanisms to manage access to their products. The security vulnerabilities and variety of these mechanisms make it challenging for a library portal to provide uniform and reliable access to the library's electronic subscriptions. Various institutions can join together in a Shibboleth federation, enabling users to get easy single sign-on access to content resources at institutions within the federation.

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The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Kent Anderson (Do Publishing Associations Match Publishing Realities?); Aimee Whitcroft (The threat to science publishing); Gideon Burton (Scholarly Communications must be Open); and Philip Davis (Naughty Twins and the Impact of Journals). 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

Library technology solutions provider SirsiDynix, US, has announced that the Libraries in Clackamas County (LINCC) in Oregon has successfully installed and begun operations using the SirsiDynix Symphony Integrated Library System (ILS), SirsiDynix e-Library, SirsiDynix Director’s Station and SirsiDynix Web Reporter business intelligence tools, and other solutions.

LINCC is a system of 10 independent city libraries and one county library that cooperate together to share a centralised SirsiDynix Symphony system with a single patron and bibliographic database. LINCC's 11 libraries serve a population of 362,000 with a total annual circulation of 6.5 million items from a shared database of 1.3 million item records. Symphony is LINCC's fourth integrated library system since 1983.

Symphony incorporates open, industry-standard technologies, offering the library community an impressive list of features and capabilities. These include an open n-tier architecture; software-as-a-service (SaaS) options; powerful search and discovery solutions; comprehensive integrated library management and productivity solutions; Java-based staff clients for all modules; fully documented application programming interfaces (APIs) that support unparalleled customisability and integration; Unicode support; advanced business intelligence and reporting tools; support for API, SIP2 and NCIP; and embedded and full Oracle database support.

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