The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) and Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) have commissioned a report on academic library and IT services. The report shows how academic library and IT services are budgeting for today’s economic conditions, but are in need of help to scenario plan for the long term impact of the recession.

The report, ‘The impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services’ contains the findings of 40 interviews carried out in 36 universities across the UK. It shows that library and IT services are adept at managing their budgets year on year. However, it acknowledges that there is a need to develop creative solutions to be able to offer the 24 hour access to resources that students, academics and researchers currently expect.

It also warns that the impact of any cuts is likely to have wide implications on institutions’ delivery of their overall strategic aims, such as enhancing the student experience. The report is available online at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/libsitimpacts.aspx.

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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced the publication of the E-book Collections, SPEC Kit 313. The kit examines the current use of e-books in ARL member libraries; their plans for implementing, increasing, or decreasing access to e-books; purchasing, cataloging and collection management issues; and issues in marketing to and in usage by library clientele.

By the May 2009 deadline, responses had been submitted by 75 of the 123 ARL member libraries for a response rate of 61 percent. Of the responding libraries, 73 (97 percent) reported including e-books in their collections.

According to survey responses, most institutions entered the e-book arena as part of a consortium which purchased an e-book package. The earliest forays occurred in the 1990s but the majority of libraries started e-book collections between 1999 and 2004. Purchasing at the collection level allowed libraries to acquire a mass of titles with a common interface, reducing some of the transition pains to the new format, according to survey responses. The downside of collections is that libraries find they are often saddled with titles they would not have selected in print.

Those libraries reporting success with individually selected e-book titles cope with other problems. Lag time between print and e-publication (with electronic the lagging format), restrictive digital rights management, loss of access by ILL, and limited printing top the list of concerns. However, responses indicate a preference for title-by-title selection as a more efficient use of funds.

The SPEC Kit includes documentation from respondents in the form of collection development policies, e-book collection web pages, e-book promotional materials, training materials for staff and users, and e-book reader loan policies. The product is designed to examine current research library practices and policies and serve as a resource guide for libraries as they face ever-changing management problems. Each SPEC Kit contains a summary analysis, survey questions with tallies, pertinent documentation from participating libraries, and a reading list and website references for further information on the topic.

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Scientific publisher World Scientific Publishing Company (WSPC), Singapore, and Chemical Industry Press will jointly launch Bioinspired Intelligent Nanostructured Interfacial Materials at the forthcoming Frankfurt Book Fair. Written by Lei Jiang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Lin Feng from Tsinghua University and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, the publication provides an introduction to natural and artificial micro/nanoscale interfacial materials, devoting attention to intelligent materials with special ‘wettabilities’ which refers to the extent which such materials are able to absorb moisture.

Originally written in Mandarin Chinese, the book is penned in an easy-to-understand manner. It emphasises the importance of learning from and mimicking nature to acquire inspiration in the field of developing intelligent materials. It is also printed in full colour with more than 200 figures and illustrations.

World Scientific Publishing publishes about 500 books annually and more than 120 journals in various fields. It collaborates with prestigious organisations like the Nobel Foundation, US National Academies Press and its subsidiary, Imperial College Press amongst others, to bring high quality academic and professional content to researchers and academics worldwide. Earlier last month, the publisher was selected by Stevens Institute of Technology as publisher for the Systems Research Forum journal and the Systems Research Book Series.

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Market research and data services provider Research and Markets, Ireland, has announced the addition of Professional Engineering Publishing's new subscription journal ‘Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part N: Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems’ to their offering. The journal publishes particular aspects of nanoscale engineering, science, and technology that involve the descriptions and characterizations of nanoscale systems and materials.

The Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems reflects work on real devices, processes and materials that arise from transitioning the scientific and engineering database. The journal also serves researchers at the interfaces of chemistry, materials science, physics and engineering.

The Journal is concerned with systems level approaches for the synthesis or fabrication of devices, materials, and processes where function of the nanoscale components is central to the overall performance. It seeks to provide a forum for those involved in the invention, modeling, fabrication, and analysis, of nanoscale systems, and their applications.

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Information technology (IT) media company TechTarget, Inc., US, has announced the launch of three new websites - SearchCIO.in, SearchDataCenter.in and SearchSecurity.in. The sites are designed to meet the needs of technology companies looking to penetrate the fast growing Indian market and enterprise information technology (IT) professionals in India as they research products and services.

To help guide the Indian effort, some of the country’s leading CIOs have joined TechTarget-India’s editorial advisory board. SearchCIO.in is projected to be the definitive information website for Indian CIOs, IT directors and business managers addressing the strategic needs of Indian IT leaders as they evaluate products and services and make the best technology buying decisions. SearchDataCenter.in offers advice for Indian IT professionals managing their organisations’ mission-critical computing needs for servers, storage and virtualisation. SearchSecurity.in focuses on Indian IT pros responsible for securing their businesses’ network, systems and data.

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JSTOR, a service of the not-for-profit organisation ITHAKA, has announced the appointment of Mary Rose Muccie as Current Journals Director, effective October 26, 2009. In her new position, Rose will lead efforts to cultivate and deepen relationships with university presses and scholarly associations, building their participation in the new Current Scholarship Program announced last month by JSTOR and University of California Press. She will also manage the Program’s operations and lead its business strategy going forward.

A highly regarded leader in digital publishing, Rose has led Project MUSE, an online aggregation of humanities and social science journals that is part of Johns Hopkins University Press for the last three years. During that time she initiated a substantial upgrade of features and functionality of the MUSE website and reworked MUSE policies to provide a better return for publishers and enable growth for the organisation. Prior to joining MUSE, she served for 13 years at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). At both MUSE and SIAM, Muccie collaborated with JSTOR, first to digitise and make available SIAM’s archival journal content and later to establish connections between the JSTOR and MUSE platforms to ease faculty and student use of the content across the sites.

The Current Scholarship Program will build on what JSTOR is today and aims to provide a new and sustainable approach to online publishing. It will make current and historical scholarly content available on a single, integrated platform; provide a single point of purchase and access for librarians and end users around the world; and ensure long-term preservation. The first current content will be available to libraries beginning in 2011.

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Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the Stanley Ho Library of the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) has acquired a suite of Ex Libris products. These include the Aleph integrated library system (ILS), the MetaLib gateway and metasearch portal, the SFX OpenURL link resolver, and the Primo discovery and delivery solution.

Following an intensive evaluation process, OUHK chose the Ex Libris solutions to improve the user experience and maximise the efficiency of Library staff. The Ex Libris Aleph ILS will replace the library's Dynix Classic system, which was used for internal operations and the cataloging of the Library's 126,000 printed and audiovisual items. The Library, which also provides online access to 17,400 electronic serials including full-text e-journals and bibliographic databases and 17,900 e-books, will make all of its resources available to end users via Primo.

The Ex Libris Group provides automation solutions for academic, national, and research libraries. The company maintains an impressive customer base consisting of thousands of sites in more than 70 countries on six continents. Dedicated to developing creative solutions in close collaboration with its customers, Ex Libris enables academic, national, and research libraries to maximise productivity and efficiency and, at the same time, greatly enhance the user experience. By empowering users to discover and obtain the information they need, libraries ensure their position as the bridge to knowledge.

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Information services and publishing company Wolters Kluwer, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Punnika Kharas as Executive Vice President, Global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) & Sourcing, effective immediately. In this newly created role, Kharas will be focusing on the harmonisation of business process and data models in the areas of sourcing, process standardisation, and off-shoring to guide Wolters Kluwer's simplification and productivity objectives.

Kharas was previously Global Business Process Owner for Wolters Kluwer as of January 2009, supporting the organisation's Springboard program. She joined Wolters Kluwer in 2001 as Chief Financial Officer of the Legal, Tax & Regulatory Europe division. She has served in several management positions in financial and planning & analysis functions for the European, the Middle East, and African markets at various companies, including Digital Equipment and Borg Warner Chemicals.

Wolters Kluwer is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal, and regulatory sectors.

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Medical publisher CIG Media Group, US, in partnership with M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has announced the release of the Proceedings of the Leukemia 2008 Fourth International Conference under its Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia brand. The proceedings capture the core of the 2008 meeting, presenting an extensive summary of the discussions that will propel future leukemia research and treatment.

The proceedings can be reviewed at CIG’s online platform, www.cigjournals.com, under Clinical Lymphoma & Myeloma publication. Proceedings from other key international meetings such as the International Myeloma Workshop and the International Workshop on Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia are also available.

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

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Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has launched ProQuest Public Health, a new resource designed to be the starting point for public health information and research. ProQuest Public Health covers a wide range of disciplines from biological sciences and social sciences to health economics.

ProQuest Public Health brings together highly sought-after content from journals, news, dissertations, trade publications, reports and more. It combines core public health literature from over 800 publications (with more than 500 of these in full-text) and over 9,000 full text dissertations. Key titles include American Journal of Public Health, Maternal and Child Health Journal, AIDS Education and Prevention and The Lancet.

ProQuest Public Health reveals the latest research on breaking topics such as H1N1; disaster preparedness and childhood obesity; and key scholarly research themes such as Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Services Administration, International Public Health, Maternal & Child Health, and Occupational Safety and Health. It is cross-searchable with other ProQuest resources, including ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Care, ProQuest Hospital Collection, and ProQuest Health and Medical Complete. This allows end users to get the most out of their research experience.

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Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has released a study, according to which India's research productivity will be on par with most G8 nations within 7-8 years and could overtake them between 2015 and 2020. The study is part of a new series of Global Research Reports from Thomson Reuters that will illustrate the changing landscape and dynamics of the global research base around the world.

The study, ‘Global Research Report: India’, informs policymakers about the research and collaboration potential of the nation and its current place in world science. It draws on data found in Web of Science, available on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform, a citation environment of scholarly literature. According to the study, over the past decade, India has seen a nearly 80 percent growth in its annual output of scientific publications, from roughly 16,500 in 1998 to nearly 30,000 in 2007. India's annual growth rate has vaulted in recent years to rival comparable figures from such well-established European and Asian nations as Japan, France, German, and the UK. The study further states that the nation’s research portfolio is markedly balanced between the life sciences and physical sciences.

The study found that India has established stable and growing research partnerships with a variety of nations - notably, the US, Germany, Japan and the UK. South Korea has hugely increased its percentage of papers collaboratively with Indian authors. This is seen as part of a doubling in volume of Indian collaborative output with Asian partners, possibly signalling the emergence of a clearer regional research network.

The report examines India's scientific focus and how its areas of concentration map to the rest of the world. The aim is to provide policymakers and institutions who are interested in engaging with India's research base with useful information and insights. The report is available online at http://go.thomsonreuters.com/india.

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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and IBM, US, have announced a publishing agreement. Under the deal, all papers published in IBM journals will be available exclusively in the IEEE Xplore digital library (www.ieee.org/ieeexplore) from the first quarter of 2010 onwards. The aim is to disseminate key technical articles and papers in computer hardware, software and information systems to a wider audience of researchers and interested readers around the world.

The IBM Journal of Research and Development, which now includes the IBM Systems Journal, is claimed to be one of the top-cited journals in the field. The two, which have been published online since 1998, merged into one fee-based online publication in 2009. The production of future editions of the current publication, the IBM Journal of Research and Development, will be handled by IEEE. IBM will be responsible for the content acquisition and peer review, while IEEE assumes the article production, copy editing, data conversion, online hosting and maintenance.

Users can purchase single IBM journal articles via IEEE Xplore or opt for a subscription package to the entire journal, including all issues ever published, starting in 1957. IEEE members and digital library subscribers also will be able to add the journals to their current subscription packages.

IEEE has been forming publishing and subscription agreements with various organisations. In June 2009, it 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 IEEE Xplore. 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.

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Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, has announced its first virtual scholarly conference, to be held October 19-30, 2009, with the theme of ‘Breaking Down Barriers.’ The aim is to facilitate multidisciplinary discussion and debate across the eight Social Science & Humanities disciplines represented by Wiley-Blackwell’s Compass review journal series.

Conference features include keynote podcast addresses from leading scholars including Professor David Crystal (University of Wales Bangor), Professor Peter Ludlow (Northwestern University) and Dr. Eileen Joy (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), as well as delegate discussion on review papers, publishing workshops, a book and journal exhibition, and more. Registration is free, and more than 550 delegates from over fifty countries have already registered.

All of the keynote addresses and scholarly papers cover topics of interest to academics in more than one discipline, from areas as diverse as the relationship between climate change and suicide, and how the war in Chechnya informs readings of Beowulf. Delegates can tune into publishing workshops on how to write a review paper. There will be discussion on the joys and sorrows of writing an undergraduate textbook, and attendees will also receive a virtual delegates’ pack, which includes a 20 percent discount in the book exhibition. New podcasts and papers will appear regularly throughout the conference, and all previous content will remain on the site so that delegates can make use of it at their convenience.

Blackwell Compass Journals publish peer-reviewed survey articles from across the entire discipline. Experienced researchers, teaching faculty, and advanced students will all benefit from the accessible, informative articles that provide overviews of current research. More information on the virtual conference is available online at http://compassconference.wordpress.com.

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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has announced improved search and new online features for its flagship publication Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC (RLI). A freely available online-only publication, RLI includes articles on the major issues that research libraries face in meeting the academic and research needs of the diverse communities they serve.

Recent issues of RLI are now available on a test basis through Tizra Publisher, a Web-based publishing platform. The system’s features include full-text search; page-at-a-time linking; and compatibility with mobile devices. The software also allows readers to zoom in if text is too small, and download full articles for printing or offline viewing via links available on every page. The new Test Site for Research Library Issues is freely available at http://publications.arl.org.

This service is introduced by ARL as a test to gauge user response and determine if such a platform could be used to distribute other ARL publications. Comments on the new platform should be directed to pubs@arl.org.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that Nature Medicine will celebrate 15 years as the leading translational research journal, in 2010. To mark this anniversary, the journal will expand its content by 25 percent and increase its editorial team. Starting January 2010, Nature Medicine will publish more news, reviews, and research articles. Readers and library customers will be able to access more content with no commensurate price increases.

Nature Medicine will also increase the number of professional editors that evaluate manuscripts. The journal will have expert editors devoted to evaluating manuscripts in most areas of biomedicine: cancer biology, cardiovascular research, metabolism, general physiology, autoimmunity and immunology, infectious diseases and neuroscience. Three new editors are currently being recruited. The expansion of the editorial team is expected to improve the publishing experience for authors by reducing the decision time on manuscripts.

Launched in 1995, Nature Medicine is a leading translational research journal publishing basic and preclinical work that has direct relevance to human disease. With a 2008 Impact Factor of 27.553, the journal has been the number one journal in the Medicine, Research & Experimental category of the Journal Citation Report every year since 1996.

To celebrate this legacy and the journal's continued development in 2010, Nature Medicine has launched the Nature Medicine Classic Collection. Nature Medicine Classic Collection brings together a series of recent articles organised by therapeutic area, together with some landmark articles published over the past 15 years. Nature Medicine Classic Collection is free-to-access online at www.nature.com/nm/classics.

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Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Summa Health System has selected ProVation MD software for Cardiology procedure documentation and coding. Summa Health will use the software to document and code catheterization cases at its three cardiac catheterization labs at Summa Akron City Hospital.

ProVation MD software for procedure documentation and coding compliance replaces dictation/transcription and streamlines the coding and billing process. Unlike Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS), which collect patient measurements and administrative data, ProVation MD lets clinicians quickly and completely document medical procedures at the point of care, then applies the appropriate reimbursement codes to drive compliance and revenue recovery. The software interfaces with cardiovascular nursing, imaging and measurement systems to complete the electronic documentation process and free busy cardiologists and technologists from time-consuming dictation.

Created by clinicians, ProVation MD software produces complete procedure documentation that results in greater efficiency, streamlined workflow and clinician satisfaction. The software interfaces seamlessly with patient demographic and other healthcare IT systems, allows images taken during the procedure to be integrated directly into the report, and has market-leading query/reporting capabilities for quality or other initiatives.

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The Chief Academic and Research Officers of 18 research universities in the US have declared their support for the Federal Research Public Access Act in a letter recently issued by the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA). The officers represent public and private institutions across 10 states. The letter is the first issued by chief academic and research officers in partnership, jointly recognising the value of greater accessibility and utility afforded by legislation for public access to federally funded research.

The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), introduced in June, is projected as a bipartisan measure to ensure online public access to the published results of research funded through 11 US agencies. The bill would require that journal articles stemming from publicly funded research be made available in an online repository no later than six months after publication.

According to GWLA, timely, barrier-free access to the results of federally funded research supports the core mission of its academic institutions. It is essential to fully utilise collective investment in science, observes the Alliance. FRPAA is expected to help maximise this investment by increasing the sharing research results, advancing the pace of discovery, and applying this knowledge for the benefit of GWLA communities.

The FRPAA bill also expands on the success of the public access policy of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the first US agency to require public access to taxpayer-funded research. More than 450,000 unique users access material from the NIH repository each day. Under the new bill, it is expected that researchers and students working in fields of equal importance – from climate change to renewable energy – will obtain same access to federally funded research to advance their critical work.

The institutions represented are members of the GWLA, a coalition of research libraries that collaborates on matters related to scholarly communication, electronic resources, cooperative collection development and digital libraries. The Alliance coordinated the release of the letter.

The GWLA represents 32 research libraries in 17 states in the Midwest and Western US. Its programme initiatives include an array of resource sharing, scholarly communication and continuing education projects.

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Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, has announced that it will be publishing the Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies (APJFS), beginning February 2010. Previously self-published, the journal is the official English language publication of the Korean Securities Association, and Wiley-Blackwell’s third Korean Social Sciences and Humanities title.

Published bi-monthly, the Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies will focus on empirical and theoretical research in the capital markets of the Pacific Rim countries. Major topics to be featured in the journal include corporate finance, investments, capital and security markets, and quantitative methods of particular relevance to financial researchers.

The journal received its first Impact factor in 2008, and claims to be the only Asian finance journal to receive a listing.

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Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of a new journal - Genes & Cancer. The journal will be published monthly beginning in January 2010. Dr. Prem Reddy, founder and previous Editor-in-Chief of the highly-ranked journal Oncogene, will serve as the editor.

The field of cancer research is entering a new and exciting phase where the convergence of information from genomics, bioinformatics, and modern genetics is beginning to provide new clues into how cancer cells overcome growth regulatory pathways. Genes & Cancer will cover all aspects of the structure and function of oncogenes, growth suppressor and apoptotic genes, their role in signal transduction process and the mechanisms by which their expression and function are altered during tumor development.

The journal will publish original studies and reviews that are relevant to all aspects of cancer research, signal transduction, and developmental biology. Topics covered by the journal are divided into four broad categories - the structure and function of cancer-associated genes as well as genes encoded by the DNA and RNA tumor viruses; the role played by these genes in normal development; genomics and epigenomics of cancer; and the discovery and mechanism of action of cancer therapeutics.

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Academic and reference books publisher Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced the online launch of four disciplines from its acclaimed Oxford Handbooks series. The Oxford Handbooks series brings together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking on a range of major topics.

Currently available within Oxford Handbooks Online are the complete texts of the Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management, Philosophy and Political Science, ensuring that these valuable reference resources are more easily accessible and searchable. Further modules will be added for the other core humanities and social science disciplines.

Oxford Handbooks Online joins Oxford University Press’s ever-expanding list of high-level scholarly publishing for the academic and professional communities. The site is cross-searchable with the Oxford Scholarship Online, supporting users who need to undertake further research.

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Construction cost information provider RSMeans, US, part of Reed Construction Data, has announced that the full line of 2010 RSMeans cost data books and CostWorks CDs is now available for order or pre-order at www.rsmeans.com. The products are projected to give customers current information at a volatile time in the construction industry.

RSMeans specialises in cost data resources that seek to help owners, developers, architects, engineers, contractors and other construction professionals accurately project and control the cost of both new building construction and renovation projects. Along with the core cost data, these resources include guides such as city cost indexes, productivity rates, crew composition and contractor’s overhead and profit rates.

To account for a constantly shifting economy, specialists at RSMeans closely monitor fluctuations in materials and market conditions in order to deliver accurate data. The newly released data reflects many cost modifications to help customers prepare competitive and accurate estimates in today’s market. Product upgrades also include a look at green trends with new information on building deconstruction, on-site environmental remediation and high-efficiency materials. The 2010 cost books contain more than 5000 ‘green-tagged’ line items.

All of RSMeans cost data is available through three formats: books, CDs and web-based products. Each includes free quarterly updates via e-mail with a report on market indicators and construction price trends. Customers will also gain access to the RSMeans Hotline, providing personalised assistance in effectively using RSMeans cost data.

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Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc., US, has announced that it will host the Allen Press Webinar Series, Best Practices and Innovative Solutions, designed for the editorial office staff of scholarly and professional publishers. Four online seminars, presented throughout October and November, will offer tips for streamlining workflow and creating efficiencies in the editorial office.

The first webinar, Annotating PDFs: A Piece of the Digital Workflow Puzzle, will take place on October 7. It will focus on how to use PDFs to improve efficiency and enhance communication. It will cover basic and advanced tools, as well as viewing and printing options, and will demonstrate how publishers can save time and money while increasing accuracy.

The second webinar, Using Kodak InSite: Uploading and Proofing Files, is scheduled for October 21, 2009. It will address how ‘soft proofing’ works – a key to expediting proofing, communication, and file processing. The session will illustrate how this online portal serves as an effective means of moving jobs through production faster while eliminating error, confusion, and delay.

The third webinar will take place on November 4. Managing Production Costs and Reader Preferences will explore suggestions for managing the cost of production, implementing cost-saving technologies for the editorial office, and combining technologies to provide flexible delivery of your content to meet a variety of reader preferences.

The last webinar, Best Practices for ‘Publish before Print’, will be held November 18 and will explore several models used by publishers who expedite the dissemination of information online, before a printed version can be produced. The session will look at the drivers and benefits of offering preprints and managing a preprint programme.

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The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Kent Anderson (Has the Disruption of Publishing Already Occurred?); Mark Barrett (Giving Up the Ghost); Philip Davis (Unsustainable: OA Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences); and Andrew Savikas (Economist on "Mobile Marvels" in Emerging Markets). 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

Clinical informatics company Humedica, US, and Anceta, the health care informatics subsidiary of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), have announced a long-term partnership. Anceta has selected Humedica to be its exclusive partner in the development of its nationwide collaborative data warehouse and robust clinical analytics platform. Humedica and Anceta will showcase some early results from this membership-driven initiative at the ongoing AMGA’s Institute for Quality Leadership (IQL) Annual Conference in San Francisco. The IQL is sponsored by AMGA to improve the quality of care delivered in the US healthcare system through the advancement of knowledge and the education of health care professionals.

Humedica’s next-generation clinical informatics platform is uniquely designed to handle the specific needs of Anceta participants. The Humedica platform integrates clinical, claims, financial and other data to generate a complete and longitudinal view of Anceta members’ patient populations. Additionally, Humedica applies disease-specific clinical classifications and advanced analytics to define appropriate patient cohorts, treatment pathways, outcomes and associated costs, all within a state-of-the-art, HIPAA-compliant, and highly secure environment. Humedica’s timely longitudinal clinical data provides unparalleled clarity into how patient populations are treated, which treatments and procedures are prescribed, and most importantly, the quality, efficacy, and cost of this care.

The Anceta collaborative facilitates comparative analytics and benchmarking through the aggregation of data from participating medical groups into a single standard clinical ontology. Humedica and Anceta help member organisations develop, compare, and share best practices and performance improvement strategies through their unique collaborative programmes.

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The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries have been awarded $20 million from the US’ National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant is to fund the building of a data research infrastructure for the management of the ever-increasing amounts of digital information created for teaching and research. The five-year award was one of two for what is being called ‘data curation’.

The project, known as the Data Conservancy, involves individuals from several institutions, with Johns Hopkins University serving as the lead. Sayeed Choudhury, Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center and associate dean of university libraries, has been named the principal investigator. In addition, seven Johns Hopkins faculty members are associated with Data Conservancy, including School of Arts and Sciences professors Alexander Szalay, Bruce Marsh, and Katalin Szlavecz; School of Engineering professors Randal Burns, Charles Meneveau, and Andreas Terzis; and School of Medicine professor Jef Boeke. The Hopkins-led project is part of a larger $100 million NSF effort to ensure preservation and curation of engineering and science data.

Beginning with life, earth and social sciences, project members will develop a framework to more fully understand data practices currently in use and arrive at a model for curation that allows ease of access both within and across disciplines.

In addition to this $20 million grant, the Libraries received a $300,000 grant from NSF to study the feasibility of developing, operating and sustaining an open access repository of articles from NSF-sponsored research. Libraries staff will work with colleagues from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and the University of Michigan Libraries to explore the potential for the development of a repository (or set of repositories) similar to PubMedCentral, the open-access repository that features articles from NIH-sponsored research. This grant for the feasibility study will allow researchers to evaluate how to integrate activities under the framework of Data Conservancy and will result in a set of recommendations for NSF regarding an open access repository.

The rapid rise in the volumes of digital-only information has resulted in more such projects attracting the attention of funding agencies. Last month, the US’ National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the availability of funding information for grants and contracts through RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER), a new search system on its Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT). RePORTER is expected to allow users to locate descriptions and funding details on NIH-funded projects along with research results that cite NIH support. It seeks to combine NIH project databases and funding records, PubMed abstracts, full-text articles from PubMed Central and information from the US Patent and Trademark Office with a robust search engine.

In August 2009, the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council announced a £10 million funding for the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). The funds were to be used for a significant increase in the Institute's data storage and handling capacity.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has released a new resource called Fonte Académica, offering a rapidly growing collection of scholarly journals from Brazil and Portugal. This new EBSCOhost database seeks to provide more international full text coverage for Portuguese-language content.

Fonte Académica includes over 125 full text Portuguese-language journals and continuously expanding archives from Brazil and Portugal. With comprehensive indexing of every article and detailed abstracts in multiple languages, the database claims to be an indispensable tool for students and researchers. Search functionality has been enhanced through the incorporation of author-supplied keywords in Portuguese. Users of Fonte Académica are provided with coverage of all major subject areas with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, medicine, philosophy, psychology, public administration and sociology.

Apart from Fonte Académica, EBSCO recently released two databases - Fuente Académica and Fuente Academica Premier – to expand its international coverage. These databases feature scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain.

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Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, UK, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has announced the inaugural issue of Analytical Methods, the journal for new and improved methods for the practical application of analytical science. The journal publishes monthly issues containing full papers, topical reviews and technical notes. Brett Paull from Dublin City University serves as Editor-in-chief of the journal. He is supported by editorial offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

The inaugural issue showcases articles reflecting Analytical Methods’ highly topical scope on new applications of analytical science and technology which are addressing current global challenges such as securing food supplies, improving and preserving human health, creating and maintaining sustainable feedstocks, and sustaining the management of water and air quality. The journal is expected to be of interest to researchers across the world and across many disciplines, focusing on real analytical issues and providing solutions beneficial to the wider community. Methods reported in the journal include the analysis of the food supply for nutrients and potential toxins; disease diagnosis and monitoring; and process analysis and measurement of pollutants in air and water.

Published monthly, Analytical Methods is a sister title of the long established journal Analyst. The current issue is freely available to everybody on the website. Free institutional online access to all previous issues of the journal will be available following a simple registration process until the end of 2010. After the inaugural issue, readers can look forward to two further journal issues being published between now and the end of this year, and twelve in 2010.

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Future Medicine, part of Future Science Group, UK, has announced the launch of a new journal - Imaging in Medicine – addressing the technologies that are now revolutionising noninvasive clinical investigation and therapy. Dr Elliott Fishman of John Hopkins University in Baltimore has been appointed as the Senior Editor with responsibility for the editorial direction.

A bimonthly publication, the journal provides essential updates from international experts on recent research and clinical practice on medical imaging techniques impacting the diagnosis and treatment of patients with serious conditions in areas such as oncology, cardiology and neurology. The inaugural issue is available online at http://www.futuremedicine.com/loi/iim.

Imaging in Medicine articles, which include reviews, original research, perspectives, commentary and news & views, are highly structured and illustrated, and presented in highly accessible formats. Articles are subject to peer review, with at least three independent assessments per article. The journal also publishes peer-reviewed profiles of new technologies and products with imaging applications.

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced a new service called On-Demand Libraries, targeted at CRM (customer relationship management) and other Software as a Service (SaaS) providers. The service is projected to help SaaS providers show greater value to their customers, while offering end-users trusted information and tools they need to do their jobs more efficiently.

With On-Demand Libraries, SaaS providers can package their services with custom and branded collections of relevant e-books and other materials from publishers valued at tens of thousands of dollars. ebrary offers CRM software providers a selection of digital content in subjects ranging from sales & marketing to finance, human resources, business and leadership. The company also offers content complementary to many SaaS providers to vertical markets such as medical, legal and government. ebrary’s selection may be previewed at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/corptitles/home.action.

Additionally, SaaS providers may seamlessly integrate their own manuals, whitepapers, reports, or any document in PDF with their On-Demand Library, which features tools for efficiently finding, using and managing information online.

ebrary offers a selection of more than 170,000 digital books, handbooks, reports, maps, journals and other content from over 350 publishers across the world under flexible subscription, purchase and usage-based models. Additionally, the company 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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Oakstone Medical Publishing, a division of continuing medical education provider Oakstone Publishing, US, has announced the launch of a new website, RadiologyDaily.com. The website serves as a library, covering key topics that are important to those individuals working in the fields of radiology and diagnostic imaging. Visitors to the website can review articles and special reports in 13 different areas of radiology including, breast imaging, pediatric radiology, and nuclear medicine. Membership to the site is free and allows for free daily or weekly email updates.

RadiologyDaily.com also provides the opportunity for users to comment on the various articles found at this site. This allows users to communicate with fellow professionals and share factual information and experiences in an open community forum. Some recent topics which appeared on RadiologyDaily.com have included advances in spine imaging, virtual colonoscopy for colon cancer screening and current techniques in pancreatic imaging.

Oakstone Medical Publishing offers non-biased medical education materials in more than 200 programmes across 40 specialties. Available in multi-media formats, the journal review and clinical review products allow medical professionals a convenient option to stay current with the changing face of their field.

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The Entomological Society of America (ESA) has announced that it will begin publishing the Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) in spring 2010. JIPM is an open-access, peer-reviewed, extension journal covering the field of integrated pest management. Dr. Marlin E. Rice of Pioneer Hi-Bred International (formerly with Iowa State University) and Dr. Kevin L. Steffey of Dow Agrosciences (formerly with the University of Illinois) will serve as the Editors-in-Chief.

The editors are currently calling for submissions of original, extension-type articles about any aspect of pest management in the broadest sense, including, but not limited to, management of pests that affect row crops, forage and grasslands, horticultural crops, forests, urban landscapes, structures, schools, households, livestock and pets, and human health. Recommendations should be based upon the principles of integrated pest management and supported by published research and validation data when available.

The intended readership for the journal will be any professional who is engaged in any aspect of integrated pest management, including, but not limited to, crop producers, individuals working in crop protection, retailers, manufacturers and suppliers of pest management products, educators, and pest control operators.

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Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has announced the appointment of two key executives in New York to further expand the Company's US footprint. Guillaume Mazieres has joined the company as Executive Vice President for North America, and Jim Hohman, a respected industry veteran, as Vice President of Sales, based in the New York office.

Founded in 2000, TEMIS is a leading provider of corporate text mining and text analytics software solutions for the enterprise. The company markets Luxid, a collaborative corporate solution for analysing and discovering strategic information.

This Luxid platform gives immediate access to non-obvious information and delivers industry-specific knowledge from internal and external data sources. It brings long-awaited answers to the challenge of information discovery and knowledge extraction from unstructured data which represent 80 percent of all data available in the Enterprise for decision-making processes.

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