STM publisher Springer, Germany, is set launch a new journal – Translational Stroke Research. The journal’s editorial board, headed by Dr. John H. Zhang of Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California, is made up of leading stroke researchers and physicians from North America, Europe, and Asia. The first issue is scheduled for March 2010.

A quarterly publication, Translational Stroke Research seeks to help translate scientific discoveries from basic stroke research into the development of new strategies for prevention, assessment, treatment and repair after stroke and other forms of neurotrauma. The journal will focus on translational research and will be relevant to both basic scientists and physicians, including neuroscientists, vascular biologists, neurologists, neuroimagers and neurosurgeons. It will provide an interactive forum for the dissemination of original research articles, review articles, methods papers, letters, comments and research protocols in stroke and stroke-related areas.

Translational Stroke Research will be available both in print and electronically on www.springerlink.com. The journal includes Online First, a feature where articles are published online before they appear in print, Cross Reference Linking and Alert services. In addition, all authors, via the Springer Open Choice programme, have the option of publishing their articles using the open access publishing model.

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Open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS) has announced that its peer-reviewed online publication PLoS ONE will feature a new 3D molecular animation technology on five newly published articles. This represents the start of a new PLoS ONE collection entitled ‘Structural Biology and Human Health: Medically Relevant Proteins from the SGC’ (Structural Genomics Consortium).

The peer-reviewed articles, which include some of the research highlights from the SGC, describe new protein structures. These include a protein involved in the survival and proliferation of cancer cells, a protein associated with hereditary paraplegia, and a protein involved in degrading foreign compounds and pollutants in the body.

Readers of the articles will first need to download a free plug-in for their browser. They can then click on hyperlinked text within the article to ‘spot’ the relevant position within the molecule, and interact with it at will, by zooming, rotating and exploring as required. The functionality, whereby the text of an academic article is tightly integrated with an animated and interactive molecular structure, is projected to provide an entirely new and enhanced experience. Knowledge of the 3D shape of a protein is seen to be crucial in appreciating how it carries out its role in the body.

The SGC at the University of Oxford and its sister nodes at the University of Toronto, Canada, and the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, are dedicated to finding the structures of human proteins of medical relevance which could be targets for new drugs. The SGC has over 500 datapacks already available over the web and plans to publish a significant number of academic papers incorporating these datapacks over the next four years with PLoS ONE.

PLoS ONE has been seeking to combine the traditional values of the journal with innovative online features to create an inclusive and efficient publication channel. Last month, it bagged the Association of Learning and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP)’s 2009 award for Publishing Innovation.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has signed an agreement with the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS). Under the deal, EBSCO will make two INIST-CNRS databases - PASCAL and FRANCIS - available on EBSCOhost. PASCAL is a multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering science, technology and medicine, while FRANCIS is a multidisciplinary database providing humanities and social sciences coverage.

The agreement provides for extensive backfile coverage for both PASCAL and FRANCIS. PASCAL content is available back to 1984 and FRANCIS content is available back to 1972. EBSCO claims to be the first provider to offer FRANCIS archives from 1972 to 1984. Previously FRANCIS was only available from 1984 to the present.

PASCAL offers extensive bibliographic indexing for more than 13 million records. The database provides coverage of science, technology and medicine with special emphasis on European content. Source documents include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, books, patents and reports. The tri-lingual indexing available in PASCAL allows keyword searching in French, English and Spanish, regardless of the original language of the article. The database includes title coverage in all major medical disciplines such as oncology, cardiology, angiology, surgery, gastroenterology, medical imaging, neurology, pediatrics, biological sciences, pharmacology and psychology. In addition, important cross-disciplinary fields such as tropical medicine, public health and biomedical engineering are represented.

FRANCIS offers extensive bibliographic indexing for more than 2.5 million records with subject headings available in English and in French. FRANCIS provides multilingual resourcing (additional indexing in Spanish for specific content) and covers more than 2,300 periodicals in subject areas such as administrative sciences, business management, economics, energy economics, geography, information science, psychology, public health, sociology and more. The database also includes journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and reports.

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Information management company Infotrieve, Inc., US, has announced a collaboration with the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI). The agreement covers the provision of document delivery and library services to the Canadian and International research communities through an exclusive five year contract.

Through this partnership, Infotrieve Canada Inc. will provide a comprehensive set of services. This includes the content sourcing and management system, Content SCM, as well as its document delivery service that seeks to leverage the over 40 million citations within Infotrieve’s proprietary database and its STM Library of managed print collections.

The addition of the NRC-CISTI Canadian national science library collection is seen to provide the research and innovation community with fast, easy access to a vast collection of STM content. The Canadian collection includes more than 50,000 serial titles, 800,000 books and conference proceedings, plus 2,000,000 technical reports and indexed journals in many languages.

NRC-CISTI has been launching various initiatives to enhance the accessibility of STM content in Canada. In July, it formed a three-way partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) to establish PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada). PMC Canada will be a national digital repository of peer-reviewed health and life sciences literature, including research resulting from CIHR funding. This searchable web-based repository will be permanent, stable and freely accessible.

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The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced the launch of a definitive guide to its 15 years of work in Open Access as part of International Open Access Week (October 19 – 23, 2009). The guide, Open Access for UK research: JISC’s contributions - Summary of achievements, has been created to showcase the work JISC has achieved for scholarly communications in the UK and tracks the changes in UK policy, opinions and what the future will look like.

The guide is supported by electronic resources including interviews with experts from across education and research. This suite of information is being launched to support UK researchers in opening up their work for better returns on taxpayers’ investment.

According to JISC, the increased impact of wider access to academic research papers could be worth about £170 million per year to the UK economy. Work funded by JISC in UK colleges and universities includes cost-benefit analysis and case studies showing why and how universities can support a transition to open access for research outputs and an investigation into the feasibility of a national purchasing scheme for Open Access publication charges.

JISC will also be looking at the challenges facing academic librarians to support researchers in sharing their research papers through repositories, working with Open Access and traditional model publishers, as well as researchers themselves in terms of what they need and desire to promote their work. In the coming months JISC will conduct an investigation into the feasibility of a national scheme for Open Access publication charges.

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Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that Halifax Regional Medical Center has signed a multi-year agreement to use Thomson Reuters Micromedex solutions as its source for evidence-based clinical reference information. Halifax Regional Medical Center is a 206-bed acute-care hospital in Roanoke Rapids, in rural North Carolina.

The Micromedex solutions include evidence-based information on drugs and drug interactions, disease management, toxicology, alternative medicine, and intravenous drug compatibility, as well as patient education resources. By choosing an integrated source for all of its clinical reference needs, Halifax Regional will limit resources required to train staff and eliminate the need to support disparate clinical reference systems.

Micromedex content will provide the hospital with the evidence needed to recommend treatment alternatives while providing options for reducing costs.

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Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced the availability of a new subscription database that supports research and development needs in all aspects of food science through trusted content and powerful technology. The subscription may be supplemented with titles purchased individually as well as discounted bundles up to 50 percent off from industry renowned publishers such as CRC Press, Elsevier and Springer.

With more than 110 current and essential reference works, handbooks, manuals, and e-books from the industry’s top publishers such as CRC Press, Elsevier, Marcel Dekker and Woodhead Publishing, the subscription database covers such topics as food manufacturing and processing, safety, quality assurance, nutrition, ingredients, storage and preservation, and government regulations. Corporations may select from over 100 CRC Press food science titles, 80 of which are available under ebrary’s Half-Off Sale with a 15 title minimum purchase. More than 250 additional food science titles are available as part of ebrary’s Half-Sale from publishers such as Elsevier and Springer.

All ebrary products include sophisticated technology that makes it easy to pinpoint and manage relevant information from multiple sources. With InfoTools, scientists and engineers can select words of interest, and automatically link to additional information within the organisation and on the web. Additionally, personal bookshelves make storing, managing and sharing highlights, notes and hyperlinks quick and efficient.

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The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has published ‘The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing’, a follow-up to the 2006 report, ‘Scientific publishing in transition: an overview of current developments’. ‘The STM Report’ is updated and released once every three years, presenting an overview of the current state of the world of scientific journal publishing.

The report is funded by STM, and prepared by Mark Ware Consulting and STM. It aims to collect the available evidence, and provides a comprehensive picture of the trends and currents in scholarly communication. Scholarly communications are undergoing profound changes driven by technology and economic factors, while authors’ core motivations to publish remain stable, says the report.

Annual revenues generated from English-language STM journal publishing are estimated at $8 billion in 2008, up by 6-7 percent compared to 2007, within a broader STM publishing market worth some $16 billion. About 55 percent of global STM revenues (including non-journal STM products) come from the US, 30 percent from Europe, 10 percent from Asia-Pacific and 5 percent from the rest of the world.

According to the report, continued growth in output, particularly from East Asia and China, will put further pressure on the system. This is particularly so when combined with funders’ desire for more returns on research investments, and the pressure on researchers to accelerate the research cycle.

There are about 2,000 journal publishers worldwide. The main English-language trade and professional associations for journal publishers include 657 publishers producing about 11,550 journals. This is around 50 percent of the total journal output by title. Of these, 73 percent publishers and 20 percent journals are not-for-profit.

In addition, the report further notes that there were about 25,400 active scholarly peer-reviewed journals in early 2009, collectively publishing about 1.5 million articles a year. The number of journals and the number of articles published each year have both grown steadily for over two centuries, by about 3.5 percent and 3 percent per year respectively. The reason for this can be attributed to the equally persistent growth in the number of researchers, which has also grown at about 3 percent per year. It now stands at between 5.5 and 10 million, depending on definition, although only about 20 percent of these are repeat authors.

The ‘STM Report’ also reveals that the debate over business models and access to information paradoxically occurs at a time when access to literature has never been wider, nor cost per download lower. Within this maturing debate, there remains an increased interest on an evidence-based approach to these various business models.

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Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has announced a new service that provides added value to libraries and publishers by enhancing and delivering data that can work in multiple contexts and systems. The new service, Metadata Services for Publishers, takes publishers' ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their systems. The publishers' enhanced metadata is then made available early in the data creation process to libraries for use in selection, acquisition and technical services workflows. Information seekers also benefit from web discovery of this metadata via WorldCat.org, the Web destination for discovery of library resources.

OCLC's Metadata Services for Publishers is the result of a pilot project that explored the viability and efficiency of capturing metadata from publishers and vendors upstream and enhancing that metadata in WorldCat. The pilot followed release of the 2007 ‘Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control’ by the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, formed by the Library of Congress to address changes in how libraries must do their work in the digital information era. The ability to leverage upstream publisher data effectively was central to the Working Group's recommendations.

OCLC enrichment of title metadata saves publishers time and resources by streamlining internal workflows, and reducing in-house intellectual work and manipulation of title metadata. The organisation also provides validation, authentication and standardisation of publisher data for use by various partners (vendors, aggregators, booksellers) to increase the marketability of publisher ONIX title metadata throughout the publisher supply chain. OCLC Contract Cataloging for Publishers is another service that creates MARC records using publishers' electronic title data as a starting point. OCLC offers cataloging solutions for publishers and vendors that need to provide MARC records to libraries.

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Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and Chemical Industry Press (CIP) have signed an agreement to publish a co-branded Wiley-CIP Series Imprint. The agreement was signed at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with attendance from representatives from the General Administration of Press and Publication – the main regulatory body for China’s publishing industry. Steven Miron, Vice President and Managing Director for Physical Sciences at John Wiley & Sons, formalised the relationship on behalf of Wiley, while Pan Zheng An, Editor-in-Chief at CIP, represented Chemical Industry Press.

The collaboration is aimed at developing a series of English-language advanced textbooks and reference books for a global readership of post-graduates, researchers and practitioners. The partnership will publish titles in Engineering, Materials Science and Chemistry during the initial phase, with potential to expand into other areas of science and medicine where CIP nurtures a rich community of distinguished authors.

As part of the agreement, Wiley will supply CIP with print copies of an English-language version for distribution within China at local market prices. Two Electrical Engineering titles have already been approved for inclusion in the series, and are scheduled for publication in early 2010. Wiley hopes to publish 5-8 titles over the next two years, with an eye to establishing the quality of the series, and to grow the published collection to 10-15 in its third year. This reinforces Wiley’s continued commitment to consistently deliver top quality content to its partners and the scholarly research community in China.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it will publish Symbiosis, the official journal of the International Symbiosis Society (ISS), effective October 2009. Publication at Springer will begin with Volume 49, Issue 1. Professor David Richardson of Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, will serve as the editor-in-chief.

Symbiosis publishes results of original research which contribute to the understanding of symbiotic interactions at the molecular, cellular and organismal levels. It provides information on this fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life on earth, and is a forum for scientists undertaking research in this biological field, fostering interaction among them. The journal publishes original research papers, review articles, book reviews, meeting reports and a calendar of events.

Symbiosis will be published nine times a year, both electronically and in print. It will include cross reference linking, alert services, and Online First, a feature by which articles are published online before they appear in print. In addition, all potential authors will have the option, via the Springer Open Choice program, of publishing their articles using the open access publishing model.

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Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journals, part of its Medical Research business unit, are exhibiting at the ongoing Frankfurt Book Fair. Representatives from Ovid, an aggregator of online information for medical and scientific research, will be announcing a new Chinese-language interface for the OvidSP search and discovery platform. They will also be highlighting Ovid’s new publishing partnerships and recent OvidSP functionality enhancements.

OvidSP’s Chinese-language interface (offered in both traditional and simplified Chinese) is scheduled for deployment later this year. Sample screenshots will be available in the Wolters Kluwer booth. Currently, OvidSP supports interfaces in French, German and Spanish, in addition to English. Attendees can also learn about recent enhancements to OvidSP’s online journal browsing and display functionality. Ovid continues to expand its e-book and journal content offerings with recently announced partnerships with premier publishers, including Oxford University Press, as well as the Royal Society of Chemistry, AHC Media, Springer Publishing and CIG Media.

LWW, an international publisher for healthcare professionals and students, is showcasing its flexible and customisable online journal platform for its society partners. This guide seeks to give readers an informative understanding of the number of complicated financial products in this $531 trillion market. It also looks to guide them through the patchwork of regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and contractual standards established by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.

LWW representatives will be on hand to discuss key titles covering a range of medical and nursing specialties, including new journals for 2009. The company will also be featuring its capabilities to help societies innovate and extend their online content strategies through customisable journal websites, which are designed to enrich the journal experience for society members and subscribers.

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Health information provider MEDai, Inc., US, part of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that Sharp HealthCare, a 1700-bed, seven-facility system serving the San Diego area, has selected the company’s Pinpoint Review product. The solution is designed to alert providers to patients at risk for developing hospital acquired conditions or at risk for readmission. Pinpoint Review will provide Sharp with near-time triggers for core measures, hospital/system-wide surveillance of safety risks, physician performance reporting and forecasts of readmissions.

Pinpoint Review provides real-time predictions utilising MEDai’s superior modeling methodology to alert care providers to patients at risk for developing several of the conditions that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) no longer reimburse, called ‘never or non reimbursable events,’ which can cost hospitals millions of dollars. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations consistently encourages hospitals to deliver a higher quality of care and fewer medical errors.

Pinpoint Review is the latest addition to a suite of MEDai-developed tools, which includes Pinpoint Quality and Pinpoint Compliance. Pinpoint Quality’s retrospective analysis helps hospitals and physicians identify areas for improvement, facilitating improved performance, outcomes, patient satisfaction, efficiency and cost savings. Pinpoint Compliance provides a time-saving, Web-based solution for organizations to collect, report and submit data to the Joint Commission and other regulatory agencies, allowing hospitals to participate in accreditation, quality improvement and compliance initiatives. Pinpoint Review adds real-time decision support, including the application of alerts and predictive models to patient data while patients are still in the hospital.

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Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, and Northern Light, US, have announced a partnership to allow mutual customers directly search and access over 4,000 bio-pharmaceutical, health sciences and general business magazines, journals and other news sources through Northern Light SinglePoint strategic research portals. SinglePoint users who also subscribe to EBSCO’s Biomedical Reference Collection and Business Source Corporate may now opt to have that content integrated with their organisation’s strategic research portal. Northern Light provides strategic research portals for market research, competitive intelligence, business analysis, product development, and technology research.

SinglePoint is an enterprise search application that provides centralised search, analysis, and access for diverse sources of internal, external, and licensed market intelligence. Offered in a secure, hosted, user self-service portal environment, SinglePoint is customised to the precise market research and competitive intelligence purposes of each of Northern Light’s enterprise clients.

Biomedical Reference Collection provides managers and clinical researchers in industries such as bio-pharmaceutical, medical device manufacturing, biogenetics and public health with full-text access to more than 1,000 journals covering disciplines from biomedicine and health sciences to the health care system and pre-clinical sciences. Business Source Corporate is designed to meet the diverse information needs of corporations. The database contains full text from nearly 3,000 quality magazines and journals, including general business periodicals, trade publications and top management journals. In addition, it provides access to periodicals, country economic reports, company profiles, and industry reports. For mutual subscribers, Business Source Corporate pairs nicely with the thousands of business-oriented media sources and industry-authority blogs contained in Northern Light Business News.

Beyond providing a unified search index of all content contained in the portal, SinglePoint also offers an automated ‘meaning extraction’ application designed specifically for market intelligence, business analysis, product research, and market research. It identifies meaning-loaded business concepts in a results list – business issues, strategic scenarios, companies, venture-funded companies, technologies, markets, job titles, government agencies, identified phrases, and research sources – to help researchers quickly identify and drill down into the most relevant documents for purposes of their specific inquiry.

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Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP), a tool devised by the worldwide publishing community to help make copyright work on the web, is being upgraded for the first time since it was first released in November 2007. ACAP Version 1.1 has been released with the aim of making it easier for publishers, search engine operators and other aggregators to implement the tool.

The new version includes a number of clarifications, as well as new features which, it is hoped, will broaden the appeal of ACAP. The most significant change is in providing explicit rules for how aggregators should interpret some of the more complex forms of expression in ACAP. It has now been made clear that, where an aggregator is unable (for whatever reason) to interpret a complex permission expression as the publisher clearly intended, the alternative is to interpret the expression as a prohibition. This is expected to help avoid the risk of using the publisher’s content in ways that the publisher had not intended should be permitted.

New features include a number of extensions to the ACAP vocabulary. Using the PLUS Coalition’s License Definition Format, it will now be possible to indicate when permissions data is embedded in a photograph. The new enhanced version also makes it possible to express constraints upon the presentation of content to end-users based upon their location (country, domain name, IP address range).

ACAP has been developed by World Association of Newspapers, the International Publishers Association and the European Publishers Council in collaboration with publisher participants and search engines. In February 2008, MPS Technologies, the technology arm of Macmillan India, had announced that its e-book platform, BookStore, had been successfully used as part of an intense 12 month ACAP pilot scheme. MPS Technologies developed a test BookStore site for the ACAP pilot - the only publisher participant to focus on e-books - and made a significant contribution to the success of the project. Later, ACAP 1.0 was implemented on 1,600 known websites across 53 countries worldwide.

The ACAP Technology Working Group is now turning its attention to how ACAP can be applied to the growing range of business models for online delivery of copyright content. The next version is likely to add new forms of expression to make ACAP more expressive and flexible, capable of being communicated in a variety of ways and interoperable with a wider range of web content delivery applications.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new scientific journal, Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. The journal’s Editorial Board will be led by the internationally recognised scholar Professor Andrew B. Lawson, Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, USA.

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, the first issue of which was published in September 2009, seeks to be a primary forum for academics and scholars in the fields of graphical information systems, epidemiology, exposure science and spatial statistics. The journal will publish a broad range of topics relating to geospatial health methodology. It focuses on answering epidemiological questions where spatial and spatio-temporal approaches are appropriate to help advance understanding of infectious and non-infectious diseases in humans.

The journal places special emphasis on spatio-temporal aspects of emerging diseases (e.g., avian flu, SARS), development of spatial statistical and computational methods, and novel applications of geospatial technology (e.g., GPS, GIS) for shedding insights on exposure and disease processes. Veterinary topics will also be included.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, and the WINFOCUS Society are founding a new publication, The Critical Ultrasound Journal. The journal will serve as the official publication of WINFOCUS (World Interactive Network Focused on Critical UltraSound), a scientific organisation committed to developing point-of-care ultrasound practice throughout in-hospital and out-of-hospital critical scenarios. Volume 1, Number 1, will be published in October 2009. Michael Blaivas, President of WINFOCUS as well as the editor-in-chief. He will be supported by a global team of experts.

A quarterly publication, The Critical Ultrasound Journal is designed for clinicians and health professionals using point-of-care ultrasound for possible critical decisions, interventions or diagnoses. It intends to reach clinical practitioners and scientists interested in broadening their knowledge in the fields of ultrasound practice, research, education, technology and networking. Addressing the global needs of patients, institutions, and communities living in out-of-hospital and in-hospital critical scenarios, the journal will publish reviews, original articles, short communications and case reports.

Springer will publish the journal both in print and electronically on its online information platform www.springerlink.com. The journal will include Online First, Cross Reference Linking, and Alert services. All Critical Ultrasound Journal authors, via the Springer Open Choice program, will have the option of publishing their articles using the open access publishing model.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the addition of leading case report journals - Journal of Medical Case Reports (JMCR) and Cases Journals - to its expanding portfolio. Since their inception, both these journals, which currently provide over 2000 freely accessible case reports, have received widespread recognition and high quality submissions from across the medical community. Through their innovative approach, these journals make each individual patient's case a valuable addition to medical literature.

These cases can often serve as early warning signals for the adverse effects of new medications, or the presentations of new and emerging diseases. Professor Michael Kidd from Flinders University in Australia is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Case Reports. Cases Journal which is edited by regular Guardian columnist Richard Smith, will look to complete the scientific record for future generations by publishing any report that is understandable, ethical, authentic, and includes all information essential to its interpretation. Over the past few years, authors have submitted case reports to these journals from countries as far as Nepal and Iran. This signifies the inherent value that case reports have to improving clinical practice globally.

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Emerald Group Publishing, UK, has announced the acquisition of the Journal of Financial Reporting & Accounting. Emerald will take over the publication of the journal from Volume 8, Issue 1. Edited by Associate Professor Dr. Lai Ming Ling of the Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia, the journal is Emerald’s 12th accounting title.

The Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting is the first of Emerald’s journals to be published in Malaysia. It provides theoretical and empirical research in financial reporting and accounting, and a detailed analysis of financial and accounting theories and concepts. The title offers in-depth analysis of practices in financial reporting and accounting, utilising qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Subscribers to Emerald Management Plus will automatically gain access to new and acquired titles including the Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting. In addition, this journal will be included within the Emerald Online subject Collections and the Emerald Accounting and Finance eJournals Collection. The publication complements Emerald’s comprehensive Accounting and Finance collection, consisting of a range of high quality research covering areas such as managerial accounting, regulation and compliance, social and environmental reporting, risk finance, money laundering and financial crime.

Emerald will present its Accounting and Finance Collection at the International Management Accounting Conference, from October 19-21, 2009, held at Citiel Mid Valley, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced the launch of hosted informatics software for researchers working in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries and academia. The new hosted offerings, to be accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model, will seek to combine Symyx software with data archiving capabilities in a secure data hosting and communications facility. The hosted informatics environment is projected to enable more R&D organisations to benefit from scientific software by reducing the requirements for IT infrastructure and resources, lowering the total cost of ownership and accelerating ELN deployment.

Initially, Symyx Notebook is being made available as a hosted electronic lab notebook (ELN) service enabling medicinal chemists, synthetic chemists and biologists to manage, explore, share and reuse experimental information and intellectual property (IP). Using a hosted ELN service, R&D organisations can deploy and leverage the electronic notebook quickly and efficiently without added IT infrastructure and resources while collaborating more effectively with partners, according to Symyx.

In developing the hosted ELN service, Symyx is seen to leverage its operational experience with the DiscoveryGate content platform. DiscoveryGate has been delivering hosted scientific information from millions of publications to hundreds of companies worldwide for over seven years. The software hosting experience is expected to position Symyx to manage compound registration, inventory, work request and ELN systems successfully in a secure hosted environment.

The hosted informatics infrastructure provided by Symyx will be supported by Switch Communications Group L.L.C., an information storage and protection services firm.

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EBSCO Australia has announced the appointment of Julie Boyd-Reynolds as its new regional sales manager, to be based at the company’s Melbourne office.

Boyd-Reynolds has 30 years of industry experience, including the last 17 with EBSCO, both in the UK and Australia. In her new role, she will be responsible for managing and growing the company’s customer base in Victoria, South Australia, ACT and Tasmania. Her experience in managing key accounts brings significant value to this role. From 2000 to 2009, Boyd-Reynolds was employed by EBSCO UK as corporate sales manager, and biomedical sales manager for EBSCO Publishing.

EBSCO’s office in Australia was established in 1981 and since then has been providing a full range of print and electronic subscription services and developing individually tailored solutions to issues faced by libraries in the Academic, Medical, Government, Corporate and Public sectors throughout Australia. EBSCO Australia is actively involved in the library and information services industry in Australia and is a regular sponsor and exhibitor at conferences in the region.

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The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are Michael Clarke (The 2009 STM Frankfurt Conference); Kristine Roa (Digital Publishing and Libraries Through Kindle and Sony Reader); Myrmecos (On the future of scientific communication); and Kent Anderson (An Old-Age Problem Among Reviewers?). 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.

The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) has announced that it is organising a one-day workshop titled Interactive Publications and the Record of Science. Open to both members and non-members, the workshop will be held at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, on February 8, 2010.

The Web is by nature an interactive environment. Yet online journals are mostly still consistent with their traditional role as a never-changing scholarly record. However, this traditional role is increasingly challenged as browser technologies leap forward, dynamic visualisation and presentation tools proliferate, and primary data are linked to research articles. Publishers, publishing service providers, librarians, editors and authors will participate in this one-day workshop, organised by ICSTI, to survey the most exciting and challenging of the new developments. Also, they will seek to identify the necessary infrastructure for including interactive content within the record of science.

Speakers include representatives from the Nature Publishing Group, National Library of Medicine, Royal Society of Chemistry, International Union of Crystallography, OECD, Concept Web Alliance, SciVee, British Library, CrossRef and Cell Press. Registration will open October 23, 2009.

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The European Union launched the EU Bookshop Digital Library at the recently concluded Frankfurt Book Fair. Twelve million scanned pages in more than 110, 000 EU publications are now available free of charge for download in the EU Bookshop Digital Library. The digital library offers all publications edited by the Publications Office on behalf of the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies since 1952.

The Publications Office Digital Library was a response to a growing demand to digitise out-of-print publications. In 2007, the Publications Office launched a PDF-on-demand service, wherein users could request publications to be retrieved from the archives and scanned as needed. The demand was so high that within six months the service was saturated. To better serve the users, it was decided to scan the industrial volumes of the entire archive.

The result – less than two years later – is an electronic library of more than 14 million pages of web-optimised PDFs available to the public free of charge. It consists of the 12 million scanned pages of historic publications and about 2 million pages of recent publications. At the rate of 1600 new publications per year, EU Bookshop is projected as a valuable information source for citizens, journalists, education professionals, students, librarians, publishers, and anybody interested in Europe, in about 50 languages, including the possibility of ordering printed copies.

EU Bookshop content will also be accessible via Europeana, a digitisation project of many prominent national European libraries and archives.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will showcase the new features it is rolling out for its BrainNavigator research tool at the Society for Neuroscience’s Neuroscience 2009 event in Chicago. Recently adopted by the US’ National Institutes of Health (NIH), BrainNavigator is an online, interactive, 3D software tool that maps images of brain anatomy. It seeks to help neuroscience researchers to save time and improve the quality of their daily research.

BrainNavigator helps locate the position of structures within the brain, similar to a GPS system, making visualisation and communication about scientific findings about the brain easier. After unveiling the prototype version at the Society for Neuroscience’s Neuroscience 2008 tradeshow last November, the version including mouse and rat brains is now available at www.brainnav.com.

The product was developed in collaboration with the Allen Institute for Brain Science and under the editorship of Prof. George Paxinos, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney and Charles Watson, Professor of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth and Senior Professorial Research Fellow Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney. Offering both free and subscription-based content, it is used by NIH and other research institutions. It seeks to offer an easy-to-use online system that allows the institutions to browse, compare and label high-resolution material as well as to create virtual sections from sophisticated 3D models of the brain. Users can also annotate atlas drawings and share their annotations with colleagues.

New features include the ability to export and print 2D and 3D images; ‘Injection Planner’ - a feature that allows users to select a point for injection of an electrode or pharmacological substances via a syringe, and visualise the path for the injection in the 3D model of the brain; and an image overlay function which will allow users to place the atlas drawing over the stained image.

BrainNavigator will be showcased at Elsevier’s booth (#112) at Neuroscience 2009, and hourly demonstrations will be given. Free trials of the product, including new features, will be available beginning November 13, 2009.

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Media industry-focused research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc., US, has released the second annual ‘Library Market Size, Share & Forecast Report’. The report shows that libraries are shifting from content spending to technology spending - digitising collections, acquiring native digital content, and developing digital storage and retrieval systems. As the Google Books Library Project continues, and new vendors scan and package content, further disruptions are afoot, says the report.

The Outsell report sizes and segments the content controlled by the global library market. The analysis covers government, public, academic, school and corporate libraries - physical as well as digital. It projects a reduction in spending from $24.8 billion last year to $24.4 billion in 2011, driven by the economic slowdown. It also covers the market for library content across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Africa-Middle East; content spending by library and information type (scientific, legal, etc.); analysis of key market drivers; and essential actions for content vendors looking to maintain or increase market share.

The report also references another Outsell study of business information users. This shows a surge in respondents who prefer to start research through their organisations’ intranets - up from 5 percent in 2001, to 25 percent in 2008 - rather than through the open web.

According to Ned May, Director and Lead Analyst at Outsell, who led the research, this shift in searching behaviour means digital libraries and repositories will increasingly become go-to contacts for relevant and easily accessible business information. Libraries will remain vital in driving and managing content to meet this user demand, he emphasises.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the launch of the Stem Cell Gateway, highlighting the latest articles published in this field across BioMed Central journals. The Gateway complements the publisher’s new journal, Stem Cell Research & Therapy, slated for launch in early 2010.

The Stem Cell Gateway includes research highlights, as well as profiles of authors in the field. It also includes AuthorMapper, an interactive map which enables users to explore based on author locations and to discover wider relationships and find experts in the field.

An international peer-reviewed journal, Stem Cell Research & Therapy seeks to provide a forum for translational research into stem cell therapies. The journal has a special emphasis on basic, translational, and clinical research into stem cell therapeutics, including animal models, and clinical trials. It will publish open access research articles as well as review articles and expert commentary to compliment key papers.

Stem Cell Research & Therapy is now accepting submissions.

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TechWeb and O'Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of Web 2.0 Expo and Web 2.0 Summit, have announced this year's keynotes and new program elements for the Web 2.0 Expo New York event. The event, scheduled for November 16-19, 2009, at the Javits Convention Center, will showcase the latest Web 2.0 business models, development paradigms and design strategies for the builders of the next-generation Web. Keynote speakers include Jay Adelson, Chris Brogan, Caterina Fake, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Beth Novak and Kevin Rose.

Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 brings Launch Pad to New York for the first time and adds a series of new sessions to the programme. The event will feature influential keynotes and speakers, detailed workshops, a multi-track conference, an ‘unconference’ programme called Web2Open, a first-time New York Launch Pad start-up programme, a major tradeshow and many rich networking opportunities and events.

Conference tracks include: Landscape & Strategy, Design & User Experience, Social Media, Development, Fundamentals, Web 2.0 at Work, Government 2.0, Mobile, Performance and Analytics. The event targets developers, designers, entrepreneurs, marketers, and business professionals embracing Web 2.0 technologies.

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Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has announced that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has solidified its e-book strategy with iPublishCentral, an electronic content delivery solution used by over 350 publishers worldwide. AAP is a leading society publisher and professional organisation to 600, 000 pediatricians.

Scheduled for launch in early 2010, AAP will initially offer 35 books from its adolescent health, neonatal, infectious disease and primary care collections online for purchase in digital format with a multi-level offering to both individuals and institutions such as libraries, hospitals and medical schools. iPublishCentral is an easy-to-implement, cost-effective, self-service solution that allows publishers to market, distribute and monetise traditional print content through electronic channels.

AAP collections and individual titles will be available by subscription or by per-book purchase, accessible with a single login. Along with member pediatricians, hospitals, libraries, medical schools and health organisations will also have access to AAP’s digital library. While retaining the look and feel of a print book, these e-Books will have enhanced electronic features including search, bookmarking and user personalisation.

AAP and its member authors will also be able to promote their titles using iPublishWidget, a viral marketing tool that enables both publishers and authors to promote and market books on the Internet and social Web sites such as Facebook. iPublishWidget enhances visibility, sustains interest and enables sales conversions for any title. Leading titles such as The Red Book Atlas, a reference for infectious diseases; Berkowitz Pediatrics, a textbook for primary care; and The Pediatric Nutrition Handbook, a guide for the latest evidence-based guidelines on feeding healthy infants and children, will be available for digital download.

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The European Commission (EC) has adopted a ‘Communication on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy’ aiming to tackle the important cultural and legal challenges of mass-scale digitisation and dissemination of books, in particular of European library collections. The Communication was jointly drawn up by Commissioners Charlie McCreevy and Viviane Reding.

Digital libraries such as Europeana will provide researchers and consumers across Europe with new ways to gain access to knowledge. For this, however, the EU will need to find a solution for orphan works, whose uncertain copyright status means they often cannot be digitised. Improving the distribution and availability of works for persons with disabilities, particularly the visually impaired, is another cornerstone of the Communication.

Commissioners McCreevy and Reding stressed that the debate over the Google Books Settlement in the US once again had shown that Europe could not afford to be left behind on the digital frontier.

The Communication addresses the actions that the EC intends to launch: digital preservation and dissemination of scholarly and cultural material and of orphan works, as well as access to knowledge for persons with disabilities. The challenges identified by the EC stem from last year’s public consultation on a Green Paper, the EC’s High Level Group on Digital Libraries and the experiences gained with Europeana.

The EC will now hold talks to find viable solutions for simple and cost-efficient rights clearance covering mass-scale digitisation and the online dissemination of library collections still protected by copyright. This concerns both out-of-print works and orphan works.

The digitisation and dissemination of orphan works pose a particular cultural and economic challenge. The absence of a known rightholder means that users are unable to obtain the required authorisation. The EC will now examine this phenomenon more in detail via an impact assessment. The aim is for an EU-wide solution to facilitate the digitisation and dissemination of orphan works and the establishment of common 'due diligence' standards to recognise orphan status across the EU.

In addition, a stakeholder forum on the needs of disabled persons, in particular visually impaired persons, will examine policy responses, including ways to encourage the unencumbered EU trade of works in accessible formats.

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The UK’s Wellcome Trust has called for greater transparency among publishers to counter the argument that access fees are being paid twice - once through subscriptions and again through publication fees. The call comes as the Trust announces a further £2 million to fund open access (OA) publication fees for its researchers over the next 12 months. The funds are part of the ongoing commitment to ensuring that the results of all Trust-funded research are made freely available online.

Since 2005, the Wellcome Trust has made it a condition of funding that researchers are required to make any Trust-funded publications available within six months through life sciences online archive, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC). The Trust will meet publication costs where the publisher agrees to make articles freely available through UKPMC at the time of publication and to license these works in a way that facilitates re-use, subject to proper attribution.

In recent months, however, concern has been expressed by the research community that publishers are using OA fees as an additional revenue stream without making a concerted effort to adapt their business models. In other words, access fees are being paid twice, through subscriptions and through publication fees.

UKPMC is currently being developed with the aim that it becomes the information resource of choice for the UK biomedical and health research communities. The development programme is managed by the British Library in consultation with UKPMC funding organisations and the academic community.

Key developments include providing the functionality - through text and data mining technologies - to integrate research articles with a range of other online sources. These include gene, protein and chemical compound databases. There is also an effort to integrate a range of bibliographic databases - including Medline, Patents and Agricola - into a single, seamless discovery tool. The new UKPMC site will go live early in 2010.

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Scientific information services provider FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany, and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, recently signed an agreement to further strengthen a partnership that began in 1983 with the foundation of STN International. STN International is an online service for patent and research information.

The recently concluded collaboration agreements cover two new areas - indexing of scientific literature for CAS databases and customer training and support for CAS databases on STN. FIZ Karlsruhe will now also be a significant contributor to the production of the chemistry database, Chemical Abstracts (CA), and a partner in improved customer support for those databases on the STN online system.

Beginning January 2010, a team of scientists at FIZ Karlsruhe will perform value-added indexing of selected literature documents, according to the conventions used by CAS to make the information accessible within the CAS databases. In addition, FIZ Karlsruhe will assume additional responsibilities in marketing of the CAS databases. The company’s experts will provide training and support to STN customers in all German-speaking countries.

FIZ Karlsruhe joins a global network of scientists whose expertise contributes to CAS database building. Teams of scientists in Ohio, India, China, Japan and elsewhere constitute the principal contributors to this more than 100 year-old resource.

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SpringerWienNewYork, part of STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, and e-publishing technology solutions provider Versita, Poland, have announced a collaboration for the distribution, marketing and sales of STM journals of Central European societies and other institutions. With this move the companies seek to further strengthen their journal co-publishing partnership in Central European countries.

This partnership expands the existing long-term cooperation between Springer and Versita. It combines Springer’s extensive international marketing and distribution system with Versita’s relationships with scholars and scientific institutions in Central European countries. The SpringerWienNewYork/Versita partnership aims to support the global dissemination of Central European research results.

Versita publishes its own and third party scholarly journals across many disciplines, addressed to the global science community, with the intention to promote best research carried out in Central and Eastern Europe. The company also provides scientific content publishers with electronic publishing technology solutions such as MetaPress and Editorial Manager.

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Medical scientific publisher Informa Healthcare, UK, has announced the inclusion of the journal Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods in the US National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE Index. Maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is a premier bibliographic database containing more than 16 million journal article citations. The journal is joining a host of other Informa titles on the bibliographic database.

Published nine times per year in simultaneous print and online editions, Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods (TXM) is currently listed in Thomson ISI Journal Citation Reports. The journal posted an increase in Impact Factor in 2009. Indexing in MEDLINE will help to further raise the visibility of this internationally-respected journal.

TXM publishes original research on subjects dealing with the mechanisms by which foreign chemicals cause toxic tissue injury. Chemical substances of interest include industrial compounds, environmental pollutants, hazardous wastes, drugs, pesticides and chemical warfare agents. The journal's scope spans from the effects on single molecules to the consideration of evidence in order to establish regulatory policy. In addition, the journal addresses aspects of the development and application of new and existing laboratory methods, techniques and equipment.

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Printing and publishing services provider The Sheridan Group, US, and Stanford University’s HighWire Press have announced the availability of a new service, Sheridan Custom Publishing Direct, on select HighWire-hosted publications. The service allows readers to create their own customised content collections for downloading or print-on-demand.

With Sheridan Custom Publishing Direct, readers can select articles and build their own custom publications, organised according to their needs. Links to the service can be found in several locations within the publication - the issue TOC, at the article abstract level or within the online publication’s own search results.

Readers have the option to order print copies of their publication, or download an electronic version via a straightforward, secure e-commerce system. The easy-to-use interface lets users search and select directly from multiple points of content. New content is immediately available to readership. Publisher-compiled collections can also be offered to purchasers in order to actively market popular content.

Earlier this year, the service was selected for installation at the American Society for Horticultural Science’s recent editions of the Journal of ASHS, HortScience and HortTechnology.

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