RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, will be exhibiting at the Association of Educational Publishers' Content in Context Conference (CIC) from June 2-5 in Washington, D.C. CIC aims to present a range of informative and practical sessions that address all issues relating to the development and distribution of high-quality learning resources.

The AEP provides information, training, and outreach to help its members navigate the global realities of today's educational resource industry. Through its services, events, and initiatives, AEP facilitates communication among key interest groups including educators, policy makers, businesses, educational foundations and associations, and the education media.

Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced the winners of its Conference Scholarship Programme for Academic Librarians. The winners include Bridgett Birmingham of Florida State University, Katie Hutchinson of Walsh University, Jennifer L. Kegler of SUNY Brockport, and Bing Wang of Georgia Tech University. Each received a travel stipend of $1,500 to attend the Association of College and Research Libraries' ACRL 2013 conference recently held in Indianapolis.

Due to the high number of submissions received prior to ACRL 2013, CCC is currently offering the same programme for academic librarians to attend the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference from June 27 to July 2 in Chicago. Applicants must be full-time, permanent staff members or academic librarians currently employed by a US-based academic institution of higher learning. A full list of requirements can be found at http://goto.copyright.com/LP=222.

To apply for the scholarship programme, librarians need to submit a response of up to 300 words to a short question. The application deadline is May 20, 2013. Winners will be notified May 31, and scholarship stipends will be issued on June 10. CCC encourages librarians who applied for an ACRL scholarship to resubmit their entries for the ALA programme.

Research Solutions company Reprints Desk, Inc., US, has announced a collaboration with DeepDyve Inc., an online rental service for scholarly and professional research articles. With this agreement, the companies seek to expand access to full-text articles for registered DeepDyve.com users by supplementing DeepDyve's existing article rental and PDF purchasing service with an expanded list of titles for which the full-text can be legally acquired via Reprints Desk.

Users can search or browse DeepDyve's catalogue containing millions of scholarly articles across thousands of peer-reviewed journals. Upon discovering a relevant article, users can rent 'view-only' full-text articles for as little as $1 per article. They can also purchase an article following a rental or buy immediately without renting if they need a printable-PDF version of a full-text article. Previously, users could purchase only a subset of articles directly from DeepDyve. With this agreement, Reprints Desk now makes the majority of DeepDyve's collection available for purchase.

Scholarly articles fuel research, innovation, and intellectual property protection for organisations around the world. DeepDyve provides simple and affordable access to millions of scholarly articles across thousands of peer-reviewed journals. DeepDyve has partnered with the world's leading academic publishers, including Reed Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell and more. Reprints Desk helps customers to improve literature acquisition and spending.

Research Solutions company Reprints Desk, Inc., US, has announced the launch of a new Open Access (OA) filter for the company's document delivery service that is used by research-driven companies and institutions to acquire single copies of scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles. The OA filter sends customers to the source and supplements other Reprints Desk order filtering capabilities for subscription, token, print collection, and workgroup repository content, employing a dynamic process-driven approach to identify OA content rather than a data-driven one that may have limitations in coverage and accuracy.

Open access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted online access to scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles and increasingly other content types. According to the results of one study, Open Access is responsible for roughly 20 percent of the total output of peer-reviewed articles published. Other recent developments include Research Councils UK (RCUK) announcement that beginning in April 2013, scientific papers must be made free to access within six months of publication if they come from work paid for by one of the United Kingdom's seven government-funded grant agencies, which spend billions of dollars each year on research.

Corporations, academic institutions and government organizations use document delivery as a legal method for retrieving single copies of full-text papers from scholarly peer-reviewed journals when subscription access does not exist. Reprints Desk has held lone honours as the top-rated document delivery supplier in every document delivery market research survey conducted by information analyst and advisory firm Outsell, Inc., since 2008.

RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, recently joined the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) as an affiliate member. The AEP serves the diverse needs of the entire educational resource community, including publishers, content developers, IT professionals, service providers, researchers, instructors, and communication experts from around the world.

RSuite CMS is the software of choice for many of the world's leading publishers. Publishing organisations of all sizes use RSuite CMS to search, store, manage, and transform content into print and digital products. Higher education publishers, such as Macmillan Higher Education, and K-12 publishers, such as Triumph Learning, have licensed RSuite CMS to manage complex content and provide quality products and courses to students and instructors.

For more than a decade, RSI Content Solutions (makers of RSuite CMS) has been a trusted content management services and solution provider to the publishing industry.

RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, is an official sponsor of the 2012 PROSE Awards, which will take place at the AAP 2013 Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Annual Conference in Washington, DC from February 6 to 8. Jeff Wood, vice president, business development, RSI Content Solutions will be in attendance.

The PSP Division is part of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The Division represents the common interests of its members who publish for professional, scholarly, research and commercial markets in such areas as business, law, science, technology, medicine, social and behavioral sciences, and the humanities.

RSuite CMS is an enterprise content management system for publishers and is used by some of the world's largest publishers such as Elsevier Health Sciences, LexisNexis Pacific, and Macmillan Higher Education to create, store, manage, transform, and deliver content.

RSI Content Solutions, a content management solutions provider to the publishing industry, has announced that it is expanding engineering operations in South America. The announcement was made at the Digital Book World Conference and Expo.

The expanded operations are anticipated to triple the size of the current development team by the end of 2013. The expanded team will supply product engineering and support for both RSuite CMS and DocZone core products as well as specific implementation projects.

RSI Content Solutions, providers of two award winning content management products -RSuite CMS and DocZone - has been a trusted content management services and solution provider to the publishing industry for more than a decade. The service is used by organisations like Oxford University Press, Elsevier Health Science, LexisNexis Pacific, and many others.

TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has announced that its flagship Luxid Content Enrichment Platform was named a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Content CODiE Awards for "Best Semantic Technology Solution."

Serving as the pre-eminent awards programme for the software and information industries, the SIIA CODiE Awards have been honouring excellence for 27 years. This year's programme has 75 categories organised by industry focus in Content, Education and Software.

Finalists in the Content categories represent the best products, technologies, and services created by or for media, publishers, and information services providers. CODiE Award winners will be announced during a special luncheon on January 31 in New York City during the SIIA's annual flagship conference for information industry leaders, IIS 2013: Breakthrough.

In 2010, TEMIS won the CODiE Award for "Best Business Intelligence or Knowledge Management Solution." This year, TEMIS was selected for its excellence in the "Best Semantic Technology Solution" category. This award recognises the Best Semantic Technology Platform specifically designed for media, publishers & information providers. Nominees include solutions that range from automated tagging and analysis to semantic advertising and content enrichment that can be industry focused (e.g. scientific) or designed for general or broad information.

MetaPress, a hosting service for academic content, has announced its recent association with Acumen Publishing. Metapress is ready to meet Acumen's speed-to-market needs by first hosting the publisher's content on the new Metapress Essential platform before launching the publisher's new online publishing platform, which is scheduled for deployment in spring 2013.

Hosting Acumen e-journals on Metapress Essential while the standard publisher website is in development provides a unique edge that allows Acumen to make articles available immediately online to researchers. The publisher will be able to offer instant access to subscribers as well as attract new customers through subscription and pay-per-view sales at Metapress Essential.

In business since 2000, Metapress became the industry's first content-management system with dimensional navigation across a variety of content types. The service offers a wide range of commercial models - from annual subscriptions to journals to short-term article rentals. Metapress provides a comprehensive solution to Web-publishing needs and offers an established way to electronically publish titles, including journals, books, reference works, and databases.

RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, will exhibit at the annual Digital Book World Conference and Expo, scheduled to be held from January 15 - 17, 2013, in New York City. Digital Book World is the most important conference for digital publishing and digital publishing strategies. It brings together more than 1,000 publishing professionals focused on developing, building, and transforming their organisations to compete in the new digital publishing environment.

RSuite CMS is the software of choice for many of the world's leading publishers. Publishing organisations of all sizes use RSuite CMS to search, store, manage and transform content into digital products.

RSI Content Solutions (makers of RSuite CMS) has been a trusted content management services and solution provider to the publishing industry. The service is used by organisations like Oxford University Press, Elsevier Health Science, LexisNexis Pacific, and many others.

Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry, has named Kevin Cohn as its Chief Operating Officer. Cohn, who has been Atypon's Vice President of Operations since 2010, will continue to report to Georgios Papadopoulos, Atypon’s CEO.

Cohn will continue to be responsible for all of the company's client operations, including end-to-end management of Atypon's services and support. In addition, he will assume responsibility for business development and administration.

Cohn joined Atypon in 2006 as Product Development Manager, and was promoted to Director of Client Services in 2009. He joined the executive team in 2010.

Reprints Desk, Inc. has announced that it was ranked first in overall satisfaction and each category – breadth and depth of coverage, fair pricing and ease of doing business – in the Document Delivery: Best Practices and Vendor Scorecard – 2012 Update published by media, information and technology analyst and research advisory firm Outsell Inc. A free copy of the report can be viewed online at http://info.reprintsdesk.com/Portals/28841/docs/outselldocdel-rd.pdf.

The Document Delivery: Best Practices and Vendor Scorecard report updates the document delivery landscape that was last reviewed in Outsell’s 2008 report – vendor performance, the evolution of vendor offerings, and current document delivery practices and issues in the marketplace, The vendor scorecard was created using results from a September 2012 survey, which drew 156 respondents – 68 percent from the corporate sector, 14 percent from government, 13 percent from education, and 5 percent from healthcare.

Document delivery services are commonly used by corporations, academic institutions, and government organisations as a legal method for retrieving single copies of full-text papers from scholarly peer-reviewed journals that they do not subscribe to. Academic institutions are increasingly using document delivery when a quicker alternative to interlibrary loan (ILL) sharing networks are needed. Also relied on heavily for making ad-hoc decisions about adding new journal subscriptions throughout the year, the 2012 Outsell report states that document delivery is widely considered ‘still a bedrock service’ for information professionals that help their organisations fuel innovation through more efficient information acquisition and access.

Outsell Inc. is a research and advisory firm focused solely on media, information and technology. According to the firm, elite information industry executives from all over the world look to Outsell for trusted advice, bold insights, and confidential access to exclusive intelligence and decision support.

RSI Content Solutions, a content management solutions provider to the publishing industry, has been named to the EContent 100 list for the 2nd consecutive year.

Now in its 12th year, this list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry is hand selected by EContent Magazine's judges who are experts in the digital content industry. Additional companies on the list include Amazon, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, O'Reilly Media, and others.

RSI provides content management software to traditional publishers, media companies, and technical documentation teams. Its enterprise software solution, RSuite CMS, serves many global publishers and has become a trusted content management system. RSuite CMS has proven to reduce the time to market for new product development by more than 50 percent, deliver packages of content in a fully automated fashion to licensees, and reduce content conversion budgets through multi-channel publishing.

RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, has announced the latest version of its software, RSuite 4. Combining a superior user experience with proven and secure content management provides publishers with the ability to use the best of today’s technologies to create, store, manage, transform, and deliver any content to any format.

RSuite 4 offers a redesigned, more intuitive user experience to enable users to efficiently find and interact with their content with minimal effort. Improved usability is based on Nielsen's Ten Usability Heuristics and manifested in action-oriented contextual menus, search-based content navigation, accordion-style search results, and a user interface (UI) with intentional colour design. The new UI provides even greater productivity while dramatically reducing the learning curve.

RSI Content Solutions (makers of RSuite CMS) has been a trusted content management services and solution provider to the publishing industry. The service is used by organisations like Oxford University Press, Elsevier Health Science, LexisNexis Pacific, and many others.

Reprints Desk, Inc., the creator of the Article Galaxy software service for document delivery, medical reprints and literature management, has announced that Research Solutions, Inc. has agreed to transition its entire base of customers to Reprints Desk. Research Solutions co-founders Chris Atwood and Shane Hunt will join Reprints Desk in strategic customer-facing roles, where they will remain actively engaged with customers. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Document delivery services are commonly used by corporations, academic institutions, and government organisations, in order to retrieve full-text papers from scholarly peer-reviewed journals that they may not yet subscribe to. Document delivery is considered to be a top deliverable and "an integral part of content delivery that is crucial to satisfying a client need" for librarians and information professionals, according to a 2008 information industry briefing entitled 'Document Delivery - Best Practices and Vendor Scorecard,' by information industry analyst and advisory firm Outsell, Inc.

Reprints Desk's Article Galaxy system improves scientific, technical, and medical (STM) literature spending and processes, from monitoring and acquisition to management, re-use, and medical writing. The company earned the top ranking in the most recent ‘Document Delivery – Best Practices and Vendor Scorecard’ report from Outsell. It also won the ‘Best Online Science or Technology Service’ 2012 CODiE award from the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) for its all-in-one literature management system, Bibliogo. Reprints Desk was founded by Peter Derycz, a pioneer in the document delivery business since 1987 when he originally founded Infotrieve, Inc.

MetaPress, a hosting service for academic content, has announced the addition of Practical Action Publishing, a subsidiary company of Practical Action, to the list of publishers who have recently signed agreements for services from Metapress.

Practical Action Publishing publishes both journals and books and is focused on using sustainable technology to challenge poverty, working with poor women and men from around the world.

A division of EBSCO Industries Inc., Metapress became the industry's first content management system with dimensional navigation across a variety of content types; the service offers a variety of commercial models — from annual subscriptions to journals to short-term article rentals. Metapress provides a comprehensive solution to Web-publishing needs and offers an established way to electronically publish titles, including journals, books, reference works, and databases.

MetaPress, a hosting service for academic content, has announced the Metapress Essential platform to support smaller publishers. This new platform allows small publishers to receive the same features that enable large publishers to launch an online presence and manage content.

The Essential platform is part of the Metapress service portfolio that includes Standard and Tailor Made services.

In business since 2000, Metapress became the industry's first content management system with dimensional navigation across a variety of content types. The service offers a variety of commercial models — from annual subscriptions to journals to short-term article rentals.

Metapress, a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., provides a comprehensive solution to Web-publishing needs and offers an established way to electronically publish titles, including journals, books, reference works, and databases.

MetaPress, a web hosting platform service for STM content as well as humanities and social sciences, has announced the launch of Metapress Mobile. This new mobile-optimised platform allows publishers to present their content attractively, while offering pairing for up to five devices and the ability to return to the most recently viewed items from any paired device.

Metapress Mobile is part of all three levels of service offered by Metapress: Essential, Standard, and Tailor Made.

In business since 2000, Metapress became the industry's first content management system with dimensional navigation across a variety of content types. The service offers a variety of commercial models — from annual subscriptions to journals to short term article rentals. Metapress provides a comprehensive solution to Web-publishing needs and offers an established way to electronically publish titles, including journals, books, reference works, and databases.

Metapress is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc.

Software company Labtiva, US, has launched a pilot programme that seeks to provide libraries and institutions with affordable and instant access to scientific articles in non-subscribed journals. The first participants in the pilot programme, called ReadCube Access, are the University of Utah and Nature Publishing Group.

Labtiva aims to help scientists access any journal article they need, without having to pay per article or jump through other hoops. It has been noted that currently researchers rely on their libraries to purchase articles individually and at significant expense, spend research funds to purchase articles for themselves, or simply go without access.

According to Labtiva, researchers at the University of Utah no longer need to pay to read articles in any journal on Nature.com, including more than 50 titles for which the institution does not hold full site licences. Instead, the library picks up the tab as researchers download articles in a single click through the free ReadCube literature management application.

The library will pay only $5-10 for each download. Researchers can also choose to rent an article for 48 hours, which will cost the library $3-6. Articles downloaded through ReadCube Access appear as normal PDFs, but cost much less because they may not be printed or shared.

The goal for ReadCube Access is to establish a model mutually beneficial to researchers, libraries and publishers to expand access to research literature by supplementing existing site licenses. Discussions with other publishers and universities are already underway.

RSI Content Solutions, a US-based provider of content management services, has announced that it will host over 150 publishing executives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the 6th annual RSuite User Conference on September 20, 2012.

Now in its 6th year, the annual RSuite User Conference provides a forum for members of the global RSuite community, and those considering RSuite, to interact, learn about content management, and network with other publishing professionals. RSuite CMS manages the full life cycle of content.

From content creation through multi-channel distribution of print, ebooks, and licensed content, RSuite CMS is used by some of the world's leading publishers.

RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, will host 150 publishing executives at its annual RSuite User Conference, scheduled for September 20 at The Hub Cira Centre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

John Blossom, president at Shore Communications, will keynote the event and speak on the 'four Cs' of the second web - curation, collaboration, cross-platform, and cloud. As a leading content industry analyst, John Blossom will outline the cutting edge of content technologies and how they are yet again redefining successful models for high-margin publishing businesses. The presentation will include a profitability analysis of major enterprise-oriented media companies, touching upon key factors from the four Cs that have restrained publisher growth at key junctures in recent years.

The RSuite community continues to expand and the annual conference is a forum for both those using the CMS and those who want to learn more about content management, publishing trends, and the latest digital publishing metrics.

TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, and academic publishing house De Gruyter have announced a major license and services agreement.

With semantic content enrichment developing into mainstream technology for the information industry, De Gruyter made the strategic decision to integrate Luxid into its primary online portal, De Gruyter Online, ensuring uninterrupted delivery of next-generation products and services to its growing global customer base.

De Gruyter will deploy the Luxid platform as part of its publishing workflow - initially to enhance medical and linguistics-related content - providing advanced search and discovery tools designed to maximise searchability of content. De Gruyter subject matter experts will use Luxid to design domain-specific Skill Cartridges based on the publisher's thesauri renowned across the information industry.

MetaPress, a web hosting platform service for STM content as well as humanities and social sciences, has announced that it has retained Mark Carden to act as director of sales, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Carden is a technology and education consultant with more than 15 years experience in business development for scholarly content, software and service providers. Carden will continue as principal consultant at Naughton Consulting Ltd.

Carden is an experienced executive and consultant with over fifteen years of expertise in publishing and education technology, including senior roles at Publishing Technology, Ingram Digital and Dynix. He has a further fifteen years of experience in project management and information technology, working at blue chip companies such as Accenture and Barclays. He is a Principal Consultant at Naughton Consulting Ltd., which provides consulting and interim services to clients in education, publishing, libraries, financial services and government.

MetaPress serves publishers worldwide by hosting their e-content and making it accessible to an extensive audience that appreciates the high quality of client services offered by the company. Currently, MetaPress provides services and support to more than 200 publishers, serving as a silent partner dedicated to supporting and enhancing the publisher's brand in the marketplace. Services include content management, Web hosting, custom branded website development, and e-commerce support. MetaPress is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a diversified company founded in 1944.

RSI Content Solutions, a US-based provider of content management services, has announced the addition of David Saracco as vice president, business development to expand the RSuite CMS sales team and help further develop key publishing markets.

Saracco brings more than 20 years’ experience having worked at global publishing companies as well as publishing service and technology companies. He will be based at the RSI Content Solutions headquarters in Audubon, Pennsylvania.

RSI Content Solutions accelerates publishers' revenue and profit growth through better content management. Since 2000, RSI Content Solutions has provided publishers, media companies, and technical publishers with award-winning software solutions that transform their businesses to provide clients with the ability to delivery content in any format, to any channel, at any time.

MetaPress, a web hosting platform service for STM content as well as humanities and social sciences, has announced the addition of Zeta Books and Manchester University Press to the list of publishers who have recently signed agreements for services from MetaPress.

Zeta Books, located in Bucharest, has the mission of providing humanities content in both print and electronic formats at affordable prices. Their editorial board includes scholars with backgrounds in anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, history of art, and theology. Zeta Books also publishes several journals. MetaPress was also selected recently by Manchester University Press to host both journal and eBook content.

In business since 2000, MetaPress became the industry’s first content management system with dimensional navigation across a wide range of content types. The company offers a variety of commercial models, from annual subscriptions to journals to short-time article rentals. MetaPress provides a comprehensive solution to Web-publishing needs and offers an established way to electronically publish titles, including journals, books, reference works, and databases.

RSI Content Solutions, a US-based provider of content management services, has announced that attendees at the 2012 RSuite User Conference will hear how people are using the powerful combination of RSuite CMS and DITA. The 2012 RSuite User Conference is scheduled for September 20, 2012.

Publishing standards are intended to streamline data interchange and make the lives of publishers easier. But, with so many standards (and standards for standards), it is hard to keep track of what is important, which standards are emerging, and the usefulness to an organisation. Chet Ensign, director of standards at OASIS will speak on the array of publishing standards in use today and zero in on one standard that is helping publishers transform structured content to designed content.

RSuite CMS and the open source DITA for Publishers project (based on the DITA standard) streamlines the creation and production of content to multi-channel publishing formats, including InDesign, variable XHTML, PDF, EPUB, and MOBI. Attendees at the 2012 RSuite User Conference will get an opportunity to hear on how Human Kinetics Publishers and Macmillan Higher Education are using the powerful combination of RSuite CMS and DITA. Interested parties may visit www.rsicms.com/rsuc2012 to learn more about the conference and register.

RSI Content Solutions, a US-based provider of content management services, has announced that its Chief Technology Officer, Lisa Bos, will make a presentation titled 'How Metadata Management is the Key Component of Findability' at the 2012 RSuite User Conference. The event is scheduled for September 20, 2012 in Philadelphia.

The presentation will explain how metadata management is the foundation to new product development, content discovery and re-use, and content enrichment. Bos will reference customer use cases who harness RSuite's metadata management tools to unlock content from siloed departments and repositories.

RSuite is a CMS for publishers that manage the entire content life cycle. The RSuite User Conference is a forum for publishing and media professionals interested in learning how strategic content management and an XML-based workflow help deliver content in any format, to any channel, at any time.

To learn more about the conference and register, please visit www.rsicms.com/rsuc2012.

UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd has announced the launch of Scolaris, the new digital publishing platform for scholarly and academic publishing. The product launch took place at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, and was attended by a select group of industry professionals.

Scolaris is the next generation integrated content platform, engineered to manage the complexities of journals, reference works and dictionaries. It builds on the success of its predecessor SIPP and features specific new functionality for the journals sector.

According to Richard Padley, Managing Director of Semantico, Scolaris is a blazingly fast system that has been designed around the company’s industry successful SIPP platform. It features new functionality and enhanced features.

Publisher Macmillan Higher Education (MHE) recently licensed RSuite CMS by RSI Content Solutions. RSuite CMS is the content management system for publishers who want to manage, store, and deliver content to any channel, in any format, at any time.

RSuite CMS will integrate with a number of existing tools, such as Word and InDesign, to provide a secure centralised repository to store content, related assets, and metadata for the organisation’s new publications. According to Barry Bealer, CEO and co-founder at RSI Content Solutions, RSuite CMS will provide the Macmillan Higher Education publishing team with workflow tools and content discovery tools that serve their global mission to deliver precise content to specific markets.

Since 2000, RSI Content Solutions has provided publishers, media companies, and technical publishers with award-winning software solutions that transform their businesses to provide clients with the ability to deliver content in any format, to any channel, at any time. RSI Content Solutions products include RSuite CMS (a content management system for publishers), DocZone Book Publisher (an end-to-end book publishing system), and DocZone DITA (a SaaS XML component content management system for technical publishers).

Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry, has announced that the Massachusetts Medical Society has renewed their contract with Atypon to continue providing the platform for the New England Journal of Medicine.

The New England Journal of Medicine claims to be the most widely read, cited, and influential general medical journal in the world, completing its second century of service to the medical community in 2012. More than 600,000 people in 177 countries read NEJM each week, the majority of them on NEJM.org.

NEJM redefined the medical journal with the launch of its Literatum-powered website in 2010. The website gives users a deeper, broader, and more engaging experience through enhanced search and navigation, specialty and topic pages, interactive elements, and a number of integrated multimedia features.

Lost Island Labs Ltd (LIL) has, in collaboration with Academic Concept Knowledge Ltd. (AQnowledge), released version 2.0 of the Utopia Documents web-enabled PDF reader for scientific content. It is freely downloadable from http://utopiadocs.com and currently available for Mac and Windows, with a Linux version coming soon.

The Utopia Documents PDF reader seeks to bridge – while online - the 'linkability gap' between HTML and PDF, and make the latter just as easily linked-in to the web as the former. It allows readers, if they so wish, to experience dynamically enriched scientific articles. The tool is publisher-independent and is providing 'article-of-the-future-like' enrichment for any modern PDF (bitmap-only image scans accepted – they can be read with Utopia Documents, but without the enrichment features).

'Enrichment' means easy link-outs, directly from highlighted text in the PDF, to a variety of data sources and scientific information and search tools. It means – for articles from participating publishers – the possibility to export any tables into a spreadsheet format, and a 'toggle' that converts numerical tables into easy-to-read scatter plots. It provides for Altmetrics, whenever available, to let the reader see how articles are doing. A comments function lets researchers and students carry out relevant discussions that stay right with the paper, rather than having to go off onto a blog somewhere. It allows readers to quickly flick through the images and illustrations in an article.

With Utopia Documents, publishers and libraries can expect to offer enriched scientific articles just by encouraging the scientists and students they serve to use the free Utopia Documents PDF reader, and so make more of the scientific literature at hand. The tool is free – registration is only needed if one uses the comments function (for reasons of maintaining the integrity of scientific discourse, Utopia Documents does not allow anonymous comments).

Some journals, such as the Biochemical Journal published by Portland Press, and those published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, provide extra tags in their PDFs that enable Utopia Documents to extend its functionality even further, for instance by rendering pictures of protein structures into dynamic, rotatable, 'manipulatable' 3D formats. Publishers who wish to do the same or introduce similar features can contact info@utopiadocs.com.

Utopia Documents is usable in all scientific disciplines, but its link-out resources are currently especially optimised for the biomedical/biochemical spectrum.

Reprints Desk, Inc., a Derycz Scientific company, has announced the launch and first sale of its new mobile-web application Article Viewer for deploying medical reprints on iPads, mobile devices, product websites, and portals for healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patients. Reprints Desk specifically designed Article Viewer for use by companies in Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Medical Devices and Diagnostics, as well as Scientific Publishing.

Article Viewer is powered by a content management console that enables authorised administrators to efficiently load and deploy article eprints, then access on-demand usage analytics. Users with iPads can access the content they need by downloading the free Article Viewer mobile app from Apple’s App Store, then load articles they have licensed for anytime-anywhere access. Users can also access article eprints, both single eprints and collections of eprints, via a sleek interface on the web. Articles remain accessible according to license agreements secured with rights holders.

Scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles known as ‘clinical reprints’ are important educational tools for healthcare professionals, helping them to understand new therapies and stay current on changing standards of care. HCPs access journal articles through subscriptions and libraries, discovery tools such as PubMed, alerting services, and through the sales, marketing, and medical affairs channels of Life Science companies. Reprints Desk provides software and services to improve enterprise reprints acquisition and deployment, both for eprints and professionally printed reprints.

MetaPress, a web hosting platform service for STM content, has announced three targeted product offerings to meet the needs of publishers, regardless of size.

The three levels of service - Tailor-Made, Standard, and Essential - target the particular needs of large and small publishers.

In business since 2000, MetaPress became the industry's first content management system with dimensional navigation across a variety of content types with the release of MetaPress 2.0 in August 2006. MetaPress provides a comprehensive solution to Web publishing needs and offers an established way to publish titles electronically, regardless of existing content format.

MetaPress serves publishers worldwide by hosting their e-content and making it accessible to an extensive audience. Currently, the company provides services and support to more than 200 publishers, serving as a silent partner dedicated to supporting and enhancing the publisher's brand in the marketplace. Services include content management, web hosting, custom branded website development, and e-commerce support.

TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has signed a license and services agreement for its flagship software solution, Luxid, with Gannett Co., Inc., an international media and marketing solutions company.

Gannett has chosen to deploy TEMIS' Luxid semantic tagging and linking software as a tagging engine that assists in the categorisation of news articles and consistent indexing of content against a common taxonomy.

Gannett will first deploy Luxid within its internal editorial workflow and content management processes. The company will later enhance online and mobile readers’ navigation and content discovery experience across the company’s full suite of digital products.

TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has signed a major license and services agreement with SOQUIJ, a legal publisher attached to the Quebec Ministry of Justice.

In order to enhance access and the navigation experience for its users, while processing an increasing number of court decisions, SOQUIJ wanted to revamp its content management workflow. Its main objectives were to automate the hyper-linking and cross-referencing of jurisprudence, legislation, laws or bodies of laws, and legal doctrines; automatically feed legal knowledge bases; create an open and scalable extraction system, based on easy-to-maintain and reusable components while simultaneously offering a development environment; process its legacy content to enrich it with hyperlinks; and reduce editorial costs while increasing volume of content processed.

Following a call for tender in 2011, SOQUIJ selected TEMIS’ semantic content enrichment solution, Luxid, to achieve its objectives. The Luxid for Content Enrichment platform, with its Skill Cartridge system, enables the extraction of precise information while processing huge volumes of text, integrating seamlessly with the publisher's editorial system.

Specifically to meet the requirements of this key government office, TEMIS developed a powerful extraction module that identifies references to jurisprudence, legislation, and legal doctrines. The development of this component and the quality assessment of its results were successfully performed using the productivity tools available in the Luxid platform.

SOQUIJ will use this solution to enrich more than 100,000 legal decisions in Quebec every year as well as its entire collection of legacy content, a total of one million documents including summaries, full texts and legal doctrine.

Content solutions and services provider Really Strategies Inc., US, has announced a change in the name of the company to RSI Content Solutions. A new website (www.rsicms.com) has also been launched to reflect the company rebranding.

Founded in 2000, Really Strategies Inc was 100 percent focused on XML technology consulting to publishers and media companies. Currently 99 percent of the company’s revenue comes from its software products and related services. The company, therefore, felt the need to reflect the same in its name.

RSI Content Solutions seeks to accelerate publishers’ revenue and profit growth through better content management. Since 2000, RSI Content Solutions has provided publishers, media companies, and technical publishers with software solutions that transform their businesses to provide clients with the ability to deliver content in any format, to any channel, at any time.

RSI Content Solutions products include RSuite CMS (a content management system for publishers), DocZone Book Publisher (an end-to-end book publishing system), and DocZone DITA (a SaaS XML component content management system for technical publishers).

TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, and Agence France-Presse (AFP), one of the three worldwide news agencies, have announced that they are greatly expanding their strategic partnership to deploy semantic enrichment on AFP’s future editorial console.

Covering the world with a combined 5,000 stories a day in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Arabic, AFP required to increase the productivity and consistency of its news annotation process. To achieve that, AFP has launched a new innovative editorial system called Iris including advanced tools for journalists. The roll-out of the Iris system will begin Q2 2012.

Embedded within AFP’s new editorial Iris workstation, TEMIS flagship Luxid for Content Enrichment Platform will annotate the news on-the-fly. This semi-automated process will increase productivity, making news immediately available, as well as consistency of tagging, making the search more relevant.

The editorial Iris workstation will embed Luxid recently released version 6, combined with Text Mining 360° Skill Cartridge for entity extraction in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.

Text Mining 360° Skill Cartridge is an advanced multilingual text analysis solution for extracting entities such as people names, companies, organisations, locations, financial amounts, date & time, addresses, phone numbers, emails, etc...

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TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has announced that it has signed a license and services agreement with non-profit scientific publisher, IOP Publishing (IOP).

IOP publishes a range of journals, websites and magazines and hosts over 450,000 articles spanning 135 years back to 1874 on its web platform, IOPscience. The company's output reflects the growth and interdisciplinary nature of scientific research and application in topics as varied as astronomy, mathematics, bioscience, and of course physics. IOP's services are used by more than 4000 institutions in over 180 countries.

As part of IOP's long term commitment to providing its customers with faster access to the most relevant research, the company has selected the TEMIS' semantic enrichment solution Luxid.

Luxid performs automated entity extraction and content recommendation through related documents linking, allowing users to discover the content most related to their research interests.

Part of the new arrangement will be to develop a Skill Cartridge using a new thesaurus developed from IOP's large collection of content in the physical sciences. Skill Cartridges are domain-specific modules which extract metadata from text and will provide Luxid with the scientific vocabulary for the semantic enrichment of content in the physical sciences, ensuring that the correct terms are identified and supporting their specialist semantics.

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Reprints Desk, Inc., a Derycz Scientific company, has announced the launch of Article Galaxy, a software service platform for research-intensive companies worldwide. The new platform seeks to improve processes and lowers the total cost of ownership related to scientific, technical and medical (STM) research, evidence-based promotions, and medical information responses.

Article Galaxy features are accessible via a user-friendly dashboard and include current awareness aggregation and alerting for individuals and workgroups, with curation and RSS publishing capabilities for newsletters and other resources created by librarians and information professionals. Order forms for single article document delivery, bulk article clinical reprints and eprints are also available. Federated search, powered by Deep Web Technologies, allows for simultaneously searching across multiple online databases covering more than 52 million records, with easy ordering from search results that have been aggregated, ranked, and de-duplicated. Time-saving integration with PubMed and publisher websites allows researchers to access Reprints Desk’s services from search results and abstract pages.

Additionally, an optional shopping cart-like experience helps users view price estimates and easily order multiple articles with a single click. A bookmarklet inserts searches from popular discovery environments into a monitoring and alerting system where references can be added to private or crowd-sourced bibliographies. Other features include a new online helpdesk and searchable knowledgebase.

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Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has been named to KMWorld's '100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management.' The 100 Companies list was compiled by knowledge management practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors, and their customers and colleagues.

KMWorld is the leading information provider serving the Knowledge, Document and Content Management systems market. It informs more than 45,000 subscribers about the components and processes – and subsequent success stories – that together offer solutions for improving business performance. KMWorld is a publishing unit of Information Today, Inc.

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) provides smart solutions that simplify the licensing of content that lets businesses and academic institutions quickly get permission to use copyright-protected materials, while compensating publishers and content creators for the use of their works.

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Content solutions and services provider Really Strategies, US, will introduce the newly released DocZone Book Publisher at the forthcoming Digital Book World Conference 2012 in New York City (stand 31). The Digital Book World Conference 2012, to be held from January 23-25, 2012, offers trade publishers hard data on the state of the book business, as well as actionable, proven strategies for taking immediate advantage of opportunities as they develop in today's publishing industry.

DocZone Book Publisher claims to be the only end-to-end book publishing solution that automates output to both print and ebook formats, as well as provides online editorial tools, workflow, and language translation. Some of the world's leading publishers use DocZone Book Publisher to increase revenue with faster time-to-market and achieve an XML-first publishing process.

Really Strategies seeks to accelerate publishers' revenue and profit growth through better content management. Since 2000, the company has provided award-winning content solutions and services to publishers, media companies, and other content-centric companies. From content creation to delivery, Really Strategies helps bring strategy, content, and technology together to analyse, architect, and implement appropriate tools and technologies.

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TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has signed a license and services agreement with the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).

To serve its 40,000 members better, ASM is completely revamping its online content offering, and aggregating all of its authoritative content at a new site. This includes ASM's journal titles dating back to 1916, a rapidly expanding image library, 240 book titles, its news magazine Microbe, and eventually abstracts of meetings and educational publications.

The organisation seeks to enhance access, search, navigation and knowledge discovery at a deeper level of detail - articles, chapters, collections by topic, podcasts and webinars. ASM has identified TEMIS as the content enrichment solution provider for the scientific publishing community and licensed its platform Luxid for Content Enrichment and its Biological Entity Relationships Skill Cartridge.

With its semantically-enriched content, ASM will offer its community of scientists, clinicians, authors and librarians a flexible and user-friendly online experience enabling visitors to search, browse and discover its content more effectively. They will also be able to explore new functionalities, business models, and formats of delivery.

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Content solutions and services provider Really Strategies, US, has announced that Human Kinetics recently licensed its RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers who want to deliver content to any channel, in any format, at any time. Human Kinetics provides information related to physical activity in the form of textbooks and their ancillaries, consumer books and journals, online courses, software, and audiovisual products.

RSuite CMS will deliver several business benefits to Human Kinetics, including the ability to reuse content components across its many publishing pipelines, integrate information across business systems, and streamline publishing workflows. A Word-based editorial workflow in RSuite will transform Human Kinetics’ content into XML and enable further transformations into ePub, mobi, HTML, and PDF formats.

Really Strategies provides content solutions and services to publishers, media companies, and other content-centric companies. From content creation to delivery, Really Strategies helps bring strategy, content, and technology together to analyse, architect, and implement appropriate tools and technologies.

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Content solutions and services provider Really Strategies, US, has announced that its RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, has launched a support community dedicated to the success of its customers and partners who have adopted RSuite CMS as a core foundation for their digital publishing strategy.

The RSuite CMS support community is a forum where problems are solved, topics are discussed, and ideas are exchanged. All discussions related to the ongoing support of RSuite CMS and its customers are now housed in one secure location that encourages professional discussion as well as submitting and resolving software tickets.

Really Strategies, Inc. will host a webinar on January 6, 2012, to introduce its customers and partners to the new RSuite CMS support community website, unveil new capabilities offered by the system for resolving support requests, and introduce forums to allow the RSuite CMS community to engage with each other as well as the development and product management groups at Really Strategies.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the professional and scholarly publishing industry, has announced that the Society for Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) has selected the Literatum publishing platform to power the future of the SEG Digital Library.

SEG is an applied geophysics organisation, having over 32,000 members in more than 135 countries. The SEG Digital Library, which comprises the SEG Research Collection, SEG eBooks, and the EEGS Research Collection, is key to the Society's mission of research and education.

Atypon’s flagship publishing platform, Literatum is used to host more than 11 million journal articles, more than 25,000 eBooks, and many other types of professional and scholarly content. It enables publishers to maximise the discoverability of their journals, books, reference works, databases, and other types of content, and to implement new business models.

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TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has announced a new contract in STM publishing with Switzerland-based S. Karger AG, an academic publisher of scientific and medical journals and books.

Karger has chosen to partner with TEMIS to provide the scientific community with next-generation navigation features within its information portal. Karger is licensing the Luxid for Content Enrichment platform as well as its Medical Entity Relationships Skill Cartridge, a semantic solution specifically designed to mine and enrich medical content.

Luxid for Content Enrichment produces value-added metadata that turn documents into actionable knowledge, enabling advanced content analytics and strategic information discovery. The Medical Entity Relationships Skill Cartridge identifies key medical entities and relationships such as diseases, symptoms, conditions, therapeutic treatments, diagnostic methods and anatomical terms. It also identifies related biological terms such as cells, tissues and proteins.

The Medical Entity Relationships Skill Cartridge also extracts relationships between entities, providing the user with semantic links between treatments and diseases, diagnostics and diseases, or even risks associated with treatments or diagnostics.

With this semantically-enhanced metadata, Karger seeks to increase the relevance of the search results available on its portal. It will provide users with content navigation features such as faceted searching and related document linking between articles and book chapters in its growing library which includes about 80 scientific journals and 60 serial and non-serial book titles.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the professional and scholarly publishing industry, has announced that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has selected its Literatum publishing platform to power the next generation of the ASCE Library.

Founded in 1852, ASCE represents more than 140,000 members of the civil engineering profession worldwide and claims to be America's oldest national engineering society. The ASCE Library provides a comprehensive online tool for locating information of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering.

The new Library will make use of Atypon's latest innovations in publishing technology to become a single destination for all ASCE technical content, augmented by powerful discovery tools including a taxonomy and data visualisations, placing ASCE firmly at the center of civil engineering knowledge.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the professional and scholarly publishing industry, has announced that the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has selected the Literatum publishing platform to power its new publications website.

SIAM exists to ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities through membership activities, publication of journals and books, and conferences. SIAM publishes 15 peer-reviewed journals and about 25 books each year, and has a backlist of 400 titles.

The new digital library will use Literatum for Mobile to be accessible using modern smartphone and tablet devices. In addition, more than one billion users will be able to register and log in with one click using their Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn accounts, making personalisation easier than ever before.

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Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has announced that Dan Dube, EVP, Cloud Solutions, will speak at the ongoing Online Information 2011. Dube will present, 'Success Stories: automated production of print and ebooks, featuring RSuite Cloud,' on December 1 at 1:10pm in Theatre 4, near the XML Pavilion.

The presentation highlights RSuite Cloud, an end-to-end publishing solution for book publishers. Dube will detail how successful publishing organisations are using RSuite Cloud to increase revenues with faster time-to-market and produce content for print, web, and digital devices.

Really Strategies provides content solutions and services to publishers, media companies, and other content-centric companies. From content creation to delivery, Really Strategies helps bring strategy, content, and technology together to analyse, architect, and implement appropriate tools and technologies.

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Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has been named to the EContent 100 list. Now in its 11th year, this list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry is hand selected by EContent Magazine's judges who are experts in the digital content industry.

The EContent 100 list comprises many well-known companies, including Apple, Adobe, Google, and MarkLogic. Interested parties may visit www.econtentmag.com for the complete list of 2011 winners.

Really Strategies provides content solutions and services to publishers, media companies, and other content-centric companies. From content creation to delivery, Really Strategies helps bring strategy, content, and technology together to analyse, architect, and implement appropriate tools and technologies.

Really Strategies' product line includes RSuite and RSuite Cloud. RSuite is a content management system designed specifically for publishers. RSuite empowers publishers to modernise publishing processes and monetise content. RSuite Cloud is a multilingual editorial and production system for multi-channel publishing, including print, web, and eBook production. RSuite Cloud provides editorial tools, workflow, language translation, and automated output in print ready PDF, HTML, and eBook formats.

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Academic publisher SAGE has signed a multi-year agreement with US-based text analytics solutions provider TEMIS to increase the usability of SAGE content.

SAGE will use the TEMIS platform Luxid for Content Enrichment to enhance its content in order to provide more sophisticated search and discovery tools to users. SAGE will also leverage Luxid to identify similar and related documents promoting greater user engagement across multiple platforms.

Luxid for Content Enrichment will be used in the creation of a new platform, SAGE Knowledge, that SAGE will launch in 2012. SAGE Knowledge will contain over 2,500 award-winning titles including an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, such as scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series and more.

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Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in software and technology-enabled services, has completed its acquisition of the Sage Healthcare Division from The Sage Group plc. The new company will be called Vitera Healthcare Solutions (Vitera), and will continue serving the ambulatory market with its current line of electronic health records (EHR), practice management and revenue cycle management products.

Vitera's industry leading products include Intergy, Intergy EHR, Practice Analytics, Practice Portal, STS, as well as the Medical Manager practice management product. Vitera serves more than 400,000 healthcare professionals including 80,000 physicians and claims to be one of the largest healthcare solutions providers in the EHR and practice management markets. The company's products are also used by about 20 percent of all community health centers in the US, and process more than 33 million transactions and 1.8 million e-prescriptions monthly.

As part of the closing of the transaction Betty Otter-Nickerson, former President of Sage Healthcare Division, will be transitioning her leadership responsibilities to the newly appointed CEO of Vitera, Matthew Hawkins. Otter-Nickerson will remain a part of Vitera to support the transition for the remainder of the year.

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HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University Libraries, has announced a strategic technology and business partnership with TEMIS, a provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise.

Under the agreement, HighWire will integrate the full suite of Luxid software within its ePublishing Platform to provide automated content annotation, enrichment and linking to its customers.

It has been observed that end users have become much more sophisticated in their online information requirements and are demanding easier and more efficient ways of locating the most relevant information. Furthermore, publishers need to strengthen and differentiate their value proposition in order to increase customer satisfaction and retention. They are looking for ways to increase the value derived from their content by creating innovative online products targeted at specific professional audiences. Semantic content enrichment has become the strategic means to achieve these objectives.

Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has announced that it will host 150 publishing executives at the 5th Annual RSuite User Conference to be held October 25, 2011, at the Chemical Heritage Conference Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jess Lawson, head of content architecture at Oxford University Press, and Lisa Bos, CTO of Really Strategies, Inc. will speak at the RSuite User Conference and demonstrate how RSuite is a key component of Oxford University Press' (OUP) long-term digital publishing strategy. Oxford University Press is creating a repository for the outside world to search and discover its wealth of journal, reference book, and educational content. The Oxford Index, as it will be known, is possible because OUP has created and linked metadata records for all its content. This presentation will show how RSuite is used to manage and publish that metadata.

The RSuite User Conference is a forum for publishers who want to learn how content management is the key to building a successful digital publishing strategy. All publishing executives are welcome to register. Attendees will hear case studies from some of the world's leading publishers, learning what works and what doesn't work when developing and implementing a CMS.

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Reed Business Information International (RBI-I), a division of Reed Business Information, has chosen to deploy the EPiServer content management system (CMS) across all of its European journal websites. EPiServer CMS will be deployed to manage content and run digital marketing activities on the company's existing sites across Europe and for all new websites as they launch. Ultimately, EPiServer will help RBI deliver more engaging online experiences for audiences through its unique social community and real-time marketing analytics features.

EPiServer already has an established relationship with Reed Business Information UK, a subsidiary of RBI, through its partner Valtech. As part of this, Reed Business Information UK has already successfully deployed EPiServer CMS across its UK brands, including Flightglobal and Farmers Weekly.

RBI-I will use the EPiServer platform across the board for its entire European journal web presence, deploying EPiServer CMS, CMO, Composer and EPiServer Mail on its sites to build web pages, streamline and update content, create direct marketing campaigns and instantly analyse how digital marketing activities are performing. The company will also make use of EPiServer Relate to develop powerful and engaging online communities for its various brands, which include Strategies, Elettricoplus and Infofarma.

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Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has announced the launch of the next generation of Luxid, its flagship semantic content enrichment solution.

Luxid 6 is a powerful semantic tagging platform which automatically extracts relevant information (entities, topics, events, sentiments), identifies relationships residing in unstructured data and facilitates links between similar and related documents. It optimises the management of Enterprise content through the capture and structuring of targeted information. The software also enhances the utilisation of content within an Enterprise's key workflows such as competitive intelligence, research and innovation, voice of the consumer and reputation management.

Luxid 6 brings unparalleled capabilities to governments, powering their mission-critical applications such as financial fraud detection, homeland security, and risk prevention. It is also projected as an ally for digital publishers and content providers, who design, develop and market ever more innovative, targeted and flexible information products.

As a complement to its existing semantic tagging techniques, Luxid 6 now features three innovative approaches to content enrichment which adapt to virtually any domain. Taxonomy Skill Cartridges streamline and accelerate the use of an existing taxonomy to rapidly enrich document assets. Rule-Based Skill Cartridges capture domain experts' reasoning through an easy-to-use interface to immediately apply it to content and Machine-learning Skill Cartridges replicate experts' tagging strategies after preliminary training on an annotated corpus. These three new strategies accelerate deployments while simultaneously reducing their complexity by taking advantage of existing enterprise assets (i.e., taxonomies, domain knowledge and annotated corpus).

Version 6 of Luxid optimizes the knowledge extraction process, seeks to make annotator developments more efficient and brings semantic metadata to the whole information system, thereby representing a key milestone towards the mainstream acceptance of semantic content enrichment. It is currently available through TEMIS and its network of partners and system integrators.

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Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has signed an agreement with Germany-based medical publisher Thieme Publishing Group to license Luxid, TEMIS' semantic software. Under the deal, Thieme will use Luxid to assist in the semantic enrichment and categorisation of its electronic content.

TEMIS and Thieme Publishing Group are both exhibiting at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which will take place in Frankfurt, Germany from October 12-16, 2011.

Thieme publishes 140 peer-reviewed journals and over 500 new books annually. The company also has a rapidly growing array of web-based products in medicine and science. State-of-the-art online products include Thieme eJournals, the medical student website WinkingSkull.com and Thieme Teaching Assistant, an innovative web-based platform for faculty.

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Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has announced that it will host 150 publishing executives at the 5th Annual RSuite User Conference to be held October 25, 2011, at the Chemical Heritage Conference Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Robert Methven, CTO at Triumph Learning, will speak at the RSuite User Conference and demonstrate how RSuite is a key component of Triumph's long-term digital publishing strategy. Triumph Learning serves instructional materials to more than 25 million students across America. More than three brands serve up a range of curriculum needs, including test prep resources, digital curriculum, and classroom kits.

The RSuite User Conference is a forum for publishers who want to learn how content management is the key to building a successful digital publishing strategy. All publishing executives are welcome to register. Attendees will hear case studies from some of the world's leading publishers, learning what works and what doesn't work when developing and implementing a CMS.

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Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has announced that it was awarded a major contract by the National Agricultural Library (NAL), one of the world's largest agricultural information collections, part of the United States Department of Agriculture. Under the deal, NAL will use Luxid for Content Enrichment to automatically index hundreds of thousands of documents annually.

To keep up with the escalating demand for its information services, NAL has acquired through TEMIS an automated indexing software that vastly expands the potential number of articles indexed each year while simultaneously achieving a high level of quality.

TEMIS will tackle NAL's indexing challenge with its Luxid for Content Enrichment Platform. The Text Mining platform turns unstructured data into actionable knowledge, enabling advanced content enrichment for indexing, enhanced search and navigation, content analysis and strategic information discovery. Luxid's automated categorisation process will rely on the NAL Agricultural Thesaurus (NALT), a key component of the library's organisational tools.

With Luxid for Content Enrichment driving its indexing processes, NAL expects significant productivity gains. Six in-house indexers will be able to index by subject 300,000 articles per year, a four-fold increase over the current average indexer's level of production. The assignment of subject retrieval terms in NAL's AGRICOLA Index is currently performed entirely by human indexers who average 75,000 articles each year.

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Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has announced that it will host 150 publishing executives at the 5th Annual RSuite User Conference to be held October 25, 2011, at the Chemical Heritage Conference Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Keynote speakers for the event are Bill Trippe, vice president and lead analyst from The Gilbane Group, a division of Outsell, Inc. and Evan Schnittman, managing director, group sales and marketing, print and digital at Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. The keynote speakers will focus on how ebooks have generated renewed interest in content management. While Bill Trippe from Outsell will illustrate real-world examples from both the latest research and metrics on the worldwide ebook market, Evan Schnittman from Bloomsbury will detail lessons learned from the world's leading independent publisher of fiction and (of course) home of Harry Potter.

The RSuite User Conference is a forum for publishers who want to learn how content management is the key to building a successful digital publishing strategy. All publishing executives are welcome to register. Attendees will hear case studies from some of the world's leading publishers, learning what works and what doesn't work when developing and implementing a CMS.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that its Literatum software is powering the new Taylor & Francis Online platform. Taylor & Francis Online hosts 1.7 million articles.

The Taylor & Francis Group, which is a division of Informa plc (LSE: INF) and includes such imprints as CRC Press, Psychology Press, and Routledge, publishes more than 1,600 journals and 3,000 new books each year and maintains an eBook backlist of 30,000 titles and a print backlist of 50,000 titles.

Additionally, Taylor & Francis has entered into a long-term product development agreement with Atypon. The agreement is a reflection of Taylor & Francis's commitment to provide innovative products to its customers.

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Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, and Alfresco, an open source alternative for enterprise social content management, has unveiled an integration enabling the deployment of its flagship content enrichment platform Luxid to Alfresco's open source content management solutions.

Based on patented TEMIS technology, Luxid is a powerful and scalable content enrichment solution that automatically extracts meaningful information (topics, entities, facts, sentiments, categories) from documents. When deployed on Alfresco Enterprise, Luxid can seamlessly access documents to generate rich metadata and complete the embedded Apache Tika's metadata detection and extraction with the power of semantic analysis. Once this semantic metadata has been extracted by Luxid, it can be leveraged throughout Alfresco Enterprise, to enrich search facets, recommend related content, link to enterprise knowledge bases, feed Business Intelligence dashboards or trigger business workflows.

The joint integration of Luxid for Alfresco Enterprise is currently available through TEMIS and its network of partners and system integrators.

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Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that Health Shared Services British Columbia (HSSBC) has signed a multi-year contract with Lexicomp on behalf of the Health Authorities it represents following an extensive evaluation process.

Part of Wolters Kluwer Health, Lexicomp provides medical information and clinical content solutions for the healthcare industry. It provides the tools necessary to help improve patient safety, ensure compliance, and elevate the quality of care patients receive. The contract, which covers 57 acute sites and 5,769 acute beds, gives clinicians hospital-wide access to Lexicomp Online with three Health Authorities implementing Lexicomp. These include Vancouver Coastal Health (including Providence Health Care), Fraser Health Authority and Vancouver Island Health Authority.

These Health Authorities now have access to two independent drug information resources through Lexicomp Online - Lexi-Drugs and the American Hospital Formulary Service (AHFS). The systems feature a variety of medication topics including paediatric, adult and geriatric dosing and guidelines, adverse effects, drug interactions and patient education, I.V. compatibility, pregnancy and lactation and many more.

Lexicomp training has been in progress since the beginning of June immediately following HSSBC's finalisation of the contract. Lexicomp staff visited about 23 sites for on-site training that reached more than 300 professionals.

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Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has announced that it will host 150 publishing executives at the 5th Annual RSuite User Conference, scheduled for October 25, 2011 at the Chemical Heritage Conference Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The RSuite User Conference is a forum for publishers who want to learn how content management is the key to building a successful digital publishing strategy. Attendees will hear case studies from some of the world's leading publishers, learning what works and what doesn't work when developing and implementing a CMS.

The RSuite user community continues to grow and publishers are using RSuite to streamline publishing workflows, facilitate content re-use, initiate XML-first production, and store content in one central location with powerful search technology. At this year’s conference, customers including Oxford University Press, American Society for Training and Development, Elsevier Health Science, Triumph Learning, American Institute of Physics, and others will share their success stories.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education is using Atypon's Literatum platform to power its newly-launched website (www.AJPE.org).

The American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (AJPE) is the official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Its purpose is to document and advance pharmaceutical education in the US and internationally. The Journal considers material in all areas related to pharmaceutical education.

The new website offers a significant improvement in the user experience. Readers are greeted by a clean, spacious home page that highlights the latest content. Literatum provides AJPE staff with easy-to-use tools to change featured articles and post informational notices throughout the website.

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Web content management (WCM) platforms provider EPiServer, UK, has announced the launch of MobilePack for EPiServer, a set of templates and software for creating mobile web apps that extend a brand's reach to web users. With the introduction of MobilePack, EPiServer expects to empower marketers to quickly and efficiently extend their primary online presence, whether that is a website, e-commerce site or branded social community, to smartphones and tablets.

Marketers today are seen to understand the benefits of making their brands more mobile, but many fear the complexity and expense of entering the mobile channel. MobilePack is said to reduce marketers' reliance on their IT staff while enabling content reuse across multiple channels. Based on HTML 5, MobilePack allows marketers to use familiar analytics tools to understand visitor preferences before investing in more expensive native apps. Its key features include the ability to add new content specific to the mobile context and device-specific preview. Also, developers can customise it and create richer mobile experiences.

By 2015, eMarketer estimates that more than 135 million Americans will access the web via their mobile devices. Still, only a fraction of websites are optimised for mobile devices. In order to have an effective mobile web application, marketers need to develop a contextual mobile strategy to extend the reach of sales, delivery and services to reach new customers and retain brand loyalty with existing ones.

MobilePack is available immediately. EPiServer plans to continuously build more features and functionality in subsequent releases. Developer specialists can learn more by downloading implementation requirements and device preview onEPiServer.com.

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The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has partnered with Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, for the development and implementation of AIAA's new eLibrary website. The partnership will create an eLibrary that will offer users greatly improved access to all of AIAA's publications and conference proceedings, significantly reducing the length of time necessary to conduct research.

The eLibrary will be designed to appeal to aerospace science and engineering authors, editors, librarians, researchers and students, as well as to members of the general public with an interest in aerospace research and science.

Besides archiving all of AIAA's research assets under one roof, the updated eLibrary will offer the ability to save and schedule searches, highlight journal articles, download citations; sign up for alerts on subjects of interest to their research and post links to their research articles on a variety of social networking websites. The website will also be able to suggest other articles that might be of interest to them, greatly enhancing the flow of information and ideas in the collaborative research process.

The service is expected to be available in the first half of 2012.

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STM publishing company SLACK Inc, US, has implemented RSuite CMS by Really Strategies, Inc. as its content management system (CMS) to automate distribution of its journal content to licensing channels.

To smoothly produce its journals, SLACK required a reliable CMS that will automate distribution to its multiple partners and streamline internal workflow. RSuite also allows SLACK to implement version control and manage metadata for all content (images, Word, XML, PDF, etc) to support its digital publishing programme.

Really Strategies' RSuite CMS empowers publishers to modernise publishing processes and monetise content.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that the Literatum publishing platform is now used to host more than 11 million articles.

Atypon passed 10 million articles hosted by Literatum seven months ago. The growth is driven primarily by the addition of new publisher clients; a small portion comes from clients' back file digitisation efforts and organic growth.

Literatum enables publishers to maximise the discoverability of their journals, books, reference works, databases, and other types of content, and to implement new business models, all with easy-to-use tools, backed by business and technical support from Atypon.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that the American Public Health Association (APHA) has selected Literatum as its new publishing platform. APHA is the publisher of the American Journal of Public Health.

The American Public Health Association claims to be the oldest and most diverse organisation of public health professionals in the world. Through its flagship publication, the American Journal of Public Health, the Association communicates the latest public health science and practice to members, opinion leaders, and the public.

Using Literatum, the APHA will deliver enhanced topical collections of articles culled from the Journal. It is expected that these subspecialty entry points will make it easier for public health professionals to find information most relevant to them. In addition, current book titles from the APHA Press will be available online for the first time.

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Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has announced a significant capital increase through a new reserved round of fund-raising. Participants are both existing investors in TEMIS, and, for the first time, the company staff.

The company provides content enrichment solutions to scores of customers throughout Europe and in the US, including leading life sciences and publishing companies. Recent additions to the list include Sanofi-aventis, a global leader in the pharmaceutical industry, and AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the publisher of the renowned journal 'Science'.

TEMIS is currently extending its product range to address the growing content enrichment market opportunity for the Enterprise. According to Eric Brégand, CEO of TEMIS, this capital increase marks a key phase in the development of the company. The company will use these funds to continue its international strategy of developing and expanding markets such as the US, UK, and Canada and maintaining a robust and market-leading pace of product innovation.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that scientific publisher World Scientific Publishing Company has selected Literatum as its new publishing platform.

Literatum will allow World Scientific to bring together all of its content products on a single platform for the first time. When it launches, the next generation WorldSciNet platform will enable researchers to search and browse a library of 85,000 journal articles, 4,000 books, and 1,000 conference proceedings.

Professional and scholarly publishers are using the Literatum platform to manage, deliver and monetise their digital content. Publishing organisations such as JSTOR, the American Chemical Society, de Gruyter, and Annual Reviews are using Literatum to provide controlled access to journals, books, reference works, and other types of publications.

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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has selected RSuite, a content management system for publishers from Really Strategies, Inc. AIP is a not-for-profit corporation that works to advance and diffuse knowledge of the physical sciences and its applications to human welfare. A pioneer in digital publishing, AIP is also one of the world's largest publishers of physics journals and produces the publications of more than 25 scientific and engineering societies.

Prior to RSuite, AIP did not have a content management system and managed its vast amount of content via a combination of home-grown applications and file systems. RSuite will seek to improve AIP's production workflow, metadata management, usability and delivery of content, which ultimately results in increased revenue. AIP currently has many inbound and outbound content feeds with no central repository that tracks tasks metadata associated with this content.

Implementing RSuite allows AIP to create, store, and manage content in a central location. AIP will manage metadata within RSuite, which affords the organisation better access to curate its content in a meaningful way.

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced its decision to work with its ePublishing partner, HighWire Press, and US-based semantic content enrichment solutions provider TEMIS to offer a new, integrated, semantically fueled digital publishing programme.

AAAS is the publisher of the renowned scientific journal Science. The goal of this strategic project is an enhanced online destination incorporating the content of the Science family of websites, and a number of other digital assets under the AAAS umbrella. The AAAS project is part of a larger undertaking touching many areas of AAAS' business, including the broad rubric of content enrichment.

TEMIS provides an enterprise-wide solution in content enrichment that can be extended to a variety of digital assets. The company's solution for Semantic Content Enrichment, Luxid, will play a pivotal role in AAAS's plans to better align advertising and marketing activities with its editorial products, improve linkage of a variety of content, enhance search across its daily workflow and archives, and ultimately drive membership and revenues. Luxid automates the semantic enrichment of unstructured content, producing metadata that help search engines return more relevant results. It creates 'facets' which are used to further explore the search engine's results. Luxid also connects content, creating a network of semantic ties between documents. This enables the suggesting of related and similar documents, furthering the process of knowledge recommendation.

HighWire has offered semantically-driven features and services for publishers for over 10 years. HighWire facilitates discoverability both through their long-standing, custom taxonomic and development efforts and through the integration of third party solutions, such as TEMIS.

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Lisa Bos, CTO/EVP, publishing solutions, and co-founder of Really Strategies Inc., has accepted the position as Chairman of the Board at IDEAlliance, a global community of content and media creators, and their service providers, material suppliers, and technology partners. Lisa is an expert in the design of XML-based content management systems.

Lisa leads a staff of engineers in the ongoing development of RSuite, a content management system for publishers. She also manages Really Strategies' consulting practice and provides strategic and business analysis for various publishing technologies, analysing publishing workflows while recommending efficiencies to both tools and processes. Lisa is a frequent presenter at industry trade shows.

In her role as Chairman of the Board at IDEAlliance, Bos will provide guidance to advance seamless end-to-end media creation, production and distribution. She will be working with new directors such as Christopher Lien, president of BCC Software, Inc., A Bowe Bell + Howell Company as well as Penny Sullivan, vice president of editorial operations and technology of Meredith Corporation.

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MadCap Software, Inc., a US-based multi-channel content authoring and showcase company for Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft XPS, has announced the launch of version 7.0 of MadCap Flare. The company's XML-based Flare application is claimed to be the industry's only multi-channel software application for natively publishing documentation to the web, mobile devices, desktops and print.

MadCap Flare 7.0 is projected to expand the app's leadership in mobile-accessible documentation with another industry first - support for creating and publishing Quick Response (QR) codes in printed documents, which mobile devices can then scan to access searchable, interactive content on the web. Also new in Flare 7.0 are direct integration with Microsoft SharePoint and Apache Subversion, enhanced support for government accessibility standards, support for vector graphics, and new features for equation editing and publishing.

With the release of Flare 7.0, MadCap will cease producing MadCap Blaze, the XML-based alternative to Adobe FrameMaker for long print documents. Current MadCap Blaze customers will be provided an upgrade to MadCap Flare, which features all of Blaze's print functionality plus the ability to publish mobile, web and desktop content all from a single tool.

With the latest version, MadCap Flare is reported to become the first authoring tool to include a built-in QR code generator that lets writers insert QR codes into content files. In doing so, MadCap claims to extend its leadership in mobile publishing and bridge the gap between static print documentation and searchable, mobile content.

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Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, recently announced the availability of RSuite Cloud, a web-based editorial and production system for automated multilingual publishing to print, web, and eBook formats.

RSuite Cloud is a hosted end-to-end content management and publishing system for book publishers to create, manage, and distribute single-source content to multiple channels. The system also provides language translation tools to publish in 70 languages, including all major European, Asian, and bidirectional languages. RSuite Cloud is available on a per-user license or Pay-Per-Page model. Pay-Per-Page is a revolutionary payment model where the software is free of charge and the publisher only pays for final pages published from the system.

RSuite Cloud readily accepts Microsoft Word manuscripts into the system and automatically converts the Word files to XML for web-based copyediting and automated page composition. Production workflows are easy to setup and execute to generate page proofs and eBook drafts for content review and approval. The system is configured to automatically publish print-ready PDF files, HTML output, and eBook formats. RSuite Cloud's language translation tools facilitate localisation of content, enabling publishers to expand their markets and increase global revenues.

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Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd, UK, and US-based text analytics solutions provider TEMIS have announced a strategic partnership. The text mining technology developed by TEMIS automates the semantic enrichment of unstructured content, improving its findability and discoverability by search engines and end-users.

In online publications, the resulting richer metadata can be used to help search engines return more relevant results; feed search facets to enable efficient drill-down in search results; and recommend related or similar documents and knowledge. By making online information products more compelling, semantic content enrichment helps engage, retain and cross-sell to Publishers' audiences. The technology can also be used to assemble innovative products such as highly focused Topic Pages that aggregate content coming from separate silos into a single product centered on any given area of interest. Richly tagged content also helps Publishers better align targeted advertising with the relevant audience.

Through this partnership, Semantico will offer a service that will allow a wide range of companies, including medium-sized and smaller publishers using Semantico's publishing software, to make the most of this technology to add value to their content much in the same way large publishers are already doing.

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Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, and UK-based software company Atex have announced that seven customers have already selected the Atex Polopoly Web CMS and the TEMIS Content Enrichment solution. Joint customers are leveraging the integrated solution to automate their publishing processes through the Polopoly Web CMS platform, including creating rich content packages, generating semantic driven landing pages, interlinking content and powering XML-based advanced search functionality.

The Atex Web CMS and TEMIS Content Enrichment solution is proving itself with leading media companies around the world as a single-vendor system that drives traffic, increases page views and time spent on sites, attracts unique visitors, thereby driving revenues for the publisher. Atex is soon to launch the new Polopoly 10 to include further integration with the TEMIS Content Enrichment solution.

Going forward additional capabilities such as sentiment analysis will also be available across all content. This will allow for social media to be further enriched with the addition of automatic tagging and classification, hence improving user generated content, blogs, forums, rating and voting.

The rich functionalities of the product suite will be showcased at the ongoing Online Information Conference, London Olympia- November 30 to December 2 - where both Atex (stand #338) and TEMIS (stand #532) will be hosting on demand demonstrations.

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Information infrastructure software provider Mark Logic Corporation, US, has announced that the company's CEO, Dave Kellogg, will share how publishers can increase the value of the information delivered to mobile devices at the Online Information 2010 Conference in London. His presentation is part of a panel discussion in the 'Managing Content in a Mobile World' track on December 2. Kellogg will address 'The Mobile Opportunity: Developing a New Generation of Personalized, Task-Aware Applications for Mobile Devices' during the discussion.

The Online Information 2010 Conference is projected as the place where information experts gather to discuss how best to adapt to a changing environment. This year's conference is expected to get to the heart of these issues and demonstrate that as the social media revolution continues, organisations are finding new and innovative ways of connecting with their customers and reducing operational costs. New leaders will emerge with the vision to adapt or change their business models to embrace the opportunities created by the social web, mobile, and the cloud.

Session attendees will have the opportunity to learn why content is more valuable when it is integrated with other content and can be enriched with relevant information; how to dynamically render content from a central repository to all of the various mobile devices consumers want and put into context; and hear real-world examples demonstrating the ways in which publishers have successfully built cutting-edge mobile applications for the iPad, Nook and Kindle.

The session will be moderated by Ed Keating, Vice President, Content Division, Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA). Joining Kellogg in the track session are Alan Pelz Sharpe, Principal, The Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch), and Russell Reeder, CEO and President, LibreDigital, Inc.

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Information infrastructure software provider Mark Logic Corporation, US, has announced an agreement with academic publisher De Gruyter to use MarkLogic as the central component of its next generation publishing platform.

The agreement establishes MarkLogic as the primary database for De Gruyter, and will enable library, corporate, and individual customers to search and leverage the millions of pieces of content that currently lives within the walls of the De Gruyter publishing house.

De Gruyter publishes and commercialises books, journals, and electronic media in various fields. Its primary customers are booksellers, instructors, and librarians, in Europe, North America, and internationally. The company will use MarkLogic as the primary search and delivery component of a new platform designed to enable everyone to search and access De Gruyter content.

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Web content management (WCM) platforms provider EPiServer, UK, has announced expansion plans for the UK market, including a wholly-owned UK subsidiary, new customer and partner initiatives and the launch on the UK market of new services, including EPiServer Everweb.

The company aims to grow its organisation in the UK by at least 50 percent over the next 12 months, building on its established base of over 330 UK customers using EPiServer across 2,500 websites. These include Reed Business Information, Bauer Consumer Media, Cunard/P&O Cruises, Silverstone, Toshiba, Mazda and the NHS. Strategic partnerships will also play a key role, as EPiServer develops its relationships with some of the UK's leading digital agencies. Developing the offering to match the needs on the UK market is central to EPiServer's UK expansion plans.

EPiServer Everweb joins EPiServer Commerce, an integrated e-commerce platform for content, commerce, community and communications that was launched in June. As part of EPiServer's expansion plans, the company has also acquired Harbour Software, which formerly ran its UK operations. The owner, Neal Perry, will build on his proven success and experience in the UK to drive operations as Country Manager for the newly formed EPiServer UK subsidiary.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) has selected Atypon's Literatum as the publishing software for its portfolio of scholarly open access journals. BQFJ's platform, QScience.com, is slated for launch in December 2010.

Literatum gives BQFJ and QScience.com support for rapid publication in multiple languages, sophisticated search, and the ability to integrate other content types, including eBooks, datasets, conference proceedings, and audio and video multimedia. Superior new features are planned for next year.

Professional and scholarly publishers are using the Literatum platform to manage, deliver and monetise their digital content. Publishing organisations such as JSTOR, the American Chemical Society, de Gruyter, and Annual Reviews are using Literatum to provide controlled access to journals, books, reference works, and other types of publications.

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IK Investment Partners (IK), a Pan-European private equity firm, has announced that it has agreed to acquire EPiServer Group AB (EPiServer) from Amadeus Capital, Martin Bjäringer, Monterro Holdings, Northzone Ventures, Mikael Runhem and family and employees. EPiServer is a fast growing provider of platforms that drive online engagement with revenues of SEK 192 million in 2009. The transaction is subject to anti-trust approval. Financials for the deal were not disclosed.

EPiServer is a Swedish software company offering a broad range of products and services combining content, commerce, community and communication, which enables organisations to manage and optimise their complete online presence. The platform is distributed by EPiServer's strong partner network. The Company has experienced rapid expansion with an average annual revenue growth of more than 30 percent over the last five years.

EPiServer has its head office in Sweden, where the research and development department is also based. In addition, the Company is represented in several other countries such as Norway, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, the UK and the US.

This is IK's sixth investment in the year to date and follows the acquisitions of Snacks International, Hansa, GHD, Colosseum Dental and Agros Nova.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that medical and scientific publisher Informa Healthcare has selected Literatum for Mobile as the cornerstone of its mobile content delivery strategy.

Informa Healthcare, a division of Informa plc, publishes authoritative research and analysis as well as up-to-date news for all sectors of the healthcare and life sciences community. Being able to access this content anytime anywhere is seen to be of critical importance to readers.

Literatum for Mobile claims to be the only product that provides a fully integrated solution for delivering the full text of professional and scholarly journals to institution subscribers—even if the reader is roaming outside of the institution network. All usage is included in the institution's COUNTER reports.

Non-Apple devices account for nearly 40 percent of Literatum for Mobile activations to date, reinforcing the need for a cross-platform mobile strategy. The Nielsen Company recently announced that Android is now the most popular operating system among people who bought a smartphone in the past six months.

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Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, has announced that the online edition of the UCL Hospitals Injectable Medicines Administration Guide, published by Wiley-Blackwell, is powered by the Semantico Information Publishing Platform (SIPP). SIPP can create micro-sites for specific publications, allowing the book to maintain its own identity. The site can focus on content and functionality for a specific user group, delivering an online resource with powerful searching and browsing capabilities and easy navigation.

The UCL Hospitals Injectable Medicines Administration Guide online edition is a practical, accessible web-based tool providing an essential resource for nurses and other healthcare professionals. The Guide offers key information and advice needed for the safe and effective administration of many injectable medicines available on the ward. It covers intravenous, intramuscular, and subcutaneous methods of administration and includes general advice on dealing with extravasation, osmolarity, pH, flushes and syringe pump compatibility. The alphabetically arranged tabulated monographs ensure quick access to information on key injectable medicines, including preparative details, stability, compatibility, and acute bedside monitoring.

The easy to navigate format and clear organisation of information on screen helps healthcare professionals quickly access the information they need at the point of care, facilitating professional decision making and promoting patient safety. The Guide will be updated regularly to ensure that the latest and safest information is provided.

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Publishing Technology, a UK-based provider of software and services to the publishing industry, has announced that Argosy Books, Ireland, has extended the use of its author2reader application for their new book distribution service.

Argosy has been successfully using Publishing Technology's VISTA-branded author2reader software for their wholesale business. The company has now implemented the application to support the expansion of its business into providing publisher distribution services at their warehouse in Dublin.

Publishing Technology operates across the trade and academic markets, in books and journals, print and online. It provides software for online solutions, market communications and enterprise applications in the areas of: advertising, customer care, customer self service, distribution & warehousing, financial analysis, fulfillment, membership, product information management, production management, publishing intelligence, royalties and subscription management.

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Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has announced that the company's CTO and Co-founder, Lisa Bos, and client solutions architect, Eliot Kimber, will take the stage at the RSuite User Conference on October 20, 2010, to discuss how right content architecture eases content management system (CMS) implementation.

Content architecture - DTDs, schemas, metadata, and underlying design principles - is seen to have an enormous impact on CMS implementation. The right architecture enables elegant implementation and straightforward system design. In this session, Lisa Bos and Eliot Kimber will discuss what to consider when designing content architecture, and how those choices can positively affect an organisation's success. They will also present DITA4Publishers, an open-source, community project to enable the quick and productive use of DITA by Publishers.

During the conference, RSuite clients will discuss their implementations of RSuite CMS in their publishing organisations. This includes presentations from Oxford University Press, Wolters Kluwer Health, American Society for Training and Development and Upper Room Ministries.

The RSuite User Conference offers a forum for current users and prospective users to come together and learn from past experiences, hear industry experts discuss best practices, and preview the product roadmap. This year's conference is split into 2 tracks - business and technical. Business users can hear case studies from leading publishers while technical users can dive into RSuite's architecture, extensions, and customisations.

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Construction information provider Reed Construction Data (RCD), US, a division of Reed Business Information, and Source2, a private investment group focused on technology enabled service companies, have announced the formation of a new company, SMARTBIM LLC. SMARTBIM LLC has acquired the BIM Solutions division of RCD with a plan to maximise its potential. The new company is led by Arol Wolford and backed by Source2.

SMARTBIM currently provides BIM object creation and distribution services and related BIM management software (SMARTBIM Library and SMARTBIM QTO) to users of the Autodesk Revit platform. The company plans to link these activities even more closely as an integrated service, and to introduce increasingly sophisticated analytics that help its AEC customers make their BIM models more useful, and maximise BIM's potential to improve design and reduce cost.

RCD will be a significant shareholder in SMARTBIM LLC. It will work in partnership with the new company to maximise the potential of information solutions to drive adoption and functionality of Building Information Modeling in the construction industry.

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Content management and production services provider Cadmus Communications, US, a Cenveo company, has announced an all-star line-up of expert speakers for their 2010 Executive Management Retreat as part of the Cadmus Institute educational initiative. The invitation only retreat will be held October 26-27 in Baltimore, Maryland.

The event, themed Revitalizing Your Publishing Toolkit: Are You Ready for the Next Challenge, will include industry experts offering insights into key publishing topics affecting not-for-profit, association, commercial, and university press publishers. Among speakers who will present at the event are: Thad McIIroy, President, The Future of Publishing; Susan Sarfati, CEO, High Performance Strategies; and Beth Rosner, Publisher of Science and the Director of AAAS Office of Publishing and Member Services.

Thad McIIroy is an electronic publishing analyst, author, and well-established expert in the technology and marketing issues surrounding electronic publishing, colour imaging and the Internet. He will deliver the keynote address.

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Content optimisation platform RAMP has announced that B2B publisher PennWell Corporation, US, is deploying RAMP's universal search and publishing solutions for its specialised industry news and information websites. As a result, RAMP will automate publishing workflows with dynamic taxonomy development and applications to make search and publishing contextually relevant to users' online behaviour on these websites.

RAMP will enable Pennwell to optimise its content through integration with Pennwell's publishing platform across its five industry verticals that represent the publisher's more than 75 print and online magazines and newsletters. As a result of this integration, Pennwell's website content is projected to become highly searchable across all media types. Topic pages utilising universal content - video, audio, text and images - will be created in response to users' search and browsing behaviour, and allow thousands of relevant pages to be published dynamically on these sites.

RAMP is an advanced content optimisation SaaS platform providing publishers workflow, discovery and engagement solutions to drive monetisation of online content to users' search and browsing behaviour. It offers publishers an open, flexible and modular capability to optimise large amounts of content, including text, audio, video and images, within dynamic publishing environments.

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Web content management (WCM) platforms provider EPiServer, UK, has launched the EPiServer MobileCenter App for iPhone and iPad. The App, a mobile version of EPiServer OnlineCenter, is designed to give interactive marketers, content publishers and Web developers greater control over their online properties. MobileCenter claims to be an efficient way for users to keep a pulse on all of their online channels in one place and make decisions about content.

MobileCenter is the portable extension of EPiServer OnlineCenter, which lies at the heart of EPiServer CMS. OnlineCenter provides an easily accessible dashboard from which users can manage all their online activities, including Websites, branded social networks, email marketing and other marketing automation tools and ecommerce sites. The MobileCenter App provides access to OnlineCenter features through small customisable open source plugins, or gadgets, many of which are conceptualised and created by the over 10,000 members of the EPiServer World online developer community.

EPiServer MobileCenter is available immediately from the Apple App Store. The MobileCenter gadget is free to licensees of EPiServer CMS.

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Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has launched Luxid for SharePoint, a dedicated version of its flagship content enrichment platform Luxid specifically packaged for Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

Based on patented TEMIS technology, Luxid for SharePoint 2010 is a powerful and scalable content enrichment solution that automatically extracts meaningful information (topics, entities, facts, sentiments, categories) from documents stored in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to generate rich metadata. This semantic metadata natively stored in Microsoft SharePoint columns is then freely available to enrich any Microsoft SharePoint applications, opening new perspectives for content management, analysis and discovery.

The automation of rich metadata extraction helps IT departments optimise their investments in search and content management technologies. Powerful content analytics also helps better define storage and archival strategies. Luxid for SharePoint 2010 provides a ready-to-use search interface with enhanced Microsoft SharePoint webparts for faceted navigation and query refinement. The semantically enriched results list enables end-users to efficiently drill down to the most relevant documents.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has introduced Literatum for Mobile, a pioneering product that enables professional and scholarly publishers to deliver their content to iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry devices.

Literatum for Mobile positions publishers for success by bringing the full power of Literatum, the leading platform for professional and scholarly publishers, to the mobile market. Individual and institution subscriber access to full-text content is seamlessly integrated with the core platform, as are COUNTER reports.

This is achieved through an industry-first access management scheme that transforms the device into a powerful authentication credential. A one-time process pairs a user's device with his or her profile and institution access. After completing the process, the user is instantly authenticated every time the app is launched. Literatum for Mobile is currently available as a public beta for launch client Annual Reviews.

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Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, has released a new control panel for the Semantico Information Publishing Platform (SIPP). The updated control panel features improved navigation and updated graphic design.

The control panel enables existing live sites to be updated with new material. It is also possible to upload new code-sets and test them in the live environment. This allows for testing to be done without interruption to the site, essential functionality for sites with a worldwide audience.

SIPP is a cost effective technology solution that provides publishers with their own publishing platform. More and more publishers are recognising the importance of having a central, stable online publishing platform that is under their control, while also pushing content out to vendors and aggregators to provide additional visibility. Using SIPP, publishers can create their own micro-sites which provide publishers with a consistent approach in managing business processes.

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Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has made its LuxidBar knowledge discovery service available via free public download from its website at www.temis.com. LuxidBar extends the benefits of content enrichment services to the user's desktop and powers an enhanced, more productive navigation experience.

LuxidBar was initially made available to TEMIS's customers as a new gateway to their Luxid 5.2 Content Enrichment and Information Discovery Platform. The publicly available LuxidBar connects to a Luxid Content Enrichment Platform hosted and maintained by TEMIS in the cloud. The platform performs a broad range of business and scientific entities extractions together with their semantic relationships.

LuxidBar is a lightweight component for Internet Explorer and Firefox that delivers four key features. It identifies and highlights key information within any webpage or document, enabling the user quickly to spot, read and navigate within the most relevant content. It also inserts smart links on the fly within the text, enabling the user further to navigate and gather additional information in context. Further, it displays information analytics dynamically to provide the user interactive graphical views of the document content. The service summarises any webpage or document by displaying only key sentences explicitly referring to the user's topic of interest.

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Atypon, a provider of software to the publishing and media industry, has announced that Literatum, its flagship platform for professional and scholarly publishers, is powering the new digital presence for the New England Journal of Medicine.

The New England Journal of Medicine claims to be the most widely read, cited, and influential general medical journal in the world. The journal is also the oldest continuously published medical periodical. More than 600,000 people in 225 countries reportedly read NEJM each week, the majority of them online.

Featuring an all-new design with enhanced navigation, the new NEJM.org is rich in content and features. Additions include 19 new specialty pages, innovative education and training tools, and the complete NEJM Archive, which includes every article NEJM has published, dating back to 1812.

Literatum is a leading platform used by professional and scholarly publishers to manage, deliver and monetise their digital content. Publishing organisations such as JSTOR, the American Chemical Society, de Gruyter, and Annual Reviews are using Literatum to provide controlled access to journals, books, reference works, and other types of publications.

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Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has announced that the company's CTO and Co-founder, Lisa Bos, and client solutions architect, Eliot Kimber, will take the stage at the RSuite User Conference on October 20, 2010, to discuss how right content architecture eases content management system (CMS) implementation.

Content architecture - DTDs, schemas, metadata, and underlying design principles - is seen to have an enormous impact on CMS implementation. The right architecture enables elegant implementation and straightforward system design. In this session, Lisa Bos and Eliot Kimber will discuss what to consider when designing content architecture, and how those choices can positively affect an organisation's success.

Along with client presentations that include Oxford University Press, Wolters Kluwer Health, American Society for Training and Development and Upper Room Ministries, Andrew Littell from the Google Books Partner Program will provide the keynote presentation. A technical track offers a closer view of RSuite's extension points, user interface, workflow designer and more.

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Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has announced that four of its RSuite clients will discuss their implementations of RSuite CMS in their publishing organisations on October 20, 2010, at the RSuite User Conference. This includes presentations from Oxford University Press, Wolters Kluwer Health, American Society for Training and Development and Upper Room Ministries.

Each client will take a different approach to presenting their unique implementation of RSuite while communicating how RSuite addressed business pain points and allowed them to streamline their editorial and production processes which resulted in cost savings and a shorter time to market for new products.

RSuite is a content management system used by more than 4000 publishing professionals everyday to create, manage, re-use, and distribute XML, media files, and other document formats (Word, PDF, InDesign, etc). RSuite is powered by MarkLogic Server and provides editorial workflow tools, native support for XML content storage services, full text search, a full suite of editorial, and content re-use at many levels.

The RSuite User Conference is sponsored by MarkLogic, Knowledgespeak, DeltaXML, Jacquette Consulting, Silverchair, SDL, and YuxiPacific.

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Content management consulting and solutions provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary in business serving the publishing and technical publishing industries.

Really Strategies was founded in 2000 by former Reed Elsevier executives Barry Bealer and Lisa Bos. The shift in strategy to also become a software solution provider has helped the company continue to grow and be recognised with industry awards. These include Information Today's People's Choice Award for Top Consulting Services and Content Management, the Deloitte and Touche Fast 500 Award, Benjamin Franklin Emerging Business Award, the Deloitte and Touche Rising Star Award (Delaware Valley), the Philadelphia 100 Award, and recognition as one of the 'Best Places to Work' in Philadelphia by the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Really Strategies provides content solutions and services to publishers, media companies and other content-centric companies. From content creation to delivery, Really Strategies seeks to bring strategy, content and technology together to analyse, architect and implement appropriate tools and technologies. The company's solutions encompass XML editorial tools, XML repositories, content management systems, and editorial and production systems. Its core product RSuite CMS is a content management system that facilitates the creation, management, re-use and distribution of XML, media files, and other document formats.

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Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced the launch of a refreshed website for US-based non-profit publisher Annual Reviews.

The new website, www.AnnualReviews.org, is powered by Literatum, a platform used by professional and scholarly publishers to manage, deliver and monetise their digital content. It includes innovative features that make it easier for researchers to find principal contributions in their field and stay up to date with new developments. These include the ability to quickly preview an article's figures from tables of contents, search results, and most popular content pages; tag-along navigation that keeps an article's figures, references, and related content visible while moving through the article; and snippets from cited Annual Reviews articles that accompany the references, giving insight into the context of the citations.

Annual Reviews provides the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. Its publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature as indexed by the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

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Content solutions and services provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has announced the keynote speaker for the 2010 RSuite User Conference, scheduled for October 20, 2010, at the Hub Cira Centre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chris Palma, strategic partner development manager for Google, will be the featured keynote speaker for the event. Palma is responsible for Google Books partnerships in the Western US, India, Australia and New Zealand.

The Google Books Partner Program now has more than 30,000 publisher partners world-wide, representing over 2 million full-text books discoverable from the Google index in over 70 international domains. At the RSuite User Conference, Palma will share his insights and vision of Google Books Partner Program and Google Editions, detailing what publishers need to understand now and plan for the future and how this impacts content management at publishing organisations of all sizes.

Palma has spent 15 years in scholarly publishing (Yale University Press, Harvard University Press), before joining Palo Alto-based ebrary, where he was Vice President of Content and Business Development for this leading provider of eBooks to the institutional library market.

Really Strategies, Inc. is the provider of RSuite, a content management system for publishers The RSuite user community continues to grow and publishers are using RSuite to streamline publishing workflows, facilitate content re-use, initiate XML-first production, and store content in one central location with powerful search technology. At this year’s conference, customers including Oxford University Press, Wolters Kluwer, American Society for Training and Development, Upper Room Ministries, and others will detail their experiences implementing RSuite.

To register and learn more about the conference, please visit www.rsuitecms.com/userconf.

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Enterprise content management (ECM) software provider Open Text Corporation, US, has announced a tool called Open Text Semantic Navigation. The tool is designed to help audiences naturally navigate through volumes of information based on the inherent meaning of the content and increasing web marketing and online search effectiveness. Available as a cloud-offering or on-premise, Semantic Navigation seeks to give organisations an easy way to improve engagement with online audiences.

The announcement was made at the Search Engine Strategies conference, a global conference and training series focused on search engine marketing, taking place this week. Open Text is a top sponsor of the event and is exhibiting in booth 214.

Companies of all sizes invest heavily to develop content they hope will boost brand awareness, sell goods and services, and increase customer loyalty. This content, however, can be spread across multiple servers and repositories where it is difficult for readers and search engines to find. Simple keyword searches assume the audience is willing to manually scroll through pages of results and hunt down countless blind alleys to find relevant content.

Open Text Semantic Navigation offers a way to improve the user experience. At the core of the offering is the Open Text Content Analytics engine. The engine is claimed to intelligently extract meaning, sentiment and context from content, and in turn marries that content to what a customer or prospect is looking for on a website. Audiences are expected to more consistently and quickly find helpful, valuable information with much less effort.

A complete solution, Open Text Semantic Navigation is designed to complement any existing website, independent of the web content management system used, either installed on local servers or as an online service provided by Open Text. With the cloud-based offering (currently in beta), organisations can expect to rapidly and inexpensively upgrade their sites user experience using a free, fully functional 30-day trial.

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Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced that medical and scientific publisher Informa Healthcare is now publishing books on the redesigned informahealthcare.com platform, powered by Atypon's Literatum software.

Literatum is a platform used by professional and scholarly publishers to manage, deliver and monetise their digital content. Publishing organisations such as JSTOR, the American Chemical Society, de Gruyter, and Annual Reviews are using Literatum to provide controlled access to journals, books, reference works, and other types of publications.

Informa Healthcare, a division of Informa plc, publishes authoritative research and analysis as well as up-to-date news for all sectors of the healthcare and life sciences community. The company partnered with Atypon to deliver a single publishing platform for both books and journals. It has now decided to add more than 600 book titles to the 170 journals on informahealthcare.com to allow users to search across content type to easily obtain critical research.

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MetaPress, a US-based web hosting platform service for STM content, has announced that more publishers have selected MetaPress as their e-content hosting provider. The latest publishers to launch their electronic content management and hosting services via the MetaPress platform include American Library Association; Association for Experiential Education; Council on Social Work Education; Edward Elgar Publishing; Harvard Education Publishing Group; National Council of State Boards of Nursing; NetBiblo/Groupo Biblo; The Open University; and ReVision.

In business since 2000, MetaPress became the industry's first content management system with dimensional navigation across a variety of content types with the release of MetaPress 2.0 in August 2006. MetaPress provides a comprehensive solution to Web publishing needs and offers an established way to publish titles electronically, regardless of existing content format.

MetaPress serves publishers worldwide by hosting their e-content and making it accessible to an extensive audience. Currently, the company provides services and support to more than 200 publishers, serving as a silent partner dedicated to supporting and enhancing the publisher's brand in the marketplace. Services include content management, Web hosting, custom branded Website development, and e-commerce support.

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Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced that Canadian Science Publishing, doing business as NRC Research Press, will launch a new publishing platform using the company's Literatum software.

NRC Research Press is a Canada-based scientific publisher, publishing 15 journals in all scientific disciplines. The Press recently became an independent not-for-profit corporation, having previously operated as a division of the National Research Council of Canada, a government entity.

Literatum is a leading platform used by professional and scholarly publishers to manage, deliver and monetise their digital content. Publishing organisations such as JSTOR, the American Chemical Society, de Gruyter, and Annual Reviews are using Literatum to provide controlled access to journals, books, reference works, and other types of publications.

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Content solutions and services provider Really Strategies, US, has released RSuite version 3.5. The latest software release includes new features, major enhancements and improved usability based on customer feedback and requests from its growing user community.

New search features provide editors and publishers the ability to drill down and locate content based on full-text, metadata, and XML fielded searching. RSuite customers can easily configure multiple search forms mapped to the publishers' content. Publishers' metadata and XML fields can be presented to the user in the search interface, revealing to editors the ways that content has already been classified. New tools allow users to easily search for content objects based on the metadata of their containing packages. Search results can be copied with one click to create a new package of content in the repository. This content package is dynamic and refreshed as content is updated throughout the system.

A personal clipboard feature provides users the functionality to quickly organise and work with select content in their own personal whiteboard space. Custom metadata forms are easily configured and offer users a quick way to update metadata. Metadata forms can be configured per role so that the correct fields are exposed to the appropriate staff.

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Integrated multimedia content solutions provider PreMedia Global, Inc. has announced that it has consolidated branding across its divisions under the name 'PreMedia Global' eliminating former division names BeaconPMG, PrepressPMG/GGS Higher Education and GGS Creative Resources.

The company recently showcased the new branding at the BookExpo America conference in New York City.

PreMedia Global provides integrated multimedia content solutions to professional, scientific and educational publishers through a global delivery platform. It provides services across the content spectrum from product development and design/image services to interactive content creation and new media applications to project management and production.

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B2B information providers Reed Construction Data (RCD) and Hanley Wood, LLC have announced the formation of a strategic alliance. Under the deal, the companies will open up proprietary information channels in an effort to deliver richer, more valuable content to the construction industry.

The alliance will seek to leverage the existing products, audiences, customer relationships, capabilities and expertise of each organisation to deliver data and content rich directories in the commercial construction marketplace and other construction related audiences.

The companies will initially focus on integrating content from RCD's construction product directory, SmartBuilding Index, with information available through several of Hanley Wood’s web and tradeshow channels. In addition to providing enriched content, this joint effort will create new and unique marketing opportunities for building product manufacturers and construction companies.

Hanley Wood is a B2B media firm focused on the residential and commercial construction and design industries. Its portfolio includes magazines, websites, e-newsletters, exhibitions and conferences, custom marketing and data services. Hanley Wood is comprised of four operating platforms: Business Media, which publishes more than 30 magazines; Exhibitions; Market Intelligence; and Marketing, which plans, creates, and executes strategic and integrated marketing solutions for its clients.

Construction information provider Reed Construction Data (RCD), US, a division of Reed Business Information and the Inaugural Strategic Partner of the AIA, has announced new releases for two of its BIM products - SmartBIM Library 4.0 and SmartBIM QTO 2.0. These products now include support for Revit 2011 from Autodesk.

The enhancements to SmartBIM Library make object content management easier by improving performance for publishing and filtering large catalogues of BIM family content. According to the company, these enhancements along with the other features of SmartBIM Library can drastically reduce time spent managing and organising Revit families. SmartBIM Library 4.0 comes pre-loaded with over 23,000 Revit product types, including MEP families, and continually publishes new content from a growing list of building product manufacturers.

SmartBIM QTO, powered by RSMeans, enables early cost estimating for Revit projects. This product is designed to help architects and designers quickly estimate or refine costs for a project. As a project changes, architects have the freedom to run cost estimates for multiple design options to facilitate 'what-if' scenarios.

SmartBIM Library and SmartBIM QTO now also support network licensing, which simplifies software asset management and allows for concurrent usage of a given number of licenses. SmartBIM Library 4.0 still includes many features from prior versions including drag-and-drop functionality that allows users to drag objects from SmartBIM Library directly into Revit projects.

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Bioinformatics firm Ariadne, US, and Aureus Pharma have announced a partnership to deliver leading knowledge management solutions for the life sciences industry. Ariadne will also distribute Aureus' offerings in the US. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The two companies will initiate a collaboration to explore together further synergies between their respective knowledge management solutions and more particularly the interfaces between the protein pathway space and medicinal chemistry. Such interfaces will help customers to better understand mechanisms of actions between therapeutic proteins, protein pathways and small molecules and provide new insights in the disease biology area.

The collaboration will establish confidence between researchers in disease biology and medicinal chemistry that the technologies they use and deploy in their specific environments provide continuity in the pipeline discovery process, align common goals in knowledge management and increase scientific comprehension between these two groups.

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Academic and reference books publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has licensed RSuite, a content management system for publishers. OUP is implementing RSuite across an initial subset of its book content. The Press publishes more than 6,000 new titles a year.

RSuite will serve as the central repository for OUP's XML content. It offers OUP the tools and the facility to automatically ingest and store content from its authors and other content suppliers. RSuite also allows the delivery of OUP content both manually and automatically to multiple targets in various formats. Examples of content delivery range from XML documents that are converted to Word and sent via email for editorial updates to batch delivery of XML and media files based on user selection and other criteria for web site updates.

Having a central repository offers OUP the opportunity to do product development by allowing editors hands-on tools where they can create content packages for new products or simply to organise content for whatever purposes are useful to them in their work. They will also be able to streamline content delivery to third-parties automatically.

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Digital media services company LibreDigital Inc, US, has announced that it has closed an $8.1 million Series C funding round led by new investor S3 Ventures with participation from existing investors Adams Capital Management and Triangle Peak Partners. The company's other key investors include HarperCollins Publishers, The New York Times Company and Noro-Moseley Partners.

The new capital infusion will be used by LibreDigital to expand e-book services for publishers looking to capitalise on the unprecedented demand for e-books, which is being driven by the release of new devices like the Apple iPad. In addition to being a top Apple e-book aggregator, LibreDigital also powers the delivery of content to other digital devices and marketplaces, including Barnes & Noble NOOK, Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Google Editions and many more.

LibreDigital enables publishers, distributors and device manufacturers to securely market and deliver content across an expanding number of digital channels, including e-readers, tablets, smart phones, social networks and online stores. The company offers solutions designed to deliver digital books, newspapers and magazines in the highest quality format possible.

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Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has released Literatum10.1, a new version of the leading platform used by professional and scholarly publishers to manage, deliver and monetise their digital content. Literatum 10.1 is available immediately.

Publishing organisations such as JSTOR, the American Chemical Society, de Gruyter, and Annual Reviews are using Literatum to provide controlled access to journals, books, reference works, and other types of publications.

Literatum 10.1 will allow publishers to enhance their offerings and the user experience. Discussions & Polls will enable publishers to create new content experiences by weaving user-generated content into their publications. These tools can be used to power blogs, article comment threads, and more, and can be customized for individual websites and pages. Collections allow publishers to group related content, for example everything related to cardiology, enabling users to search and browse the collection and sign up for new content alerts. Collections can also be licensed and made available for sale through the website.

Additionally, Zoomable Images offers a compelling user experience for viewing figures at extremely high levels of magnification and resolution. Literatum automatically generates JPEG 2000 images from source files. Publishers do not need to make any changes to their production process.

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Research software developer QSR International, US, has announced that publishing company iD8 Publishing Services, Inc., US, has opted for the NVivo 8 to speed up the process for classifying, sorting and analysing peer reviews and competitive information. iD8 Publishing Services specialises in scientific, health and medical publishing.

Developed by QSR International, NVivo 8 allows publishers to explore and analyse qualitative information in a range of formats, including documents, video and audio recordings. It helps publishers to carry out in-depth analysis on large volumes of data, removing the manual tasks associated with analysis, such as classifying, sorting and arranging information.

Utilising the NVivo 8’s coding, query and mapping functions, iD8 has developed an online service for clients, providing them with customised, targeted reports that give authors better editorial guidance and competitive insight. iD8 has already used the service for one of its largest clients, Pearson Education. The service is believed to be the only one of its kind in the publishing industry.

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Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced that the American Psychological Association's new APA.org website has selected Atypon’s RightSuite product for identity management, access management, and commerce. According to APA, the website is its primary channel for providing services and content.

The new APA.org website will use RightSuite to provide single sign-on across the Association's digital assets; manage access to its leading journals, books, and databases, including PsycINFO; and enable the purchase and fulfillment of both physical and digital goods. With more than 150,000 members, the American Psychological Association claims to be the largest association of psychologists in the world. It seeks to be the primary resource for all psychologists, as well as the major catalyst for the stimulation, growth, and dissemination of psychological science and practice.

Atypon is a provider of software used by professional and scholarly, trade and consumer, and educational publishers of all sizes to manage, deliver, and monetize their digital content. The company's products include complete publishing platforms as well as identity and access management and commerce solutions.

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Construction information provider Reed Construction Data (RCD), US, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier, has announced its participation in the Associated General Contractors of America’s (AGC) 91st Annual Convention and Pavilion, March 17-19, 2010, in Orlando, FL. At the convention, RCD will demonstrate how its construction lead services and cost estimating tools can help contractors save time, enhance productivity and drive new business.

SmartProject News is an online service designed to help customers find work quickly, track preferred projects, and access project details, plans and specifications, bidders lists, firms and contacts. The SPN database contains thousands of private and public project leads, including the Federal Stimulus Projects released in 2009. Flexible and low-priced subscription options give customers unlimited access to search counties, territories or states to find relevant projects.

RSMeans cost-estimating tools and resources include cost-data books, CD’s and Web-based products that help 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.

Convention attendees can stop by RCD’s booth (#B21) for a chance to win The Modern Toolkit: free construction project leads, plans and specs, and cost estimating tools for one year.

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Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced the appointment of Marty Picco as Director of Product Management. Picco joins Atypon after serving as Vice President of Systems & Technology for Harmonic Inc.

Picco is a seasoned digital media executive and technologist. At Harmonic, he was responsible for on-demand products, network management, systems engineering, and advanced development activities for its digital television division. He was also involved in identifying acquisition targets. Prior to Harmonic, Picco founded two start-ups, Parallax Graphics and later Cogent Technology, both of which he led to successful exits (to Dynatec Corporation and Harmonic, respectively).

Atypon is a provider of software used by professional and scholarly, trade and consumer, and educational publishers of all sizes to manage, deliver, and monetize their digital content. The company's products include complete publishing platforms as well as identity and access management and commerce solutions.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that it has implemented RSuite, a content management system for publishers. NPG publishes journals, online databases and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine.

NPG needed to replace several legacy production systems while still being able to leverage the investment in some existing tools, including MarkLogic Server. RSuite reportedly enabled NPG to accomplish this by facilitating the automation of its workflows. This in turn is projected to enable scalability without additional resource requirements, and allow for a more streamlined production process.

The publisher consolidated multiple content-centric solutions and uses RSuite for the posting of live online journal content to the web. During the implementation process, it was recognised that adding multiple journals into the production stream would no longer require additional staff and training.

RSuite is a browser-based content management system that seeks to facilitate the creation, management, re-use and distribution of XML, media files, and other document formats (Word, PDF, InDesign, etc). It is powered by MarkLogic Server and provides native support for XML content storage services; full text search in combination with XQuery; a full suite of editorial capabilities for XML and other content formats; content re-use at many levels; and editorial workflow tools.

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Enterprise content management (ECM) software provider Open Text Corporation, Canada, has announced an agreement to acquire digital content management solutions provider Nstein Technologies, Inc., Canada. Under the deal, Nstein shareholders will receive C$0.65 in cash for each Nstein common share held, unless certain eligible shareholders otherwise elect to receive a fraction of an Open Text share having a value of C$0.65. The transaction is valued at approximately C$35 million.

The acquisition is projected to extend the breadth of Open Text’s ECM offerings. Nstein’s solutions are sold across major market segments, such as media and information services, life sciences and government.

The transaction is expected to close in the second calendar quarter and is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval of two-thirds of the votes cast by Nstein’s shareholders and applicable regulatory and stock exchange approvals. A special meeting of Nstein’s shareholders is expected to be held to consider the amalgamation in early April 2010.

The definitive agreement includes customary non-solicitation and right to match provisions and Nstein has agreed to pay Open Text a termination fee in certain circumstances if the amalgamation is not completed.

Content solutions and services provider Really Strategies, US, has announced that DocZone has been ranked best-in-class for supporting multilingual content and multiregional process by independent market research firm, Common Sense Advisory, Inc.

DocZone claims to be the industry’s first award-winning software as a service (SaaS) XML content management system designed for publishers and technical publishers. It delivers multi-channel output from single-source content at an affordable rate. Achieving the only perfect 4.0 score, DocZone ranked above Author-IT, SDL Trisoft, Vasont, and other well known component content management systems.

Common Sense Advisory recently published the report ‘Global Content Management' to help provide guidance for the challenge of managing multilingual content to meet the needs of a global economy. According to the company, any organisation that operates internationally faces the cost and time barriers associated with content delivery in multiple languages. This body of research represents a thorough analysis of the leading content management solutions that will help global companies properly and objectively evaluate the available options.

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Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced that Gordon Tibbitts has joined the company as President, reporting to CEO Georgios Papadopoulos. Tibbitts joins Atypon after serving as CEO of Berkeley Electronic Press.

Prior to Berkeley Electronic Press, Tibbitts served as President of Blackwell Publishing (now Wiley-Blackwell) for seven years, during which time he transformed the company into the world’s largest society publisher and spearheaded the development of its digital publishing platform. He has also served as Director of Information Systems for Aster Publishing (later Advanstar) and as a Vice President for the Thomson Corporation.

Atypon is a provider of software used by professional and scholarly, trade and consumer, and educational publishers of all sizes to manage, deliver, and monetize their digital content. The company’s products include complete publishing platforms as well as identity and access management and commerce solutions.

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Journal production services provider Dartmouth Journal Services (DJS), part of The Sheridan Group, US, has announced an agreement with The American Association of Immunologists. Under the deal, DJS will provide services for the production of The Journal of Immunology (The JI). The JI is owned and published by the AAI.

Over 1700 manuscripts are published every year in The JI, resulting in about 16000 text pages. DJS will provide copyediting and composition along with print production, fulfillment, author billing and reprint services for The JI. Utilising an article-based workflow, DJS will also assist the AAI with the timely production of Publish-Ahead-of-Print content.

Issued in print and online twice monthly, The JI claims to be the most highly cited journal in the field of immunology.

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Journal production services provider Dartmouth Journal Services (DJS), part of The Sheridan Group, US, has announced a partnership with the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). Under the deal, DJS will provide editorial services and print production for CHEST, the official publication of the ACCP.

A monthly publication, CHEST features original research in the multidisciplinary specialties of chest medicine, such as pulmonology, critical care, sleep medicine, cardiorespiratory interactions, thoracic surgery, transplantation, airways disease and more. The journal also features recent advances, topics in practice management, medical writing tips, pulmonary and critical care pearls, chest imaging and pathology for clinicians, contemporary reviews and more. Editorials and communications to the editor explore controversial issues and encourage further discussion.

The decision to utilise DJS’s services was announced by ACCP Vice President of Publications and Editorial Resources, Stephen Welch.

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Enterprise software vendor RSuite, US, has announced that CQ Press, a division of academic publisher SAGE, has successfully implemented RSuite to manage the latter’s complex staff directories content.

Over the years, CQ Press has added new content to its directories products, acquired other directory publications, and identified the need to shift from a product-based to a topic-based editorial and publishing format. RSuite was selected to manage CQ Press’ XML and related assets and become the company’s single repository for all directory content. Initial testing began with three titles in February 2009. At present, additional titles and 18 users (internal and external) interact with the system and the content feeds CQ Press’ web and many online products.

RSuite is a browser-based content management system that facilitates the creation, management, re-use, and distribution of XML, media files, and other document formats (Word, PDF, InDesign, etc). Powered by MarkLogic Server, it provides native support for XML content storage services, full text search in combination with XQuery, a full suite of editorial capabilities for XML and other content formats, content re-use at many levels, and editorial workflow tools.

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Content management software and data services provider Vasont Systems, US, has announced the release of the next interim version of their content management system, Vasont 12.2. The latest version enables users to store multilingual content once for maximum reuse and delivery to multiple channels.

New features provide terminology management, content branching, and additional reporting capabilities. The Controlled Vocabulary feature allows organisations to manage the terminology used in their documentation by defining ‘allowed terms’ to be used and ‘restricted terms’ to be avoided. The Revisions feature is a branching capability that allows users to track and manage changes to modular content in relation to its original source content. This feature makes it easy for clients to work on multiple versions of their content simultaneously. The Content Exception Report feature allows users to avoid taking action on content before it is approved and complete. It is particularly useful for identifying items that may interfere with publishing, and may also be used for diagnosing referenced modular content with specific criteria, such as draft status and specific edit dates.

Vasont 12.2 focuses on enhancing productivity for writers managing modular content using DITA, other industry-standard and custom DTDs. This interim release provides more tools for clients to better manage their editorial and publishing processes. It is currently available for both the perpetual license and hosted (SaaS) content management system models.

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Content management and production services provider Cadmus Communications, a Cenveo company, has announced that it has been awarded a three-year contract by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

Under the deal, Cadmus will provide a full range of journal production services including copyediting, composition, content management, and printing for the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) and other ASCO publications including the Journal of Oncology Practice (JOP) and multiple meeting publications. ASCO is a not-for-profit publisher with a longstanding relationship with Cadmus.

Cadmus provides end-to-end, integrated graphic communications services to professional publishers, not-for-profit societies, associations and corporations. The company claims to be the world's largest provider of content management and production services to scientific, technical and medical (STM) journal publishers.

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Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has announced that it has appointed Atlas Co., Ltd. as a preferred reseller for Atypon's software. Under this arrangement, Atlas will market and support Atypon's software to professional and scholarly publishers in Japan.

Atypon's software is used by some of the world's most prestigious professional and scholarly publishers to manage, deliver, and monetise their digital content, including journals, books, and other types of publications. The software is expected to make content from Japanese professionals and scholarly publishers more discoverable within and beyond Japan.

Atlas is Japan's leading technology partner for publishers, having developed the J-STAGE journal hosting platform under contract to the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

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Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has unveiled RightSuite 4.5, an upgraded version of its identity and access management and commerce solution for publishers. The product is available immediately.

According to Atypon, RightSuite is used by large media conglomerates such as CBS Interactive, The McGraw-Hill Companies, News International and Turner Broadcasting System, to sell and control access to their digital assets. The latest version includes out-of-the-box reports, an ETL platform, a star schema for access and commerce data, and integration with OpenReports, a flexible open source reporting solution.

RightSuite consists of two licensed modules - RightAccess and RightCommerce - which can operate together or individually as server applications or as Software as a Service. Consulting and implementation services are also available. The Multiple Active Data Centers feature is seen to enable RightSuite to be deployed and operated across geographically dispersed data centers, all simultaneously online and active, without the need for any third-party tools.

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Content management and production services provider Cadmus Communications, a Cenveo company, has announced organisational changes within the Publisher Services Group (PSG). The move is designed to further strengthen the company's focus on publishers in the essential information markets. The announced changes elevate leaders with extensive backgrounds in meeting the needs of scholarly publishers.

John Grinnell, formerly Executive Vice President of Global Content Services, has been promoted to Executive Vice President of PSG. In his new role, John will be responsible for all content services, conventional print, and sales operations within Cadmus PSG.

The first of several changes to come under the strategic plan to further align Cadmus with its publishing partners is the repositioning of the content operations in Columbia, MD, as ‘The Publisher's Office.’ Debbie McClanahan will lead The Publisher's Office as Vice President of Publishing Services, reporting directly to Atul Goel, Senior Vice President of Global Content Operations & Technology. Debbie brings almost 40 years of market expertise.

The Publisher's Office will also be the central location of an R&D team of Publishing Workflow Analyst focused on creating innovative tools that allow publishers to be on the cutting edge of preparing and delivering dynamic content. Clark Lindsay will lead this team as Director of Publishing Technologies. Prior to joining Cadmus, Clark was Vice President of Operations for ATLIS Systems, Inc. He has more than 20 years of publishing technology experience working with such organisations as the National Library of Medicine, the American Chemical Society, AARP, IEEE, Hanley-Wood, the Library of Congress, Thomas Directories, and Thomson (Gale Research and Delmar).

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Construction information provider Reed Construction Data (RCD), US, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier, has announced updates for two of its leading BIM solutions, SmartBIM Library (SBL) and SmartBIM QTO, to help Autodesk Revit users increase efficiency and organization in the design phase.

SmartBIM Library is a Revit family cataloging tool for architects, designers and engineers that provides search and management capabilities. The release of version 3.8 offers users improved thumbnail creation for all Revit families and adds support for publishing curtain wall panels in user-created catalogues. SmartBIM Library version 3.8 comes pre-loaded with over 22,000 high-quality Revit family types and includes a content update service that publishes families on a continual basis from a growing list of building product manufacturers.

SmartBIM QTO allows architects and engineers to rapidly perform quantity takeoffs from a Revit project and generate design-level cost estimates using RSMeans cost data. As a project changes, architects also have the freedom to run estimates for different design options to facilitate ‘what-if’ scenarios. After an estimate is created, any line item can be edited manually allowing users to input their own costs or further refine the estimate using the RSMeans CostWorks database. SmartBIM QTO 1.3 has improved functionality for exporting a quantity takeoff to Microsoft Excel.

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Publishing software developer Content Data Solutions, Inc. (Content DSI), US, and Castle Connolly Graduate Medical Publishing (CCGMP) have announced the launch of the latter’s new interactive website. The site brings Castle Connolly Graduate’s Medical Board Review Manuals and interactive study tools online.

According to CCGMP, changes in medical education funding have forced it to alter its business model. To maintain free access for all US senior residents and fellows, it has gone online with its entire catalogue. The aim is to create new revenue streams by changing from a single-commercial sponsor model to an advertising-supported model.

Over three months, Content DSI worked collaboratively on the website design, digitised the content of 18 specific medical specialty publications and associated study tools, and integrated the content into a newly designed e-commerce-enabled website.

CCGMP will offer its digital books and its print books to practicing physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and medical students internationally via www.ccgmp.com.

Content DSI is a software and systems integrator providing content management, publishing solutions and services to commercial publishers, manufacturers and other content centric companies. It seeks to help publishers acquire, create, edit and process information and release it to their audiences via websites, hardcopy publications, CD/DVD, e-readers and other output media.

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Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, Inc. has announced that the Symyx Available Chemicals Directory (ACD) has moved from quarterly to monthly updates of supplier catalogues. Continuously improving the update frequency of ACD enables scientists to identify the optimal set of compounds for their synthesis or library with increased confidence that those compounds will be available at the indicated prices from the selected suppliers.

Symyx ACD claims to be the most widely integrated and accessible commercial compound directory in the world. ACD information consolidates sourcing information from over 870 compound suppliers and is available to scientists through the applications they use every day. With ACD, scientists can access up-to-date chemical property, availability, and pricing information in the context of their workflows through in-house, custom applications or standard applications such as Symyx Notebook, Symyx Isentris, ISIS and Symyx Logistics lab informatics software. Scientists can also access ACD sourcing information via smartphone applications and the Symyx-hosted DiscoveryGate and DiscoveryGate Web Service platforms.

Used by researchers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical and agrochemical sectors worldwide, Symyx ACD is a meticulously curated chemical sourcing database containing over one million unique chemicals (including 2D and 3D structures), over three million products, and over six million packages offered for purchase in bulk and research quantities.

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Content solutions and services provider Really Strategies, US, and DocZone, the industry’s first SaaS XML content management system, has announced the keynote speaker for the 2009 RSuite User Conference to be held October 6, 2009. Howard Ratner, CTO, Nature Publishing Group (NPG), will be the featured keynote speaker for the event.

Howard is in charge of all US operations and has global responsibilities for web development, web services, content services, production and manufacturing, and information technology across all NPG products. NPG is a leader in exploring and implementing new technologies, and recently announced the implementation of MarkLogic Server as its XML repository. At the RSuite User Conference, Howard will illuminate the opportunities that are revealed to publishers once content management is implemented throughout an organisation.

RSuite is a browser-based content management system that facilitates the creation, management, re-use, and distribution of XML, media files, and other document formats (Word, PDF, InDesign, etc). The RSuite user community has blossomed over the past year. At this year’s conference, existing customers, including Cengage Learning, MIT, ASTD, IGI Global, and others, will detail the process and benefits of implementing RSuite.

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Building information modeling (BIM) solutions provider Reed Construction Data, US, has unveiled the next phase of SmartProject News, a construction lead service helping contractors and small construction companies grow their businesses through easy-to-use online tools and a powerful back-end database of projects, firms, bidders and contacts. With the launch of this service, RCD is running a special promotion (www.reedconstructiondata.com/spn) until August 31, 2009 offering free plans and specs for new subscribers.

SmartProject News (SPN) is designed for contractors that are looking for hard bid and negotiated, non-residential work. The SPN database includes tens of thousands of private and public project leads available to customers. Flexible and low-priced purchase options include full access to localised territories or states, as well as project bundles of 10 or 25.

The upgraded service provides over 30 new metro-area subscription options and several advanced search features to help customers quickly identify local projects, as well as opportunities in surrounding areas. High-potential projects are easily identified with SPN’s revamped user interface and search tools. Users can track projects using automated e-mail alerts and access project plans and specs with the click of a button.

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Building information modeling (BIM) solutions provider Reed Construction Data, US, has announced new releases for two of its BIM products, SmartBIM Library (SBL) v3.5 and SmartBIM QTO 1.0, which now include compatibility with Autodesk’s Revit 2010. SmartBIM Library is a BIM content management tool for architects and engineers. SmartBIM QTO 1.0 is projected as a new time- and cost-saving BIM tool that instantly provides a quantity takeoff and early cost estimate on a project using RSMeans cost data.

SmartBIM Library 3.5 comes pre-loaded with over 21,000 Revit product types, including new MEP families. The tool can also publish content on a continual basis from a growing list of building product manufacturers. Additional key developments to SBL v3.5 include improved installation support and enhancements to Reed’s content publishing feature for large catalogues. SmartBIM Library v3.5 still includes many features from prior versions including automatic content updates that deliver new Revit families directly to users’ desktops; automatic software updates to ensure the most up-to-date software features; and drag-and-drop functionality that allows users to drag objects from SmartBIM Library directly into Revit projects.

The speed and automation of SmartBIM QTO (www.reedconstructiondata.com/bim/qto) purportedly allow architects and designers to check or refine costs for a project as they go, eliminating expensive and time-consuming efforts to redesign projects to meet budget demands. As a project changes, architects also have the freedom to run estimates for multiple design options to facilitate ‘what-if’ scenarios. After an estimate is created, any line item can by edited manually allowing users to input their own costs or further refine the estimate using the RSMeans CostWorks database.

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Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced that its ChemMobi application is now available for free on the App Store. ChemMobi gives on-the-go scientists access to chemical structures, chemical properties, suppliers and other information in the Symyx databases directly on their iPhone or iPod touch.

Powered by DiscoveryGate Web Service (DGWS) and ChemSpider Search, ChemMobi provides access to over 30 million chemical structures, enabling chemists to search for Chemical Names or IDs and quickly retrieve associated information including chemical structures, calculated properties, commercial availability from over 860 suppliers, synonyms, and material safety data sheet summaries from ChemADVISOR.

The ChemMobi App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/.

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Content solutions and services provider Really Strategies, US, has announced the acquisition of DocZone.com, a SaaS XML content management provider. DocZone.com is known for its affordable DITA-based technical publications solution that is easy to configure and use. The acquisition will complement Really Strategies' RSuite product line, offering publishers, media companies, and technical publishers an array of pricing and implementation models that fit their business needs.

With this acquisition, Really Strategies has an established customer base in several new markets, including Fortune 500 technology and manufacturing companies. The acquisition was led by Brook Venture Partners. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

With over 100 clients in the publishing, media, and technical publications markets, the combined company will be headquartered in Audubon, PA, with a strong European presence to serve a global client base.

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Healthcare knowledge management solutions provider Unbound Medicine, US, and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have announced the launch of Red Book for Mobile + Web. The latest findings and clinical guidelines contained in the new 28th edition of Red Book is now available on any popular phone or handheld platforms.

Up-to-date information about vaccines, emerging infectious diseases, and new methods of diagnosis and treatment is essential for clinicians who encounter childhood infectious diseases. Red Book for Mobile + Web, powered by the Unbound Platform, is designed to make this critical information accessible whenever and wherever it is needed. From any location, clinicians can refer to Red Book via the Web or download to iPhone/iPod touch, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile or Palm.

The Red Book is AAP's authoritative guide to the latest pediatric infectious disease information. It is seen to be an essential resource and reference for clinical practice with the most recent guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infectious diseases.

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

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

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

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Building information modeling (BIM) solutions provider Reed Construction Data, US, has announced a partnership with TME, Inc., an energy engineering firm. The deal will provide the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) community access to thousands of Revit MEP families through the SmartBIM distribution network, including Reed's SmartBIM Library.

The combination of MEP content from TME and the SmartBIM Objects from Reed Construction Data is expected to create a comprehensive library of high-quality Revit BIM objects. BIM content created by Reed Construction Data and TME, Inc. is designed to meet the highest quality standards in the industry and represents the real-world characteristics of the objects. Reed delivers BIM content to the market through SmartBIM Library, SmartBIM Spaces, and SmartBuilding Index.

SmartBIM products shipping with the latest MEP content is expected to be available this summer.

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

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

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

Healthcare knowledge management solutions provider Unbound Medicine, US, has announced the availability of premier medical references for smartphones running the Android mobile technology platform from Google, Inc. The Unbound Platform already supports native applications for popular handheld devices including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Palm. With the addition of Android support, the Unbound Platform further enables healthcare professionals to access up-to-date medical knowledge from the device of their choice.

Among Unbound's products now available for Android are best-selling medical and nursing titles that help clinicians answer questions at the point of need. These include The Merck Manual from Merck & Co, Inc.; Davis's Drug Guide and Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary from F.A. Davis; and the Five-Minute Clinical Consult from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. In addition, Unbound's unique aggregated offerings, Nursing Central and uCentral, for individuals and institutions may be downloaded to Android devices.

Combining sophisticated content designs with powerful Android-specific navigation, Unbound's applications feature rapid search, easy-to-scan text, high resolution images, integrated audio, bookmarking, links to 18 million journal articles in MEDLINE, and extensive cross-linking between resources.

Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced the release of Symyx Isentris Personal Edition scientific software. Designed for small to mid-size R&D organisations and for individuals, Isentris Personal Edition brings advanced scientific information management, exploration, and sharing capabilities to scientists without requiring an enterprise deployment.

As the successor to the ISIS desktop system (replacing ISIS/Base, ISIS for Excel, and ISIS/Draw), Isentris Personal Edition surpasses ISIS in meeting scientists' needs for storing, searching, viewing, and sharing personal experimental results while still providing the powerful functionality of an enterprise scientific informatics system. By helping scientists share databases and associated files easily with colleagues, Isentris Personal Edition drives effective collaboration within and across partnering organisations.

Using the new and improved Isentris for Excel component of Isentris Personal Edition, scientists can manage, explore, and share chemical and biological information in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that maintain the integrity of chemical structures and reaction information. Researchers are free to use the power of Excel to sort, filter, analyse, and visualise scientific data and then easily share their Excel spreadsheets with colleagues and partners. Advanced features enable scientists to enumerate virtual compound libraries, analyse the effects of substituents on biological activities, and search chemical spreadsheets using structure searching and filtering techniques.

Building information modeling (BIM) solutions provider Reed Construction Data, US, launched its latest BIM offering, SmartBIM Spaces, at the recently concluded AIA 2009 National Convention and Design Expo. Reed also demonstrated the benefits of its upcoming release, SmartBIM QTO, at the AIA convention.

SmartBIM Spaces seeks to offer architects a simple way to view and download BIM objects specific to their projects. It also seeks to provide building product manufacturers with a targeted distribution method to get their products in the hands of architects during the design phase.

SmartBIM Spaces uses Reed's SmartBIM content, including manufacturer-specific and generic BIM objects, and packages it by project type (school, library, office building, etc.). These 'spaces' are delivered proactively, allowing designers to view products within the context of a specific project and download the objects needed to complete their projects.

Manufacturers can use SmartBIM Spaces as a targeted way to market their products to the design community and promote their BIM objects. By packaging their project-specific objects within Spaces, manufacturers make it easier for architects to locate the products and information they need. Manufacturer-specific BIM objects are available through the SmartBIM Object Creation Program. Manufacturers can have their products modeled as 3D, high-quality and highly parametric BIM objects for use in designing a building or project.

In addition to SmartBIM Spaces, Reed delivers BIM content to the market through SmartBIM Library, SmartBuilding Index and Autodesk Seek (http://seek.autodesk.com/).

Publishing software developer Content Data Solutions, US, has announced the release of its Web Publishing Solution (WPS) as Software as a Service (SaaS). WPS SaaS is being offered to reduce or eliminate the upfront financial investment typically required when implementing a content management system.

WPS, targeted at news, journal and book publishers, is projected as a comprehensive application for the creation, enrichment, management and delivery of content to the web and other publishing channels such as print, CD-Rom or E-Reader. WPS' standard editing controls are similar to Microsoft Word, thus allowing quick adoption by users with little to no training.

WPS SaaS is seen to result in an immediate return on investment for businesses, allowing companies to publish content at an extremely low cost with minimal infrastructure costs. The built-in automated publishing process allows companies to publish information quickly and accurately with features such as future scheduling and expiration capabilities. This is expected to provide customers with timely and accurate information. WPS' browser based solution has a built-in workflow feature. This is seen to allow authors, editors and content managers the ability to efficiently revise, approve and release documents in a collaborative environment, resulting in a vastly decreased publication to market cycle time and increased employee flexibility.

Nstein Technologies, Inc., a Canada-based provider of online publishing solutions for newspapers, magazines and online content providers, has announced the launch of WCM (Web Content Management) 4.1, a feature-rich upgrade to its content management system (CMS). Most notable among the additions is WCM Mojo, a portable, mobile back-office version of WCM designed to empower smart-phone equipped writers, journalists and editors to create, edit and publish content in the field.

Since its inception, Nstein WCM has focused on being the most editor-centric, intuitive and intelligent Web CMS on the market. WCM 4.1 continues that tradition, featuring a fully extensible drag-and-drop-enabled customisable dashboard that allows users to develop their own layouts from a pre-configured widget library.

Nstein's new mobile content management tool, WCM Mojo, is an optional, lightweight add-on client that connects seamlessly to WCM via newer smart phone browsers. This functionality allows writers, journalists and editors to create and edit stories, slideshows, manage contributions and follow editorial and behavioral statistics in real-time. Also, it allows editors to execute repetitive editorial tasks such as content approvals and content bundling while in transit.

Content solutions and services provider Really Strategies, US, has announced the availability of the RSuite Engine, a tool that lets organisations jumpstart the development of content management projects on top of MarkLogic Server, an XML server. The Application Programming Interface (API), which forms the foundation of RSuite CMS, seeks to provide a robust API for technical teams to accelerate the development of sophisticated content management applications.

RSuite Engine is a Java-based environment that runs on both Windows and Linux. The API enables developers to load, create and search content; to assign and manage metadata at any element level; to build user interfaces for browsing and interacting with content; to version and lock/unlock content; and to interact with other content management functions. RSuite Engine is offered as either a perpetual or term licence. Additional RSuite components such as the user interface and workflow modules can now be purchased separately.

MarkLogic Server includes a set of capabilities to store, search, analyse and dynamically deliver content. Mark Logic customers and partners build information access and delivery solutions used by organisations to accelerate the creation of content applications.

Construction information solutions provider Reed Construction Data (RCD), US, and CADworks have announced an agreement to partner to extend the delivery of high-quality content to building product manufacturers (BPM's) and help accelerate the adoption of building information modeling (BIM).

The partnership will allow the Reed Construction Data national sales force to identify BIM opportunities for MEP manufacturers. CADworks will be Reed's preferred provider for mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) content creation.

Despite a recent increase in the adoption rate of BIM, there are still several obstacles to overcome before BIM is integrated on a widespread level. According to many architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry sources, the availability of quality BIM content is one of the leading barriers. In a study by RSMeans Business Solutions, firms rated accuracy (objects represent a real product), level of detail and time to develop an object as the most important factors for use of a BIM object.

Reed's SmartBIM Objects and CADworks' Intelligent Content, designed fully parametric, accurately represent the real-world characteristics of products, and meet the standards in the industry. These are loaded with the critical data Revit users need to design a detailed and coordinated BIM model.

RefWorks, the research tools arm of ProQuest, LLC, US, has announced the launch of RefMobile, a new interface that enables students and researchers to use the RefWorks web-based research management service from anywhere, via web-enabled mobile phones, smart phones, and personal data assistants (PDAs).

The RefMobile interface gives users immediate access to the most commonly used RefWorks functions, including searching their entire RefWorks databases, viewing references by folders, adding and removing references from folders, creating new folders, and adding comments to Notes fields. Users can also efficiently import new references to their RefWorks account using the new SmartAdd feature.

With SmartAdd, users simply enter basic identifying information for a publication, such as ISBN number, digital object identifier (DOI) number, partial title, or author and publication year, and SmartAdd searches the Internet for the reference and import it to RefWorks.

John Smith & Son, an academic and professional bookselling chain in the UK, has released results of a study proving market demand for e-textbooks and confirming their value as a new revenue stream for publishers. The programme is powered by VitalSource, an interactive e-textbook platform offered by Ingram Digital, an Ingram content company focused on solutions for digital content management, distribution and promotion.

E-textbooks were sold using various sales models, with bundled print and e-textbooks proving more successful than e-textbooks sold as a discounted point-of-sale add-on or as a single full-price product. Not only were e-textbook sales strong in the first semester, but these encouraging sales have continued into the second semester, it has been observed.

The study also revealed that titles available digitally realised a decrease in used textbook sales. Used textbook sales force publishers to compete with their own material, leading to more frequent new editions and, subsequent higher costs for printed textbooks. Titles available digitally realised as much as a 68 percent decrease in sales of their used, printed counterparts in a year-to-year comparison.

John Smith's chose VitalSource for its ability to support multiple formats, flexible digital rights management and interactive features such as the ability to search within text, highlight in the book, copy and paste sections as needed and the ability to share notes with classmates and professors. After a successful pilot in 2007, the programme was expanded for the 2008 autumn semester, with almost 100 of John Smith's bestselling textbook titles available in digital and print.

Online publishing solutions provider Semantico Ltd., UK, has announced a redesign of its service offering around the introduction of 'rapid' versions of its online publishing platform, Semantico Information Publishing Platform (SIPP), and its identity and access management system, Semantico Access Management System (SAMS). The new rapid offering is projected to enable dramatically shortened implementation times and lower cost without sacrifice of quality. The move is expected to better meet the needs of publishers struggling to fund the development of their online offerings in the current financial climate. The company is also introducing a number of 'crunch-buster' service additions alongside its core offering.

Semantico, a developer of high-end custom digital publishing solutions, is now additionally offering lower entry points for its richly-featured publishing solutions, and faster time-to-market.

The basis of the rapid offering is a streamlined, 'Pareto principle' implementation which is seen to provide the vast majority of the functionality publishers look for in an online publishing platform and a clear upgrade path. SIPP is now offered in three versions - SIPP Rapid, SIPP Rapid+, SIPP Classic. All three come bundled with the corresponding version of SAMS (SAMS Rapid, SAMS Rapid+ or SAMS Classic), providing a fully integrated access management solution.

Each version offers an upgrade path allowing additional functionality and enhancements to be added at a later date. SAMS is also offered in all three versions as a stand-alone solution, which can be easily integrated with an existing publishing platform using SAMS Gatekeeper.

Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced the release of the latest version of its enterprise electronic lab notebook (ELN), Symyx Notebook. Version 6.2 of the product supplements existing functionality for analytical chemistry research and biology with new capabilities supporting synthetic and medicinal chemistry investigations by adding Symyx chemical representation, chemical reaction, and compound registration capabilities.

The Symyx chemistry engine powers the ISIS scientific information platform that underlies many chemistry registrations, inventory and other systems used in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. In addition, Symyx Notebook 6.2 adds essential chemistry information enabling scientists to access current chemical sourcing, molecular property, synthetic methodology, bioactivity and toxicology information from Symyx and participating content providers in the context of laboratory workflows.

With Symyx Notebook 6.2, scientists can expect to rapidly design and share single and multi-step synthesis plans. For instance, scientists designing reaction steps can handle stoichiometry calculations more efficiently by easily accessing Symyx Available Chemicals Directory to look up key properties like molecular formula, molecular weight, density and purity. They can then use the Symyx Registration service to register purchased or synthesised compounds in a corporate registry. Finally, scientists can utilise Symyx Isentris to explore notebook-captured reaction information together with Symyx reaction content for improved synthesis speed and success.

Isentris enables scientists to combine notebook-captured and Symyx-provided molecule and reaction information for use in retro-synthetic synthesis planning. Symyx synthesis databases accelerate successful synthesis planning by providing access to over 6 million publicly available reactions.

Construction information solutions provider Reed Construction Data, US, has announced the launch of version 3.2 of SmartBIM Library (SBL) (www.reedconstructiondata.com/building-information-modeling/bim-library/). SBL is a building information modelling (BIM) content management tool for engineers and architects.

The latest version offers new features and enhancements including the drag-and-drop family publisher, allowing users to automatically publish and load Revit families into SmartBIM Library from a user's file system, Autodesk Revit project files or Autodesk Seek. Additional functionality allows users to attach files, including text documents, spreadsheets and images, to SmartBIM Objects using the drag-and-drop feature, and to view them from the attachment pane.

SBL 3.2 is also now an e-SPECS Compliant BIM Library to assist users in automating the specification process. Version 3.2 comes pre-loaded with over 21,000 high-quality Revit product types, including 200 new generic families. It still includes many features from prior versions including automatic content updates that deliver new Revit families directly to the users' desktops; automatic software updates to ensure users have the most up-to-date software features; and drag-and-drop functionality that allows users to drag objects from SmartBIM Library directly into Revit projects.

Information research solutions provider Ovid, US, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced an agreement with the UK Department of Health. Under the deal, students and faculty of all medical schools throughout England, that have an associated transplant unit, will obtain electronic access to the Transplant Library via OvidSP, beginning April 1, 2009. The Transplant Library database, produced by the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation, is an electronic evidence-based resource for organ transplantation.

First released in early 2008, the Transplant Library now includes nearly 6,500 references to all reports (full articles and conference proceedings) of randomized control trials (RCT) in organ transplantation published since 1970. The database is updated every two weeks and, since the beginning of 2004, all RCTs are assessed for methodological quality. The Transplant Library also includes limits that allow users to search for trials of interventions in a specific organ transplant. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are scheduled to be added during 2009.

First released in October 2007, the OvidSP platform incorporates Ovid's precision search technology and mapping tools. It is designed to deliver answers to important scholarly research questions faster, simpler, and more effectively for all types of users, from beginners to expert searchers.

Digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, has announced a significant increase in the student and faculty adoption of VitalSource, its interactive e-textbook platform. In January 2009, the platform saw more than a 600 percent rise over the same period in 2008.

VitalSource allows publishers to reach out to emerging digital markets while also protecting their content from illegal use and piracy. The interactive format allows users to search, highlight and annotate their texts. VitalSource-powered e-books can be downloaded to a user's PC or Mac, making them accessible anywhere, anytime - even when the user is no longer connected to the Internet. The VitalSource Bookshelf application stores, indexes and displays the e-books and functions as a virtual meeting place for readers to trade notes, tips and techniques.

Bookshelf, an interactive e-book reader, is claimed to experience continued exponential growth as e-books are increasingly adopted by the higher education community. After adding 100,000 new users over the course of its first 10 years, the number of users has tripled since June, surpassing 300,000 users in January 2009. In January alone, 44,453 users downloaded Bookshelf.

The Bookshelf platform enables social networking in the classroom by allowing students and faculty to share their notes with each other - another feature seen to be contributing to its rapid adoption. In January 2009, over 3 million notes and highlights were shared. Professors are also choosing to share their notes with students.

The latest version of the platform, Bookshelf 5.1, incorporates changes based upon feedback from users. It features faster search capabilities, cited as the most valuable feature by students, as well as improved print functions and enhanced organising and downloading capabilities.

The Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, US, has been selected by VHA, Inc., the national healthcare alliance, as its preferred vendor for mobile clinical quality improvement solutions. With this preferred vendor designation, Thomson Reuters is authorised to sell its Clinical Xpert suite of products to VHA members across the US. Clinical Xpert has been named the KLAS Category Leader for Mobile Data Systems for the past seven years.

Clinical Xpert Navigator provides clinicians with real-time access to patient data via mobile devices such as Palm, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry smartphones, as well as through web-based platforms such as desktop, laptop and tablet PCs. Navigator consolidates data from multiple hospital information systems and delivers it to clinicians at the point of care.

Clinical Xpert CareFocus provides clinical surveillance, automating the process of identifying high-risk patients and informing the appropriate caregiver when clinical intervention is needed. VHA hospitals using CareFocus have shown significant improvements in length of stay, cost savings and mortality rates. The suite also includes offerings for handoff, charge capture and medication reconciliation.

VHA, a national healthcare alliance serving more than 1,400 not-for-profit hospitals and 23,000 non-acute health care facilities in the US, helps member organisations improve clinical and economic performance. It achieves this through its network of agreements with leading healthcare vendors across the continuum of care.

Nstein Technologies, Inc., a Canada-based provider of online publishing solutions for newspapers, magazines and online content providers, has announced that B2B publisher Reed Business Information (RBI) - US has chosen Nstein's WCM (Web Content Management), TME (Text Mining Engine) and DAM (Digital Asset Management) to upgrade its digital content supply chain for its more than 80 print publications, and its associated 80 websites and portals.

Reed Business Information - US is a division of Reed Elsevier Group PLC. Its properties include Design News, Interior Design and Variety, among many others. RBI initially sought to simply replace its legacy CMS, but later opted to streamline its entire approach to the content supply chain.

Furthermore, under its legacy system, not all of RBI's assets were tagged. Nstein's linguistic solutions re-tag magazine articles to fit multiple categories. Tagging is the process of determining the 'aboutness' of content so it can be found easily and used in different ways by editors across the entire RBI network. On the front end, readers can find related content more easily, so they 'consume' more pages. That, in turn, increases page views and revenue.

Reprints Desk, a US-based content re-purposing company focused on medical and scientific publishing, has announced enhancements to its STM Document Delivery service. The service enables research-oriented organisations to transform article ordering and delivery into an enterprise-wide content workflow solution. Notable enhancements include the addition of web services technology capabilities that allow users to order directly from their intranets or corporate websites, and client access to the Reprints Desk delivery engine for filling document delivery orders from existing in-house library collections.

For companies that require document delivery services as a critical research support function and want to improve researchers' ability to order directly without mediation, Reprints Desk works directly with customers' IT and library staff to integrate web services. The benefits of web services for document delivery include saved time for researchers who no longer need to manually provide user-related information for each order, increased security for companies that no longer have to manage user identity access across multiple locations, and the ability to seamlessly integrate article delivery with e-detailing and consumer healthcare websites. Reprints Desk now also provides client access to its article delivery engine, enabling a single reporting view across internal and external document delivery operations and providing patrons with a uniform document delivery experience regardless of the source of the article.

The STM Document Delivery service was launched by Reprints Desk in 2007. The service simplifies single article procurement, offers delivery of most articles within a few minutes to a few hours, and provides original and clean colour articles by default. Reprints Desk delivers PDFs using a proprietary Adobe-based DRM solution that requires no plug-ins.

Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US and Allen Press, Inc. have announced the successful launch of the new BioOne e-publishing site (www.bioone.org), hosting both full text journals and books. BioOne's new platform is serviced by Allen Press and powered by Atypon's online publishing technology.

The latest platform brings a host of new functionality and a more user-friendly interface to all of BioOne's community members - researchers, participating publishers, and subscribing libraries. Users can now create personal profiles using the "My BioOne" feature, allowing them to save searches, favourite journals, and e-alerting preferences. They can also make use of article and title-level tools such as RSS feeds, related article, and author searches.

BioOne is home to 113 not-for-profit society and institutional publishers from around the world. The new site offers these participating BioOne publishers previously unavailable branding, customisation, and promotional opportunities, including information pages for each publication and society. For BioOne subscribing libraries, the new site means an increase in core access and reporting functionality including easy download of COUNTER statistics and MARC records, Open URL compliance and Shibboleth supported access.

Bringing together a wide range of work on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences from scientific societies, libraries, academe, and the private sector, the new platform had to be capable of supporting multiple product types. The BioOne site hosts full-text HTML journal and book content fully integrated on the one site. This benefits the user by providing a consistent user experience and single sign on irrespective of the content they are seeking. BioOne benefits by being able to deliver book and journal content together, or separately, from a single platform, and being able to manage the site using a single administration tool from the desktop.

Informa Pharmaceutical Science, a division of Informa Business Information, is set to launch a new web platform for its 40 journals, providing readers with a high-tech one-stop-shop for drug discovery and development scientific news and research. The new Atypon-hosted platform, www.informapharmascience.com, provides access to all Informa Pharmaceutical Science content. This includes journals such as Current Medical Research and Opinion, the Critical Reviews and Expert Opinion series, Drug Metabolism Reviews, Xenobiotica and the Journal of Medical Economics. Amongst the many new features offered by the platform, end users have the option of table of contents alerts, online trials, single article purchase and subscription opportunities.

The new online content management and delivery system is being provided by Atypon Systems, Inc. The Atypon system enables Informa Pharmaceutical Science to integrate the online content of all 40 journals with a comprehensive archive service giving pharma and healthcare professionals one central source of information spanning the fields of pharmaceutical science and discovery.

The changeover will be made as easy and seamless as possible for subscribers, with most of the groundwork being done by Informa in the run up to and during a significant dual-hosting period which will run into April 2009. Clear guidelines of how to register and activate the subscription are being provided to all users.

Enterprise software vendor RSuite, US, has announced the launch of version 3.1 of its content management system (CMS), RSuite CMS. The latest release includes a new graphical user interface design, as well as changes in the underlying interface architecture, that are seen to improve all-round functionality and usability.

As well as enhancing the overall look and user experience, enhancements were also made to RSuite's forms functionality. These offer publishers an easy-to-use interface to insert metadata or quickly edit content at the element level of their liking.

RSuite is a browser-based CMS designed for publishers. It was named a 2007 finalist for the SIIA CODiE awards in the Best Content Management Solution category. The software was also a recipient of Information Today's People's Choice Award for Top Content Management as selected by colleagues and peers in the information industry. RSuite is powered by MarkLogic Server and provides native support for XML content storage services; full text search in combination with XQuery; a full suite of editorial capabilities for XML and other content formats; content re-use at many levels; and editorial workflow tools.

Healthcare knowledge management solutions provider Unbound Medicine, US, and health care publisher F.A. Davis Company have announced the release of the new Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary for Mobile and Web. Powered by the Unbound Platform, Taber's content is delivered from a single XML repository to students, educators, and practitioners in nursing, allied health, and medicine via the web and mobile devices.

From any location, end users will now be able to access the dictionary at tabers.com or download Taber's to any of the popular phone or handheld technologies available. This includes iPhoneT/iPod touch, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, or Palm.

Unbound's device-specific interfaces take full advantage of the navigational and graphic capabilities of each operating system to deliver the dictionary's unabridged contents - detailed definitions, full colour illustrations, audio pronunciations and extensive appendixes. By deriving individual applications from a single well-structured database, Unbound's technology offers the flexibility to provide an increasing number of digital solutions as new distribution channels proliferate.

Wireless handheld devices such as Blackberry, iPhone and PDA are being projected as an ideal platform for mobile learning and reference, particularly in medical education and practice. Earlier last month, the company announced that its platform now supports application download to Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices. Adding delivery of iPhone applications to existing support for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Palm OS devices is seen to further strengthen Unbound Medicine's position as a leading provider of point-of-care clinical information in the healthcare segment.

Web content management (WCM) platforms provider EPiServer, Sweden, has announced that B2B publisher Reed Business Information (RBI), UK, has selected its content management system (CMS). RBI will use EPiServer CMS to help redevelop and manage content for existing websites and deploy new ones, with an aim to deliver news and content faster and more efficiently to its customers.

RBI reportedly carried out a thorough examination of the CMS available from some of the world's leading vendors and chose EPiServer. The decision was based on the product's ability to cut overheads on RBI's many websites, as well as its speed of deployment and user-friendliness.

After the initial look and feel of an RBI site is established by internal developers on the EPiServer platform, new sites can be quickly created. Each individual site's owners will be responsible for updating and uploading new content as well as quickly configuring page layouts with the drag and drop functionality using X3. This in turn enables individual RBI product owners to have complete control of their online presence.

RBI also wanted a Microsoft .NET solution because of the considerable investment and expertise it already has in this technology. According to EPiServer, RBI joins thousands of organisations and companies of all sizes around the world who are saving time and money by using its CMS to manage their websites and intranets.

Healthcare knowledge management solutions provider Unbound Medicine, US, has announced that its platform now supports application download to Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices. Adding delivery of iPhone applications to existing support for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Palm OS devices is seen to further strengthen Unbound Medicine's position as a leading provider of point-of-care clinical information in the healthcare segment.

The first native iPhone application to become available on the Unbound Platform is Nursing Central, a nursing application that provides up-to-date information on diseases, tests, drugs and procedures. Designed to take full advantage of the iPhone's visual and navigational support, Nursing Central also provides cross-links connecting related information and personalised bookmarking of favourite topics. It is the first of many iPhone applications arriving soon from Unbound Medicine.

Unbound's interface leverages the iPhone's Internet capabilities by delivering frequent content updates, tables of contents from just-published journals, and citations and abstracts from more than 18 million medical journal articles.

Wireless handheld devices such as Blackberry, iPhone and PDA are becoming increasingly popular among the academic community. Handheld devices are being projected as an ideal platform for mobile learning and reference, particularly in medical education and practice. In November 2008, Unbound Medicine released new 'digitally born' products developed in partnership with Merck & Co., Inc. The new products extended the Merck Manual franchise with a new database focused on the assessment and treatment of patient symptoms. Using these products on the Unbound Platform, end users can access the integrated content using all major technologies of the day - iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm or the web.

Earlier in October 2008, business information provider Thomson Reuters released the latest version of its Charge Capture solution - Clinical Xpert Charge Capture 2.0. Clinical Xpert Charge Capture 2.0 allows physicians to record charges and procedures via their BlackBerry smartphones and Palm and Windows Mobile handheld devices, regardless of location.