WorldCat, an online database of resources available through libraries around the world, has announced that it has reached another major milestone with the addition of its 2 billionth holding.

On May 4, at 2:58 a.m. MDT, the holding symbol for the University of Alberta Libraries, in Edmonton, was set through an automated process to the WorldCat record for the e-book, Evaluation of the City of Lakes Family Health Team Patient Portal Pilot Project: Final Report, published in 2012 by the Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research. It was the 2 billionth holding set in WorldCat. The e-book catalogue record was created by the Canadian Electronic Book Library and was enhanced through OCLC's automated authority control processing system.

WorldCat is a database of bibliographic information created and continuously updated by some 25,000 OCLC member libraries around the world. Its records describe specific works and contain a listing of institutions that own an item, referred to as 'holdings'. Institutions use holdings information to create local catalogues, arrange interlibrary loans and conduct reference work.

WorldCat was created in 1971 so that libraries could share cataloguing information from a central database, increasing workflow efficiency and the ability to locate and loan materials. It took the OCLC cooperative almost 34 years, from August 26, 1971 to August 11, 2005, to add 1 billion holdings in WorldCat. It has taken just seven years and eight months to add the next billion holdings.

WorldCat spans six millennia of recorded knowledge, from about 4800 B.C. to the present. It encompasses records for books, serials, sound recordings, musical scores, maps, visual materials, mixed materials and computer files.

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of its EndNote Basic online offering, an enhanced solution with features and functionality for reference management users looking for a free alternative.

EndNote Basic includes storage for two gigabytes of attachments and 50,000 references, as well as the top 20+ most frequently used styles.

EndNote claims to be the industry's premier research resource with flexible tools for searching, organising and sharing work, creating bibliographies, and writing papers. It is used by more than three million people around the world, including more than 100,000 enterprises and academic institutions. The EndNote iPad App will soon be updated to reflect the new EndNote Basic functionality.

Thomson Reuters has made it easy for users to migrate files to EndNote in a few simple steps. More information is available at http://endnote.com/basic.

Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that it is offering archival copies to institutions from their digitisation projects. The aim is to help universities to build robust institutional repositories (IRs) by sharing digital copies of their graduate works which have been converted from paper or microfilm and archived in the ProQuest Dissertations and Thesis database (PQDT). The move is expected to enable universities to build their own searchable, historical archives even if their IR programmes are new.

The new programme is seen to deepen ProQuest's policy of sharing digital copies of dissertations with universities as they are submitted when authors allow broad dissemination. Any university that has participated in ProQuest's Digital Archiving and Access Programme (DAAP) is eligible to receive copies of their converted dissertations for loading into their IRs. Some nominal charges may apply. Additionally, the university must comply with any limits that the author has placed on posting and dissemination.

ProQuest has reportedly been showcasing innovative graduate works through multiple new programmes. In 2007, it launched PQDT Open, an online repository of open access graduate works. This expanded service seeks to provide authors with the widest possible distribution of the official published version of their dissertation or thesis. ProQuest's traditional publishing service is also included with rigorous quality assurance, assignment of an ISBN and permanent storage in the company's microfilm and digital vaults. Breadth of dissemination is determined by dissertation authors within the context of institutional policies and ProQuest is said to strictly adhere to author dissemination choices.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses claims to be the world's largest commercially available repository of graduate works. Researchers are said to rely on it as both a source of enlightening information and as a pivotal component in making their own scholarly production available to the world's intellectual communities. The archive is managed at ProQuest by a team of scholars and technologists, who combine their talents in an effort to make the archive accessible, reliable and supported by continually advancing technology.

Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, recently completed an engagement to help enhance book content discoverability for ASM Press, the book publishing division of the American Society for Microbiology.

The engagement involved the creation of two types of metadata for selected book publications. For monograph, reference, textbook and trade publications, ASM Press required a rich set of MARC record metadata for each book, based on MARC21 standards and AACR2/RDA rules. Scope employed its technology-enabled mARCat^TM suite of cataloguing services. The mARCat platform assists Scope's library information professionals in creating and updating MARC bibliographic metadata. In addition, Scope has in-house domain experts who validate subject classifications. For the ASM Press engagement, the mARCat-created tags/MARC fields were customised based on client requirements to improve the discoverability of the book via enhanced, data-rich tagging.

Scope also developed abstracts/summaries and keywords for each book chapter to support ASM Press' objective of making chapters more discoverable. Scope employed ConSCIse^TM, its unique abstraction solution for the engagement. ConSCIse generates keywords and abstracts, conforming to client specifications, using a combination of software algorithms based on natural language processing (NLP) rules, Scope's expertise in text mining, knowledge repositories and subject matter expert (SME) curation.

Christine Charlip, Director of ASM Press, commented, "Creating enhanced metadata and librarian-friendly MARC records will propel the discoverability and usage of our extensive microbiology ebook collections. Scope provided expert guidance and high-quality deliverables within a very tight timeframe."

Tram Venkatraman, President of Scope, added, "Scope is very pleased to have the opportunity to support a prestigious life science publisher like ASM Press. Our mARCat and ConSCIse solutions combine our proprietary technology with our experienced SMEs to surpass client's expectations in terms of quality and cost-effectiveness."

Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, has announced that it has now successfully delivered more than 2.7 million English abstracts for non-English language documents. Since 2002, Scope has offered Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) services to leading STM publishers worldwide. Leveraging this experience, Scope developed TranSCIse, a technology-enabled hybrid abstraction and indexing solution for enhancing the discoverability of non-English literature in search engines and A&I services.

Scope's TranSCIse uses automation and an iterative approach for optimal English translation of the original non-English language document. It employs linguistic rules, multi-lingual dictionaries, technical glossaries and natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to ensure contextual relevance of translated terms. The TranSCIse solution includes intervention by subject matter experts (SMEs) with relevant language skills to validate and enhance the quality of the translated content.

The functionality of Scope's content abstraction solution, ConSCIse, is integrated into TranSCIse for automatic initial summarisation of the translated text through keyword and sentence extraction and NLP-based scoring. In addition, Scope's capabilities to apply indices and/or controlled vocabularies are integrated into the solution.

Commenting on this milestone, Tram Venkatraman, President, Scope, said, "At Scope, we employ the proven, cost-effective assisted automation approach - a combination of machine translation and editorial enhancement for high-quality translation and abstracts to enhance the discoverability of content. Integrated with self-learning algorithms, the TranSCIse platform is constantly updated for fine-tuning of the automatic translation process."

M.A. Eswaran, Senior Vice President of Scope, cited, "In recent years, nearly 30% of the content processed for our clients were non-English source documents. Scope has developed TranSCIse to meet our clients' increasing requirements to integrate more non-English content into their products. Scope is capable of handling documents in German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish languages."

Scope will demonstrate TranSCIse as well as its other products at the upcoming London Book Fair. Visit us at Stand # T720 in Earls Court 2 hall - Publishing Solutions section to know more about Scope offerings.

Library information provider OCLC, US, has announced that the University of Nebraska Omaha is now live with OCLC WorldShare Management Services. The University of Nebraska Omaha is 100th institution worldwide to fully implement the new Web-based, cooperative library management and discovery services.

WorldShare Management Services provide a Web-based environment that streamlines cataloguing, acquisitions, license management and circulation workflows, and offers the WorldCat Local discovery service for library users. WorldShare Management Services (WMS) were released for general availability in the US in July 2011. Twenty months later, 100 libraries on three continents - Australia, Europe and North America - are already using the services and some 65 more are in the implementation process to begin using the services in the future.

Working together with WorldShare Management Services, libraries can share data, applications and workflow improvements with peer institutions, end users and partners. Since WorldShare Management Services are built on an open, collaborative platform, libraries can add the features and functions needed to support their unique communities. Libraries without development resources can take advantage of applications developed by others in the library community.

That spirit of cooperation in the WMS community was a key to the decision to move to WorldShare. The move to WorldShare Management Services has already generated cost and time savings for the Criss Library. According to Steve Shorb, Dean of the Criss Library at the University of Nebraska Omaha, the move has helped the library to acquire 300,000 e-book titles for the campus, and in the future they plan to reallocate library staff to create an institutional repository for the university.

Scope eKnowledge Center, a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, has announced enhancements to its mARCat^TM platform for MARC cataloging services. Scope's service includes Original Cataloging (creation of MARC records) and Copy Cataloging (validating/updating MARC records).

mARCat creates MARC records for variant input formats, such as XML, PDF, TIFF, MS-Word document, for publication types including journals, books, monographs, standards, magazine, maps, directories, audio and video recordings etc., in multiple languages with dynamic cataloging templates based on MARC standards. The platform assists Scope's library information professionals in creating and updating the MARC bibliographic metadata. In addition, Scope has in-house domain experts who validate subject classifications.

"Scope understands the importance of both scale and quality/consistency as the demand for more robust, customized MARC records increases," said Tram Venkataraman, President of Scope. "Scope has invested in mARCat to position itself to support publishers and other information providers in meeting this demand cost effectively."

Joseph Ranjan, Associate Vice President of Scope's Data Services and Business Research division, commented, "As the availability and demand for e-content have exploded, libraries expect publishers to provide MARC records for their titles. Further, it is clear that customized, more enriched, and more granular MARC records are in demand to support discoverability. Scope, via its mARCat platform, can support this requirement."

Scope has over 25 years of experience in handling different kinds of content and information processing assignments in multiple domains, including engineering, physical sciences, technology, medicine, life sciences, business and humanities. Each of Scope's clients benefit from its more than two decades of experience and expertise in the information and research space, offering content development, repurposing, and enhancement services to the global information industry.

Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, has announced that publisher John Wiley & Sons will partner with Scope to significantly enhance the chapter-level metadata for its frontlist books. ConSCIse^TM, Scope's unique content abstraction solution, will be utilised to create abstracts and keywords for Wiley's Science, Technology, Medicine and Scholarly books.

Scope's ConSCIse offers publishers and other information providers a unique opportunity to enhance discoverability of content by providing keywords and keyword-rich abstracts/summaries via a semi-automated platform. ConSCIse cost effectively generates abstracts and keywords from professional and scholarly literature, including books, book chapters, journal articles, patents, conference proceedings and clinical summaries.

ConSCIse judiciously combines proprietary software in the form of Natural Language Processing ("NLP") rules and subject matter expert ("SME") curation. This proprietary technology has been developed based on Scope's extensive experience and understanding of the common traits of effective abstracts for unstructured documents.

Antonia Seymour, VP and Director STMS Books commented, "Our business objective is to enhance the discoverability of our book chapter content in Wiley Online Library. We need high quality keywords and abstracts for each chapter, but without any delay in the existing online publication schedule. After working with Scope in testing both the production workflow and ConSCIse, Wiley has now implemented Scope's solution to supplement those abstracts and keywords created by our authors."

"We appreciate the opportunity to partner with Wiley and deploy ConSCIse to support its keyword and abstract requirements", said M. A. Eswaran, Scope's Senior Vice-President. "Scope was happy to work with Wiley to create the abstract and keyword specifications, generate sample abstracts across a wide range of disciplines to ensure quality expectations could be met with no disruption to existing workflows."

The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of the first EndNote software application (app) for the iPad. This new app utilises sync capabilities, enabling EndNoteX6 users to easily view, edit, organise and share their research materials from their iPad.

The EndNoteSync capability within the new app offers seamless access to users' EndNote libraries from multiple computers and devices, now including their iPad. It provides the ability to update, manage and synchronize references in EndNote desktop and EndNote Web with just one click. Users will also be able to easily transfer their data and references, as well as attach PDF files from their existing EndNote libraries to the app, thus allowing them to manage and share their references with greater mobility.

The new EndNote iPad app also includes a built-in Web browser and direct export capabilities, which enable users to search online databases and import references into their EndNote library. The app further allows functionality for reading and annotating full-text PDF files.

EndNote keeps its users in step with the constantly evolving world of scholarly research and publishing by providing the ability to search, organise and share reference materials, as well as automatically format bibliographies, cutting down on the time spent collecting research and writing manuscripts, patent applications and grant proposals. It is integrated with other industry-leading sources from Thomson Reuters, including the Web of Knowledge, ScholarOne Manuscripts peer-review systems and company research management and profiling tools.

The EndNote App is available in all international Apple App Stores.

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing, a non-profit scientific publisher, have jointly announced the creation of a new astronomy thesaurus called the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) for the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The UAT is expected to help improve future information discovery for researchers.

The AAS will make the UAT freely available for development and use within the astronomy community, while ensuring the thesaurus remains relevant and useful. Further development of the UAT will be undertaken by the John G. Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in collaboration with the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA). The aim is to enhance and extend the thesaurus to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the astronomy community.

Adoption of the thesaurus within the ADS will reportedly result in better linking with the majority of astronomy research journal articles through a common vocabulary, thereby greatly improving the accuracy of information discovery.

The creation of the UAT is a result of the combination of two separate initiatives to develop thesauri as part of semantic enrichment projects by AIP and IOP. It is expected that the donation of this tool to the AAS will help expose relationships within content across multiple publishers and service providers for the benefit of the community as a whole.

The thesaurus will be used in semantic technologies to enable researchers to execute faster, more accurate information searches and ultimately improve the discoverability of research. With many thousands of resources being published each year in the field of astronomy, these kinds of tools are seen to be vital to ensure that researchers continue to be able to find relevant information quickly and ultimately improve the discoverability of research. This applies as much to data, web services and other resources, as it does to the bibliographic resources to which thesauri have traditionally been applied.

The work to combine the thesauri has been carried out by Access Innovations Inc, a privately held company that specialises in information management and database creation products and services.

Library information provider OCLC, US, has signed new agreements with leading publishers around the world to add more e-book metadata to WorldCat, a comprehensive online database of resources available through libraries worldwide. This new WorldCat metadata will be integrated into library management workflows using OCLC's cataloguing services and discoverable by users through a variety of library discovery services, including WorldCat Local and WorldCat.org.

The e-book providers with whom OCLC recently signed agreements to add new collections to WorldCat are: Cambridge University Press, Chandos Publishing, Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., eLibros, McGill-Queens University Press, Momentum Press, Slipdown Mountain Publications, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Woodhead Publishing Limited, and World Scientific Publishing Co.

OCLC continues to add new journal, book, database and open access collections to WorldCat. WorldCat offers access to the collective resources of libraries worldwide, including print and electronic forms of books, journals and databases from a variety of publishers and other content providers from around the world; the digital collections of groups like HathiTrust and Google Books; and open access materials, such as the OAIster collection.

Library information provider OCLC, US, has announced that it has expanded its strategic partnership with Goodreads, the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, to help provide greater visibility for all libraries.

The new agreement pledges to improve Goodreads members' experience of finding fresh, new things to read through libraries. It will also provide libraries with a way to reach this key group of dedicated readers through social media. As a WorldCat.org traffic partner since 2007, Goodreads has sent more than 5 million Web referrals to WorldCat.org.

A webinar for librarians and library staff members is planned for November 15, 2012 at 2:00 pm ET. Speakers from both Goodreads and OCLC will provide details of the partnership, including the new functionality available on Goodreads. A Goodreads staff member will walk libraries through how to join this global social book site and how to take advantage of hosting discussions, multiple recommendation threads, photos, videos and even reading contests and surveys on the Goodreads group pages. The Webinar is free, but library staff members are encouraged to register.

Library information provider OCLC, US, and the National Library of Poland (Biblioteka Narodowa) have signed an agreement to add 1.3 million Polish library records to WorldCat. WorldCat claims to be the world's largest resource for discovery of library materials and increasing the visibility of these collections for researchers around the world.

The National Library of Poland acts as the central library of the state and one of the most important cultural institutions in Poland. It seeks to protect national heritage preserved in the form of handwritten, printed, electronic, recorded sound and audiovisual documents. The primary task of the National Library is to acquire, store and permanently archive the intellectual output of Poles.

Once the records from the National Library of Poland have been added to WorldCat, they are discoverable on the Web through popular search and partner sites, and through Worldcat.org.

WorldCat is a database of bibliographic information built continuously by OCLC and libraries around the world since 1971. Each record in the WorldCat database contains a bibliographic description of a single item or work and a list of institutions that hold the item. The institutions share these records, using them to create local catalogues, arrange interlibrary loans and conduct reference work. Libraries contribute records for items not found in WorldCat using the OCLC shared cataloging system.

There are currently about 1.4 million Polish records already in WorldCat. It is expected that this new agreement with the National Library of Poland will nearly double the number of Polish records in the database.

Rich Kobel, Assistant Vice President of Business Development at Scope e-Knowledge Center, a leading content enhancement and knowledge services provider, presented at the Hot Spot Professional & Scientific Information (Hall 4.2) at the recently concluded Frankfurt Book Fair.

Implementation of a thoughtful smart content strategy is seen to be critical for content providers today. During his presentation, Kobel argued that academic books have not enjoyed much visibility online, indicating that books are largely still packaged as a whole with little or no visibility for chapter level content. This lack of discoverability results in poor citations, lack of recognition and frustrated authors.

He further noted that with rich linking, through citations, keywords, detailed abstracts and robust metadata, online journals have handled the discoverability issue well. Kobel suggested that academic and STM publishers should, in fact, copy the "article economy" that has led to the profound success of the journal space online. He pointed to the creation of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for individual chapters as a relatively straightforward way for publishers to increase book discoverability. Further, effective metadata at the chapter level, including abstracts and keywords, is critical to discoverability, he said.

The presentation is available online at the Scope website at http://www.scopeknowledge.com/Downloads.aspx?id=2.

Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI has announced that its specialist bibliographic, abstracting and indexing database, Global Health, now has over 2 million records. Derived from over 6,000 journals, reports, books and conferences, the open serials policy and coverage of international and grey literature mean that over 50 percent of the serials in Global Health are unique to the database. Proceedings, theses, electronic only publications and other difficult-to-obtain sources are all included dating from 1973 to the present. The Global Health database also hosts nearly 30,000 full text papers from difficult to find journals, reports and conferences.

Over 160,000 records are selected and added to the database every year, with over 95 percent including an abstract. Publications come from over 100 countries in 50 languages and an English abstract is created for all relevant non-English-language papers to provide access to research not available through any other database. The unique blend of content available on Global Health has quickly made it an essential resource for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in public health, international health and related areas working nationally and internationally.

As a companion to the Global Health database CABI has also created the popular Global Health Archive, available as a one-off purchase. The archive includes almost 800,000 records dating from 1910 to 1972.

Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, has launched its author data management solution, AuthEntikâ„¢. The new solution seeks to address the author name ambiguity issue for publishers, university/academic institutions, grant funding agencies and publisher consortia.

AuthEntik is a platform-enabled solution that blends author data parsing and extraction technology with the domain knowledge of Subject Matter Experts (SME), to create accurate, normalised, complete databases of author information from published documents. AuthEntik includes automatic author data validation modules to standardise data elements such as city, state and country, using integrated lookup tools; self-learning algorithms using built-in thesauri to implement automatic as well as manual author name standardisation. The hallmark of AuthEntik is its disambiguation module, which differentiates unique authors using available data and assigns a unique author identification code.

According to Tram Venkatraman, President of Scope, AuthEntik has been built on significant experience executing large-scale author data services projects for a number of major players in the global STM information industry. During the last three years, Scope has created 30 million author database records from journal articles, conference proceedings and other documents.

Using AuthEntik, Scope has tackled the key challenges in author data clean-up and enhancement, including dealing with unstructured data input, a variety of naming conventions, especially those of first name and surname of different countries, and other data variants. To enhance the solution, Scope has incorporated knowledge repositories for standardising author affiliation data elements including universities, other affiliated organisations, cities, states, provinces and country names.

M. A. Eswaran, Scope's Senior Vice-President, noted that AuthEntik has the capability to rapidly process voluminous author records and can ensure a high level of accuracy through multiple layers of quality control at each stage of the author database development process. Scope can also provide expert analysis of the results of any disambiguated output generated through automatic algorithms.

Scope eKnowledge Center, a Quatrro Group company, is an award-winning provider of outsourced, cost-effective content enhancement and knowledge services to the global information industry. Scope uses a combination of deep subject matter expertise in a number of business and STM domains, innovative technology, and proprietary intellectual property to provide world-class services to publishers and information providers worldwide. In operation for over 24 years, Scope has built a clientele loyal to its abstraction, indexing, semantic enrichment, database/directory development and content authoring solutions.

Scope is also the publisher of the daily newsletter Knowledgespeak, a comprehensive news service focusing on the STM information industry.

Library information provider OCLC, US, has added the records of a group of more than 100 public libraries in the province of Trento, Italy, to WorldCat. This addition significantly increases the number of Italian language records in what is claimed to be the world's largest database of items held in libraries.

The 136 public libraries and branches in the province of Trento together use the Catalogo Bibliografico Trentino (CBT), their regional union catalogue. The CBT holds 1.6 million records, about 1 million of which are Italian-language records, representing 3.6 million holdings. CBT has contributed 1.2 million unique records to WorldCat, and will continue to add records as the catalogue is updated regularly.

It was the libraries' desire to increase visibility of their collections on the Internet, for those who start their search for information often begin through websites like Yahoo! and Google. OCLC partnerships with those and other search providers make it possible for search results to include library materials from WorldCat, one of the world's largest bibliographic databases. From those results, online searchers can find what they need online or at a library close to them.

Contributing records to WorldCat also means that the libraries become members of the OCLC cooperative. As members, they can participate in OCLC's governance and have access to valuable OCLC research, which can help them plan for the future. Also, with their records in WorldCat, libraries can easily utilise other OCLC services in the future, from integrated discovery with WorldCat Local to cloud services via the OCLC WorldShare Platform.

The National Library of China (NLC) has gained access to the Cambridge Journals Digital Archive (CJDA) Complete Collection. The complete CJDA comprises 207 journals published from 1770 to 2010 and will provide substantial support to research institutes and universities throughout China.

The broad subject areas within the archive were an important factor for the NLC, as the collection contains wide ranging research within the humanities, social sciences, mathematics and physics subject areas. The quality of the research available within the collection was also a significant factor in the decision, as the archives continue to have high academic value.

For scientific and technical journals such as the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, the Journal of Materials Research, and the Journal of Agricultural Science, many articles of historical importance are still cited by academics, professors and deans at top universities in China. Many leading librarians and scholars supported the acquisition, with specific recommendations being submitted to the NLC from over a dozen chief librarians and deans.

Cambridge University Press and the National Library of China are now due to hold joint seminars on using the archive for regional libraries and universities in several major provincial capitals in China.

OCLC, a US-based non-profit, membership, computer library service and research organisation, has published bibliographic linked data for the most widely held works in WorldCat. This downloadable file - representing nearly 1.2 million resources - contains about 80 million linked data 'triples,' the term for the most granular relationship possible between discrete pieces of information.

The linked data is provided as RDF serialisation, and uses the Schema.org ontology as well as library extensions to Schema.org that OCLC has been working on with members and partners over the last year. It is being made available, under an ODC-BY data license, in a single, 1-gigabyte, compressed (GZip) file, which can be downloaded from here.

While WorldCat contains bibliographic records for more than 275 million items, the choice was made to select the most widely held materials for this release in order to help keep the file at a manageable size.

In June 2012, OCLC added Schema.org tags to WorldCat.org records, improving the way in which library information is represented to search engines. OCLC has also developed linked data resources for the Dewey Decimal Classification System, FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) and the VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) service. The release of these 1.2 million records as linked data is the next step in OCLC's linked data strategy.

American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications, US, and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the information divisions of the ACS, has jointly announced the introduction of Reference QuickView. Reference QuickView is a new feature powered by CAS' SciFinder that enables readers of web content to view directly the text of abstracts linked to bibliographic citations within an ACS Publications journal article or book chapter.

Reference QuickView enables readers viewing the full-text HTML version of an ACS article to scan abstracts from the broader literature, across millions of citations drawn from a broad array of scientific disciplines covered by CAS. Navigational features facilitate quick review of an article's references and corresponding abstracts. Links to the Reference QuickView display are placed conveniently in-line within footnotes found in the article text.

Abstract content is drawn from across the chemical literature from publications before 1907 to the present, as indexed by scientists at CAS. Reference QuickView is available for research articles and book chapters published since 2010, across the ACS portfolio of 41 peer-reviewed scholarly journals and ACS Symposium Series books.

Researchers using Reference QuickView can dig deeper into the research literature by selecting 'View Full Text Options' to access the full text of the cited reference, or they can choose 'More from SciFinder' for a pathway to the corresponding CAS Reference Detail page, where they can discover more about substances, reactions, related structures, patents and other specifics.

Reference QuickView is just one of the many powerful, collaborative features that have been co-developed by ACS Publications and CAS. Other examples in recent years have included article-level substance, reaction and patent links to SciFinder from ACS articles, CA Section subject tagging for ACS articles, and the appearance of ACS Journal TOC graphics and reaction narratives within SciFinder.

Knowledge services company Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope) has announced that ASTM International, one of the largest voluntary standards developers worldwide, has engaged the company to provide enhanced smart content services and MARC cataloguing for its highly valued content. Previously, Scope had developed a domain-specific, multi-level taxonomy for the vast array of content within ASTM's Standards and Engineering Digital Library (SEDL).

Scope also developed facets with a taxonomic structure to enable robust cross domain search, as well as created an expanded list of keywords to be mapped to the taxonomy and facets. ASTM has expanded its partnership with Scope to broaden these 'smart content' services to include a Portuguese language version of the taxonomy, facets and keywords to enhance the discoverability of its content by its Brazilian end users. Additionally, Scope will catalogue standards, e-books and journal issues published by ASTM based on MARC21 standards.

Scope eKnowledge Center, a leading content enhancement and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) provider to publishers and specialised information providers, will employ its proven 'assisted automation' approach that blends its proprietary automation technology with intervention from subject domain and translation experts to create this solution for ASTM International.

According to Scope's President Tram Venkatraman, this opportunity reflects a significant expansion of Scope's 'smart content' services to enable its client's to enhance discoverability of content via non-English language metadata for a number of Asian and European languages.

Scope and ASTM International have also signed a deal for providing MARC cataloguing services, which involve cataloguing of selected technical papers (STPs), e-books and journal issues published by ASTM based on MARC21 standards.

OCLC, a US-based nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organisation, is recommending the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-BY) for member institutions that would like to release their library catalogue data on the Web.

This open data license provides the means for users to share WorldCat-derived data in a manner that is consistent with the cooperative's community norms defined in the 'WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities.' Data can be freely shared subject only to attribution and OCLC's request that those making use of WorldCat derived data conform to the community norms.

The recommendation follows passage of a resolution by OCLC Global Council in April 2012 that endorsed the ODC-BY, and recommended that OCLC staff consult with opinion leaders and stakeholders for further input. After researching and experimenting with different data licenses on OCLC and WorldCat data projects, and in close consultation with the library and developer communities, the recommendation was adopted by the OCLC Board of Trustees.

Best practices in the Web environment include making data available along with a license that clearly sets out the terms under which the data is being made available. Without such a license, users can never be sure of their rights to use the data, which can impede innovation. The VIAF project and the recent addition of Schema.org linked data to WorldCat.org records were both made available under the ODC-BY license.

The ODC-BY license will also be used by OCLC as additional sets of WorldCat data are released, including future linked data projects. Going forward, OCLC will modify related processes and policies in order to make the cooperative's data sharing efforts more consistent with this recommendation.

The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a substantial enhancement to Thomson Reuters EndNote, the reference management solution used by millions of researchers and students worldwide. EndNote X6 keeps its users in step with the constantly evolving world of scholarly research and publishing by providing the ability to search, organise and share reference materials, as well as automatically format bibliographies, cutting down on the time spent collecting research and writing manuscripts, patent applications and grant proposals.

EndNote X6 gives researchers the ability to enhance the efficiency of their authorship activities by providing sync capabilities between EndNote and EndNote Web. This allows users to access research from any computer and offers secure storage for reference and PDF libraries. The new functionality - in addition to EndNote's capabilities to automatically download full text PDFs and update references - enables users to be more productive and manage their research libraries more effectively.

With this release, EndNote X6 users can update and synchronize references in EndNote desktop and EndNote Web with one click. Users will also have the ability to maintain and synchronize references in their EndNote library across multiple computers. This is a significant improvement to EndNote, as users increasingly access numerous platforms to gather data and information. The upgrade also includes increased storage in EndNote Web.

Through EndNote X6, researchers can now edit footnote citations, move or copy the contents of one field to another with text formatting, and use more layout options, including an improved PDF Viewer for annotating files.

In addition to allowing for tagging solutions to indicate which references have or have not been reviewed, EndNote X6 allows users to set personal rating preferences. Users can then refine their library searches with these ratings.

The latest version of EndNote also enables users to set sophisticated customisation preferences, more effectively manage medical journal names, and use the PubMed direct export feature to import records more quickly.

EndNoteX6 is currently available in Windows. The Mac version of EndNoteX6 is expected to release later this year.

Knowledge services company Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope) has announced the launch of Version 1.3 of its unique ConSCIse solution for generating abstracts and keywords for scholarly literature such as books, book chapters, journal articles, patents, conference proceedings, clinical summaries and other documents.

ConSCIse automatically extracts keywords from the document based on sophisticated and appropriate statistical and linguistic rules. Based on the extracted keywords, it then extracts sentences from the document to form the abstract. This proprietary technology has been developed based on an analysis of the common traits of effective abstracts of unstructured documents from Scope's extensive experience.

Version 1.3 significantly enhances automation of keyword identification and sentence extraction from text-rich documents. Additionally, this version of the ConSCise solution has been further configured to effectively process social sciences and humanities content.

According to Scope's President, Tram Venkatraman, Scope's subject matter experts (SMEs) have done extensive pre-testing of the solution in concert with a major scholarly publisher of books in a wide variety of social science and humanities domains. Proprietary algorithms have been refined accordingly, and ConSCIse is now able to generate high-quality abstracts and keywords for social science and humanities content as well.

Scope's SVP M. A. Eswaran further added that ConSCIse extracts important sentences from the input document and generates keyword-rich, SEO-friendly summaries automatically. Version 1.3 requires minimal subject matter expert review to ensure coherence, language consistency and readability.

A Quatrro Group company Scope eKnowledge Center is an award-winning provider of outsourced, cost-effective content enhancement and knowledge services to the global information industry. The company uses a combination of deep subject matter expertise in a number of business and STM domains, innovative technology and proprietary intellectual property to provide world-class services. In operation for over 24 years, Scope has built a clientele loyal to its abstraction, indexing, semantic enrichment, database/directory development and content authoring solutions.

Scope is also the publisher of the daily newsletter Knowledgespeak, a comprehensive news service focusing on the STM information industry.

E-Libro, a provider of Spanish language e-books delivered on the ebrary platform, has announced that all its e-books will soon be discoverable through OCLC's WorldCat, which is projected as the world's largest library catalogue. WorldCat is a database of bibliographic information built continuously for over 40 years by OCLC and member libraries around the world.

E-Libro has also signed its 150th publisher, Editorial Grupo Destiempos, which joins a number of other Spanish language publishers. The publishers are stated to enhance e-Libro Premium, the company's flagship subscription database, in subject areas such as social science, art and human rights.

E-Libro continues to add more than 900 e-books to its growing subscription database each month. Its Premium service now contains over 48,000 titles, which can be previewed at site.ebrary.com/lib/elibro.

Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that it is taking the first step toward adding linked data to WorldCat by appending Schema.org descriptive mark-up to WorldCat.org pages. WorldCat.org now offers the largest set of linked bibliographic data on the Web. With the addition of Schema.org mark-up to all book, journal and other bibliographic resources in WorldCat.org, the entire publicly available version of WorldCat is now available for use by intelligent Web crawlers, like Google and Bing, that can make use of this metadata in search indexes and other applications.

Commercial developers that rely on Web-based services have been exploring ways to exploit the potential of linked data. The Schema.org initiative - launched in 2011 by Google, Bing and Yahoo! and later joined by Yandex - provides a core vocabulary for markup that helps search engines and other Web crawlers more directly make use of the underlying data that powers many online services.

OCLC is working with the Schema.org community to develop and add a set of vocabulary extensions to WorldCat data. Schema.org and library specific extensions will provide a valuable two-way bridge between the library community and the consumer Web. Schema.org is working with a number of other industries to provide similar sets of extensions for other specific use cases.

The opportunities that linked data provide to the global library community are in line with OCLC's core strategy of collaboratively building Webscale with libraries. Adding linked data to WorldCat records makes those records more useful - especially to search engines, developers and services on the wider Web, beyond the library community. This will make it easier for search engines to connect non-library organisations to library data.

WorldCat has been built by thousands of member libraries over the last four decades and claims to be the world's largest online registry of library collections. OCLC will continue to engage the library community and the larger developer communities to research, discuss and inform the progression of linked data projects on behalf of member libraries.

OCLC sees Schema.org as a timely and significant development toward linked data technology adoption that will provide recognisable benefits for libraries. Further demonstrating its role in providing linked library data, OCLC recently announced that the full set of DDC 23 - more than 23,000 assignable numbers and captions in English - is now available as linked data.

Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and reference databases provider Credo Reference, US, have announced a special collaboration project aimed to increase collection visibility and usage with library users. Credo Topic Pages will now be enhanced with WorldCat results to show local library materials alongside other timely, relevant Web materials.

With this new project, libraries that are both OCLC members and Credo customers will receive Credo Topic Pages at no charge for an introductory period. These libraries - along with current Topic Pages subscribers - will show WorldCat results from libraries worldwide that relate to the topic being searched. Libraries can have their results customised to show only local library holdings in WorldCat, as well as other customisations such as branding and deep links back to their catalogue through this special project.

A campaign announcing this new partnership will feature the tag line, 'We added more data-yours.' It runs through June 30, 2012.

To participate in the programme, libraries that qualify for the WorldCat Search API Key can request it and agree to share it with Credo Reference. Credo Reference will then make the customisations on behalf of participating libraries. All participating libraries will receive usage statistics on their customised Credo Topic Pages at the end of the introductory period.

Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI has announced that more than 9 million records on CAB Direct have been re-indexed to bring them into line with the controlled vocabulary of the updated 2011 CAB Thesaurus. This has standardised indexing and searching across all database records from 1910 to the present day, enabling the retrieval of all records for an organism or concept using the current up-to-date name, despite the fact that over time it may have been indexed using older names or terminology.

CABI also added more than 415,000 new Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to older database records, which allows a direct click through to the original publisher record and often to the full text article.

According to Janet Halsall, Head of Publishing Operations, CABI, this re-indexing has improved the database products by adding extra searchability and more links out to newly digitised source material. This includes DOIs for journal articles indexed by CABI back through time to 1910. Customers can now click through to the original journal article which has since been digitised by the publisher.

Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and the CIPE consortium, which comprises 11 university libraries in northern and central Italy, have signed an agreement to load CIPE library records into WorldCat. With this initiative, the consortium seeks to increase visibility of these Italian collections, and enrich the world's largest resource for discovery of library materials.

The CIPE consortium (Consorzio Interistituzionale per Progetti Elettronici - Interistitutional Consortium for Electronic Projects) was founded in 2007 with the objective to promote national and international cooperation, research, standardisation, training and development of services for the consortium members aimed at library innovation and efficiencies of scale. Participating in CIPE are the Universities of Bologna, Florence, Genoa, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Padua, Parma, Pisa, Sassari, Siena, Venice and the Polytechnic University of the Marche. Some items in these collections date back to the 15th century.

The agreement to load the records of these public Italian universities will make them discoverable through WorldCat.org on the Web.

The records of the CIPE universities are in UNIMARC format and will first be converted by OCLC before batchloading is done for each university. Once the records are added to WorldCat, the consortium can take advantage of other OCLC services made available through WorldCat.

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Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has joined the thousands of research institutions worldwide that contribute to the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database (PQDT), a commercially available repository of graduate works.

Through PQDT, a worldwide network of scholars can expect to discover BGU's doctoral dissertations, elevating the University's profile as a pre-eminent research institution. In addition, the BGU contributions will reportedly enrich the diversity of content available to researchers through the database, which supports more than 200 million searches per year.

Established in 1969 to bring development to the Negev desert, BGU is now a major centre for teaching and research and includes the Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies, as well as major research institutes such as the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research with its Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies, and the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism.

To house its burgeoning research production, BGU built one of the first Israeli repositories for dissertations. Beginning in 2012, it will submit these works to PQDT. ProQuest expects to add hundreds of works from BGU to PQDT each year.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses is projected as the seminal repository of intellectual property and emerging research from the world's great universities. Chosen by the US Library of Congress as the official archive of American dissertations, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses now encompasses more than one quarter of a billion pages, creating a continually growing trove of emerging research and landmark works. Researchers are said to rely on PQDT as both a source of enlightening information and as a pivotal component in making their own scholarly production available to the world's intellectual communities.

Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and Bibliotheek.nl, the organisation of Dutch public libraries, have signed an agreement to include the complete collections of public libraries in the GGC, the Dutch shared cataloguing system. The agreement to include collections of Dutch public libraries, signed during the OCLC EMEA Regional Council Meeting in Birmingham, UK, will serve as a foundation for the new Dutch National Library Catalogue, and will make these collections visible through WorldCat.org.

Prior to this agreement, collections from the Dutch National Library, university and college libraries, some special libraries and the 14 largest public libraries were present in the GGC. Many public library collections could not be easily found online. Bibliotheek.nl plans to load records from all public libraries and make them discoverable through WorldCat.org, along with the new Dutch National Library Catalogue (NBC).

Through WorldCat.org, information seekers can find materials freely on the Web from over 10,000 WorldCat libraries worldwide. OCLC has existing agreements with sites like Google and Yahoo!, making it possible for library materials in WorldCat.org to be discovered by people who use these search engines to start their searches. WorldCat.org also offers its users a variety of social networking features.

This agreement includes participation of all Dutch public libraries in the GGC. OCLC discovery and resource sharing services are included in the agreement. Before the end of the year, all public libraries will be in the NBC. Bibliotheek.nl and OCLC are working together to load the bibliographic and holdings data of the libraries in the GGC.

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Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has added 500,000 records to WorldCat from the China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), a nationwide academic library consortium with a mission to promote, maintain and improve resource sharing among Chinese university libraries and other libraries and institutions. These records represent Chinese publications between 1987 and 2001.

The records have been added to WorldCat to help promote the use of the CALIS collection and use of OCLC resource sharing services in libraries in China, and to maximise each organisation's strengths in enhancing cooperative building and sharing of information resources on a global scale.

The project to load these records into WorldCat completes phase one of a cooperative agreement between CALIS and OCLC. After a year, CALIS and OCLC will evaluate the project, based on cost to both organisations, global impact on scholarship and society, effectiveness of resource sharing and document delivery, and overall impact in libraries.

On October 25, 2011, Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, and Professor Wu Zhipan, Executive Vice President, Peking University, signed a memorandum of cooperation at Peking University, Beijing, China.

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Global library cooperative OCLC, US, is working with SkillSoft, a SaaS provider of e-learning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government and education, to add records for the Books24x7 digital book catalogue to WorldCat. WorldCat claims to be one of the world’s most comprehensive databases for discovery of library resources.

SkillSoft's growing selection of over 30,000 titles in a variety of subject areas will be represented in WorldCat with a link to the Books24x7 platform.

In addition, OCLC is loading the Books24x7 collection information into the WorldCat knowledge base, enabling OCLC cataloguing libraries to easily set holdings in WorldCat for the titles to which they subscribe. WorldCat Local authenticated users will then be able to link directly to Books24x7 titles subscribed to and made available by their library from the corresponding WorldCat records.

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Content enhancement and knowledge services provider Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), India, has achieved another milestone for ConSCIse, its unique content abstraction solution. ConSCIse is a platform-enabled solution, which blends technology with the domain knowledge of Subject Matter Experts (SME), to create abstracts or summaries of journal articles, book chapters, patents, standards and other technical documents.

This month, the number of abstracts delivered by Scope to its clients will reach the three million mark, since Scope initiated its abstraction solution in 2004. ConSCIse ensures abstract quality on multiple parameters of user requirements, including discoverability, depth and accuracy of domain-specific content, structure of the abstract, coherence and reading ease.

A Quatrro Group company, Scope eKnowledge Center is an award winning provider of outsourced, cost-effective content enhancement and knowledge services to the global information industry. The company uses a combination of deep subject matter expertise in a number of business and STM domains, innovative technology and proprietary intellectual property to provide world class services. In operation for over 24 years, Scope has built a clientele loyal to its abstracting, indexing, semantic enrichment, database/directory development and content authoring solutions.

Scope is also the publisher of the daily Knowledgespeak newsletter, the authoritative news service focusing on the STM information industry.

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Serials Solutions, a business unit of the US-based ProQuest LLC, has announced that its Ulrichsweb service has been named runner-up in the 'Greatest Usability Revamp' category in Library Journal's Best Databases 2011 list. Two years of research and development, along with the contributions of library partners helped the company produce a service that is valued and utilised by the library community.

In 2010, Ulrich's decided that the first iteration of its online presence was no longer working well enough to support the growth in the number of subscribers and the new ways in which the data was being used. Two years of research as well as input from librarians resulted in the material being indexed in new ways and the addition of more tools with which to explore it. New languages were added so that speakers of 14 languages including Spanish, French, Chinese, and even Turkish can comfortably use the platform. According to the company, the interface is now much cleaner; its single search box and advanced search options are particularly intuitive to use. Icons in the results list show which serials are refereed, available on the web, offer reviews, etc.

Ulrichsweb is an integrated, continuously updated service that enables librarians and patrons to discover, explore, annotate and reuse information about periodicals and the companies that publish and provide them.

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Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has added more than 1.2 million brief bibliographic records to WorldCat.org for materials held by Arab libraries, records that represent the complete catalogue of the Arabic Union Catalog (AUC) maintained in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Each record from the AUC in WorldCat.org contains brief bibliographic information for items held by AUC members with a link to the full record and holdings information in the Arabic Union Catalog.

WorldCat claims to be the world's most comprehensive database of resources in libraries. It currently includes 1.4 million records coded for Arabic language (ara) and more than 710,000 records containing true Arabic script. OCLC member libraries contribute to WorldCat to further access to the world's information through library cooperation.

The Arabic Union Catalog, launched in November 2006, is an initiative of the King Abdulaziz Public Library. The AUC is a non-profit, library services organisation dedicated to providing a cooperative space particularly for those libraries worldwide that collect, manage and disseminate materials written in the Arabic language.

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Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced the availability of a new business & economics subscription collection delivered on the ebrary platform. With this move, the company seeks to offer libraries a new avenue for providing patrons with full-text access to scholarly dissertations and theses in a key discipline.

With a growing selection of over 2,400 titles in areas such as business administration, emerging markets, economics, public finance, sovereign debt, and marketing, the new Business Dissertations and Theses Collection enables scholars to mine emerging research from world-renowned business schools for new ideas and comparative study.

Acquired by ProQuest in January 2011, ebrary brings new functionality to ProQuest's robust collection of peer-reviewed dissertations and theses including the ability to highlight, take notes, share bookshelves, and use InfoTools for contextual linking to other online resources.

ProQuest's new Business Dissertations and Theses Collection can be enhanced with thousands of relevant e-books from ebrary, available under multiple models including subscription, perpetual archive, patron driven acquisition, and short-term loan. The new package will also soon be integrated with the new ProQuest Platform alongside other ebrary products such as Academic Complete, providing a comprehensive way to discover and utilise important information from authoritative sources.

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The American Society for Indexing (ASI) recently formed the ASI Digital Trends Task Force (DTTF) to keep members up to date on advances in indexing technology. ASI is a nonprofit, professional membership organisation promoting excellence in the indexing of books, journals and other information sources in print and electronic media.

The purpose of the task force is to gather information about changes in digital publishing practices as they affect indexes; interface with leading digital publishing companies, suppliers, standards organisations and industry partners; find solutions for ensuring the inclusion of usable indexes in nonfiction eBooks and other digital formats; and inform the Society and members about trends so that the profession can develop the skills required by production changes in digital publishing.

The DTTF is active in the IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) ePub 3.0 working group. In 2012 Jan Wright, DTTF co-chair, will be speaking at the O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing and the WritersUA conferences. DTTF team members will be attending the upcoming Digital Book World, Book Expo America, Society for Technical Communication conferences, the annual meeting of the IDPF, as well as related regional meetings. The DTTF also maintains an active LinkedIn working group for indexers and other publishing professionals committed to finding solutions to index functionality in eBooks.

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Library automation solutions provider SirsiDynix, US, has announced the selection of its SirsiDynix Symphony integrated library system as the platform for the new Kōtui shared library system. A shared service for New Zealand public libraries, Kōtui provides an affordable, efficient option to help libraries manage their collections with leading-edge products and services.

The concept and delivery of the Kōtui shared service is the result of a collaboration between a group of public libraries, the Association of Public Library Managers (APLM), Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) and the National Library of New Zealand. The SirsiDynix Symphony ILS will serve as the technological foundation for these libraries.

The subscription-based service went live in Blenheim last month and is being progressively rolled out to 15 libraries over the next two years. Librarians attending the LIANZA conference this week can learn more at the Kōtui demo station or by stopping by SirsiDynix booth #40.

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Bibliographic information management solutions provider Bowker, US, has announced that Syndetics Solutions, its OPAC and discovery layer enrichment tool, is adding content from Doody's Book Reviews, a source of reviews of medical and healthcare works. Libraries who subscribe to Syndetics Solutions can add the reviews to the bibliographic data displayed to patrons through their OPAC or discovery layer, the most common entry points to the library collection. Bowker is a member of the ProQuest family of companies.

Doody's Book Reviews evaluates books and electronic products across a wide range of clinical specialty areas in basic science, clinical medicine, nursing, allied health and other disciplines. Each year, 2,000 book and software titles from more than 250 publishers of professional level healthcare publications are reviewed by a team of experts. This includes - 5,000 academically-affiliated clinicians whose work is vetted by an editorial board. Supposedly unique to the review process is the Doody's star rating that accompanies each review and makes it simple for users to determine the best source for their needs. Syndetic Solutions will provide Doody's Book Reviews from 1993 to the present day.

Book reviews comprise a portion of the 40 million unique descriptive data elements relating to books, audio books and multimedia available to libraries through Syndetic Solutions' three platforms: Syndetics Classic, Syndetics Plus and Syndetics ICE. Libraries use the data elements to strengthen the quality of information available to their patrons through their OPAC or discovery layer. Review sources already available include publications such as The New York Times, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Choice, Library Journal and School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews and The Guardian.

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Content enhancement and knowledge services provider Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a Quatrro Group company, has announced that the company will be presenting at the Hot Spot Professional & Scientific Information (Hall 4.2) on October 13, 2011, from 1015hrs - 1045hrs at the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair. Elizabeth (Betsy) Donohue, Associate Vice President-Content Consulting, will be presenting Scope's ideas on the topic 'Non-English STM Literature and Enhancing Discoverability.'

Scope's presentation will provide insights on how to meet some of the challenges of making Non-English literature more 'discoverable.' Given the growing importance of non-English literature to the global research community, the key challenges in the translation of non-English documents and providing content for English language A&I will be discussed.

With plug & play multimedia stands, exclusive meeting areas and live presentation platforms, Frankfurt Hot Spots are vibrant nodes of innovation at the world's largest gathering of publishing and media content professionals. Hot Spot exhibitors and presenters range from technical specialists and digital content providers to marketing pioneers and Internet innovators. Each Hot Spot focuses on one industry sector of emerging innovation.

During the Fair, Scope will showcase its new services including its unique content abstraction/summarisation solution; author data clean-up and disambiguation services; and English abstracting and indexing from non-English literature. Attendees are invited to visit the Scope stand (J410, Hall 4.2) to discover more about these and other services offered by the company. Scope representatives will be on hand to discuss Scope's unique assisted automation approach that blends the use of appropriate technologies with rich Subject Matter Expertise (SME) to deliver scalable, cost-effective and high-value output.

Scope is also the publisher of the daily Knowledgespeak newsletter, an authoritative news service focusing on the STM information industry.

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Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has signed an agreement with HathiTrust to integrate the HathiTrust full-text index into OCLC services, enabling member libraries and their users to more easily discover resources from this digital collection through WorldCat.

Under this new agreement, OCLC will be able to integrate the full-text index of HathiTrust collections into services such as WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local. Following integration of the full-text index, users will be able to search beyond bibliographic records to include the full text of these cooperatively built library collections in their searches.

Content from the HathiTrust Digital Library complements member libraries' collections already in WorldCat. Through a single search of WorldCat.org or WorldCat Local, users will now be able to easily find HathiTrust resources and other materials available in their own collections, and in the collections of thousands of libraries around the world that are part of the OCLC cooperative.

The HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the massive digitised collections of partner institutions. HathiTrust offers libraries a means to archive and provide access to their digital content, whether scanned volumes, special collections, or born-digital materials. The representation of these resources in digital form offers expanded opportunities for innovative use in research, teaching and learning.

Earlier this year, OCLC and HathiTrust began testing a unique WorldCat Local user interface for discovery of items accessible through the HathiTrust Digital Library. The WorldCat Local prototype for the HathiTrust Digital Library, available to anyone on the Web, was designed and implemented by both organisations in close cooperation as a means to further develop a shared digital library infrastructure. HathiTrust Digital Library records are discoverable through the separate WorldCat Local interface, as well as through WorldCat.org, available on the Web at www.worldcat.org.

OCLC and HathiTrust continue to work together to increase online visibility and accessibility of the digital collections by creating WorldCat records describing the content and linking to the collections via WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local.

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Global library cooperative OCLC, US, recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the launch of WorldCat, a comprehensive database of resources held in libraries around the globe.

On August 26, 1971, the OCLC Online Union Catalog and Shared Cataloging system (now known as WorldCat) began operation. That first day, from a single terminal, catalogers at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, cataloged 133 books online. WorldCat currently comprises more than 240 million records representing more than 1.7 billion items in OCLC member libraries worldwide.

WorldCat is a database of bibliographic information built continuously by OCLC libraries around the world. Each record in the WorldCat database contains a bibliographic description of a single item or work and a list of institutions that hold the item. The institutions share these records, using them to create local catalogues, arrange interlibrary loans and conduct reference work. Libraries contribute records for items not found in WorldCat using OCLC shared cataloging systems.

Since 1971, 240 million records have been added to WorldCat, spanning more than 5,000 years of recorded knowledge, from about 3400 B.C. to the present. This unique collection of information encompasses records in a variety of formats-books, e-books, DVDs, digital resources, serials, sound recordings, musical scores, maps, visual materials, mixed materials and computer files.

Once records have been added to WorldCat, they are discoverable on the Web through popular search and partner sites, and through WorldCat.org. Records entered into WorldCat since 1971 have been continuously migrated, reformatted and updated to conform to newly issued cataloging standards. They have been touched and enhanced hundreds of times by librarians around the world and by OCLC staff and automated systems.

People can now use their mobile phones to access WorldCat via WorldCat Local, where 4G wireless downloads are 2,500 times faster than the original OCLC network. Wired networks are now 416,000 times faster.

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Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has signed an agreement with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to distribute its publications to libraries worldwide. The society's 15 peer-reviewed journals including SIAM Review, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems and others will be available in a wide variety of scientific and technology databases, enabling the content to be cross-searched with the library's complete ProQuest collection.

SIAM's journals are renowned for their ability to convey useful mathematical knowledge to those who then implement this emerging research for practical, industrial, or scientific use. Distribution via ProQuest means SIAM's publications will be accessible in a powerful, end-to-end research experience that fuels innovation.

A library's ProQuest holdings are unified in a single search, streamlining and broadening discovery, enabling faster, deeper dives into multiple content sources and types. Further, ProQuest's deep indexing technology will enable discovery of SIAM content that resides in charts and graphs, moving beyond text alone. ProQuest's Deep indexing system is among the platform's selection of sophisticated tools that accelerate discovery and content management, enabling users to more easily manipulate, share and even create content.

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Content enhancement and knowledge services provider Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), India, has announced that the company will be exhibiting at the Frankfurt Book Fair from October 12-16, 2011.

During the Fair, Scope will showcase its new services including its unique content abstraction/summarisation solution; author data clean-up and disambiguation services; and English abstracting and indexing from non-English literature. Attendees are invited to visit the Scope stand (J410) to discover more about these and other services offered by the company. Scope representatives will be on hand to discuss Scope's unique 'assisted automation' approach that blends the use of appropriate technologies with rich Subject Matter Expertise (SME) to deliver scalable, cost-effective and high-value output.

The Frankfurt Book Fair claims to be the biggest book and media fair in the world - with around 7,500 exhibitors from over 110 countries. It maintains the most visited website worldwide for the publishing industry at www.book-fair.com and its directory of decision-makers in the book and media industries features around 31,000 contacts.

Scope eKnowledge Center, a Quatrro Group company, is an award winning provider of outsourced, cost-effective content enhancement and knowledge services to the global information industry. The company uses a combination of deep subject matter expertise in a number of business and STM domains, innovative technology and proprietary intellectual property to provide world class services. In operation for over 25 years, Scope has built a clientele loyal to its abstracting, indexing, semantic enrichment, database/directory development and content authoring solutions.

Scope is also the publisher of the daily Knowledgespeak (www.knowledgespeak.com) newsletter, an authoritative news service focusing on the STM information industry.

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Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has acquired UK-based Expert Information, publishers of Index to Theses and Theses.com, premier sources of hundreds of thousands of citations and abstracts for British and Irish dissertations and master's theses. The addition of Expert Information will continue expanding the global impact of ProQuest's acclaimed dissertations publishing programme, which includes ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, a widely consulted resource for graduate research.

Expert Information abstracts and indexes more than a half million dissertations and theses, covering more than seventy years and continually growing by nearly 20,000 records per year. The content has been available via ProQuest through its product PQDT: U.K. & Ireland. Now, as part of the ProQuest family, the publishing programme behind Expert Information's products will expand to meet the global information needs of researchers.

Expert Information joins one of the world's premier dissertation publishing programmes. About 99 percent of North American graduate degree-granting institutions contribute their students' works to the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database, enabling them to be easily discovered and accessed. Chosen by United States Library of Congress as the official archive of American dissertations, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses encompasses more than one quarter of a billion pages. Its 1.4 million digital dissertations and 2.9 million records create a unique and continually growing trove of research.

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Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI, UK, has announced that the CAB Thesaurus has had its biggest update in 30 years. The Thesaurus, projected as a comprehensive controlled vocabulary covering applied life sciences and related subject areas, has reportedly grown 40 percent in just one year. It now includes nearly 137,000 terms.

The resource contains the scientific names and synonyms for pest- and disease-causing organisms, birds, mammals, insects and other species and details the relationships between them. It seeks to play a vital role in ensuring the quality and consistency of all content produced by CABI. It is also licensed by CABI to a wide variety of other organisations to categorise and index their own content.

Additions to the new edition include 10,000 nematode species mentioned in CABI online databases (http://www.cabdirect.org); world lists of birds, mammals, sucking lice (Anoplura) and trichodectid chewing lice (Mallophaga), with synonyms; complete revisions to the existing taxonomic hierarchies in the thesaurus of dinoflagellates and algae; and 7,275 new insect species from the Medani database, which contains species of veterinary and medical importance.

It is projected that the CAB Thesaurus will double in size in the next five years, and several innovations will be introduced to make it much more than just a controlled vocabulary. The most important of these will be to include semantic features into the thesaurus to make it fit for new CABI products and for wider use as part of the semantic web.

The CAB Thesaurus is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and is currently being translated in its entirety into Farsi.

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Content enhancement and knowledge services provider Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), India, has announced that it has been selected by ASTM International, the globally recognised leader in international standards development, for its subject matter expert (SME)-curated knowledge mining and indexing services.

Under the agreement, Scope will be developing a domain-specific, multi-level taxonomy for the vast array of content within ASTM's Standards and Engineering Digital Library (SEDL). With over 1,400 ebooks, 60,000 articles and chapters, and 12,000 standards, the ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library claims to be one of the world's most comprehensive engineering resources.

Scope will also develop facets with a taxonomic structure to enable robust cross domain search, as well as create an expanded list of keywords to be mapped to the taxonomy and facets accordingly. This content enhancement project aims to provide a more precise search experience to the Digital Library end users, allow drilled-down navigation, as well as the ability to conduct effective searches across content domains.

Scope is known for its 'assisted automation' approach that blends the use of appropriate technology with subject domain expertise for scalable, cost effective and high-value results for its clients worldwide. To execute this project specifically, Scope has developed a team that includes taxonomy experts and software specialists, as well as an array of domain experts from the diverse breath of industries served by ASTM.

Scope eKnowledge Center, a Quatrro Group company, is an award winning provider of outsourced, cost-effective content enhancement and knowledge services to the global information industry. The company uses a combination of deep subject matter expertise in a number of business and STM domains, innovative technology and proprietary intellectual property to provide world class services. In operation for over 24 years, Scope has built a clientele loyal to its abstracting, indexing, semantic enrichment, database/directory development and content authoring solutions.

Scope is also the publisher of the daily Knowledgespeak newsletter, an authoritative news service focusing on the STM information industry.

ASTM International is a globally recognised leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards. Working in an open and transparent process and using ASTM's advanced electronic infrastructure, ASTM members deliver the test methods, specifications, guides and practices that support industries and governments worldwide. At present, over 12,000 ASTM standards are used worldwide to improve product quality, enhance safety, facilitate market access and trade, and build consumer confidence.

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Computer library service and research organisation OCLC, US, has announced that a record for a book accessible online marked the 10 millionth record added to WorldCat via the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway. The record, titled Task-oriented and Purposeful Robot-Assisted Therapy, was harvested into WorldCat by staff at InTech, an open access publisher located in Rijeka, Croatia.

The WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway provides those with an OAI-compliant repository, like InTechOpen, with a Web-based, self-service tool that makes it possible to self-harvest the metadata of their unique digital content to WorldCat to gain broader visibility. The WorldCat record links to a PDF copy of a book available from InTech's online repository.

InTech's online repository, InTechOpen, is an Open Access repository of InTech's books and journal articles covering the fields of science, technology and medicine. All articles are immediately accessible for download and instantly readable through their online reading platform. At present, the articles are in PDF only, but InTech is currently working on the enhancement of their publishing workflow, and their content will soon be available in a variety of digital formats.

WorldCat is a database of bibliographic information built continuously by OCLC libraries around the world since 1971. Each record in the WorldCat database contains a bibliographic description of a single item or work and a list of institutions that hold the item. Millions of records link directly to digital information resources. Institutions share these records, using them to create local catalogues, arrange interlibrary loans and conduct reference work.

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Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has acquired BNI, a database for nursing and midwifery in the UK. BNI - shortened from British Nursing Index - has been compiled through a partnership of the libraries at Bournemouth University, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the Royal College of Nursing and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.

ProQuest has built a long-term relationship with BNI through its distribution via Dialog, its business unit serving the professional market. Indexing more than 240 English-language titles including essential international nursing and midwifery journals and selective content from medical, allied health and management titles, BNI is known for reliability and precision.

Its editorial process relies upon indexing by librarians with experience in providing information services to nurses and midwives. The database is updated monthly, making it one of the most current bibliographic resources of its kind. ProQuest plans to invest in BNI, making it a full-text resource that expands well beyond the UK market. Content will continue to be accessed through the new ProQuest Dialog service and will ultimately be available on the all-new unified ProQuest platform, where it will be cross-searchable with all ProQuest content.

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Library automation solutions provider SirsiDynix, US, has announced that Trinity Western University's Norma Marion Alloway Library has begun the upgrade of their system to the Symphony ILS along with 17 other libraries around the globe.

Alloway Library plans to go live with the new system in mid-August of this year. Meanwhile, library staff are working with SirsiDynix technicians to implement the behind-the-scenes work required to launch the new eLibrary interface for public use as well as the staff client software. Currently, the libraries at Vancouver Island University, Kwantlen Polytechnic and University of the Fraser Valley run the Symphony library system.

SirsiDynix Symphony's comprehensive feature set allows libraries to highlight the breadth and depth of their collections and serve their communities' ever-growing information needs. Fully documented web services and APIs, along with support for library standards, permit users to extend the ILS even further to meet local needs.

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Computer library service and research organisation OCLC, US, has announced that Brazil's Agricultural Research Corporation, Embrapa, has added more than 470,000 bibliographic records to the OCLC WorldCat database. The database claims to be the world's largest online resource for finding information in libraries.

Embrapa's collection, which focuses on topics such as tropical agriculture, food safety, family agriculture, natural resources, advanced technology and agribusiness, comprises about 315,000 titles in Portuguese; 125,000 in English; and 22,000 titles in Spanish. Nearly 18,000 records will link to full-text documents, most of which come from Embrapa's digital repository, the Informática Agropecuária (Ainfo). There are now more than 2 million Portuguese records in WorldCat.

This is OCLC's first collaboration with Embrapa and comes as part of an ongoing effort to include more resources from Brazil in WorldCat. Prior to initiating this project with Embrapa in 2007, OCLC added more than 34,000 records to WorldCat from IBICT's Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) Metadata Base. OCLC has also worked in a similar capacity in recent years with Bireme, which added more than 40,000 records from SciELO Brasil, and over 300,000 records from the Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences Database (LILACS).

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Content enhancement and knowledge services provider Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), India, has announced that it has been selected by a leading provider of information for businesses and professionals, for its biomarker research and indexing services. Under the agreement, Scope has indexed information collected for disease biomarkers and specific treatment biomarkers related to multiple sclerosis, clinically isolated syndrome and neuromyelitis optica from a designated set of medical journal articles.

Biomarkers are measurable indicators used to define a biological state, and are seen to become a major driving force of pharmaceutical research and drug development in the coming years.

Scope's team of subject matter experts (SMEs) indexed approximately 5,000 biomarker data from 125 journal articles in a timeframe of two weeks. This task involved researching and studying design information and results, indexing marker information, and registering the source from which the indexing was performed (for example: journal name, title and author).

Scope, a Quatrro Group company, is a provider of outsourced, cost-effective content enhancement and knowledge services to the global information industry. The company seeks to use a combination of deep subject matter expertise in a number of business and STM domains, innovative technology and proprietary intellectual property to provide world class services. In operation for over 24 years, Scope has built a clientele said to be loyal to its abstracting, indexing, semantic enrichment, database/directory development and content authoring solutions. Scope is also the publisher of the daily Knowledgespeak newsletter, a news service focusing on the STM information industry.

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Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that it is collaborating with ImagineEasy Solutions, LLC to create a customisable library version of ImagineEasy Solutions' EasyBib.com service, an online citation site on the Web. The EasyBib Library Edition service will be rolled out in a beta testing phase with select OCLC member libraries this month.

EasyBib is an automatic bibliography composer, used by more than 23 million unique visitors in the past year. More than 500,000 new citations are added each day during peak periods of use, such as at the end of university terms. Students simply search or enter bibliographic data of a particular source and EasyBib formats the citation, alphabetises the works cited list and exports it to word-processing software. Students can also use EasyBib's notebook feature to dynamically organise their research information associated with their citations.

Jointly designed by OCLC and Imagine Easy Solutions, EasyBib Library Edition will provide an opportunity for libraries to reach students where they already go for help with citation formatting. The Library Edition is expected to offer a variety of features designed to extend library reach and usage. OCLC will be the exclusive provider for EasyBib Library Edition, and a provider for EasyBib School Edition, EasyBib's standard institutional service.

The library cooperative is currently working with a set of member libraries that will serve as test sites for the beta service of Library Edition, which is expected to be available in the US and Canada by spring 2011.

Academic publisher SAGE has announced that a further three of its scientific journals collection have been selected for inclusion in MEDLINE. The journals are: Journal of Pharmacy Practice; Food Science and Technology International; and the Journal of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers.

MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the premier bibliographic database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) that contains more than 18 million references to journal articles in life sciences, with a concentration in biomedicine. SAGE publishes more then 165 STM journals, many on behalf of some of the world's most prestigious societies and associations. Two thirds of these have been selected for inclusion in MEDLINE to date.

The Journal of Pharmacy Practice offers practicing pharmacists in-depth, useful reviews of new drugs, new therapies, pharmacokinetics, drug administration, and adverse drug reactions. Each peer-reviewed issue assesses practice issues; practice settings; therapeutics issues; disease management; the latest research; current government, legal and regulatory issues; as well as issues arising from today's topsy-turvy healthcare environment. The journal is the official journal of the New York State Council Health-system Pharmacists.

Food Science and Technology International is a highly ranked, peer reviewed scholarly journal publishing high-quality articles by leading researchers of food science and technology that provide essential information for food scientists throughout the world. In addition, the journal publishes critical reviews, book reviews, brief scientific notes, and coverage of international congresses.

The Journal of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers is a fully peer reviewed scholarly journal that provides biomedical polymer scientists and researchers with new information on important advances in polymeric drugs and drug design; polymeric functionalisation and structures related to biological activity or compatibility; natural polymer modification to achieve specific biological activity or compatibility; enzyme modeling by polymers; membranes for biological use; liposome stabilisation and cell modeling.

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The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced the indexing of the 3 millionth record in their PsycINFO database. This achievement is the result of over 8 decades of detailed abstracting and indexing of international literature in the field of psychology and its related disciplines. The most recent million records have been added within just the last 6 years, and stem from an expansion of PsycINFO to include growing coverage of neuroscience, life sciences, statistics and forensics.

The 3 millionth entry indexed the article originally published in the November 2010 issue of Neuropsychology, an APA journal edited by Stephen M. Rao of the Cleveland Clinic. The article is titled, 'Rehabilitating patients with left spatial neglect by prism exposure during a visuomotor activity'.

From its beginnings in 1927 as Psychological Abstracts, PsycINFO claims to have been an unparalleled resource for psychological and behavioural research throughout scholarly and professional fields. The vast coverage of abstracts from books, journals, and dissertations from the 16th Century to the present provides a comprehensive look at the evolution of psychology over time. Expanded coverage also includes grants and sponsorships, tests and measures, supplemental materials, publication history, as well as over 45 million cited references total within the database.

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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) recently announced that a website for 'Value, Outcomes, and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries (Lib-Value)', a three-year project funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), is now available at http://libvalue.cci.utk.edu.

A searchable bibliographic database of library value and ROI literature is now freely available. The database currently contains more than 400 entries, including books, book chapters, journal articles, theses and dissertations, reports, presentations, and free websites, covering the expanding literature on library value and evaluation, return on investment in libraries of all kinds, as well as foundational material on methodologies for determining value. This is a valuable resource for any professional interested in getting a head start on assessing library value updated on a regular basis. The database was compiled by Rachel Fleming-May, assistant professor in the UT College of Communication and Information's (CCI) School of Information Sciences, and Crystal Sherline, a graduate student in the CCI.

The Lib-Value project is conducting research on value and ROI in academic libraries and developing a set of tested methodologies and tools to help academic librarians measure which products and services provide the most value to the university community and best support the university's mission and goals. These tools will also aid library leaders in demonstrating the library's value to university administrators and funders. More resources will be made available via the Lib-Value website during the next two years as the grant activities move forward, featuring materials from related workshops, presentations, and publications, as well as current news.

Lib-Value is a collaboration between the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries, with partners at Syracuse University and participants at Baruch College (CUNY), Brooklyn College (CUNY), SUNY University at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo State College, and Bryant University.

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Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, has announced the availability of an enhanced interface for its Ulrichsweb global serials intelligence service. Ulrichsweb is an integrated, continuously updated service that enables librarians and patrons to discover, explore, annotate and reuse information about periodicals and the companies that publish and provide them. The new, enhanced interface enables librarians and users to take advantage of the ways Ulrichsweb has grown and evolved to make its depth and breadth of knowledge more accessible.

Ulrichsweb helps librarians find, evaluate and share the bibliographic and provider information they need for effective collection building and management. Patrons use Ulrichsweb to quickly identify serials sources, verify the quality of those resources, and e-mail or save research notes without the need to learn a complex interface.

Serials Solutions continues to develop Ulrichsweb as a comprehensive and content-neutral source, providing unbiased information about electronic, print and microform serials from a wide range of commercial, scholarly, Open Access and other publishers across all subject areas and languages. Enhancements and features incorporated in the new Ulrichsweb interface include expanded international coverage adding details for hundreds of non-English full-text and indexing databases and sources, and tens of thousands of new serials titles; alignment with Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks; more than 100,000 Provider Authority Records from Serials Solutions' expanded Publisher Outreach Program; new search capabilities; and faceted results browsing allowing users to filter by type of serial, peer-reviewed status or other qualifying information to improve serials discoverability.

Additionally, new data export formats and research sharing tools allowing users to save and send search results in a format that is most convenient for them. User-specific personalisation including interface language localisation and personal alerts and lists enable users to customise the Ulrich's search experience to meet their individual needs. New usage reporting options and a simpler administrative console allow librarians to administer Ulrichsweb through the Serials Solutions Client Center alongside their other Serials Solutions services.

A new API with XML and JSON options allow librarians and technical staff to easily integrate Ulrich's data into their library's web pages and discovery services in order to provide researchers and staff with reliable, continuously updated information about electronic and print serials. Expanded linking partnerships and OpenURL awareness help libraries enable interaction between Ulrichsweb and other serials-related resources including their OPACs and discovery services.

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Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that the National Diet Library has successfully added 4 million records to WorldCat, an online resource for finding library materials. With this initiative, the Library seeks to make its research resources more visible and accessible to scholars, students and Web searchers worldwide.

In June 2010, OCLC and the National Diet Library announced their agreement to cooperate for the benefit of libraries, library patrons and end users of information services. OCLC staff from Leiden, the Netherlands, and Dublin, Ohio, USA, worked with the National Diet Library staff to create a conversion programme to convert JAPAN/MARC to MARC 21 records. Cataloging staff with language expertise were also critical to the successful data conversion and load into WorldCat.

The addition of Japan's National Diet Library records increases the number of records containing CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean) script data in WorldCat by nearly 33 percent.

The National Diet Library has been using WorldCat for current cataloging of Western language materials since 2007. Through the new agreement with OCLC, the Library will contribute the contents of the JAPAN/MARC database, the official national bibliography of Japan, to WorldCat on a regular basis. It will send updates of bibliographic records about four times a year and will provide JAPAN/MARC authority records.

Kinokuniya Company Ltd., OCLC's distributor in Japan for 24 years, helped to facilitate this cooperative effort.

WorldCat is a database of bibliographic information built continuously by OCLC libraries around the world since 1971. Each record in the WorldCat database contains a bibliographic description of a single item or work and a list of institutions that hold the item. The institutions share these records, using them to create local catalogues, arrange interlibrary loans and conduct reference work. Libraries contribute records for items not found in WorldCat using the OCLC shared cataloging system. Since 1971, 200 million records have been added to WorldCat, spanning more than 6,000 years of recorded knowledge, from about 4800 B.C. to the present.

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Life sciences publisher CABI has re-launched the critically acclaimed Compendia products on a new platform and with new content. The initiative is expected to make it easier for subscribers to access and use expert, encyclopaedic information covering the economic species of the world.

The re-launched Compendia now feature a clearer layout and a powerful new search engine that make it easier to find specific information, as well as to browse. The platform also allows for more dynamic updating. There are also links to a vast resource of carefully selected content on the web and access to well-categorised library documents.

CABI's Compendia, which cover crop protection, animal health and production, forestry and aquaculture are encyclopaedic, mixed-media tools that bring together scientific information from experts around the world. The information is collated, evaluated, organised and presented as a single resource that includes thousands of detailed datasheets, case studies, full-text journal and conference articles, and access to hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records.

The Compendia are supported by an international development consortium of both public- and private-sector organisations.

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Life sciences publisher CABI, UK, has announced that it now has 100,000 full-text articles available to subscribers of its leading databases on CAB Direct.

CABI started its full-text programme four years ago, and is now adding 33,000 articles, including journal papers and conference proceedings, each year. The full-text records are integrated into all CABI's databases, including CAB Abstracts, Global Health, and all CABI's Internet Resources and Abstract Journal subsets. This means that any subscriber to a CABI product has automatic access to all correlating full text material.

CAB Direct claims to be the most extensive source of reference in the applied life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health. It contains over 9 million bibliographic records and 100,000 full-text articles.

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Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that the Biodiversity Heritage Library has added more than 14,000 records of digitised materials, brought together from 12 institutions, to WorldCat. The Biodiversity Heritage Library claims to be one of the world's largest repositories of full-text digitised legacy biodiversity literature.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organised to digitise, serve and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity. BHL is the scanning and digitisation component of the Encyclopedia of Life, a global effort to assemble information on all living species known to science into one ever-expanding, trusted, Web-based resource.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library will continue to send records to OCLC representing new titles scanned and added to their collection. The records link directly to the BHL Web site to access the full text.

OCLC continues to add records to WorldCat describing digitised and e-book collections of interest to the membership through partnerships with libraries, aggregators, publishers and mass digitisation projects globally. There are currently more than 8 million records describing e-books and digitised books in WorldCat.

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced that the NLM Catalog will soon be redesigned to provide users with a streamlined interface and enhanced search and display of the 1.4 million bibliographic records in the NLM database. The NLM Catalog will contain detailed MEDLINE indexing information about the journals in PubMed and other National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) databases. The Journals Database will be retired.

New search tags will be added to limit searches to a specific field. Some of the new search tags are: Broad Subject Term(s), Current Format Status, Current Indexing Status, Version Indexed, ISSN, and PubMed Central Holdings.

A new category of Limits called Journal Subsets will be added. Users will be able to limit searches to journals referenced in the NCBI databases, PubMed journals, journals currently (or previously) indexed for MEDLINE, PubMed Central journals, and PubMed Central forthcoming journals. Users can also limit searches to journals published in an electronic-only format. A new Images Material Type (images from the History of Medicine database) and three new Publication Types - Portraits, Postcards and Posters - will also be added.

A Journal display, added to the Display Options in the NLM Catalog, will include fields of interest to those searching for information about journals, including MEDLINE indexing information. The Full display will also be expanded to include all available fields where applicable.

The NLM Catalog will also contain detailed MEDLINE indexing information about the journals in PubMed and other NCBI databases. Users can limit NLM Catalog searches to journals in the NCBI databases by using the Journals in NCBI Databases link on the NLM Catalog homepage or the Limits page.

Users can also visit the Limits page to limit a search to various journal subsets. The NLM Catalog will apply an AND Boolean operator when the Journals referenced in the NCBI databases limit is selected with a Journal Subset limit. A notice appears at the top of the search results indicating that limits have been activated.

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Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that the British Library has added 12 million bibliographic records to WorldCat, an online resource for finding library materials.

OCLC staff worked closely with the British Library staff to add the records over a four-month project. As a result of the cooperative effort, OCLC and the British Library have enhanced the process to add these records to WorldCat for the benefit of researchers worldwide. According to the British Library, WorldCat is an increasingly important resource used to expose its holdings worldwide, and for supporting a number of its core services including resource sharing and document delivery.

Prior to this latest data load, about 4.5 million British Library records had been added to WorldCat over the last 25 years. This volume has now effectively tripled, and the quality and accuracy of the records have been significantly enhanced. Ongoing automated batch loads will further improve the quantity and quality of British Library records in WorldCat.

WorldCat is a database of bibliographic information built continuously by OCLC libraries around the world since 1971. Each record in the WorldCat database contains a bibliographic description of a single item or work and a list of institutions that hold the item. The institutions share these records, using them to create local catalogues, arrange interlibrary loans and conduct reference work. Libraries contribute records for items not found in WorldCat using the OCLC shared cataloging system.

Once records have been added to WorldCat, they are discoverable on the Web through popular search and partner sites, and through WorldCat.org.

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Life-sciences publisher Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI), UK, and online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, have announced the completion of a project to open a large number of CAB Direct's life sciences abstracts to the Google search engine. With this move, CABI seeks to vastly increase the visibility of the essential information the platform provides. Its immediate effect has been to more than double the usage of the CAB Direct platform.

Google can now fully search and index the abstracts, making them findable for millions of readers worldwide. The platform recognises when a user has accessed the site via Google and will allow them to view a defined amount of content for free before prompting them to log in, if their institution already has a subscription to the site, or suggesting that they register as an individual user for access to the full content.

CAB Direct claims to be the most thorough and extensive source of reference in the applied life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health. The platform provides a single point of access to all of the CABI database subscriptions. Users can search from over 9 million bibliographic records, over 97,000 full text articles, plus authoritative reviews, news articles and reports.

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Content enhancement and knowledge services provider Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a Quatrro Group company, has announced that it will support a significant new initiative of the IEEE, the world's largest technical professional association, to build a unique author name database.

IEEE plans to create a database of author data extracted from more than 2.5 million journal articles and conference proceedings contained in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. In order to develop this unique author name database, IEEE is partnering with Scope to subject the existing metadata to a stringent cleanup process, which in-turn will ensure quality disambiguation and the highest level of excellence in the final database product. In order to do so, Scope will take a technology-assisted approach, engaging skilled professionals experienced in the nuances of researcher names and affiliation data while also employing software tools for data validation and enrichment.

As the world's largest technical professional association, IEEE is dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities, IEEE is the trusted voice on a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics.

Scope is an award winning provider of outsourced, cost-effective content enhancement and knowledge services to the global information industry. The company uses a combination of deep subject matter expertise in a number of business and STM domains, innovative technology and proprietary intellectual property to provide world class services. In operation for over 24 years, Scope has built a clientele loyal to its abstracting, indexing, semantic enrichment, database/directory development and content authoring solutions. Scope is the publisher of the daily Knowledgespeak newsletter, the authoritative news service focusing on the STM information industry.

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Library cooperative OCLC has announced that it will perform cataloguing and processing services for the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), Canada's national science library and the library for NRC.

Under the new agreement, OCLC will perform all of NRC-CISTI's cataloguing in a variety of formats, including serials. OCLC will catalogue a wide range of publications from all NRC Institutes, programmes and branches. Catalogued materials will be discoverable through NRC-CISTI's Catalogue, as well as through OCLC's WorldCat.org, an online resource for finding information in libraries.

It is anticipated that OCLC Canada LTS will catalogue and process roughly 17,000 items per year in English and French once the processes between the respective organisations have been fully implemented. Materials will vary from monographs and serials to proceedings, technical papers and journals.

The National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) has been an integral component in the growth of Canada's innovation capacity. NRC-CISTI provides Canada's research community with high-value authoritative information and information services in science, technology and health to accelerate innovation and commercialization. In addition, NRC-CISTI maintains and makes accessible to all Canadians the National Science Library Collection, one of North America's largest.

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Library cooperative OCLC has announced that the Bibliothèque nationale de France has added the 200 millionth bibliographic record to the WorldCat database. The 200 millionth record was added to WorldCat on August 27, 2010, one day after the 39th anniversary of the launching of the OCLC online union catalogue and shared cataloging system.

The phenomenal growth rate for bibliographic records is being matched by that of holding symbols in WorldCat, which represent the libraries that hold the items cataloged. The number of holdings surpassed 1.6 billion on June 4, 2010. The OCLC cooperative hit 1 billion holdings on August 11, 2005. It took the cooperative 34 years to get to 1 billion. Since then, libraries have added more than half a billion symbols in less than five years.

The 200 millionth record was created by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and was added as part of a major record loading project to reflect all of the national library's holdings in WorldCat. There are currently 40 national libraries adding digital images, national files and bibliographies to WorldCat. Libraries worldwide benefit from the millions of records added to WorldCat from the world's great national libraries.

WorldCat is a database of bibliographic information built continuously by libraries around the world since 1971. Each record in the WorldCat database contains a bibliographic description of a single item or work and a list of institutions that hold the item. The institutions share these records, using them to create local catalogues, arrange interlibrary loans and conduct reference work.

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced that starting in early September 2010, it will accept any UTF-8 character in the Latin (Roman) and Greek scripts as well as mathematical and other symbols commonly found in biomedical literature for its newly created MEDLINE records. Since the inception of MEDLINE, NLM has limited the characters used to those typed from a standard US keyboard and a small set of frequently used diacritics.

The most notable difference is the addition of Greek characters to the database. Other scripts such as Chinese, Japanese, or Korean are not supported. Previously, NLM spelled out Greek letters, for instance, replacing β (Unicode 03B2) with beta. PubMed users will now able to search for these characters either by copying and pasting the text from an online source or by spelling out the letter. Both approaches retrieve the same set of citations.

MEDLINE is the US National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over 18 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). The great majority of journals are selected for MEDLINE based on the recommendation of the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC), an NIH-chartered advisory committee of external experts analogous to the committees that review NIH grant applications.

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Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has introduced EndNote X4 for Mac OS X. EndNote X4, a bibliographic management solution, is projected to enable researchers to import and search PDF files; collaborate more with EndNote Web; use new Cite While You Write features; and more.

Users can now import a full text PDF, even a folder containing multiple PDF files, to add new references with the full text attached. Mac users have the added advantage of being able to drag a PDF file onto the EndNote icon on the Dock to add a new reference to their library. EndNote extracts basic bibliographic information using the Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) and CrossRef data to create new records in a reference library. Also, PDF files are now searchable in EndNote providing users with greater depth in exploring their reference collection.

EndNote users can access their references anywhere and collaborate with colleagues using their EndNote Web account. Researchers can transfer up to 10,000 references between the desktop and Web and search shared groups when selecting references to cite, making it easy to collaborate with others on research projects. Reference lists can be sorted by Times Cited, date added to the library or date modified to locate references quickly. Authors can use EndNote Web to manage their personal publication lists for the free ResearcherID (www.researcherid.com) community, where members are identified uniquely. References stored in the EndNote Web group are visible instantly in the public community where citation metrics are provided by Web of Knowledge.

EndNote X4 introduces new formatting options for citing scholarly papers properly. EndNote links in-text citations to the bibliography automatically in Microsoft Word, with or without hyperlinks. Users also have increased options for formatting footnotes with customisable short forms as well as full support of the APA 6th style including a multiple author ellipse. The new combined Edit and Manage Citations command consolidates the most frequently used functions in one Cite While You Write window. Users can view a report of references cited in a Word document with a new auto-group in the EndNote library.

Other features of the new version include create new groups by comparing, combining and suppressing existing groups; modify references easily in the new Quick Edit tab on the main library window; edit references when comparing duplicates; expand library retrieval results by adding wildcards within search terms; and Cite While You Write in over 4,500 journal styles.

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The British Library has announced that it will make its collections of bibliographic records available for free to researchers and other libraries, at www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datafree.html.

The UK national library has around 14 million catalogue records said to comprise a wealth of bibliographic data. The new initiative is expected to help expose this vast dataset to users worldwide, allowing researchers and other libraries to access and retrieve bibliographic records for publications dating back centuries and relating to every conceivable subject area.

The new free service will operate in parallel to the British Library's priced bulk MARC data supply activity which is used extensively by large commercial customers.

In some instances researchers may use the library's records for purposes very different from those for which they were originally created. The library recently provided the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) with some eight million bibliographic records - allowing the IPO to conduct research into publishing trends dating as far back as 1650, and to plot these patterns against the course of changes in IP legislation.

As the national library of the UK, the British Library seeks to provide world class information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offer access to a large and comprehensive research collection. The library's collections include 150 million items from every era of written human history beginning with Chinese oracle bones dating from 300 BC, right up to the latest e-journals.

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Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that the Singapore Management University, through a joint project with its Office of Research and its Li Ka Shing Library, has joined the ranks of research institutions worldwide who contribute to ProQuest's acclaimed Dissertations and Theses database. With the addition of Singapore Management University's intellectual output, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, a commercially available repository of graduate works, will expand its global reach into Singapore.

Singapore Management University is the first university in Singapore to publish with ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. This is part of a larger movement of international universities that are raising their global profiles by making their graduate works accessible through ProQuest's service. The University supports open access of theses and dissertations and makes its graduate research available for free on the open Web.

Singapore Management University will release its enhanced institutional repository platform in the last quarter of 2010. The repository serves as the central knowledge base of the research and scholarly intellectual assets of the University. Presently, it includes primarily faculty journal articles, with links to full text where available, as well as working papers. The university will use ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Open, a new service that enables authors to make their research available for free on the open Web via an easy to use search box.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses is the seminal repository of intellectual property and emerging research from the world's great universities. Chosen by United States Library of Congress as the official archive of American dissertations, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses now encompasses more than one quarter of a billion pages, creating a unique, continually growing trove of emerging research, landmark works and surprisingly engaging prose. Researchers rely on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses as both a source of enlightening information and as a pivotal component in making their own scholarly production available to the world's intellectual communities. The archive is managed at ProQuest by a team of scholars and technologists, who combine their talents to make the archive accessible, reliable and supported by continually advancing technology.

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Cataloging services provider SkyRiver Technology Solutions, US, has announced that it has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in San Francisco against library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US. The suit alleges that OCLC, a purported non-profit with a membership of 72,000 libraries worldwide, is unlawfully monopolising the markets for cataloging services, interlibrary lending and bibliographic data. It further says OCLC is attempting to monopolise the market for integrated library systems by anticompetitive and exclusionary practices. According to SkyRiver, the suit could have far-reaching implications for competition in the library software and technology services industry.

OCLC, formed in 1967, seeks to further access to the world's information and reducing library costs. But over the years, it has evolved into a global enterprise that sells numerous commercial products and services to libraries, SkyRiver alleges. OCLC is claimed to be generating revenues in excess of $200 million annually from 2005 through 2008, tax-free profits averaging over $17 million per year, and amassing a securities portfolio as high as $176 million in 2007. Since 1982 OCLC has used its tax-free profits to acquire 14 for-profit companies, SkyRiver further points out.

SkyRiver is joined in the lawsuit by Innovative Interfaces, Inc., a library automation company. The suit also seeks to address OCLC's anticompetitive behaviour in the integrated library systems market.

SkyRiver was launched in October 2009 in a purported bid to provide a high quality, low cost alternative to OCLC cataloging, potentially allowing customers to achieve savings of up to 40%. The complaint details how public sector SkyRiver customers, like Michigan State University and California State University, turned to SkyRiver to achieve cost savings, only to have OCLC quote them a price increase of over 1,100% to upload their holdings to OCLC's WorldCat database for the benefit of other interlibrary loan (ILL) users.

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LYRASIS, a regional membership organisation for libraries and information professionals in the US, has announced an agreement with SkyRiver, a bibliographic utility that connects libraries with bibliographic metadata. The agreement enables LYRASIS to market, sell, and provide training for SkyRiver cataloguing services to LYRASIS members throughout the US.

By joining forces with SkyRiver, LYRASIS seeks to provide libraries innovative content, technology and operational solutions. This partnership is seen to be important and timely as libraries continue to face declining budgets while library usage simultaneously increases. The agreement gives libraries unlimited access to MARC records with an affordable annual subscription fee and no additional usage fees.

Since SkyRiver services fit easily into libraries of all sizes and types, the synergy resulting from this partnership will allow LYRASIS members to quickly and easily reap the benefit of SkyRiver's low-cost services.

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Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) and web design and development firm iFactory have together designed the new Oxford Bibliographies Online.

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is a modern tool designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, data set they need for their research. OBO is projected as a starting point for organising a research plan, preparing a writing assignment, or creating a syllabus. The tool combines the best features of a high-level encyclopaedia and a traditional bibliography in a style tailored to meet the needs of today's online research. Each subject module includes a full set of entries covering a range of topics from general overviews to highly-specialised themes.

The release of OBO directly follows iFactory and OUP's successful launch of Oxford Dictionaries Online, Oxford's innovative modern English dictionary and language reference service.

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Information technology firm ProQuest, US, has announced an agreement with the Getty Research Institute (GRI). The agreement will allow ProQuest to take over the indexing of the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), providing a secure future for a resource considered central to the study of art history. The agreement assures the database's continuing development and accessibility to researchers around the world.

ProQuest will distribute IBA content created by the GRI (covering the years 2008 through 2009), and build on it by adding new index records going forward. ProQuest will retain the editorial policies which made IBA one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field, continuing to provide full abstracts and subject indexing for its wide international and multi-lingual range of periodicals, monographs and catalogues. Over time, ProQuest also intends to expand coverage of art from Asia, Latin America and Africa in response to requests from art librarians and researchers.

ProQuest will enable the IBA to be cross-searched with its other major bibliographies and complementary full-text resources. As an official part of the ProQuest family, IBA will benefit from ProQuest's acclaimed editorial operations, with its emphasis on subject expertise and manual indexing for specialist arts and humanities resources. The company's advanced search technology will enable users to discover, gather, create and share this content.

ProQuest will make the existing IBA content available on the CSA Illumina platform immediately, and at the same time begin bringing the database up to date. The database will migrate to ProQuest's all-new platform in early 2011.

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Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has released an upgrade to Thomson Reuters EndNote for Windows, a bibliographic management and publishing solution. EndNote X4 is projected to enable researchers to import and search PDF files; use new Cite While You Write features that simplify their writing; and collaborate in new ways using EndNote Web.

EndNote expands its PDF management from finding full text automatically and attaching PDFs to existing records with drag-and-drop to now importing a single PDF file or a folder of PDF files. EndNote X4 extracts basic bibliographic information using the Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) and CrossRef data to create new records in a reference library. Users can also extend their retrieval results beyond reference data by searching attached PDF files.

EndNote X4 is compatible with Microsoft Word 2010 and introduces new formatting options for citing scholarly papers properly. EndNote links in-text citations to the bibliography automatically in Microsoft Word - with or without hyperlinks. Users also have increased options for formatting footnotes with customisable short forms as well as full support of the APA 6th style including a multiple author ellipse. The new combined Edit and Manage Citations command consolidates the most frequently used functions in one Cite While You Write window. Also, users can view a report of references cited in a Word document with a new auto-group in the EndNote library.

Every EndNote user receives their own EndNote Web account for collaborating with others and accessing references when away from the desktop. Users can now transfer up to 10,000 references between the web and desktop, and search shared groups when selecting references to cite. Reference lists can be sorted by times cited, date added to the library or date modified to locate references quickly.

Other features of the upgrade include create new groups by comparing, combining and suppressing existing groups; modify references easily in the new Quick Edit tab on the main library window; edit references when comparing duplicates; expand library retrieval results by adding wildcards within search terms; and Cite While You Write in over 4,500 journal styles.

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OCLC Canada LTS Library Technical Services has announced that it will perform full cataloguing and physical processing of library materials for 18 of the 24 publicly-funded Ontario colleges, under the terms of a consortial agreement negotiated on behalf of the colleges by the Ontario Colleges Library Service (OCLS).

Established in 2009, OCLS is responsible for providing a suite of services to the libraries of the 24 colleges of applied arts and technology throughout the province. Beginning in March 2010, library materials for the 18 participating colleges will be shipped from various vendors directly to OCLC Canada LTS for MARC cataloguing and physical processing. Once fully implemented, OCLC Canada LTS will catalogue and process an estimated 40,000 items annually.

OCLC Canada LTS will work with OCLS to retrospectively update the holdings in WorldCat for each of the participating college libraries. WorldCat claims to be the world's most comprehensive database of library materials. Updated in libraries and by library professionals around the world at a rate of nearly one new record every second, WorldCat comprises more than 180 million bibliographic records and holdings contributed by thousands of libraries.

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Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, recently announced the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. According to Google, Caffeine will provide 50 percent fresher results for web searches than the company's previous index. Also, users can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible before.

Google's old index had several layers, some of which were refreshed at a faster rate than others; the main layer would update every couple of weeks. Content was not added to the Google search index until a layer was refreshed. This caused a significant delay between publishing content and having it show up on the search engine.

Caffeine is projected to analyse the web in small portions and update the search index on a continuous basis, globally. As it finds new pages, or new information on existing pages, it can add these straight to the index. Caffeine is projected to allow for indexing of web pages on an enormous scale. According to the company, it takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day.

Google reportedly opted for a new search indexing system because content on the web is expanding significantly. It is growing not just in size and numbers but with the advent of video, images, news and real-time updates, the average webpage is richer and more complex. In addition, people's expectations for search are higher than they used to be. Searchers want to find the latest relevant content and publishers expect to be found the instant they publish.

Google recently went live with Caffeine, and the service is now being used in all Google searches. A regular Internet-trolling search-engine user may start seeing different search results, hopefully more up-to-date, relevant news stories and blog posts, according to the company.

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Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, a business unit of ProQuest, has announced enhancements to its suite of library resources. These include Books In Print, Syndetics Solutions, and Library Thing For Libraries products. The efforts are designed to enhance the bibliographic content found in library online catalogues.

Books In Print claims to be an essential resource for libraries and their patrons for collection development, purchasing, content management and personal library purposes. The enhanced version features a new visual search interface; intuitive relevancy-ranked results; more than 50 interactive faceted refine options; edition grouping and FRBR; and rating, tagging and user reviews.

Syndetic Solutions is positioned as a premier source of specialised, high-quality enriched data designed to enhance library online catalogues. A library's catalogue is the primary entry point for most library users. Syndetics gives libraries over 11 million descriptive data elements relating to books, audio books, videos, CDs, and DVDs, which are seen to deliver richer, more informative results and create a significantly better experience with the catalogue.

Syndetics features more than 25 data elements, with new options continually being added. Various elements of content are added weekly for more than 100,000 new titles each year. Enrichment options include cover images, tables of contents, plot summaries, chapter excerpts, author biographies, series information, award and reviews.

The new Syndetics Plus combines Syndetics content enrichment elements with advanced widget technology to seamlessly integrate this data within a library's OPAC. As a result, using and accessing Syndetics' data is now projected to be easier for libraries and their customers. The widget allows for customised implementation that makes the Syndetics content neatly match the look and feel of the OPAC.

For those already using the content enrichment options available through Syndetic Solutions, Bowker's Syndetics ICE (Indexed Content Enrichment) offers enhanced search options. It is seen to help users offer their patrons more search returns with tables of contents, fiction profiles and summaries, right through the library's online catalogue.

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Library technology solutions provider SirsiDynix, US, has announced that BookMyne, a comprehensive iPhone application, now supports library catalogues in Spanish, French and German. The application, which allows users to search library catalogues and place holds on materials, claims to be the first industry-wide application available for Spanish, French and German language libraries.

Through BookMyne, library users can find participating libraries around the world, search library catalogues, place holds, and renew materials they have checked out. Libraries can customise their presence on the global directory in a number of ways. BookMyne 1.2 includes expanded language support, as well as options for users to be reminded of material due dates.

More than 300 libraries now offer their catalogue on the BookMyne directory, with more libraries joining daily. The application is made possible through Symphony Web Services, which libraries can download through the SirsiDynix Customer Care Portal. Library users can download the BookMyne application through the Apple Store at no cost.

Over 600 libraries in Canada, Latin America, Spain, France and Germany use SirsiDynix technology to connect users with their catalogues in Spanish, French and German languages. The company expects to offer the application to Horizon users later this year with the release of Web Services for Horizon.

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Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, a business unit of ProQuest, has added new features to its OPAC-enrichment tool, Syndetics. Library users can now expect to easily choose catalogue titles and get ideas for new titles that match their interests.

Syndetics, designed to enhance the bibliographic content of library online catalogues, now enables libraries to provide video clips, book reviews from The New York Times and searchable fiction profiles to their users through their OPACs. Bowker announced the new features at the ongoing Public Library Association's national conference in Portland, Oregon.

According to Bowker, Syndetics offers a range of descriptive information and cover images relating to videos, DVDs, CDs and all types of books from juvenile chapter books to conference proceedings. Much of this data reportedly cannot be found from any other source. Various elements of content are added weekly for more than 100,000 new titles each year. The new elements launch on the heels of the new Syndetics Plus, which is claimed to include a simple, easy-to-use widget that automatically integrates data into a library's catalogue. It also allows customisation of Syndetics content to match the look and feel of the OPAC.

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Cologne-based libraries and the Library Centre of Rhineland-Palatinate (LBZ), in cooperation with the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz), have reportedly become the first German libraries to adopt open access for bibliographic data. The institutions have published their catalogue data for free public use. The University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne and the LBZ are participating in the move. The release of bibliographic data is projected to form a basis for linking that data with data from other domains in the Semantic Web.

The objective of the latest initiative is to provide free access to knowledge to everybody via the Internet. Until now, it was not possible to download library catalogues as a whole. The library of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has already published its data under a public domain licence in January. According to observers, cooperation and data exchange between libraries have been firmly established in the library world for more than 100 years. Freely supplying bibliographic data should not only further enhance cooperation among libraries but enable subsequent use by non-library institutions, they feel.

The North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center has begun evaluating the possibilities to transform data from library catalogues in such a way that it can become a part of the emerging Semantic Web. The liberalisation of bibliographic data is seen to provide the legal background to perform this transformation in a cooperative, open and transparent way. Currently there are discussions with other member libraries of the hbz library network to publish their data.

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STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has announced that its online image database SpringerImages (www.SpringerImages.com), which launched in July 2009 with 1.5 million images, now includes over 2 million images.

SpringerImages is a growing collection of scientific images, tables, charts and graphs from Images.MD, as well as images from Springer journals and books, including Open Access content. The images span all scientific subject areas. The platform allows users to search fast, broadly and accurately through captions and keywords (both author-provided and user-generated). It also provides bibliographic information for the sources, as well as one-click access to the full text, allowing users to delve deeper into the context of the image and research surrounding it.

According to Springer, images obtained from SpringerImages can be used for almost all non-commercial purposes, including integration into presentations and PDF documents. The platform enables the user to store image sets and saved searches. Image sets can be exported to PDF or PowerPoint (including their bibliographic data) with one click.

SpringerImages recently implemented Copyright Clearance Center's point of content licensing tool Rightslink for direct licensing needs.

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Database, content and IP research services provider Scope eKnowledge Center, a Quatrro Group Company, has announced that it has successfully completed a mega project of developing a database of 15 million author records.

Scope, with its proven expertise and experience in executing high volume abstracting and indexing projects, was entrusted with the task of developing a mammoth database of authors and their affliation addresses from a repository of 3.2 million documents. The company's systems, automation tools, trained engineering workforce, and its globally-competitive infrastructure including a trusted network of captive units, helped in completing the project within a very short period of three months.

Systematic planning and innovative project management approach were the key factors for the success of this project. Scope employed its proven 'assisted automation' approach featuring robust workflow / data extraction tools, complemented by thorough validation checks by database experts. The company is well-poised to leverage the learning and technology expertise gained through this project to develop further value added services like author disambiguation services and developing searchable author profiles.

Headquartered in Chennai, India, Scope eKnowledge Center is an award winning provider of knowledge processing services, offering a range of content development, semantic enrichment and database enhancement services to global customers. The company uses a combination of deep subject matter expertise in a number of business and STM domains, innovative technology and proprietary intellectual property to provide world class services, including abstracting, indexing, semantic enrichment, database and directory development and content authoring. With sales and support offices in Philadelphia, Chicago and Richmond VA in the USA as well as in London, Brussels and Amsterdam, Scope has built a strong international clientele.

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Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, a business unit of ProQuest, has released a new version of Syndetics, a resource valued by librarians for its ability to enhance the bibliographic content found in library online catalogues. The new Syndetics Plus combines more than 11 million content enrichment elements with advanced widget technology to seamlessly integrate this data within a library's OPAC. Syndetics Plus includes a simple, easy-to-use widget that automatically integrates Syndetics data - descriptive information and cover images relating to videos, DVDs, CDs, audio books, and all types of books from juvenile chapter books to conference proceedings. The widget allows for customised implementation that makes the Syndetics content neatly match the look and feel of the OPAC. Libraries can also choose where on the page to place each content element.

Syndetics currently provides a range of 25 data elements, with new options continually being added. Various elements of content are added weekly for more than 100,000 new titles each year.

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Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, has announced the acquisition of BML (Book Marketing) from Publishing News Ltd. With this acquisition, Bowker seeks to expand its ability to provide business intelligence to the global publishing market. BML is a provider of market research on the UK book market and is best known for its Books & Consumers survey and BookZone Research Panel. The company will become part of Bowker's Publishing Services division.

Based in the UK, BML has been providing research and information to the UK book industry for 20 years. Its services are purportedly employed by the UK's leading publishers and retailers and play a central role in providing the industry with ongoing consumer panel research and customised ad-hoc consultancy. As part of Bowker Publishing Services, it will continue to offer full market research service to its clients, which range from individual publishers and book retailers to syndicates, trade associations, arts organisations and government agencies. It will also maintain its role leading the Book Marketing Society, a premier membership organisation of book marketers.

Bowker's Publishing Services runs a comparable consumer information service in the US called PubTrack Consumer. Launched in 2007, PubTrack is an ongoing panel of consumer-based research encompassing feedback from more than 40,000 book consumers annually. It also provides advanced cover review services, standard and custom reports as well as special studies - including a recent partnership with the Book Industry Study Group on a landmark e-Book Consumer Study.

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CERN Library has announced that it now offers the bibliographic book records, held in its library catalogue, to be freely downloaded by any third party. The records are provided under the Public Domain Data Licence, which permits colleagues around the world to reuse and upgrade the data for any purpose.

It has been observed that though librarians are in general very favourable to the principles of open access, surprisingly few libraries have so far set free the data they produce themselves. The data of CERN Library will be used by the Open Library Project to provide a webpage for every book and allow users to add content like table of contents, classifications and summaries. For massive reuse of data, the data will be provided soon by an open Z39.50, SRU and OAI interface via biblios.net, a repository of open bibliographic data.

CERN Library is part of the Scientific Information Service of CERN - the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. It acquires and manages information resources in all fields of relevance to the Organisation, and seeks to make these accessible in the most convenient way to the worldwide particle physics community.

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Nielsen Book, part of global information and media group Nielsen Company, US, has announced an agreement with library audio visual (AV) supplier, Library Multimedia Supplies (LMS). LMS is part of the Pilton Group of companies which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of DCC Plc.

Under the deal, LMS will make BookData Multimedia MARC records available via their website www.librarymultimedia.com. Customers will be able to select products from the LMS website and download the corresponding BookData Multimedia MARC record, making the process of accessing high quality MARC data as seamless as possible. The company will work closely with Nielsen Book to support and promote the service to its existing and prospective customers over the coming weeks.

MARC records are available in both UKMARC and MARC21 formats. In order to take advantage of this service, libraries will need to enter into a subscription agreement directly with Nielsen Book. As the company already supplies data services to most public libraries, this is expected to be a straightforward process.

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Boliven Publications, a free scientific abstract and bibliographic information service for Boliven Network Members, has announced that it now includes nearly 20 million PubMed citations and articles for free use by its members. It also offers weblinks to related free data in clinical trials, patents and FDA drug and device data.

Scientists, doctors and IP professionals can now expect to quickly and easily link between patent data, PubMed citation data and clinical trials data. This in turn is projected to speed up collaboration, open innovation and, eventually, the development of life-saving medicines. Features and capabilities of Boliven's PubMed integration include links to patents, clinical trials, drugs and medical devices data; Work Portfolio and Innovation Network Integration; and PartnerMatch Integration.

Under Work Portfolio and Innovation Network Integration, scientific authors included in the PubMed dataset can create a Work Portfolio of their publications, clinical trials and patents and expand their Innovation Network on Boliven for free by joining. As members save PubMed abstracts and articles to their Work Portfolio, Boliven will recommend other scientists and biomedical researchers who have common interests and might make good partners for new research activities.

Boliven also offers the ability to search by MeSH terms and other features found on PubMed. Over 5,000 leading scientists, doctors, patent attorneys, technology entrepreneurs, executives, and investors are participating in the Boliven Network, according to the company.

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

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

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

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

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal BMC Medical Genomics has now been accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters. The journal will get its first impact factor in June 2010.

Since its launch in January 2008, BMC Medical Genomics has published more than 100 quality articles and was also recently accepted for tracking by both Medline and Scopus. The journal was one of the first journals in the BMC series to embrace the involvement of Associate Editors in the peer review process.

BMC Medical Genomics publishes original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of functional genomics, genome structure, genome-scale population genetics, epigenomics, proteomics, systems analysis, and pharmacogenomics in relation to human health and disease. As an electronic-only journal, it gives authors the opportunity to publish large data sets, large numbers of illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages.

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Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that the 250th edition of The Annual Register is now available online. This volume, published in 2009, covers the events of 2008 and also includes a number of special features to commemorate the 250th anniversary.

The Annual Register was first written under the editorship of the eminent philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke, and has been produced continuously since that date. Every year since 1758 leading contemporary scholars compiled a comprehensive record of the year's critical events, providing a valuable record of contemporary opinion, historical context and biographical information. It gives readers a sharp insight into contemporary thought from eminent scholars and writers year by year.

The complete full text back-files of The Annual Register (http://annualregister.chadwyck.co.uk) are available online through an interface that allows facsimile pages of the original print edition to be scanned, downloaded and printed. The Annual Register Online comprises articles on each of the world's countries or regions, as well as articles on international organisations, economics, the environment, science, law, the arts and sport, together with obituaries, a chronicle of major events and selected documents. The Annual Register Online is being offered to public libraries for free as part of the 250th anniversary celebrations.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that seven of its journals have been accepted for inclusion in AGRICOLA. AGRICOLA is an indexing service from the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library.

The journals are: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, BMC Ecology, BMC Plant Biology, Carbon Balance and Management, Nutrition Journal, Nutrition & Metabolism and Plant Methods. Content from these journals will appear in AGRICOLA from the start of 2010. In addition, all of these titles are included in PubMed, PubMed Central and Scopus.

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) serves as the catalogue and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century.

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Publisher linking services provider CrossRef, US, has announced a collaboration with archiving organisations and publishers to ensure that several journals that have ceased publication remain linkable with the CrossRef DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) originally assigned to the articles. The titles include Auto/Biography and Graft from SAGE and Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention from Oxford University Press (OUP). All three titles are now available through both CLOCKSS and Portico.

An archive 'trigger event' occurs when a published journal or other content is no longer available from the publisher. Trigger events can occur for a variety of reasons. Both SAGE and OUP have had agreements in place with archive organisations for several years. According to CrossRef, the discontinuation of journals published by these publishers mark for the first time that such agreements have been implemented for real-world cases.

Access to triggered content is available to the more than 600 Portico participants at http://www.portico.org/news/trigger.html.

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

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

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

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Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the immediate availability of EndNote X3 for Mac OS X - the bibliographic management software that includes EndNote Web and is used by millions of researchers, librarians and students worldwide. EndNote X3 claims to increase productivity for researchers by delivering new ways to group references and find full text when off campus, expanding AppleScript support for key EndNote tasks, offering new composite styles popular with chemistry journals, and more.

EndNote X3 expands the existing AppleScripts so users can enhance searches as well as add references to groups. AppleScripts can also match existing EndNote references with local PDF files through the use of DOI and PMCID unique identifier data. EndNote X3 provides a detailed dictionary and documentation to help users automate these repetitive tasks and more. It offers more ways to format bibliographies, including the ability to manage multiple bibliographies within a Word document. Now a paper can have a bibliography at the end of each section, at the end of the document, or both. Additionally, EndNote X3 supports composite styles - popular with chemistry journals - that group citations by number and letter.

EndNote X3 users can now create groups containing both Custom and Smart Groups, providing more options for viewing and organising their references. The main and sub-groups can be re-arranged at any time with a simple drag-and-drop action.

Other features of the upgrade include comparing duplicate records side-by-side for easy review; start EndNote faster; use more options when compressing EndNote libraries; and connect and publish with over 3,900 connection files, more than 700 Import files and over 3,700 journal styles.

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Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that institutions can now subscribe to the entire bibliographic record of dissertations written in the United Kingdom and Ireland from as far back as 1716, with full abstracts for titles available from 1986 in 'ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - UK & Ireland'. Originally published by Expert Information's Index to Theses, these new additions to ProQuest's dissertations and theses portfolio reflect the scholarly output of some of the world's leading research universities.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - UK & Ireland, available as a stand-alone product or an add-on to existing ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, comprises access to the total bibliographic record for all theses produced by UK and Irish universities and claims to be the only complete set available. The database includes complete abstracts from 1986 until the present day.

ProQuest's new collection of abstracts and citations to UK and Irish dissertations were published by Expert Information's Index to Theses. Customers of Index to Theses database now have the option to access this exceptional index via the ProQuest platform, allowing cross-searching with other dissertations from around the world in ProQuest's PQDT database, as well as other databases.

ProQuest's PQDT collection comprises the world's largest repository of dissertations.

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Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with academic publisher Brill, Netherlands. Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter's entire online journals collection of 130 titles. With this inclusion, over 10,000 e-journals and 27,000 e-books from 74 publishers on behalf of 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive.

Through this agreement with Portico, Brill furthers its digital preservation strategy. Since 2005, Brill has worked with JSTOR to provide a trusted archive for 23 of its journals' back issues. Also, the company has also agreed to make an annual financial contribution to Portico to help support its preservation work.

Founded in 1683, Brill is a leading international publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In addition to its journals programme, the publishing house publishes 500 new books and reference works each year.

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Information solutions provider Unlimited Priorities Corporation, US, has announced the sale of AARP's online bibliographic database, AgeLine, to research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US. AgeLine is produced by AARP and focuses on the subject of aging and middle-aged and older adults. Unlimited Priorities initiated the transaction, helped manage the process, assisted in the negotiations and acted as the exclusive strategic and financial advisor to AARP.

The AgeLine database addresses the social, psychological, economic, policy and health care aspects of aging. It provides summaries of journal articles, books and chapters, research reports, dissertations, gray literature and educational videos from many publishers and organisations, including AARP. Links to full text or ordering options are included wherever possible. AgeLine can be searched by subject, author, title, journal name, year, or browsed via ready-made searches on high-interest topics using AgeLine's Searches to Go.

EBSCO Publishing offers a suite of nearly 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers. The company's product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search, Business Source, CINAHL, DynaMed, Literary Reference Center, MasterFILE, NoveList, SocINDEX and SPORTDiscus as well as dozens of leading licensed databases powered by EBSCOhost.

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STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has launched SpringerImages, a growing collection that now includes over 1.5 million scientific images, tables, charts and graphs, spanning all scientific subject areas. The new database will be officially launched at the forthcoming American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago. SpringerImages includes image collection from Images.MD, as well as images from Springer journals and books, including Open Access content. The database contains photos, graphs, histograms, tables and figures, and is available by subscription to libraries and research institutions.

SpringerImages allows users to search fast, broadly and accurately through captions and keywords (both author-provided and user-generated). A feature unique to SpringerImages, users can also search the sentences from the full text which refer to the image. The platform provides bibliographic information for the sources, as well as one-click access to the full text, allowing users to delve deeper into the context of the image and research surrounding it.

Images obtained from SpringerImages can be used for almost all non-commercial purposes, including integration into presentations and PDF documents. The platform enables the user to store image sets and saved searches. Image sets can be exported to PDF or PowerPoint (including their bibliographic data) with one click. Copyright and license information for images for commercial use is also available.

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Academic publisher SAGE has announced that the new SAGE Reference Online Handbook Collection, a set of 80 of its highest rated handbooks, digitised and hosted on the SAGE Reference Online platform, is now available for libraries worldwide. The first demos of the Handbook Collection will be given to attendees of the American Libraries Association meeting in Chicago, July 11-13.

The Handbook Collection was developed following extensive consultation with librarians about how researchers are using reference collections in today's libraries. Sold as a set on the SAGE Reference Online platform, the handbooks, which include award-winning titles, cover a range of subject areas across the social sciences.

The 2009 SAGE Reference Online Handbook Collection is sold as a set and individual titles are not available for purchase at this time. The 2009 introductory price for a one-time purchase of the set of 80 handbooks is $6,000 (list price: $8,000), and includes access for unlimited users and perpetual access to purchased content.

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The Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Science & Technology Policy Research and Information Center (STPI) on collaborative efforts to provide direction and support for Taiwan's Science & Technology (S&T) development. STPI is a non-profit organisation under the National Applied Research Laboratories in Taiwan.

STPI aims to conduct S&T policy research in order to provide Taiwan's government with the necessary information to accelerate the growth of research and innovation in Taiwan's S&T industry, and improve Taiwan's S&T competitiveness in the global arena.

Under the MOU, Thomson Reuters will provide its bibliometric expertise as well as databases and professional support to help the STPI develop appropriate and consistent methodologies for measuring S&T output of research institutions and technology companies in Taiwan that are keeping with evaluation standards used by the international research community.

STPI and Thomson Reuters will work together to cultivate greater public awareness and understanding of issues and topics concerning Taiwan's S&T development and applied research. This will be achieved by a balanced and objective analysis of international trends in S&T development, and development of consistent methodologies using bibliometrics to monitor Taiwan's S&T output, which will assist STPI in planning its policies and long-term strategy.

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Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that STM publisher Springer, Germany, has expanded its agreement with the digital preservation service. The company has named Portico as a mechanism for perpetual access (also known as post-cancellation access) for its more than 800 titles preserved in the archive.

Springer began participation in Portico in 2007. Through this expanded agreement, the global publisher provides Portico's nearly 500 participating libraries around the world with an additional reliable, 'back up' option to ensure continuing access to subscribed content for their faculty, researchers and students.

Publishers have a variety of arrangements for providing continuing access to libraries in the event of a cancellation. Portico is able to serve as one such mechanism if and when needed for over 85 percent of the more than 15,300 e-journals and e-books committed to the Portico archive.

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

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

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

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The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Inc. (SPIE) has announced a 10 percent rollback in pricing for institutional subscriptions to the SPIE Digital Library for 2010. The move is the result of a year-long study involving in-depth interviews with academic, government, and corporate librarians and researchers in North America, Europe, and Asia, and supports the Society's commitment to enabling the broadest possible dissemination of information to the worldwide optics and photonics research community.

The price reduction applies to current and new subscriptions to the full SPIE Digital Library, which includes Proceedings of SPIE and all SPIE journals, as well as topical segment subscriptions. Subscribers who sign a three-year contract by September 30, 2009, can lock in the price rollback through 2012. Looking beyond 2010, SPIE plans to continue to seek ways to moderate price increases and potentially continue rollbacks as its subscriber base grows. The reduction does not apply to consortia arrangements, for which customised discounts already are applied, to print editions of proceedings or journals, or to independent subscriptions to single SPIE journals. However, 2010 prices for consortia will be frozen at 2009 rates.

Along with the price rollback, SPIE is introducing new pricing options aimed at enabling access for institutions with smaller research budgets and larger institutions with limited engineering programmes.

SPIE continues to enhance the Digital Library with new types of content as well. SPIE eBooks will be available as an option to libraries beginning in August 2009. The society plans to launch two new journals in 2009, SPIE Reviews and Photonics for Energy and the Environment.

Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, and e-content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, Inc., US, have announced a joint-marketing programme that will enhance the discoverability of more than nine million titles that are commercially available in Bowker's Books in Print catalogue. Integrated within Bowker's new SEO Title Cards, Impelsys' iPublishWidgets will enhance Bowker's capacity to effectively market and sell books to consumers.

Bowker's SEO Title Cards and iPublishWidget, a component of the iPublishCentral tool suite from Impelsys, are currently offered as value-added services to publishers who provision bibliographic meta-data to Bowker or purchase ISBNs from the US ISBN Agency. Publishers can opt to control the affiliate sales channeling elements with iPublishWidget on Bowker's SEO Title Cards for a small monthly fee and can further enhance the widgets to include links to their own online catalogues through Bowker's MyIdentifiers.com title management platform.

iPublishWidget is a viral marketing tool that helps publishers promote their brand and market books on the Internet. Readers and authors can use iPublishWidgets to spread information about a title of interest on social networking web sites like Facebook and MySpace. Readers and authors can also easily add book widgets to their personal blogs. This viral marketing tool enhances visibility, sustains interest and enables sales conversions for any title.

Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press (CUP), US, has announced the launch of a digital archive featuring over 20,000 issues of academic journals published by CUP. The Cambridge Journals Digital Archive provides online access to over 160 journals from 1827 to 1996. The archive offers more than 20,000 issues, over 350,000 articles, over 3 million pages of content and over 8 million linked references. The archive is digitised using the latest interactive technology. All the content has been scanned from original published material and reproduced as high-resolution, searchable PDFs. Journal covers, content listings, prelims, plates and maps are reproduced in their entirety, providing a complete digital reproduction of the original journal.

The Digital Object Identifier System (DOI), which identifies content objects in the digital environment, is used for each article, and all references are created as HTML files. This helps facilitate full reference linking to the archive content using CrossRef, which is a system that connects users to primary research content, by enabling publishers to work collectively. Footnotes are also available in HTML, and Google Scholar book referencing provides links directly from the footnotes to detailed author information.

The Cambridge Journals Digital Archive is available in its entirety, as a package of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) archives, or as a package of Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) archives.

The National Technical Information Service (NTIS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has announced the creation of a new online platform, National Technical Reports Library (NTRL). The online platform seeks to enhance accessibility to the NTIS bibliographic database of over 2.5 million scientific and technical reports.

The NTIS mission is to acquire, index, abstract, and archive the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored scientific and technical reports in existence. The NTRL operates on an IP-authenticated online interface that allows users to utilise a variety of search strategies for queries on the large NTIS bibliographic database.

The aim is to broadly expand and improve access to over 2.5 million bibliographic records (pre-1960 to present) and over 500k full-text documents in Portable Document Format that are directly linked to the bibliographic database. The database is continuously updated with new content. The NTRL offers access to these authenticated government technical reports to libraries and technical information users.

Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, has released statistics on the US book publishing industry for 2008, compiled from its Books In Print database. Based on preliminary figures from domestic publishers, Bowker is projecting that US title output in 2008 decreased by 3.2 percent, with 275,232 new titles and editions, down from the 284,370 that were published in 2007.

Despite this decline in traditional book publishing, 2008 was another year of substantial growth in the reported number of 'on-demand' and short-run books produced during the year. Bowker projects that 285,394 on-demand books were produced last year, a 132 percent increase over the previous year's final total of 123,276 titles. This is the second consecutive year of triple-digit growth in that segment, which in 2008 was 462 percent above levels seen as recently as 2006.

Among the major publishing categories, the big winners last year were education and business, two categories that might suggest publishers were seeking to give consumers more resources for success amidst a very tough job environment. There were 9,510 new education titles introduced in the nation in 2008, up 33 percent from the prior year, and 8,838 new business titles, an increase of 14 percent over 2007 levels.

Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, and STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, have entered into a partnership allowing hospitals to access EMBASE on EBSCOhost. EMBASE is a biomedical bibliographic database produced by Elsevier.

EMBASE is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research. The database contains over 12 million records derived from biomedical articles in peer-reviewed journals. It covers nearly 5,000 active journals, of which nearly 2,000 are not covered by MEDLINE. Each EMBASE record contains a full bibliographic citation, and more than 80 percent have an abstract. In addition, all EMBASE records are indexed using EMTREE, Elsevier's Life Science thesaurus. EMTREE contains 55,000 preferred terms, of which 27,000 are drug terms.

Representing published journals from 70 countries and 30 languages, EMBASE includes more than 12 million records from 1974 to present. Over 600,000 records are added annually.

LibLime, a US-based provider of open source library software, has announced a partnership with Syndetics Solutions to provide enriched bibliographic content to users of the Koha open-source integrated library system (ILS). Syndetics Solutions is a supplier of descriptive content designed exclusively for library catalogues. Its services enable libraries to link to more than 15 million data elements including cover images and a variety of data element matching on more than 6 million ISBNs and UPCs.

Syndetic Solutions contracted with LibLime to integrate Syndetics enhanced bibliographic content with the Koha ILS. Additionally, LibLime has signed an exclusive contract for enhanced content through Syndetics, whereby LibLime will promote and help distribute Syndetic Solutions' enhanced bibliographic information to LibLime customers.

LibLime educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. It then facilitates implementation of open-source in libraries by providing development, customisation, support and training solutions - tailored to each library's needs.

Academic publisher SAGE and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) have announced that the Journal of Correctional Health Care (JCHC) has been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE. MEDLINE is the premier bibliographic database of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), containing more than 16 million journal article citations.

Published by SAGE, the Journal of Correctional Health Care is the official publication of NCCHC. The journal claims to be the only national, peer-reviewed scientific journal to address correctional health care topics.

Published quarterly under the direction of editor John R. Miles, MPA, JCHC features original research, case studies, best practices, literature reviews and more to keep correctional health care professionals up-to-date on trends and developments important to their field. It addresses areas such as clinical health care, health services and support, personnel and staffing, ethical issues, clinical services, medical records, continuous quality improvement, risk management and medical-legal issues.

The faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, has voted to make their scholarly articles available to the public for free and open access on the Web. The move is aimed at broadening access to MIT's research and scholarship.

The new policy was approved unanimously at a recently held MIT faculty meeting and took immediate effect. Under the new policy, faculty authors give MIT nonexclusive permission to disseminate their journal articles for open access through DSpace, an open-source software platform developed by the MIT Libraries and Hewlett Packard. The policy gives MIT and its faculty the right to use and share the articles for any purpose other than to make a profit. Authors may opt out on a paper-by-paper basis.

MIT's DSpace repository contains the digital research materials of MIT faculty and researchers and allows them to be saved, searched and shared worldwide. MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) was launched in 2001 with the goal of making all MIT course materials available, free of charge, to anyone over the World Wide Web. Since then, OCW has shared MIT course materials with more than 50 million visitors worldwide and inspired hundreds of other universities to do the same. The new open access resolution will now remove barriers to making all of MIT's research openly available to the world.

A faculty committee will work with the MIT Libraries to oversee implementation and determine a workflow for adding articles to DSpace. Under the new open access model, potentially thousands of papers published by MIT faculty each year will be added to DSpace and made freely available on the web and accessible through search engines such as Google.

MIT's policy claims to be the first faculty-driven, university-wide initiative of its kind in the US. While Harvard and Stanford universities have implemented open access mandates at some of their schools, MIT is the first to fully implement the policy university-wide as a result of a faculty vote. MIT's resolution is built on similar language adopted by the Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences in 2008.

E-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has entered into a long-term agreement with YBP Library Services, Inc., a provider of materials to academic libraries. The deal is to expand the distribution of Gale's Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) e-book collection, Literature Criticism Online; and the CODiE-finalist Gale Directory Library.

YBP will distribute GVRL into the academic library market, where it claims to have a leadership position. GVRL is projected to offer nearly 3,000 reference sources from some 50 authoritative publishers on a stable, easy-to-use platform. Libraries have the flexibility to buy one e-book or multiple e-books; search across a single e-book or an entire e-book collection. The collection grows weekly and covers a wide variety of topics and subjects - ranging from current events to classics and from arts and humanities to small business management. Literature Criticism Online brings together 10 acclaimed literary series representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Gale Directory Library is an online collection of cross-searchable directories of companies, publishers and associations.

A Baker & Taylor company, YBP Library Services provides books and supporting collection management and technical services to academic, research and special libraries in North America and around the world. In January 2009, it had announced full cataloging support for Oxford Scholarship Online's e-book collections.

The Indian government has granted the European Patent Office (EPO) access to its Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL). Loaded with ancient medical knowledge, the online database contains translations of manuscripts and textbooks in five languages, including English. Examiners at the EPO will use the TKDL to evaluate patent applications and to better treat attempts to patent traditional knowledge as 'new' inventions.

The cooperation between India and the EPO is projected to benefit both parties. It helps protect India's traditional knowledge from misappropriation and gives the EPO additional relevant information for granting properly defined patents. For the first time in history, the TKDL will make traditional Indian medical texts available in English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. It is also the first time that these texts - many of them old manuscripts written in Hindi, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Urdu and other languages - can be accessed in a digital, searchable format.

Development of the TKDL started in 1999 as a joint project between five Indian government organisations, including the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and the National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources. The main aim of the TKDL is to prevent unjustified patenting of traditional knowledge that is already being used in the public domain in India. Such public knowledge constitutes 'prior art', according to EPO regulations. As such, it cannot be patented unless the applicants can demonstrate significant inventive or new improvements.

EPO examiners have been able to access the TKDL since February 2, 2009. Patent examiners will now be able to compare patent applications to existing traditional knowledge documented in this new source. Examiners can limit the scope of a patent or reject it altogether before it is granted. This can prevent lengthy and costly opposition procedures.

Various other countries have also granted the EPO access to traditional knowledge databases. In 2008, the Chinese Patent Office opened its 32000-entry database on traditional Chinese medicine to the EPO.

LibLime, a US-based provider of open source library software, and Arcadia University have announced that the Landman Library Catalog has gone live. Landman Library is a collection of online resources, databases (proprietary and open content) and the library catalogue, accessible to all Arcadia University faculty and students. The Landman Library Catalog search provides a fast, user-friendly search interface to the entire collection.

The catalogue was developed in-house by Arcadia University using Pazpar2, an open-source middleware technology created by LibLime's partner, Index Data. Access to subscription content is provided by OpenTranslators, a new web service offered by LibLime that offers a simple gateway interface to over 9,000 subscription databases.

Arcadia University's Landman Library seeks to offer students and faculty the latest technology for collaborative education, with web-based teaching and learning tools providing access both on campus and around the globe. It allows students to quickly search the library's collection of databases via an interface built using the latest Javascript technologies. The new website offers an easy-to-navigate interface with resources grouped by subject. It also provides an interface for students with disabilities to have easy access to that same information.

Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that it recently signed an exclusive three year contract with the Chinese JALIS consortium for the delivery and support of a full eAccess solution for the universities in the Jiangsu province.

Under the deal, Swets will provide a suite of SwetsWise eAccess services to all JALIS member institutions that will give their end-users an efficient and intuitive solution for searching, browsing and accessing their catalogue of titles. With direct links to full content, this tailor-made suite of services will allow end-users to get to the information they need in the most straightforward and hassle free manner.

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