Open access publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation, US, has announced that its growing portfolio of open access journals have collectively received more than 2,000 monthly submissions for the first time in August.

This achievement comes a year and a half after having passed 1,000 monthly submissions in February 2009.

Hindawi Publishing Corporation is an open access publisher with 250 peer reviewed journals in its collection covering a wide range of subjects in science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences.

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Thieme, part of STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the publication of Cardiac Imaging, a publication that assists readers in diagnosing the full range of cardiovascular diseases. Authored by Dr. Carlos S. Restrepo and Dr. Dianna Bardo, the publication is part of RadCases, an innovative website and book series created by Thieme.

The authors have written cases that enable a reader to shine on board exams and in practice. Each case has been carefully selected in order to simulate everything residents and medical professionals encounter during rounds, rotations and on exams. Numerous, clearly presented high-resolution colour radiographs showcase key cardiac cases.

With the book and the searchable online database, readers can rapidly locate groups of cases across all radiology subspecialtites that are organised and tailored to their immediate needs. Cardiac Imaging comes with a scratch-off code that provides a reader with twelve months of access to a database of 100 cases plus an additional 150 cases in this particular book's specialty.

Forthcoming publications in the RadCases series include Neuro Imaging, Thoracic Imaging, Pediatric Imaging, Gastrointestinal Imaging, Breast Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound Imaging, Head and Neck Imaging and Genitourinary Imaging.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new and unique tool to help editors find reviewers, which addresses a major pain point for journal editors. Developed in close consultation with journal editors, this tool which is accessible from EES - Elsevier's Editorial and peer review system - suggests a list of potential reviewers.

Accessible from within EES, editors can search by topic or by name and check for any conflicts of interest. The search is based on the Scopus algorithm for ranking published articles. Potential reviewers are listed based on the number of their relevant articles, drawn from over 13,000 journals in Scopus. The results of the search will suggest potential reviewers and provide editors with information to help determine their suitability based on their published work, citations, h-index and conflicts of interest checks with the manuscript under review - previous co-authorship or affiliation to the same institute.

According to Martin Tanke, MD S&T Journal Publishing at Elsevier, this tool will not only help editors to expand their network of reviewers, but will also increase reviewers' satisfaction by inviting them to review relevant research.

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Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced the appointment of a senior marketing professional to support its Open Access publishing initiatives. Natasha White (née Robshaw) has joined the company as Associate Director, Open Access Marketing.

Natasha has extensive experience in Open Access (OA) publishing, having previously worked at BioMed Central as Marketing and Sales Director for over 6 years. She will have responsibility for marketing the growing number of hybrid Online Open journals available from Wiley-Blackwell. Also, she will be responsible for developing relationships with institutions and funders who wish to allocate funds to Open Access, and will take a leading role in identifying and developing further opportunities for Wiley-Blackwell in Open Access publishing.

Wiley-Blackwell publishes nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed journals and over 1,500 new books annually in print and online, as well as databases, major reference works and laboratory protocols.

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The Journal of the American Medical Association has announced that Editor-in-Chief Dr. Catherine D. DeAngelis will be leaving her position as of June 30, 2011. Dr. DeAngelis has been serving as Editor-in-Chief of the journal since January 2000. She also oversees the nine Archives specialty medical journal publications.

Dr. DeAngelis has been a leader among journal editors to increase the integrity and ethics of medical journal publishing. Working with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), she encouraged other editors to agree to a requirement for all clinical trials to be registered as a condition of publication and to strengthen conflict of interest guidelines. In one of her most courageous stands as a journal editor, she instituted the requirement that industry-sponsored clinical trials must have an independent academic statistician to review all data before a manuscript can be accepted and published in JAMA. No other journal has this stringent requirement to ensure the integrity of data.

During her tenure as editor, JAMA's Impact Factor increased from 11.4 in 2000 to 28.9 in 2009, the most recent year for which figures are available. The journal is consistently listed as one of the top three general medical journals in the world and highest for integrity.

With the announcement of Dr. DeAngelis' departure, the AMA has started the search for a new Editor-in-Chief for JAMA and the Archives journals. Russell Reynolds Associates has been retained to assist with the search. The search committee will be headed by JAMA Editorial Board member Dr. Ronald G. Evens from Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. Other members of the search committee include representatives from the Journal Oversight Committee, the AMA's Board of Trustees, AMA senior management, and JAMA/Archives. The AMA plans to have a new editor in place by July 1, 2011.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of SciVerse, a platform that seeks to integrate the company's key products and encourage the scientific community to collaborate on the development of customised search and discovery applications. Elsevier is releasing the APIs (application programming interfaces) for all of the content on SciVerse and will offer application development support tools on the site.

SciVerse is projected as a multi-phased initiative aimed at accelerating science through applications targeted to specific researcher needs. At launch, the platform will include SciVerse Hub beta, a module that integrates ScienceDirect, Scopus and targeted web content from Scirus, Elsevier's science-specific Internet search engine. SciVerse Hub beta allows for a single search across its integrated content with results ranked by relevancy and without duplication, in a bid to save researcher time.

Combining familiar resources with new efficiencies, SciVerse is also seen to enable interoperability among ScienceDirect, Scopus and the new SciVerse Hub beta. For instance, ScienceDirect users who also subscribe to Scopus will now be able to access key author information without leaving the article, and link directly into comprehensive lists of an author's documents and citations in Scopus.

SciVerse Hub beta will include three search and discovery applications at launch. These are: Methods section search application, Matching Sentences application; and Prolific Authors application. The Methods section search application will allow researchers to search only the methodology and protocol sections of full-text articles. The Matching Sentences application returns search results with the query words highlighted in the full sentence where they appear. Prolific Authors application prominently displays the most prolific authors for each search result.

The initial applications offer an example of the possible solutions that can be built using content APIs. These were developed by NextBio, a provider of a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for life sciences researchers which includes ontology-based semantic tools. Elsevier began collaborating with NextBio in 2009.

Elsevier will begin rolling out its APIs on SciVerse in the fourth quarter of this year including content APIs for ScienceDirect, Scopus and SciVerse Hub beta. In opening up this content to development by the worldwide scientific and developer communities, SciVerse claims to allow for collaboration on applications that meet specific researcher challenges. It also expects to enable the creation of customised solutions for efficiently finding, using and re-using SciVerse content.

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STM publisher Elsevier and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide 150 researchers working in least-developed and low-income countries with access to the latter's online scientific research platform and flagship abstract and citation database - ScienceDirect and Scopus.

Active in fields such as tropical medicine and sustainable development, the scientists will be able to apply the information available in ScienceDirect and Scopus for the treatment and prevention of diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The information can also be used to promote rural development with improved water, sanitation and food security in addition to other areas relevant to the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Elsevier and KIT's department Information & Library Service (KIT ILS) in Amsterdam are collaborating on this unique public-private partnership to drive capacity building in information technology and management in the developing world. The new agreement will expand access for five years while sharing best practice in research and training.

As an integral part of this initiative, KIT ILS facilitates a closed Virtual Knowledge Community on information management to share best research practices and identify issues of common interest. First piloted in 2007, this joint Elsevier - KIT initiative provides the Virtual Knowledge Community members in African, Caribbean, Asian and Pacific countries with access to ScienceDirect's 10 million full-text articles and Scopus' abstract and citation database containing 18,000 peer-reviewed journals from 5,000 publishers.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the contents of the last regular print edition of the journal Arthritis Research & Therapy will be finalised at the end of 2010. In an editorial, published in the latest issue of the journal, Editors-in-Chief Prof Peter Lipsky and Prof Sir Ravinder Maini, discuss the reasons behind, and opportunities presented by, the journal's decision to become an exclusively online publication.

First published by Current Science Ltd in 1999, Arthritis Research & Therapy was conceived with a strategy to take full advantage the benefits of online publishing. It has previously made innovative decisions in the rheumatology community, such as making all research open access and, latterly, publishing only the abstracts of research articles in print to help remove limitations to article length and to reduce publication times. The latest move to online-only publication is expected to benefit readers, as they will see more cutting-edge review articles. Also, authors will no longer be faced with the choice of paying for colour figures in non-research articles.

It is expected that more innovations in rheumatology research publishing will be facilitated by the journal's transfer to BioMed Central's newly-designed journal platform in the coming months. The publisher will be communicating with the journal's registered users via an online survey to establish what other online features would most benefit this rapidly-changing field.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will provide four key electronic textbook titles for UC Irvine School of Medicine's new programme that gives Apple iPads to its first-year medical students.

Elsevier will provide UCI's incoming medical students with access to Netter: Atlas of Human Anatomy, Gartner: Color Textbook of Histology, Costanzo Physiology and Nussbaum: Thompson & Thompson Genetics in Medicine - all through their new iPads.

UCI School of Medicine students and faculty will use their iPads to access Student Consult, Elsevier's online portal where students can access full textbooks plus additional interactive content. Student Consult is where UCI med students will find the four e-textbooks selected for the first term courses. Elsevier will work closely with UCI to monitor the use of the content and the iPads.

UCI anticipates it will add further Elsevier texts as the school year progresses.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the University of California have agreed to work together in the coming months to address mutual short- and long-term challenges, including an exploration of potential new approaches and evolving publishing models.

Earlier this year a row between NPG and the University of California (UC) erupted when the latter threatened the former with a total boycott. In protest at what they said was an attempt to hike subscription fees, the University of California then said that it would ask faculty to cease submitting papers to NPG journals, as well as cease peer review or other editorial functions.

Representatives from the University of California and Nature Publishing Group met on August 17, 2010 to discuss the organisations' current licensing challenges and the larger issues of scholarly communication sustainability. The discussion was positive, with a full exchange of views and mutual recognition of the value that each party contributes to the scholarly communication enterprise. The two organisations look forward to a successful planning and experimentation process that will result in a mutual agreement to serve all stakeholder groups - NPG, the UC libraries, and the scholar community, thus avoiding the need for the boycott that had been discussed at an earlier stage.

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STM publisher Springer has re-launched its online platform SpringerLink (www.SpringerLink.com), which hosts nearly five million documents, including eBooks, journals and reference works. The redesigned site has a new and fresh concept that includes semantic linking and connects related content across eBooks and journals.

SpringerLink now also contains a PDF Preview feature that provides all readers with a free look inside eBook chapters to be certain that the content matches their information needs. Subscribers not only have access to an instant overview of the entire eBook, they can also scroll and browse within different chapters of the book and can immediately download the desired content.

The redesigned site includes newly-integrated software that presents links to related content within journal articles and eBook chapters. When users perform a search, the technology analyses each search result and compares its digital fingerprint to all other documents. This determines which documents are most similar to that article or chapter, ensuring that readers discover content that best meets their research needs.

Additional updates to the new SpringerLink include access to nearly five million contributions organised in a revised subject hierarchy. Enhanced browsing features and improved search functionality with the ability to search by citation makes the new SpringerLink even more useful for researchers. Online journals, eBooks and eReference works have also been integrated onto a single, consistent user experience. Together with an enhanced user-friendly guided navigation, students and scientists can easily retrieve results for their work.

SpringerLink provides electronic access to more than 2,250 scientific and specialist journals, nearly 40,000 eBooks, more than 1,100 book series and about 170 reference works. The publications cover topics from 12 subject collections such as mathematics, computer science, medicine, engineering, economics, law, humanities and social sciences. It also makes available 20,000 searchable online protocols in life sciences and biomedicine.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced that the re-launched Thieme E-Book Library platform is now COUNTER compliant. With this addition to the online library, institutions can now obtain statistical data to monitor online usage that is based on international standards and protocols and supported by libraries, publishers, intermediaries, and professional organisations.

The relaunched Thieme E-Book Library has been reviewed by COUNTER and found to be compliant with the COUNTER specifications for the collection of usage data. This ensures that libraries will have access to accurate statistics regarding their users' usage of the Thieme E-book Library.

The Thieme E-Book Library is a continuously expanding online resource containing books on anatomy, the clinical sciences, radiology and the basic sciences. Through this service, individual users have the ability to download any book to their personal computer's desktop for offline viewing even when no internet connection is available.

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STM publisher Springer and the Helmholtz Association have signed an agreement for open access membership. The move follows the launch of SpringerOpen, a new series of open access journals that will span all STM disciplines. The agreement covers article processing charges for authors from the participating Helmholtz research centres for articles published in SpringerOpen and BioMed Central journals.

SpringerOpen journals are peer-reviewed open access journals in emerging and interdisciplinary fields that complement both the established Springer journal portfolios and BioMed Central's growing list of over 200 life science and biomedicine journal titles. SpringerOpen journals are e-only and publish articles under the Creative Commons Attribution license. According to this license, Springer will not reserve any exclusive commercial rights.

Both SpringerOpen as well as Biomed Central journals charge article processing fees to the author which make the journals' content immediately and freely available. The membership offering, introduced by BioMed Central, allows institutions to directly support the payment of these fees and facilitate the uptake of open access across their authors. Currently, authors from more than 340 institutions in 39 countries benefit from these memberships taking on full or partial payment of article processing fees.

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Publisher Elsevier Health Sciences has announced an agreement with India-based premier medical library consortium for e-resources, Helinet. Under the deal, Elsevier Health Sciences will provide all medical students at Helinet's medical colleges with access to leading international and local medical content through Elsevier's electronic platforms: ScienceDirect and MD Consult.

The special agreement provides all undergraduates, graduates, researchers and faculty within the Consortium with access to more than 260 journals and 50 leading reference books including authoritative titles from the scientific and medical literature such as The Lancet and Cell.

Health Science Library and Information Network (HELINET) was conceived by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, RGUHS, and was successfully implemented, becoming the first of its kind in the country. HELINET was also conceived as the consortium of all the teaching and research institutions affiliated to RGUHS, and pursues the need for networking and resource sharing. The Consortium began with a vision to improve the quality of education and research in Health Sciences institutions of the country through enhanced access to high-quality medical information.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced an exclusive partnership with The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) to provide a complete series of computed tomography modules through Mosby’s Imaging Suite for technologists’ continuing education. This partnership will provide technologists access to quality continuing education, and will give hospital management the best tools to ensure patient safety.

Mosby’s Imaging Suite claims to be the first fully integrated, online solution developed to meet the routine communication, workflow, education, and compliance challenges of radiologic technologists and managers. Hospitals will be able to licence the CT Basics modules through Mosby’s Imaging Suite, and allow access to the entire radiological staff.

Composed of 10 interactive modules, the CT Basics series provides radiologic technologists (RTs) with a full overview of the fundamentals of computed tomography. The modules feature colorful images with easy-to-understand animations that engage participants in the learning process. The complete package covers a broad range of CT topics, including fundamentals of CT; equipment and instrumentation; data acquisition, applications, imaging processing and reconstruction; patient safety, imaging quality, procedures; and sectional anatomy and pathology.

CT training is often not provided in the classroom. Many technologists learn this specialty through hands-on experience and on-the-job training. With ASRT’s CT Basics modules available through Mosby’s Imaging Suite, technologists will now be able to learn the basics through self-directed learning, in addition to on-the-job training.

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The World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS), representing more than 30,000 neurosurgeons, 114 individual societies and 100 nations, has launched World Neurosurgery. The title is projected as the specialty's first publication acting as a global forum for high level peer reviewed, clinical and laboratory science. It is also expected to examine the social, political, economic, cultural and educational issues that affect research and care delivery - regionally and from a global perspective.

Published by Elsevier, the journal is headed by surgeon and scientist Michael L. J. Apuzzo at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. The inaugural issue's focus (August) addresses problems attendant to neurosurgical care in East Africa.

The journal has assembled an internationally based support group of more than 600 global associates and a panel of continental editors who will advise and facilitate the focus on pertinent issues related to their regions. A senior advisory panel comprised of more than 50 neurosurgeons representing all regions and significant existing neurosurgical journals advise on policy and content.

The journal will be published monthly and also disseminated through secondary websites administered by Elsevier internationally to more than 20 million clinicians and scientists.

Dr. Apuzzo is stated to have made numerous contributions to intracranial neurosurgery. He is Editor Emeritus of Neurosurgery, Operative Neurosurgery and Neurosurgery On-Line.

World Neurosurgery will look to chronicle events, places, people our times and literature, internationally. The journal will be global in all respects - representing an international perspective and representing internationality with over 30,000 members in its organisation. The leadership, editorial board, subject focus and general content will reflect globalism and worldwide relevant issues in the field. Its goal is to be a forum for six continents.

World Neurosurgery is indexed in Current Contents/Clinical Practice, BioSIS, MEDLINE/PubMed, ISI/BioMed, Science Citation Index, Excerpta Medica and SCOPUS.

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Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, will host a seminar on 'Opportunities for Publishing in International Journals in Economics: A Guide for Scholars on How to Get Work Published' at this year's 10th World Congress of the Econometric Society (ESWC).

The Congress will take place in Shanghai from August 17- 21, 2010. The publisher will offer complimentary access to this seminar, which will take place on August 18, in the Pearl Hall, Shanghai International Convention Centre (SHICC), for all delegates.

The seminar will feature prominent speakers working within the field of economics. These include Xiaoming Feng, Managing Editor, China & World Economy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Professor M. Hashem Pesaran, Editor, Journal of Applied Econometrics; Professor Fabrizio Zilibotti, General Editor, the Journal of the European Economic Association; and Professor Orazio Attanasio, University College London, Managing Editor, Quantitative Economics. Topics to be presented and discussed within the seminar include opportunities for publishing in international journals in economics, how to get published and how to formulate an article, publishing standards and criteria, the value of publishing for the career of academic economists, new publishing models for economics, and open access publishing.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it will publish Neurotherapeutics, the official journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics (ASENT), beginning in 2011. With the switch to Springer, the journal will change its format of publishing review articles only to offering original research articles as well. The journal's editor-in-chief is Dr. Alan Faden, who directs the Shock Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR) Center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Throughout its six-year history, Neurotherapeutics has exclusively published critical reviews in thematic, quarterly issues that highlight neurotherapeutics related to the clinical neurosciences. Each issue is developed by one or more distinguished guest editors who are expert in the topic area. The journal achieved a debut Impact Factor of 5.38 in 2009, placing it in the top quartile of journals in both the Neurosciences and Pharmacology & Pharmacy categories.

Springer will create a Neurotherapeutics portal and a page on the NeuroNetwork to promote themed issues, facilitate communication among the journal's readers, promote society news, and highlight both the preclinical and clinical articles in the journal through RSS feeds and podcasts. All back issues will be available on Springer's online platform SpringerLink. The journal will take advantage of the online submission system Editorial Manager and all articles will publish in the Online First format on SpringerLink ahead of print publication. In addition, all content from the journal will be provided to PubMed Central and available to the public twelve months after print publication.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of Malaria Nexus, Elsevier's Global Malaria Resource, www.malarianexus.com. The new online knowledge hub seeks to provide a forum for malaria researchers, editors and opinion leaders.

Malaria Nexus highlights the latest published research in Malaria, utilising Elsevier's leading journals in Parasitology, Entomology and Tropical Medicine, including The Lancet, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and International Journal for Parasitology.

The site features interviews with key authors, who can expand on their highlighted published work, as well as editors of some of Elsevier's prestigious journal titles. Active participation and feedback from interested parties is encouraged. Currently featuring article feeds from 13 journals, the site will include additional relevant journals over the coming months.

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STM publisher Springer has announced that with the adoption of the journal Frontiers in Physics into the Science Citation Index (SCI), a total of 45 journals from Springer's Chinese Library of Science are now listed in the Thomson Reuters index. With this new addition, almost half (48%) of all English-language journals reporting on cutting-edge research in China and listed in the SCI are from the Springer stable. Springer's Chinese Library of Science currently includes 93 journals, with their content available online in a full-text database at www.springerlink.com.

According to the newly published Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2009, the 'rising star' among Chinese journals is the Springer magazine Nano Research. It claims to be the first international Open Access magazine to appear in China. The journal, jointly published with Tsinghua University Press since 2008, immediately achieved an impact factor of 4.37, putting it in second place among China's top hundred scientific journals. In the subject categories Physical Chemistry, Multidisciplinary Materials Science, Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, and Applied Physics, the journal ranks in the top quarter of all listed journals. It is the only Chinese publication in the top ten percent of international journals covering Material Science.

JCR 2009 also places the leading Chinese Academy of Science journals Science China Series and Chinese Science Bulletin among the top scientific publications. The eight titles are also part of Springer's Chinese programme.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the results of a new international study that demonstrates the value of the academic library to the institution in improving grant proposal and report writing and in helping researchers attract grant income. Of the eight institutions participating from around the globe, six demonstrated a greater than one-to-one (1:1) return in grant funding, with results ranging from 15.54:1 to 0.64:1. Seen to be equally significant is the result that two institutions showed a significant positive correlation between an increase in library investment over time and an increase in grant funding to the university.

Dr. Carol Tenopir, Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies at the University of Tennessee, led a team of investigators over a 16-month period. The results of the study, funded by Elsevier, are available through a newly published Elsevier Connect white paper, 'University Investment in the Library, Phase II: An International Study of the Library's Value to the Grants Process' (http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com).

A first phase of the study was conducted as a pilot with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008. In the pilot, a model for calculating a return-on-investment, or ROI, ratio was developed. Phase 2 (results announced now) was replicated, which refined the original model. The research team found that among the participants the ROI return varied according to the goals of the institution, the funding environment of the institution's country, and the availability of data provided by the institution.

Dr. Tenopir and Paula Kaufman, Dean of Libraries at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, are currently leading a team on a third study phase - a three-year project to expand on this research to include other aspects of ROI. This third study phase is being funded through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

This next phase of the research will look at ways to measure the value, outcomes and ROI for the full range of library products and services to a variety of stakeholders. The library's contributions to functional areas of teaching and learning, research and socialisation will be identified and presented as a series of tools, reports and literature reviews. University administrators and library leaders alike are expected to find these of value.

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Elsevier Properties SA, a centre of excellence within Reed Elsevier for the management of intellectual property, has announced that Dr. Scott Stewart of the University of Western Australia has won the Royal Australian Chemical Institute's (RACI) 2010/11 Athel Beckwith Lectureship, sponsored by Reaxys.

The award is open to all RACI members who have been appointed to their first academic or industrial position within the past five years. As the award winner, Dr. Stewart will be given the opportunity to present a lecture in at least six Australian state capitals and/or major regional centers during the year of the lectureship. The Organic Division of RACI established the annual lectureship to provide funding for outstanding early career organic chemists to travel around Australia and present the results of their research work.

Reaxys is a web-based chemistry database combining reaction and substance data in organic, organometallic, inorganic and physical chemistry with synthesis planning. It allows researchers to get the information they need in a single overview, from source publications carefully selected for their importance and relevance to research chemists.

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Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that TRANSFUSION, a publication for new information regarding transfusion medicine and the official peer-reviewed journal of AABB, is marking its 50th anniversary with a number of special activities. The journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell.

The centerpiece of the commemorative events is publication of monthly commentaries written by the associate editors and invited contributors. These commentaries examine developments of significance addressed by the journal over the past 50 years.

Transfusion medicine has evolved from a mostly laboratory-based discipline to a multi-focused laboratory and clinical field, touching on most areas of medical practice. The commentaries will trace the editorial content that initially covered techniques, blood preservation, blood group-immunology, genetics and anthropology to the expansion that has included clinical areas such as blood management, therapeutic apheresis, cellular therapies and tissue transplantation. The commentaries and other journal content are available at www.transfusion.org.

The anniversary celebration is also observed by special graphic treatments for the journal covers in 2010. In addition, all TRANSFUSION subscribers received with their April issue a commemorative bookmark featuring a timeline of significant journal milestones. In July, August, and September, the online journal will offer 10 multiple-choice questions based on the content in the anniversary commentaries from January through July. Selected at random from among those who answer the questions correctly, three winners will each receive an autographed copy of the prestigious Rossi's Principles of Transfusion Medicine, published by Wiley-Blackwell in collaboration with AABB.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that in support of World Breastfeeding Week 2010, it will open access to selected articles related to breastfeeding from the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, Midwifery and the Journal of Pediatric Health Care.

The full contents of a special issue of the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, titled, 'Promoting and Supporting Breastfeeding: A Guide for Clinical Practice' can be accessed at the JMWH website at http://www.jmwh.com. The entire issue highlights the role of midwives and other women's health professionals in encouraging breastfeeding. Topics include new scientific research on breastfeeding and its benefits, problems that can interfere with lactation and breastfeeding, and essential education for breastfeeding mothers. Elsevier has also made available key articles from Midwifery and the Journal of Pediatric Health Care in support of World Breastfeeding Week.

Sponsored by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, World Breastfeeding Week is held each year from August 1 to 7. This year's theme, 'Just 10 Steps', draws attention to the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. The Ten Steps also provide healthcare professionals with guidance in the support of breastfeeding.

World Breastfeeding Week 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of the Innocenti Declaration, which called for implementation of the Ten Steps in all maternity facilities.

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STM publisher Springer has signed an agreement with the Psychonomic Society for publication of the Society's complete portfolio of journals. These include Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience; Behavior Research Methods; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Memory & Cognition; Attention, Perception & Psychophysics; and Learning & Behavior.

The six journals, to be published by Springer as of January 2011, will add about 500 articles of top-quality content to Springer's online platform, SpringerLink, each year. The Psychonomic Society will retain complete editorial control over the content of the journals, which will be published by Springer online and in print.

Features will include Cross Reference Linking, Issue Alert services and rapid, article-based electronic publication in Online First.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group's Managing Director Steven Inchcoombe has released the annual letter to customers to provide clarification on NPG's policies for 2011. In this communication, Inchcoombe also shares news on the publisher's progress in 2010 and plans for the coming months.

The publisher recognises the pressure on library budgets, and the need for evolving business models in scholarly communication. According to Inchcoombe, to keep prices as low and predictable as possible, NPG is actively investing in diversifying its income sources, launching open access (OA) journals and driving down costs. Nature Education is one example of this approach, working with sponsors to provide free science education resources to students and teachers around the world.

Two years ago the company announced that it would keep increases on NPG-owned journals below 7 percent for 2009, 2010 and 2011 list prices. There has been extensive discussion about NPG's 2010 and 2011 price increases in recent months. Inchcoombe says that despite the company's efforts, confusion has arisen between list prices and volume discounts for consortia. To clarify this, he has said that there was a 3.5 percent increase from 2009 list price to 2010 list price on site licenses for NPG-owned journals. The 2011 list price increase for NPG-owned journals will be 4.5 percent. List prices for society journals are set independently in consultation with individual societies. Site licence list pricing for academic customers will be published shortly on the NPG Librarian Gateway.

In 2010, prices will come into effect on December 1 for Nature-branded journals, and September 1 for academic and society journals. In 2011 and in future years, list prices will come into effect on October 1 for all NPG titles. Therefore, 2012 list prices will come into effect on October 1, 2011, for both Nature-branded and NPG's academic journals. This synchronises the pricing cycle for all of the journals published by NPG. The 2012 list prices for NPG-owned journals are expected to be announced in April 2011. Meanwhile, NPG will continue to quote prices locally in each of the four invoicing currencies – US dollar, British pound, euro and yen.

In addition, Inchcoombe discussed the 2009 Impact Factor of Nature Journals and Nature Communications, an online-only, multidisciplinary 'hybrid' journal, with subscription and OA options. According to him, OA options are now available on 50 percent of the 50 academic journals published by NPG, including all 15 academic journals owned by NPG. Seven journals published by NPG on behalf of societies offer OA options, with more expected to follow later this year. In January, the company launched the OA journal Cell Death & Disease. This was followed in July by Nutrition & Diabetes and Clinical & Translational Gastroenterology, with more launching later this year.

NPG claims to be one of the first publishers to reduce site licence prices significantly to reflect OA uptake. In keeping with its OA pricing policy, confirmed in March, the 2012 site licence prices of all NPG-owned journals with an OA option will be based only on the amount of subscription content and the selectivity and level of developmental editing of the journal.

Over the past year the publisher has been gathering feedback on Nature and Scientific American (acquired last year) from reader panels and focus groups. With this input, it is working to enhance the journals.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that Skeletal Muscle, a new open access journal that focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying the biology of skeletal muscle, is now accepting submissions. The journal is overseen by Editors-in-Chief Kevin P. Campbell (University of Iowa), David J. Glass (Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research) and Michael A. Rudnicki (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute). They are supported by an expert Editorial Board.

Skeletal Muscle is a peer-reviewed, open access, online journal that publishes articles investigating molecular mechanisms underlying the biology of skeletal muscle. The emphasis is on understanding adult skeletal muscle, its maintenance, and its interactions with non-muscle cell types and regulatory modulators.

The journal seeks to provide a venue for the publication of novel, cutting-edge research on a wide range of skeletal muscle biology and to answer questions relevant to the understanding of skeletal muscle. Main areas of interest include differentiation of skeletal muscle; atrophy and hypertrophy of skeletal muscle; aging of skeletal muscle; regeneration and degeneration of skeletal muscle; biology of satellite and satellite-like cells; maintenance of neuromuscular junctions; roles of ryanodine receptors and calcium signaling in skeletal muscle; roles of nuclear receptors in skeletal muscle; and roles of GPCRs and GPCR signaling in skeletal muscle. In addition, articles on translational clinical studies that address molecular and cellular mechanisms of skeletal muscle will also be published.

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Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that it has expanded its publishing partnership with the British Psychological Society (BPS) to include the Society's journals in addition to their partnership on the BPS' prestigious book publishing programme. Under the new deal, the publisher will publish eleven BPS journals, from 2011.

The BPS claims to be the second largest psychological society in the world. With this partnership, the Society aims to increase the global impact of its journals and develop each journal to become a leader in its field through tailored development.

Together Wiley-Blackwell and the BPS will enhance its joint publishing programme across journals, books and online services to benefit psychologists in all aspects of their work and careers - in their learning, teaching, research and professional practice. The latest partnership reinforces Wiley-Blackwell's already prominent position as publisher for more than 750 society partners which includes many psychology and mental health associations.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data - have announced their next step in interconnecting the diverse elements of scientific research. Elsevier articles at ScienceDirect are now enriched with graphical information linking to associated research data sets that are deposited at PANGAEA.

PANGAEA is a data library which links primary data related to articles in earth and environmental science journals and thus may serve some hundred journals of the Elsevier portfolio. In the first phase, more than 1,000 articles from various earth science journals were linked. The data are freely available from the publication's page in ScienceDirect, without a login or subscription.

The latest initiative follows the introduction, last February, of 'reciprocal linking' - automatically linking research data sets deposited at PANGAEA to corresponding articles in Elsevier journals on its electronic platform ScienceDirect and vice versa. The new feature adds a map to every ScienceDirect article that has associated research data at PANGAEA. It displays all geographical locations for which such data is available. A single click then brings the user from the ScienceDirect article to the research data set at PANGAEA.

The linking of data and content has the potential to streamline the research process, bringing relevant information to researchers with fewer clicks and through quicker searches.

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Multidisciplinary renal-care journal Dialysis & Transplantation (D&T), published by Wiley-Blackwell, US, has announced a partnership with the Medical Education Institute (MEI) and its Home Dialysis Central website. The journal and MEI will together create a list of dialysis clinics in the US that support home dialysis therapies. The new resource will be published in the July 2010 edition of The List, D&T's annual worldwide guide to clinics that accept travelling patients. MEI, creator and developer of Home Dialysis Central, is projected as a leading patient and educational sites for home dialysis.

D&T claims to be the oldest and largest circulation multidisciplinary renal-care journal with a primary focus on clinical application. The special expanded version of The List, claimed to be an important new resource for patients, will include listings of clinics that offer supplies and backup for peritoneal dialysis and training for home hemodialysis, as well as centres that allow self-cannulation and offer in-centre nocturnal dialysis.

The resource will be published in the July 2010 issue of D&T (www.eneph.com) and will be available on the Home Dialysis Central website (www.homedialysis.org).

In conjunction with this partnership, D&T's July issue will include a new how-to manual to help dialysis staff educate patients on self-cannulation. The full-colour, eight-page article, entitled 'A How-To Manual: The Art of Teaching Buttonhole Cannulation', is also available now for free download on Home Dialysis Central (www.homedialysis.org/buttonhole). The techniques described in this how-to manual, including tandem-hand cannulation, touch cannulation, and the buttonhole technique, can purportedly help people overcome their fear of needles and learn to self-cannulate.

D&T, which is celebrating its 39th year of publication, features industry news, the latest information on regulatory issues, and data from the latest research in the field.

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Thieme Publishers, part of STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, and Manson Publishing, a UK-based specialty publisher, have announced that Thieme will distribute Manson titles in the Americas and India.

Manson is known for clinical titles with concise text and top-quality illustrations. Its books for medical professionals and students encompass subject areas such as dermatology, cardiology and pediatrics. Manson's catalogue includes the popular 'Self-Assessment Color Review' series, the 'Color Handbooks' series and the new 'Clinician's Desk Reference' series. Titles such as Skin Diseases in the Elderly - A Color Handbook, Cardiovascular Imaging and Child Abuse and Neglect - A Diagnostic Guide, are among their forthcoming releases.

Manson Publishing issues books for professionals and students in medicine, veterinary medicine and the sciences. The company's veterinary medicine list is recognised as among the best known in English language publishing. In human medicine, the list includes market leading texts in, among other areas, dermatology, neurology, cardiology and pediatrics. Manson also issues books in earth science, plant science, agriculture, and microbiology.

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STM publisher Springer has announced an agreement with the Population Association of America to publish the latter's official journal Demography, as of 2011. In the 2009 ISI ranking, this journal is first in the Demography Listing with an impact factor of 2.391. The journal will join Springer's expanding portfolio of population studies.

A quarterly publication, Demography includes articles of interest to population scientists from various disciplines, including the social sciences, geography, history, biology, statistics, business, epidemiology and public health. The journal includes articles reporting on original research, including theoretical developments, improvements in models or methods, policy evaluations, applications of demographic principles or techniques, assessments of demographic data, and comparative and historical studies.

Fast publication in Online First will provide immediate access to new research results in Demography on Springer's online information platform, www.springerlink.com. Editorial Manager (an online author submission and peer review system), Cross Reference Linking, and Alert services will be fully implemented for the journal. In addition, Springer will digitise the back volumes of the journal, making them available to readers through the Springer Online Archives Collection.

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Academic publisher SAGE has announced a partnership with the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF). Under the deal, SAGE will publish the latter's official journal, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, beginning with Volume 144 in 2011.

Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery seeks to provide contemporary, ethical, clinically relevant information in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery (ear, nose, throat, head, and neck disorders) that can be used by otolaryngologists, clinicians, scientists, and specialists to improve patient care and public health. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles and case reports on recent developments in treatment of the ear, nose, throat, and related structures of the head.

The AAO-HNS and its Foundation sponsor continuing medical education, professional meetings, new scientific research, and practice management guidance for more than 13,000 ear, nose, and throat specialists in the US and abroad. The Academy also monitors all federal medical-related legislation and educates legislators and policy makers about the needs and concerns of otolaryngologists.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its range of Netter products has been expanded to include interactive online and mobile technologies. The medical training products are based on a collection of hand-painted anatomy illustrations by Dr. Frank Netter. The newly launched digital tools are projected to aid students and clinicians in learning and reviewing concepts in basic sciences and clinical medicine.

The Netter products are claimed to offer a number of avenues for medical students to self-direct their learning outside of the clinical and classroom environment. These include Netter's 3D Interactive Anatomy, powered by Cyber-Anatomy, which seeks to bring the human body to life. The aim is to give students and clinicians a real-time interactive model of human anatomy using advanced gaming technology. The original Netter art is digitised and modeled to simulate a realistic environment for virtual dissection and exploration of human anatomy, allowing users to rotate virtual bodies, peel apart individual structures and have precise control over their view.

Netter's iPhone apps reportedly allow students and clinicians access to the bestselling references from an iPhone or iPod touch. The apps include Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy; Netter's Anatomy Flash Cards; Netter's Concise Radiologic Anatomy; Netter's Musculoskeletal Flash Cards; Netter's Neuroscience Flash Cards; Netter's Advanced Head and Neck Flash Cards; Netter's Histology Flash Cards; and Netter's Surgical Anatomy Review.

Best-selling Netter books, including The Atlas of Human Anatomy, The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations, Netter's Clinical Anatomy, Netter's Orthopaedic Clinical Examination: An Evidence-Based Approach, and Netter's Cardiology, are scheduled to be available on the Kindle beginning in 2011.

Even with the adoption of electronic and digital tools, students and clinicians still find paper resources valuable, according to the company. Students can continue their self-directed learning with products from the Netter line including Netter's Surgical Anatomy Review P.R.N., by Robert B. Trelease; The Netter Anatomy Coloring Book, by Dr. John T. Hansen; Netter's Clinical Anatomy by Dr. John T. Hansen; and Netter's Correlative Imaging Series, which will launch in late 2010 with the first volume: Musculoskeletal Anatomy.

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The American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) has announced a new partnership with open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central's OA journal, Molecular Neurodegeneration (MN). Under the deal, Molecular Neurodegeneration will be the official open access journal of the AHAF.

The journal publishes peer-reviewed, original scientific research on the causes of neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, and on the pre-clinical testing of potential therapies for these diseases. MN was ranked in the top 16 percent of journals among the 'neurosciences' category in the ISI Web of Knowledge by Thomson Reuters.

According to Dr. Guojun Bu, Co-Editor-In-Chief for Molecular Neurodegeneration, this agreement will help the journal to more effectively publish cutting-edge research about the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and the development of new diagnoses and therapies. The articles published in MN will be free and will not only help patients and healthcare providers stay abreast of the latest progress, but will also enable scientists to rapidly communicate their important research to the global community.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has introduced a new feature on ScienceDirect that improves the discoverability and usefulness of scientific chemistry content. This added functionality seeks to enhance the value of the content for both authors and readers in chemistry.

Starting with two Elsevier chemistry journals, authors are invited to submit structure (MOL) files of their key compounds alongside their articles. Elsevier will use these structure files to add compound identifiers - International Chemical Identifier (InChI) keys - to the article, increasing the discoverability of both the article and its key compounds on ScienceDirect. In addition, the structure files are used to visually display all key compounds of the article in a single scrollable list, with additional functionality such as links to Reaxys, Elsevier's web-based chemistry database, and Google.

According to IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Vice President for Content Innovation at Elsevier, making the MOL files of key compounds available at ScienceDirect and, at the same time, using Reaxys to show the corresponding structures, ties into Elsevier's strategy to enrich the content of ScienceDirect. The use of InChI keys improves discoverability of compounds within the chemistry scientific literature, facilitating and accelerating connectivity to other research tools and content sources. It helps researchers unravel deep layers of information, otherwise hidden in the full text, therewith increasing their research productivity.

The linking of data and content has the potential to streamline the research process, bringing to researchers more relevant information with fewer clicks and through quicker searches. ScienceDirect has built the capability to quickly plug in specialised applications as they are developed, so that external data or relevant analysis tools can be integrated directly in the online article as opportunities emerge.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has released the third edition of the Pocket Atlas of Radiographic Anatomy, a compact, portable guide to basic radiographic anatomy, written by experts in the field.

In this updated edition, the authors detail the normal radiographic anatomy medical professionals need in order to interpret conventional diagnostic radiographs. The structure of the third edition strictly adheres to the previous two editions.

The atlas has a uniform, user friendly format with two-page units displaying standard radiographs on one side and clearly labeled detailed schematic drawings on the other. More than 170 radiographic studies and 280 images provide multiple views of every basic anatomic structure.

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STM publisher Springer has announced that it will publish the Journal of NeuroVirology (JNV), a publication closely affiliated with the International Society for NeuroVirology, starting January 2011. Previously published by Taylor & Francis/Informa, the five-year contract with Springer runs to 2015.

A bi-monthly publication, the Journal of NeuroVirology publishes basic science and clinical studies on the molecular biology and pathogenesis of viral infections of the nervous system, and reports on the development of novel therapeutic strategies using neurotropic viral vectors. The journal also focuses on articles covering non-viral infections that affect the central nervous system. Original research articles, reviews, case reports and coverage of scientific meetings are included.

Professor Kamel Khalili, Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, USA, will serve as the editor-in-chief of the journal.

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STM publishing Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that physicians, residents and students will be able to visualise and review over 300 top medical procedures on their mobile devices with the launch of Procedures Consult Mobile. As the use of smartphones increases in the clinical setting, access to mobile resources proves to be an essential tool for verifying physicians' knowledge and skills before conducting a procedure.

Procedures Consult Mobile provides web-enabled smartphones with access to expert videos, 'quick review' text and illustrations, checklists and universal protocol content for every procedure - all presented within a user interface optimised for smartphone web browsers. The mobile site allows clinicians, who may not have studied or conducted a procedure for a period of time, the ability to prepare for, perform and follow-up on the most common procedures required in today's hospital setting.

This mobile-enabled platform allows both students and practicing physicians the ability to review procedures from anywhere, at anytime, which is becoming increasingly essential in the medical setting. Clinicians can view modules in areas such as anesthesia, emergency medicine, family medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, orthopaedics and a collection specifically geared to the needs of medical students.

Procedures Consult Mobile is included as part of the current Procedures Consult institutional subscription package at no additional charge, as well as upcoming individual subscription offerings beginning in July 2010. Users can access Procedures Consult Mobile by pointing a mobile browser to http://m.proceduresconsult.com with a valid username and password.

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The British Mycological Society, in association with STM publisher Elsevier, has announced the final programme for the 9th Mycological Congress IMC9: The Biology of Fungi. This congress takes place every 4 years at a different venue around the world.

The 9th Mycological Congress will take place at the Edinburgh Convention Centre in Edinburgh, UK, from August 1-6, 2010. A comprehensive programme encompasses the latest research in all areas of fungal biology. More than 300 oral presentations are arranged within 45 thematic symposia and supplemented by over 1000 posters, optional special interest group meetings, field trips and an exhibition. A complementary public exhibition, entitled 'From Another Kingdom', will be hosted at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh during the Congress and later into Autumn 2010.

New areas of research will be reviewed within the five main themes of the congress. These are: Cell biology, biochemistry and physiology; Environment, ecology and interactions; Evolution, biodiversity and systematics; Fungal pathogenesis and disease control; Genomics, genetics and molecular biology.

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STM publisher Springer has announced that it will publish a new international, peer-reviewed journal Drug Delivery and Translational Research, starting February 2011. Focusing exclusively on translational aspects of drug delivery, the bi-monthly journal seeks to provide a unique forum for publication of high-quality research. The journal is the official journal of the Controlled Release Society (CRS). Dr. Vinod Labhasetwar of the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA, will be the editor-in-chief. He is supported by an international editorial board with renowned experts from research centers and hospitals.

Drug Delivery and Translational Research will publish research on such topics as designing and developing novel drug delivery systems, with a focus on their application to disease conditions; preclinical and clinical data related to drug delivery systems; short-term and long-term biocompatibility of drug delivery systems; nanomedicine, and other state-of-the-art technologies. In addition to original full-length papers, reviews, and editorial commentary, the journal will include brief communications, notice of future meetings and announcements pertaining to activities of the Society.

Drug Delivery and Translational Research will be published on Springer's online platform SpringerLink including Online First, Cross Reference Linking, and Alert services. The journal will be provided to all members of the CRS as a benefit of membership.

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Wiley-VCH, the German subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, US, has announced that the Israel Journal of Chemistry has become part of its chemical society portfolio, effective from 2010. Wiley-VCH acquired the journal in late 2009, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the start of official Israeli-German science relationships after World War II.

The Israel Journal of Chemistry is the official journal of the Israel Chemical Society, and is celebrating the publication of its 50th volume in 2010. Issue 1/2010 was recently published and is devoted to ribosome chemistry, honoring Professors Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath, 2009 Nobel Laureates in chemistry.

The international, peer-reviewed journal publishes topical issues, each of which is edited by Guest Editors and primarily contains invited Review articles. Upcoming issues will cover organic electrochemistry (honoring Professor Allen J. Bard, 2008 Wolf Prize Recipient), nanotubes & nanostructures, and metal-catalysed cross-coupling reactions. The journal's Editorial Board consists of 12 renowned Israeli chemists. Of the International Advisory Board’s 30 prestigious members, 18 are Nobel Laureates.

Originally a quarterly, the Israel Journal of Chemistry will publish six issues both in print and online (www.ijc.wiley-vch.de) in 2010. Individual articles will be published online as EarlyView articles prior to full issue publication. For authors who wish to make their articles freely available online, the journal offers the OnlineOpen option.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and video game developer and publisher Legacy Interactive, have announced the release of Top Doc, an iPhone app that features medical content and quizzes designed to let medical students, residents and junior faculty practice and improve their visual diagnosis skills. Elsevier and Legacy Interactive developed the app's interactive format to engage and challenge users with multiple elements.

Top Doc combines in-depth content with quizzes composed of more than 600 questions and answers developed for levels ranging from novice to expert. Users play against a timer as they try to determine the correct diagnosis by viewing actual photographs depicting a condition or abnormality on the body. At the conclusion of each round, players' performances are evaluated and given a grade which they can automatically post to their Facebook account.

For players preferring to study the material in a non-competitive manner, Top Doc's review mode provides the information in a flashcard format. The iPhone app is now available for purchase in the iTunes App store.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the highlights of its journal Impact Factor performance in 2009. Elsevier saw over 65 percent of its journal Impact Factors (IFs) increase from 2008 to 2009. According to the 2009 Journal Citation Reports published by Thomson Reuters, Elsevier journals took the #1 position in 57 of 230 categories (up from 51 of 229 last year) across all of the sciences and social sciences.

This year there were 95 Elsevier journals that increased their IF by more than 50 percent over their 2008 scores. Amongst the biggest movers are journals in energy & fuels, climate change, sustainable development and banking & finance.

The Lancet and all three Lancet specialty journals improved their IFs this year. The Lancet's IF reached 30.758, ranking it 2nd in the Medicine, General & Internal category. The Lancet Neurology increased by 27 percent to 18.126, retaining its position as top-ranked journal in the Clinical Neurology category for the 6th consecutive year. The Lancet Infectious Diseases increased to 15.583, also retaining its position as top-ranked journal in its category of Infectious Diseases for the 6th consecutive year. The Lancet Oncology rose to 14.470, ranking it 5th of 165 journals in the Oncology category.

Cell, the flagship journal of Cell Press, remains the number one research journal in the Cell Biology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology subject categories, with an Impact Factor of 31.152. Cell Press journals Cell Stem Cell and Cell Host and Microbe also saw their Impact Factors surge. In addition, 62 Elsevier journals earned their first IF this year.

The impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. The impact factor helps to evaluate a journal's relative importance, especially when compared with others in the same field.

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Renal-care journal Dialysis & Transplantation (D&T), published by Wiley-Blackwell, has partnered with the Medical Education Institute (MEI) and its Home Dialysis Central website to create a comprehensive list of clinics in the US that support home dialysis patients. D&T claims to be the oldest and largest circulation multidisciplinary renal-care journal with a primary focus on clinical application. MEI, creator and developer of Home Dialysis Central, is one of the leading patient and educational sites for home dialysis. The two have come together to create a list of dialysis clinics that support home dialysis therapies.

This new resource will be published in the July 2010 edition of 'The List' - D&T's annual worldwide guide to clinics that accept traveling patients. This special expanded version of 'The List' will include listings of clinics that offer supplies and backup for peritoneal dialysis and training for home hemodialysis, as well as centers that allow self-cannulation and offer in-center nocturnal dialysis. This enhanced resource will be published in the July 2010 issue of D&T (www.eneph.com) and will be available on the Home Dialysis Central website (www.homedialysis.org).

In conjunction with this partnership, D&T's July issue will include a new how-to manual to help dialysis staff educate patients on self-cannulation. The full-colour, 8-page article, entitled 'A How-To Manual: The Art of Teaching Buttonhole Cannulation', is also available now for free download on Home Dialysis Central (www.homedialysis.org/buttonhole). The techniques described in this how-to manual, including tandem-hand cannulation, touch cannulation, and the buttonhole technique, are expected to help people overcome their fear of needles and learn to self-cannulate.

Also appearing in D&T this August is a special-focus issue on home dialysis therapies, with reviews and commentaries by top leaders in the field, including Dr. Christopher Blagg and Dr. Isaac Teitelbaum, with special guest editor Dr. Barbara Delano.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) have announced the launch of an international, multidisciplinary journal - Journal of Geriatric Oncology.

The Journal of Geriatric Oncology is focused on advancing research in the pathogenesis, biology, treatment and survivorship issues of older adults with cancer. It covers all aspects of geriatric oncology, from basic scientific research through to clinical research, as well as research that is relevant to education and policy development.

The Editorial Board is led by Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Arti Hurria, and Founding Editor, Matti Aapro. Dr Hurria is a geriatrician and oncologist, focusing on care of the older patient with cancer. Dr Aapro is Dean of the Multidisciplinary Oncology Institute at the Clinique de Genolier in Genolier, Switzerland. In addition to his role as Executive Director of SIOG, Dr. Aapro is also an active member of several professional organisations.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has published a visually-driven single volume Atlas that incorporates detailed descriptions of the anatomy and function of cranial nerves with practical coverage of clinical concepts for the assessment and differential diagnosis of cranial nerve dysfunction.

The atlas 'Cranial Nerves: Anatomy, Pathology, Imaging' is claimed to be the only atlas in this field that combines normal anatomy with case studies and pathology illustrated with modern cross-sectional techniques. It skillfully combines the surgical perspective of an experienced neurosurgeon and the imaging knowledge of talented neuroradiologists to provide a complete picture of complex cranial nerve anatomy and pathology.

The publication commences with a general introduction. Each subsequent chapter details the functional anatomy and pathology of the 12 cranial nerves, complete with tables, bullet point summaries and numerous illustrations highlighting case studies. More than 300 high-quality images and state-of-the art CT and MR images depict key anatomic concepts and pathologic findings. The authors use tables to synthesise key information related to anatomy, function, pathology, and imaging.

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Population Health Metrics, published by open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, recently published a new thematic series entitled 'Measuring mortality in Thailand.' The series Editor, Dr. Emmanuela Gakidou, is an Associate Editor for Population Health Metrics.

The series describes methods and results from what could be the largest-ever national investigation into the validity and quality of cause-of-death statistics in a developing country. A commentary by Peter Byass discusses the four research papers by Rao and colleagues and considers methodological assessments and public health implications. The research papers relate to a detailed investigation of cause-specific mortality in Thailand during 2005, integrating a number of different data sources, including empirical investigations, death certification, and the use of verbal autopsy methods. Research published in this thematic series could serve as a model for additional investigations into the quality of mortality statistics in other developing countries.

Population Health Metrics addresses issues relating to concepts, methods, ethics applications and results in the measurement of the health of populations. The journal aims to provide a platform for researchers in all these areas to share their findings with the global research community.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Martin O'Malley as Managing Director of the newly formed Global Sales & Customer Marketing group in the Science & Technology (S&T) division, effective July 1, 2010. The Global Sales & Customer Marketing group in the S&T division includes the sales teams for Academic & Government, Books and Corporate Markets.

O'Malley's appointment follows the announced departure of Roy Jakobs, Managing Director for Academic & Government Sales and Customer Marketing. Jakobs will be leaving Elsevier this summer to take a senior position in the lighting division of Philips.

O'Malley's position as Managing Director of Corporate Markets will be taken over by Alexander van Boetzelaer, who will spearhead the continuing effort to develop Elsevier's corporate business.

Publisher Future Science, UK, has announced that Therapeutic Delivery is the latest title to join the Future Science portfolio - a series of peer-reviewed journals targeted at research and development professionals in healthcare and environmental communities. The journal launches in July 2010.

Therapeutic Delivery will provide researchers in this field with a forum for the rapid publication of original research and critical reviews of the latest developments. Coverage focuses on how the technological, pharmacological, clinical and physiological aspects come together to successfully deliver modern therapeutics to patients. The journal will publish reviews, original research, perspectives, commentary and news & views. Content can be viewed at http://www.future-science.com/r/tde.

The editorial direction of the journal is driven by a team of thirteen Associate Editors and an Advisory Panel of more than thirty international experts spanning the relevant disciplines, such as biology, chemistry, pharmacology and pharmaceutics, nanotechnology, physiology, materials science and engineering.

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The Elsevier Foundation has announced that it has awarded the 2010 New Scholars grant to the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSDW) for two programmes - the National Assessments and Benchmarking of Gender, Science, Technology and Innovation and the OWSDW Awards for Young Women Scientists 2011. The $177,000 grant was announced at the OWSDW 4th General Assembly and International Conference, Women Scientists in a Changing World, hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing.

The OWSDW National Assessments and Benchmarking of Gender, Science, Technology and Innovation will undertake a seven country assessment in collaboration with WIGSAT (Women, Technology, Society) to provide a picture of the level of support, opportunities and participation of women in innovation systems in developed, emerging and developing countries. A series of policy recommendations will then be developed on the basis of the data analysis and future assessments, for defining and achieving national targets for women's participation in countries with highly accelerated growth in the research arena. The study will cover China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa the US and Europe.

A 2009 Elsevier Foundation New Scholars grant enabled the OWSDW Awards for Young Women Scientists to expand the existing award programme from four prizes (one per developing world region) to twelve (three discipline-specific grants per region). The 2010 prizes were announced on June 27, 2010, at the OWSDW 4th General Assembly meeting in Beijing. The 2010 Elsevier Foundation New Scholars grant will also ensure that the OWSDW Awards for Young Women Scientists will be continued in 2011, ensuring that talented young women scientists from the developing world continue to be recognised for their achievements.

Targeting the attrition of talented women scientists in the academic pipeline, past Elsevier Foundation New Scholars projects have aimed to support women scholars during the early stages of their demanding careers in science and technology. They have ranged from mentoring to advocacy, basic research to dual career travel and recruiting grants, lactation centers, childcare at professional meetings and work-life balance workshops.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that it will be exhibiting at the forthcoming 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) in Boston, July 10-13, 2010. Delegates are invited to visit booth 7 to learn more about BioMed Central journals including BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Systems Biology, and to meet fellow BioMed Central authors, Editors and Editorial Board members as well as some of the In-house Editorial team.

The ISMB conferences provide a multidisciplinary forum for disseminating the latest developments in bioinformatics/computational biology. ISMB brings together scientists from computer science, molecular biology, mathematics, statistics and related fields. Its principal focus is on the development and application of advanced computational methods for biological problems.

According to conference organisers, ISMB 2010 will offer the strongest scientific programme and the broadest scope of any international bioinformatics/computational biology conference in 2010. Building on past successes, the Boston conference is designed to cater to variety of disciplines within the bioinformatics/computational biology community.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and Sapienza University of Rome have announced an agreement to provide researchers at the university with access to Reaxys, a workflow solution for research chemists. Reaxys is projected to enable researchers at Sapienza to quickly find the chemistry data relevant for their needs and thereby raise their performance and output.

Offering experimentally validated information, Reaxys combines reaction and substance data in organic, organometallic, inorganic and physical chemistry with synthesis planning. Researchers can get the information they need in a single overview, from source publications selected for their importance and relevance to research chemists.

Reaxys seeks to bring a fresh look to synthetic chemistry through powerful functionality and relevant content. The tool contains a repository of experimentally validated data that chemists need, including structures, reactions (including multi-step reactions) and physical properties.

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Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that two-thirds of its journals (67 percent and 1,013 titles) have an impact factor according to the Thomson ISI 2009 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). This is claimed to be a higher proportion of the list than any other major journals publisher. Of these ranked titles, nearly a quarter (332 titles) is in the top 10 of their subject category whilst two-thirds are in the top half of their category.

Wiley-Blackwell has 36 number 1 rankings (from 33 titles, with Econometrica top of three, and Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing top of two categories respectively), the joint highest number of top ranked titles as a proportion of the list. The Wiley-Blackwell journal CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians remains in first place overall with an impact factor of 87.925.

Fifty-one new titles were added to Wiley-Blackwell's listing in the JCR for 2009 with four titles re-listed. The publisher's average impact factor saw a 5.3 percent rise last year. This year, the company's average was 2.1, compared to 2.0 last year. This is in the context of an overall 1.7 percent reduction in average impact factor between JCR 2008 and 2009. Overall, Wiley-Blackwell published 11.2 percent of the journals, 11.3 percent of the articles, and received 11.1 percent of the citations.

Impact factors are a metric that reflect the frequency that peer-reviewed journals are cited by researchers, making them an important tool for evaluating a journal's quality.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its online scientific research platform, ScienceDirect. The tenth anniversary also marks the addition of the ten millionth article to the database, which contains full-text articles and book chapters. The ten millionth full-text article added to the database was: Use of Herbal Products and Potential Interactions in Patients With Cardiovascular Diseases, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, authored by A. Tachjian, V. Maria, A. Jahangir from the Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Mayo Clinic, Rochester and the Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, USA.

ScienceDirect became fully operational in 2000 when it surpassed one million articles and launched its backfiles initiative, adding literature published prior to 1994. According to Elsevier, it has since then become the largest and most extensive resource of its kind. The platform was created to help scientists quickly find the most relevant content for their specific research objectives by offering search, reference and discovery tools. Institutions worldwide currently offer ScienceDirect to their faculty and students, with up to twenty articles downloaded per second from the platform. ScienceDirect has more than 100 million outbound links to cited or related articles, as well as links to other scientific databases.

Continuously seeking ways to accelerate research, ScienceDirect underwent a full platform redesign in 2006 focused on navigational improvements. As a result, researchers were able to cut the number of clicks required for some of the most common search activities by 40 – 50 percent, thereby speeding up the knowledge discovery process.

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STM publisher Springer has announced that it is expanding its open access (OA) offering to all disciplines. SpringerOpen (www.springeropen.com) will cover all disciplines within the science, technology and medicine (STM) fields and will be offered in cooperation with BioMed Central. The entire content of SpringerOpen journals - including research articles, reviews, and editorials - are now fully open access, and are accessible to anyone with an internet connection. No subscription is required.

SpringerOpen journals are e-only journals. The journals are published under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which facilitates the open distribution of copyrighted work. According to this license, Springer will not reserve any exclusive commercial rights. The journals ask the authors to pay an article-processing charge, in accordance with market standards.

BioMed Central, acquired by Springer in 2008, will provide its expertise and technology to help establish the SpringerOpen portfolio. SpringerOpen journals will publish in emerging and interdisciplinary fields and will complement both the established Springer journal portfolios and BioMed Central's growing list of over 200 life science and biomedicine journal titles.

Furthermore, in order to reduce the financial burden faced by individual authors, Springer and BioMed Central are collaborating to extend BioMed Central's Open Access Membership scheme, offered to institutions, societies, groups, funders and corporations, to include the SpringerOpen titles. More than 300 institutional open access membership arrangements are currently in place.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Dr. Mehar Manku has accepted the position of Editor-in-Chief of the journal Medical Hypotheses. In this role Dr. Manku will lead a journal that constitutes a bridge between cutting-edge theory and the mainstream of medical and scientific communication. Dr. Manku provided invaluable editorial help to Dr. David Horrobin, the journal's founder and first Editor-In-Chief, before becoming a member of the Editorial Board in 2004.

Medical Hypotheses is a forum for ideas in medicine and related biomedical sciences. It will publish interesting and important theoretical papers that foster the diversity and debate upon which the scientific process thrives.

Dr. Manku will be responsible for implementing a new form of peer review that is unique to Medical Hypotheses submissions. Medical Hypotheses aims to give open-minded consideration to novel, radical new ideas and speculations in medicine which would probably be rejected by most conventional journals. Submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the Editor and external reviewers to ensure their scientific merit. All reviewers will be fully aware of the Aims and Scope of the journal and will be judging the premise, originality and plausibility of the hypotheses submitted. The journal also plans to implement an online comment section encouraging active participation and debate on the journal's contents.

Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, recently launched two new gateways in the fields of Endocrinology and Gastroenterology. These gateways seek to provide researchers in these disciplines with up-to-the minute information including relevant research, recent news and research highlights.

Each gateway features an item about a renowned author in the field who has chosen to publish with BioMed Central, as well as a 'News from around the web' section displaying updates on the latest advances or discoveries in the relevant field.

Springer's Author Mapper, which can be used to view the location of BioMed Central authors around the globe, can also be accessed via the gateways, giving a picture of the geographical spread of specialists in these fields.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that VIVO has begun a pilot project to evaluate the process by which Scopus Custom Data can be used to populate institutional VIVO instances. VIVO is a NIH-funded national initiative aimed at connecting scientists and fostering collaboration across academic institutions.

The pilot project, carried out by the VIVO development team at the University of Florida, utilises a Scopus Custom Data dataset and will serve as a proof of concept with respect to integrating Scopus Custom Data into individual VIVO instances for discovery across the VIVO network. The VIVO project enables national networking of scientists through institutional-based installations of its open source semantic web application. VIVO partner institutions currently include Cornell University, where VIVO was first developed; the University of Florida, which is leading the programme expansion; Weill Cornell Medical College; Indiana University; Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; The Scripps Research Institute; and Ponce School of Medicine, Puerto Rico.

Leveraging the breadth and depth of the raw publication content provided by Scopus Custom Data, an institution will be able to generate more complete bibliographic researcher profiles for display in VIVO. These profiles are the backbone of the VIVO project as they allow scientists to easily and quickly identify peers at institutions across the country with whom they can collaborate based on similar or complimentary research work. It is planned that institutions that choose to utilse Scopus Custom Data datasets to populate their VIVO installations will have the opportunity to purchase a discrete set of bibliographic elements related to the publications of the institution's authors. The installation at the University of Florida will serve as a proof of concept with respect to integrating Scopus Custom Data into an individual VIVO instance.

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SciVee, a video platform solutions provider to the STM market, has announced that STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell has agreed to conduct a trial of the SciVee video platform for several of its life sciences journals.

The three-month trial is designed to test how SciVee products and services can supplement and enhance Wiley-Blackwell journals to increase article views, broaden reader interest and promote authors. Wiley-Blackwell publishes nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed journals and over 1,500 new books annually, as well as databases, major reference works and laboratory protocols.

This test primarily focuses on SciVee PubCast, which is a synchronised video abstract that enables a reader to see the author discuss highlighted sections of a journal article in a full multimedia presentation online. It provides a more dynamic way to absorb and retain knowledge than a text-only abstract. A PubCast promotes greater interest in the author's work and increases its impact through broad distribution on the Internet.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of PeerChoice, a new pilot peer review programme for Chemical Physics Letters where reviewers can now choose which articles they would like to review. It is expected that by choosing articles matching their expertise and interest, efficiency and effectiveness of the peer review process will be increased. The PeerChoice pilot will initially run for three months, starting in June.

PeerChoice reverses the traditional model in which the Editor selects articles for a reviewer to review. Using high-end software, the reviewer will be able to select the article that matches his academic competency and current interest, while committing to a timely review. Current checks and balances in the peer review process remain in place to ensure the usual high quality of the process.

The peer review programme is the result of a 2009 Peer Review Survey, which the publisher conducted in partnership with Sense About Science. The Survey revealed that a significant number of reviewers were sometimes hesitant to review an article because of a lack of expertise in that particular field. In addition, researchers made clear they want to improve peer review by improving article relevancy and speeding up turnaround time. PeerChoice is expected to contribute to solving these issues.

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Cell Press, an imprint of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that in the year since their 2008 preliminary ranking, Cell Press journals Cell Stem Cell and Cell Host and Microbe saw their Impact Factors surge, according to new data released in the 2009 Journal Citation Reports published by Thomson Reuters.

In the recently released report, Cell Stem Cell's rating rose to 23.563 - a growth of 40 percent from the journal's previous score. Cell Host and Microbe ranks 13.021 - boasting an increase of 75 percent from the journal's 2008 Impact Factor. Cell, the flagship journal of Cell Press, remains the number one research journal in the Cell Biology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology subject categories, with an Impact Factor of 31.152.

The ranking also reveal that Cancer Cell continues to grow with a 2009 rating of 25.288. Molecular Cell saw a 13 percent increase to 14.608, and The American Journal of Human Genetics, a Society journal within the Cell Press publishing portfolio, saw its Impact Factor jump 21 percent in 2009 to 12.303.

The Impact Factor is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. The Impact Factor helps to evaluate a journal's relative importance, especially when compared with others in the same field.

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Abstracting and indexing database Scopus, part of STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Kyoto University is employing its data and functions in a study performed by Dr. Takanori Ida, Professor at the Graduate School of Economics - Kyoto University. Scopus claims to be the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research.

The study, co-developed by the Graduate School of Economics - Kyoto University and Elsevier Japan, shows how effectively the government's large funding scheme, 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program, encouraged research activities in universities across Japan. Through the use of Scopus as a tool to identify all research papers related to this programme, the study examines whether a fair evaluation of the research output has been done.

A list of research papers authored by 6,000 researchers who participated in the COE program was collected. These papers served as object of study in Dr. Ida's quantitative analysis on the transition of the number of citations published by each researcher supported by the COE fund. By means of this investigation, Dr. Ida aims to capture statistical evidence of policy effect on large funding. He is giving an interim report on June 25, 2010, at the Kyoto University, along with the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS).

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STM publisher Springer has analysed the uptake of its open access option Open Choice for articles published in 2009. The global publisher is now set to share the impact of the Open Choice offering on 2011 pricing.

Springer Open Choice allows authors to publish their article with open access in exchange for payment of a fee, for the majority of its journals. The articles are then immediately freely available and the copyright remains with the author. The articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License. These articles can be self-archived with immediate access.

A detailed analysis of the Open Choice articles published in 2009 showed that over 30 journals published a significant share of paid open access articles in 2009. This will be reflected in these journals' 2011 subscription prices.

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Over the past week, a public dialogue has reportedly ensued about publisher John Wiley & Sons' communications with the group of 117 authors joining the company from Bloomberg. This follows Wiley's acquisition of the rights to all formerly Bloomberg book titles on March 11.

After an exchange of ideas, Wiley has reportedly concluded that the best way to proceed is to call each and every one of these authors to make sure they understand the changes that have been proposed. If any of them are uncomfortable with the proposed changes, they can choose to retain their original Bloomberg contracts.

The Authors Guild recently proposed to Wiley to wait until the next royalty period to complete a sample comparison of royalty payments to authors under the Wiley proposal and the existing Bloomberg contract. The publisher, however, believes that its approach is more timely and in the best interests of its authors.

On April 29, Wiley had sent letters to the affected authors explaining some changes - in plain English, which it felt would be most helpful and informative for its authors. Wiley invited authors to speak directly with a specific (and named) publishing officer if they wished to discuss these changes or raise questions. Their response to the new alliance is stated to have been positive.

Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the winners of its 4th Annual Research Awards. The event was attended by short listed authors, eminent researchers, publishers, open access advocates and science journalists from around the world.

The awards, now in their fourth year, acknowledge excellence in research that has been made universally accessible by open access publication. The two main awards, the Biology and Medicine Prizes, recognise biological or medical research published in any of BioMed Central's journals during 2009.

This year saw the introduction of a new prize, the BioMed Central Open Data Award, in association with Microsoft Research. This was presented to Yoosook Lee from the School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, for her article 'Ecological and genetic relationships of the Forest-M form among chromosomal and molecular forms of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto'.

Genome Biology, published by BioMed Central, also gave a special award recognising the best article published in the journal during 2009, to mark its 10th anniversary. This was awarded to Ben Langmead, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, for his research 'Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome'.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has refuted the claims of California Digital Library (CDL) that NPG has steeply increased subscription rates. Earlier this month, CDL allegedly wrote to the University of California (UC) Divisional Chairs and Members of the UC Faculty, urging a boycott of NPG journals over the pricing policy.

NPG has responded that it has been publishing its academic site licence pricing for several years on its librarian gateway. Dollar list price increases have been reasonable (averaging roughly 7 percent over four years), and publicly available throughout, it argues. A 7 percent cap on annual list price increases is currently in place.

Further, NPG states that CDL has, for long, been enjoying huge discounts - of about 88 percent - due to certain consortia pricing polices. This translates into making other subscribers subsidise CDL, which would be unfair, NPG claims. It is therefore forced to correct the subscription prices for the library, bringing it close to a 50 percent discount.

Quoting CDL's own figures, NPG says the average cost of its journal was $4,465, well under the price of many major STM titles. Its projections show CDL will be paying roughly $0.56 per download under the new prices. This is seen to represent substantial value for money across any publisher's range of titles. NPG has further called on CDL to reveal how much it spends with all the major publishers, and how this translates into cost per use, and/or other indicators of value. If NPG represents poor value for money, it undertakes to work with CDL to readjust its pricing. On the other hand, if NPG represents good value for money compared with other publishers, even at the new proposed pricing, the publisher expects to see it reflected in their subscription agreement.

Condemning the proposed boycott, NPG has refuted claims that UC authors have contributed $19 million in revenue to the publisher over the past six years. It has expressed disappointment over CDL's purported use of misinformation in inappropriate contexts to create publicity with the threat of a boycott, as part of a negotiating tactic.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of assets from Collexis Holdings, Inc., a US-based developer of semantic technology and knowledge discovery software, for an undisclosed amount. The combination of Elsevier's content and Collexis' semantic technology is projected to provide institutions and researchers with new ways to collaborate, showcase accomplishments and improve grant related workflow efficiencies.

SciVal, Elsevier's suite of research tools and integrated workflow solutions, seeks to help accelerate scientific discovery and improve the social and economic impact of research while improving research driven ROI. By combining Collexis' semantic technology with SciVal, Elsevier expects to offer a set of solutions that enable universities and government agencies to improve research outcomes.

Collexis' technology is claimed to lead the market in the academic segment. The main products include Expert Profiler, Reviewer Finder, Professional Social Networking and Knowledge Engine and Knowledge Services. Headquarted in Columbia, South Carolina, the company has operations in Cologne, Germany and Valparaiso, Chile.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced an agreement with US-based technology company InfoDesk to co-develop a federated drug pipeline intelligence solution for pharmaceutical and life science companies. Both companies will work together to develop a search and delivery tool that will increase productivity and improve the quality of results, securely inside or outside of a customer's firewall. Building on the sophisticated synonym index developed as part of the Universal Integrator project initiated by Elsevier in 2007, InfoDesk will apply their knowledge and experience to develop the new search tool. The first release is expected to be available in the second half of 2010.

A fast, federated search of multiple content sources - either proprietary or open access - will give users a single results set, thereby increasing productivity. Rich content drawn from a variety of sources will be filtered using InfoDesk's advanced custom taxonomy, which can be modified to meet end-user requirements. Elsevier's team of expert editors (MD and PhDs) will tag the data at ingestion (when it is first compiled) and continuously monitor as the sources are updated.

In addition, customer-defined taxonomy for specific user groups and individuals will further increase the relevance of results. InfoDesk's intelligent algorithms will rationalise data by contrasting and comparing results from multiple databases to ensure the reliability of the results.

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The 2010 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) will begin June 7, 2010, at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center. The conference will run through June 11. A live blog of the keynote event given by Steve Jobs will be broadcast on MacWorld.com at 10 am PDT (www.macworld.com). The WWDC is a leading technical conference for developers innovating with Apple technology.

Publisher Wiley Publishing has published several Apple development titles in its new Developer Reference Series. These books contain everything developers need to know to craft killer code for Apple applications. Focusing on topics relevant to Apple developers, these books guide readers through the most advanced and very latest Apple tools, technologies and programming techniques. With in-depth coverage and expert guidance from skilled authors who are proven authorities in their fields, the Developer Reference series claims to be an essential Apple development resource.

The series launched in October 2009 with 'Snow Leopard Server,' an in-depth guide to handling all aspects of Apple's newest OS. 'iPhone Game Development' and 'Cocoa Touch for iPhone OS 3' followed shortly after. 'Web Development with the Mac' was published in March 2010. While most website how-tos are geared toward either designers or programmers, this detailed book covers both aspects, helping readers develop the complete skill sets that they'll need professionally.

The next two titles - AppleScript and Java and Mac OS X - in the series were published in May 2010. AppleScript includes real-world tips and techniques that seek to help programmers increase their professional efficiency and become more valuable in their jobs. Java and Mac OS X teaches all the guidelines of integrating Java with native Mac OS X applications.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal BMC Research Notes has launched a new topical series on HIV/AIDS and opportunistic diseases and co-infections.

The series, edited by Prof Subhash Parija of the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, India, presents a compilation of studies covering all aspects of HIV and known opportunistic malignancies and co-infections associated with HIV/AIDS. The objective of this series is to encourage scientists and public health experts to share, in a rapid and barrier-free way, information that could help the scientific and medical communities whose goal is to reduce the burden of populations affected by the HIV.

BMC Research Notes publishes scientifically sound research across all fields of biology and medicine. The aim of the journal is to reduce the loss suffered by the research community when results remain unpublished because they do not form a sufficiently complete story to justify the publication of a full research article. A key objective of the journal is to ensure that associated data sets are published in standard, reusable formats whenever possible.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the publication of two freely available special issues to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden). The publications - Recent Progress in Molecular Sciences: Reviews from Karolinska Institutet at its 200-year Anniversary and Special Issue Celebrating the 60-Year Anniversary of ECR and the 200-Year Anniversary of the Karolinska Institute - are publicly available until August 1, 2010.

Karolinska Institute (KI) was founded in 1810 and, to mark the occasion, Elsevier journals Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (BBRC) and Experimental Cell Research (ECR) decided to simultaneously publish special anniversary issues that present mini-reviews, written by leading scientists from the Karolinska Institute, illustrating recent developments within areas of biomedical research at the molecular level. Both collections of review articles are currently freely available online.

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications is an international journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of timely and significant experimental results in diverse fields of biological research. The development of the 'Breakthroughs and Views' section brings the mini-review format to the journal, and issues often contain collections of special interest manuscripts. Now in its 60th year of publication, Experimental Cell Research promotes the understanding of cell biology by publishing experimental studies on the general organisation and activity of cells. The scope of the journal includes all aspects of cell biology - from the molecular level to the level of cell interaction and differentiation.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the re-launch of the Thieme E-Book Library, an online destination for learning, review and research in medicine and the life sciences. This continuously expanding resource contains books on anatomy, the clinical sciences, radiology and the basic sciences. The updated version of the Thieme E-Book Library contains additional titles, as well as several new features.

The Thieme E-Book Library provides students, researchers and clinicians with access to a vast collection of material such as Thieme's Color Atlases and Flexibook series. Currently, there are a total of 48 books in the online library. Future additions to the collection, as well as new topic-based collections are under development.

Both existing and new electronic assets have been utilised in order to customise content for publication on the website. The re-branded e-book portal, available at http://ebooks.thieme.com, is hosted on a platform developed by Impelsys, Inc.

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STM publisher Springer has announced that it will publish Updates in Surgery, the official journal of the Italian Society of Surgery (SIC), effective June 2010. The journal, previously a bilingual Italian-English publication, is now published four times a year in English only. The content will be available in print for the society members and it will also be electronically available on Springer's platform www.springerlink.com.

Updates in Surgery is an international, peer-reviewed journal designed for surgeons. It publishes papers pertaining to a number of surgery-related topics, such as surgical procedures, operative approaches, patient selection and biotechnology issues. The journal publishes a variety of papers including editorials and commentaries of general informative interest, original articles, review articles, case reports (focusing in particular on the diagnostic process or surgical treatment), technical notes that include description of an original surgical technique and letters to the editors. The print version will also include a supplementary CD-ROM including lectures and abstracts from the annual national congress.

Under Springer, Updates in Surgery will make use of a manuscript tracking system that speeds publication. Articles will be published in Online First in full text via SpringerLink. This system ensures immediate distribution of the electronic version of the article before it appears in print. Cross Reference Linking and Alert services will be fully implemented for the journal.

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STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell, US, has announced that its evidence-based clinical decision support product, Essential Evidence Plus (EE+), is now accessible from mobile devices. Physicians on the move can now easily find answers to challenging point-of-care questions from their iPhone, IPod Touch, Android, Blackberry or other Smartphones.

EE+ is accessible through the web, handheld computer (Pocket PC or Palm OS) and now mobile devices. The product features more than 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, and evidence based summaries which are integrated and hyperlinked to content and tools, including Cochrane Reviews, daily POEM literature alerts, decision support tools and interactive diagnostic test calculators.

Topics in EE+ are written by leading clinicians and peer-reviewed by medical experts who evaluate and summarise clinical findings from thousands of medical journals. A 'Bottom Line' feature highlighting the most important recommendations by topic provides essential data for informed point-of-care decision making. All EE+ content includes a 'strength of evidence' rating for each recommendation to guide practitioners toward evidence most likely to improve health outcomes. Summary tables for at-a-glance information, algorithms for problem solving, and an extensive image library linked to a dermatology expert system are also included to optimise patient care.

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STM publisher Elsevier has announced a new initiative for the Chinese market which involves the establishment of a strategic collaboration with Peking University Health Science Center School of Distance Learning for Medical Education (PUHSC). Beijing MEDTIME Technology Development Co., Ltd, a company affiliated to PUHSC, and Elsevier signed an agreement to form a joint venture to provide education services to Peking University Health Science Center School of Distance Learning. Additionally, Elsevier and PUHSC have set up a Development Fund for Senior Management to lay a solid basis for sustainable development.

Peking University Health Science Center claims to be one of the top domestic medical education brands in China. Its School of Distance Learning for Medical Education is one of the only five units that are licensed by the Chinese Ministry of Health to provide online CME to health professionals.

The partnership between Elsevier and PUHSC aims to provide top standard education to China's professionals and fully bring PUHSC's high academic base into play. Moreover, this partnership provides global perspectives by adopting Continuing Medical Education (CME) materials from Western medical content and by introducing better and more current medical information resources into local programmes.

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STM publisher Springer has announced the launch of a new journal - Autoimmunity Highlights. An international peer-reviewed journal, Autoimmunity Highlights publishes papers related to the diverse aspects of autoimmunity, and seeks to be a bridge between the clinic, the laboratory and the specialists who are involved in the complex world of autoimmunity diagnosis. Dr. Nicola Bizzaro, Head and Medical Director of the Laboratory of Clinical Pathology at Gemona del Friuli and Tolmezzo Hospitals in Italy will be the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

The journal focuses on pathogenesis, immunology, genetics, molecular biology, diagnostic auto-antibody tests, epidemiology, pathophysiology and the treatment of autoimmune diseases. Included are original articles, short communications, case reports, letters to the editor, congress news as well as reviews, editorials and new, innovative techniques of importance in the field. The journal is published with an unconditional grant from A. Menarini Diagnostics and appears twice a year. The first issue has been published in May 2010.

In addition to the print version, the journal will be published on Springer's online platform SpringerLink. Content will be freely accessible online for the first year of publication. It will also include Online First, Cross Reference Linking and Alert services.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, recently launched a Japan Gateway, bringing together resources and information from researchers across Japan as well as highlighting high-impact research from the region.

The Japan Gateway also hosts a new brochure (available in both Japanese and English), which demonstrates the benefits of publishing in open access journals. Profiles of highly respected scientists who have chosen to publish with BioMed Central, including Masahiro Fujii and Yoshihide Hayashizaki, are also featured.

The gateway also provides details of BioMed Central's journals with affiliations to Japanese societies. This includes BioPsychoSocial Medicine, the official journal of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine; and Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation, Therapy & Technology, the official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Society for of Knee, Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine. The Japan Gateway also uses the Springer's innovative AuthorMapper to visually map the locations of BioMed Central authors from Japan and those-co-authoring with Japanese authors.

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STM publisher Springer has announced that it will publish the American Society for Mass Spectrometry's official journal - Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry. Springer will publish the journal, previously published by Elsevier, starting in January 2011. Professor Michael L. Gross of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, will serve as Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

A monthly, the Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry publishes research papers from all fields in which mass spectrometry can play a role. This includes chemistry, physics, geology and environmental science as well as the biological, health, and life sciences. The journal is comprehensive, and publishes papers on both fundamentals and applications of mass spectrometry.

In addition to original research papers, the journal also publishes communications, application notes, accounts and perspectives.

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Wiley-VCH, the German subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, US, and ChemPubSoc Europe have announced the launch of a new online platform, ChemistryViews.org. The website was launched at the recently concluded 'Frontiers of Chemistry' symposium.

ChemistryViews.org claims to be a gateway to Wiley's complete unique chemistry programme, and delivers a unique mixture of additional content in the free ChemPubSoc Europe Magazine called ChemViews. The site draws together content from the ChemPubSoc Europe societies and from all Wiley/Wiley-VCH chemistry publications. It also provides summaries of the latest reports published annually by the GDCh in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, the membership magazine of the GDCh. These reports give an extensive overview of the last year's developments in different fields of chemistry.

ChemistryViews.org will be under constant development, with content being added regularly. The first update is already scheduled for the EuCheMS Conference in late August in Nuremberg.

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Ten academic institutions will host 10 new webinars in the 2010 Scholarly Perspectives webinar series, launching on May 25, 2010, and continuing through 2010. The webinar series, sponsored by Elsevier, will be broadcast live and attracts an audience of academic librarians and faculty. The aim is to create a virtual forum for librarians, end users and Elsevier product specialists to discuss and debate the evolving roles of search-and-discovery tools in research and teaching.

The 55 minute webinars will feature a library information consultant, a university senior faculty member/researcher and an Elsevier product specialist. Presenters will share their views and insights on the evolving role of peer-reviewed journals and books, and the tools and platforms developing around them. A short live Questions & Answers session with the attending audience follows the presentations.

The Scholarly Perspectives webinar series was launched in November 2009 with three webinars. These were well-received, with over 1,100 library professionals and researchers from the academic, government, medical and corporate sectors attending one or more webinars. This year, the expanded series will include five local language webinars (German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese) on regional topics and five English language webinars on global topics.

The fall series will air in August and will feature topics on bibliometrics, national licenses, local language ebooks, and education. Interested parties may register for a webinar or view the archives at http://www.scholarlyperspectives.com.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of the Journal of Computational Science. The journal aims to be an international platform to exchange important novel research results in simulation-based science across all scientific disciplines.

The Journal of Computational Science will publish advanced, innovative interdisciplinary research where complex multi-scale, multi-domain problems in science and engineering are solved, integrating sophisticated numerical methods, computation, data, networks, and novel devices. The journal welcomes original, unpublished high quality contributions in the field of computational science at large, addressing one or more of the aforementioned elements.

The editorial board is led by Editor in Chief, Professor Peter M.A. Sloot of the University of Amsterdam. P.V. Coveney from the University College London, UK, and J. Dongarra from the University of Tennessee, US, will serve as associate editors.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced open access options for seven further journals. Twenty-five journals published by NPG now offer authors an open access option. This includes all 15 academic journals owned by NPG.

American Journal of Gastroenterology, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Gene Therapy, International Journal of Obesity, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Oncogene and Leukemia have all recently introduced open access options. Authors publishing in these journals can now choose to make their article open access on payment of an article processing charge (APC).

APCs on these journals vary, depending on the selectivity of the journal, the amount it publishes and associated rejection rate. Full details are available on each journal's website. Authors who opt to pay the APC will benefit from a choice of licenses, including one that allows derivative works; immediate and permanent access for all to the final published version of their paper on nature.com and in PubMed Central; and the rights to self-archive the final published version of their paper for public access immediately on publication.

Including the American Journal of Gastroenterology and Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, seven journals published by NPG on behalf of societies offer open access options. Other journals in this portfolio with an open access are: British Journal of Cancer, The EMBO Journal, EMBO reports, European Journal of Human Genetics and Molecular Therapy.

NPG launched Nature Communications, the first Nature-branded online-only journal with an open access option, in April 2010. The publisher also publishes two fully open access journals - Cell Death and Disease and Molecular Systems Biology. NPG's self-archiving policy ensures that authors of original research papers can comply with funder mandates for public access, regardless of which NPG journal they publish in. In addition, NPG offers a free Manuscript Deposition Service into PubMed Central and UK PubMed Central on 43 of its titles.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, recently dismissed Bruce Charlton, editor of the controversial journal Medical Hypotheses, for refusing to revamp review procedures at the journal. According to William Bains, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board and one of Charlton's staunchest defenders, a majority of the 19-member Editorial Advisory Board also seem set to quit. Elsevier has already started a search for a replacement editor. The publisher also plans to implement a system of peer review, which the journal has never had.

Medical Hypotheses is currently the only Elsevier journal that does not have a system of peer-review. The editor-in-chief reportedly decides what gets published, and the manuscripts are edited only very lightly. The journal faced criticism after AIDS researchers protested about an article by AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg. The paper, previously rejected by the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, asserts that HIV does not cause AIDS and that medical statistics and demographical data do not support the existence of a massive AIDS epidemic in South Africa.

Elsevier permanently retracted the paper. The publisher also gave Charlton an ultimatum to implement a series of changes in his editorial policy, including introducing a system of peer-review, or resign. Last week, Charlton received a letter terminating his contract. In response, three members of the Editorial Advisory Board have already announced their decision to step down, and three others have said they will do so.

According to Elsevier spokesperson Tom Reller, the exodus isn't entirely unexpected. In a recent letter to board members, the company had mentioned that it would go ahead with the policy changes and had asked those who disagreed to step down.

STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media has extended its MyCopy service to library users in Europe, with immediate effect. The move follows the successful launch of the service in the US and Canada.

The MyCopy offer will be valid for more than 15,000 electronic Springer books published since 2005. The new softcover format is branded as a MyCopy book with a colour cover and black and white book content. MyCopy books can only be ordered by registered patrons of academic libraries that have purchased the corresponding eBook Collection and have agreed to this service.

Registered library patrons can order a softcover copy of a Springer eBook for their personal use by clicking on a button on the Springer platform www.springerlink.com. The softcover copies are priced at a flat fee of EUR 24.95. The entire ordering and shipping process will be handled by Springer in cooperation with a print-on-demand (POD) provider.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, the British Library and Mendeley will host Science Online London 2010. The event, scheduled for September 3-4, 2010, will take place at the British Library in St Pancras, London.

The event seeks to bring together members of the scientific community who are interested in the use of web technologies for collaboration and communication. Science Online London will this year run over two days, building on the success of two previous one-day events held in 2009 and 2008.

Further details of the event will be announced shortly via the official web site. Discussion of sessions, facilities and other matters can be found on the Nature Network forum.

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STM and business publisher Inderscience, Switzerland, recently published the first issues of four new titles. The journals are: International Journal of Business Competition and Growth; International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development Mining; International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining; and International Journal of Metaheuristics.

Edited by Prof. Rajagopal of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico, International Journal of Business Competition and Growth promotes academic and strategic discussion for practitioners on managing global competition in products and services. The journal covers all sectors, including agricultural, industrial, pharmaceuticals and services. It publishes original research that contributes ground-breaking knowledge and understanding to the field of competitive dynamics and strategic marketing studies. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=360.

International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development Mining adopts a systems approach to the theory and practice of knowledge-based development activities and processes. The journal focuses on knowledge cities and societies, knowledge-based urban development, knowledge and innovation clusters, and knowledge-intensive service activities. Tan Yigitcanlar from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, is the editor of the journal. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=354.

International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining covers all areas of data architecture, data integration and data exchange, data mining, knowledge acquisition, representation, dissemination, codification and discovery techniques, and their technologies. Edited by Dr. Adela S.M. Lau of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the journal also focuses on their applications and case studies in industrial, medical and business sectors. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=332.

International Journal of Metaheuristics is concerned with all aspects of metaheuristic practice, including theoretical studies, empirical investigations, comparisons, and applications. The journal particularly welcomes papers on methods that have shown to produce financial or environmental improvements in a real-world setting. Dr. C.L. Mumford from Cardiff University, UK, is the editor of the journal. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=271.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has built a new iPhone application, Scopus Alerts (Lite) (http://tinyurl.com/scopusmob), to help researchers stay up-to-date while on-the-go.

The new application, which is available on iTunes and the Apple App Store globally, gives iPhone users the ability to find and display abstracts and reference information from the Scopus database, which covers 18,000 journals produced by more than 5,000 publishers worldwide. The app is designed to help eliminate the need for scientists to seek out a desktop or laptop computer when seeking quality research data while travelling, attending conferences or commuting to and from work.

Application features include the creation of search and citation alerts as well as the ability to save favourite abstracts and add notes. Further supporting collaboration among researchers, the app also allows users to share search results and links to favourite articles, via Email and Twitter.

The new Scopus Alerts (Lite) application is the first of several that Elsevier has planned to support the mobility of today’s researchers. A ScienceDirect app is in development and customers can expect to receive news of its availability over the summer. The current version of the application is available free of charge to existing Scopus customers and can be downloaded from http://tinyurl.com/scopusmob.

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Science magazine Scientific American has announced the promotion of Mike Florek to Executive Vice President of Scientific American. He takes up his position with immediate effect, reporting directly to Nature Publishing Group Managing Director Steven Inchcoombe. Prior to his promotion Florek was Vice President, Finance and Business Development at Scientific American.

In his new role, Florek will oversee all business functions, including the US Scientific American activities and the international editions. He will work closely with Editor-in-Chief Mariette DiChristina. Florek joined Scientific American as General Manager in November 2000, and in 2007 was promoted to Vice President and General Manager. He became Vice President, Finance and Business Development in 2009, when Scientific American joined NPG. Prior to joining Scientific American, he worked as Director of Finance at McGraw Hill and in the finance and marketing departments of Reader's Digest.

Scientific American became part of Nature Publishing Group (NPG) in 2009, after many years as a sister Holtzbrinck organization. Mike Florek's appointment follows on the heels of Scientific American's recent hires of Executive Editor Fred Guterl and Design Director Michael Mrak.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, is publishing a thematic series of articles describing the construction, content and current use of Ensembl's resources, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Ensembl project’s launch. The Ensembl project is a joint venture between the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

The last 15 years has reportedly seen an explosion in genomic research and sequenced genomes. With the build up to sequencing larger chordate genomes it became very clear that manually annotating the billion base pairs of sequence produced was not practical and automated annotation systems were required. Several large organisations have helped address this issue, but the Ensembl project has in particular provided high-quality integrated annotation on vertebrate genomes within a consistent and open source infrastructure.

The first six articles published in the journals BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Genomics, co-ordinated by Paul Flicek at Ensembl and the European Bioinformatics Institute, reveal in detail how many of the comparative genomics, variation and regulatory data resources have been constructed.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that, through the sponsorship of the Health Sciences Library, Case Western Reserve University has re-established a Supporter Membership. The University is one of the pre-eminent research institutions in health sciences, life sciences, and technology in the US today.

Under the terms of Case Western Reserve University’s Supporter Membership arrangement, all researchers supported by the University will benefit from a 15 percent discount on publication fees when publishing in any of BioMed Central’s 200 peer-reviewed open access journals.

BioMed Central is an STM publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model. All peer-reviewed research articles published by BioMed Central are made immediately and freely accessible online, and are licensed to allow redistribution and reuse. BioMed Central is part of Springer Science+Business Media.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education will provide point-of-care Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit to users of MD Consult and First Consult. Users of First Consult and MD Consult will earn Point-Of-Care CME Credit as they perform searches and access relevant content to answer patient care questions. First Consult provides instant access to information on evaluation, diagnosis, clinical management, prognosis and prevention. MD Consult, a clinical reference tool, is utilised by more than 2000 healthcare organisations and 95 percent of all medical schools in the US.

After performing a search and finding the answer in MD Consult’s breadth of clinical content, physicians can then click on ‘Request CME’ and complete a short form from the Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education. The Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education is accredited at the highest level (with commendation) by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. By submitting the short form, physicians can earn 0.5 American Medical Association PRA (Physician’s Recognition Award) Category 1 Credit(s) for each search conducted through MD Consult and First Consult.

It has been observed that physicians are turning increasingly to the Internet for clinical information. According to a November 2009 survey commissioned by Google, 86 percent of US physicians now use the Internet to gather health, medical or prescription drug information. A 2009 Manhattan Research survey put the number at 89 percent, and one-third of physicians have claimed that they changed a patient’s treatment as the result of an Internet search. Instead of relying on the unproven information available widely on the Internet, Elsevier sees physicians gravitating more to the evidence-based clinical content provided by online tools such as MD Consult and First Consult.

MD Consult delivers instant access to full-text articles from more than 80 medical journals and Clinics, 50 medical references across a range of specialties, clinically relevant drug information, and more than 10,000 patient handouts in English and Spanish. First Consult offers an online database on patient evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, tests and prevention, interactive access to potential diagnoses and video and animated guidance on common medical procedures.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has won the first JISC TechDis Publisher Lookup Award. The award recognises publishers who excel in changing and adapting their business processes to meet their customers’ accessibility needs.

The JISC TechDis Publisher Lookup Awards are the brainchild of Alistair McNaught, senior advisor at JISC TechDis. Elsevier was selected from a strong field of candidates. Judges were impressed by Elsevier’s response rates to customer enquiries and their embedded accessibility strategy. Accessibility is a cross-management responsibility at Elsevier and evidently part of the organisational culture.

The JISC TechDis Publisher Lookup Awards were presented by Mark Bide, Executive Director at EDItEUR, leaders in global standards for the exchange of bibliographic information in the book and journal supply chains, and sponsored by Dolphin and Iansyst Ltd, organisations that promote independence amongst disabled people, and who have been keen supporters from the beginning. A second award ceremony for e-text services will be held in London at the CILIP Digital Information Conference in October and is aimed at publishers who have been nominated by library staff for their excellent service in supplying books in alternative formats.

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Henry Markram, a scientist in Switzerland, is seeking to patent a system for peer reviewing and publishing scientific papers online, according to the journal Nature. Last year, Markram, a neuroscientist and publishing entrepreneur at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, filed internationally for a broad patent on systems for interactive online peer review and publishing open access (OA) journals.

According to Markram, the application was filed mainly to protect a fleet of author-pays OA journals published by the Lausanne-based Frontiers Media, a company he created in 2008 with Kamila Markram, another neuroscientist at the EPFL. The main innovative features of both the journals and the patent, says Markram, are real-time evaluation of papers and a high degree of automation. The result is just like an Internet discussion group, with editors and authors able to follow comment threads in real time, says Robert Harvey, a molecular neuroscientist at the School of Pharmacy, University of London. Harvey has experience of Frontiers journals as both an editor and an author. Referees are anonymous at the review stage but are named on the published paper.

Markram's patent application falls into a controversial category known as business methods patents. These have been permitted in the US since 1998 for processes that use a computer. In Europe, such patents are more difficult to obtain, but worldwide tens of thousands of computerised business methods have been patented.

The future of such patents, in the US at least, may be decided by an imminent ruling of the US Supreme Court. The court is considering an appeal against a 2008 decision by a lower court, which upheld the rejection of a patent on a method for hedging risks in commodity trading.

Markram's patent, entitled 'Internet Method, Process and System for Publication and Evaluation' seems to be one of the broadest with respect to journal publishing, with claims covering many aspects of the publishing process from submission and review through to publication.

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STM publisher Springer has announced that in an asset deal that consists of over 300 titles, the global publisher is buying the book contracts portfolio from UK-based scientific publisher Praxis Publishing Ltd.

Springer has had a co-publishing agreement with Praxis since 1998, and is already responsible for the marketing, sales and distribution of the Praxis book programme. Springer will now produce Praxis titles and the copyright for the books will be with Springer.

Praxis books focus on subjects in which major scientific advances or discoveries are being made. This includes astronautical engineering, astronomy and planetary sciences, earth system science, environmental science, geophysical science, popular astronomy, space exploration and popular science. A variety of reading levels are served, ranging from the knowledgeable layperson on up to the post-doctoral researcher.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal Genome Biology is celebrating its 10th anniversary. To mark this, a series of reviews from areas of particular interest in the genomics field and from scientists who have helped shape these fields over the last decade have been commissioned.

The latest issue of Genome Biology contains more than the usual research highlights, reviews and cutting edge scientific research. An editorial from Editor Clare Garvey on ‘A decade and genome of change’ discusses the humble beginnings of Genome Biology.

First published in 2000, the same year as the Human Genome Project and the Celera Genomics Corporation announced their completion of the first draft of the human genome, Genome Biology was the first open access genomics journal. The special collection of reviews that are published in the May issue of Genome Biology includes perspective pieces from several of the journal’s Editorial Board members and long-term supporters of the journal. Also, the special collection includes a review from Lincoln Stein who is the Director of the Informatics and Biocomputing Platform at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. He discusses the use of cloud computing for analysing large-scale biological datasets and the contentious issue of data storage that face the genomics community.

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International Media Production Zone (IMPZ), a member of TECOM Investments, has reportedly announced that STM publisher Springer, Germany, is to establish its Middle East headquarters at IMPZ in Dubai. Springer publishes over 2,000 journals and more than 6,500 books every year. The opening of the new office at IMPZ is claimed to be the outcome of Springer's success in developing publishing projects and a rapidly increasing client base within the region.

According to TECOM representatives, the strategic location of Dubai at the crossroads of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, as well as its logistical support have induced global majors to set up operations there. IMPZ claims to offer significant media resources, technologies and advanced production amenities.

Spread on an area of 43 million sq. ft., IMPZ will provide printing, publishing, packaging and graphics art industries with competitive support infrastructure and business incentives. TECOM Investments' media entities - Dubai Media City, Dubai Studio City and International Media Production Zone – seek to provide a complete value chain of specialised offerings. These are seen to create an established community hub for the media and content creation industries in the region.

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Publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), US, has announced that Nature Photonics, its optics and photonics journal, will hold its second technology conference in Tokyo on October 19-21, 2010. The event, ‘Future Perspectives on Photovoltaics’, will include keynotes from Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Michael Grätzel of the École Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Japanese companies in the photonics field and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) have signed up as key supporters of the event.

The conference will be held at Tokyo Fashion Town Hall on Odaiba Island. An adjoining exhibition will showcase the latest solar cell technologies and R&D from companies and research institutions worldwide.

The conference is hosted by NPG Nature Asia-Pacific and co-organised with Impress R & D. Heeger, who will give a keynote on the first day, shared the 2000 Nobel Chemistry with Prof. Hideki Shirakawa and Prof. Alan McDiarmid for their work on semiconducting polymers. Fellow speaker Prof. Grätzel invented the Grätzel cell, a dye-sensitised solar cell which was described in a paper in Nature in 1991.

Prof. Konagai of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, a well-known figure in photovoltaic research, heads the conference's advisory board of researchers from Japanese academia and industry. Working with Nature Photonics, Prof. Konagai and the advisory board are drawing a list of speakers from industry and academia. Plenary-style talks on the current status and future evolution of the key technologies in the field of photovoltaics will be complemented by a panel discussion.

Headquartered in Tokyo, Nature Photonics claims to rank first among all primary research journals in optics and photonics, with a 2008 Impact Factor of 24.982.

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Publisher John Wiley & Sons has signed on as a sponsor, co-chair and organiser of the Hello World pre-conference session for the APPCON 2010 mobile app development event in Las Vegas. John Wiley is the publisher of the Wrox line of books, CDs and other educational materials for programmers.

Designed to be a part training, part hands-on coding exercise, the Hello World introductory session is set for August 24 as a prequel to the three-day APPCON 2010 event. The session is projected to provide an opportunity for APPCON attendees to get up to speed quickly on the platform of their choice before the general, technical sessions of the conference begin.

As part of APPCON’s partnership with Wrox, the publisher will develop the content which will be delivered by the imprint’s authors and experts. Attendees are expected to benefit from a hands-on version of Wrox’s ‘Programmer to Programmer’ approach to professional development. Related titles in the Wrox series will be provided to participants during registration.

Hello World is designed to meet the needs of both experienced developers new to mobile app coding and developers experienced on one app platform looking to expand their repertoire into another platform. The session begins with a one-hour overview of the mobile app market and brief introductions to each of the major platforms. Breakout sessions follow, focusing on app development for specific platforms in detail, including installation of development tools on each participant’s laptop.

In addition to the Hello World event, APPCON features more than 40 other education sessions that cover a wide range of mobile app technologies in a practical and technical fashion. The developer conference and expo runs August 24-26 at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino. The event is dedicated exclusively to mobile apps across all major platforms and carriers. It seeks to provide an opportunity for developers to dive deep into current technologies and platforms to meet the tactical mobile needs of businesses and brands.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online (b-on) have signed a three-year agreement to provide 69 institutions in Portugal with site license access to Nature.

More than 300,000 researchers and students in Portugal will now gain access to research and news published in Nature. Higher education institutions, research institutes, and hospitals throughout the country are participating in the agreement.

b-on (Online Knowledge Library) facilitates access for research and higher education libraries in Portugal to over 16,750 scientific international publications from 16 publishers, through subscriptions negotiated on a national basis.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, have announced the winners of the first-annual LIBER Award for Library Innovation. Awards will be presented at the 2010 LIBER Annual Conference in Aarhus, Denmark on June 29, 2010 (http://www.liber2010.eu).

Sponsored by Elsevier, the award is designed to recognise innovative work with the potential to impact the wider library community. The winners will present their papers during the conference. This year’s inaugural award is related to the overall theme of the LIBER Annual conference ‘Re-inventing the Library: Challenges in the New Information Environment.’

The Stichting LIBER Foundation aims to assist research libraries in Europe to support a functional network across national boundaries in order to ensure the preservation of the European cultural heritage, to improve the access to collections in European research libraries, and to provide more efficient information services in Europe. It actively promotes co-operation with all library-related organisations and has strong links with the Council of Europe, the Commission of the European Communities (CEC), SPARC Europe and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), as well as with national library associations.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a new addition to the Clinics of North America series – Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics. Under the guidance of Consulting Editors Dr. Ranjan Thakur and Dr. Andrea Natale, each issue is devoted to a single topic that covers the most significant concerns in this field.

A quarterly publication, Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics seeks to provide comprehensive reviews of contemporary issues of interest to clinicians. The journal is expected to help Electrophysiologists as well as other cardiologists and physicians caring for patients with arrhythmias in clinical decision making. Initial issues will feature topics such as sudden cardiac death; epicardial interventions in electrophysiology; advances in arrhythmia analyses; arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia; and advances in antiarrhythmic drug therapy.

Dr. Thakur is Professor of Medicine and Program Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship at Michigan State University and Director of the Arrhythmia Service at the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Institute, Sparrow Health System, in Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Natale is Executive Medical Director of Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin Texas.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) has become its latest institutional member.

UNCG serves nearly 20,000 students on campus and through a variety of distance learning programmes, with an emphasis on both teaching and research. The university hosts a number of research centers including the Center for Biotechnology, Genomics and Health Research, the Center for Health of Vulnerable Populations, and the Center for Research Excellence in the Nanobiosciences.

In 2007, the Faculty Senate formed the Committee for Scholarly Communications to support the development of new initiatives, including the development of more open access publishing by university authors. Under the auspices of the University Libraries, the university has established a supporter membership for an initial period of three years.

STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has released a new single volume comprehensive book on reconstructive techniques for degenerative mitral valve disease by internationally renowned cardiac surgeon and educator, Dr. Alain Carpentier. The book will launch at the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1 - 5, 2010.

This reference provides step-by-step instructions on how to apply the techniques and procedures of Dr. Alain Carpentier - pioneer of mitral valve reconstruction - to your practice. More than 200 detailed anatomic drawings depict reconstruction procedures clearly, in a consistent format, chapter by chapter.

A discussion section of questions and answers helps grasp the nuances of each procedure.

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STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, and the Baptist University of Hong Kong (HKBU) have launched a new textbook series entitled Essentials of Chinese Medicine. The three-volume English language set is of fundamental significance for the subject. Spearheaded by the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and the School of Chinese Medicine HKBU, the books were co-written by 14 distinguished scholars from Hong Kong, mainland China and the USA.

The book series was initiated by HKBU with the help of China’s State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SATCM) and mainland institutions and organisations. The publication seeks to provide international scientists and students with essential, detailed information about traditional Chinese medicine.

The three-volume series has more than 1,500 pages introducing the theoretical basics, diagnostic methods and therapeutic practices of traditional Chinese medicine, as well as the principles and practices of general healthcare and rehabilitation. It also explains the basic theories and methods of acupuncture and moxibustion. In addition to numerous illustrations of Chinese herbs, nearly a hundred herbal formulas, acupuncture meridians, and acupoints for clinical practice have been specified.

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Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that they have approved a Natural Disaster Access Clause that will extend licensed electronic content to emergency workers, students, faculty, and academic institutions affected by a local, national or global natural disaster. The first license to include this clause is the Wiley Online Consortium License with the University of Texas System and Houston Academy of Medicine – Texas Medical Center Library.

Following a major natural disaster, emergency workers, students, faculty, and institutions displaced to other communities may need access to critical scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly information. Under the Natural Disaster Access Clause, Wiley will allow a licensee to provide affected groups with electronic access to its licensed products via the licensee’s secure network. In effect, they would be considered ‘authorised users’ of a licensee with full rights afforded to them.

Such an arrangement was put in place after Hurricane Katrina, when displaced students, faculty, and emergency workers came to institutions in the UT System and served by the HAM-TMC Library that needed access to licensed materials. Wiley agreed to extend their license to these groups, so the parties have a history of working together to help displaced people gain access to the information they need.

This initiative is scheduled to take effect immediately. Institutions needing more information on emergency access following a major natural disaster should contact wissales@wiley.com.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the release of an atlas titled Head and Neck Anatomy for Dental Medicine, focusing on the structures of the head and neck as taught to dental medicine students. The content has been carved out from Thieme Atlas of Anatomy. Eric Baker has reorganised, revised and added new material to create the resource.

The atlas is projected to include more than 900 large, clearly labeled, full-colour illustrations and schematics, with descriptive captions, plus more than 90 tables summarising key information. Each two-page spread is designed as a self-contained guide to a topic. The arrangement of coverage in each region begins with the skeletal framework, adding the muscles, the vasculature, the nerves, and finally presenting the topographic anatomy for a comprehensive overview. With good artwork, explanatory information and a pedagogic approach, the atlas is claimed to serve as a reference for practitioners of dental medicine. It is also targeted at students and practitioners working in fields dealing primarily with the head and neck.

Head and Neck Anatomy for Dental Medicine comes with access to WinkingSkull.com PLUS, an interactive online study aid with more than 600 full-colour illustrations and radiographs. More than 100 dental images from this book have been added to the Thieme Teaching Assistant, an online platform that enables instructors to incorporate dynamic visuals into lectures and presentations.

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STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell, US, has announced that it has been selected by the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) to publish their journal the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health.

Established in 1955 as the Bulletin of the American College of Nurse-Midwifery, the publication became the Journal of Nurse-Midwifery in 1973. To reflect the expanding scope of practice into primary healthcare for women the journal was further renamed as the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health in 2000. Edited by Frances E. Likis, the journal focuses on contemporary care, current research, and new knowledge in maternal-child health, family-centered maternity care, gynecology and primary healthcare.

This partnership reinforces Wiley-Blackwell’s already prominent position as publisher for more than 750 society partners which includes many nursing and health associations.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG) has announced that Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease has been chosen to become the official journal of RCPSG’s Faculty of Travel Medicine.

Launched in 2003, Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease publishes original papers and invites reviews covering all aspects of travel medicine and infectious disease. These include the epidemiology and surveillance of travel-related infectious disease, vaccine-preventable disease, illness in returning travelers, aviation medicine including psychological aspects, environmental hazards of travel, practical clinical issues for travelers, tropical medicine and tropical skin disease and general aspects of travel medicine and infectious disease.

The journal brings together knowledge from different specialties involved in the research and clinical practice of travel medicine and infectious disease.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journals BMC Cancer, BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Neuroscience have begun operating under an enhanced editorial structure with the appointment of academic Editors to head up different sections of each journal.

Under the new structure, each journal is categorised into sections, and each section is led by a Section Editor with extensive knowledge of the discipline. The Section Editors work closely with a group of Associate Editors to peer-review manuscripts and with the Editor-in-Chief and BioMed Central’s editorial staff to develop their journals by formulating journal policies and encouraging submissions.

This editorial structure seeks to ensure that manuscripts are handled by members of the scientific community with expert knowledge of the field, helping to speed up review times and reduce the need for re-review.

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Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the promotion of Steve Miron to the position of Senior Vice President, Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly, effective May 1, 2010. The announcement was made by William J. Pesce, President and CEO, and Stephen M. Smith, EVP & Chief Operating Officer, of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

As reported in October 2009, Eric Swanson will retire at the end of October 2010. During his remaining time at Wiley, Swanson will serve as Senior Vice President, Government Relations and Public Policy. In this capacity, he will provide advice and counsel to the Leadership Team and develop relationships with industry bodies and other stakeholders to promote Wiley’s interests and widen the Company’s influence on key policy issues affecting our markets and business globally.

Miron assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer of STMS on November 1, 2009. He has worked closely on the transition with Swanson and other members of the STMS leadership team.

Miron joined Wiley in 1993 as Regional Manager for Taiwan and Korea. After serving for eight years as VP and Managing Director of Wiley Asia, he was appointed as leader of global STM book publishing. Following the acquisition of Blackwell in 2007, Miron assumed the role of VP & Managing Director of the global STMS Physical Sciences business.

Science magazine Scientific American has announced the appointments of executive editor Fred Guterl and design director Michael Mrak.

Fred Guterl assumes the role of executive editor and brings to Scientific American more than two decades of editorial experience. He has worked, among other titles, for Discover magazine (he was senior editor from 1994 to 1998 and has been a contributor ever since) and for Newsweek (2000- 2010), where he held the position of deputy editor. During his tenure there, Guterl spearheaded the magazine's international coverage of science and technology. As executive editor, Guterl will top edit and create enterprising editorial projects, participate in strategic planning, develop and manage budgets, and represent Scientific American externally.

Michael Mrak comes to Scientific American from Architectural Record where he has been a consulting art director. Prior to that appointment, Mrak worked for titles including Esquire and Discover magazine, where he held the position of design director (2000-2006). As the design director, Mrak will supervise the art team and oversee all editorial design for Scientific American's print and online editions.

Scientific American delivers authoritative and thought-provoking content to more than 3 million readers worldwide. Founded in 1845, Scientific American has over its history published articles by more than 140 Nobel laureate authors including Albert Einstein, Francis Crick, Stanley Prusiner and Richard Axel. The publication became part of Nature Publishing Group (NPG) in 2009, after many years as a sister Holtzbrinck organisation.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the March 2010 issue of the journal Clinics in Perinatology provides Neonatologists and Maternal-Fetal-Medicine specialists with the tools and concepts necessary to understand Quality Improvement (QI) methodology and to initiate QI projects within their own practices and neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). This issue comes at an important time for physicians when participation in quality initiatives is being recognised as a core of their medical career.

Guest Editors Dr. Alan R. Spitzer and Dr. Dan L. Ellsbury have invited some of the world’s foremost QI leaders to share their expertise on a variety of topics addressing the tools and specific applications of Quality Improvement methodology in Neonatal-Perinatal practice. The issue includes articles on topics such as ‘Crossing the Quality Chasm’ in neonatal and perinatal care; QI methodologies and measurement; human factors related to QI; using evidence-based medicine; the role of data collection; tools for ‘Meaningful Use’; quality-assurance procedures; pay for performance; and collaboration between obstetricians and neonatologists. Various QI programmes and resources offered by Pediatrix Medical Group, the Vermont Oxford Network, and the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative are also reviewed. Specific applications of QI practices are covered in articles addressing the improvement of outcomes and delivery room interventions, comprehensive oxygen management for the prevention of retinopathy of prematurity (COMP-ROP), the use of human milk, decreasing central line associated infections, and improving chronic lung disease.

Published quarterly by Elsevier, each issue of Clinics in Perinatology focuses on a single topic relevant to practice. Comprehensive, state-of-the-art reviews by experts in the field provide current, practical information on the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the mother, fetus, and neonate.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the latest issue of the journal Critical Care features 10 free review articles co-published as part of a joint effort with the Springer Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. The articles were selected by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Jean-Louis Vincent for their relevance to health care professionals and researchers working in the area of intensive care medicine.

Contributions include a paper by Julia Wendon and colleagues, King’s College Hospital, UK, on renal dysfunction in liver disease; the prevention of infections caused by catheters written by Olivier Mimoz’s group, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, France, and venous oxygen as a physiological transfusion trigger by Editorial Board member Benoit Vallet et al, University Hospital of Lille, France.

The Yearbook compiles the most recent developments in experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. Review articles published in Critical Care normally require a subscription to read. In order to access reviews, commentaries and other commissioned content, non-subscribers to can register for a free 30-day trial.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, is marking the 10th anniversary of publication of its journal International Immunopharmacology by organising an International Immunopharmacology Conference on Regulatory Myeloid Cells. The conference is scheduled for October 21-24, 2010 in Arlington, near Washington DC.

Since its inception in 2001 International Immunopharmacology has been a primary vehicle for the publication of peer-reviewed original research papers and review articles pertinent to the overlapping areas of immunology, pharmacology, cytokine biology, immunotherapy, immunopathology and immunotoxicology. Under the guidance of the Editor in Chief, James Talmadge of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the journal has developed into an internationally respected, high quality platform for researchers and clinicians interested in examining how the immune system interacts with pharmacologically active agents.

The conference is expected to bring together scientists and clinicians from the diverse fields in which myeloid cells have a critical role, to engender productive discussions, novel hypotheses and foster new collaborations, all of which are critical to the development of this exciting new field. The Organizing Committee has reportedly developed a strong programme with speakers covering many of the more exciting research areas developing in this important field. The programme of the conference is now available online at www.immunopharmacology.elsevier.com.

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Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with Reaction Explorer to bring new capabilities to the online organic chemistry market.

Students can access Reaction Explorer through WileyPLUS, an online teaching and learning solution for organic chemistry. Reaction Explorer is projected to help students achieve a higher level of understanding of the intricacies of organic chemistry reactions, syntheses and mechanisms.

Reaction Explorer was initially developed at the University of California, Irvine, in the laboratory of Professor Pierre Baldi, and has been used there for over 3 years to teach undergraduate organic chemistry. It uses expert system technology to predict the results of arbitrary organic chemistry reactions. This unique ability allows students to explore the results of novel reactions, regardless of whether they were anticipated by the developers.

The Reaction Explorer system has two primary modules, focusing on the most challenging and important problem-solving skills students learn in organic chemistry. Synthesis Explorer allows students to interactively learn and work through multi-step retrosynthesis problems, while Mechanism Explorer challenges a student’s ability to propose and sketch reasonable organic reaction mechanisms.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that two of its biology journals, BMC Biology and Journal of Biology, have merged to become a single title. The combined journal, edited by Miranda Robertson, will be called BMC Biology.

The new BMC Biology will publish research and methodology articles of special importance and broad interest across all areas of biology and biomedical sciences. It will include high-profile commissioned content that to date has appeared only in the Journal of Biology.

The journal fusion is marked by a special collection of articles, which introduces a new feature - Video Q&A articles with prominent scientists - that provide a platform for leading researchers to express a personal perspective on a variety of scientific topics. The first Video Q&A features Martin Raff from University College London, who explains, as a grandfather and a neuroscientist, his interest in what goes wrong in autism, and how he thinks genomic and stem cell technology may lead to answers.

BMC Biology is already listed in Web of Science, tracked by ISI and ranked within the top 2 percent of all journals listed in Scopus (212 of 17,124). The journal has close to 50,000 registrants and research published in the journal regularly features in the scientific and mainstream press.

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Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has launched its Chinese language website at http://www.wileychina.com. Wileychina.com is expected to raise the publisher’s profile in China through greater and more meaningful engagement with the community there.

Wileychina.com will feature general information about Wiley’s presence in China as well as specific details about core content of particular interest to the Chinese community. The site comprises tailored sections for librarians, authors, societies and industry partners. In addition, it also includes hyperlinks and cross references to wiley.com, Wiley InterScience and the Press Room where all local news and events will be highlighted.

Wileychina.com will direct Chinese users to specific content relevant to them including Wiley’s other Chinese-language website - Materialsviewschina.com, as well as tutorials and user guides, product presentations and catalogues and contact details for company representatives.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that three of its journals have been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE. The journals are: Behavioral & Brain Functions, Molecular Brain and Particle and Fibre Toxicology. This brings the number of BioMed Central journals indexed in MEDLINE to a total of one hundred.

Behavioral & Brain Functions will also receive its first impact factor in June 2010. Particle and Fibre Toxicology is also tracked by Thomson Reuters and will be receiving its first impact factor in June 2011. Molecular Brain was launched just under two years ago with BioMed Central and has rapidly developed a strong readership with many articles receiving high access figures.

Maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is a premier bibliographic database containing more than 16 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group has called for nominations for the 2010 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science. The 2010 awards focus on Canada. Two prizes of C$10,000 will be awarded - one for mid-career and one for lifetime achievement. Nominations close on June 30, 2010.

Nominees may work in any discipline within the natural sciences, and should be resident in Canada. They may nominate themselves or be nominated by colleagues and ex-colleagues. Nominations for a candidate must include independent testimonials by at least five researchers mentored by their nominee, not all over the same period.

Launched in 2005, the annual Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science recognises outstanding scientific mentorship, and focuses on a specific country or countries each year. In previous years the Nature Awards have highlighted top-notch mentors in Australia, Germany, Japan, South Africa, and the UK.

The 2010 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science will be announced at the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies annual meeting in Toronto on November 5, 2010. More details and nomination forms are available on the Nature website at www.nature.com/nature/mentoringawards/canada.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the addition of FDA Advisory Committee content to Pharmapendium, an online resource for preclinical, clinical and post-market drug information.

The newly added documents seek to provide preclinical and clinical drug development and regulatory affairs departments with a substantial collection of comparative scientific and regulatory data that may not be included in final FDA Approval Package documents. For the first time FDA Advisory Committee content and FDA Approval Packages can be searched simultaneously via a single source on PharmaPendium, according to Elsevier.

The expansion of searchable FDA approval coverage is projected to give pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies deeper insights into regulatory context, precedent content and the FDA drug approval process. Organised by committee, more than 140,000 pages of FDA Advisory Committee meeting minutes, rosters, supplementary documents, transcripts and PowerPoints are being added. Content from 19 CDER and CBER committees is also represented.

PharmaPendium is designed to support both scientific and business decisions within the pharma/biotech industry. The online resource seeks to provide access via a single point to searchable and trusted drug information. It covers close to 4,000 approved drugs, with integrated preclinical, clinical and post-market safety data. PharmaPendium is owned and protected by Elsevier Properties SA and used under licence.

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The journal Pharmacogenomics, published by Future Medicine, part of UK-based Future Science Group, has announced that it is celebrating its 10th anniversary with two special issues scheduled for April and May 2010. The peer-reviewed journal seeks to provide a forum for multidisciplinary scientists to keep abreast of the latest developments in pharmacogenomics, and to provide commentary and analysis to place these advances in context.

The research field of pharmacogenomics explores the influence of genetic variation on drug response. It is seen to have major implications for the potential to personalise therapies - an approach that already has clinical application, but is still in its infancy in the overall healthcare arena. A monthly journal, Pharmacogenomics is edited by Senior Editors Dr. Howard McLeod (University of North Carolina, US), Prof. Munir Pirmohamed (University of Liverpool, UK) and Dr. David Gurwitz (Tel Aviv University, Israel). They are supported by a team of associate editors, together with an advisory panel of more than 50 international experts.

In a foreword to the two celebratory issues, the editors highlight how pharmacogenomics testing will become part of routine medical practice in an increasing number of medical disciplines. This would be due to an expansion in the knowledge on genotypes and epigenetic markers with drug response phenotype.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the launch of Science of Synthesis Version 3.9, an online resource that provides highly evaluated chemical information from leading experts in the field. This critical treatment of synthetic chemistry claims to be one of the most authoritative, in-depth information resources available on synthetic methodology. It contains comprehensive coverage of the entire field of organic chemistry from all published and readily available sources from the early 1800s until the present.

With this upgraded version, 45 out of the 48 printed volumes are now available online. Over 14,000 new reactions and an additional 1,545 experimental procedures have been added to this release. There are currently a total of 252,000 reactions and more than 32,000 experimental procedures available.

Developed in cooperation with InfoChem, Science of Synthesis possesses a user-friendly search function that allows substructure, exact structure, reaction, combined keyword, and full-text searches. Within the application, a structure search is quick and easy since users have the ability to choose between multiple structure drawing tools (ISIS Draw, Java Applet, and ChemDraw). Its compatibility with SFX assists librarians in navigating literature requests of Science of Synthesis users to resources and services relevant to their search queries.

Science of Synthesis Version 3.9 is fully compatible with both Windows and Macintosh and supports Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari browsers.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice (JEBDP) will celebrate its 10th anniversary by distributing a special March 2010 issue on restorative dentistry to faculty members, senior dental students and all dental residents in the US.

Co-sponsored by Nobel Biocare (Gold), 3M ESPE (Silver) and Ivoclar (Bronze), JEBDP’s restorative dentistry special issue covers critical subjects in dental materials and restorative dentistry, including composite resin and bonding agent longevity, ceramic restoration durability, dental implant performance, and the impact of certain restorative practices on patient satisfaction and quality of life.

The restorative dentistry issue was developed by Dr. Robert Kelly, Director, Dental Clinical Research Center at the University of Connecticut Health Sciences Center, and Dr. Bruce Dye, Dental Epidemiology Officer, National Center of Health Statistics and JEBDP’s Associate Editor. Both Dr. Kelly and Dr. Dye solicited the opinions of a variety of dental experts who analysed and graded recently published restorative dentistry research and commented on the importance of evidence-based research, product development and marketing, and unsettled areas of investigation and practice.

A quarterly publication, the Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice presents timely original articles, as well as reviews of articles on the results and outcomes of clinical procedures and treatment. The Journal advocates the use or rejection of a procedure based on solid, clinical evidence found in literature.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, recently commissioned a report from US-based research and advisory firm Outsell. The report, titled ‘Establishing Value and ROI: Investing in STM E-Journals and E-Books’ , seeks to provide guidance for information managers looking to establish the value proposition for STM content in electronic formats.

One of the top issues for libraries and information centres today is assessing and demonstrating the value of information, especially in challenging economic times. Feedbacks imply that while libraries are keen to measure return on investment (ROI) and demonstrate the value of information, they struggle to collate appropriate metrics. Usage is often a proxy for value, with purchase and renewal decisions based on user volume, usage activity and costs per download.

Electronic formats have reportedly made the compilation of baseline data easier in many respects. However, the proliferation of e-content options poses new challenges. Increased choices – business models, access models, providers and formats – are reportedly making it more difficult to ascertain appropriate comparative benchmarks for e-books and e-journals.

While the specifics of the study relate to special libraries, several of the report's findings are seen to reflect what researchers of academic library usage have found. The study includes a survey of 573 end-users in corporate settings, and in-depth interviews with three large corporate libraries and a government research and engineering laboratory.

Across a broad group of R&D and technical end-users surveyed, e-content was found to be increasingly relied upon. The right source and type of information was seen to be essential to users now actively searching for the required information on a daily basis. The majority of end-users surveyed reported a heavy reliance upon STM content; an average time savings of 2-4 hours per user per occasion; associated cost savings in the form of faster information identification and elimination of redundant work; and a clear role for e-content in effectively supporting business decisions such as technologies to pursue and projects to select.

The report notes that as budget pressures push executive and stakeholder scrutiny to new levels, librarians will be challenged to define and establish the contribution of information and information services to business success. With few standardised approaches to the enterprise level ROI assessment, libraries will reportedly benefit from leveraging supporting partners - and striving to create their own consistent procedures - to identify, size and communicate the business impacts of information investment and usage. As options for e-journals and e-books continue to multiply, information managers will want to understand and establish their own business cases for reaping the benefits, says the report.

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STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell, US, has launched the eighth edition of Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology online in partnership with online publishing services provider Semantico Limited.

The 8th Edition marks the debut of the online edition of Rook's Textbook of Dermatology, allowing users the fastest possible access to the full range of knowledge on all known dermatological conditions. With fully searchable text and a fully searchable bank of more than 3,300 downloadable images, the online version allows users to search across all four volumes simultaneously; search all images separately; download images into presentations; and link directly to references via a range of sources.

The site is powered by the Semantico Information Publishing Platform (SIPP). Using SIPP, publishers can create their own microsites which will appear different at the user interface while retaining all the functionality of a much larger site. Semantico’s custom design approach allows unique functionality to be developed for a site to address a specific user need.

For Rook’s Dermatology the images are an essential part of the resource, acting as a powerful and direct learning tool. The fully featured image gallery lets users search the images, getting them directly to the resources they value. The images are clean when shown in context, but watermarked when expanded to a full view to protect the copyright of an extensive and unique collection.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced free access to all content hosted on the Nature News site (www.nature.com/news). This includes online news articles, and news and news features articles published in Nature. Previously, this content was free for the first four days from publication before becoming subscription-access only. The Nature News archive is now being made accessible to all.

NPG seeks to develop nature.com as the hub for quality science news and comment. The publisher is making content on the Nature News site freely available so that news content can be disseminated and discussed as widely as possible. With the rise of social media such as Twitter, Facebook and its own Connotea and Nature Network, NPG seeks to ensure that discussions about news and comment can include an accessible link to the article.

The Nature News website links out to other articles such as opinion articles and features hosted by Nature and associated journals such as Nature Medicine. These articles, as well as analysis pieces including News and Views and Research Highlights, remain subscription access. These articles can be accessed via personal subscription, site license or individual article purchase.

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An editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has called for scientific publications to enact stringent reforms to ensure integrity and minimise the ability of corporations to conceal scientific data. The editorial has cited troubling behaviour by drug maker GlaxoSmithKline - and scientists on its payroll - in studies that it sponsored in an attempt to downplay the risk of health problems from Avandia, a top-selling diabetes drug at the time.

In the editorial, JAMA writers Dr. Catherine DeAngelis and Dr. Phil Fontanarosa have criticised GlaxoSmithKline’s activities in research over the potential side effects of Avandia. The authors cite GlaxoSmithKline’s RECORD trial, which was supposed to study the heart attack problems associated with Avandia. They have called the RECORD trial a disturbing case of improper conduct surrounding an industry-sponsored clinical trial of Avandia. The trial reveals a situation in which concerns about maintaining market share apparently trumped concerns about the potential for causing patient harm.

Among the industry-wide reforms proposed by the JAMA editorial, the authors have called for medical journals to necessitate an independent statistical analysis of all corporate-sponsored studies before publishing the articles. Further, the editorial notes that academic researchers should have full access to all clinical data.

Concerns about the risk of heart problems with Avandia first gained widespread attention in May 2007. A meta-analysis of 42 different clinical trials, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggested that users of Avandia had a 43 percent increased risk of a heart attack. Last month, a US Senate report blasted GlaxoSmithKline for trying to cover up heart attack risks associated with the drug.

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Science magazine Scientific American has announced that it is partnering with the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) to organise a panel to discuss the findings and key issues from the 2010 Scientific American Worldview Report. This panel discussion will take place during the 2010 BIO International Convention. The BIO International Convention, a gathering of the global biotechnology community, is scheduled for May 3-6, 2010, in Chicago.

Fareed Zakaria, author, journalist and host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, will moderate a discussion among industry leaders on the state of biotech hubs and innovation around the globe. The session is scheduled for May 5, 2010, at McCormick Place in Chicago.

The panel will review the results and central themes of an annual study highlighting key international developments produced by Scientific American in cooperation with the BIO. The session will focus on comprehensive survey results from a newly published report entitled ‘Scientific American Worldview: A Global Biotechnology Perspective’. The report features the Worldview Scorecard, a country-by-country ‘innovation capacity’ ranking. It will be available at the BIO convention and will be viewable online at www.saworldview.com in mid May.

The Worldview report will illustrate what countries are doing right, and what countries still need to work on to improve their capacity for creating biotech innovation locally. In addition, the report will show how countries compare against one another in such categories as work force availability, education and intellectual property protection.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that regional pages are now available on nature.com. Nature.com regions (www.nature.com/regions) pages provide a regularly updated portal for researchers, students, entrepreneurs, and investors who are interested in a specific country or region.

Nature.com regions launches with pages for Europe, France, Germany, Iran, Israel and Italy. Additional nature.com regions pages are planned, and may range from a single city to a multinational area. Each page brings together relevant research, news, opinion and business content from the Nature family of journals, Scientific American and other NPG resources. Local job listings from NatureJobs, event listings by Nature Events, and local service provider information are also available. Site visitors may also find content in French, German, and Italian provided by local Scientific American partners in respective countries.

Nature.com regions pages build on NPG's drive to provide locally relevant resources. Country-focused portals include Nature India, introduced in February 2008, and Nature China, launched in 2007. This month NPG launched Nature Middle East, which is NPG's third major portal focusing on emerging areas in scientific and medical research.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the launch of Nature Middle East (www.nature.com/naturemiddleeast), a new website highlighting scientific and medical research from the Arabic-speaking Middle East region. Continuously updated with articles in English and Arabic, Nature Middle East is sponsored by the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), at King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), Saudi Arabia.

Nature Middle East features news, features, and short 'Research Highlights'. Written by the Nature Middle East editorial team, 'Research Highlights' are summaries of interesting, recently-published papers, authored by researchers based in the Middle East region, from across the scientific and medical literature. Local job listings are provided by NatureJobs, and event listings by Nature Events. A blog, House of Wisdom, and a forum on Nature Network enable the community to connect, network and exchange information and ideas.

Nature Middle East is NPG's third major portal focusing on emerging areas in scientific and medical research, following the launch of Nature India in February 2008 and Nature China in 2007. The website currently covers Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Additional countries in the region may be added as Nature Middle East develops.

Nature Middle East Editor Mohammed Yahia has been actively promoting science in the Middle East region for a number of years. Prior to joining Nature Middle East, Mohammed was the MENA region coordinator for the website SciDev.Net and has worked as a reporter, editor, and consultant.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Prof. Maurice Courbage (Université Denis Diderot - Paris 7) and Prof. Paolo Grigolini (University of North Texas, USA) as the new Co-Editors-in-Chief for the journal Chaos, Solitons & Fractals.

Prof. Courbage works in the Theory of Complex Systems research group of the Université Denis Diderot - Paris 7. His research interests include nonlinear science and complexity, including quantum and classical statistical mechanics, neurodynamics, ergodic theory and cellular automata. Prof. Grigolini is a member of the Center for Nonlinear Science at the University of Texas where he works on quantum mechanics, statistical physics, complex networks and biological systems, in particular the complexity in neurophysiological processes.

In addition to the two new co-Editors-in-Chief, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals has refined its Aims & Scope, which now center on the interdisciplinary theme of complexity. The journal has also undergone some changes in the editorial structure. Regular articles, letters and reviews, as well as ‘Frontiers’ papers, up-to-date overviews of a particular field, will be the main article types throughout the journal. The journal also has a new look, including the cover and will be published in two column formatting.

Submissions will be accepted shortly at http://ees.elsevier.com/chaos/.

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Nano Research, an English-language journal jointly published by STM publisher Springer and Tsinghua University Press is now listed in Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E). The academic journal has been covered in the index from Volume 1, Issue 1.

Nano Research is part of Springer’s Chinese Library of Science, a collection comprising more than 90 journals. The journal publishes peer-reviewed, original research papers and review articles on nanometer scale material and nanotechnology. With an open access publishing model, Nano Research allows readers worldwide to download full articles via the online platform SpringerLink free of charge, thus enhancing rapid access to the journal.

The journal, featuring prompt review and timely publication, implements an online submission system. Furthermore, all articles are published electronically via Online First before they appear in print. Articles contributed by Chinese mainland scientists account for 20 percent of the total articles published. Editors-in-chief are Dr. Dai Hongjie, professor at Stanford University in the US, and Dr. Xue Qikun, professor at Tsinghua University in China.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced details of its 2011 pricing policy for Nature Communications and other NPG journals offering an open access (OA) option.

NPG currently sets a threshold of 10 percent OA content in a journal in a given year, at which point site licence prices will be reviewed. The company currently publishes 15 journals with an OA option, of which three have published more than 10 percent OA content in 2009. These are: The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports, the International Journal of Impotence Research (IJIR) and Prostate Cancer (PCan). The percentage of EMBO open content has actually decreased, and so this will lead to a small increase in price, following the 9 percent reduction for 2010. IJIR and PCan should see decreases in site licence prices of 5-10 percent, depending on the annual inflationary increase, which will be announced in the second quarter of 2010. This change only applies to site licence prices; personal and print subscriptions remain subject to NPG's usual pricing structure.

In 2012, NPG's intention is that site licence pricing for journals with an OA option will be determined by the percentage change in the amount of subscription access articles. This means the subscription price will be based on only the amount of subscribed content, independent of the OA content. This is expected to provide a more straightforward calculation to price journals, especially for journals that are growing, or new hybrid titles that do not have a base level of content. Annual inflationary increases will still apply. Again, this change in pricing structure only applies to site licence access.

In April, NPG is to launch Nature Communications, a born digital journal with an immediate OA option. Therefore it has no existing price to reduce, and NPG can only set a site licence access price based on the amount of subscription content and the quality of the journal.

All content published in Nature Communications will be freely available until October 2010, after which subscribed access content will be put behind a paywall. Site licence access and pay-per-view options will be available from October. Based on current submissions, the journal is projected to publish significantly more subscribed access research papers than a Nature research journal. NPG has therefore set a base site licence price of £1,500/$2,400/€1,875 for a small academic institution. Early subscribers will be offered 15 months for the price of 12, providing access from October 2010 through to December 2011 (subscriptions must be confirmed by August 31, 2010).

The Article Processing Charge (APC) for Nature Communications has been set at $5,000, with a 20 percent launch discount. Approximately 25 percent of authors have expressed interest in choosing OA publication. Nature Communications memberships will also be available, offering discounted APCs. Memberships will be offered at discounted rates when combined with site licences. Details are still being confirmed and will be announced later in 2010.

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Open access publisher Dove Medical Press, UK, has announced an alliance with Athena Healthcare Consultancy, a Shanghai-based pharmaceutical medical marketing consultancy.

Under the deal, Dove has appointed Athena as its exclusive partner for Mainland China and Hong Kong. Both companies will work together to enhance the opportunities for publishing clinical research/basic science and extend medical communications within the healthcare communities.

The rate of publication growth in China is reportedly the fastest in the world. By working with Athena, Dove seeks to further improve its service to authors in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The peer-reviewed open access publishing model operated by Dove, with the support of Athena, is expected to provide Chinese authors with the potential to reach a wider audience and readership in a faster publication time frame.

Dove Medical Press is a privately held publisher of open access peer-reviewed journals across the broad spectrum of science, technology and especially medicine. Founded in 2003, the company has offices in the UK and New Zealand, with an active presence in the US and a network of agents in Europe, the Americas, and Southeast Asia.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced that the second edition of the Color Atlas of Pathophysiology includes the latest scientific information on molecular and genetic causes of disease as well as promising therapies.

Additions to this fully updated edition include current information on acute respiratory distress syndrome, hyperoxia, oxidative stress, polycystic kidney disease, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, metabolic syndrome, copper metabolism and Wilson’s disease, and dysproteinemias. Other features include the more than 190 colour plates that clarify complex relationships. Authors Dr. Silbernagl and Dr. Lang have highlighted key words and phrases to facilitate effortless navigation throughout the atlas.

Color Atlas of Pathophysiology seeks to serve as an essential companion for students, during their clinical studies, as both a tool for studying and a key guide. This atlas also provides healthcare professionals with a handy reference whenever needed.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new quarterly journal, Journal of Family Business Strategy (JFBS). The journal aims to be a primary publication outlet for academics and scholars in the field of family business strategic issues. The first issue is now available on ScienceDirect.

The Journal of Family Business Strategy publishes research that contributes new knowledge and understanding to the field of family business. The journal is international in scope and welcomes submissions that address all aspects of how family influences business and business influences family.

The editorial board is led by the eminent academic Joseph H. Astrachan, Wachovia Eminent Scholar Chair of Family Business and Professor in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Coles College of Business, Cox Family Enterprise Center, Kennesaw State University, USA.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced the addition of the journal Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging to its journals publishing programme. Springer will publish the journal on behalf of the Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine, which has been the publisher of the journal since 1967. Dr. June-Key Chung from the Seoul National University College of Medicine will serve as editor-in-chief. He will be supported by an international editorial board.

A quarterly, NMMI publishes original research papers, reviews, case reports, editorials and letters to the editor on nuclear medicine and a wide range of related sciences. These include radiochemistry, radiopharmacy, dosimetry and pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of radiopharmaceuticals, nuclear and molecular imaging analysis, nuclear and molecular imaging instrumentation, radiation biology and radionuclide therapy.

Springer will publish the journal in both print and electronic formats, starting with Volume 44, Issue 1. The journal will be available via www.springerlink.com, Springer’s online information platform. It will include fast, electronic publication in Online First, as well as Cross Reference Linking and Table of Contents Alerts.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced that The Pocket Atlas of Chinese Medicine has won first prize in the Nursing and Allied Health category of the 2009 PROSE Award. The annual award presented by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) recognises the best in professional and scholarly publishing. Entrants were judged by peer publishers, librarians and medical professionals.

Written by a renowned team of international experts, The Pocket Atlas of Chinese Medicine offers a deep understanding of the underlying theory, characteristics, and fundamental concepts of Chinese Medicine, as well as its philosophical and cultural basis. The publication is projected as a must-have resource for students and practitioners of Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, and complementary medicine, including medical doctors in acupuncture training.

The Association of American Publishers is the national trade association of the US book publishing industry. AAP’s more than 300 members include most of the major commercial publishers in the US, as well as smaller and non-profit publishers, university presses and scholarly societies. According to the AAP, this year the prestigious awards received more entries than ever before in its 34-year history from over 60 professional and scholarly publishers across the US.

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STM publisher Elsevier has reportedly asked the editor-in-chief of the journal Medical Hypotheses to immediately step down or implement a series of changes in his editorial policy, including introducing a system of peer-review. Medical Hypotheses is currently the only Elsevier journal that does not have a system of peer-review. The editor-in-chief decides what gets published, and the manuscripts are edited only very lightly, according to media reports.

An external advisory board convened by Elsevier has recommended the immediate setting up of a peer-review system. It has also suggested that articles pertaining to controversial subjects - such as those that support racism - should not be considered for publication.

Medical Hypotheses faced criticism after AIDS researchers protested about an article by AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg. The paper, previously rejected by the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, asserts that HIV does not cause AIDS and that medical statistics and demographical data do not support the existence of a massive AIDS epidemic in South Africa.

Bruce Charlton, the journal's editor-in-chief, has said that the editorial advisory board, as well as at least 150 scientists who have published in the journal, have "vehemently opposed" the changes. Elsevier has given him until March 15 to respond. The company has also said that it will not renew Charlton’s contract, which expires at the end of 2010.

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Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has updated its Materials Views website with new features to help materials scientists keep up with the latest research. MaterialsViews.com is a news service covering the latest developments in materials science, chemistry and physics.

MaterialsViews.com's scientific editors scan the materials science, chemistry and physics literature, looking for interesting and relevant breakthroughs in all of materials science as soon as they are published. They then distill the best papers into concise summaries that can be quickly scanned so busy scientists can identify the papers they want to spend more time reading.

Improved navigation and layout helps scientists find articles faster on the new MaterialsViews.com website. New individual channels for hot subject areas - including nanotechnology, polymers, energy, electronics, photonics, surfaces, and more - let scientists focus on the stories most relevant to their research.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its journal Current Opinion in Cell Biology will host a Cellular Host-Pathogen Interactions Conference, in Amsterdam, from September 5-7, 2010. The event is the first in a new series of conferences sponsored by Elsevier’s Current Opinion journals.

These conferences are projected to provide a new level of direct interaction between the leaders in the scientific field and the attending delegates. Emphasis will be placed on the latest unpublished results, extended discussion periods and direct interactions with leaders in the field. Each conference is designed to facilitate extended discussion periods with networking sessions.

Keynote speakers drawn from the world’s best scientists, will provide an opportunity for scientific researchers and clinicians in the fields of molecular and clinical research to meet and discuss new research in the field, including topics such as pathogen invasion, adaptation, host defence, pathogen life cycle and immune system response.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has released a special issue of the journal Antiviral Research, marking the 25th anniversary of antiretroviral drug development.

Guest edited by José Esté from Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Spain, and Tomas Cihlar, from Gilead sciences Inc., CA, US, the special issue features a variety of review articles from key players in the field. Introducing this special issue of Antiviral Research, Samuel Broder from the Celera Corporation in Alameda, describes how in the last 25 years, HIV-1 has gone from being an ‘inherently untreatable’ infectious agent to one eminently susceptible to a range of approved therapies. In the late 1980s his group, then at the National Cancer Institute, played a key role in the discovery and development of the first generation of antiretroviral agents.

In 2010, Antiviral Research will celebrate its 30th anniversary by organising an Antivirals Congress from November 7-9, 2010, in Amsterdam. The guest editors and various authors of this special issue will present at the Congress, which is expected to serve as an interface between academics, those in research and development, regulatory and governmental agencies, charities, and health and industry professionals.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced that residents and medical professionals will now be able to easily locate groups of cases across all radiology subspecialties with the new Radcases book series and searchable database. The innovative website and its companion books, developed by Thieme, bring together key cases in radiology under one umbrella.

Cardiac Imaging, by Dr. Carlos Santiago Restrepo and Dr. Dianna M.E. Bardo; Interventional Radiology, by Dr. Hector Ferral and Dr. Jonathan Lorenz; and Musculoskeletal Radiology, by Dr. Glenn M. Garcia, are the first three titles in this twelve book series. Each book in the series comes with a scratch-off code that allows readers twelve months of access to a searchable online database of all 100 cases from the book plus an additional 150 cases in that book’s specialty.

Each case begins with a clinical presentation, which is followed by imaging findings, differential diagnoses, essential facts, other imaging findings as well as pearls and pitfalls. The easy-to-navigate website has a similar structure. The key cases presented in the books and on the website simulate everything a radiologist faces on rounds, rotations and during exams. All the information is clearly presented using high-quality radiographs and annotations.

Unique website features include a flexible search function that lets anyone locate specific cases by checking off, for example, modality and subspecialty. The user can also filter results so only critical cases - those requiring quick recognition of the problem - are returned. Other highlights include colour images, diagnostic videos and the ability to bookmark information.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it will publish the European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, starting in 2010. The journal, previously published by Swiss publisher Médecine & Hygiène, covers all aspects of drug delivery and bioavailability.

The European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics focuses on aspects such as pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism, drug interactions and all aspects of drug development. The journal provides relevant information from this research area, publishing original articles, short preliminary communications, review articles on special topics and conference proceedings.

Published four times a year, the journal is indexed in Medline and Current Contents.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Elsevier Clinical Decision Support (CDS) will feature solutions that directly impact the quality of care at the HIMSS 2010 event in Atlanta from March 1-3. The solutions include evidence-based clinical content and tools; interdisciplinary documentation, planning and guidelines; drug decision support; interactive skills and procedures; data mining and outcomes analysis; and e-learning.

CDS representatives will present how its solutions can help clinicians, hospitals and healthcare systems improve care quality and achieve meaningful use of healthcare information and technology.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in its recent proposed definition of meaningful use, said that the healthcare industry would be best served by ‘achieving improvements in quality, safety and efficiency, focusing on decision support for national high priority conditions, patient access to self management tools, access to comprehensive patient data, and improving population health outcomes.’ In line with this, three key Elsevier experts will discuss their perspectives on several CDS solutions at HIMSS 2010.

By following CMS’ lead and renewing its focus on care quality and efficiency, Elsevier seeks to continue its efforts to deliver evidence-based content, products and services that help medical professionals concentrate on improving care and outcomes.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the La Fondation IPSEN recently conducted the seventh meeting in the ‘Emergence and Convergence’ series in San Antonio, Texas. Experts discussed concepts from gene regulation studies in immune cells that have led to insights into the initiation and maintenance of epigenetic chromatin marks necessary for proper differentiation and function of these cells in the immune system.

The meeting was arranged by Laurie Dempsey (Nature Immunology, USA), Arianne Heinrichs (Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, UK), Yves Christen (La Fondation IPSEN, France) and Jacqueline Mervaillie (La Fondation IPSEN, France).

In 2007, the two organisations came together to create a new series of scientific events - the Emergence & Convergence mini-symposia. Each meeting in the series seeks to bring together a group of speakers to address a topic of strong current interest. The aim is also to have a topic that has elements of both emergence (new advances in the field) and convergence (a developing consensus on the importance and integration of the new advances with existing understanding). Where applicable, meetings are cross-disciplinary in nature to facilitate and promote collaboration.

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STM Publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of Elsevier Insights, a new online book series covering topics in areas such as life and physical sciences, engineering, computer science, tourism, and finance. Elsevier Insights will provide high quality, specialised content through fast-track online publication.

The first two volumes - Aging, Ageism and Abuse: Moving from Awareness to Action, edited by Gloria M. Gutman and Charmaine Spencer, and A History of Weed Science in North America by Robert L. Zimdahl - are now available. Nineteen more volumes are currently planned for 2010.

Elsevier Insights volumes are included in the ScienceDirect eBooks programme and are also available for individual purchase via elsevierdirect.com and third party platform partners. Online delivery offers the benefits of 24/7 availability, multi-user simultaneous access, fully linked references, increased discoverability, and the availability of usage and download statistics. In addition, all Elsevier Insights volumes are also available in print.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the data library PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data - and Elsevier have implemented reciprocal linking between their respective content in earth system research. Research data sets deposited at PANGAEA are now automatically linked to the corresponding articles in Elsevier journals on its electronic platform ScienceDirect and vice versa. The linking functionality also provides a credit mechanism for research data sets deposited in this data library.

The interaction of a publisher with an open access data repository is projected as being ideal to serve the requirements of modern research by diminishing the loss of research data. It also enables the reader of a publication to verify the scientific findings and to use the data in his/her own work. The Elsevier-PANGAEA cooperation follows the most recent recommendations of funding bodies and international organisations, such as the OECD, about access to research data from public funding.

Working with the scientific community to preserve scientific research data is also an objective of the Elsevier Content Innovation programme. Through the latest agreement, Elsevier expects to support long-term storage, wide availability and preservation of large research data sets.

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STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, has announced the 20th anniversary of the peer-reviewed journal Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience (RNN). Founded in 1989 by neuroscientist Donald G. Stein, RNN focuses on the emerging field of brain plasticity, repair and rehabilitation. The journal has published not only numerous original scientific publications, but also review papers in basic research (animal experiments, in vitro studies) and in the clinical sciences.

This interdisciplinary information source supports researchers and clinicians to benefit patients who have sustained injury to the peripheral or central nervous system. Numerous factors contribute to RNN's continuing success. These include advancement of the field of restoration and plasticity, which is an emerging field worldwide with an increasing number of scientists and publications and their citation rate; publication of special issues on vital topics, summarising the work of leading experts in the field; a highly qualified and active editorial board; and active manuscript recruitment and quality of submitted papers.

Guided by an international editorial board led by Editor-in-Chief Dr. Bernhard A. Sabel, Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience publishes papers relating the plasticity and response of the nervous system to accidental or experimental injuries and their interventions, transplantation, neurodegenerative disorders and experimental strategies to improve regeneration or functional recovery and rehabilitation. Experimental and clinical research papers adopting fresh conceptual approaches are encouraged.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the launch of a new journal - Molecular Autism. The journal seeks to provide autism researchers with a new forum for basic, translational and clinical study into the molecular basis of autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions.

Joseph Buxbaum from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Simon Baron-Cohen from the University of Cambridge serve as Editors-in-Chief of the journal. Through Molecular Autism, the Editors hope to tackle the multi-level complexity of autism and related syndromes by engendering greater integration across scientific disciplines including genetics, molecular neurobiology, neuropathology and imaging.

A peer-reviewed, online open access journal, Molecular Autism will publish high-quality basic, translational and clinical research into the molecular basis of autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions. Although the primary focus is on conditions in the autism spectrum (including Asperger syndrome), the scope encompasses molecular research into related neurodevelopmental conditions such as specific language impairment, dyspraxia, and specific or general developmental delays; and into related medical syndromes such as fragile X syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, and Rett syndrome.

Two research articles, published in the inaugural issue, include an epidemiological study that provides evidence for an association between paternal age and autism risk in an Iranian population sample, and a genome wide linkage analysis of repetitive behavioural phenotypes.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will publicly share its internal custom publication guidelines. The global publisher seeks to provide scientific and medical communities, insight into a new and practical set of publishing standards for producing custom and sponsored publications. The new guidelines were first developed in June 2009 and updated in December 2009 following a comprehensive internal review of custom publications practices within Elsevier.

The review was initiated when it was revealed that two Elsevier publications from 2003, presented as an unbiased journal, were in fact sponsored publications lacking adequate disclosures. The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine published reprinted original, peer-reviewed research articles, and other summarised articles, conference reviews and news clips and was single-sponsored by a global pharmaceutical company. Contrary to the high standards that Elsevier sets for itself, the employees responsible did not make the sponsorship sufficiently clear to its potential readers.

The guidelines cover the necessity for full disclosure of funding and the origin of content and provide guidance on obtaining permission for the use of content. The guidelines also point employees to best practices for medical publications from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Institute of Medicine.

Publishing units will consider in their approval processes, whether a custom publication is consistent with Elsevier’s historical standard for world-class content and if appropriate disclosures are made. They also need to follow the established record retention policy to ensure the company maintains an archive of all custom products produced. Affected employees have confirmed receipt of the guidelines and attended presentations on implementation. Elsevier management will continue to monitor and assess adherence to the guidelines and standards by all its business units globally.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it is celebrating medical education innovation at the American Medical Student Association’s (AMSA) 60th Annual Convention, March 11-14, 2010, at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California.

Among the resources that Elsevier will showcase at AMSA is Student Consult, which provides full-text, online access to medical education titles such as the new edition of Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy. Student Consult also offers study tools like image banks, questions, animations, and a virtual microscope. Other products to be featured at the convention include USMLE Consult, which offers USMLE test preparation guidance, simulations, review plans and remediation; and InteractElsevier, which explores human anatomy and virtual dissection through 3-D virtual reality technology. Mobile applications such as Netter’s Anatomy Flash Cards will also be up for display.

The first 1,000 AMSA student attendees who visit the Elsevier booth (#18-19) will receive a complimentary three-month subscription to USMLE Consult Step 1 Question Bank Review Plan. This features content from Elsevier resources such as Gray’s Anatomy. Further, the content is officially reviewed and approved by Dr. Edward Goljan of the Oklahoma State University, College of Osteopathic Medicine.

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The University of Hong Kong Libraries has announced an agreement with STM publisher Springer, Germany. The deal allows researchers at the affiliated institutions of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) to publish their research in Springer journals using Springer Open Choice.

Springer operates the Springer Open Choice programme for majority of its journals. The Open Choice programme offers full and immediate open access (free to the reader) for articles that are accepted for publication after a process of rigorous peer-review. If authors choose open access in the Springer Open Choice program, they will not be required to transfer their copyright. The final published version of all articles will be archived in institutional or funder repositories and can be made publicly accessible immediately.

Accepted HKU articles will appear as usual in Springer print journals, and will be published electronically using open access on SpringerLink, PubMed Central, and the HKU institutional repository, The HKU Scholars Hub. The pilot project will run from March 2010 to March 2011.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, and library services firm subito, Germany, have initiated a project to jointly develop a document delivery system for e-books. subito offers users copies of articles from periodicals and supports the lending of books.

With the latest alliance, university libraries can make digital book content from Thieme available on reading terminals, and personnel from universities and research institutions can integrate it into their intranets and learning platforms. subito has made its infrastructure available for delivering book content direct from the publisher.

In 2009, more than 40,000 active customers reportedly used subito's document delivery service for journal articles. Service subscribers can now expect to get content from books, published by Thieme, delivered to their computers either page by page or in their entirety. Complete books or select content can thus be licensed, allowing for use that is in accordance with legal requirements.

All available content will be enhanced with extensive metadata, which enables fast and specifically targeted searches for users. The content will be available as high resolution PDF files, thereby eliminating scanning cost for libraries. Ordering and delivery as well as billing will be processed by subito.

The pilot project between subito and Thieme reportedly has clearly defined conditions of use. Within the framework of the collaboration a flexible and unitised pricing system will be developed that is based on groups of users, duration of use and volume of content accessed.

The collaboration to deliver journal articles has now been expanded to include medical and scientific books from Thieme Publishing Group. Both partners will continuously evaluate the project and further develop it in accordance with user needs. The subito service is also available to other publishers.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the launch of ‘Beyond the Genome: The true gene count, human evolution and disease genomics’, an international conference which will bring together leading researchers and industry representatives from around the globe. The conference, organised by BioMed Central, is scheduled for October 11-13, 2010, in Boston, Massachusetts.

The event marks BioMed Central journal Genome Biology’s 10th anniversary and the recent launch of its sister journal Genome Medicine. Internationally renowned researchers will deliver cutting edge presentations in key areas of post-genomic research in biology and medicine and future developments, including the Human Microbiome Project and the resequencing of matched tumour and normal genomes from specific types of cancers.

The organising committee includes Elaine Mardis from the Washington University School of Medicine and Steven Salzberg of the University of Maryland. All participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. A significant number of talks will be selected from registrants.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it has won four major awards and six honorable mentions from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP).

Elsevier’s BrainNavigator, an online, interactive, 3D software tool developed in collaboration with the Allen Institute for Brain Science was named the winner of the PROSE Award in the eProduct/Best in Biological & Life Sciences category. BrainNavigator maps brain images and anatomy, helping neuroscience researchers save time, improve the quality of their daily research and view the brain in new and enlightening ways.

Receiving top honours in the Mathematics category was Elsevier’s Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications, by Robert Nisbet, John Elder and Gary Miner, which is a comprehensive professional handbook which guides one through all stages of data analysis, model building and implementation.

Neuroeconomics: Decision Making in the Brain, by Paul W. Glimcher, Colin Camerer, Russell Poldrack and Ernst Fehr, received the Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, as well as being the winner in the Economics category. The publication is the first edited reference to examine the science behind neuroeconomics, including how it influences human behavior and societal decision making from a behavioral economics point of view.

Elsevier also received six honorable mentions in the Clinical Medicine category; Nursing & Allied Health category; Multivolume Reference/Science category; and Art & Art History category.

The PROSE awards were named by a panel of 16 judges representing PSP member companies such as Wiley-Blackwell and Harvard University Press, as well as representatives from major educational institutions and libraries such as University of Toronto and Columbia University.

Started in 1976, the PROSE Awards annually recognise the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals and electronic content. This year’s competition received 441 entries, more than ever before in the award competition’s history.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced a partnership with the Anthropological Society of Paris to publish the latter’s scientific journal Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris. The journal claims to be the oldest journal on biological anthropology. It has been published by the society itself since 1859, when it was launched parallel to the founding of the Anthropological Society of Paris.

Articles published in English or French in the bulletin cover the whole multidisciplinary spectrum of biological anthropology from paleoanthropology to human ecology, and from population genetics to burial archaeology. Published twice a year, the journal includes original research papers, review articles, book reviews and meeting reports. It also devotes a special section to the history of the discipline itself.

The Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris will further enhance Springer’s catalogue of social sciences publications. Springer has over 500 books and around 20 journals in this discipline.

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Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a new publishing partnership with The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). TMS is a member-driven professional society consisting largely of materials scientists and engineers working in industry, academia, and government, as well as students studying in the materials field.

Under the deal, Wiley will publish, on behalf of TMS, books and resources encompassing the entire range of materials science and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production to basic research and the advanced applications of materials. In addition to forthcoming co-published titles, Wiley will distribute all published titles sold formerly through the society.

TMS is a major publisher in the materials community and publishes proceedings, textbooks, CD-ROMs, software, and more. Included among its nearly 10,000 professional and student members are metallurgical and materials engineers, scientists, researchers, educators, and administrators from more than 70 countries on six continents. The society derives its strength from these members, many of whom take a hands-on approach to shaping the policy, programming and publications of the society by volunteering within one of the technical divisions.

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STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell, US, has announced a publishing partnership with the Australian Psychological Society (APS). Under the deal, Wiley-Blackwell will publish three APS flagship journals – Australian Journal of Psychology, Australian Psychologist and Clinical Psychologist – from 2011.

The partnership will bring a proactive publishing agenda that fully supports the APS’s strategic mission to expand its profile and influence regionally and worldwide; to protect standards of excellence in psychological practice; and to showcase the best psychological research and practice from the region.

Wiley-Blackwell and the APS will focus on driving the profile, impact and professional relevance of each of the three flagship journals, with a strong emphasis on differentiation and individual journal development. Clinical Psychologist and Australian Psychologist will be specifically repositioned to deliver high-quality, practitioner-friendly content, while the focus for Australian Journal of Psychology will continue to be on growing the Journal’s impact and international reach.

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BioOne, US, a web-based aggregator of research in biological, ecological and environmental sciences, has announced the appointment of Nicole Colovos to the newly created Director of Marketing role.

Colovos brings to BioOne over 16 years of agency experience in design and marketing communications. As director of marketing she will help to set strategy, execute marketing programmes and promote BioOne in the community.

In her most recent role as VP for Strategic Development at Bremmer & Goris, Colovos worked with clients to define and communicate their brand and provided strategic planning for large, multi-faceted campaigns. She was responsible for ensuring that marketing communications included relevant tactics and sound concepts to build brand equity and advance a client's mission.

STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced a partnership with the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (Society for Biological Systematics). Under the deal, Springer will publish the society's official journal Organisms Diversity & Evolution, beginning with Volume 10, Issue 1, in March 2010. The journal was previously published by Elsevier. Dr. Olaf R.P. Bininda-Emonds, Professor of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology at Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany, is the editor-in-chief.

Published five times a year, Organisms Diversity & Evolution seeks to promote the understanding of all aspects of organismal diversity, particularly in an evolutionary framework. Topics include the systematics, phylogenetics, taxonomy, biogeography, biodiversity and/or evolution of any organismal group, recent or fossil. The journal contains original articles on high-quality research; short papers describing new laboratory methods, bioinformatic tools and databases; forum papers on issues relevant to the journal's main areas of interest; and comprehensive reviews.

Fast publication in Online First will provide immediate access to new research results in Organisms Diversity & Evolution on Springer's online information platform, www.springerlink.com. Editorial Manager, an online peer review and author submission system; Cross Reference Linking; and Alert services will be fully implemented for the journal. In addition, all authors, via the Springer Open Choice programme, have the option to publish their articles using the open access publishing model.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the start of the second annual ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Researcher Award in sustainable development, a partnership between its flagship product SCOPUS and ProSPER.Net. ProSPER.Net is a network of nineteen leading universities in Asia-Pacific.

The top three finalists in each category will be sponsored to present their work in a public symposium to be held in the first week of July 2010 at Tongji University in Shanghai. Winners will be announced at the symposium and receive a cash award. In addition, this year, the International Bureau of the German Ministry of Education will offer a fellowship to the winners.

The award is open to those involved in graduate education and research activities that emphasise sustainable development in the areas of Energy, Water, Agriculture & Food Security, and Economics, Business, & Management. In order to qualify, candidates for the award are expected to be employed at institutions of higher education in the Asia-Pacific region and should be younger than 40 years of age as of 1 July 2010.

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STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell, US, has announced that its Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs), the new publications launched in 2009, have picked up three of the most prestigious awards in scholarly publishing at the annual PROSE awards. The American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards) named the WIREs as joint winner of this year’s R.R. Hawkins Award, the association’s top prize, established in 1976 to recognise outstanding scholarly works in all disciplines of the arts and sciences.

The WIREs is the first e-product to have won the top prize in the award’s 34-year history. It joins an illustrious list of titles that have previously received the Hawkins award. The WIREs series also picked up the prize in the eProduct/Best Multidiscipline Platform category and received the PROSE Award for Excellence in Reference Works.

The WIREs are unique hybrid publications that emphasise the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in research and education. Each title provides authoritative, encyclopaedic coverage of diverse scientific fields with high-quality reviews commissioned from expert contributors from across the globe. These articles are fully citable and eligible for abstracting, indexing and ISI ranking.

Currently available WIREs titles include Climate Change, Cognitive Science, Computational Statistics, Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology and Systems Biology and Medicine. Future titles covering Computational Molecular Science, Energy and Environment, Membrane Transport and Signalling, RNA, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery and Developmental Biology are scheduled for launch in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

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Elsevier Properties SA, a centre of excellence within Reed Elsevier for the management of intellectual property, has announced the launch of the Reaxys PhD Prize for young chemists. The competition is for candidates currently studying for a PhD or having completed a PhD within the past 12 months.

The prize will be awarded to the candidates that demonstrate excellence in methodology and approach in a peer-reviewed publication. Three prize winners will each receive a cheque for $2,000 and be invited to present their research at the Winners’ Symposium, held at the EuCheMS meeting in Nuremberg, Germany, on August 30, 2010.

All entries will be reviewed by a review board of international chemists, chaired by members of the Reaxys Advisory Board. This includes Dr. P. Kocis - former Global Head Exploratory Chemistry, AstraZeneca; Professor H. Kunz - University of Mainz, Germany; and Professor H. N. C. Wong - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Submissions will be reviewed based upon originality, innovation, importance to the field, applicability, rigor of approach and publication quality.

All submissions must include a PhD Supervisor letter of recommendation, a CV and a representative peer-reviewed piece of published research. Entries should be submitted by February 28, 2010, at http://prize.reaxys.com.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the launch of Pharmaceutical Substances Version 3.3. Available via Thieme-connect, Pharmaceutical Substances is projected as a comprehensive reference guide to every significant pharmaceutical compound and includes syntheses, patents and applications of all FDA approved active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).

Twenty recently approved APIs have been added to the latest version of the information resource, bringing the total of APIs to 2500. Recent additions include the LH-RH antagonist Degarelix, the antiarrhythmic Dronedarone, the antiepileptic Lacosamide, and the GLP-1 analogue Liraglutide, which all represent the first members of new drug substance classes. Along with these additions, the entries for Azelastine, Dexrazoxane and Teriparatide have also been updated.

Compiled by renowned leaders in the field, in association with InfoChem and FIZ Chemie, the online version of the information resource is a web-based, easy-to-navigate portal that utilises standard browser technology. The user-friendly interface enables users to rapidly locate data and graphically search structures.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the AORN Journal has expanded its editorial content and redesigned the layout of its print format. The journal is the official journal of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN).

Working in collaboration with Elsevier, AORN has enhanced both the print and online versions of the journal. The new enhancements include new columns - Tapping into Technology and AORN Innovation Zone. Tapping into Technology seeks to help readers learn how to navigate new electronic information sources. Understanding both the medium and the message enables perioperative nurses to serve more effectively as patient advocates. The AORN Innovation Zone is designed to share innovative technology that can be used by perioperative professionals to improve quality of care and patient safety. Technologies featured in this column are selected by the AORN Journal, and the column is not underwritten by the manufacturers.

Additionally, the Topic Collections online-only feature offers collections of evidence-based articles on subjects such as pressure ulcers, competency, safety and other key topics. This feature helps perioperative nurses easily find the pertinent information they need. The Clinical Issues column will now provide continuing education (CE) contact hours according to the criteria established by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Other regular columns will also offer CE content.

The AORN Journal now offers select articles online ahead of formal publication as part of a specific issue to get information to readers as quickly as possible. The journal will also add two new quarterly columns in 2010, one contributed by the Cochrane Nursing Care Network and one by the International Association of Healthcare Central Service Materiel Management (IAHCSMM).

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The closing of the sale of Springer Science+Business Media S.A. (Springer) by Cinven and Candover to funds managed by EQT and GIC, announced on December 11, 2009, is confirmed. Competition authorities in the US and in Europe have approved the transfer.

Springer has received an injection of new equity of around EUR 450 million. Furthermore, a new financing package valued at EUR 1.2 billion has been put together with Goldman Sachs International, Barclays Capital, Unicredit Bank AG and Deutsche Bank AG.

Springer Science+Business Media is a global scientific publisher, delivering quality content through innovative information products and services. In the science, technology and medicine (STM) sector, the group publishes around 2,000 journals and more than 6,500 new books a year, and claims to have the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide. Springer has operations in about 20 countries in Europe, the US, and Asia.

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The Wiley Foundation, US, has announced that the ninth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences will be awarded to Dr. Peter Hegemann, Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Humboldt University, Berlin; Dr. Georg Nagel, Professor of Molecular Plant Physiology, Department of Botany, University of Wuerzburg; and Dr. Ernst Bamberg, Professor and Director of the Dept of Biophysical Chemistry, Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany. This was announced by Deborah E. Wiley, Chairman of The Wiley Foundation, and Senior Vice President, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Dr. Hegemann, Dr. Nagel, and Dr. Bamberg were selected for their discovery of channelrhodopsins, a family of light-activated ion channels.

The Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences recognises contributions that have opened new fields of research or have advanced novel concepts or their applications in a particular biomedical discipline. It honours a specific contribution or a series of contributions that demonstrate significant leadership and innovation. The award will be presented to Dr. Hegemann, Dr. Nagel, and Dr. Bamberg on April 9, 2010, at The Rockefeller University, New York City.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced the addition of the Journal of Cancer Education (JCE) to its journals publishing programme. Published on behalf of the American Association for Cancer Education and the European Association for Cancer Education, the journal features a varied editorial board made up of MDs and PhDs who support the dissemination of information on improving cancer education worldwide. Dr. Joseph F. O'Donnell of the Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, will serve as editor-in-chief.

A quarterly publication, the Journal of Cancer Education presents research that aims to improve current cancer education techniques, to solve problems that exist in educating patients and to strengthen existing education programmes. International in scope, it serves as the ideal source to inform physicians, dentists, nurses, students, social workers as well as patients and the general public about various aspects of cancer education.

Articles include original research papers; commentary; book and media reviews; and announcements of educational programs, fellowships and grants. A special column called ‘Reflections’ relates to the human aspects of dealing with cancer and cancer patients and their families.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that two of its journals - Harm Reduction Journal and International Journal for Equity in Health - have been accepted for inclusion by Thomson Reuters. These journals are due to receive their first impact factors in June 2011.

A peer-reviewed online journal Harm Reduction Journal focuses on the prevalent patterns of psychoactive drug use, the public policies meant to control them, and the search for effective methods of reducing the adverse medical, public health, and social consequences associated with both drugs and drug policies. It provides full access to the large body of factual reports and policy documents published by governments and by the growing international network of harm reduction organisations. The journal has an unofficial 2008 impact factor of 1.68.

International Journal for Equity in Health presents evidence relevant to the search for, and attainment of, equity in health across and within countries. It aims to improve the understanding of issues that influence the health of populations. The journal has an unofficial impact factor of 1.24.

Both journals have also been accepted for coverage in Current Contents.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it will publish the journal International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research, effective January 2010. The journal is the official publication of ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) Japan. First launched by ITS Japan as the International Journal of ITS Research in 2003, the journal will now be published in electronic format, available on www.springerlink.com. Masao Kuwahara of the University of Tokyo is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

The International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research claims to be the only international platform to foster wide-ranging discussion across disciplines by bringing together a broad-based audience for solutions-oriented information and discussion. The journal publishes original research and survey papers. It serves a multi-disciplinary set of researchers and specialists in fields ranging from transportation, electrical, mechanical, and traffic engineering, as well as in policy planning, economics, and psychology. It reaches across disciplines to find solutions to the difficult issues surrounding future transportation systems and their impact on society.

The journal will be published three times a year. Cross Reference Linking and alert services will be fully implemented for the journal.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) has agreed to acquire the complete ScienceDirect eBooks collections for 2008, 2009 and 2010. Libraries and patrons in CIC member institutions will now be able to access over 1,300 titles across 18 science, technical and medical subject areas.

CIC member institutions include Indiana University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. By providing access to the ScienceDirect eBooks collection, member patrons will gain access to the library as well as a powerful search and browse capability. Users will also be able to access instant links to relevant journal articles and innovative knowledge discovery features such as the NextBio Ontology-based semantic search tool.

CIC chose to acquire the eBooks collections based on evidence gathered from increasing patron adoption of retrospective content from the HathiTrust Digital Archive as well as robust uptake of current publisher content from a variety of sources. A careful analysis of current ebook usage among consortium member institutions was conducted last year, and participating schools found that when they worked together to make a critical mass of content accessible, it was immediately noticed and used by faculty and students.

Later this year, ScienceDirect will partner with selected libraries from CIC to conduct joint usage studies to better understand the value of these ebooks in driving world-class research, teaching and learning. Findings from this study will be shared with the global library and research community.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that the first issue of Polymer Journal on nature.com is now live. The journal is the official publication of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ). SPSJ claims to be the world's largest polymer science society.

The January 2010 issue is the first to be co-published by NPG, and showcases the journal's redesign, including a new-look cover, new website, and new graphical table of contents. Polymer Journal is a significant addition to the program of partnerships between NPG Nature Asia-Pacific and key scientific and clinical organisations across the Asia-Pacific region. It represents the first academic journal for NPG in the physical sciences and chemistry, not just for the Asia-Pacific programme but worldwide.

Published in English since 1970, Polymer Journal covers the whole range of polymer science: polymer syntheses and reactions, polymer structures, physical properties of polymers, functional polymers, biopolymers, and polymer engineering.

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Publisher Future Science, UK, has announced the launch of a new journal – Biofuels. The journal is the first of a new range of environmental science titles published by Future Science. Yusuf Christi of Massey University, New Zealand, and Timothy Donohue from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, will serve as Senior Editors. They will be supported by a team of two Associate Editors, together with an Advisory Panel of more than thirty international experts.

Biofuels is a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to provide a forum for all stakeholders in the bioenergy sector. The journal will feature original research, review articles, commentaries, news and much more, with a view to establishing an international forum for biofuel research and communication.

Biofuels research is progressing at an unprecedented rate, with the development of new feedstocks and improvements in production processes providing the key to the transformation of biomass into a global energy resource. Published on a bimonthly basis, Biofuels will report key developments and place these advances in context during this evolution. The launch issue contents can be viewed at http://www.future-science.com/loi/bfs.

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STM publisher Research Publishing Services, Singapore, has announced the launch of its first journal – Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management (AJEDM). The journal claims to be the first journal focusing on environment and disaster related issues in the Asian region. Asia, being the center of urban growth in the last few decades, has also created severe environmental problems, and is prone to different types of natural disasters.

Prof. Rajib Shaw from Kyoto University, Japan, and Prof. R. R. Krishnamurthy from University of Madras, India, serve as the chief editors of the journal. The editorial board includes leading experts in environmental and disaster management.

Published twice a year, this journal provides a forum to communicate research findings, not only through academic research, but also incorporating field based action research. It will have wider authors and readers, which will include the research and academic community, non-government organisations, policy makers and international organisations. The print version of this journal will be released during the AUEDM workshop to be held at Bangkok during February 22–24, 2010. The first issue of this journal is now available online at: http://rpsonline.com.sg/journals/101-ajedm/2009/0101/1010101-toc.html

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, will publish the Chinese Journal of Polymer Science (CJPS), starting January 2010. The journal is the official publication of the Chinese Chemical Society and the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The journal joins Springer’s Chinese Library of Science, a collection of about 90 English-language research journals from China. It will be available in print and electronically on www.springerlink.com.

A peer-reviewed bi-monthly journal, CJPS publishes original research ideas and results in the field of polymer science. The issues comprise regular papers, rapid communications and notes, as well as feature articles. The journal reflects the new achievements obtained in various laboratories in China, but also includes papers submitted by scientists from the international community.

CJPS is one of the leading English-language polymer journals in China. The journal is edited by a distinguished editorial board headed by Professor Fo-Song Wang, the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is supported by an advisory board made up of accomplished polymer scientists from all over the world. The journal was first published in 1983 under the title Polymer Communications and changed its name to CJPS in 1985.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the Associazione Differenziamento e Morte Cellulare (ADMC) have announced the launch of a new open access journal - Cell Death & Disease. Published by NPG the ADMC, the journal explores the area of cell death from a translational medicine perspective.

Cell Death & Disease is devoted to the biology of cell death in the pathogenesis of human diseases or relevant animal models. The journal will publish articles weekly as they are ready; offering authors a rapid decision and publication service. All articles are freely available online immediately on publication, published under Creative Commons licenses. An article-processing charge of $3,000 is levied per article accepted for publication. The journal is live at www.nature.com/cddis. More than 20 articles have already been accepted, many of which will be online in the journal's first week of publication.

Cell Death & Disease is NPG's second open access journal. Molecular Systems Biology, launched in 2005, is published by NPG in partnership with the European Molecular Biology Organization. In addition, NPG offers open access options on 15 of its academic and society journals. In April 2010, the publisher will introduce Nature Communications, the first Nature-branded online-only journal with an open access option.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the appointment of Bob Schatz as its North American Sales Manager.

Schatz comes to BioMed Central with over thirty years of experience across the wider library community. He has served in senior roles for the Academic Book Center, WH Everett & Sons, Franklin Book Company, and Coutts Information Services. In his new position, Schatz will be responsible to develop and expand BioMed Central’s successful institutional membership scheme in the US and Canada.

According to BioMed Central, interest in its membership packages is growing rapidly and many opportunities now exist for partnerships and relationships with academic institutes, libraries and societies alike. BioMed Central membership allows institutions to encourage open access publication by providing central funding to offset open access publication fees for their researchers.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Genomic and Personalized Medicine Conference will be held from May 16-18, 2010, in Arlington, VA, US. The event, supported by medical journal The Lancet, is being organised in association with the book ‘Genomic and Personalized Medicine’ by Huntington Willard and Geoffrey Ginsburg.

The conference is expected to serve the needs of a wide group of stakeholders - practicing physicians, physician-scientists, industry leaders, policy makers, and other health care professionals and trainees at all levels. The event seeks to provide a venue for all those endeavoring to develop and advance the diverse and practical field of genomic and personalised medicine.

The topics that will be covered have been derived from the comprehensive, two-volume book ‘Genomic and Personalized Medicine’ published in 2009, and will provide in-depth coverage of the field of genomic and personalised medicine, including genomic and other technologies, state-of-the art of genetic and genomic discoveries for individual diseases and practical uses of genome-based information in clinical medicine. Delegates to this event will be offered a 25 percent reduction on the two-volume book.

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Mosby, the medical reference arm of STM publisher Elsevier, has announced that its Faculty Development Institute conference, held January 3-5, 2010, brought together nursing educators from across the US with industry leaders. The three-day educational conference sought to address challenges in the nursing industry from a variety of perspectives.

The Mosby meet is designed for both new nurse educators and veteran nurse faculty. More than 450 attendees from 47 states had the opportunity to collaborate with other industry professionals on a range of topics including legal issues, teaching strategies, simulation and virtual experiences.

The event sought to focus on not only introducing new technology to nurse educators but aiding them in integrating it into their existing curricula. The Institute’s main conference breakout session included virtual clinical experiences, integrating simulation throughout the curriculum and using new aspects of technology in the classroom. By simulating real-world situations, attendees aided each other by sharing everyday tips, tools and techniques for better teaching outcomes.

Mosby has been holding the annual conference over the past 20 years.

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STM publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation, US, has announced that its collection of open access journals has grown substantially during 2009. The number of submitted manuscripts to Hindawi journals in 2009 increased by more than 115 percent - from about 7,600 submitted manuscripts in 2008 to more than 16,500 in 2009. The number of manuscripts accepted for publication increased from about 2,500 in 2008 to roughly 4,400 accepted manuscripts in 2009.

Hindawi's journals are edited by more than 8,700 scholars who serve on the journals' Editorial Boards. The 16,500 manuscripts that were submitted in 2009 were authored by more than 46,000 distinct authors from around the world.

Hindawi Publishing Corporation is a rapidly growing STM publisher with more than 200 peer-reviewed, open access journals covering a wide range of subjects in science, technology, and medicine. The company reported strong growth in Impact Factors of its journals in the 2008 Journal Citation Report published by Thomson Scientific. The average Impact Factor of Hindawi's journals increased by more than 27 percent, with two of Hindawi's journals - EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and Mathematical Problems in Engineering - rising by 70 percent and 45 percent respectively.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has signed an agreement with the International Society of Oncology and BioMarkers (ISOBM) to co-publish the journal Tumor Biology. Starting in January 2010, the global publisher will publish the journal six times a year electronically and in print. Professor Torgny Stigbrand from Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, will serve as editor-in-chief.

Tumor Biology publishes original research, mini-reviews and commentaries on translational cancer research. The journal places special emphasis on articles covering all aspects of tumor markers and tumor targeting, but studies in other areas of clinical and translational cancer research are also included. Following a multidisciplinary approach, Tumor Biology seeks to provide an important platform for cell and molecular biologists, developmental biologists, pathologists, clinical oncologists and any researcher involved in the study of tumors.

The ISOBM is an international society that seeks to bridge the gap between basic science and clinical application. It provides a forum for discussion and development of novel approaches to clinical problems in cancer. Through annual meetings and antibody workshops, the society aims to support communication among scientists, clinicians and commercial groups.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of NurseSquared, an electronic health record (EHR) training product that teaches students how to properly document using a simulated EHR. The training tool is projected to help Elsevier offer a more complete curriculum solution, including an EHR training tool, to academic customers. The acquisition is effective immediately. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

NurseSquared provides a simulated EHR and charting system with embedded documentation scenarios that can be used in the classroom, SIM (simulation) Lab, or real-world clinicals. Though NurseSquared closely resembles a real live EHR with features similar to hospital software, it is not an EHR. It is rather a product focused on teaching students appropriate documentation within an electronic health records system.

Key features include hospital-like electronic documentation; care plan construction; and competency assessment. In addition, a MyClinicals module allows students to input their own patient assignments from clinical rotations and then appropriately document and chart the findings from these assignments.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced the launch of a new journal - Review of Philosophy and Psychology (RPP). The journal, scheduled for launch in March 2010, will focus on research trends at the intersection of philosophy, psychology and cognitive science.

Published quarterly, Review of Philosophy and Psychology seeks to provide a forum for discussion on topics of mutual interest to philosophers and psychologists and foster interdisciplinary research at the crossroads of these two disciplines, including the neural, behavioural and social sciences as well. The journal is hosted at the Jean Nicod Institute in France, a research center which is part of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). It will be available in print and electronically on www.springerlink.com. The journal will include Online First, Cross Reference Linking and Alert services. In addition, all authors, via the Springer Open Choice program, have the option of publishing their articles using the open access publishing model.

Dario Taraborelli of the University of Surrey in the UK will serve as the editor-in-chief of the journal. He will closely cooperate with executive editors Roberto Casati and Paul Egré, both from the CNRS, and Christophe Heintz from Central European University in Hungary. The advisory board of the journal includes leading experts in philosophy, linguistics and cognitive science.

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STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell, US, has announced that starting from the first issues of 2010, ten Wiley-Blackwell journals will adopt a ‘condense and rotate’ printing process, also known as two-up printing. The new approach is expected to reduce the carbon footprint associated with printing and distributing the journals by about 40 percent.

Market research has shown that libraries that continue to take print often do so for archival purposes or to best accommodate VAT or other national tax requirements. This new print layout, where two moderately condensed pages of content can fit alongside one another on each printed page, enables Wiley-Blackwell to continue to meet this need while printing less overall. The online versions of individual articles remain unchanged.

Wiley-Blackwell journals that will adopt this condense and rotate printing approach include Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems; Ecology of Freshwater Fish; Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental; Hydrological Processes; International Journal of Non Profit & Voluntary Sector Marketing; International Journal of Selection and Assessment; International Journal of Tourism Research; Plant Breeding; River Research and Applications; and Social Development.

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University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (UWO) has announced that its faculty, staff and students will gain access to Elsevier’s Science Direct Freedom Collection via Polk Library. Ron Hardy, the library’s head of information resources, negotiated the agreement with STM publisher Elsevier.

The collection provides the full text of more than 1,700 journals from 2006 to the present. This includes titles such as Matrix Biology, Leadership Quarterly and Clinical Simulation in Nursing. Science Direct was reportedly the single-most requested resource by UWO faculty members.

Science Direct is accessible via a drop-down menu from a list of search tools found on the library’s home page at www.uwosh.edu/library.

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Disability and Health Journal, a journal published by STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the release of a special issue titled ‘A Disability Perspective on the Issue of Physician-Assisted Suicide’. The issue examines matters related to assisted suicide and disability, the legal considerations and the Oregon and Washington experiences.

Although public opinion in the US on physician-assisted suicide is evenly divided, about half of states have either defeated bills to legalise assisted suicide or have passed laws explicitly banning it. Only two states - Oregon and Washington - have legalised it. Journal editors Dr. Suzanne McDermott and Dr. Margaret A. Turk have assembled six articles from disability advocates and scholars who oppose assisted suicide and thereby add insights and background information to the debate. The entire issue is publicly available online via open access at www.disabilityandhealthjnl.com.

Disability and Health Journal is the official publication of the American Association on Health and Disability. Positioned as a scientific, scholarly and multidisciplinary journal, it seeks to report original contributions that advance knowledge in disability and health. Such contributions include reports of empirical research on the characteristics of persons with disabilities, environments, health outcomes, and determinants of health; reviews and theoretical interpretations of research literatures; and research on new interventions, technologies and programmes.

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Science News Bi-Weekly, a news magazine targeting science community in China, and Elsevier’s Science and Technology division in China have identified a group of promising young scientists in the fields of Nanosciences, Information sciences, Environmental Sciences and Biological Sciences for the Scopus’ Future Star of Researcher Award, the local version of Elsevier’s ‘Scopus Young Researcher Award’.

The Scopus’ Future Star of Science award honours researchers under the age of 40. Twelve outstanding scientists were selected as winners, based on the evaluation of their high-citation papers. The winners are from the institutes of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University and Sichuan University.

With nearly 400 applicants, the Scopus Future Star of Science award attracted wide attention across Chinese academics. The final winners were selected by first evaluating their papers for innovative research, as indexed in Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and index database. The short-listed candidates were then submitted to a selection committee consisting of leading scientists like Shi Yigong of Tsinghua University, Gao Fu, Wan Lijun and Chen Tongbin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Qian Depei of Beihang University. Finally, an advisory board consisting of several leading academics from within these fields helped to evaluate the final candidates.

Qi Hai, professor of immunology at Tsinghua University, won the gold medal in the field of Biological Sciences. In addition to honoring the individual outstanding scientists, the institutions themselves were also evaluated on how to develop their younger scientists. The evaluation was based on three factors - the per capita citations of high impact papers by younger scientists, their average age (with a bias towards younger scientists), and the number of leading early career researchers among the top 5 percent in their field.

This is the second collaboration between the Science News Bi-Weekly and Elsevier S&T China. The two parties successfully held an ‘Evaluating Academic Talent Flow Summit’ in June 2009, which generated much interest.

The Scopus Young Researcher awards are part of an Elsevier global initiative to support early career researchers.

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International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (IJBNPA), published by open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, recently published its first thematic series of articles. These articles present research on how mass communication and social marketing affect levels of physical activity within a population.

The series, ParticipACTION: Baseline research on the resurgence of Canada's physical activity social marketing leader, focuses on ParticipACTION, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to inspiring and supporting active living and sport participation for Canadians. Edited by Adrian Bauman and Mark Tremblay, the articles address a range of aspects including an assessment of the effect of a mass media campaign designed to inform parents of the risks associated with inactivity for children and youths.

IJBNPA is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal devoted to furthering the understanding of the behavioral aspects of diet and physical activity. The journal particularly solicits articles that present theoretical innovations with respect to diet and physical activity behaviors. IJBNPA's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

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The American Chemical Society’ (ACS) weekly newsmagazine Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) has published an analysis of the divisive issues at the heart of the debate over global warming and climate change. The article appears at the conclusion of the much-publicised United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which sought to seal a comprehensive international agreement on dealing with global warming.

C&EN’s 8,900 word cover story notes that global warming believers and skeptics actually agree on a cluster of core points. These include: the earth’s atmospheric load of carbon dioxide has increased since the Industrial Revolution began in the late 1700s; carbon dioxide bloat results largely from burning of coal and other fossil fuels; and average global temperatures have risen since 1850, with most of the warming occurring since 1970.

The article states that most climate scientists maintain that man-made global warming is happening. This majority opinion has been disseminated in peer-reviewed reports over the past 20 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an entity established by the UN and the World Meteorological Organisation.

However, global-warming sceptics argue that there is still a lot of guesswork in how scientists come to their conclusions. They take exception to the notion that there is a ‘consensus’ agreement on the science - that the science is settled and devastating man-made global warming is a foregone conclusion.

The issue of C&EN also contains three news stories on developments at the UN climate change meeting.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that a comprehensive review of evidence-informed health policymaking was recently launched in its journal Health Research Policy and Systems. The free supplement is titled ‘SUPPORT tools for evidence-informed health policymaking’. It contains 17 support tools from various experts in the field and the articles are structured using a set of questions.

The supplement seeks to provide an essential reference and a set of tools that can be used by those involved in finding and using research evidence to support evidence-informed health policymaking. The series addresses four broad areas, including: supporting evidence-informed policymaking; identifying needs for research evidence; finding and assessing research evidence; and, going from research evidence to decisions.

The tools were developed by the SUPporting POlicy relevant Reviews and Trials (SUPPORT) project, an international collaboration funded by the European Commission’s 6th Framework with partners in Africa, South America, Europe and North America.

Health Research Policy and Systems (http://www.health-policy-systems.com/) is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that aims to provide a platform for the global research community to share their views, findings, insights and successes.

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STM Publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it has been chosen by the International Biometric Society to co-publish the latter’s Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES). The journal will start publication at Springer with Volume 15, Issue 1, in March 2010. Carl Schwarz of Simon Fraser University in Canada is the editor-in-chief of the journal.

A quarterly, JABES publishes papers of value to applied researchers and statistical consultants in the agricultural sciences, the biological sciences (including biotechnology) and the environmental sciences (including those dealing with natural resources). The focus is primarily on interdisciplinary papers as well as papers that illustrate the application of new and important statistical methods using real data.

Backfiles to 2001 will be available on Springer’s electronic platform www.springerlink.com.

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US-based journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), has announced that the December 18, issue of the journal takes a look back at the big science stories over the past 12 months and presents its selections for the 10 major scientific breakthroughs of 2009. Ardipithecus ramidus, or ‘Ardi,’ receives the top honour as the Breakthrough of the Year.

‘Ardi,’ a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago, was unveiled on October 1, 2009, by Kent State University Professor of Anthropology Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy and his colleagues. Research findings on ‘Ardi’ were presented in 11 papers that appeared in the October 2 issue of Science.

The official journal of the AAAS, Science is projected as one of the world's leading outlets for scientific news, commentary and cutting-edge research. Through its print and online incarnations, the journal reaches an estimated worldwide readership of more than one million.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the publication of Ultrasound-Guided Procedures, a practical reference for the full range of common and complex ultrasound-guided procedures frequently performed in clinical practice. The publication provides a point-by-point, practical how-to check list for ultrasound-guided interventions and percutaneous access.

Authored by Dr. Vikram S. Dogra of the University of Rochester School of Medicine (US) and Wael E.A. Saad, an associate professor with the University of Virginia (US), the reference includes over 600 images. The text includes detailed information on how to perform ultrasound-guided biopsies and drainage as well as how to use the technology for interventional procedures.

Thieme is a publisher of neurosurgical content and claims to hold strong market positions in orthopedics, radiology, anatomy and chemistry. The company publishes 137 peer-reviewed journals and over 500 new books annually. It also has an array of web-based products in medicine and science. Some of its online products include Thieme eJournals, Thieme Electronic Book Library, the medical student website WinkingSkull.com and Thieme Teaching Assistant, a web-based platform for faculty.

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ACTAR Publishing, Spain, has signed an agreement with STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media (Springer), Germany, to acquire the architecture and design activities of Birkhäuser Verlag in Basel. ACTAR is a publisher of books on architecture, graphic design, and contemporary art.

ACTAR will continue the Birkhäuser publishing program as an imprint in its current base in Basel, Switzerland. Birkhäuser’s Natural Sciences publishing program, which includes mathematics, history of science, biosciences, civil engineering and geosciences, will remain with Springer.

ACTAR will start distributing Birkhäuser titles worldwide as of January 1, 2010 through its subsidiary Actar-D, an international book distributor which handles titles by ACTAR, as well as titles from over 80 publishers, museums, and institutions from all over the world.

The Catalan publisher will also publish the design magazine ‘form’. Published every two months in a bilingual English / German edition, ‘form’ is a leading publication for industrial and graphic design in the German-speaking countries. The publication tracks latest developments in interior architecture, product, graphic and web design.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has signed an agreement with the British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) to enter into an affiliation with the journal Biogerontology for an initial period of three years. Under the deal, the society will appoint one member of the Biogerontology editorial board and will acquire articles for one themed issue annually. Springer will sponsor the society and provide society members with free electronic access to Biogerontology on www.springerlink.com.

Biogerontology offers a platform for research which aims primarily at achieving healthy old age accompanied by improved longevity. The focus is on efforts to understand, prevent, cure or minimise age-related impairments. The journal publishes original research reports, reviews, hypotheses, new methods, interviews and special issues on topics relating to ageing, health and longevity. Suresh I.S. Rattan of the University of Aarhus in Denmark is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

The BSRA promotes research to understand causes and effects of the ageing process. The general aim of the society is to foster an experimental approach to problems of ageing in the biological and medical sciences and to provide a forum for the discussion of current ideas in these two areas.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Dr. Henk F. Moed will join the company's academic and government products division as Senior Scientific Advisor, effective February 1, 2010. Dr. Moed is currently a senior staff member with the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) in the Department of Social Sciences at Leiden University.

Joining CWTS from when it opened in 1981, Dr. Moed supervised many large projects commissioned and funded by external agencies, including the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Ministry of the Flemish Community, the European Commission and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).

At Elsevier, Dr. Moed will play an integral role in providing the most current bibliometric insights as the organisation develops performance and planning solutions for the academic and government research strategy decision makers. He will also be responsible for ensuring the reliability and applicability of the company’s bibliometric tools, metrics and techniques.

Over the course of his career, Dr. Moed has published more than 50 research articles in more than a dozen journals as well as Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation, one of the few textbooks in the field of research evaluation and citation-based indicators written for the broad scientific and scholarly audience. In 1999, he was the winner of the Derek de Solla Price Award, which is periodically presented by the journal Scientometrics to scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of quantitative studies of science. Recently, Dr. Moed served as program chair at the 10th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators and the 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI).

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International STM and scholarly publisher Wiley-Blackwell, US, has announced the launch of Essential Evidence, a new product added to its online, evidence-based content resource Essential Evidence Plus. Synthesised from timely and late-breaking clinical evidence derived from the world's most respected medical authorities, this topic-oriented clinical resource tool is projected to help clinicians to more effectively make diagnoses, chart treatment plans, and determine prognoses.

Essential Evidence is available exclusively with a subscription to Essential Evidence Plus, and is accessible through the web or via handheld computer (Pocket PC or Palm OS). The product features about 700 structured medical topics at launch with approximately 100 more in development. All topics are highly integrated and hyperlinked to content and tools including Cochrane Reviews, literature summaries (Daily POEMs), decision support tools, evidence-based guidelines, and interactive diagnostic test calculators.

Topics covered in Essential Evidence are written by leading researchers and peer-reviewed by medical experts. These experts evaluate clinical findings in the medical literature and summarise this information to provide clinicians with evidence-based data essential to making informed point-of-care decisions. Essential Evidence facilitates quick retrieval of the latest evidence that guides patient care decisions and includes a ‘Bottom Line’ feature highlighting the most important findings in each section.

All content includes a ‘strength of evidence’ rating for each recommendation that helps practitioners know which recommendations are most likely to improve health outcomes. Summary tables for at-a-glance information, algorithms for problem solving, and an extensive image library are also included to optimise patient care.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) have founded a new journal Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology (CVET). Dr. Ajit P. Yoganathan of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA, will serve as the editor-in-chief of the journal.

The first issue of the new quarterly journal will appear in March 2010 and joins two other BMES publications at Springer, Annals of Biomedical Engineering and Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Coverage will range from subcellular to systems level topics, including implantable medical devices, tissue biomechanics, functional imaging, surgical devices and diagnostic instruments, among others.

CVET seeks to provide a forum for research on all aspects of cardiovascular physiology and medical treatment. The journal will present a wide spectrum of research, from basic to translational, covering cardiovascular physiology and medical treatment. It will offer academic and industrial investigators a platform for the dissemination of research that utilises engineering principles and methods to advance knowledge and technological solutions related to the cardiovascular system.

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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced the second edition of the Color Atlas of Ophthalmology: The Manhattan Eye Ear & Throat Hospital Pocket Guide. Renowned specialists from around the world have come together to contribute to the book, now subtitled The Quick-Reference Manual for Diagnosis and Treatment.

This fully updated version of the bestselling atlas seeks to provide readers with the knowledge they need to confidently face the full range of patients' eye diseases and disorders. Editors of the book, Dr. Amar Agarwal and Dr. Soosan Jacob, worked diligently to develop a streamlined atlas with a systematic format in order to enable readers to instantly locate facts and information, without having to wade through extraneous material. Within 19 chapters the more than 600 images, adeptly utilised by the authors, fully illustrate the 600 eye conditions presented in this book.

This pocket atlas is projected as an essential tool for residents making the rounds or students studying for exams as well as for practicing ophthalmologists in need of confirmation regarding an unusual finding or primary physicians in search of a reliable guide to eye disorders.

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Swedish private equity firm EQT V and GIC Special Investments (GICSI), the private equity arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, have announced that they have agreed to acquire 100 percent of Springer Science+Business Media (Springer). EQT intends to buy 82 percent and GICSI will buy 18 percent of Springer, which claims to be the world’s second-largest scientific, technical and medical (STM) publisher, and a leader in the digitisation of scientific information.

Springer is owned by private equity (PE) firms Candover and Cinven, which hired Goldman Sachs and UBS, to initially raise Euro 500 million by selling a stake in the company as a way to cut the company's heavy debt load.

Earlier this month, UK-based media firm Informa walked away from the deal, leaving the way clear for EQT to negotiate a deal for the business. The deal is expected to give EQT total control of the company and allow Candover and Cinven to exit the business they established in 2003 through the merger of BertelsmannSpringer with Kluwer Academic Publishing.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of a new textbook initiative for the life sciences - called ‘Academic Cell’ - at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology. The first title, Molecular Biology by David P. Clark, has now been published. More titles will follow in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Elsevier/Academic Press and Cell Press have been publishing life science research discoveries via books and journals for a while now. Academic Cell, the new textbook initiative, brings together these two publishing brands. It is positioned as a line of textbooks that fully integrates the benefits of a traditional textbook framework and primary literature reflecting what is happening in research today.

With the purchase of every copy of an Academic Cell textbook, students will be able to access an online study guide containing relevant Cell Press articles. They are also given bridge material to ease them into research material. In addition, images from the articles will be available in PowerPoint, with optional test questions.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced a collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to publish AMBIO, A Journal of the Human Environment. The first issue at Springer will be published in February 2010. Dr. Elisabeth Kessler of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences serves as Editor-in-chief of the journal. She will be supported by a distinguished international editorial board and a team of competent associate editors.

AMBIO addresses the scientific, social, economic and cultural factors that influence the conditions of the human environment. It publishes recent work in the interrelated fields of ecology, environmental economics, environmental management, technology and natural sciences. Widely recognised as an important international forum for debate, AMBIO publishes papers that are geared not only to specialists, but also to students, politicians, professional planners and interested laypersons.

Published eight times a year, AMBIO is indexed in more than 40 international databases. At Springer, it will be available in print and electronically on www.springerlink.com. The journal will feature Online First, Cross Reference Linking, and Alert services. In addition, all authors, via the Springer Open Choice programme, have the option of publishing their articles using the open access publishing model.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the early success and rapid acceptance of its recently released Pharmacology and Therapeutics: Principles to Practice, a new pharmacology textbook. Designed to better meet the needs of today's residents and practitioners, the publication has garnered critical acclaim and has earned its place among other more established pharmacology reference books in just a few months since its introduction.

Until now, pharmacology references have focused on either the basic or clinical aspects of the field. By contrast, Pharmacology and Therapeutics encompasses the entire continuum from underlying science through innovation, translation, regulation, and clinical implementation, providing the integrated perspectives that are needed to fully master human therapeutics today.

Edited by Dr. Scott Waldman and Dr. Andre Terzic – both past presidents of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics – the publication features contributions from many of the most respected names in pharmacology. These authors, all leaders in their respective disciplines, establish the standards for translating fundamental observations in the laboratory into novel therapeutic approaches for managing patients – including rapidly growing areas such as pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics, regenerative pharmacology, stem cell therapies, and the emerging field of individualised medicine. Evidence-based therapeutic guidelines are included throughout, where available, as are appropriate discussions of nutrition, complementary and alternative medicines, nutraceuticals, and dietary supplements.

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STM Publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the appointment of Youngsuk “Y.S.” Chi, the company’s Vice Chairman, to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Elsevier’s Science & Technology (S&T) Division. The appointment follows the decision by division CEO Herman van Campenhout to accept a new position as CEO of a publicly listed Dutch company early next year.

Chi has been Vice Chairman of Elsevier for almost five years. During that time he has led the company’s Global Academic & Customer Relations efforts and has been deeply engaged in S&T’s business. He has more than 15 years of management experience in publishing and technology.

Chi will also continue to serve on the Reed Elsevier Management Committee and to oversee government affairs for Reed Elsevier.

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Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, has announced the release of the latest edition of TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours.

TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours, 7th Edition, offers an international approach to cancer classification and staging, with the latest information and best evidence carefully vetted and included by a multidisciplinary panel of experts from around the world. The material is therefore immediately applicable to patients worldwide, and not influenced by any particular healthcare system. The publication's greatest virtue continues to be its simplicity, distilling and arranging complex data in a way that is immediately applicable wherever cancer patients are seen.

The 7th edition provides the latest, internationally agreed-upon standards to describe and categorise cancer stages and progression. Published in affiliation with the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), this authoritative guide contains important updated organ-specific classifications that oncologists and other professionals who manage patients with cancer need to accurately classify tumours for staging, prognosis and treatment.

The major alterations addressed in this edition concern carcinomas of the oesophagus and the gastroesophageal junction, stomach, lung, appendix, biliary tract, skin, and prostate. In addition, there are several entirely new classifications. These include gastrointestinal carcinoids (neuroendocrine tumours); gastrointestinal stromal tumour; upper aerodigestive mucosal melanoma; Merkel cell carcinoma; uterine sarcomas; intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma; and adrenal cortical carcinoma.

A new approach has also been adopted to separate anatomical stage groupings from prognostic groupings in which other prognostic factors are added to T, N, and M categories. These new prognostic groupings, as well as the traditional anatomical groupings, are presented for oesophageal and prostate carcinomas.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that it will continue to publish the dermatology journal, The Journal of Investigative Dermatology (JID). The Society for Investigative Dermatology (SID) and NPG recently confirmed a renewal of their publishing partnership.

JID is the Society's leading international title and the official journal of the European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR). NPG has published JID on behalf of SID and ESDR since 2006, during which time its Impact Factor has increased year on year. Launched in 1938 and with a 2008 Impact Factor of 5.251, JID claims to be the number one journal in dermatology.

Dr. Paul R. Bergstresser, Professor of Dermatology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is the Editor-in-chief of the journal. The journal publishes papers describing original research on all aspects of cutaneous biology and skin disease. Topics include biochemistry, biophysics, carcinogenesis, cell regulation, development, skin structure, extracellular matrix, genetics, immunology, melanocyte biology, microbiology, molecular and cell biology, pathology, physiology, pharmacology, photobiology, percutaneous absorption, clinical research, epidemiology and other population-based research.

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Science magazine Scientific American has announced the appointment of Mariette DiChristina as its new Editor-in-Chief. DiChristina is the eighth Editor-in-Chief in the 164-year history of the magazine, and the first woman to assume the role.

Mariette DiChristina is based in the Scientific American offices in New York City and takes up her position with immediate effect, reporting directly to Nature Publishing Group Managing Director Steven Inchcoombe. In her new role, she will oversee the print and online editions of Scientific American and Scientific American Mind, as well as all newsstand special editions.

DiChristina has been Acting Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American since June 2009, when outgoing Editor-in-Chief John Rennie left the publication to pursue new opportunities. A science journalist for more than 20 years, DiChristina first came to Scientific American in 2001 as its executive editor, a position she held until her current appointment. She also served as the editor of Scientific American Mind, a publication she launched, and started. Prior to joining Scientific American, DiChristina spent nearly 14 years at Popular Science in positions culminating as executive editor. She is also the current president (in 2009 and 2010) of the 2,500-member National Association of Science Writers.

Scientific American delivers authoritative and thought-provoking content to more than 3 million readers worldwide. Founded in 1845, Scientific American has over its history published articles by more than 140 Nobel laureate authors including Albert Einstein, Francis Crick, Stanley Prusiner and Richard Axel. The publication became part of Nature Publishing Group (NPG) in 2009, after many years as a sister Holtzbrinck organisation.

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Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, has been selected by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) as publisher of The American Journal on Addictions. This partnership reinforces Wiley-Blackwell's already prominent position as publisher for more than 750 society partners.

Established in 1992, The American Journal on Addictions is the official journal of the AAAP. The journal features research on the etiology, prevention, identification, and treatment of substance abuse from experts in the addictions field. It covers a wide variety of topics ranging from codependence to genetics, epidemiology to dual diagnostics, etiology to neuroscience, and much more, in the form of special overview articles, clinical or basic research papers, clinical updates, and book reviews within the area of addictions.

Founded in 1985, AAAP is an international professional membership organisation. Membership consists of psychiatrists working with addiction, faculty at various academic institutions, medical students, residents and fellows, and related health professionals making a contribution to the field of addiction psychiatry.

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The editorial board of Elsevier journal Artificial Intelligence has announced that it will make up to $250,000 per annum available to support the promotion and dissemination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research.

Artificial Intelligence claims to be amongst the longest established and most respected journals in the field of AI research, having published many of the key papers in the field since it was founded in 1970. The operation of the editorial board, a division of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) organisation, is supported financially by Elsevier. The board is now seen to be in the position of being able to make available substantial funds to support the promotion and dissemination of AI research.

The funding is aimed at promoting and raising awareness of AI research and practice; encouraging the timely and widespread dissemination of AI research results, techniques and tools; promoting interaction and exchange of ideas between AI researchers, practitioners and students; and promoting the exploitation of AI research results, techniques and tools.

All proposals will be evaluated by the Artificial Intelligence sponsorship committee on the basis of: scientific quality of proposed activities, likely level of impact on the international AI community and cost effectiveness. All activities are funded on a not-for-private-profit basis.

The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence is an international gathering of AI researchers and practitioners, held biennially in odd-numbered years since 1969. It is sponsored jointly by the IJCAI and the national AI societies of the host nations. IJCAI also acts as the official host for the editorial operations of the Artificial Intelligence journal.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the winners of the 2009 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science. The 2009 awards invited nominations from Japan, with two prizes of 1.5 million JPY - one for mid-career achievement (up to 59 years of age), and one for lifetime achievement (60 years of age and over).

Prof. Fumio Oosawa received the lifetime achievement award, while the mid-career award was bagged by Dr. Hiroaki Kitano. The Awards were presented by Dr. Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief of leading weekly science journal, Nature.

Professor Fumio Oosawa, who has been active in research for more than sixty years, was recognised for the large number of students he has mentored over many years. Many of his former students have gone on to prestigious appointments at leading universities in Japan and have themselves mentored a large number of students.

Dr. Hiroaki Kitano received the mid-career award for his encouragement of students towards continual personal and scientific development and to broadening the scope of their scientific knowledge. Dr. Kitano has mentored many Japanese and non-Japanese students.

Launched in 2005, the annual Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science recognise outstanding scientific mentorship and focus on a specific country or countries each year. 2009 sees the first Awards in Asia, with nominations invited from Japan. The panel of judges for the 2009 Awards included 2001 Chemistry Nobel Laureate, Prof. Ryoji Noyori.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, is founding a new journal in collaboration with George Washington University School of Business and Norwegian Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU STEP). The new publication, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, was developed under the leadership of founding Editor-in-Chief Professor Elias G. Carayannis of George Washington University in collaboration with Aris Kaloudis, a Senior Researcher at NIFU STEP.

Debuting in March 2010, the journal will seek to promote a global, multidisciplinary approach, focusing on the social, technological and economic aspects of knowledge and innovation.

A quarterly, the Journal of the Knowledge Economy claims to be the first journal devoted to the knowledge-based economy, highlighting the role of knowledge creation, diffusion and application across the spectrum of organisations, industries, nations and regions. The journal will incorporate insights from the fields of economics, management, law, sociology, anthropology, psychology and political science to shed new light on the evolving role of knowledge and its economic implications. Articles will emphasise empirical studies, balancing practice and application with theory and concepts.

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Scientific and medical publisher Karger,Switzerland, has announced the forthcoming launch of the journal - Case Reports in Ophthalmology. The journal claims to be the first ophthalmology journal dedicated exclusively to case reports.

This peer-reviewed online-only journal publishes original case reports covering the entire spectrum of ophthalmology, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, toxicities of therapy, supportive care, quality-of-life, and survivorship issues. The journal will also accept case reports dealing with the use of novel technologies, both in the arena of diagnosis and treatment. It seeks to provide clinicians and researchers with a tool to disseminate their personal experiences to a wider public as well as to review interesting cases encountered by colleagues all over the world.

Universally used terms can be searched across the entire growing collection of case reports, further facilitating the retrieval of specific information. Following the open access principle, the entire contents of the journal can be retrieved at no charge.

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STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media (Springer), Germany, has signed an agreement with CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com group of companies. The agreement is to make Springer’s paperback book catalogue, front, mid- and backlist, available via print-on-demand (POD) in the US.

In addition to moving a significant amount of its paperback selection to POD, Springer will also supply many new paperback titles via POD-only. A large number of hardcover titles are being converted to paperback for inclusion. Springer will also make new large-print paperback editions of some of its most popular selections available via POD.

All of Springer’s books will remain continuously available, ensuring that titles will never be out-of-stock. In addition, the development of the POD model enables publishers to economise on inventory and shipping costs associated with getting inventory to retailers. With CreateSpace Print-On-Demand, Springer’s titles can be manufactured and shipped to customers on the same day they are ordered. The print-on-demand titles are also eligible for Amazon’s popular shipping programmes, including Free Super Saver Shipping and Amazon Prime, as well as enrollment in Amazon’s Search Inside the Book programme.

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Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that Dr. Papa Salif Sow, Professor of Infectious Diseases from the University of Dakar in Senegal, will be the new Co-Editor-in-Chief for Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS). He succeeds Dr. Elly Katabira who is stepping down from his position as Co-Editor-in-Chief of JIAS.

Dr Sow has served as Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases since 2002 and is also the President of the African Network of AIDS Physicians in Africa and Coordinator of the Regional Centre for Research and Training at Fann Hospital, Dakar, Senegal. His extensive experience in raising awareness and medical help for HIV/AIDS sufferers in Africa is expected to help raise the journal’s profile and ensure that JIAS continues to publish high-quality articles on important aspects of AIDS research from all areas of the world.

JIAS provides an open access forum for the dissemination of HIV-related research from various disciplines. The journal transferred to BioMed Central in September 2008 and strongly encourages submissions from investigators in low- and middle-income countries.

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The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published a report, according to which nearly 90 percent of medical journals with relatively high impact factors have policies addressing author conflict of interest (COI) available for public review. But many journals do not require authors to sign disclosure statements, and there is variability in how COI is defined.

In an effort to protect the integrity of research and improve public trust, a number of organisations have published guidelines that include specific recommendations for disclosure of information about authors' COIs. Similarly, journal policies calling for authors to disclose COIs have evolved. However, it is unclear whether medical journals have consistent policies for defining and soliciting COI disclosures.

The JAMA report examined the COI policies of medical journals in the top 10 percent by impact factor to determine the prevalence and variability of disclosure requirements and definitions. The study consisted of a survey and analysis of Instructions for Authors and manuscript submission documents, including authorship responsibility forms for the journals, across 35 subject categories available from March through October 2008.

The authors found that 228 of 256 sampled journals (89 percent) had language requesting author COI disclosure, and that 54 percent (138) of the sampled journals required authors to submit signed disclosure statements. Definitions or examples of possible COIs for submitting authors were provided by 197 journals (77 percent). Of these COI definitions, most included direct financial relationships such as ‘equities interest or stock ownership’ (89 percent) or ‘consultancies’ (84 percent). A minority included other potential conflicts such as personal relationships (42 percent), paid expert testimony (42 percent), relationships with organisations (26 percent), or travel grants (12 percent), the study authors note.

The authors add that in comparison to findings of a 1997 study, there appears to have been a substantial increase in the prevalence of COI policies over the past decade.

The study only assessed the means by which the journals defined and solicited disclosures and did not determine their publication practices. Future investigations should determine whether all disclosures of authors are published by journals. Furthermore, it is important to assess whether detailed COI policies and mandating signed disclosure statements from all authors increases accurate reporting of author COIs, the study concludes.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has signed an agreement with the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT). Under the deal, Springer will publish the latter’s official journal, Journal of Medical Toxicology (JMT), beginning in March 2010.

A quarterly, the Journal of Medical Toxicology is an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing the science and practice of medical toxicology. The journal focuses on the diagnosis, management, and prevention of poisoning, toxicity and other adverse health effects resulting from medications, chemicals, occupational and environmental substances, and biological hazards. JMT publishes original articles, illustrative cases, review articles and other special features. Christian A. Tomaszewski of the University of California San Diego Medical Center is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

The Journal of Medical Toxicology was previously published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Germany, has announced the appointment of Dr. Bernd Pulverer as Head of Scientific Publication. Pulverer takes on the position following the retirement of Les Grivell who joined the management team in 2000 and has led EMBO publications for the past five years.

In his new role, Pulverer will lead the development and execution of publication strategy in support of the organisation’s peer-reviewed research journals. Reporting directly to the EMBO Director and to the EMBO Council, Pulverer will be responsible for editorial policies and overall management of the journals including business development, publication and marketing. Consulting with an advisory board, he will develop coherent strategies that ensure existing and potential future journals attain leading positions in the highly competitive and dynamic field of peer-reviewed research publication. He will lead the EMBO team of research editors – currently 14 PhD scientists supported by five editorial assistants across the four journals.

EMBO currently publishes four peer-reviewed journals - The EMBO Journal, EMBO reports, Molecular Systems Biology and EMBO Molecular Medicine. These journals span a broad spectrum of molecular biology topics and reflect how science is shaping the world.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will support the new information and communication center of the Humboldt University in Berlin with an undisclosed donation. The Elsevier announcement was made at the opening ceremony of the Jacob-and-Wilhelm-Grimm Center, in which more than 800 representatives from politics, culture, scientific research centers and libraries participated.

The center is seen to embody the unity of sciences in a unique way. The central library combines twelve humanities, cultural, social and economics libraries as well as a computer and media service center under one roof. Around 2.5 million media units and 2,400 journals are housed in this building.

Elsevier will support the information and communication center of the Humboldt University with a publication that documents the inauguration and character of this modern library. Its donation is used to make the reading area more enjoyable and to give readers better access to journals and magazines.

Collaboration of the Humboldt University libraries and Elsevier dates back more than 10 years. The Grimm Center subscribes to over 2,000 journals of the publisher.

Elsevier claims to produce around 25 percent of all scientific, technical and medical publications worldwide, including the publications of Nobel laureates. An agreement with the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) also provides comprehensive journal archives of the Elsevier publisher in electronic format to universities and academic research institutions.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that its journal Vaccine has released a supplement dedicated to vaccines for biodefence during the ‘Vaccines for Biothreats and Emerging and Neglected Diseases Symposium’ in Galveston, Texas, USA. It seeks to provide a comprehensive overview on vaccines that have been developed against a diverse group of human and veterinary pathogens, including Bacillus anthracis, smallpox and blue tongue.

The supplement was launched at the third in a series of symposia around the theme of ‘The Changing Landscape of Vaccine Development’. The symposia were organised by the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Texas Medical Branch in conjunction with the James W. McLaughlin Fellowship Fund. The supplement is edited by Alan Barrett of the University of Texas Medial Branch; Shan Lu of the University of Massachusetts; and Greg Poland of the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group.

Biodefense has traditionally been associated with defence against biological warfare agents with an emphasis on military applications. As research continues to develop biodefence countermeasures, vaccines are seen as a critical component of the portfolio to control biothreats.

Vaccine is positioned as an interface between academics, those in research and development, and workers in the field. Relevant topics range from basic research through to applications, safety and legislation.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the publication of a Special Issue of Child Abuse and Neglect The International Journal 1989-2009 on the 20th Anniversary of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

The Special Issue aims to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It provides an overview of two decades of development in the areas of child maltreatment research, data collection, and reporting practice, as required by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Also, it will facilitate information and practice exchange to support governments and professionals in their important efforts globally. The Special Issue will be freely available online for a year, along with Part 2 of the Special Issue which will be published in January 2010.

Child Abuse & Neglect The International Journal provides an international, multidisciplinary forum on all aspects of child abuse and neglect, with special emphasis on prevention and treatment. The scope further extends to all those aspects of life which either favour or hinder child development. While contributions will primarily be from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, law enforcement, legislature, education, and anthropology, the journal encourages the concerned lay individual and child-oriented advocate organisations to contribute. It is the official publication of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)

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The American Geographical Society (AGS) has announced a partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, after two years of negotiations and discussions between the society and publisher.

Under the deal, Wiley-Blackwell and the AGS will co-publish the journals Geographical Review and FOCUS on Geography, beginning in January 2010 when the first issue of Geographical Review will publish under the new partnership. Geographical Review is a scholarly periodical exclusively devoted to geography. FOCUS on Geography, which will publish its first issue with Wiley-Blackwell in Spring 2010, has come a long way from its original format as a four-page, two-colour leaflet to a forty-page, full-colour quarterly journal including in-depth theme sections, maps, photos, and special country issues.

According to AGS, this is a significant change in organisational culture for the Society, which has previously self-published both journals, Geographical Review (since 1856, including predecessors) and FOCUS on Geography (founding year, 1950). International subscribers to the Geographical Review already constitute a large proportion of its circulation (forty percent). The international outreach of the journal, as well as new opportunities for FOCUS on Geography, will expand under management by Wiley-Blackwell.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the physician-members of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, will receive free access to MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com), its electronic clinical decision support (CDS) tool. The move is part of Elsevier’s ‘All You Need to Make a Difference’ campaign. MSF had bagged the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.

Elsevier will donate a free subscription to MSF for each annual individual MD Consult subscription purchased between November 16 and December 18, 2009. Based on its projections, Elsevier estimates that the month-long campaign could provide 400 subscriptions to MSF's volunteer physicians. Based on average monthly sales, Elsevier estimates that the licenses donated to MSF's volunteer physicians could be worth as much as $140,000.

MD Consult is expected to help volunteer physicians diagnose and treat conditions associated with armed conflict, malnutrition, natural disasters and lack of access to care, and other epidemics. With a world population of close to seven billion people, some 32.9 million have HIV/AIDS, 13.7 million have tuberculosis and 247 million have malaria, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's Global Health Facts.

MSF aid workers operate programmes in more than 60 countries. Elsevier, which has 7,000 employees working in more than 70 offices worldwide, has various partnerships with global science and health communities across the word. According to Elsevier estimates, clinicians in more than 139 countries use its CDS tools.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will assume publication of the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, beginning with Volume 104 (2010). The journal is the official journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI).

The Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, published since 1942, will continue under the leadership of Editor Gailen D. Marshall and a distinguished editorial board. The journal provides peer-reviewed coverage of current clinical science (both research and practice-based) that is readily applicable to both the clinician and the researcher in the fields of allergy, asthma, and immunology.

Each monthly issue also provide opportunities to participate in accredited continuing medical education activities to enhance overall clinical proficiency.

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Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that two researchers have been selected as the recipients of the seventh annual ‘SPSJ Wiley Award’. The award is sponsored by Wiley in conjunction with the Society of Polymer Science Japan (SPSJ).

Masami Kamigaito from Nagoya University won the prize based on her paper, ‘Discovery and Development of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Living Radical Polymerization’. Ryo Yoshida from Tokyo University was the other award winner, for his work in the paper, ‘Development of Polymer Gels with Autonomous Responding Function’. The winners each received a cash prize and gave a lecture at the SPSJ Macromolecular Symposium.

Now in its seventh year, the SPSJ-Wiley Award seeks to recognise and promote the development of creative and outstanding research in the field of polymer chemistry or physics. Aimed at chemists aged 45 years or younger, the award is given to two researchers each year, one each from the Chemistry and Physics areas of polymer science.

The award winners were nominated by the SPSJ Polymer Science Award Committee in June this year.

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STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it is founding a new journal Food Digestion, dedicated to a quickly growing area of research – food science combined with the physiology of digestion. Roger Lentle from the Institute of Food Nutrition and Human Health at Massey University in New Zealand and Peter Wilde from the Institute of Food Research in Norwich, UK, will serve as Editors-in-chief of the journal. They will be supported by an international editorial board.

Food Digestion seeks to bring together the increasing number of researchers who are working at the interfaces between the physical sciences and nutrition and health. The journal will publish two issues in 2010 and increase to four issues in 2011. It will publish original papers and reviews that describe interrelationships between foods and all aspects of the physiological, biophysical, microbial and neurohumoral components of digestion, acquisition and absorption, with particular emphasis on the role of food structure. While the principle area of focus of the journal is in regard to human digestion, the journal will welcome papers that explore these areas in animal and in vitro models and which compare these processes in an evolutionary sense.

Food Digestion will include features such as fast electronic publication in Online First, Cross Reference Linking, and Alert services.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) have announced that prices for site licence access to the EMBO Journal and EMBO reports will be reduced by 9 percent in 2010. This is seen to reflect the increased publication of open access (OA) content in 2008. The decision follows ratification by the EMBO Council.

The 9 percent reduction is net of an annual inflationary price increase. Print and personal subscription prices are unaffected.

For the 2011 subscription year onwards, both the site licence price and author fees will be considered in an effort to achieve equitable distribution of the costs of publication. This evaluation will involve an in-depth review of all factors relevant to the publication process, including the proportion of OA content and authors' ability to pay for OA and other publication-related costs.

NPG publishes the EMBO Journal and EMBO reports on behalf of EMBO. An OA option on both publications was introduced in January 2007. NPG has implemented hybrid models across many of its academic journals, and expects those titles to show price reductions in due course, as the volume of OA increases.

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STM publisher IOS Press BV, Netherlands, has announced an agreement with publisher Taylor & Francis for the transfer of four journals to its publishing programme. The journals are: Main Group Chemistry, International Journal of RF Technologies: Research and Applications, Bridge Structures – Assessment Design and Construction and Journal of Neutron Research. IOS will commence publication of these titles in 2010.

Main Group Chemistry is intended to be a primary resource for all chemistry, engineering biological, and materials researchers in both academia and in industry with an interest in the elements from the groups 1, 2, 12 - 18. The Journal will publish rapid, short, Communications, full, detailed Articles, and shorter, less developed Notes. All published research articles in the journal will have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial screening by the editor and anonymised refereeing by at least two expert referees.

International Journal of RF Technologies: Research & Applications will establish a forum for exchanging information and research results regarding RF technology deployment, data analytics, and business value creation. Potential technologies that will be covered in the Journal include Radio frequency identification (RFID), Real time location sensing (RTLS), Near-field communication (NFC), and RF-based sensors. Although grounded on solid scientific backgrounds, the Journal will only publish innovative and challenging papers that have a clear applicability to the business world and are focussed on driving business value.

Bridge Structures - Assessment, Design and Construction aims to present the transformation of theoretical knowledge into guidelines and specifications that are compliant with the technical constraints of bridge engineering design. Papers will be solicited from researchers, designers, fabricators and contractors of significant bridge projects, covering a wide range of topics and interests to bridge engineers from all over the world.

The Journal of Neutron Research publishes original research papers of an experimental and theoretical nature in three areas of specialisation in neutron research - Neutron Instrumentation and Techniques, Reactor and Spallation Source Technology, and Engineering Science. While the Editors encourage contributions in the above special fields, research papers and short reports in other areas of neutron science, especially those without an obvious traditional journal home, will also be considered for publication.

IOS Press serves the information needs of scientific and medical communities worldwide. The publishing company (co-) publishes over 100 international journals and about 130 book titles each year on subjects ranging from computer sciences and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences.

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STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of MD Consult Mobile. Optimised for iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smartphone devices, MD Consult Mobile allows clinicians to consult the same MD Consult content available from a laptop or desktop computer. Physicians of any specialty will now be able to access an entire library of quality medical content on their mobile devices.

MD Consult Mobile provides a new interface that is optimised for a small screen, making an extensive collection of books, journal articles, Clinics, and guidelines easily accessed and read from a mobile device’s web browser. MD Consult Mobile users can browse directly to content via Quick Reference links that cover a growing list of medical topics with pre-organised resources; search books, Clinics, journals/MEDLINE, and practice guidelines; view full-text chapters, journal articles and images of all searchable content; and email content links, to themselves for later review, or to colleagues. The service is available at no additional charge to individual subscribers, as well as end-users at institutions with site license subscriptions.

MD Consult brings leading medical resources together into one integrated online reference tool to help physicians efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions and make better treatment decisions. A service of Elsevier, it combines leading medical reference books, medical journals, and The Clinics of North America with patient education handouts, drug information, medical news, and more.

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Publisher Reed Elsevier has announced that Ian Smith has resigned as Chief Executive Officer by mutual agreement and has stepped down from the Boards. Erik Engstrom, currently CEO of Elsevier, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Reed Elsevier with immediate effect.

Engstrom is an international executive with over 15 years management experience in the media sector in the US and Europe. He has been a director of Reed Elsevier Group plc and Reed Elsevier PLC since 2004 and a Member of the Executive Board of Reed Elsevier NV since 2005. Engstrom has been CEO of Elsevier since joining Reed Elsevier in 2004, and under his stewardship sales and profits have grown every year creating a business with turnover of £1.7 billion in 2008. Prior to joining Reed Elsevier, he worked from 2001 to 2004 at General Atlantic Partners, a private equity firm, where he was a general partner leading their media and consumer investment sector.

Reed Elsevier is a leading publisher and information provider targeting the science and medical, legal and risk management, and business to business sectors. The company provides high value and flexible information solutions to professional users, with increasing emphasis on internet delivery.

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The December 2009 issue of the journal Nursing & Health Sciences has released a special issue devoted to the critical and contemporary topic of disasters and emergencies. The issue entitled ‘Disasters and Emergencies: Preparing, Managing and Experiencing’, is published by Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US. This collection of papers provides valuable insights from personal experiences and disaster reports as well as discussions of research findings aimed at improving the management of disasters and emergencies.

Through publication of this special issue, the editors hope to assist health professionals, policy makers, governments and non-government agencies around the world to help communities and countries be better prepared to avoid or manage disasters and emergencies – either man-made or natural.

Nursing & Health Sciences (NHS) focuses on the exchange of knowledge in nursing and health sciences, particularly between the East and West. The journal publishes peer-reviewed scientific papers on original research, education, practice, and policy as well as more