The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access has published a new report titled ‘Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information’. The report says that a key societal challenge of the Information Age is to ensure that valued digital information will be accessible not just today, but in the future. This requires solutions that are at least as much economic and social as technical, the report points out. The study is the result of a two-year effort focusing on the critical economic challenges of preserving an ever-increasing amount of information in a world gone digital.
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STM publisher Springer and The Max Planck Society have announced an agreement that allows scientists working at the 78 Max Planck Institutes and research facilities across Germany access to content on Springer’s electronic platform SpringerLink. The pilot project, begun in 2008 in conjunction with the last access agreement, which allowed researchers at the MPS institutes to publish using Springer Open Choice, has ended. Both parties have now committed to ongoing discussions with respect to coming to a further agreement on alternative publishing models.
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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.
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Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases is its highest-ranking journal based on the SNIP metric, with a value of 1.31 (the median SNIP for the ~17,000 journals in Scopus is 0.52). The Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) is a new journal indicator based on citation data from Scopus. A journal’s SNIP can be thought of as similar to a normalised Impact Factor, which weights citations to adjust for the fact that some fields are more citation-rich than others.
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STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group 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.
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EE Times Group, part of United Business Media, has announced the appointment of Karen Field as Vice President, Community, beginning March 15, 2010. In this newly created position, Field will lead the EE Life site, a new social networking community for the electronics industry, which will be unveiled in Q2 of 2010. She will report to Paul Miller, CEO, EE Times Group and will be located in the company's Framingham, MA office.
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