ICSTI WEEKLY STM NEWSLETTER Powered by www.scopeknowledge.com Issue 2010/40 (October 1 – October 7, 2010) STM NEW TOPICS SCIENTIFIC DATA MANAGEMENT, INDEXING & ARCHIVING (2) ALLIANCES, PARTNERSHIPS & CONSOLIDATIONS (9) NEW RELEASE – JOURNALS / PRODUCTS / SERVICES (10) RESULTS / FINDINGS FROM RESEARCH REPORTS (3) EVENTS AND CONFERENCES (5) AWARDS, CERTIFICATION AND OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS (2) NEW APPOINTMENTS AND OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES (4) GRANTS AND OTHER RESEARCH FUNDING (2) SEARCH TECHNOLOGIES (3) COLLABORATIVE CONTENT / WEB 2.0 / SOCIAL NETWORKING (1) LIBRARY - MANAGEMENT / DIGITIZATION / AUTOMATION (1) MULTI-CHANNEL PUBLISHING / INNOVATIVE E-PUBLISHING SERVICES / NEW CONTENT FORMATS (6) REGULATIONS, GUIDELINES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS (1) LICENSING, PRICING AND CONTRACTS (1) *************************************************************************************************************************** NEWS IN DETAIL SCIENTIFIC DATA MANAGEMENT, INDEXING & ARCHIVING Higher Education institutions to play key role in securing the UK's digital legacy The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Open Planets Foundation (OPF) are collaborating to encourage the UK's leading Higher Education (HE) institutions to take up a central 1 role in European wide efforts to preserve digital heritage. Recently announced at the iPres conference in Vienna, JISC will become a charter member of the OPF. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Journal of the American Society of Hypertension accepted for coverage in MEDLINE STM publisher Elsevier has announced that the Journal of the American Society of Hypertension (JASH) has been selected for inclusion in MEDLINE. MEDLINE is the premier bibliographic database of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), containing over 15 million journal article citations, with a concentration on biomedicine. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ALLIANCES, PARTNERSHIPS & CONSOLIDATIONS CABI to provide collection of over 500 scientific titles to Bookshare Life sciences publisher Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI) has announced an agreement with Bookshare to provide their collection of nearly 500 titles in the areas of agricultural, animal and veterinary sciences, environmental sciences, human health, food and nutrition, leisure and tourism, microbiology and parasitology, and plant sciences. Bookshare seeks to provide equal access to printed content so that members can compete effectively in school, pursue their career of choice, and participate fully in the intellectual discussions of the day. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme AIP and CSTAM sign co-publishing agreement The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has signed a new partnership agreement with the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM). Under the deal, AIP and CSTAM will copublish the new journal Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters (TAML). The journal is slated for launch in January 2011. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NEJM signs China Agency agreement with The Charlesworth Group Publishing solutions provider The Charlesworth Group has announced a new China Agency agreement with the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Under the deal, The Charlesworth Group will promote, market, and sell NEJM in print and online throughout China. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Briefings in Palliative, Hospice, and Pain Medicine & Management and PAL-MED CONNECT collaborate to create new monthly feature Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. has announced that Briefings in Palliative, Hospice, and Pain Medicine & Management, the e-newsletter companion to Journal of Palliative Medicine, will 2 collaborate with The Institute for Palliative Medicine's PAL-MED CONNECT hotline to create a new monthly feature for the e-newsletter. Each month, Briefings will now include a valuable case study focusing on patients with advanced pain and symptom management challenges, or chronic or lifethreatening illness. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Ovid in deal with China's Institute of Science & Technology to open access to LWW Journal Definitive Archive collection Information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has signed an agreement with the Institute of Science and Technology Information of China to provide access to the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) Journal Definitive Archive collection through the National Science and Technology Library (NSTL). The agreement marks the first US-published medical content to be included in the NSTL library initiative. Initially, access will be provided to about 300 institutions in China. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Glasgow Caledonian University opts for ProQuest Central database Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest has announced that the UK's Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) is joining university libraries around the world that are subscribing to ProQuest Central, a CODiE award-winning database. Students, researchers and lecturing staff at the university will now have access to what is claimed to be the world's largest, full-text, multidisciplinary, aggregated database. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Taylor & Francis and Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition announce new publishing partnership Publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F) has announced a new publishing partnership with the Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (JSSSPN) to publish the journal, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, from 2011. The journal, previously published by Wiley-Blackwell, is currently in volume 56 (2010). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ANA and Ovid partner to deliver key nursing eBooks via OvidSP and Nursing@Ovid Information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced a new partnership with the American Nurses Association (ANA). Under the deal, ANA will offer a collection of its essential professional reference titles through OvidSP and Nursing@Ovid, the health information search, discovery, and management solutions. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 3 Reed Construction Data and Source2 form new company, SMARTBIM LLC Construction information provider Reed Construction Data (RCD), a division of Reed Business Information, and Source2, a private investment group focused on technology enabled service companies, have announced the formation of a new company, SMARTBIM LLC. SMARTBIM LLC has acquired the BIM Solutions division of RCD with a plan to maximise its potential. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NEW RELEASE – JOURNALS / PRODUCTS / SERVICES The Consortium Directory now available online Marketing services provider Frontline GMS Ltd has announced that the Consortium Directory, originally published by Frontline GMS, will become available as an online database in partnership with journal supply chain support provider Ringgold Inc. The new Directory, renamed the Consortium Directory Online (CDO), is claimed to be the most comprehensive directory of the library consortium market. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme LWW releases two interactive testing programmes for nursing students Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has launched two interactive testing programmes powered by Prep-U for nursing students. The programmes are claimed to revolutionise how students learn and prepare for the National Council Licensure Exam for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). “Prep-U for Smeltzer, 12th Edition” is derived from Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing. Along with “Prep-U for NCLEXRN”, it is seen to personalise the learning experience for the nursing student. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Gale launches new online resource to meet needs of Internet-savvy researchers Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has announced Biography in Context, a new online resource developed to meet the needs of today’s Internet-savvy researchers. This nextgeneration offering evolved from, and will replace, the Biography Resource Center database. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme LWW launches clinical decision support site, 5MinuteConsult.com Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced the launch of a clinical decision support site, 5MinuteConsult.com. Launched at the American Academy of Family Physicians' (AAFP) 2010 Scientific Assembly after successful beta tests, 5MinuteConsult.com seeks to help healthcare professionals quickly obtain critical information for the diagnosis, treatment and management of thousands of diseases and conditions. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 4 TEMIS launches Luxid for SharePoint 2010 Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS has launched Luxid for SharePoint, a dedicated version of its flagship content enrichment platform Luxid specifically packaged for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Based on patented TEMIS technology, Luxid for SharePoint 2010 is a powerful and scalable content enrichment solution that automatically extracts meaningful information (topics, entities, facts, sentiments, categories) from documents stored in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to generate rich metadata. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Wiley-Blackwell's Biotechnology journals portfolio now available via DeepDyve Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has launched of a pilot programme to make its portfolio of Biotechnology journals with more than 75,000 articles available through DeepDyve, an online rental service for scientific and scholarly research articles. The pilot will feature 26 journals and content dating back to 1912, including the Journal of Pharmaceutical Science, American Journal of Medical Genetics, Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Cell Proliferation. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier unveils enhanced version of digital research tool, BrainNavigator STM publisher Elsevier has announced a new version of its online research tool, BrainNavigator. The first version, introduced in 2008, was reportedly well received by the neuroscience researcher community and received the PROSE Award in 2009. In the updated version, BrainNavigator 3.0, Elsevier has added new content and functionality to give researchers additional tools to accelerate their research. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Springer set to launch AJCC e-Staging Tool STM publisher Springer has announced the launch of the AJCC e-Staging Tool, a web-based application which will improve the way cancer is staged. The tool is designed to meet the needs of the entire multidisciplinary team in any facility that deals with cancer. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Woodhead Publishing launches e-book platform - Woodhead Publishing Online Scientific and technology publishing Woodhead Publishing has announced the launch of its online platform Woodhead Publishing Online. MetaPress, a web hosting platform service for STM content, is the host provider for the site. Designed and created after thorough research amongst librarians and end users, the site offers extensive features and functionality and claims to be the only platform to offer the complete Woodhead Publishing platform in one place. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 5 New version of JCB DataViewer released Glencoe Software, Inc., The Journal of Cell Biology (JCB) and The Rockefeller University Press have announced the release of the next version of the JCB DataViewer, a scientific image data publication system. Now, for the first time, scientists will be able to download the original image data associated with scientific articles published in the JCB. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme RESULTS / FINDINGS FROM RESEARCH REPORTS Common information standards will save millions of pounds, says JISC report The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has commissioned a new report, according to which, establishing a common data standard for managing research information in the UK could save the higher education sector millions of pounds. The report found that using a common data model as a basis for exchanging information will, along with other benefits, significantly reduce the costs associated with information interchange - between 25 percent and 30 percent - following the adoption of the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) as the basis for exchanging research information across the sector. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Everything Channel's IPED releases report on cloud computing research Everything Channel's IPED Research has announced the availability of a new report highlighting the emergence of infrastructure as a service (IAAS) and emergence of a new technology delivery model. The report, 'The Evolution of the New Delivery Model: Virtualization as a Stepping Stone to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in the Cloud' was based on cloud-based research delivered at IPED's 2010 Channel Leadership Forum. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Researchers willing to push search and discovery to the next level, says Elsevier study STM publisher Elsevier has released highlights from a new online survey titled 'Future of Search and Discovery'. The survey reveals that researchers around the globe are not only ready for the next phase in search and discovery, but also prepared to actively contribute to making it a reality. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EVENTS AND CONFERENCES Frankfurt Book Fair announces selected events for STM publishers The Frankfurt Book Fair, a subsidiary of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association, has announced that STM, academic publishing and specialist information companies will be exhibiting at the fair, between October 6-10. Selected events for STM publishers at the fair include Hot Spot Tour 6 to the Future of Publishing; STM Annual Frankfurt Conference 2010; Knowledgespeak's exclusive interviews with industry experts; and RefWorks-COS - Connecting Researchers, among others. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OA advocate Harold Varmus to keynote Open Access Week kick-off event The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has announced that leading international researchers will champion the importance of Open Access for advancing research at an online event to launch this year's Open Access Week (October 18 - 24, 2010). Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute, Dr. Harold Varmus, will offer welcoming remarks. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Frankfurt Book Fair begins The 62nd annual Frankfurt Book Fair kicked off on Wednesday. According to fair director Jürgen Boos, more than 7,500 exhibitors from 111 countries are expected this year, posting a three-percent increase over the previous year. A new feature of the 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair is its Hot Spots informative presentations around the various Book Fair venues about technology and publishing/media. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Cadmus Communications announces speakers for 2010 Executive Management Retreat Content management and production services provider Cadmus Communications, a Cenveo company, has announced an all-star line-up of expert speakers for their 2010 Executive Management Retreat as part of the Cadmus Institute educational initiative. The invitation only retreat will be held October 26-27 in Baltimore, Maryland. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Knowledgespeak completes first on-site interview at the Frankfurt Book Fair STM industry news service Knowledgespeak interviewed Andrew Richardson, Managing Director Europe, WK Health Medical Research, on Wednesday, as part of the on-site interviews series it is conducting at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Andrew shared a number of insights through the course of the interview. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 7 AWARDS, CERTIFICATION AND OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS STEM CELLS and International Stem Cell Symposium to present annual STEM CELLS Young Investigator Award Wiley-Blackwell and AlphaMed Press, co-publishers of the peer-reviewed journal STEM CELLS, have announced that the annual STEM CELLS Young Investigator Award will be presented on October 2, 2010 in Seoul, South Korea. The award is co-sponsored by the International Stem Cell Symposium. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme EBSCO scholarship for librarian to attend 30th annual Charleston Conference Knowledge base provider EBSCO has announced that it is sponsoring a $1,000 scholarship for a librarian to attend the 30th Annual Charleston Conference on Nov. 3-6, 2010 in Charleston, SC, for the second year. Applicants had to submit a short essay that detailed how their library is 'Using Technology to Address Challenging Times.' More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme NEW APPOINTMENTS AND OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES Stephen C. Goodall joins Outsell as Executive VP and Minority Investor Research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc. has announced that Stephen C. Goodall will join the firm as Executive Vice President. As a minority investor in the company, he will also serve on Outsell’s Board of Directors and report to the firm’s Co-founder and CEO, Anthea Stratigos. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SAGE names Paul Evans as new Managing Director of SAGE Asia-Pacific Academic publisher SAGE has announced the appointment of Paul Evans as Managing Director of SAGE Asia-Pacific. In his new position, Evans will lead a team of 20 permanent office staff based in the regional headquarters in Singapore and across China (Beijing and Shanghai), Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biological Chemistry calls for new leadership search The longtime editor-in-chief of The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), Herbert Tabor, has asked that a search begin for a new leader to take the reins of the journal in 2011. Tabor, a distinguished researcher at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Md., has led the journal since 1971. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 8 Deborah E. Wiley to retire as Wiley's SVP Corporate Communications Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced that Deborah E. Wiley will retire from her role as Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, at the end of December 2010. She will continue to serve as Chairman of the Wiley Foundation. Susan Spilka will succeed her as Vice President, Corporate Communications, effective January 1, 2011. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme GRANTS AND OTHER RESEARCH FUNDING ARL and Ithaka S+R awarded IMLS Grant to study digitised special collections The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants Program has awarded the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Ithaka S+R, the strategy and research arm of ITHAKA, a grant amount of $464,286 to study how libraries, archives, and museums are sustaining digitised special collections. The 2-year study builds upon past work examining sustainability of digital resources done by Ithaka S+R. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Duke joins Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity Duke University has joined a group of leading research institutions in signing a Compact for OpenAccess Publishing Equity (COPE). The compact seeks to make it easier for researchers to publish their work in open-access scholarly journals, where it would be freely available online. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme SEARCH TECHNOLOGIES H.W. Wilson databases to be searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has announced that H.W. Wilson (Wilson) databases will soon be searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) for mutual customers. EBSCO and Wilson have agreed to include the robust metadata of the important Wilson databases available to customers who subscribe to the databases. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Pennwell selects RAMP's solution suite for global industry websites Content optimisation platform RAMP has announced that B2B publisher PennWell Corporation is deploying RAMP's universal search and publishing solutions for its specialised industry news and information websites. As a result, RAMP will automate publishing workflows with dynamic taxonomy development and applications to make search and publishing contextually relevant to users' online behaviour on these websites. More 9 Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme More publishers agree to contribute content to Ex Libris' Primo Central Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that many new information providers have agreed to contribute their content to the Primo Central index of scholarly materials. Managed by Ex Libris in a cloud computing environment, the Primo Central service covers hundreds of millions of global and regional e-resources, such as journal articles and e-books obtained from primary and secondary publishers and aggregators, and items from open-access repositories. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme COLLABORATIVE CONTENT / WEB 2.0 / SOCIAL NETWORKING Sigma Xi selects ResearchGATE as its scientific networking platform ResearchGATE, a scientific network for scientists and researchers, has announced that scientific research society, SIGMA XI, has implemented its social networking platform for its more than 60,000 members - students, researchers, and scientists. Members of Sigma Xi will now be able to share their profiles with other members, share documents and data effortlessly, and see updates from other scientists and researchers in their network with the new microblogging feature. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme LIBRARY - MANAGEMENT / DIGITIZATION / AUTOMATION ebrary unveils new 'Patron Driven Acquisition' e-book model Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary has announced that it has collaborated with librarians and publishers to develop a new Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) model. With ebrary's implementation of PDA, libraries may create collections of titles of their choice, provide full access to end-users, and have titles automatically added to their permanent collection in real-time based on usage. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme MULTI-CHANNEL PUBLISHING / INNOVATIVE E-PUBLISHING SERVICES / NEW CONTENT FORMATS Thieme's Atlas of Anatomy now available for In App Purchase via the modalityBODY App Interactive learning apps developer Modality, Inc. and Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., have announced that Thieme's complete Atlas of Anatomy is now available for In App Purchase via the modalityBODY App. The modalityBODY App, currently available in the App Store, allows users to view, organise, annotate, search and store thousands of medical images and create custom image collections for study and reference. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 10 EPiServer launches EPiServer MobileCenter App for iPhone and iPad Web content management (WCM) platforms provider EPiServer has launched the EPiServer MobileCenter App for iPhone and iPad. The App, a mobile version of EPiServer OnlineCenter, is designed to give interactive marketers, content publishers and Web developers greater control over their online properties. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme LWW expands expert clinical content in Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced that it has expanded the expert clinical content in Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills to include 100 perioperative nursing procedures. The new perioperative procedures are the latest addition to the comprehensive list of essential medical-surgical, critical care, maternalneonatal, pediatric, psychiatric, and emergency nursing procedures that make up the trusted online clinical resource. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Elsevier introduces new publishing model to increase publication speed STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Article-Based Publishing - a new publishing model that publishes articles as final and citable without needing to wait until a journal issue is complete. With an increasing focus on online publishing, there is a growing need for innovative publication models geared towards individual articles instead of the print-based issue model. Article-Based Publishing is the assigning of final citation data on an article-by-article basis, decoupled from the compilation of the journal issue itself. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Amazon announces 70 percent royalty option for the Kindle DTP in the UK Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc. has announced that the 70 percent royalty option for the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) is now available in the UK. For each book sold from the Amazon.co.uk Kindle Store, authors and publishers can choose this option immediately and start earning a 70 percent royalty, net of delivery costs. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Impelsys launches iPad module for iPublishCentral Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys has announced the launch of its iPad module for iPublishCentral, the industry-leading e-publishing platform, to empower publishers to get their customised iPad apps and deliver content on iPad. The iPad module on iPublishCentral will be showcased at the ongoing Frankfurt Book Fair 2010, for the first time. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme 11 REGULATIONS, GUIDELINES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS ACS Journal Publishing Agreement to replace ACS Copyright Status Form The American Chemical Society has announced that its publications division will begin rolling out a new publishing agreement in mid-October that expands author rights and clarifies author responsibilities. The ACS Journal Publishing Agreement (JPA) is a result of ACS' ongoing efforts to provide the best possible publishing experience for authors of ACS' suite of 38 peer-reviewed journals, including its flagship Journal of the American Chemical Society. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme LICENSING, PRICING AND CONTRACTS RSMeans releases two of the twenty annual RSMeans cost book series Construction cost information provider RSMeans, part of Reed Construction Data, has announced the release of two of the twenty annual RSMeans cost book series - Building Construction Cost Data 2011 and Assemblies Cost Data 2011. RSMeans’ cost data provides construction professionals with information and tools to quickly and accurately estimate the cost, size and duration of commercial and residential construction projects. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme *************************************************************************************************************************** ICSTI Secretariat Office: 33, rue de Naples - 75008 Paris - France Email: icsti@voila.fr Tel: +33 (0)1 45 25 65 92 Cell: +33 (0)6 14 65 16 57 www.icsti.org 12