EBSCO Industries President and CEO F. Dixon Brooke Jr. Announces Retirement And Appointment of Successor

January 16, 2014

After four decades at Elton B. Stephens Co. (EBSCO), President and CEO F. Dixon Brooke Jr. announced his plans to retire at the end of this current fiscal year, June 30, 2014. Brooke joined EBSCO in

1973, and has spent the past eight and a half years serving as President and CEO— only the third President in EBSCO’s 70- year history.

“We owe a great thanks to Dixon for his long service to EBSCO,” said J.T. Stephens, Chairman of the Board. “We greatly appreciate his guidance and the continuing success of the company under his management. We thank Dixon heartily and wish him a well-deserved and enjoyable retirement.”

After a lengthy and thorough succession process, the Board of Directors has selected Tim Collins, President of EBSCO Information Services, to succeed Brooke effective at the beginning of the next fiscal year, July 1, 2014.

“It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as EBSCO’s President,” said Brooke. “It has been challenging, demanding at times, and very rewarding. EBSCO is a great organization, full of wonderful, talented people. We are indeed fortunate to have Tim Collins ready and willing to step up to this new leadership challenge. Tim is an exceptionally accomplished leader with a proven management record marked by success.”

Brooke and Collins will work closely over the next six months to ensure a smooth transition; and during that time, Collins will continue to serve as President of EBSCO’s largest division, EBSCO Information Services. Following retirement, Brooke will continue to serve EBSCO as a member of the Board of Directors.

Collins has 27 years’ experience with EBSCO, beginning in 1987 when EBSCO acquired “Popular Magazine Review,” the company he co-founded with his stepfather, Jerry Seaman. Collins is a member of the EBSCO Founder’s Club, and he has never experienced a year without sales growth. “Tim possesses values consistent with the core values that have made EBSCO successful,” said Brooke. “He is an entrepreneur who manages with a determined outlook. He is a competitor who loves to win. Tim selects, supports, and retains good people. I have no doubt he will succeed in leading EBSCO to new performance highs.”

“I feel honored to have been presented with this opportunity. I’ve very much enjoyed my time working with many talented and committed people at EBSCO and am excited about being able to work with the entire EBSCO team in the future,” said Collins. “I am looking forward to working with Dixon over the coming months during the transition period and then working to help EBSCO realize its full potential over the long run.”

ProQuest Solutions Named as Finalists in SIIA Awards

January 16, 2014

ProQuest today announced four of its content and technology solutions are finalists for the 2014 SIIA CODiE Awards. Representing the information industry’s best products and technologies, the following are among 91 finalists across 26 categories.

· Best Search Technology Solution: ProQuest^® Dialog^®

· Best Scholarly Publishing Information Solution: ProQuest^® ETD Administrator

· Best General Reference Service: ProQuest^® Statistical Abstracts

· Best Search Technology Solution: Summon

“Earning this distinction in the search technology category for two of our flagship products – Dialog and Summon – affirms our innovation in developing solutions that provide superior discovery and access to content,” said Kurt Sanford, ProQuest CEO. “We are equally pleased with the recognition earned for ETD Administrator and Statistical Abstracts – two solutions that showcase content depth and accuracy, platform flexibility and features that are relevant to their respective users.”

“The CODiE Awards competition was extremely competitive this year and our finalists set the standard for innovation and quality in the media, publishing and information service markets,” said Kathy Greenler Sexton, Vice President and General Manager for the Content Division at SIIA. “Each and every finalist should be commended for their innovation and market-leading products and services. I look forward to seeing them all at the Information Industry Summit in January.”

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. The first round review of all nominees is conducted by media, publishing, and information services executives with considerable industry expertise, including members of the industry, analysts, media and bloggers, and bankers and investors. The judges are responsible for selecting the CODiE Awards finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and the scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners.

Details about each finalist are listed at http://www.siia.net/codies/2014/finalists.asp

Semantico and Society of Petroleum Engineers launch OnePetro platform

January 16, 2014

Semantico and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) are proud to announce the launch of the redesigned OnePetro platform. OnePetro is an online library of journals and technical literature for the oil and gas exploration and production industry. It is one of the most comprehensive resources available on upstream oil and gas, with more than 145,000 documents produced by 18 publishing partners.

Semantico has redesigned and re-engineered OnePetro to feature a simpler, more elegant content delivery infrastructure. The new OnePetro platform gives users access to a wide array of information and includes the very latest technologies, including sophisticated search functionality, content enhancements, personalisation tools, multimedia and more.

Key features of OnePetro:

More than 145,000 documents.
Engaging videos and presentations.
Personalisation features that allow users to rate and save articles.
Automatic DOI registration through CrossRef.
Best-in-class user experience.
Delivery of content on all devices from smartphones to large workstations.
Ecommerce, with multiple subscription options also available.

The wealth of information in OnePetro is delivered using Semantico’s industry-respected content platform, Scolaris. Scolaris is engineered to manage the complexities of journals, ebooks, reference works and dictionaries. Scolaris promotes discoverability by providing intelligent, full-text search which allows for rich taxonomy support for faceted search and browse.

SAMS, Semantico’s renowned access management system has been used to generate greater subscription opportunities for OnePetro. SAMS is the most widely used access management system in its class and integrates seamlessly with Scolaris to control access across users and institutions, as well as providing a host of flexible options for business models and optimal monetisation of content.

“We are delighted to have worked with Semantico on revitalising OnePetro and creating an enhanced user experience for our customers. The improved site will deliver research in an unprecedented manner, alongside improved functionality and increased business opportunities,” said Rebekah Stacha, Senior Manager Technical Publications, SPE.

“We are very proud to add this prestigious and exciting project to our portfolio. SPE is a leading industry publisher and we are thrilled to have had the opportunity to work with them on this flagship product,” added Colin Caveney, Sales Director, Semantico.

The International Union of Crystallography announces the first issue of a new open access journal: IUCrJ

January 16, 2014

The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) is delighted to announce the first issue of a new fully open access journal called IUCrJ.

IUCrJ is a new and exciting open access journal in the field of crystallography, aimed at a wide audience of scientists including biologists, chemists, physicists and material scientists. IUCrJ will publish a full range of focused and engaging articles, from papers on all aspects of the sciences and technologies supported by the IUCr via its Commissions, to exciting short commentaries highlighting the background and guiding forces behind some of the most high-profile research currently taking place today.

Editor-in-Chief Professor Samar Hasnain, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK said, “IUCrJ should become the natural home for reporting breakthroughs and ‘full’ science reports rather than simply a structure or how it was determined”.

The launch of IUCrJ coincides with the International Year of Crystallography (IYCr2014) declared by the United Nations to celebrate 100 years of progress following the first Nobel Prize related to crystallography, awarded in 1914 to Max von Laue. The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), working with UNESCO, is proud to be the custodian of the IYCr2014 and has set up plans for major initiatives during the year.

Professor Hasnain went on to describe how, “Lawrence Bragg, who established the basis of X-ray crystallography, shared the Nobel Prize with his father William Bragg in 1915 at the age of 25. This second Nobel Prize related to crystallography was quickly followed a third, awarded to Charles Glover Barkla in 1917. Lawrence Bragg helped create the first international journal dedicated to crystallography, Acta Crystallographica, and worked to establish the IUCr as a member of the International Council for Science (ICSU). He was elected by the General Assembly of the first IUCr congress in 1948 as the first President with Max von Laue as the Honorary President. Paul Peter Ewald, who had also played a major role in the establishment of the IUCr, became the founding editor of Acta Crystallographica and remained its Editor until 1959. In the tradition established by Bragg, Laue and Ewald, we are pleased that many of the leaders of our hugely expanded and successful field have volunteered to serve on the editorial and advisory boards of IUCrJ, bringing together all of the expertise that only the IUCr can call upon”.

For more information or to submit an article, go to http://www.iucrj.org/

Plum™ Analytics Becomes Part of EBSCO Information Services

January 15, 2014

In a deal that brings together the leading subscription services, database, e-book and discovery provider with the leading provider of alternative research metrics, EBSCO Information Services has acquired Plum^™Analytics. Plum Analytics is the first altmetrics provider to move beyond metrics about articles and track all research output in any form, providing a powerful tool that augments traditional metrics.

Plum Analytics is the provider of PlumX^™, a product that delivers a more complete picture of research and answers questions about research impact for anyone including researchers, librarians, administrators, and funders. PlumX, named Library Journal’s most ambitious database in 2013, gathers metrics across five categories—usage, mentions, captures, social media and citations. Metrics are gathered around what Plum Analytics calls artifacts—more than just the journal articles that a researcher authors. Artifacts include:

Articles
blog posts
book chapters
books
cases
clinical trials
conference papers
datasets
figures
grants
interviews
letters
media
patents
posters
presentations
source code
theses / dissertations
videos
webpages

The information collected is presented in a variety of ways including data visualizations, dashboards, and widgets. Plum Analytics is the only company synthesizing this metrics data for custom analysis for each institution and for publishers.

Plum Analytics will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of EBSCO Information Services and will continue to operate as Plum Analytics with the same products and management.

Plum Analytics was founded by Andrea Michalek and Mike Buschman. Michalek, the co-founder and CEO, has deep experience developing technology for big data and is the former Director of Technology for Summon^®. She is also the former founder and Chief Technologist of EchoFactor, a spin-off division of Infonautics. Andrea founded Topular LLC, a consulting practice where she served as an interim technology executive for software companies and helped many startups successfully launch their products. Buschman, co-founder and chief product officer, and a librarian himself who was once named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker, was the Program Manager for Microsoft Academic Search and Book Search and is the former Director of Product Management for Summon. Buschman also worked with libraries on training and marketing as Client Services Manager for the scholarly society publisher IEEE.

Michalek, Buschman and the rest of the Plum Analytics team are veterans of the library and research communities and will continue to use that expertise to create new ways of evaluating the big data generated when people interact with research. Michalek says working with EBSCO brings together two companies that work with the research community. “Teaming up with the leading content and analysis provider for libraries and scholarly publishers in order to move to a new era of scholarly impact metrics helps us take the power of PlumX to the next level and realize new ways of assessing and analyzing research. With EBSCO’s deep content assets and usage data, this is a natural enhancement to the data that PlumX collects around research.”

EBSCO Information Services President Tim Collins says Plum Analytics is leading the way in a new field that has ramifications for a variety of stakeholders. “PlumX is able to provide a more timely and more thorough picture of the impact of research to researchers, institutions and publishers. EBSCO is very excited to be entering what is a new product area for us. We look forward to working with Andrea, Michael, and their team.”

Buschman sees a bright future for research and researchers, “As institutions compete for grant dollars, newer ways to analyze research will become essential to understanding the impact a researcher is having. PlumX allows libraries, research institutions, funding agencies and publishers to better support researchers and to comprehend the scope of research being conducted more rapidly and on a wider scale.”

Wolters Kluwer Health Expands Nursing Procedures Product to Support Interdisciplinary Collaboration

January 15, 2014

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, has expanded use of Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills to include a broad range of hospital-based clinicians including nurses, respiratory therapists and others. These expanded capabilities can help hospitals better support interdisciplinary collaboration. The product — the leading online procedures solution for clinicians at the bedside — also has been renamed “Lippincott Procedures,” a move that reflects an already growing use among non-nursing clinicians.

The enhancements expand the product so that both nursing and non-nursing clinicians can use it to access and maintain all of their institutionally mandated procedures. In addition, a new set of evidence-based procedures designed for respiratory therapists has been added — the first new discipline in addition to nursing.

As the industry continues to focus on improving outcomes, coordinating care and communication across disciplines is critical to patient care goals. Lippincott Procedures supports this effort by being more user-friendly and capable of encouraging collaboration and better communication. Now, the hospital can use the product as its core procedures manual across disciplines and many groups of clinicians from respiratory therapists to physical and occupational therapists, to nutritionists and pharmacists.

“Health System customers have already started expanding the use of Lippincott Procedures across departments and disciplines,” said Carolyn Dalton, Senior Digital Product Manager, Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional & Education. “Nurses know and love the product but we didn’t want its name to be a limiting factor for others who can also benefit from it.”

Ushering in a new era of broader use, a total of 75 evidence-based, step-by-step procedures on Respiratory Therapy — designed specifically for respiratory therapists — have been added to the database and are now available online. Customers can search and browse the entire database of procedures across Nursing and Respiratory Therapy or can search either discipline separately. The product also introduces customization features that allow customers to add additional disciplines and Standards content within the product, enabling their inter-disciplinary team users to access all of their institutional procedure and standard information from one point-of-care solution. Each discipline can be searched independently and can be set up with default search parameters by department.

The new functionality and customization features, according to Dalton, are going to help customers maximize the use of the product. As hospitals move towards centralizing their processes, having the step-by-step procedure information all in one place will increase the efficiency of the clinical staff.

Dalton also said it has improved the product’s design and user-interface while retaining all of the features and functionality of the previous version. This foundation enables Wolters Kluwer Health to expand the product further into other disciplines, which it plans to do in the future.

New Open Access Resource Center Launched by Copyright Clearance Center in Partnership with ALPSP

January 14, 2014

(CCC), a not-for-profit organization creating global licensing and content solutions that make copyright work for everyone, has launched an Open Access Resource Center in partnership with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)

“Around the world, open access is changing scholarly and scientific publishing, not only for publishers of all sizes, but also for authors, librarians, content users, funders and others,” said Roy Kaufman, Managing Director of New Ventures, CCC. “The Open Access Resource Center aims to be a comprehensive resource for all things open access to make it easy for the marketplace to stay on top of the latest developments. We are very excited to be partnering with ALPSP on this effort.”

“ALPSP members are committed to making content open access in the way their research communities need it, but keeping track of current thinking and policy developments on open access from across the globe can seem nigh-on impossible at times. This resource will help them access the information they need to make those decisions,” said Audrey McCulloch, Chief Executive, ALPSP. “We are delighted to work with CCC on this project, which has brought its considerable expertise to bear on getting the site up and running.”

The resource center includes links to the latest open access news, reports, whitepapers, webinars and websites. Users can complete the feedback surveyto add suggestions for what they would like to see included going forward.

CCC is hosting a free webinar featuring McCulloch on January 16 to discuss the resource center as well as how ALPSP members are working with their communities to address their OA needs.

CCC, named one of “10 to Watch” by information industry analyst Outsell in its 2013 Open Access Market Report, has been helping publishers improve the author experience in collecting APCs for over six years. CCC hosts webinars and podcasts on many aspects of Open Access and works with organizations such as the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) on creating standards around Open Access.

Social Science, Humanities Publishing Squeezed by Global Emphasis on Scientific, Medical R&D

January 13, 2014

Playing second fiddle to scientific, technical and medical (STM) research is hurting social science and humanities (SSH) fields and, by extension, the market for publishing its findings–this according to Global Social Science and Humanities Publishing 2013-2014, the latest report from Simba Information, a leading media industry forecast and analysis firm.

The disparity plays out in three main areas: research funding, library purchase decisions and public policy decision affecting academia. Simba estimates research spending in SSH subjects is one-tenth of what governments and private foundations dedicate to STM discovery.

Academic libraries–a primary customer and bridge to the end user–have had difficulty keeping up with the rising cost of scientific and technical content. As a result, SSH materials often come out on the short end of budget allocation decisions. Books play a more important role in SSH than in STM publishing. While the typical academic library spends less than 10% of its STM collection development budget on books, more than 50% of social science and humanities publishing goes toward books.

On the policy front, debate over open access to research papers is viewed through the prism of STM and social scientists worry about collateral damage to their disciplines. SSH publications have different price points, a different funding environment and different patterns of usage, but STM is driving the debate.

Simba estimates the global SSH publishing market shrank in 2012. A weak euro, declining print books and precipitous declines in public library database sales offset continued growth in online delivery of book collections and journal site licenses. Global sales were down an average compound rate of 2.5% since 2010.

E-books, books sold as apps on smart phones, for e-readers and digital collections are all growing, but print book sales are in terminal decline. Journals are the only growing publishing activity in SSH. Journals benefit from the emergence of new disciplines and are being carried along in big deals by large STM publishers who also publish SSH titles. Online sales have been falling and, in contrast to the situation in STM, are forecast to be essentially flat. While innovative new multimedia services are taking advantage of technology to deliver video, sound and text in exciting interactive ways, aggregations of magazine and newspaper articles that made up the bulk of public library sales are eroding badly.

Still many small commercial publishers specializing in SSH sustain levels of profit sufficient to satisfy their investors. Unlike STM or law, social science and humanities publishing is highly fragmented. In 2012, no publisher had more than about 5.1% share of the world market.

These presses confront the industry’s challenges through the use of advanced software and techniques for composition, cheaper digitization and file storage mechanisms, sophisticated online content management systems, and short-run and print-on-demand services–all of which lower costs for new publications and give renewed life to their backlist titles. Similarly, Web discovery tools and distribution channels such as Amazon.com have made it possible to reach new markets beyond university libraries.

Global Social Science and Humanities Publishing 2013-2014 provides an overview and financial outlook for the global SSH publishing market based on specific research and analysis of the leading competitors’ performance. This research was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for professional publishing.

The market is divided into four content delivery channels: books, journals, online services (including abstracting and indexing) and other, a category that includes audio, video and CD-ROM information.

De Gruyter announces reorganisation of its imprints

January 13, 2014

After the integration of Oldenbourg Verlag and Akademie Verlag in the publishing structure De Gruyter presents the new organization of its imprints: All tracks of the Subjects History, economics, computer science and the German engineering are published from January 2014 under the brand name “De Gruyter Oldenbourg”.

Works that are published in collaboration with a scientific academy, to appear in the future under the Imprint “De Gruyter Academy Research”.

“Our portfolio has grown over the past years clearly, and to authors and users to facilitate the orientation, in addition to the traditional brand De Gruyter established and respected brands Academy and Oldenbourg will occupy a permanent place in the program.” Explains Dr. Sven Fund , Managing Director at De Gruyter. “The newly launched umbrella brand strategy enables us at the same time to achieve maximum visibility in the international presence.”

The Imprints “De Gruyter Mouton” for linguistics, “De Gruyter Saur” for the library, Science and the Swiss publishing “Birkhauser” remain unchanged.

Journals, books and databases of all other subject areas appear under the umbrella brand “De Gruyter.”

Springer will collaborate with the Italian Society of Endocrinology

January 13, 2014

Springer and the Italian Society of Endocrinology (Società Italiana di Endocrinologia/SIE) have agreed to a five-year collaboration to publish the monthly Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, starting in January 2014 with Volume 37. Available exclusively in electronic format on SpringerLink (link.springer.com), it is the official journal of the society. It was formerly published by the Italian publisher Kurtis.

The Journal of Endocrinological Investigation reports on all fields of endocrinology and metabolism research, including neuroendocrinology, andrology, and gynecological, pediatric and geriatric endocrinology, Topics such as thyroid disorders, obesity and diabetes are covered. Both clinical, translational and basic original studies are published, as well as opinions, commentaries, reviews, clinical practice guidelines, position statements and letters to the editor. Targeted are endocrinologists, diabetologists and andrologists, both in clinical practice and research.

Luigi Bartalena, Editor-in-Chief, said, “As we begin the 37^th volume of the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, I am very pleased to start collaborating with Springer. I am grateful to Prof. Francesco Trimarchi, president of SIE, and the executive committee of the society for supporting the journal. I am sure that partnering with this prestigious publisher will increase global visibility and dissemination of the journal and will greatly contribute to the reinforcement and expansion of its well-established role in the international scientific community.”

Francesco Trimarchi, President of SIE, said, “We welcome this partnership. Working with Springer will certainly help the official journal of SIE, founded 36 years ago, to grow further as an internationally recognized journal. In turn, this will help our society to fulfill its mission to share the latest advances in the field of endocrinology and metabolism, not only with scientists, but also with clinical practitioners.”

“We are proud to welcome the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation to the Springer clinical medicine journals portfolio. It offers an additional relevant scientific resource to all those working in this field. Joining many established publications in the field of endocrinology, it will have global exposure via the SpringerLink platform. We are especially pleased to have the opportunity to partner with the SIE on this challenging project, and are honored to collaborate on the development of this excellent journal with its good impact factor and robust manuscript flow,” said Carlotta d’Imporzano, Executive Editor of Medicine Journals at Springer.

Società Italiana di Endocrinologia (www.societaitalianadiendocrinologia.it) was established in 1964 by a group of enthusiastic clinical scientists headed by Cataldo Cassano, professor of internal medicine, and included gynecologists, pathologists and other medical specialists and professionals who had a special interest in the emerging field of endocrinology and metabolism. Within a few years, the society grew rapidly, devoting itself to the most advanced issues in fundamental and clinical research. It promotes knowledge and skills in cellular and molecular biology, biotechnology and translational research, paying special attention to signaling pathophysiology and the management of endocrine disorders. Many members of SIE are ranked highly in the Top Italian Scientist list, based on the H-Index.

PALNI is first academic library group to select OCLC WorldShare Management Services

January 10, 2014

The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI), which provides library automation services to 23 institutions, is the first academic group to select OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its cloud-based library management system.

WorldShare Management Services is an integrated suite of library management applications—from acquisitions and circulation, to metadata and license management, resource sharing and analytics—designed to simplify and streamline workflows, reduce costs and create new value for libraries and their users.

“WorldShare Management Services (WMS) fit the strategic direction of our organization,” said Kirsten Leonard, PALNI Executive Director. “We wanted to reduce the cost of managing our systems and collections so that we could focus on providing direct support to our students and faculty, and on new projects like institutional repositories. We are already starting projects that we have been dreaming of—our ‘wish lists.’ We believe WMS will help us improve services for our users, with greater economy for our institutions.”

“We’ve dedicated our development effort of consortial features to a simple mission statement: WorldShare Management Services preserves and respects the autonomy, privacy and policy differences among members of a group, while at the same time leveraging the opportunities that come with shared data, infrastructure and community,” said Andrew K. Pace, Executive Director, OCLC Networked Library Services.

Ms. Leonard said PALNI had been considering a move to a new library management system for more than two years. Several task forces were formed to determine the best course of action, and after careful study, PALNI determined that WMS and OCLC were best equipped to get them to where they wanted to go.

“This is a brave new world, and WMS gives us the best opportunity to set our strategic goals in motion,” said Ms. Leonard. “OCLC is committed to developing radical collaboration avenues in our Web-based environment not only to share collections, but also to share processes and staff expertise. We also see that OCLC is strongly committed to exposing library data on the Web and to ensuring the relevance of libraries in the future.”

PALNI selected WorldShare Management Services in September. They are currently in the implementation phase, which includes data migration, staff training, and product configuration. PALNI expects to be live with the services in the summer of 2014.

“From what we have seen so far, these services are much easier to use than our current services,” said Ms. Leonard. “Our staff has been pleasantly surprised by the ease of use.”

Today, more than 170 libraries on three continents—Australia, Europe and North America—are using OCLC WorldShare Management Services which were released for general availability in July 2011. More than 110 more libraries are in the process of implementing the new services. Other library groups are using WorldShare Management Services; PALNI is the first academic group.

More about OCLC WorldShare Management Services can be found on the OCLC website.

FSG Launch Hepatic Oncology: a journal dedicated to the management of cancers of the liver

January 10, 2014

Future Medicine Ltd has today announced the launch of the new journal Hepatic Oncology. This new title focuses specifically on the specialism of hepatic cancer, including both primary and secondary malignancies. Hepatic Oncology is published by Future Medicine Ltd (part of theFuture Science Group), and joins its portfolio of oncology journals providing healthcare practitioners and research professionals with a unique source of objective, cutting-edge information on exciting trends emerging in light of advances in medicine, healthcare and clinical practice.

The direction of the journal is led by a team of three Senior Editors, Dr Jordi Bruix (University of Barcelona), Professor Richard Finn (UCLA) and Professor Ronnie TP Poon (The University of Hong Kong), along with an international Editorial Board of experts in the field.

Senior Editor Dr Bruix commented: “Liver cancer is a major health problem and a journal devoted to increase knowledge around it is sure to be an important development for the field.”

Hepatic Oncology publishes original research studies and reviews addressing preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to all types of cancer of the liver, in both the adult and pediatric populations. The journal also highlights significant advances in basic and translational research, and places them in context for future therapy.

Writing in the Foreword to the inaugural issue, Professor Finn and Dr Bruix stated: “The past decade has brought a robust amount of interest in liver cancer, spanning from bench research to the clinic in all aspects of liver tumor management. Our goal in the development of the journal is to provide a high-impact outlet for basic science, as well as all clinical aspects of liver oncology.”

Elisa Manzotti, Publisher of the Future Science Group journals, said, “We are delighted to announce the launch of our new journal Hepatic Oncology, which further strengthens our oncology portfolio. Effective cancer management continues to be one of the most pressing endeavors of medical research, and liver cancer in particular is becoming increasingly prevalent. We hope that our new title will provide a forum for the publication of innovative research findings and debate in this field.”