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Brill and Semantico launch BrillOnline Discovery

  Brill and Semantico are proud to announce the launch of BrillOnline Discovery, which offers users the option to search across all of Brill’s online resources from one central place. BrillOnline Discovery uses the Scolaris Linking Hub technology developed by Semantico. This enables federated search increased discoverability across the family of Brill platforms (BrillOnline Primary Sources, BrillOnline Books and Journals, BrillOnline Reference Works and BrillOnline Bibliographies).

A multi-platform publisher like Brill faces challenges in communicating the wealth of online information to users. With over 150 reference works and primary source collections, 200 journals and 4000 e-books the challenge is big. The number of visitors to Brill’s online resources increases every month, which is an extra incentive for Brill to continue to invest in and improve user experience.

The Scolaris Linking Hub developed by Semantico helped Brill solve the problem of communicating the wealth of online information by enabling the user to discover and navigate to content on every site within the publisher’s ecosystem, in a simple and cost-effective way. Users are now offered a full view of all content, links to related documents and access to multiple content types. With the introduction of BrillOnline Discovery, widgets have been added on the different platform which gives the user a full view of all content while visiting any one of the BrillOnline platforms, making it easier for users to search and discover the rich, high quality content Brill offers.

The Scolaris technology – developed by Semantico – promotes discoverability by providing intelligent, full-text search powered by Solr and allows rich taxonomy support for faceted search and browsing. The Scolaris Linking Hub solution also creates enhanced flexibility for customers by enabling different levels of subscription and direct access. This allows a broader range of customers to discover and engage with Brill content.

“Brill delivers high quality content from a wealth of sources. We want all of our customers to access and engage with this content,” says Sam Bruinsma, Vice President Business Development. “Now with the launch of BrillOnline Discovery, users can easily search across our extensive corpus and be presented with a seamless and elegant user experience.”

“The Linking Hub resolves the age old issue of bringing together content from a variety of sources and exposing this in an intuitive and comprehensive way,” commented Giles Gailer, Account Manager. “The Linking Hub will benefit both publishers and end users, and we’re confident that this product will have a positive and far-reaching impact.”

ISNI Assignments Top 7 Million

Exponential growth in assignments has led to more than 7 million names receiving the ISO-certified International Standard Name Identifier known as “ISNI”. Published in early 2012, the standard applies a unique 16-digit code to public identities, providing a single identifier that can be leveraged across many applications, syncing alternate or disparate spellings of the same name, and eliminating confusion when names are alike. Bowker, an affiliated business of ProQuest and a registration agency for the standard, tracks assignments and usage of ISNIs.

“The rapid uptake reflects the standard’s ability to simplify the process of identification,” said Beat Barblan, Bowker’s Director of Identifier Services and Treasurer of the ISNI International Agency. “It’s an authoritative way to ensure accuracy when organizations share information. With an ISNI, we know we are referring to the correct Sue Johnson, Dan Brown, Rich Cohen, Stephen Dubner, or Stephen King.”

The ISNI International Agency — a worldwide group of organizations that serve researchers, rights management organizations, authors, musicians, and other public contributors — created the standard to disambiguate names. Once an ISNI is assigned by a registration agency, it is shared across the global digital information industry, enabling organizations to apply it to content held in their databases by or about that party. The ISNI then acts as a link for data. So, for example, information about Brian Cox, the physicist and musician, can be linked across research he has done at CERN and music database entries for his former band D:Ream.

Users tapping into any of the organizations that use ISNIs will need only a name and just enough background data (such as a birth date or book title) to zero in on the correct identity. ISNIs are especially critical for rights management, accurate royalty payments, and cross-domain linking.

Currently, there are more than 700,000 researchers whose names have been assigned ISNIs and 480,000 institutions with ISNI assignments. “These numbers are expected to grow significantly, as organizations such as Macmillan’s Digital Science, LaTrobe University, and the National Library of New Zealand have joined the ISNI International Agency as members,” said Laura Dawson, Product Manager for Identifier Services at Bowker.

Organizations and individuals can apply for an ISNI for any public identity – real or fictional – through a registration agency, such as Bowker. To apply for ISNIs through Bowker or obtain more information, contact Laura Dawson, Product Manager for Identifier Services, at laura.dawson@bowker.com. Use ISNI’s free lookup interface at http://www.isni.org/search.

Springer and the American Thoracic Society to collaborate

Springer and the American Thoracic Society (ATS) have entered into a partnership to collaborate on the book series Respiratory Medicine. Springer will hold editorial responsibility, but will work with the ATS to develop new topics for books. Members of the society will have free access to the eBooks in the series on SpringerLink and be eligible for discounted prices of the print versions on Springer’s website. The series includes 20 books with about 15 in development. The first volume was published in 2009. 

The books in the series Respiratory Medicine offer clinical and research-oriented resources for pulmonologists and other practitioners and researchers working in respiratory care. Spanning a broad range of issues in respiratory medicine, the series covers topics such as COPD, asthma and allergy, pulmonary problems in pregnancy, molecular basis of lung disease and sleep disordered breathing. The series editor is Sharon Rounds, MD, Professor of Medicine and of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University in the US.

Dr. Rounds said, “It is terrific to be partnering with the American Thoracic Society, the premier international professional organization in the field. The ATS membership includes top scientists and clinicians and we are looking forward to collaborating with them.”

Richard Lansing, Editorial Director Clinical Medicine at Springer, said, “We are honored to be working with the American Thoracic Society on book projects that will become part of our existing, successful Respiratory Medicine series. The series is a perfect fit to meet the needs of the ATS mission.”

“The ATS is very pleased to partner with Springer on this important book series,” said ATS Journals Publisher Diane Gern. “Providing richer, more expansive educational resources for our members is an integral part of the society’s mission.”

The roots of the American Thoracic Society (www.thoracic.org) reach back to 1905, when a small group of physicians decided that the best way to improve care for tuberculosis patients was to share their experiences and discoveries. Today, the ATS has grown into an international society with more than 15,000 members. The ATS is the world’s leading medical association dedicated to improving health worldwide by advancing research, clinical care and public health in respiratory disease, critical illness and sleep disorders.

 

EBSCO Information Services and Cosmotron Partner to Enhance Library Discovery in Czech and Slovak Republic

A new partnership between EBSCO Information Services and Cosmotron, an ILS vendor serving the Czech and Slovak Republic, provides expanded services to mutual customers. A joint development will enable libraries to deliver valuable content from EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) to customers using the systems that are familiar to them.

Providing access to EDS’s unified index will expand the quality and amount of content available for Cosmotron users. The partnership provides users with a solution that allows Cosmotron users to have access to the EDS search engine, leveraging the strong metadata and relevancy ranking system as well as other features and functionality of EDS.

Cosmotron’s Director Nadežda Andrejčíková says the partnership will benefit all customers and provide a seamless user experience. “At Cosmotron we continually strive to work on innovating and improving our technologies and services. The integration of EBSCO Discovery Service will allow our users to also access sources directly through the ARL interface.”

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box—searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.

EBSCO Discovery Service is quickly becoming the discovery selection for many libraries (www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-news), and an obvious partner for content providers. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost® platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC—which is not typical in the discovery space. Further still, in the many universities and other libraries where EBSCOhost is the most-used platform for premium research, users are not asked to change their pathways or habits for searching. There’s simply more to discover on the familiar EBSCOhost platform, and the same can be said for library administrators who can leverage their previous work with EBSCOadmin™.

Brill and Semantico announce Brill’s Primary Sources platform

Brill and Semantico are proud to announce BrillOnline Primary Sources – Brill’s new  online platform for primary sources.

Brill and Semantico are proud to announce the launch of BrillOnline Primary Sources. This new platform consists of thematic collections of unique materials such as rare books and documents from around the world. These essential research tools in the area of humanities and social sciences are an integrated part of Brill’s product portfolio.

Primary Sources offers access to over six million high resolution scans of documents, research data, models, illustrative images and associated metadata in over 70 collections in 9 different subject areas. Scholars are offered access to Brill’s primary source collections in an attractive and easy to use online environment. Much care and effort has been spent to ensure that functionality and usability meet the high expectations from today’s users.

Semantico built the site using their latest technologies. Scolaris, the next generation integrated content platform, is engineered to manage the complexities of journals, reference works and dictionaries. Scolaris promotes discoverability by providing intelligent, full-text search powered by Solr and allows rich taxonomy support for faceted search and browse. Content is consumed through the Scolaris Reader, a powerful and flexible solution for viewing and annotating rights-managed PDF files.

Dr Perry Moree, Executive Vice-President Finance and Operations at Brill said: “Brill’s Primary Source collections are designed with discoverability and user experience at the forefront. Using the latest technologies like Scolaris, means that search results are delivered at lightning speed in a logical and intuitive way giving customers the information they need quickly and accurately.”

Richard Padley, Managing Director, Semantico commented: “We’re excited to be working on another high profile Brill project and to be using Scolaris to power BrillOnline Primary Sources. Brill chose us because of the great work we’ve been doing for them since 2005.”

ScienceDirect now includes 25,000 science and technology books

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that ScienceDirect now includes 25,000 science and technology books. This increases the depth and breadth of Elsevier’s book content available on the platform. The 25,000th book published and added to the database is Fukushima Accident: Radioactivity Impact on the Environment by Pavel Povinec, Katsumi Hirose and Michio Aoyama.

“We have always been proud of the quality of the foundational content we publish,” said Suzanne BeDell, Managing Director, Science and Technology Books at Elsevier. “Reaching this milestone demonstrates our commitment to bringing more in-depth new content to researchers to drive the advancement and application of science and technology.”

Fukushima Accident discusses the impact of the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident on the radioactivity of the total environment, as well as lessons learned on a global scale. Lead author, Dr. Pavel Povinec, is a professor of nuclear physics at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, From 1993 to 2005 he led the Radiometrics Laboratory of the International Atomic Energy Agency Environment Laboratories in Monaco. He has edited and contributed chapters to several other Elsevier books, and has published more than 250 Elsevier journal articles.

“I was very pleased to hear that Fukushima Accident is the 25,000th book available on ScienceDirect,” said Dr. Povinec. “My colleagues and I are frequent users of ScienceDirect for journal articles and books on topics such as environmental radioactivity and nuclear and particle physics. When choosing to publish the book with Elsevier, ScienceDirect was an important factor since we know many scientists rely on it for up-to-date information on developments in their fields.”

Fukushima Accident is available on ScienceDirect and also on the Elsevier Store. – See more at: http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/science-and-technology/elseviers-science-and-technology-book-content-on-sciencedirect-reaches-25,000-milestone#sthash.PdLEJ1rE.dpuf

Thomson Reuters Pilots Web of Science Certification Program at Russia’s Saint Petersburg State University Scientific Library

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, recently piloted the first-ever Web of Science Certification program at Russia’s Saint Petersburg State University Scientific Library. Working in close collaboration, Thomson Reuters trained 15 members of the library’s staff to become experts in the company’s Web of ScienceSM, the premier web-based research platform for information in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

“We are honored to be the first university to participate in this certification program,” said Marina Karpova, head of Saint Petersburg State University’s Scientific Library and participant in the Web of Science Certification program. “It is always a pleasure working with Thomson Reuters. The company continually offers new opportunities for development. Our staff’s interest in the program was so high that we hope to conduct another training program in the near future.”

The Web of Science Certification Program was designed to train employees of subscribing university libraries to become certified specialists, in order to better train university staff, researchers and students, and to help further the institution’s use of the platform and to help advance the university’s scientific research efforts. The program is part of Thomson Reuters continued commitment to supporting the professional development of its customers.

The program comprised two days of intense training, including theoretical and practical sessions on how to better work within the Web of Science and with  trusted indicators from Thomson Reuters InCitesTM, the company’s flagship, web-based research evaluation tool, including the Journal Citation Reports, the recognized authority for evaluating scholarly journals; and ResearcherID, a unique identification tool to help researchers manage their publication lists and citation counts. The program also provided training on EndNote Basic, the industry’s leading free reference tool. Each of the 15 participants are now certified for use, consulting and to train staff and students on the Web of Science and InCites platforms.

“We are pleased to pilot the first-ever Web of Science Certification program with Russia’s Saint Petersburg State University Scientific Library,” said Gordon Macomber, managing director, Thomson Reuters Scientific and Scholarly Research. “This initiative gives those certified the credentials and confidence to share the value of the Web of Science more broadly across their organization and advance their scientific initiatives. We look forward to implementing this certification at other institutions in the future.

Learn more about Thomson Reuters Web of Science and InCites

Knovel Announces New Partnerships with Taylor & Francis and Five Other Publishers

Knovel announced today the addition of six publishers, including Taylor & Francis and ICE Publishing, to its roster of more than 100 authoritative publishers and societies. Knovel has signed more than 20 new publishing partners since January, making 2013 a record year for content expansion. As a result, engineers worldwide have access to more content, data and answers from credible sources. Knovel’s cloud-based application integrates technical information with analytical and search tools.

“We’re pleased to work with Knovel to facilitate access to CRC Press and Routledge content for engineers in the corporate and government markets,” said T. Emmett Dages, president of U.S. Books for Taylor & Francis Group. “Engineers rely on Knovel for best practices and trusted technical answers to solve problems. Our partnership with Knovel is in line with our goal to make our content accessible and useful where and when engineers need it most.”

“These partnerships, several with limited exclusivity, highlight Knovel as a valued part of the digital strategy for publishers of all sizes – from large commercial firms to smaller organizations,” said Ella Balagula, SVP, Engineering & Technology for Elsevier. “Knovel makes content more discoverable and actionable for engineers. These new partners offer a diverse range of content, including industry best practices, that appeal to engineers who turn to Knovel for information support when tackling tough questions. We’re pleased to end the year on such a high note.”

The six new publishing partners include:

American Geosciences Institute: The American Geosciences Institute is a nonprofit federation of geoscientific and professional associations that represents more than 250,000 geologists, geophysicists, and other earth scientists. Founded in 1948, AGI provides information services to geoscientists, serves as a voice of shared interests in our profession, plays a major role in strengthening geoscience education and strives to increase public awareness of the vital role the geosciences play in today’s world.

BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, champions the global IT profession and the interests of individuals engaged in that profession for the benefit of all. The Institute collaborates with government, industry and relevant bodies to establish good working practices, codes of conduct, skills frameworks and common standards. It also offers a range of consultancy services to employers to help them adopt best practice.

BNi Building News: Since 1946, BNi Building News has been America’s most comprehensive source of construction books, building codes, legal forms and contracts, cost estimating tools and other reference materials for the building trades. As a publisher, BNi works closely with both code developers such as the NFPA, ASPE, and the APWA, as well as with state and local government agencies to provide the highest level of quality in the preparation and distribution of codes and standards.

Cambridge International Science Publishing: Cambridge International Science Publishing Ltd (CISP) publishes selected books and journals on materials science, physics, chemistry, applied mathematics, and engineering. Journals include: Advances in Electrometallurgy, Physics of Metals and Advanced Technologies, Physics and Chemistry of Materials Treatment, Journal of Advances in Chemical Physics and Journal of Advanced Materials.

ICE Publishing: ICE Publishing, publishing arm of the Institution of Civil Engineers, an 80,000-member society based in the United Kingdom, formed with the aim to “foster and promote the art and science of civil engineering.” ICE Publishing produces a wide range of books and journals sharing expert advice, leading research and best practice in civil engineering and construction. The organization’s leading journals are integral to supporting ICE’s commitment to knowledge transfer and best practice within civil engineering and construction.

Taylor & Francis: Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. As one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works its content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Science, and Technology and Medicine. Taylor & Francis is a division of UK-based Informa plc, one of the world’s leading providers of highly specialized publishing, events, training, market intelligence and expertise.

For more information about Knovel and content offered via subscriptions, go to: http://why.knovel.com/solution/content.html.

50% grant now available for Knowledge Unlatched pilot fee

Jisc is pleased to announce that from today, 11 December, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has agreed to make a grant of up to £550 to universities in England that participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot.

This grant contribution will be used to reduce the participation fee paid by English libraries by 50%.

Knowledge Unlatched is an organisation dedicated to promoting open access for scholarly books. Their model uses the collective purchasing power of the world’s libraries to make academic books freely available to all and they are inviting libraries from around the world to participate in a pilot to trial this new model. Libraries can participate by pledging (a maximum of) £1100 to ‘unlatch’ a collection of 28 humanities and social sciences books. If at least 200 libraries from around the world sign up for the collection by 31 January 2014, these books will be made free for anyone in the world to read on an open access basis.

Libraries that participate in the pilot will receive a Knowledge Unlatched membership fee waiver until January 2016, usage data on the collection and the right to participate in Knowledge Unlatched governance. As a result of HEFCE’s grant, English libraries will be able to secure the benefits of participating in the Knowledge Unlatched Pilot by pledging a maximum of £550.

HEFCE senior policy advisor, Ben Johnson said:

“I’m delighted to be able to confirm HEFCE’s support for the Knowledge Unlatched scheme. I believe this is an important pilot in testing out a potential new model for open access book publishing. The lessons that we learn from this pilot will be of prime importance in gauging both the viability of models like this in the longer term and the readiness of the scholarly book publishing world to support open access more widely.”

Jisc is managing the pledging process for UK universities and colleges and will administer grant funding for the English libraries. Full details of how to pledge can be viewed on the Jisc Collections website. Pledging will remain open until 31 January 2014.

Lorraine Estelle, Jisc’s executive director of content and discovery and divisional CEO Jisc Collections, welcomed the announcement:

“Scholarly monograph publishing is important to researchers, especially in the humanities and social sciences where the book is the main method by which they communicate their research. It is important that we explore new publishing models to support the monograph and we hope that the HEFCE grant will encourage libraries to participate in the pilot and help drive forward the future of scholarly monograph publishing.”

Frances Pinter, executive director of Knowledge Unlatched added:

“The HEFCE grant is a major contribution to helping explore new ways of reaching open access for books through cooperation between libraries and publishers that will decrease costs to institutions while at the same time bring all the benefits of open access to the world.”

Knowledge Unlatched is planning to establish a joint forum that brings together libraries and publishers in early 2014.

Elsevier successfully deploys unified clinical medication decision support solution in China

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information products and services, and part of the Reed Elsevier group, announced today that it has successfully deployed the unified clinical medication decision support solution, known as Clinical Medication Decision Support All (CMDS- All), at The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China.

Developed by Shanghai Datong Medical Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Datong), a fully-owned Elsevier entity that focuses on delivering localized solutions for drug-related decision support, CMDS-All integrates previously disparate medical and pharmacological applications into a single solution platform with additional functionalities of prescription and analytics solutions.

“This milestone development leverages our strong U.K.-Sino relationship that pairs Elsevier’s suite of quality international medical content and advanced technology with local expertise to deliver innovative customized solutions that address specific market needs,” said Ron Mobed, Elsevier’s Chief Executive Officer. “Elsevier’s strategy of targeted investments has led to the creation of innovative products, solutions and services that serve to elevate the standard of health services for local communities.”

CMDS-All is deployed as an end-user application software solution supported with a backend system that provides real-time information and alerts. These are based on analytical processing of integrated content such as patient information, patient prescription history, drug-related database and health information systems to deliver real-time medication decision support to clinicians and health care providers.

Through an integrated medication solutions platform, CMDS-All offers medical and health care institutions the advantages of:

Greater operational efficiencies for healthcare providers from better utilization of resources through consolidation of multiple disparate applications into a single integrated system such as basic patient information, electronic medical records, laboratory information systems and prescription histories
Improved and faster responsiveness through a central monitoring and alert system integrating critical medical, drug-related and patient information as well as health information systems
More comprehensive and greater prescription accuracy through medication analytics to avoid drug-related errors and malpractices
Improved and better hospital and patient management through real-time monitoring and drug administration resulting in better health and patient care
“Continuous reforms in China’s health care sector are requiring medical and health organizations to provide safer, faster and more efficient medical services with greater accuracy for better patient care, and CMDS-All is the one-stop clinical medication decision support system that addresses those needs,” said Yukun Harsono, Managing Director of Elsevier for Greater China. “CMDS-All is the enabling solution that is able to deliver the right information to clinical practitioners at the right time to make the right decision for the best outcomes.”

– See more at: http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/health-sciences/elsevier-delivers-unified-medication-management-platform-in-china#sthash.ktDDNzSu.dpuf

Alexander Street Press Partners With Eduserv

Alexander Street Press has forged an exclusive agreement with IT provider Eduserv to offer discounted online resources to the UK academic community in the fields of mental health, counselling, and psychotherapy.

Beginning this month, educational institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland can acquire a range of Alexander Street’s best-selling health sciences titles in an exclusive, cost-effective package. The package makes available more than 2,000 hours of streaming video and 80,000 pages of client transcripts and conference proceedings in one simple interface.

This new counselling package provides faculty with up-to-date developments in the field and offers students a variety of instructional and real-life training videos to help them become accomplished practitioners and administrators in the field of mental health. It includes content from five acclaimed Alexander Street collections—Counseling and Therapy in Video (volumes I–III); Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works; and The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy.

“This arrangement,” said Elizabeth Robey, senior editor at Alexander Street Press, “provides tutors and students with a comprehensive range of materials to support key approaches in the field, including cognitive behavioural therapy, person-centred, and others. More and more, universities are seeking visual resources to support this area of teaching and research, and our solution addresses this growing demand.”

The agreement with Eduserv will help universities gain access to sought-after content in a cost-effective way, and will complement other Chest agreements in the field of psychology. “We are delighted to work with such a highly-respected organization within the academic library community. Eduserv’s customer service reputation makes them an ideal partner to help share our counselling and psychology resources with this audience,” said Gareth Bish, UK and Ireland sales manager at Alexander Street Press.

“Our contract with Alexander Street Press is very significant and means that universities and colleges will have access to these up-to-date mental health, counselling, and psychotherapy resources at discounted prices. It is an important addition to our portfolio of agreements and complements other resources we offer in these fields. We look forward to working with Alexander Street Press,” said Nikki Green, business development manager at Eduserv.

For more information about Alexander Street Press’s counselling and therapy resources, please contact sales@alexanderstreet.com or visit http://alexanderstreet.com/products/counseling-and-therapy.

The London Book Fair Announces Move To Olympia In 2015 And Launches London Book And Screen Week 2014

Following the substantial coverage in the media regarding The Earls Court Opportunity Area, the future of Earls Court as an exhibition venue from 2015 onwards remains uncertain and it is unlikely to be available. Reed Exhibitions announces today that The London Book Fair 2014 will be the last to take place in its current location, Earls Court.

From 2015, The London Book Fair will move from Earls Court to an equally iconic new home at sister ECO venue, Olympia.

This decision was taken following extensive consultation with The London Book Fair Advisory bodies, representing the industry at home and overseas.

Commenting on the developments, Jacks Thomas, Director, The London Book Fair, says, ‘We have listened long and hard to those who participate in The London Book Fair and, while it is sad that Earls Court is unlikely to form part of the London exhibition venue mix, we fully appreciate the great affection the industry has for West London and believe that moving to Olympia is currently the right move for the publishing industry.

‘I would like to thank everyone – including our Advisory bodies – who has taken a keen and passionate interest in this important next step for The London Book Fair. I thank, in particular, David Roche whose support in chairing our committees has been stalwart.’

David Roche, Non-Executive Chair, The London Book Fair Advisory Board adds, ‘The London Book Fair has taken a great deal of time and trouble to present the two prospective venue options currently available in London. They have listened to their stakeholders and taken the decision favoured by a majority voice that West London must be the home for the foreseeable future. I’d like to thank all those on the LBF Advisory Board and the IRC Steering Group for their time that they have given and their input into the process.’

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