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Top Ranked International University Chooses EBSCO Discovery Service™

Hebrew University of Jerusalem has selected EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) to provide an enhanced discovery experience for students. The customizable resource from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) will be known as HU Find. HU Find will search across multiple databases and the library’s catalog to create a customized discovery solution. Hebrew University is ranked number 53 in the top world universities according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

Library staff at Hebrew University evaluated other discovery services and they believed that EDS came out as the best in terms of relevance and refining searches. Other deciding factors included the intuitive user interface, customization and easy implementation. Edith Falk, Chief Librarian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem also sees EDS as one of tools that will help maintain their reputation as a top ranked university. “We were looking for a single search solution that would help students get the articles they wanted without having to use several databases and we also hoped that the service would help get more access to the library collection. Of course, making the library the most modern and up-to-date research facility it can be, was also an important criteria.

Falk says HU Find is designed as a very unique and customized search experience. “We have one search box, which searches both the catalogue and EDS at the same time. The results are presented in two columns: Books and more – which then goes to our catalogue; Articles and more which goes to EDS. The ability to customize EDS to fit our needs was a key reason for choosing EBSCO and with this new customized discovery experience, students and faculty will be exposed to more of the library collection.”

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.

Ingram Content Group Adds New Leaders to Ingram Publisher Services

Ingram Content Group Inc., today announced the addition of new leaders to Ingram Publisher Services, Ingram’s full-service publisher distribution and sales services company.

Gonzalo Ferreyra has joined Ingram Publisher Services in the role of Director of Acquisitions, Full-Service Distribution. Gonzalo has 24 years of experience in the book industry having held prior positions with Weldon Owen Publishing, VIZ Media, Ten Speed Press and Borders Group, Inc.

Carter Holliday, most recently with Ingram’s Lightning Source, has been appointed to Director of Acquisitions, Third-Party Logistics and Ingram Content Group Services. Carter will work with publishers on the development of outsourced logistics services and solutions.  Carter has an extensive background in publishing, warehousing, print-on-demand book manufacturing and digital content distribution.

Leah Rex, has been promoted to Director of Client Relations, Ingram Publisher Services. Leah previously held the position of Director of Acquisitions, Full-Service Distribution at Ingram Publisher Services. Leah will succeed Karen Cross, Vice President, Client Relations for Ingram Publisher Services, who will retire in January 2014.

Emerald teams with the Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries initiative to promote research

Emerald Group Publishing set up an informal arrangement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries initiative, which aims to provide public access to information through computers in public libraries. Under this arrangement, Emerald publishes the findings of the Global Libraries initiative on Impact Planning and Assessment and makes them freely accessible nine months post official publication. Global Libraries initiative are now hosting easy to read summaries of the eleven articles published in a special issue of Emerald’s journal Performance Measurement and Metrics (Volume 13, Issue 1). The summaries, dedicated to Impact Planning and Assessment, can also be used as a teaching resource and have been published for the benefit of information professionals and practitioners around the world.

Five of the summaries and a glossary of Impact Planning and Assessment acronyms are now available on the WebJunction website and will also be hosted on a selection of authors’ websites featured in the special issue of Performance Measurement and Metrics, as detailed below:

WebJunction website

http://webjunction.org/documents/webjunction/impact-planning-assessment-worldwide.html 

Recipients of the Global Libraries initiatives awards and author websites

Guest Editor, David Streatfield, Information Management Associates, and Global Libraries initiative Consultant to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, comments in his introduction to the Special Issue: “At a time when only 35 per cent of the world’s population is connected to the Internet and people in rural and poor communities are deprived of the economic, educational, health, and social opportunities which a digital world offers, the work of the Global Libraries initiative is making a worldwide impact on addressing this imbalance of opportunity.

This work shows the commitment of the Global Libraries Country-teams’ Impact Planning and Assessment Specialists to communicating what they are learning to public library evaluation specialists and to library service managers in other countries contemplating any kind of service innovation.”

As a global publisher, Emerald aims to link research and practice to the benefit of society. This arrangement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation offers a perfect opportunity to further the dissemination of valuable, quality research to help develop literacy, including information literacy, and education.

For more details visit www.emeraldinsight.com/about/news/gates-foundation-2013.htm

Elsevier First to Publish NADAC Price Type from CMS

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that, effective November 30, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) survey-based price type, National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC) is included for all available drugs where applicable in Elsevier’s Gold Standard Drug Database and web-based solutions, ProspectoRx and RxPrice Verify.

CMS invested in NADAC, which is based on a monthly voluntary survey of randomly selected pharmacies nationwide. NADAC was created in order to provide Medicaid agencies with a better estimate of prices paid by pharmacies for drugs, which would be based upon actual drug purchases. The NADAC file is updated on a weekly basis and each month a new survey file is posted to reflect findings from the previous month’s survey results. Elsevier publishes both the weekly price type file and monthly file.

“NADAC is another option for a new drug price benchmark that our customers, and the industry as a whole, may decide to use,” said Kay Morgan, Vice President of Drug Products and Industry Standards, Elsevier. “We at Elsevier strive to provide the most accurate and continuously updated data for our users.”

Elsevier’s Gold Standard Drug Database pricing file is the only compendia that continues to publish Average Wholesale Price (AWP), along with several other price types: Wholesale Acquisition Cost (WAC), Direct Price (DP), Federal Supply Schedule (FSS), CMS Federal Upper Limit (CMS-FUL), Maximum Allowable Cost (MAC), and Predictive Acquisition Cost (PAC). Elsevier’s drug pricing database delivers the most up-to-the-minute data available via web-based solutions, ProspectoRx and RxPrice Verify. – See more at: http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/health-sciences/elsevier-first-to-publish-nadac-price-type-from-cms#sthash.0z2gflaB.dpuf

F1000Research peer-reviewed articles now visible on PubMed and PubMed Central

F1000Research, an original open science journal for life scientists, announces that articles published and  peer-reviewed via its novel post-publication peer review model are now visible in PubMed, the world’s  largest and most-used biomedical literature database, and PubMed Central (PMC). Since its launch at the start of this year, F1000Research has published over 300 articles, and continues to  challenge the traditional scholarly publishing model through its innovative, open and transparent Open Science publishing model. Today F1000Research announce that its first articles are now visible in  PubMed and PMC, and from now, new articles will be deposited with these indexers as soon as they  pass peer review.

All articles accepted by F1000Research are published rapidly (on average, articles are published live on the site within seven days of acceptance) using an open access license, and are then formally peer reviewed by invited referees. Referee comments and names are published with the original article. This process aims to remove the standard publication delays and significantly reduce referee and publication bias.

The Open Science publishing model has afforded new opportunities to capture and index a wider range of associated rich article metadata. F1000Research publish referee reports, author responses and underlying data alongside the article itself, and has worked with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to ensure this additional information is accessible in PMC by developing a more robust way of archiving full-text biomedical literature. This marks a milestone in the communication of scientific findings, and one that will help to lead the way for the increasing number of other publishers who are now developing similar approaches to publication.

Commenting on the visibility of F1000Research articles in PubMed and PMC, Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director of F1000Research, said: “We would like to extend our thanks to all our existing authors for their patience while we worked through the complexities of these issues with NLM. We are extremely grateful for the support of these early adopters of our publishing approach, without whom our achievements thus far wouldn’t have been possible.”

Infotrieve Improves Content Access and User Experience with New Release

New Interface and Executive Dashboard Provide Information At-a-Glance

Infotrieve, Inc., the global leader in e-content business service solutions, today announced the latest release of its Mobile Library™ e-content access and management software. Mobile Library 6.0 brings a completely redesigned user interface offering a sleek and intuitive browsing experience for end users. A new welcome page has been designed as a fully customizable centralized portal providing one-click access to database search functionality, internal and external resources, useful links, and RSS feeds.  To further streamline the user experience, enhanced search functionality explores all available content types simultaneously, including journals, books, patents, conference proceedings and more. A newly released Executive Dashboard provides a detailed on-demand view of enterprise-wide content usage, offering users a unique perspective into access history and usage trends that can be used to impact licensing, subscription planning and spend. Japanese language support has also been added to Mobile Library’s foreign language portfolio.

“The long list of exciting improvements found in our Mobile Library 6.0 release are all based on substantial customer feedback,” said Ken Benvenuto, President and Chief Executive Officer of Infotrieve. “Whether it’s updating the design and navigation, enabling usage-based licensing by tracking content access or extending language support, we are dedicated to continuously improving Mobile Library to best serve the needs of our clients.”

Infotrieve designed Mobile Library 6.0 almost exclusively around customer commentary. A common thread emerged from many hours of direct one-on-one discussions between Infotrieve’s senior management team and its client administrators and end users — the need to further improve the efficiency of research. Those conversations served as the framework for the platform redesign, complete with user-friendly terminology, intuitive content finder, streamlined workflows and sleek interface.

Infotrieve’s Mobile Library offers fully secure, cloud-based anywhere, anytime access to all enterprise information assets.  Leveraging Infotrieve’s “borderless office” technology, users can seamlessly switch between their desktop, laptop, iPad or smartphone without skipping a beat, as their workspace is automatically synchronized across devices.  As a flexible e-content software solution, the Mobile Library can serve a variety of customer needs, from easy searching and ordering of pay-per-view content, to a comprehensive rights management solution integrated with shared libraries and social features.  The Mobile Library was initially launched in September 2010 as an update to Infotrieve’s award-winning content access and management solution that has more than 400,000 users from more than 8,000 organizations in over 110 countries.

Wolters Kluwer Health releases Medi-Span Federal Government Pricing File

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that it has released the Medi-Span® Federal Government Pricing File™, which consolidates NADAC pricing data from CMS, serving as a key resource to payers, pharmacy benefit managers, and retail pharmacies.

In late November, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the first publication of the National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC), a new national benchmark reflective of the prices pharmacies pay to acquire outpatient prescription and OTC medications. Medi-Span has developed the Federal Government Pricing File that reports NADAC pricing information, allowing Medi-Span customers to easily utilize the new pricing information for their business needs. Additionally, the file also extrapolates pricing to similar NDCs that are not reported by CMS, providing a more robust picture of affected NDCs reported by Medi-Span. The extrapolated NDCs are readily identified and distinguished from the CMS-based NDCs.

“Being a leader in the drug pricing industry with thousands of users worldwide in the payer, PBM, and retail pharmacy markets, Medi-Span understands the industry’s needs,” commented David Del Toro, Vice President & General Manager, Clinical Drug Information, Wolters Kluwer Health, Clinical Solutions. “Coupled with the talented group of professionals on our Product and Development teams, we not only take that understanding and quickly provide our customers with the highly-anticipated NADAC pricing data, but to also foresee the need for extrapolated data on medications not yet identified by CMS and offer that data as well to provide a complete picture of the NADAC price.”

OCLC and Yelp increase visibility of libraries on the Web

OCLC, the nonprofit computer library service and research organization, is working with Yelp, the leading website and mobile app that connects consumers with great local businesses, to increase public access to local library information.

Yelp is integrating information from the database of library listings maintained through the OCLC Library Spotlight program to supplement existing library listings on Yelp.com. Information provided through OCLC has already been added to over 1,400 library listings on Yelp.com, ensuring that accurate addresses, phone numbers, hours and other information will be available in addition to information already listed on Yelp.

The OCLC Library Spotlight program offers a free, easy-to-use service with which any library can add, edit and update its own profile that will then appear on online listing sites. Yelp is the first to work with OCLC, which will incorporate more partners in the future to give libraries greater visibility on the Web. Libraries can already claim their free account and use a suite of business tools on Yelp. The Library Spotlight program improves access to online library information by providing a convenient way for Internet services to update multiple library listings at once, at scale.

“Once a library’s profile is established in the Library Spotlight program, the data can be shared with strategic partners like Yelp, driving traffic and interest to the local library,” said Chip Nilges, OCLC Vice President, Business Development. “The program enables participating libraries to benefit from OCLC’s extensive network of partnerships. It’s fast, easy and free to participate in the program. And it has the potential to literally put every library on the map.”

The Library Spotlight program also uses data from the WorldCat Registry to pre-populate information about thousands of library locations. Libraries can use the Library Spotlight program to update and enhance that information, or create a new account if none exists.

The partnership between OCLC and Yelp was first announced in April 2013. The initial feed of library data is now available on Yelp. OCLC will provide Yelp with additional profiles and updates on a regular basis.

A brief video tour of the Library Spotlight program is on YouTube.

More about the OCLC Library Spotlight program is available on the website.

ACCUCOMS to Promote ISPG in Latin America

ACCUCOMS has been a worldwide provider of sales and marketing services to academic and professional publishers since 2004 and they’ve been working with the ISPG in the Middle East for the past few years. Now libraries and researchers in Latin America will be able to access ISPG’s high-quality content of 47 journals from 20 publishers, as well as choosing from three ISPG collections: The Complete Collection, The Life Science Collection and The Medical Collection.

“ACCUCOMS has extensive experience in global sales and marketing and we’re delighted to expand our agreement with them to now include Latin America,” commented Tom Taylor, Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting President and ISPG Facilitator. “ACCUCOMS has been very successful in getting publishers and consortia together in Latin America in the past several years and we are confident they will be able to do the same for the high quality content of the ISPG journals.”

“In addition to our current ISPG work in the Middle East, we’re looking forward to now representing the Independent Scholarly Publishers Group to libraries all across Latin America,” added Simon Boisseau, Sales Director at ACCUCOMS. “We are committed to using our expertise to expand the readership of the vital ISPG resources to our extensive network of libraries, consortia groups and corporate institutions in Latin America.”

Thomson Reuters Acquires AVEDAS and Expands Its Scholarly-Research Analytics Solution

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of information for businesses and professionals, today announced it has acquired German-based AVEDAS, a company specializing in the development and implementation of current research information systems. AVEDAS will be integrated into the Scientific and Scholarly Research unit of Thomson Reuters.

AVEDAS’ flagship research information system, CONVERIS® 5, supports universities, research institutions and funding agencies in collecting and managing data across the research life cycle. CONVERIS complements the Thomson Reuters InCites solution, the company’s next generation Research Analytics platform for scholarly benchmarking and analysis, and will become part of that offering.

“The global research environment is constantly evolving, becoming more collaborative, competitive and complex,” said Gordon Macomber, managing director of Thomson Reuters Scholarly and Scientific Research. “Research analytics are essential for funders, institutions and tech-transfer partners to understand internal and external performance rankings, comparisons, benchmarks, structural roadmaps and predictive metrics. AVEDAS’ CONVERIS solution, in conjunction with the next generation InCites, will allow Thomson Reuters to provide customers with the most comprehensive and robust resource for streamlining research management workflow and ensuring decisions are informed by the best analytics available.”

AVEDAS, founded in 2005, has several research management insight modules in CONVERIS, some of which include graduate student management, pre-and-post award management, research analytics, publications management and data integration. The company has a global client base with a concentration of users in Europe. Its headquarters are in Karlsruhe, Germany, with other office locations in Leiden, Netherlands, and Hyderabad, India.

“Our goal has always been to provide a holistic picture of research activity and results, including the status of inputs from funding and outputs like patents, for example,” said Jan Maier, CEO, AVEDAS. “It is with much anticipation and pleasure that we finalize this acquisition, after having partnered with Thomson Reuters for the last several years. CONVERIS is an excellent complement to the research analytic capabilities Thomson Reuters has built and together we will provide the most complete and seamless research management workflow solution.”

Learn more about Web of Science, InCites and AVEDAS. Follow on Twitter at @TR_ScienceWatch.

McGraw-Hill Education Expands Efforts to Ensure a Fully Interoperable Future for the Education Technology Industry

Reaffirming its commitment to the industry-wide adoption of universal interoperability standards for education technology to help digital platforms and devices work together more readily, McGraw-Hill Education today announced that it has designated its Tel Aviv-area technology innovation center as its company-wide interoperability hub. The center will continue to ensure that all of the company’s current and future digital learning solutions adhere to the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) guidelines, the industry standard for edtech interoperability. A contributing member of the IMS and an advocate for open standards, McGraw-Hill Education aims to make its content open and searchable to anyone and to help make education technology more seamless and flexible for instructors and students everywhere.

Although digital education technology has become increasingly sophisticated over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of edtech tools and solutions that run only within specific operating systems and are therefore incompatible with one another. This lack of integration means that the promise of the real-time classroom – where data can instantly be processed and analyzed across students’ academic records – cannot be realized. By prescribing a set of universal protocols on which all new education technology will operate, the LTI guidelines promise to alleviate virtually every edtech compatibility concern that exists today. According to IMS Global, school technology leaders have already reported that LTI alignment routinely saves them more than 90 percent of the time that would otherwise be spent on custom software integrations.

“Interoperability allows technology to fade into the background and helps bring teaching and learning to the forefront,” said Stephen Laster, chief digital officer of McGraw-Hill Education. “Everything we know about what students and teachers want tells us that educators will almost always purchase technology from more than one company and that they want all of their educational tools to be able to work in harmony. That’s why we take interoperability so seriously.”

McGraw-Hill Education’s Tel Aviv technology center has been instrumental in the company’s interoperability work to date and will expand in the coming months, adding technology professionals from both within and outside of the education sector.

Edtech interoperability standards, once enabled industry-wide, will enable students and educators to run virtually any learning solution that they chose on any major learning management system. Further, it will ensure that all learning solutions will be capable of communicating with each other when appropriate. As the most widely accepted set of interoperability standards put forth to date, LTI promises:

  • Responsiveness to faculty and students: Instantaneous integration of a wide variety of learning tools, applications and content into the learning management system
  • Seamless single sign-on: A seamless online environment through a single sign-on learning portal for all users (teachers, student, parents, administrators), which means that all applications appear in one system
  • Exchange of outcomes data: Return of outcomes data and analytics across a wide variety of learning tools, applications, and content to the learning management system for immediate use by faculty or students
  • Ultimate community source sharing: Ability to share educational community-developed learning tools, applications, and content across vendor platforms
  • Efficiency: Every application interfaces in the same way, reducing the number of custom integrations required for product developers or IT specialists

In essence, an LTI-aligned edtech industry will afford educators near-complete technical freedom to select the digital tools that will best suit their individual needs, all while saving schools time and money that would otherwise be spent on patching infrastructural gaps.

McGraw-Hill Education has already successfully aligned many its premier digital learning solutions to the LTI guidelines. Of note is McGraw-Hill Connect, the online learning platform of choice for hundreds of colleges and universities around the country, which is now equipped to support any LTI-certified digital learning solution on the market. Additionally, McGraw-Hill Campus allows schools to integrate the company’s digital products, including Connect and McGraw-Hill LearnSmart, with any learning management system.

For more information, visit: www.mheducation.com.

Elsevier Announces Launch of Open Access Journal: Operations Research Perspectives

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of open access journal: Operations Research Perspectives.

Operations Research Perspectives is an exciting new open access journal in the field of operations research and management science. The journal is aimed at a wide audience, ranging from management scientists, industrial engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, practitioners and scientists working in the operations research field. Operations Research Perspectives will publish all kinds of material, from short communications and technical letters to full papers and case studies.

Editor-in-Chief Rubén Ruiz García of Universitat Politècnica València, Spain said,”The field of operations research is broad and in constant change and development. The availability of this open access journal from the world’s leading publisher will have a tremendous impact on the discipline, allowing authors to reach a very wide audience almost instantly. I am greatly honoured to serve as Editor-in-Chief of the journal and am fully committed to high quality open access publishing.”

Jessica Bibb, publisher for decision science journals at Elsevier, said, “We are excited to launch Operations Research Perspectives: a full open access journal, which will join Elsevier’s leading operations research journal portfolio. The journalwill focus on making fast decisions for authors, bringing together high quality papers from the field, which will be made available for all on ScienceDirect.”

Operations Research Perspectives will publish its first four issues beginning 2014.

For more information or to submit an article, go to: www.journals.elsevier.com/operations-research-perspectives – See more at: http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/elsevier-announces-launch-of-open-access-journal-operations-research-perspectives#sthash.KK49h6em.dpuf

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