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Semantico launches AccessScience from McGraw-Hill Professional

Semantico, suppliers of digital solutions for scholarly and professional publishers, is proud to announce the launch of a newly designed AccessScience platform from McGraw-Hill Professional, delivered using Semantico’s Scolaris platform.

AccessScience is one product in the family of Access digital platforms and solutions in McGraw-Hill Professional’s online portfolio serving the science, engineering, and healthcare markets. McGraw-Hill Professional and Semantico have already worked together to successfully design and deliver the award-winning AccessEngineering digital platform.

The new AccessScience platform is an authoritative and dynamic online resource. It contains incisively written, high-quality reference material that covers all major scientific disciplines. The new platform brings the study of science to life with rich, engaging contributions created by noted scientists specifically for AccessScience. The site offers links to primary research material, videos and exclusive animations, plus specially-designed curriculum maps for teachers.

The wealth of information in AccessScience 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.

The new AccessScience platform will give users access to a wide array of information and will include the very latest technologies including sophisticated search functionality, content enhancements, personalisation tools, multimedia and more.

Key features of AccessScience:

More than 8000 articles and research reviews covering all major scientific disciplines.
115,000-plus definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.
2,700-plus biographies of well-known scientific figures.
16,000-plus downloadable images and embeddable animations illustrating key topics.
Engaging videos highlighting the life and work of award-winning scientists.
Suggestions for further study and additional reading to guide users to deeper understanding and research.
Links to citable literature through DOIs helps users continue their research using primary sources of information.
Personalisation features allow users to customise pages and save articles.
Interactive citation generator saves time and effort preparing papers.
Curriculum maps linked to core content.
Mobile access via Semantico’s Roaming Passport allows easy access outside institutional IP ranges.

“We aim to bring the study of science alive for all university and advanced secondary school students, and the new AccessScience platform enables us to do just that. AccessScience will offer the best possible experience to our users and will inspire and guide them to deeper knowledge,” John Rennie, Editorial Director of Science at McGraw-Hill Professional, said.

“The launch of the redesigned AccessScience is an exciting moment for Semantico. We are thrilled that McGraw-Hill Professional invited us to work with them again, and we are very proud to add this new platform to our portfolio,” added Susan Crean, Account Manager at Semantico.

Content from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Now Searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service™

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), an agency of the Department of Commerce, is the latest content source to be added to EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). Patent attorneys, patent agents and others involved in intellectual property management will benefit from the addition of USPTO’s Patent Application Full Text and Patent Full Text to EDS.

USPTO houses full text for patents issued from 1976 to the present and PDF images for all patents from 1790 to the present. The content from USPTO includes metadata from their patent databases. Patent Application Full Text includes full-text and image versions of patent applications from March 2001 to the present. Patent Full Text includes information about patents that have already been filed or granted.

A patent grant document contains a patent number, title, inventor name, assignee, application number, filing date, prior publication date, foreign application priority data (if applicable), classification information, references cited, examiner and attorney information, abstract, specification, claims, and drawings

With the continued demand for patents by American inventors and entrepreneurs, the inclusion of the metadata to EDS will benefit many professionals. Earlier this year, EBSCO also released a new resource designed to assist those involved with the patent approval process, Non-Patent Prior Art Source™ , providing a fast, single point of access to the largest non-patent literature repository available for those conducting prior art searches.

Ex Libris’ Rosetta to ensure permanent access to research data, web sites and digital collections of the Bavarian Library Network

Ex Libris Group, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that the Bavarian Library Network (BVB) has selected Ex Libris Rosetta to provide long-term preservation services to all the academic libraries in the state. This decision extends the existing Rosetta implementation at the Bavarian State Library (BSB) to all university libraries in Bavaria.

In 2009, BSB—one of the world’s leading institutions in the area of digital preservation—formed a partnership with Ex Libris to digitize texts, images, and sound files, as well as to permanently and reliably save digital objects from websites to research data, thus ensuring their accessibility in the future. The solution was built on the Rosetta digital preservation system, and is successfully in production at BSB.

The challenge of digital preservation consists not only in dealing with different data formats and the limited shelf life and rapid changes in storage media, but also in enabling digital data and objects to remain usable in the long term: the content must be accessible, retrievable and properly interpreted. In addition, an electronic workflow of the entire process from entry to discovery of the date is necessary. Rosetta meets all these requirements. The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences is also involved in the project, since the data is stored in the Academy’s storage systems.

Bavaria is now to become the first German state to roll out digital long-term archiving state-wide: as of early 2014, use of Rosetta will be expanded step by step to the libraries of the universities and applied science institutions in the Bavarian Library Network. This will enable them to increase their range of services relating to the long-term availability of digital data. The implementation of Rosetta is supported by a special fund from the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art.

Dr Rolf Griebel, Director-General of BSB, commented: “The Rosetta digital preservation system presents the Bavarian research libraries with a tool that effectively supports all processes surrounding the long-term archiving and availability of digital data and objects. These libraries are thus enabled to provide a considerable contribution to the sustainability and excellence the many digital offerings and services within Bavaria.”

“We are delighted that Rosetta has proved a success at the BSB and that the next step is the state-wide use of the solution throughout the Bavarian Library Network,” stated Ullrich Jüngling, VP Sales Central & East Europe at Ex Libris, who added that Rosetta has become the leading long-term preservation solution in Germany.

EBSCO Information Services Named to the 2013 EContent 100

EBSCO Information Services announces that it has been named to the 2013 EContent 100 List of Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry. Selection of the companies for the EContent 100 List falls to a team of judges including editors from Information Today, Inc., EContent magazine contributing editors, and other industry experts.

“In 2013, our task was to narrow down the ever expanding list of important players in the digital content industry to a mere 100 companies that matter most, a task that is becoming harder every year,” said Theresa Cramer, editor of EContent. “Consequently, the companies that do make up our list can be sure that they are in good company—and that next year, there will be a new crop of companies biting at their heels. This is great for the industry, and exciting for those of us who cover the space. 

The EContent 100 List can be seen at www.econtentmag.com and in the December 2013 issue of EContent.

About EContent: EContent is a leading authority on the businesses of digital publishing, media, and marketing, targeting executives and decision-makers in these fast-changing markets. By covering the latest tools, strategies, and thought-leaders in the digital content ecosystem, EContent magazine and EContentmag.com keep professionals ahead of the curve in order to maximize their investment in digital content strategies while building sustainable, profitable business models. For subscription information visit econtentmag.com/Subscribe/.

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Dr. Howard E. Michel Elected 2014 IEEE President-elect

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced that Dr. Howard E. Michel, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass-Dartmouth and engineering consultant, has been elected 2014 IEEE President-elect. Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors, Michel will begin serving his one-year term on January 1, 2015, and will succeed 2014 IEEE President J. Roberto B. de Marca of Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Michel plans to focus on four key initiatives, which include providing tools and educational resources that will facilitate career security for all IEEE members worldwide, boosting local and global membership, delivering a high-quality user experience for IEEE publishing and conference businesses, and increasing prestige, recruitment and employer support for IEEE across the globe.

“My mission as president is to ultimately enhance the engineering community worldwide through first-rate offerings that help advance our members’ careers and encourage them to share their world-leading technical expertise,” said Michel. “To be successful, it will require the collaborative dedication of IEEE’s staff, its volunteers and its more than 420,000 members, who are respected experts in numerous technical areas, including consumer electronics to sustainability to driverless vehicles and beyond. I am confident that we can spark progress not only within the organization, but will also continue to benefit humanity as IEEE has done for more than 125 years.”

Michel has been an active IEEE member for more than 35 years and has held a series of leadership positions within the organization. Previously IEEE Vice-President, Member and Geographic Activities, Michel also served on the IEEE Board of Directors for four years, held the position of IEEE Region 1 director (Northeastern U.S.), and was a past chair of IEEE Public Visibility Committee. On the local level, he previously served the organization in several capacities, including Providence Section ExCom member, Central New England Council Vice-Chair and Providence Section Program Activities.

In his professional career, Michel retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1994, having served as a pilot, satellite launch director, engineer and engineering manager. Michel also successfully launched seven U.S. satellites by directing launch-base test and integration involving booster, satellite, and range hardware; and developed Department of Defense engineering processes for mission-critical computer systems. He also holds two patents and has published a textbook, 15 refereed journal papers and 70 conference papers, posters or abstracts. Currently, Michel is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass-Dartmouth, and has secured research funding from U.S. National Science Foundation and U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In addition, he is an embedded systems, avionics, instrumentation and systems engineering consultant for the Department of Defense and private industry.

Elsevier launches new open access journal – Current Plant Biology

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of a new open access journal: Current Plant Biology.

The field of fundamental plant science is increasingly becoming an interdisciplinary domain of research, now including physics, mathematics and chemistry disciplines. This trend is largely fuelled by the last decade’s technical advances and discoveries which have created new challenges, such as data storage, analysis and prediction. Current Plant Biology will publish articles that focus on this newly emerged interdisciplinary research domain.

“The development of technologies that can simultaneously measure many thousands of plant molecules has created a natural union between plant science and the physical sciences. With this union come many challenges including difficulty in finding an ideal venue for publishing results in this emerging interdisciplinary research domain,” said Editor-in-Chief, Steven P. Briggs, Ph. D., University of California San Diego. “To facilitate the growth of quantitative, interdisciplinary plant biology, together with Elsevier, we have therefore launched Current Plant Biology.”

“Apart from publishing their work open access, authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit their research datasets to an open data repository,” said Kathleen Marchal, Ph. D. of Ghent University, Associate Editor of the journal. “I strongly believe that publishing data open access is the way forward to the future in the field of molecular biology. It will allow for more complete data-interpretation and hypothesis testing and generation. In addition, being able to use meta-data will allow for developing novel research questions that could never have been tackled by individual labs.”

Emma Granqvist, publisher for Plant Sciences at Elsevier added, “Interdisciplinary research is growing in importance, and Elsevier looks forward to further develop Current Plant Biology after its launch in continued support of data sharing. This includes working together with and linking to data repositories such as TAIR. In addition to publishing standard research articles the journal welcomes new datasets, methodologies, models and tools – all contributing to an integrative approach to plant science.”

The first issue of Current Plant Biology is a Special Issue with selected papers from the Second Current Opinion Conference on Plant Genome Evolution held in September 2013 in the Netherlands.

Articles will appear online directly after acceptance and proofing. For more information or to submit an article, go to:www.journals.elsevier.com/current-plant-biology.

 

RSNA Partners with TEMIS to Deliver Smarter Content to its Global Community of Radiologists

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA®), the leading international society of radiologists, medical physicists and other medical professionals, today announced it has signed a strategic Software as a Service (SaaS) agreement with TEMIS, the provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions who received the 2013 CODiE Award for Best Semantic Solution with Luxid®.

RSNA hosts the world’s premier radiology forum, drawing over 55,000 attendees annually to McCormick Place in Chicago, and publishes two flagship peer-reviewed journals: Radiology, the highest-impact scientific journal in the field, and RadioGraphics, the only journal dedicated to continuing education in radiology.

RSNA will use Luxid® Content Enrichment Platform to provide its 53,000 members with an enhanced search and navigation experience within and across its Journal, Education and Scientific content.

“Among RSNA’s goals for semantic enrichment of its content through Luxid® are the application of our lexicon, RadLex, and surfacing additional related content from all RSNA resources to journal users,” said Roberta Arnold, Assistant Executive Director for Publications & Communications, RSNA.

Specifically, RSNA will embed Luxid® within its Atypon Literatum ePublishing platform to power automated tagging, categorization and linking of its Journal content. RSNA will also deploy Luxid® on the myRSNA knowledge portal that hosts a broad variety of content including journals, education and certification materials, as well as conference proceedings. TEMIS will produce rich metadata on RSNA content assets by leveraging its off-the-shelf extraction components as well as RSNA’s own taxonomy, RadLex.

“TEMIS is proud to welcome RSNA in its growing community of customers,” said Guillaume Mazieres, Executive Vice President, North America and Worldwide Publishing, TEMIS. “The combination of RSNA’s high-quality content assets with our semantic enrichment capabilities will help them deliver more targeted and contextual content to their members.”

Based on patented and award-winning natural language processing technologies, Luxid® Content Enrichment Platform meets the needs of organizations to better structure, manage and exploit their unstructured content. Luxid® includes domain-specific extractors called Skill Cartridges® to extract relevant information from unstructured text and semantically enrich it with metadata that reveals its content. This enables Publishers to efficiently package and deliver differentiated and compelling information products to their audience, and helps Enterprises to intelligently archive, manage, analyze, discover and share increasing volumes of information.

Roger Brisson joins Ex Libris as Strategy Director Europe

Ex Libris Group®, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that Roger Brisson has been appointed Strategy Director for Ex Libris Europe. As the former head of Metadata Services at Boston University, which has run Ex Libris Alma for the past year, Mr Brisson brings with him a wealth of real-world knowledge of academic libraries and their evolving needs.
“Roger’s experience as a working research librarian, together with his knowledge and his wide professional network, will help him to guide librarians and to be their voice within Ex Libris,” commented Koby Rosenthal, corporate VP and general manager of Ex Libris Europe. “Roger will be an asset to Ex Libris in shaping a long-term strategy for the next generation of unified resource discovery and management solutions that enrich the working lives of librarians, researchers, faculty members and students.”
“Roger will work closely with libraries so that both they and Ex Libris are responding to the opportunities and challenges that contemporary libraries are facing,” added Mr Rosenthal.
Mr Brisson’s broad experience of the library industry includes expertise in building next generation libraries, development of digital and metadata systems and in addressing the strategic challenges that libraries face. Prior to his role at Boston University, he served in senior positions at Harvard and Penn State Universities. Mr. Brisson is well-known for his work on several national and international working groups as well as his active involvement in the development of the Dublin Core standard and in the translation of the AACR2 Cataloguing rules into German.
Mr Brisson will be based at the Ex Libris offices in Hamburg. Having studied and taught in Germany for a number of years, Mr Brisson speaks German fluently and is familiar with the requirements of the European market.
“I am delighted to be joining one of the leading global library software companies,” stated Mr Brisson. “I am looking forward to supporting Ex Libris and our customers as they adapt to new challenges and opportunities. Primo has long been a powerful discovery tool. Now Alma represents a major leap in library management systems. Together they provide libraries with a powerful platform that enables them to focus on developing innovative services for their patrons.”

Saudi Digital Library and Nature Publishing Group sign agreement

The Saudi Digital Library (SDL), part of The Saudi Ministry of Higher Education, has signed a major agreement with Nature Publishing Group (NPG). Thirty Saudi Arabian universities, members of the Saudi Digital Library Consortium, will have access to all journals on nature.com until 31st of December 2014, including six years of archive content. NPG’s journals include the prestigious Nature and the Nature research and review journals, some of the world’s leading scientific journals. Thanks to the agreement between SDL and NPG, over one million students, researchers and scientists in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) will have access to these journals.

Investments in infrastructure like SDL are part of KSA’s drive to become a knowledge economy by 2022. In 2013, KSA will spend about a quarter of its federal budget on education and research infrastructure, allocating $54.4 billion (SR204 billion) to education and training. “By 2026, KSA intends to be spending 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) on research”, Dr. Musaid Al Tayyar Head of the Saudi Digital Library. This percentage is comparable to research-intensive countries like the United States and United Kingdom.

Launched in November 2010, the SDL holds more than 260000 e-Books and reference works, covering all academic disciplines. It is also a Digital Consortium for all the Saudi Universities and provides them with a rich digital platform for research.

“SDL provides researchers and students with an invaluable collection of research resources,” said Dean Sanderson, Commercial Director, Nature Publishing Group. “We are delighted that Nature Publishing Group journals are now part of SDL’s information provision for universities in Saudi Arabia, and proud to play our part in these ambitious plans for science and education infrastructure.”

NPG is committed to working with institutions in the Middle East region to help build research capability and promote scientific excellence. In the last few years, NPG launched Nature Middle East(www.nature.com/naturemiddleeast) and Nature Arabic Edition (arabicedition.nature.com). Nature Middle East showcases scientific and medical research from the Arabic-speaking Middle East region and is continuously updated with articles in English and Arabic. Nature Arabic Edition is a translated digest of Nature, the 144 year old prestigious scientific magazine.

Elsevier in deal with Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University to expand access to scientific publications

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today it has reached an agreement with Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) to grant access to ScienceDirect’s Journal Backfile Collection and  e-Book Collection as well as Reaxys® to its researchers. In addition, Elsevier will host two of FEFU’s open access journals on ScienceDirect.

FEFU plays a key role in the Russian government’s objective to strengthen the economic position of the Russian Far East region. FEFU contributes to this objective by providing its researchers with access to Elsevier’s historical journal content (prior to 1995), e-Books and Reaxys, a workflow solution for chemistry researchers, aiming to increase scientific output to become a research hub for the Far East region in Russia and adjacent countries. By also committing to publishing two of FEFU’s journals on ScienceDirect through its Production & Hosting (P&H) program, Elsevier aims to help to increase the university’s scholarly influence in the global scientific landscape.

Dr. Sergey V. Dubovitskiy, FEFU’s Vice President for Strategic Development said, “Building and supporting innovation and research development is impossible without new tools and resources that connect our researchers to global scientific content. By providing expanded access to high quality scholarly information and publishing our own journals online on ScienceDirect, we aim to open doors for new discoveries and international collaboration. With Elsevier’s support we hope to reach excellent results.”

Igor Osipov, PhD, Regional Director at Elsevier Russia and Belarus added, “We are pleased to continue our collaboration with FEFU which started in 2012 with initial access to ScienceDirect (content from 1995) and Scopus. Today’s agreement marks our first Production & Hosting agreement in Russia. We are confident that publishing FEFU’s journals on ScienceDirect and providing expanded access to scientific content from ScienceDirect and Reaxys will strenghten FEFU’s reputation in the international scientific community.” – See more at: http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/science-and-technology/russias-far-eastern-federal-university-selects-elsevier-solutions-to-expand-access-to-scientific-publications#sthash.trX4k5do.dpuf

Charles M. Lieber receives the first Nano Research Award

The first Nano Research Award will be given to Charles M. Lieber, one of the world’s leading scientists in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The award, which is presented for the first time this year, is sponsored by Tsinghua University Press (TUP) and Springer and is accompanied by US $10,000. Prof. Lieber has been invited to give a keynote speech at the 2014 Sino-US Nano Forum in Tianjin, China.

Charles Lieber receives the award in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to nanoscale science and technology. His seminal contributions on the rational growth, characterization and applications of a broad range of nanometer diameter wires and heterostructures has defined a new paradigm of nanoscience, and is producing profound impact on diverse technological areas ranging from computing, communications, optoelectronics and energy science to biology and medicine.

Charles Lieber is the Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. He serves on the editorial and advisory boards of many science and technology journals. With over 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 35 patents, his pioneering work has had a defining influence on the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.  His publications have been cited more than 70,000 times, his top ten papers have been cited more than 21,000 times, and his h-index (impact factor) is 121. Based on his citation impact scores, Lieber was ranked #1 in chemistry for the decade 2000-2010 by Thomson Reuters. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Materials Research Society and American Chemical Society (Inaugural Class), Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society and a member of numerous other societies.

The editorial board of the journal Nano Research, along with TUP and Springer, has established the annual Nano Research Award in order to recognize outstanding contributions to nano research by an individual scientist. The winner’s name and work will be featured in Nano Research and other media by Tsinghua University Press and Springer. The winner is also invited to publish a feature article on his or her award-winning topic in Nano Research.

Nano Research is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research journal launched by TUP and Springer in 2008. The journal offers a rapid publication route for comprehensive reviews as well as original research communications or full papers on all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

New advanced network to inspire a future of innovation in research and education

Jisc is today set to increase the country’s global competitiveness by launching one of the world’s most advanced computer networks: Janet6.

This advanced network has been designed to address future demands for high capacity connectivity, enabling vast amounts of data to be exchanged in seconds. Designed specifically for research and education, Janet6 is highly scalable up to 8.8 terabits of capacity and uses state-of-the-art 100 gigabit ethernet technology. Janet6 provides excellent bandwidth and a flexible infrastructure, enabling the UK’s research, higher education, further education and skills sectors to collaborate and compete on a global scale.

Martyn Harrow, chief executive of Jisc said:

“We are delighted to have been entrusted with this investment, to develop and launch Janet6. We are certainly very proud of the Janet team who have made it happen; implementing this substantial project within budget and on time.

Our core mission is to advance and support the use of digital technologies in UK research and education for advantage. This leading edge network infrastructure, delivered so smoothly by the Janet team, is a fundamental component in achieving this and will unlock new levels of ambition and collaboration on a national and international level.”

Tim Marshall, the executive director responsible for Jisc technology and infrastructure including Janet and the Janet6 programme, said of the network launch:

“The needs of the research and education communities are constantly evolving and we are developing flexible network architecture able to respond not just to these but to future needs. Major developments in bio-medical research and climate science have been made possible over the lifetime of the current network SuperJanet5. The power, capacity and flexibility of Janet6 will further stimulate and support the exploration that ensures the UK remains at the forefront of global innovation.”

Professor Robin Baker OBE, CEO of Ravensbourne, the university sector college specialising in digital media and design, cites the strength of the network as a unique benefit:

“The Janet network has helped us deliver unique projects using high-performance technology, which we specialise in at Ravensbourne. Our recent partnership with the RSC saw a live performance of Richard II followed by a live Q&A with David Tennant streamed to schools across the country.

We’re planning similar projects with other cultural institutions, along with hosting the annual Mozilla Festival for the third year in a row next year, and we’re now planning virtual open days as online events for people who want to see Ravensbourne but aren’t able to visit, which gives us a greater reach and contributed to a 17 per cent rise in applications last year.

Some of these projects simply wouldn’t be possible without such a sophisticated network. With the Janet backbone there could be a thousand users at the same time all downloading data and it’s more than robust enough to cope, which makes it an incredibly valuable asset.”

Replacing the current SuperJanet5 backbone, the Janet6 architecture will facilitate further development of the UK’s knowledge economy.

The current Janet network has been critical to landmark scientific projects such as the ‘Upscale’ climate simulations, which required petabytes of data to be moved from supercomputers in mainland Europe to sites in the UK, including the Met Office. Mathematical models and high-resolution data captured form Earth observations from space are used to glean important information on sea surface temperature and cloud cover, which provides valuable insights into climate trends that are needed to inform policy decisions.

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) use the infrastructure to share research data from DNA sequencing and other high-throughput methods. Ewan Birney, associate director of EMBL-EBI, says:

“The Janet network is crucial to what we do. The exchange of data supports scientific research and innovation throughout the world and this requires good connectivity, low latency and high bandwidth; exactly what Janet6 provides. This supports the discovery of new drugs, therapies, diagnostics and new ways to track biodiversity. The people we work with want the best datasets on demand, at the right time and Janet6 makes this possible.”

The official ‘switch over’ to the Janet6 network will take place on 26 November 2013. The new infrastructure will help businesses that connect UK education institutions to one another, super-computing facilities and global research and education networks, unlocking the potential for a greater number of collaborative research projects.

The Janet6 project was brought to successful fruition in partnership with a number of organisations. The key partners included: SSE Telecoms for the underlying fibre for the network; Ciena for the optical processors to light the fibre; Juniper Networks, who provided the high-performance routing and switching technology to create the network, and its deployment partner Imtech.

Janet6 has been developed in the context of the government’s Public Services Network with funding from the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and managed through the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).

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