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Serials Solutions® Intota™ Assessment Now Available

Intota™ Assessment, a best in class library collection analytics service from Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, is now available. It is the most comprehensive assessment solution that gives libraries a holistic view of both monographs and serials in both electronic and print format, enabling data-driven decisions regarding collection development. Intota Assessment is also the first production service of Intota™, a new cloud-based library services platform (LSP).

Developed for comprehensive assessment of today’s collections, Intota Assessment is a robust suite of business intelligence tools that makes it possible for library staff to focus on higher value services to their patrons. Using the library’s historic circulation data, as well as qualitative data such as Books in Print®, Intota Assessment provides evidence data regarding usage to make better collection decisions.

“Intota Assessment knocks down the data silos,” stated Tim Bowersox, access services librarian, SUNY Geneseo, development partner for Intota. “Data that has traditionally been housed in separate silos is available on a single screen. We now have the ability to evaluate usage based on a number of critical data points – but it’s presented in a way that makes evaluation and de-selection much simpler and more accurate.”

Libraries can now analyze their entire collection using one solution. The service offers dozens of reports with multiple views of the data, including Cost per Use (CPU), cost by subject and peer analysis. Overlap and gap analysis for both print and electronic resources enable “smart weeding.” Libraries can now acquire, renew or deselect resources more efficiently while making more informed collection decisions.

“The graphic capabilities are easy to use and very meaningful,” said Kathryn Silberger, senior librarian, digital content services, Marist College, development partner for Intota. “They help visualize trends and new developments in a way that is easy to share with stakeholders outside the library.”

During development of the service, the company gained powerful insight from the Intota Development Partners. Features and functionality by design address the challenges libraries face extracting data from the ILS and other disparate systems. Pre-filtered accreditation reports are one example of the efficiency gained with the service. What used to take hours to complete is available in minutes.

“The expertise our development partners bring forward is highly valued and they are an exquisite resource helping us make a comprehensive assessment solution a reality,” said Matthew Brine, vice president and general manager, Serials Solutions.

A series of educational webinars about evidence-based assessment is scheduled to illustrate the comprehensive benefits of Intota Assessment.

Wiley Wins IT Project Team of the Year at the UK IT Industry Awards 2013

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is pleased to learn that Wiley colleagues are the recipients of the IT Project Team of the Year Award in the Organisational Excellence Awards category of the UK IT Industry Awards 2013. Organised by Computing and the BCS – the Chartered Institute for IT – the Awards are an annual celebration of the very best IT professionals working in the UK, and are seen as the benchmark for outstanding performance throughout the UK computer industry. This year’s award ceremony, held at the Battersea Park Events Arena, featured 25 categories which covered project, organisation, technology, and individual excellence.

The Award was presented by comedian Jimmy Carr and Paul Harvey of Computing to Wiley’s Freddie Quek, Director of Engineering – Strategic Initiatives, who led the winning team made up of 53 colleagues across 11 offices in 5 countries. The prize was awarded for the successful transition of the American Geophysical Union’s 22 journals and over 550 books to Wiley Online Library, including over one and a half million pages of legacy content and 37,000 alert subscribers. The award entries were judged on professionalism, successful use of IT, excellence and innovation.

David Clarke, MBE, Group Chief Executive Officer of BCS said: “Congratulations to all the winners and those who were highly commended in the 2013 awards. The Awards recognise the professionalism and innovation that exists in IT. The quality of applications we received this year was excellent, but the winners stood out as exceptional and inspiring, and should be very proud of their success.”

“Although this was a technology project, the success was down to Wiley colleagues with a ‘can do’ attitude and achieved through strong business and technology collaboration” said David Aldea, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Global Research, Wiley. “The project itself became a model of inter-departmental co-operation and teamwork by virtue of the sheer effort and immense capability of the various teams in meeting this challenging assignment.”

Thomson Reuters and Imperial College Celebrate Open Innovation in Big Data

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the winners of the Thomson Reuters Award for Innovation in Big Data, part of an ongoing collaboration with The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine of London to drive scientific innovation and research in the life sciences. This collaboration was designed to explore innovative new technologies to better manage and interpret the volume and diversity of data generated in pharmaceutical and clinical research environments, while providing Imperial College students with real-world experience as they contribute to Thomson Reuters driving innovation. The award was presented to the students who demonstrated the best technical applications, specifically related to data modeling and integration, visualization, and analytics.

The award, presented on November 13 at the Thomson Reuters Hatton Garden office in London, was given to four Imperial College Masters students: Panagiotis Tzirakis, Michal Bachman, Bernardo Lemos Caldas and Paul Williams for their significant contributions to projects focused on data integration, analytics, visual integration, linked data, algorithms, machine learning and text mining. The winners received £500 each and were chosen from among 167 students.

“Our ongoing relationship with Thomson Reuters Life Sciences division has proven to be mutually beneficial,” said William Knottenbelt, director for Imperial College. “Our students gain valuable insight and experience into cutting-edge research through their placements with Thomson Reuters, while also offering fresh perspectives and ideas to provide innovative solutions to stakeholders in the life science industry.”

“We are pleased to be working with Imperial College and supporting future generations of computer and data scientists,” said Jon Brett-Harris, managing director of Thomson Reuters Life Sciences. “These Awards are recognition of the innovative work these students are doing to help develop new technologies that integrate and interpret the large volumes of data generated in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.”

The Thomson Reuters Award for Innovation in Big Data is part of the company’s continued efforts to drive innovation for better managing Big Data in life sciences, specifically by converting large amounts of content or data into meaningful and accessible Little Data. To learn more about this approach, download the whitepaper, Big Data and the Needs of the Pharma Industry.

Elsevier Announces the Launch of Two New Open Access Cardiology Journals

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of two new open access journals in its cardiology journals series: International Journal of Cardiology-Heart & Vessels and International Journal of Cardiology-Metabolic & Endocrine.

Heart disease is the leading cause of deaths worldwide, with nearly 600,000 deaths in the US alone in 2011, according to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Both new journals will publish essential research in the field of cardiology open access, enabling the latest research to be freely available worldwide.

“With 12.9 million deaths from ischaemic heart disease and stroke in 2010, representing a quarter of total deaths*, considerable research is taking place to diagnose and treat this condition, and others such as hypertension and thrombosis,” said Prof. Michael Henein, Umeå Heart Centre, Sweden, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cardiology (IJC): Heart & Vessels.

“The new journal will be the natural home for this field of research, publishing articles and reviews on structural and functional cardiovascular pathology, with an emphasis on cardiovascular imaging, disease pathophysiology and management,” Prof. Henein continued. “I am honored to be appointed Editor-in-Chief of this journal and would like to invite researchers in these fields to submit their best papers for consideration.”

Prof. Giuseppe Rosano, of the IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Italy, will serve as Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Cardiology (IJC): Metabolic & Endocrinewhich will be devoted to cardiovascular medicine in general and to the interplay between the cardiovascular system metabolism and hormones in particular. The journal  will also publish articles reporting the effect of clinical trials and therapeutic interventions affecting the metabolic and/or hormonal influences on the cardiovascular system.

“The journal will have a specific focus on the cardiovascular effects of diseases with mixed metabolic and endocrine pathophysiology, such as arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus. It will serve the interests of both practising clinicians and researchers,” specified Prof. Rosano.

“We are delighted to support this important and ever-expanding research field with the launch of two new titles in our International Journal of Cardiology series”, added Tamara Lucas, Publisher at Elsevier.

The first open access issues of both journals have been published and are now freely available on ScienceDirect, visit: IJC Heart & Vessels;IJC Metabolic & Endocrine.

For more information or to submit an article, visit www.elsevier.com/locate/ijchv; www.elsevier.com/locate/ijcme

*Lozano, R. Global Burden of Disease study in 2010, The Lancet, Vol. 380, Issue 9859, Pages 2095-2128, 15 December 2012.

PeerJ Announces Free Publications Through End-2013

PeerJ (an open access publisher of scholarly articles in the biological, life & medical sciences, accessible at http://peerj.com) announced that authors can now publish their work in PeerJ, entirely for free, through end-2013.

PeerJ has allowed free submissions twice in the last year, and each time the response from authors has been strong. This demand has demonstrated that despite PeerJ’s low-cost publishing model, there is still a large community for whom price is a consideration when considering where to publish their work

Although PeerJ has already published the work of over one thousand authors, it is a fact that the majority of academics have not yet experienced the benefits of publishing at PeerJ (an integrated system which includes a preprint server, sophisticated Q&A functionality, rich personal profiles, and a formal peer-reviewed journal). Therefore, in keeping with their Mission to provide a cost-effective publication venue for all authors, PeerJ is announcing an extended period of ‘free publication’ so that as many researchers as possible can experience their end-to-end publishing process.

As a result, from now until the end of the year, any article which is submitted to PeerJ PrePrints can go on to be published in PeerJ (the journal) entirely for free (assuming it passes peer review and assuming the PeerJ submission process is initiated in that period).

As the Open Access movement celebrates the 10 year anniversary of the Berlin Declaration (a seminal moment in the history of open access) it is the hope of PeerJ that as many authors as possible can now experience, first-hand, what open access publishing has evolved into!

Emerald supports Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 with access to key research

To celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, 18-24 November 2013, Emerald Group Publishing is providing free online access to a collection of articles, case studies and book chapters, which have been selected to support young and aspiring entrepreneurs to “Take a Step Forward”– the theme of this year’s event.  This content will be available from the 18-24 November by visiting www.emeraldinsight.com/tk/gew2013

Each year, Global Entrepreneurship Week encourages people to think about starting up their own business, providing practical skills and support for aspiring entrepreneurs.  With this year’s theme to encourage current and aspiring entrepreneurs to take a step forward in their plans – whether that’s starting a business, seizing a new opportunity or finding out more about careers in enterprise, Emerald is providing free access to recent articles from their enterprise and innovation portfolio.

With articles taken from, amongst others, the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Social Enterprise Journal and the Journal of Enterprising Communities, the articles cover a range of topics, including entrepreneurship education, business start ups during a recession and inspiring case studies including the “big society” project Incredible Edible.

Emerald is also offering the chance to win a copy of their recently published book “Entrepreneurial Marketing” which encapsulates the latest developments in this rapidly evolving area of entrepreneurship.  To enter, please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/tk/gew2013

As a publisher, Emerald is committed to demonstrating the real-world, practical application of the content it publishes, and is proud to support initiatives such as Global Entrepreneurship Week, which currently connects six continents and more than 130 countries and involves over 11 million people.  For more information about Global Entrepreneurship Week, visit http://www.unleashingideas.org/

Primo Central Index now features metadata from e-books and e-journals published by De Gruyter

Immediately all the metadata of e-books and e-journals by De Gruyter, its imprints and publishers are partners in the discovery service of Ex Libris Primo Central Index added. The Primo Central Index is one of the most comprehensive indexes, which enables users to search the global and regional e-content in the library context.

“The inclusion of the De Gruyter metadata in the index makes the contents of chapter and article level just as visible as books,” says Ben Ashcroft , Sales Director at De Gruyter. “By expanding the scope of the indexing search, we help scientists in their research, with high accuracy to find it.”

The Primo Central Index offers one of the largest and most diverse instruments for developing quality content. It facilitates both libraries and their users to work process. The information is held by a weekly update on the latest.

Swets appoints Ted van Dongen as Chief Technology Officer

Swets is pleased to announce the appointment of Ted van Dongen as its new Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Ted will be responsible for both IT and product development within the company.

Ted brings a strong IT background in the publishing sector and extensive product development experience; with a strong understanding of the service offerings and go-to-market requirements of media companies. His career spans over 20 years of experience in companies such as Telegraaf Media Netherlands, PCM and Veronica Publishing. Most recently he worked as program director for product development at Ziggo, the Netherlands’ largest cable operator providing cable television (digital and analogue), Internet and telephone services. Here he was responsible for product development for their business to business Voice services. In the same period, he took up an interim CTO job at online platform Workspot.nl.

“Ted brings the strong leadership required for us to accelerate our movement towards being a truly digital business. He has extensive experience in product development in the media industry and will prove to be a great asset to our team, I’m sure,” said David Main, CEO at Swets. “I am sure that Ted can really help us build our digital and data capabilities and services at an increased pace going forward”.

Ted comments, “Every company, but in particular companies in the media industry, is facing the same challenges: business models are rapidly and continuously changing, new competitors come from unexpected directions and business risks. I am confident that I can assist Swets in realizing their compelling digital strategy and continuously adapt to changes in the research and technology landscape. I’m delighted to be joining Swets and look forward to accelerating our success.”

Reprints Desk announces release date for next version of Article Galaxy

Reprints Desk, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Research Solutions, Inc. (RSSS), today announced January 2014 as the release date for the next major version of the award-winning Article Galaxy document delivery management system.  Research-driven corporations, academic institutions, and government organizations use document delivery as a legal method for retrieving single copies of full-text papers from scholarly peer-reviewed journals when subscriptions do not exist.

“The next Article Galaxy release should drive even closer engagement with our client administrators and includes infrastructure that will serve as our foundation to deliver Reprints Desk customers with many new innovations over the coming year,” said Peter Derycz, President and Chief Executive Officer at Reprints Desk. “It will also deliver enhancements tailored to meet the needs of new customers – from law libraries and information centers that mediate document delivery to biotech start-ups and other small businesses where end users may not have a corporate library to simplify fast and easy literature retrieval.”

First launched in February 2012, the next version of Article Galaxy is designed to deliver many customer benefits:

  • Enhanced researcher efficiency through system infrastructure enhancements and leveraging of digital object identifiers (DOIs) throughout the document delivery workflow
  • Better support for the specific needs of customers in the legal and small-to-midsized markets through new service configuration options such as concierge support, batch delivery, after hours production scheduling, and transaction-level credit card payment capabilities.
  • Greater administrator insights through a re-designed administrator interface that shows active and available account features, provides easy access to view release notes and submit product feedback, and facilitates quick navigation to any needed documentation.
  • Expanded delivery and data capture configuration options in support of regulatory (Sunshine Act) compliance related to the distribution of medical reprints for Pharmaceutical and other Life Science customers.

Article Galaxy was named KMWorld Magazine’s list of trend-setting knowledge management products in 2012. Reprints Desk has held lone honors as the top-rated document delivery supplier in every document delivery market research survey conducted by information analyst and advisory firm Outsell, Inc., since 2008. Reprints Desk was founded by Peter Derycz, a pioneer in the document delivery business since 1987 when he originally founded Infotrieve, Inc.

For more information about Reprints Desk, visit www.reprintsdesk.com.

ALA launches Policy Revolution! initiative for libraries

The American Library Association (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) will immediately begin work on a national public policy agenda and action plan for U.S. libraries with support from a new grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Nearly $1 million in funding over three years will enable the ALA to increase library visibility and build capacity for sustained action on the national level.

“In a time of dramatic technological advances and increasing competition for federal resources, the U.S. library community needs more aggressive policy engagement at the national level,” said ALA President Barbara Stripling. “This strategic funding support will enable the ALA Washington Office to expand engagement with key decision makers around a targeted set of policy priorities.”

The telecommunications, information technology, and content industry interest groups in Washington, D.C., are large and influential in federal policymaking. Advancing library and information policy objectives in this crowded and competitive field has been the founding purpose and driving force behind OITP. In recent years, ALA OITP has led library efforts to sustain and expand federal E-rate support for libraries, coordinated successful engagement with publishing stakeholders to expand library e-book lending, advocated for fair use, coordinated national digital literacy efforts with federal agencies, and worked to maximize library participation in the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.

The three-year initiative includes three major components: establishing policy priorities, engaging decision makers and influencers to advance policy goals, and upgrading ALA policy advocacy practice and capabilities for long-term sustainability. An important activity under this capacity-building umbrella is training a cadre of library policy advocates to supplement ALA staff capacity.

“Library roles and demands are evolving, so our national policy needs also require critical review and realignment so that libraries may continue to provide effective public access to information for all,” said OITP Director Alan S. Inouye.

A public policy advisory council will provide advice and reach into the diverse communities of interest inside the Washington Beltway. “Developing our collaborations with other policy players is critical for increasing our ability to advance library interests. The library world is changing, and library interests are everywhere—more than ever!” Inouye added.

Alan Fishel, a partner at the D.C.-based law firm Arent Fox, and others at the firm, will provide strategic advice and capacity, along with other policy and communications consultants.

ALA will coordinate closely on all of the major activities with the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), which includes seeking federal-state policy linkages. An advisory committee will provide advice from the library community broadly. Close communication and collaboration will be a priority to ensure that the U.S. library community speaks with a unified voice as much as possible.

“The speed of change related to technology and related policy dimensions is breathtaking,” said COSLA President Ann Joslin. “Libraries—and the communities that depend on us—need to be proactive and strategic in advocating for equitable access to electronic resources. I thank the Gates Foundation for supporting libraries in moving swiftly and boldly to meet this challenge.”

Elsevier announces new OA journal, BBA Clinical

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of BBA Clinical, the first full open access journal within the Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) journalseries. BBA Clinical will focus on translating molecular insights into clinical research.

BBA Clinical is a biomedical journal dedicated to publishing research on the molecular basis of human diseases, as well as presenting findings from clinical trials that target biochemical pathways and processes. All articles in BBA Clinical describe, in part or entirely, studies using human patient samples or human cohorts. Clinical areas of particular interest include aging, cancer, cardiovascular-, metabolic-, neurological-, and immunological diseases; the interactions that may occur among these different diseases and conditions; and studies that examine their early or pre-symptomatic states. Cross-sectional and prospective studies from well-established cohorts, and studies involving imaging methodologies, are particularly encouraged for submission.

“The journal provides a new forum for insights concerning the biochemical mechanisms related to diagnosis, progression, and treatment of a wide range of human diseases,” said BBA Clinical Executive Editor,Jeffrey N. Keller from Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “BBA Clinical will offer not just a useful forum for clinical research today, but it is designed to be a prominent contributor to the larger overall body of clinical advancements far into the future.”

“We are very excited about the launch of BBA Clinical,” added Dolors Alsina, Executive Publisher at Elsevier. “The journal will build on our long standing track record as one of the leading international journals focusing on molecular aspects in biology and medicine and will break new ground as the clinical complement to BBA Molecular Basis of Disease.”

For more information or to submit an article, go to www.elsevier.com/journals/bba-clinical

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory launches bioRxiv, a freely accessible, citable preprint server for biology

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today announced the launch of a new stage in the evolution of life science communication — a new, free service, called bioRxiv (pronounced “bio-Archive”). It is a preprint server that enables research scientists to share the results of their work before peer review and publication in a journal. Posting to the server and reading its contents costs nothing. Each paper is given a citable web address and is indexed by internet search engines. The best part: from submission to posting takes only hours.

Journals remain the arbiters of quality and reliability in the publication of research results. In addition to editorial selection, journals provide peer review, a process in which a paper must pass critical scrutiny by experts and perhaps be revised before being accepted for publication. But peer review comes at a cost: it may take many months for a manuscript to go from submission to publication. With current biology moving ahead at a phenomenal pace, both scientists and the public are left wondering: how much is progress slowed during the review period?

The lag between the submission of a manuscript to a journal and its eventual publication can be particularly frustrating for new and early-career scientists, whose future employment and funding depend on the availability of their work for scrutiny and assessment soon after they get their first research grants.

BioRxiv bridges the gap between cutting-edge discoveries and traditional publication. How does it work? It is modeled after arXiv, a well-established service provided by Cornell University for the physics research community. To post to bioRxiv, an investigator submits an unpublished manuscript through a web portal; bioRxiv accepts submissions from all areas of the life sciences. The manuscript is then passed on to scientists who have agreed to be bioRxiv affiliates. If a paper is deemed legitimate science, it is published on the bioRxiv website where it is freely available to read.

Such preprints are therefore not peer reviewed in the traditional sense – in essence the bioRxiv is a distribution service for manuscripts, not a journal. Instead of traditional peer review, scientists have the opportunity to discuss the merits and weaknesses of a manuscript through web-based, moderated comments or by direct interaction with the author. “Scientists bring skepticism and a critical eye to any form of communication, whether or not it has been formally peer reviewed” points out Dr. John Inglis, Executive Director and Publisher of CSHL Press, one of CSHL’s five education divisions.

“Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has been an important, not-for-profit center for communication among scientists since the 1930’s” says Inglis. “BioRxiv is the latest step in its evolution, built on the ever-growing importance of digital technologies in all aspects of information transfer.

“We have established BioRxiv in response to an evident desire among many scientists for more collaboration and openness in their work, with the goal of accelerating the pace of discovery in biological science. We look forward to seeing what the community will do with bioRxiv’s capabilities and working with them to improve it.”

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