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ALPSP announces new partnership with The London Book Fair for The Faculty@LBF

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is delighted to announce we are to be the official partner of The Faculty@LBF, announced by LBF today.  The Faculty@LBF is a brand new academic theatre for 2014 that will feature in LBF’s Academic & Scholarly zone, located on the show floor.

As changes in scholarly, academic and professional publishing continue apace, The Faculty@LBF will provide a forum for the academic community to share and discuss issues relevant to the sector, through a programme of session topics covering academic, scientific and professional themes.  As curation partners, ALPSP will create a total of four sessions, with additional sessions co-ordinated across the wider book fair content programme by LBF, The PA,  associations, partners and LBF exhibitors.  Networking slots are planned to run at the end of each day.

ALPSP raised the profile of members in 2013 with a branded pavilion, specialist seminar and sponsored drinks reception. This new partnership builds on this work and will provide other member benefits, to be announced over the next few weeks.

Suzanne Kavanagh, ‎Director of Marketing and Membership Services at ALPSP, said: “We are delighted to partner with LBF to bring the expertise of the ALPSP network to the fore through ‘The Faculty’ programme. We believe The London Book Fair is an ideal forum to meet and discuss ways to adapt to these challenges with partners throughout the supply chain.”

Jacks Thomas, Director, The London Book Fair, commented: “The academic, STM and professional sector is at the forefront of the industry’s ongoing digital revolution and I hope exhibitors will use The Faculty@LBF to share their experiences, ideas and products with industry colleagues.  We are delighted to be working with our partners on this development within LBF.”

The Faculty@LBF will be situated in the Academic/STM/Professional zone, situated in Earls Court 1 and will also be fully supported by LBF strategic partners, The Publishers Association (The PA). ALPSP members will receive a discounted Fair entrance, which will be communicated once registration goes live.

Thomson Reuters Collaborates with Australian National Data Service to Raise the Profile of Research Data

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced a collaboration with Australian National Data Service (ANDS) to aid in the discovery of global data sets. The collaboration connects researchers to data repositories through the Data Citation IndexSM, a single-point solution providing access to quality research data sets from multi-disciplinary repositories around the world.

ANDS is one of a growing number of institutions included in the Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index. The collaboration ensures that Australian research is discoverable, properly attributed and reusable by other researchers. The influx of data from Australia also provides a wealth of new content that can be cited and furthered by researchers around the world.

“Research data is increasingly seen as a valuable output of research, but current publication and acknowledgement systems don’t cope well with this new paradigm,” said Adrian Burton, director of Services for ANDS. “The Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index brings research data to the heart of global scholarly information systems, and as data citation use grows, the Data Citation Index is well placed to track its impact and further use. We are excited about the collaboration with Thomson Reuters and the transformative role services like this can play in the era of data citation and data intensive research.”

Since creating the Data Citation Index, Thomson Reuters has worked closely with global industry leaders to capture bibliographic records and cited references for digital research, promoting the accurate identification, attribution and measurement of this growing body of scholarship. The Data Citation Index allows users to gain a comprehensive view of the genesis of research projects and influence the future paths they may take, while minimizing the duplication of work and speeding the scientific research process. Through linked content and summary information, this data is displayed within the broader context of the scholarly research ecosystem, enabling users to gain perspective that otherwise would be lost if viewed in isolation.

“Global scientific and scholarly research output is accelerating,” said Gordon Macomber, managing director, Thomson Reuters Scholarly and Scientific Research business.  “We are pleased to work with the Australian National Data Service to provide researchers with a view into Australia’s significant research output. ANDS’ support of the Data Citation Index is further testimony of how critical it is to identify prior research to enhance the scientific process.”

Currently, the Data Citation Index contains approximately 3.5 million data records from nearly 130 repositories. Learn more about the Data Citation Index.

Frontiers launches two new open-access journals: Frontiers in Earth Science and Frontiers in Environmental Science

Frontiers announces today the launch of two new open-access journals: Frontiers in Earth Science and Frontiers in Environmental Science. An innovative open-access publisher, Frontiers is part of the Nature Publishing Group family.

Manuscripts submitted to specialty sections in “Frontiers in” journals are peer reviewed by specialty associate and review editors. Specialty Chief Editors oversee subject areas across the “Frontiers in” journals.

The initial specialty sections open for submissions to Frontiers in Earth Science are:Atmospheric Science, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism, Hydrosphere, Interdisciplinary Climate Studies, Paleontology, Structural Geology and Tectonics, Quaternary Science, Geomorphology and Paleoenvironment and Structural Geology and Tectonics. Further specialty sections will be added soon.

“Frontiers expands the notion of publishing by adding network possibilities and impact metrics to evaluate individual articles,” said Prof. Luis Gimeno Specialty Chief Editor for Atmospheric Science, Frontiers in Earth Science, and professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Vigo, Spain. “Atmospheric sciences will bring to Frontiers studies about all processes that occur in the atmosphere, including studies related to observations and data assimilation”.

Initially, Frontiers in Environmental Science will offer specialty sections in: Agroecology and Land Use Systems, Air Pollution, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Informatics,Environmental Toxicology, Green and Environmental Chemistry, Groundwater Resources and Management, Interdisciplinary Climate Studies, Microbiotechnology, Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation, Soil Processes, and Wastewater Management.

“Climate issues are still very much at the forefront of earth and environmental sciences”, said Prof. Martin Beniston, Specialty Chief Editor of Interdisciplinary Climate Studies, Frontiers in Environmental Science, and professor at the University of Geneva. “There is still a wide gap between the climate science messages that the scientific community wishes to convey and the way these messages are received and used by stakeholders and the general public. Frontiers will be a key medium to provide cutting-edge research results in interdisciplinary climate science.”

Frontiers publishes all articles under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY), which allows users to share, copy and distribute a work, while at the same time crediting the authors of the article.

For more information, please visit: Frontiers in Earth Science and Frontiers in Environmental Science.

JUSP welcomes Springer adoption of COUNTER Release 4 to improve journal usage data

The JUSP (Journal Usage Statistics Portal) welcomes the adoption of Release 4 of the COUNTER standard by international publisher Springer Science+Business Media.

The implementation ensures that the journal usage data Springer is providing to higher education libraries are now compliant with the standard, ensuring comparable, standard-based measurement.

The COUNTER Code of Practice for e-Resources provides an agreed international set of standards and protocols governing the recording and exchange of online usage data. Springer is the first of the 59 JUSP participating publishers to implement the new Release 4 standard, setting a precedent for other publishers to follow suit by 31 December 2013. This will ensure that data provided by JUSP continues to be of the highest quality.

JUSP, funded by Jisc, is the first system of its kind internationally that automates the process of gathering journal usage data from publishers and provides a single point of access to this data for higher education libraries.

The COUNTER standard forms the basis of JUSP, enabling access to consistent and comparable journal usage statistics. Graham Stone, information resources manager at the University of Huddersfield says:

“We see COUNTER as essential in helping us to understand usage of our resources in order to show value for money in times of increased pressure on library budgets. The better the information we have at our fingertips, the more informed our decisions will be. We strongly encourage all publishers and intermediaries to adopt this latest standard.”

Jo Lambert, JUSP project manager, said:

“The COUNTER standard is integral to JUSP, facilitating delivery of an efficient and cost-effective service. Release 4 of the standard provides a number of new features and opportunities; for instance, the new Journal Report 1 GOA provides usage data on gold open access articles. Working with Springer and our knowledgeable and committed user community will enable us to explore the potential for this new report and reflect their ideas and feedback within the JUSP portal. We applaud Springer for adopting this latest standard and encourage other publishers to follow suit.”

Rone Robbetze, vice president, sales at Springer Science+Business Media, says:

“Giving libraries access to usage data in this way will allow librarians to assess value for money in journal agreements. Springer believes that in implementing the COUNTER standard, we are supporting JUSP to help provide a crucial service for higher education libraries.”

The benefits of JUSP include immediate access to data that is verified to be COUNTER compliant, and access to the system provides economies of scale to save institutions time and money, enabling organisations to concentrate on the important task of data analysis rather than data collation. A shared approach also ensures a better quality of data than was previously achievable. Lastly, the automated usage statistics portal helps libraries to assess the value for money they are deriving from participating in NESLi2 journal agreements and other licence agreements with scholarly publishers.

Swets appoints Teri Hawksworth as Global Head of Sales

Swets, a global leader in the management of research information, is pleased to announce the appointment of Teri Hawksworth as Global Head of Sales. Teri brings more than 15 years of experience in the information industry, joining Swets directly from a Managing Director role at Sweet & Maxwell, Thomson Reuter’s legal publishing business.

“We’re delighted to have Teri on board with us,” says David Main, CEO at Swets. “ Swets is developing its role into that of a truly effective business partner for publishers, customers, and research solution providers . Teri’s experience aligns directly with that approach and her leadership skills will be vital in helping to propel our development and growth going forward. This, coupled with her proven track record of securing consistent sales growth in a turbulent marketplace, makes her an ideal fit for our organization.”

“I am delighted to be stepping into this position at this point in Swets’ development,” comments Teri.  “The company’s current initiatives tie together many threads of my career and present an ideal opportunity to deliver the growth and strategic change that Swets is targeting and the market needs. I am really looking forward to take on this challenge.”

In addition to her previous role, Teri’s career path has seen her  hold a range of  top-level sales, marketing and general management positions at companies including Wolters Kluwer UK, LexisNexis UK, Tritec.Ltd and ICC Group PLC.

Copyright Clearance Center Adds 16 Publishers to Get It Now

CCC), a not-for-profit organization creating global licensing and content solutions that make copyright work for everyone, has announced the addition of 16 new publishers to its award-winning Get It Now academic service.

The new publishers include Alcohol Research Documentation, Allerton Press, Allied Health, American College of Chest Physicians, American Psychiatric Association, American Society of Agricultural and Biology, American Society of Nephrology, Annals Publishing, British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, Endocrine Society, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Innovision Health, Oncology Nursing Society, Science & Medicine, Society of Leukocyte Biology, and Summit Business Media.

In June, CCC announced the integration of OCLC’s ILL Fee Management (IFM) Service, which officially went into operation on August 1.

Get It Now provides library patrons with immediate fulfillment of cost-effective, full-text articles from unsubscribed journals – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

“This further demonstrates the value that Get It Now delivers to both libraries and publishers,” said Tim Bowen, CCC Director, Academic Products & Services.

Harvard University Press Partners with De Gruyter to Re-Release Nearly 3000 Titles from Its Publishing History

Harvard University Press Partners with De Gruyter to Re-Release Nearly 3000 Titles from Its Publishing History.

To celebrate its 100th anniversary, Harvard University Press is working with De Gruyter to make available for sale worldwide virtually all the books published since its founding, HUP and De Gruyter announced today.

“We’re very pleased to be making significant titles available again during this anniversary year,” says HUP director William P. Sisler.

The 2800 HUP titles will be offered in ten separate subject-area packages that reflect the entire spectrum of the university press’s catalog. Such classic titles as Willi Apel’s The Harvard Brief Dictionary of Music and Learned Hand’s The Bill of Rights, drawn from a range of disciplines, will thus be available again after many years.

“This expansion of the partnership that we initiated in 2012 with Harvard University Press through the addition of such a compelling range of publications naturally represents a great enrichment to the catalogs of both publishing houses,” says Sven Fund, Managing Director of De Gruyter. “We’re certain that the collection will be of great interest not only to libraries around the world, but also to researchers and book lovers.”

Thomson Reuters and NuMedii launch new initiative to identify drugs for repurposing

The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced a strategic initiative with NuMedii, a biotech company dedicated to revolutionizing drug discovery, to identify new treatments for areas of unmet medical need. The partnership, which pairs NuMedii’s technology with the authoritative, hand-curated drug and disease information and systems biology expertise of Thomson Reuters, will create an unprecedented repository of content and methodologies to systematically identify new applications for existing drug compounds.

NuMedii will use Thomson Reuters MetaCore and Integrity content, as well as Thomson Reuters Life Sciences Professional Services expertise in systems biology, in conjunction with its unique Big Data technology and databases, to find FDA-approved drugs or discontinued development compounds that are appropriate for repurposing. The companies will leverage this comprehensive collection of high-quality data, knowledge and predictive technologies to identify therapeutic candidates with the greatest probability for clinical success, in turn fulfilling NuMedii’s mission to discover and de-risk drugs that target new pathologies.

“NuMedii is blending various innovative technologies and life science data to create a next generation drug discovery and development engine,” said Gini Deshpande, Ph.D., founder and chief executive officer of NuMedii. “This unique partnership allows NuMedii access to an unparalleled source of knowledge from Thomson Reuters, enabling us to turbo-charge our search and discovery of new applications for existing therapies.”

NuMedii’s Big Data technology uses machine learning, pattern matching, and network biology algorithms to find new indications for existing drugs. Three publications by researchers at Stanford University have already shown the promise of NuMedii’s approach. In each case, researchers demonstrated novel activity for existing drugs in preclinical experiments as predicted by NuMedii’s technology. Most recently, researchers showed that certain antidepressants identified with NuMedii’s technology have activity in experimental models of small cell lung cancer. The alcohol rehab healing place can help people get out of addiction problems and anxiety.

After white sands naples finds the novel treatment which needs to be identified and validated in appropriate preclinical models, NuMedii will optimize the formulation and administration of the drug for the new use and advance the program to early clinical development. In most cases, NuMedii expects to leverage the expedited 505(b)(2) regulatory pathway in the United States for drugs previously approved by the FDA. NuMedii ultimately looks to license the drug to specialty pharmaceutical companies, as it has done with Aptalis Pharma. In its work with Thomson Reuters, NuMedii will own and be responsible for any resulting drug development programs.

“Our collaboration with NuMedii is an opportunity to combine the leading information sources available with novel analytics, data integration and biomedical expertise in a way that has not been done before outside of a laboratory environment,” said Joe Donahue, senior vice president, Thomson Reuters Life Sciences. “We are excited to be working closely with NuMedii to utilize this approach to speed the discovery of new drug candidates.”

Elsevier’s SciVal Strata Selected to Assess Russia’s Research Performance

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced it has reached an agreement with Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science to provide access to SciVal Strata for the assessment of Russia’s Research Performance. Access to SciVal Strata, a performance benchmarking tool within Elsevier’s SciVal suite of research management solutions, builds on the Russian Government’s previously granted access to Elsevier’s SciVal Spotlight and Scopus.

Early 2013 the Russian Government launched a national research assessment program with the aim of identifying key areas for future investments in its research and development sector. With access to SciVal Strata, the experts at Russia’s Federal Research and Consulting Center of Expertise, who are involved in the national research assessment, will be able to analyze the productivity of Russian scientists and research groups. These assessments will help the Ministry to effectively support the most fruitful researchers and research groups and stimulate new collaborations.

Mr. Ivan Sterligov, Director of The Center of Situational Analysis of the Federal Research and Consulting Center of Expertise said, “We plan to use SciVal Strata to compare research productivity of individual Russian researchers and research teams, not only on a national level, but also on a cross-border collaboration level. We plan to use the results of the analyses to replenish the pool of scientific experts for the Ministry of Education, to support the Ministry’s grant decision-making process.”

Igor Osipov, PhD, Elsevier Regional Director for Russia and Belarus said, “This national research assessment program proves the high level priority the Russian Government gives to investments in its research and development sector and its aim for alignment with research trends on a global scale. We are honored that SciVal Strata has been selected as a tool to help the government strategically analyze its research productivity.”

Goldman Sachs to Make Minority Investment in ProQuest

 ProQuest, a global information firm renowned for powering serious research, announced today that an affiliate of Goldman Sachs will purchase a significant minority equity interest in the Company, including the stake held by private equity firm ABRY Partners.  Goldman Sachs will join majority shareholder Cambridge Information Group (CIG) as a partner.

“Our aim is to continue to strengthen ProQuest’s industry position through organic growth, acquisitions and continuous innovation,” said Kurt Sanford, CEO of ProQuest. “We are thrilled to have Goldman Sachs as an investor and we recognize their investment as affirmation of our strategy and future potential.”

“With an outstanding leadership team and unique information and technology assets, ProQuest is positioned to transform the process of research in universities, libraries, schools and corporations,” said Andy Snyder, CEO of CIG and Chairman of ProQuest. “We are delighted to welcome Goldman Sachs as our new partner. Their involvement will help us continue to build the business and expand its role across the research ecosystem.  In addition, we are thankful to ABRY Partners for a terrific partnership over nearly seven years, and we wish them continued success.”

“ProQuest has an industry-leading management team and a world-class product offering, with a well-deserved reputation for quality customer service,” said Bradley Gross of Goldman Sachs. “We are delighted to have the opportunity to partner with ProQuest and look forward to working together.”

ProQuest is known for its inventive information solutions that increase the productivity of students, scholars, professionals and the libraries that serve them. Through partnerships with content holders, ProQuest preserves rich and varied information – from historical archives to modern scientific breakthroughs – and packages it with digital technologies that enhance its discovery, sharing and management. For libraries and professional organizations, ProQuest provides resources that enable strategic acquisition, management and marketing of information collections.

ProQuest’s innovations are built from a broad spectrum of expertise. Its affiliate Bowker® is acclaimed for a century of experience organizing book data via classic resources such as Books In Print®. ProQuest’s aggregation solutions are supported by renowned skills in abstracting and indexing, while its historical collections leverage unique talent in the preservation and digitization of rare archival collections. Its ebooks collection – encompassing pioneers ebrary® and EBL® – solve challenges related to emerging electronic formats. Other leaders include ProQuest Dialog® corporate information service, the Summon®discovery service, research tools RefWorks Flow™, Pivot™ and Intota®, a comprehensive library services platform.

Evercore acted as financial advisor to ProQuest on this transaction.

The Swedish National Bibliography to be Indexed in the Summon Service

Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, is working with the National Library of Sweden to index the Swedish National Bibliography in the Summon discovery service. With the inclusion of the Swedish National Bibliographic Database in the Summon index, researchers will now be able to discover references to books and materials published in Sweden alongside their library’s other resources.

Part of the LIBRIS national search service, the Swedish National Bibliography is a record of all book publication in Sweden, regardless of subject. With the objective to report all publications sold by book dealers and other printed documents of general interest, the Swedish National Bibliography contains more than books. A resource of great interest to libraries in Sweden, it includes coverage of references to publications issued in Sweden beginning in 1976, and maps starting from 1986, so that researchers can discover periodicals, articles, maps, atlases, posters, printed music, electronic resources, newspapers, and more.

Serials Solutions continues to fulfill its commitment to make the most comprehensive discovery service for researchers around the world with the addition of the Swedish National Bibliography to the Summon service. With an interface available in 32 languages and dialects, the Summon service makes global content discoverable by scholars worldwide. It applies native-language searching capabilities and language-tuned relevance ranking for 17 languages.

Used by more than 600 libraries in more than 40 countries, the Summon discovery service is proven to increase usage of library resources across a library’s collection without bias to format, vendor, or platform. With the introduction of Summon® 2.0 – groundbreaking features and a new, modern interface – the Summon service continues to deliver on its mission to return researchers to the library by providing a user experience that resonates with users familiar with open web search engines. Streamlined navigation and contextual guidance features significantly advance the research experience and provide greater opportunities for librarians to deliver value and scale their services to connect with more users.

OUP To Launch New Open Access Journal, Journal Of Law And The Biosciences

Oxford University Press (OUP) is delighted to announce its partnership with Duke University, Harvard Law School, and Stanford University to launch a new open access journal in 2014: Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JLB).

JLB will become the preeminent outlet to publish cutting-edge scholarship wherever law and the biosciences intersect. The JLB will take a broad and interdisciplinary view of its area, publishing articles on topics generally considered part of bioethics or neuroethics, such as the ethical, legal, and social implications of reproductive technologies, genetics, stem cell research, neuroscience, or human biological enhancement. At the same time, it will be a home for work that speaks directly to legal issues where the biosciences can be involved, such as food and drug regulation, biosciences patent law, scientific evidence, and criminal responsibility.

Rhodri Jackson, Senior Publisher, Law Journals and Oxford Open, OUP said: “OUP has a very strong presence in intellectual property and patent law, and in pure bioscience publishing. We’re very excited by the opportunity Journal of Law and the Biosciences presents to unite both of these strengths, and tap into a booming area of research. We couldn’t have picked better partners than Duke, Harvard, and Stanford, and look forward to working with the editors. Furthermore, the JLB’s OA nature reflects our ongoing drive to explore open access publishing opportunities in the law.”

The JLB’s initial co-editors in chief are I. Glenn Cohen from Harvard, Nita Farahany from Duke, and Hank Greely from Stanford. Greely, speaking for the editors-in-chief, said “We are thrilled to be launching this journal. Law and the biosciences is an emerging field of great social importance; having a dedicated, peer-reviewed journal will advance our understanding of crucial issues, while helping to build the field. OUP is a wonderful partner for this effort.” The JLB will also be assisted by an editorial board. The current board is composed of nearly thirty leading scholars working the area, from law, bioethics, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and other disciplines.

The JLB is an open access journal. Authors will have the choice of publishing under either a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivs (CC-BY-NC-ND), or a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. Authors electing to publish under CC-BY will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC). For more information about the journal, including article submission guidelines, and how to register for free content-alerting services, please visit the journal’s website.

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