The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced a commitment between TU Dresden (one of the 11 German Universities of Excellence) and Thomson Reuters to demonstrate the efficiency and global impact of the university’s scientific research. The trusted indicators of Thomson Reuters InCites^TM, the company’s flagship, web-based research evaluation tool, will enable the institution to measure research output and impact, monitor trends, and benchmark its performance against peers at the individual, departmental and global levels.

The strategic relationship between Thomson Reuters and TU Dresden supports the university’s plans to develop new research strategies, retain talent, pinpoint emerging trends and identify new opportunities for collaboration through InCites indicators. InCites’ objective benchmarks and metrics will also enable TU Dresden to make more informed investment decisions and reports, which in turn will help ensure it is allocating funding to people and projects that will yield the highest return on investment and increase its global research impact and ranking.

“This strategic alliance with Thomson Reuters will provide us with a comprehensive overview of how our research programs compare with those of our peers and, even more importantly, how they fare globally,” said Professor Müller-Steinhagen, rector of TU Dresden. “This will be critical for advancing our research strategies and finding opportunities for collaboration. Also, through my membership in the Thomson Reuters advisory board, I will be able to ensure that the German academic system is appropriately represented by the performance indicators used in the InCites analysis tools.”

InCites is a customized, web-based evaluation tool that enables universities, funding bodies and policy makers to analyze their research productivity and compare their output against that of their peers. The solution provides normalized metrics for repeatable analysis of outcomes, cross-regional impacts, discipline comparisons and standardized, accurate reviews for promotion and tenure processes. InCites can also serve as a support solution in ongoing quality assurance activities.

“TU Dresden, like many institutions worldwide, recognizes the growing need to measure performance by demonstrating and promoting the impact of its research,” said Gordon Macomber, managing director of Thomson Reuters Scholarly and Scientific Research. “We are pleased to work with this esteemed organization to ensure it remains on top of the latest global research trends while improving the global impact and performance of its research efforts.”

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A new analysis of U.S. ISBN data by ProQuest affiliate Bowker reveals that the number of self-published titles in 2012 jumped to more than 391,000, up 59 percent over 2011 and 422 percent over 2007. Ebooks continue to gain on print, comprising 40 percent of the ISBNs that were self-published in 2012, up from just 11 percent in 2007.

“The most successful self-publishers don’t view themselves as writers only, but as business owners,” said Beat Barblan, Bowker Director of Identifier Services. “They invest in their businesses, hiring experts to fill skill gaps and that’s building a thriving new service infrastructure in publishing.”

The analysis shows the growing prominance of a handful of companies that offer publishing services to individual authors.  More than 80 percent of self-published titles came to market with support from just eight companies, including Smashwords and CreateSpace.

Bowker’s research on self-publishing includes surveys of authors that provide insight into where the market is going and services required by these writers. Those who intend to self-publish most often plan to bring fiction to market, followed by inspirational or spiritual works, books for children and biographies. The majority cite finding a traditional publisher as an obstacle. They also feel challenged by marketing – a hurdle that becomes bigger with increasing numbers of books in the market.

Bowker provides a spectrum of services for small publishers through resources such as www.selfpublishedauthor.com, www.myidentifiers.com and www.bookwire.com. To view Bowker’s 2012 report on self-publishing visit www.selfpublishedauthor.com.

Top 100 Innovators generated $4.5 trillion in revenue, spent $223 billion on R&D, added more than 266,000 jobs and outperformed S&P 500 again – this year by over 4 percent in annual stock price gains, 2 percent in revenue growth and 8.8 percent in R&D spend

Over the past two years, Thomson Reuters has shown how patent activity is a proxy for innovation through its Top 100 Global Innovators program. Today, the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, announced its 2013 Top 100 Global Innovatorslist.  This honors the 100 corporations and institutions around the world that are at the heart of innovation as measured by a series of proprietary patent-related metrics. The full report is available at www.top100innovators.com.

The 100 organizations in the 2013 study outperformed the S&P 500 for the third consecutive year, by 4 percent in annual stock price growth and 2 percent in market cap weighted revenue growth. Collectively they generated $4.5 trillion in revenue, nearly twice the GDP of the United Kingdom. The Top Innovators also added 266,152 new jobs over the last year, a rate that was 0.81 percent higher than the new job creation rate among constituents of the S&P 500. This year’s winners also outspent the S&P 500 by 8.8 percent on R&D; collectively they invested $223 billion in their research and development efforts.

“Now in its third year, the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators study provides further evidence that innovative organizations– those that secure global patent protection for their intellectual property, continue to push the envelope with new technologies and invest more in R&D – are those that outperform the S&P 500 on virtually every measure of business success. Since inception, the Top 100 have consistently seen increases in annual revenue greater than those of the S&P index,” said David Brown, managing director, Thomson Reuters IP Solutions. “These are the companies that are driving growth, creating jobs and pioneering new products and services; we are honored to recognize their efforts through this annual program.”

The Thomson Reuters 2013 Top 100 Global Innovators, in alphabetical order, are:

3M Company
ABB
Abbott Laboratories
Advanced Micro Devices
Air Products
Alcatel-Lucent
Altera
Analog Devices
Apple
Arkema
Asahi Glass
AT&T
Avaya
BlackBerry
Boeing
Brother Industries
Canon
Chevron
CNRS, The French National Center for Scientific Research
Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique
Corning
Covidien
Delphi
Dow Chemical Company
DuPont
Eaton Corporation
Emerson
Ericsson
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company
Exxon Mobil
Ford
Fraunhofer
Freescale Semiconductor
FUJIFILM
Fujitsu
General Electric
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Google
Hewlett-Packard
Hitachi
Honda Motor Company
Honeywell International
IBM
IFP Energies Nouvelles
Infineon Technologies
Intel
Jatco
Johnson & Johnson
LG Electronics
Lockheed Martin
L’Oréal
LSI Corporation
LSIS
Marvell
Michelin
Micron
Microsoft
Mitsubishi Electric
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
NEC
NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
Nike
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal
Nissan Motor Company
Nitto Denko
NTT
Olympus
Omron
Oracle
Panasonic
Philips
Procter & Gamble
Qualcomm
Roche
Safran
Saint-Gobain
Samsung Electronics
SanDisk
Sandvik
Seagate
Seiko Epson
Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
Sharp
Shin-Etsu Chemical
Siemens
Sony
STMicroelectronics
Sumitomo Electric
Symantec
TDK
TE Connectivity
Texas Instruments
Thales
Toshiba
Toyota Motor Corporation
TSMC
United Technologies
Valeo
Xerox
Xilinx

Smartphone Patent Wars Drive New Innovation
The intense competition in the smartphone space is on clear display in this year’s Top 100 Global Innovators list, with the major players in the smartphone patent wars present: Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Google and BlackBerry. This is the first year for BlackBerry on the Top 100 Innovators list, driven by a 38 percent surge in patent filings between 2010 and 2011, and 17 percent growth in patent filings between 2011 and 2012.  The rapid expansion of the company’s patent portfolio is certain to be a factor in BlackBerry’s recently-announced plans to pursue strategic alternatives, including a possible sale.

Increased R&D Spending Results in Increased Innovation
The surge in R&D spending among Top 100 Global Innovators is also noteworthy.  With the 100 organizations in the study spending U.S. $223.2 billion on R&D in 2012, the group outspent the S&P 500 by over 8.8 percent on R&D last year. Additionally, the Top 100 spend 5 percent of revenue on R&D, whereas the S&P 500 spend just 2.1 percent of revenue in this area.  “The fruits of rigorous R&D are clear-cut in the results of our study: those companies that spend more on R&D, yield more patents, and more innovative solutions,” said Brown.

Pharma Breaks into Top 100
The Top 100 methodology, by virtue of its criteria, favors fast-moving, hyper-competitive industries such as semiconductors/electronic components and computer hardware, where product lifecycles are short and advancements in technology are demanded by users. This has historically impacted the inclusion of pharmaceutical firms, which tend to have longer R&D cycles, in the list.  Despite this, Abbott Laboratories and Johnson & Johnson broke into the Top 100 list this year, by virtue of their strong global patent portfolios.  Roche also made this year’s list for the third year in a row.

Regional Hot Spots of Innovation
North America continued to lead in the number of organizations it has on the list, with 46 this year, comprising 45 from the U.S. and one from Canada. Asia had the next highest, with 32, comprising 28 from Japan, 3 from South Korea and 1 from Taiwan. Europe contributed 22 honorees, with the largest representation coming from France (12) and Switzerland (4).   Mainland China is once again notably absent from this year’s list of Top 100 Global Innovators.  Despite the fact that China leads the world in patent volume, the majority of patents filed in the country are only filed domestically, which limits the region’s global influence in the Top 100 Global Innovators study.

Industry Breakout
The semiconductor and electronic components industry continued to lead in 2013, with 23 representative companies, a 28 percent increase over the previous year. Semiconductor representation has increased by 64 percent since the program’s inception, when there were just 14 semiconductor companies on the list. Computer hardware was the next most prolific industry, with 11 companies. The auto industry contributed 8 companies to the Top 100 list, up from 7 last year; new to the list is Nissan. Automotive representation has grown by 167 percent since the beginning of the Top 100 analysis when there were only 3 automotive companies present.  The telecom and industrial industries each contributed 7 companies to the Top 100 group this year.

Methodology
The Thomson Reuters 2013 Top 100 Global Innovator methodology is based on four principle criteria: overall patent volume, patent grant success rate, global reach of the portfolio and patent influence as evidenced by citations. The peer-reviewed methodology was executed using Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI), Derwent Patents Citations Index™, Quadrilateral Patent Index™, and Thomson Innovation®, its IP and intelligence collaboration platform. Comparative financial analysis was done using the Thomson Reuters Advanced Analytics for Deal-Making platform.

For more information on the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovatorprogram and to download the full report, go to www.top100innovators.com.

HighWire Press is pleased to announce the launch of Folio, its new eBooks product, showcasing the library release of the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Built on the HighWire Open Platform, Folio is a flexible ebook solution designed for publishers to rapidly bring their books online. Key components of the product include a publisher home page, an informative book landing page and a user-friendly e-reader view.

“With HighWire’s Folio, Duke University Press brings our e-books and journals together in one platform, allowing readers to pursue related content more seamlessly.” said Allison Belan, Assistant Director for Digital Publishing at Duke. “When fully launched in December 2013, it will be the premier site for searching, reading, and sharing Duke’s humanities and social sciences books online.”

Connecting readers to relevant content, Folio is designed to scale and grow as needed, ideal for publishers with a large backlist or those with several key titles. Features include responsive design for viewing on mobile devices, and SEO-friendly URLs which include the book title.

“Our plan for ebooks plays to our strengths: providing publishers with sophisticated technology on the most highly discoverable platform in online publishing,” said Tom Rump, HighWire’s Managing Director. “Recognizing the integral ties between books and journals, the HighWire Open Platform, with the Folio offering, allows publishers to leverage their highly ranked journals and to open up new avenues for their book assets.”

“HighWire has a long track record of reliability in hosting our journals. We look forward to our e-books benefitting from that same commitment to service and innovation.” Kimberly Steinle, Library Relations Manager.

“We’re pleased that moving our e-books to HighWire will make them discoverable to anyone on the web and will eventually allow us to sell directly to consumers,” noted Michael McCullough, Sales Manager at Duke University Press.

In the coming months, HighWire will continue to add features, content, and functionality to the Folio product. HighWire is actively developing features to leverage journal traffic to promote books through recommendations and provide integrated search results that return both book and journal content from one key term query, giving readers the convenience of searching one time and on one screen to find all relevant content offered by the publisher.

For a sneak preview of the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection, please visit the HighWire and Duke stands at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Hall 4.2 K17&21

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced it has partnered with Firstsource Solutions to implement Digi-EXPress®, a patented cloud-based automated workflow solution and rights management system, for the processing, tracking, and management of all permission grant information from third-party rightsholders relating to Elsevier book products.

The Digi-EXPress® permissions database is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that will serve as Elsevier’s central repository for all third-party permission information, including details of the Elsevier book product, the rightsholder’s product, the specific material for which permission has been granted, any applicable restrictions to the permission grant, and any applicable permission fees, among other data.

“We partner with experts around the globe to develop world-class content, delivering it in multiple media formats,” said Linda Belfus, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Content at Elsevier.

“As more of our products migrate from print to digital formats, ensuring rights compliance for all content is a top management priority, and Digi-EXPress Rights Management System is proving to be a valuable tool to support our compliance and ‘due-diligence’ efforts.” said Mark Seeley, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Elsevier.

“By deploying Digi-EXPress®, Elsevier is able to enhance visibility and management oversight of the global rights we license and own, and to automate and optimize many of our rights management functions,” said Natalie Qureshi, Global Permissions Manager at Elsevier.

The Digi-EXPress® permissions database will help Elsevier improve time-to-publication and production workflow by reducing delays caused by incomplete or outstanding permissions.  User dashboards will display each user’s active projects upon log-in along with the current status of each project, flagging any priority items that require follow-up such as a high permission fee, no response from a rightsholder, or a permission restriction or denial.  Digi-EXPress® also provides automated data exchange capabilities allowing users to import Excel format permission logs provided by Editorial staff, authors, and freelancers and to export permissions data for reporting on restrictions, fees, total usage per project and per rightsholder, and overall performance.  Elsevier’s Copyrights Team has processed permissions for more than 100 total projects containing more than 15,000 total permission items via the database since its launch in May this year.

“We work closely with Elsevier’s team to provide secure hosting and complete training and support packages, including context-sensitive online help screens, webinars, and global help desk support through the resources of Firstsource® to facilitate staff development and optimization of Digi-EXPress features,” said Dick Stahl, Managing Director, Digi-EXPress LLC.

James Hill, Vice President, Publishing for Firstsource, added: “We look forward to working with Elsevier to make this a successful partnership. Our publishing capabilities focus on delivering the latest in technological advancements to help publishers comprehensively manage rights and permissions and mitigate legal risks.”

For further information, please visit www.digi-express.com.

By Richard Knox –

Many online journals are ready to publish bad research in exchange for a credit card number.

That’s the conclusion of an elaborate sting carried out by Science, a leading mainline journal. The result should trouble doctors, patients, policymakers and anyone who has a stake in the integrity of science (and who doesn’t?).

The business model of these “predatory publishers” is a scientific version of those phishes from Nigerians who want help transferring a few million dollars into your bank account.

To find out just how common predatory publishing is, Science contributor John Bohannon sent a deliberately faked research article 305 times to online journals. More than half the journals that supposedly reviewed the fake paper accepted it.

“This sting operation,” Bohannan writes, reveals “the contours of an emerging Wild West in academic publishing.”

Online scientific journals are springing up at a great rate. There are thousands out there. Many, such as PLoS One, are totally respectable. This “open access” model is making good science more accessible than ever before, without making users pay the hefty subscription fees of traditional print journals.

(It should be noted that Science is among these legacy print journals, charging subscription fees and putting much of its online content behind a pay wall.)

But the Internet has also opened the door to clever imitators who collect fees from scientists eager to get published. “It’s the equivalent of paying someone to publish your work on their blog,” Bohannan tells Shots.

These sleazy journals often look legitimate. They bear titles like the American Journal of Polymer Science that closely resemble titles of respected journals. Their mastheads often contain the names of respectable-looking experts. But often it’s all but impossible to tell who’s really behind them or even where in the world they’re located.

Bohannan says his experiment shows many of these online journals didn’t notice fatal flaws in a paper that should be spotted by “anyone with more than high-school knowledge of chemistry.” And in some cases, even when one of their reviewers pointed out mistakes, the journal accepted the paper anyway — and then asked for hundreds or thousands of dollars in publication fees from the author.

To continue reading this story by Richard Knox follow this link – http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/03/228859954/some-online-journals-will-publish-fake-science-for-a-fee

The Cochrane Collaboration and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (NYSE:JWa, JWb), the publisher of The Cochrane Library and Wiley Health Learning activities, today announced that they have extended their partnership by launching a new health professional development resource called Cochrane Learning.

“Cochrane Learning forms a new and important part of our ambition to move evidence from The Cochrane Library more directly to those who can use it in their healthcare decision making; and we are delighted to be supporting health practitioners to translate Cochrane evidence into their clinical practice,” said Mark Wilson, CEO of The Cochrane Collaboration. “We recognize the challenge of making the vast amounts of evidence generated through research more useful for informing decisions about health, and we are now committed to producing new products and tools that will help clinicians and other healthcare professionals to use more easily and effectively the high-quality, relevant and up-to-date synthesized research evidence contained in Cochrane systematic reviews.”

Under the Cochrane Learning umbrella, The Cochrane Collaboration and Wiley will deliver a suite of online, evidence-based resources designed to close the knowledge translation gap, to support health professionals as part of their continuing professional development and to improve patient care. All activities will be designed to meet the rigorous accreditation standards of the ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education) and will be based upon the high-quality evidence from The Cochrane Collaboration.

“Connecting research and practice to enable healthcare professionals to make the best possible decisions is fundamental and we’re delighted our partnership with the Cochrane Collaboration now includes Cochrane Learning. We bring a wealth of experience of knowledge delivery, education and accreditation, and are excited to apply this to further the dissemination of Cochrane findings, in new formats, to the people that need them” said Steven Miron, Senior Vice President, Global Research, Wiley.

Activities from Cochrane Learning’s pilot program, Dr Cochrane, produced in collaboration with the Canadian Cochrane Centre, are now available from www.cochranelearning.com, and mark the beginning of this partnership. Dr Cochrane activities will continue to be published throughout this year and other educational resources will launch throughout 2014.