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Maverick and Dublin Six form alliance to take The Auditor to market

Maverick Publishing Specialists, the specialist strategic consultancy and outsource services company for the publishing industry, today unveiled their new alliance with the rapidly emerging and innovative digital library services company, Dublin Six (www.dublinsix.com). Over the next few months, Maverick and Dublin Six will combine forces and expertise under a new corporate entity designed to fully develop and launch Dublin Six’s groundbreaking library usage logging and holdings verification software The Auditor™.

Alongside Maverick Publishing Specialists team at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, Josh Pyle, CTO and President of Dublin Six, will also be joining Martin Marlow (Maverick CEO and now also CEO of Dublin Six) to present The Auditor™ and announce its move from Pilot to worldwide Beta release.

Maverick and Dublin Six have been working together for the last year on developing the supporting commercial models and support infrastructure for this unprecedented product. The Auditor™, which Dublin Six has had in initial and pilot development over the last 2 years, is now ready to enter beta testing and accept new customers on a worldwide scale. The beta phase will be formally announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where Maverick and Dublin Six will also be talking to organizations that are interested in investing in The Auditor’s final development to commercial launch and beyond.

The Auditor™, available on a yearly subscription basis, is an innovative software package designed to dramatically increase time- and cost-efficiencies for institutional libraries. Installed on an institution’s network, The Auditor™ passively monitors all network traffic and makes libraries aware of every form of content that is being used. It presents this information in clear and comprehensive COUNTER-style reports. While libraries usually receive reports from only those publishers with whom they have a relationship, The Auditor’s reports include content from every publisher on every platform. The Auditor™ also reports on content from open access or free information sources. In addition, The Auditor™ far exceeds the granular level of detail currently available from other solutions on the market.

Alongside hitherto unavailable levels of usage tracking, The Auditor™ also continuously monitors and verifies the institution’s uninterrupted access to all content for which it has paid (or unpaid) access – instantly and automatically alerting the library and its users whenever there is a broken link or other service interruption. This not only supplies invaluable, real time data to help libraries provide optimum service provision to their patrons, but also assists them accurately monitor and compare against any service level agreements they have in place with their content providers. And as the Auditor software is deliberately designed to monitor all activity without any active assertion or external calls, it  won’t artificially inflate the usage statistics gained.

Speaking of the announcement Josh Pyle, President and CTO Dublin Six, said “After two years of development and testing, we are excited to be joining with Maverick to bring this revolutionary new product to market.” Martin Marlow, Principal and CEO Maverick Publishing Specialists, and Dublin Six’s newly instated CEO, further commented, “The Auditor™ is a fantastic product. Designed with the library in mind, it will analyse exact usage patterns to help librarians and institutions make informed purchase decisions. We’re excited to be working with Dublin Six in this venture and to add our business infrastructure and customer support expertise to help them bring this fabulous service to market.”

EBSCO Information Services Releases a Complimentary Version of ERIC To Provide Access During the Government Shutdown

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is making the government database ERIC available during the government shutdown. ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, is typically available through the government website (http://eric.ed.gov/) as well as via EBSCO’s EBSCOhost® research platform. Because of the shutdown the government website is unavailable so EBSCO has decided to temporarily open its version of ERIC and make it available at:http://www.ebsco.com/freeERIC .

ERIC provides access to educational literature and resources including access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. It was designed as a national information system to provide access to education literature and resources. According to its website, “ERIC is the world’s largest and most frequently used education digital library.” ERIC provides more than 1.4 million bibliographic records and dates back to 1966.

EBSCO is the provider of hundreds of research databases for academic institutions, public libraries, schools, hospitals and medical institutions, corporations and government organizations. EBSCO Information Services President Tim Collins says the decision to make ERIC available to users while service from the government site is interrupted was an easy one. “We know our users who access ERIC on EBSCOhost find it to be a valuable resource and we understand that having access to a resource like ERIC shut off handicaps some researchers. Therefore, we have decided to provide this temporary access in order to assist these researchers.”

Because of the shutdown, access to the full text of articles and other materials will not be available but researchers will have access to the full set of A&I records on EBSCOhost. Users going tohttp://www.ebsco.com/freeERIC will now see ERIC listed among the other free EBSCO databases such asGreenFILE™ and Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts™ (LISTA).

Maney Publishing partners with Amigos

Maney Publishing is delighted to announce a new agreement with Amigos Library Services, a not-for-profit consortium dedicated to serving libraries in North America. This new partnership provides Amigos members with the opportunity to subscribe to Maney’s MORE (Maney Online Research E-journal) Collections at significantly reduced rates.

The MORE Collections offered by Maney provide instant access to over 150 international peer-reviewed journals in the fields of material science and engineering, humanities and social sciences, health sciences and the newly acquired collection of philosophy, religion and theology titles.

In addition, Amigos members will benefit from the migration at the end of the year, of all the Maney journal content to Atypon’s Literatum online publishing platform. Literatum is widely recognised as an industry leader and will offer the members an enhanced online service from which to access the MORE Collections.

Shelly Turner, Director of Sales and Marketing, is very pleased with the new agreement: “We are delighted to be working in partnership with Amigos to offer our ever growing number of MORE collections to their wide range of members throughout North America. We see this being an extremely collaborative and beneficial partnership for both Amigos and its members and Maney.”

“Amigos Library Services is excited to add Maney Publishing to our Member Discount Program,” commented Gerrye McEntire, Member Discount Services Manager, Amigos Library Services. “This new partnership means Amigos member libraries can now benefit from the instant access to numerous peer-reviewed journals. We look forward to this ongoing relationship in a time when e-journal access is so valuable to libraries”.

EBSCO Enters ILS Partnership with Slovakia’s SVOP Connecting Mutual Customers with EBSCO Discovery Service

A new ILS partnership between EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Slovakia’s SVOP will provide access to EBSCO Discovery Service’s™ (EDS) unified index for mutual customers. The partnership will further expand the quality and amount of content available for SVOP users while adding the enhanced features and functionality available from EDS.

Based in Slovakia, SVOP Ltd. has been focusing on information technology since 1996. SVOP’s library information system, DAWINCI services customers in Slovakia as well as in Czech Republic and assists with their needs in education and research. Partnering with EBSCO will enable SVOP customers to integrate critical components of EDS into their library solution.

SVOP Technical Director, Ján Grman sees the partnership as a great benefit to customers. “Our partnership with EBSCO extends the possibilities for both of our end-users and customers in accessing huge collections of the best databases from around the world. It is also an opportunity for us to offer mutual technology solutions to our local market.”

EBSCO’s continuing effort to improve accessibility and usability for customers by expanding the integration of services, improves discovery and delivery of content.

EBSCO Discovery Service is quickly becoming the discovery selection for many libraries (www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-news), and an obvious partner for content providers. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost® platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC—which is not typical in the discovery space. Further still, in the many universities and other libraries where EBSCOhost is the most-used platform for premium research, users are not asked to change their pathways or habits for searching. There’s simply more to discover on the familiar EBSCOhost platform, and the same can be said for library administrators who can leverage their previous work with EBSCOadmin™.

Free Lessons on the Maths Everyone Needs To Know

Financial Maths is not just for mathematicians, and accountants, it is part of our everyday life. From understanding the details of your wage slip to working out the interest that will be applied to your mortgage application, it is important that we understand where our money goes and how best to manage it.

ALISON, a global leader in free online learning has announced a major partnership with Maths Doctor – the award winning maths tutoring company from international publishing company, Macmillan Science & Education. The partnership will provide a comprehensive, interactive and free online learning maths resource to help people in Ireland understand how financial maths affects everyone on a daily basis.

Areas that are covered include: understanding compound interest, income tax, gross pay, benefits of investing, profit, loss and savings. The course is easily accessible, free to use and topics are delivered through video by qualified, experienced maths tutors.

The lesson forms part of the overall multimedia Project Maths resource created by ALISON in partnership with Maths Doctor.  This resource is aligned with the Irish Leaving Certificate Project Maths Syllabus, and has been reviewed and appraised by educationalists teaching and working directly with the curriculum on a daily basis.

Project Maths, which was added to the Irish curriculum in 2012, was designed to help students apply maths to everyday life and prepare them for working in science or engineering fields. A survey carried out by Engineers Ireland in August 2013, found that nearly 60% of CEOs and Managing Directors of engineering employers in Ireland believe that the new maths curriculum will benefit students’ overall problem solving and skills.

Welcoming the partnership, ALISON CEO Mike Feerick says: “This programme merges ALISON’s global platform capabilities with the online tutoring of Macmillan’s Maths Doctor. The partnership is a first step in ALISON’s Universal STEM Programme created to provide support and additional tuition in the form of free online lessons in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math subjects for students at post-primary level. Irish students and parents alike are certain to benefit from using this free resource. They should try it!”

Simon Walsh, Managing Director of Maths Doctor and an ex-Maths teacher explained, “For over 170 years, Macmillan has been at the forefront of educational innovation.  The interactive digital resources from Maths Doctor will allow pupils, parents and adult learners to study mathematics in a new and pioneering way.”

The ALISON and Maths Doctor programme has been created in support of and in collaboration with teachers working directly with the Project Maths curriculum within the education system.  These include the Galway Education Centre, Athenry Maths Academy and Project Maths Teachers. Catering for both higher and ordinary level across the five strands of the syllabus, it aims to support the existing high level of maths teaching already found across the country and can also be used by Project Maths teachers to re-enforce their understanding of financial maths.

Maths students and teachers can access the new ALISON and Macmillan Maths Doctor interactive multimedia programme at www.alison.com/maths

OCLC acquires Dutch library systems provider HKA

OCLC has acquired the shares of Huijsmans en Kuijpers Automatisering (HKA), a Dutch organization that develops, implements and manages systems for libraries, educational and cultural organizations.

The addition of HKA, which offers the Wise line of library systems and services, enhances and extends OCLC services for libraries in the Netherlands. OCLC currently manages the infrastructure for interlibrary loan for many Dutch libraries and offers cataloging services through the GGC, the Dutch shared cataloging system, and the WorldCat global shared cataloging system. OCLC and HKA staff will now work together to accelerate the development and delivery of innovative services for libraries.

“The talented HKA team, and the quality services they provide are an important resource for libraries in the Netherlands,” said Skip Prichard, OCLC President and CEO. “HKA’s innovative spirit and their commitment to libraries are an excellent fit for the OCLC cooperative. They will help us grow our services and further our mission of creating efficiencies and value for our library members in the Netherlands and beyond.”

The HKA staff of 29 will continue activities from current locations in Paterswolde and Oss in the Netherlands. The Wise line of library systems, including bicatWise, will continue to be developed and maintained. Moving forward, the staff will also deliver new cloud solutions for the combined user base.

“We are extremely proud to become part of OCLC,” said Henk Kuijpers, director at HKA. “By combining HKA’s knowledge of Dutch public libraries with OCLC’s expertise in cloud solutions, we can deliver a new generation of library systems for our users. This is not only a very important step for HKA but also for our libraries, who will benefit from this move with expanded and new services from OCLC.”

Mr. Kuijpers, Jos Huijsmans and Paul Lucassen will continue as directors of HKA.

Frontiers launches new OA journal in Cell and Developmental Biology

Frontiers, one of the fastest-growing open-access scholarly publishers, now part of the Nature Publishing Group family, has launched its Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biologyjournal today.

One of the most exciting revolutions occurring in science today is the integration of disciplines.Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology will provide a comprehensive platform for inter and multidisciplinary articles.

It will encourage cross discussion between clinical and basic biology e.g. through stem cell research, as well as assimilate various aspects of cellular and developmental processes, such as cell migration, signaling, stress responses and pattern formation across a diversity of model organisms.

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology will constitute an open-science platform for publishing high-quality and rigorously peer-reviewed articles. Frontiers’ real-time interactive review forum facilitates fast, transparent, and constructive review with an average of 84 days from submission to publication. Articles are available for free under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).

The initial speciality sections open for submissions are listed below and many more sections will be added soon:

Cell Death and Survival (Editor-in-Chief: Craig Walsh)
Membrane Traffic (Editors-in-Chief: William Brown and Gerard Apodaca)
Molecular Medicine (Editor-in-Chief: Masaru Katoh)
Fossil Fuel Engineering (Editor-in-Chief: Susumu Ikehara)

For more information, please visit:
http://www.frontiersin.org/Cell_and_Developmental_Biology

Elsevier Announces its Collaboration with Qatar University

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced its collaboration with Qatar University by providing access to SciVal Experts, allowing for effective management of researcher profiles and subject area expertise identification for future collaboration projects.

SciVal Experts, a product of Elsevier’s SciVal research management solutions, is a researcher networking tool which helps locate researchers within and across disciplines and institutions. Built on publication history data from Scopus – the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature – SciVal Experts provides an overview of researchers’ current publication data and grant information, making it easier to find subject area experts and form research teams within but also across organizations and institutions, locally and internationally.

“With access to SciVal Experts Qatar University will be able to more efficiently manage its constantly evolving database of faculty and researcher profiles,” said Dr. Moumen O. Hasnah, Director of Academic Research at Qatar University. “In our aim to stimulate and develop a more collaborative approach to research, we are pleased to provide our researchers with access to SciVal Experts, driven by data from Scopus, to help advance the research community at Qatar University.”

“Elsevier is honored to work together with Qatar University by providing them access to SciVal Experts,” said Nick Fowler, Elsevier’s Managing Director Academic & Government Institutional Markets. “We believe that it will enhance the effectiveness of their research performance, stimulating effective and efficient collaboration initiatives not only among researchers at the University, but also globally.”

Wolters Kluwer Sells French Healthcare Publishing Activities to Galilée

Wolters Kluwer today announced that it has completed the disposal of its French healthcare publishing activities to Galilée. This divestiture is part of the broader Pharma divestment program originally announced in July 2011. Since that time, the pharma-related assets, including the activities sold today, have been treated as assets held for sale and have been included in discontinued operations.

The French assets included in today’s disposal were part of the Legal & Regulatory portfolio and encompass healthcare magazines and journals for pharmacists, veterinarians, dentists, nurses and physicians, as well as related trade show and training activities. NewsMed – a company held by Galilée – will take on the healthcare publishing activities located in France, and Galilée takes on directly activities in the United Kingdom.

The divestment will enable Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory to focus on its core legal and compliance information and software offerings.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

EBSCO Joins OASPA and Awards Conference Scholarship

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), which represents the interests of Open Access (OA) journals publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines through an exchange of information, setting of industry standards, advancing business and publishing models, advocating for gold OA journals publishing, education and the promotion of innovation.

As the leading provider of resources for libraries, including cutting-edge technology and access to journals, e-journals, e-packages, e-books, archives and databases, EBSCO’s membership in OASPA is a natural step in its dedication to the global research communities. EBSCO is the only database aggregator that is also an agent and shares publishers’ interests in bringing operational and financial efficiencies to the open access publishing model.

For more than 60 years, EBSCO has worked closely with both libraries and publishers. As a natural intermediary between these two groups, EBSCO shares the interest of both the libraries that it serves and the publishers with whom they work.

EBSCO Vice President of Content Licensing and Strategic Partnerships Mike Wallis says “Becoming a member of OASPA gives EBSCO the opportunity to work even more closely with the OASPA community. We strive to be the most trusted intermediary partner and are devoted to providing value added services and economies of scale to our partners in the scholarly communication arena.”

Springer to publish the international journal Academic Psychiatry

Springer announced that beginning in January 2014, it will publish Academic Psychiatry in partnership with the Association for Academic Psychiatry, American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry, American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (the Consortium). The journal will be published six times per year, and articles will be available on Springer’s online platform, SpringerLink (link.springer.com).

This new partnership with Springer will enable Academic Psychiatry to expand and strengthen its mission to stimulate advancements in academic medicine, focusing on academic psychiatry and the behavioral health disciplines. Academic Psychiatry features scholarship in five key areas: education; leadership and administration; professional development; professionalism and ethics; and health and well-being. Given Springer’s reach, the expanded target audience includes researchers, educators, academic leaders, administrators, trainees and clinicians whose work supports a better understanding of mental health in all areas of medicine and the behavioral health professions.

“We are working to ensure that our mission, our journal and its body of research will reach the widest possible international audience,” said Dr. Laura Roberts, Editor-in-Chief since 2002. “In order to do so we sought a publisher with the experience and technology to serve our readers throughout academic medicine and in behavioral health professions across the globe. We see our journal as helping the professionals who are entrusted with the well-being of people with mental illness and society at large, now and in the future.

Antoinette Cimino, Editorial Director, Clinical Medicine at Springer, said, “We at Springer are proud to be chosen by the Consortium for this new project. Our strong international publishing programs in both psychiatry and clinical medicine are further enhanced by the publication of Academic Psychiatry, and we look forward to helping our new partners further their important work.”

ProQuest Supports Burgeoning Indian Research Market

ProQuest is serving the dramatic growth in academic research in India with its first solution designed specifically for this market. ProQuest® Indian Journals enables researchers from around the world to cross-search and access premier academic journals published entirely in India along with other ProQuest content all in one step.

“This is a big step forward in access to the increasing amount of important research being conducted and published in India,” said Jeff Wilensky, ProQuest Vice-President, Information Solutions. “This resource makes it much more efficient to search that data precisely, either by itself or in the context of global research. Plus, working with content is supported by the tools embedded in ProQuest’s state-of-the-art, scholarly research environment, making it easy to manage, share and collaborate.”

ProQuest Indian Journals provides a content foundation for the most studied subject areas in higher education, including business, medicine, science, technology, social sciences, and humanities. ProQuest’s hallmark rigorous selection process ensures that only quality titles with a proven record of scholarly acceptance are included and the company’s specialised vocabulary and indexing enable precision search results as well as broad discovery.

Because ProQuest Indian Journals resides on the company’s acclaimed academic research platform, the content will be cross-searchable with such popular resources as the business database ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses and the historical archive of Times of India. With relevant content from multiple sources and viewpoints retrievable in a single search, researchers are able to work faster and explore their topic from varied perspectives.

To learn more visit www.proquest.com

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