Publishing Technology today announced that its longstanding clients, Human Kinetics and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have joined a new sales representation and distribution venture in China. The agreement is a result of Publishing Technology’s local alliance with CNPIEC, the China National Publications Import and Export (Group) Corporation, and its significant new CNP eReading platform.

Content from Human Kinetics and the IMF will be made available to Chinese institutions and libraries on the recently-launched CNPeReading.com site, hosted locally by the largest and most highly-developed government-sanctioned publication import and export group in the country. CNP eReading currently carries over 200,000 individual book titles from more than 300 international publishers. Combined with sales and marketing support from CNPIEC, the site will instantly extend the reach of both publishers’ content into this rapidly growing market, attracting potentially millions of new readers.

CNPIEC’s strong relationships with national librarians and institutions will provide Human Kinetics and the IMF with up-to-the-minute market information while an experienced local sales team will help them to maximize revenues immediately. Furthermore, the platform engineered by Publishing Technology with DRM-based copyright protection and custom features designed specifically to meet the needs of Chinese institutions will enable local librarians to quickly order, purchase and access content on behalf of researchers and end-users.

Cathy Willis, Marketing Manager at the IMF, commented: “The IMF’s global economic analyses are of great interest to researchers and the academic community in China.  Moreover, we believe that the IMF’s high quality research and analysis on China and Asia will be of particular interest to audiences in the region.  Broadening our successful partnership with Publishing Technology to improve our access to readers in China was a natural choice for us. Publishing Technology knows us and our content, and through CNPIEC has acquired a significant route into the world’s premier growth market.”

Speaking on the partnership, Barry Johnson, International Development Director at Human Kinetics, also said, “A vast and relatively untapped opportunity for us, China is a market that we have been keen to break into for a long time. Knowing that we will have access to a wide array of metrics, from data reports that show how our content is being accessed to relevant and accurate  market information, gives us the confidence we were looking for to make it happen.”

Patent reinforces innovation of Digi-EXPress® and Digi-Rights® automated processes and services as a means for automating permissions, negotiating licenses,
e-commerce transactions, monetizing rights and mitigating copyright risks

Digi-EXPress®, LLC, a leading provider of Global Automated Rights Solutions, announced today it has been issued Patent No. 8,438,113, on May 7, 2013, by the United States Patent and Trademark Office titled: “Automated Digital Express Gateway for Licensing and Acquiring Rights & Permissions for 3^rd Party Copyrighted Content.”

The patent titled: “Automated Digital Express Gateway for Licensing and Acquiring Rights & Permissions for 3rd Party Copyrighted Content” covers a computerized method to buy and sell rights via the internet or electronic network, comprising real-time or batch processing of rights, transforming rights semantics and expressions to and from a common Digital Rights Definition Language and automatically processing transactions for 3rd party licenses of copyrighted content.

The patented technologies are embedded within Digi-EXPress® Software… a suite of cloud-based solutions for Global Automated Rights and Permissions… now being licensed by leading global publishers and also available to self-publishers.

“As the inventor of an automated rights and permissions transformation process, the issuance of this patent reinforces the value of Digi-EXPress Rights Management Software… a cloud-based e-commerce solution to Automate Licensing and Acquiring Rights & Permissions for 3rd party copyrighted content,” said Dick Stahl, Managing Director of Digi-EXPress LLC.

“As the publishing industry innovates and shifts from print to digital formats, each sale is in fact an Intellectual Property Rights transaction.  To stay competitive, publishers need to deploy new ‘ready-made’ solutions, like Digi-EXPress® to stay competitive, eliminate inefficient and labor-intensive tasks, and speed new products to market faster,” continues Stahl.

“Digi’s patented technology enables publishers, small presses and independent self-publishers to buy and sell licenses for copyrighted content rapidly and efficiently using automated processes, while also enabling publishers to exercise oversight and monetary control over the rights they own and the rights they license enterprise-wide,” said Robert Kasher, Rights Industry Consultant.

By using ‘best practice’ patented methods within Digi-EXPress, content creators, editors and publishers can be assured of reliably identifying rights, interpreting rights and restrictions, and monetizing rights for use in specific media formats, languages, territories and editions – regardless of location or language.  This is the missing link to help mitigate copyright risks and to provide assurance to authors that they are receiving royalties due; and assurance to publishers that products are published in compliance with the rights and restrictions granted.

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) announces the launch of eBook Business Collection, a comprehensive subscription collection of business e-books intended to meet the content needs of students in their research, special projects, and entrepreneurial quests.

eBook Business Collection equips academic libraries and business schools with the e-books their students need, encompassing a variety of business topics such as marketing, finance, supply chain management and entrepreneurship and also focusing on career growth, personal development, communication and networking. The collection includes over 9,400 e-books with new e-books added regularly at no additional cost.

Senior Director of eBook Products Ken Breen says the diverse collection of high-quality business e-books from leading publishers will significantly help business students quickly find what they need. “We were able to leverage our expertise as one of the world’s leading aggregators of premium content to create a collection of business e-books that are relevant to the specific needs of students, enabling them to get the information they need faster.”

eBook Business Collection offers libraries the ability to provide students unlimited access to a large collection of valuable e-books while also providing an easy and powerful user experience. Users experience the same features as are available on EBSCOhost^® and are able to access from and download to mobile devices.

Reprints Desk, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Research Solutions, Inc. (RSSS), announced today that the company had exceeded 20,000 publications and book chapters from more than 100,000 titles in its new academic document delivery retrieval service for scholarly research articles. Reprints Desk achieved this milestone for it’s A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection through recent agreements with publishers such as Elsevier,Massachusetts Medical Society, American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), andSociety for Leukocyte Biology.

“Reprints Desk, publishing partners, and academic customers are a model example of how buyers, producers, and aggregators are working together for mutual benefit,” said Ian Palmer, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Reprints Desk. “Academic customers are able to supplement interlibrary loan with an expansive and cost-effective tool for content acquisition; Publishers are able to generate additional revenues by providing convenient access to their high value content; and Reprints Desk is able to add new customers by standardizing access and providing unparalleled levels of post-sales customer support.”

A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection features high quality PDF delivery within minutes for each request that Reprints Desk receives. The service is available to academic research institutions for a low transactional service fee plus a special academic copyright royalty charge that can be as low as fifteen U.S. dollars.

Academic institutions, corporations, and government organizations use document delivery as a legal method for retrieving single copies of full-text papers from scholarly peer-reviewed journals when subscription access does not exist. 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 the A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection, visithttp://info.reprintsdesk.com/academic-articles.  For more information about Reprints Desk, visitwww.reprintsdesk.com.

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today a reseller agreement with Cerner to integrate Elsevier’s evidence-based clinical content into Cerner’s PowerChart® electronic health record (EHR).

Through this agreement, Elsevier’s clinical content solutions will be available to Cerner’s current and prospective PowerChart® EHR clients. These solutions include InOrder by Elsevier, an intuitive, cloud-based order sets system, and Elsevier’s CPM CarePoints, which provides evidence-based, workflow-enhancing clinical guidance for quality care.

“Health care providers face many challenges, including how to give their clinicians every advantage when it comes to evidence-based clinical information, order sets, guidelines and documentation,” said Jim Stewart, a Senior Director at Cerner. “We’re enthusiastic about making the Elsevier content solutions available to our clients.”

This new agreement also expands an existing one between Cerner and Elsevier’s ExitCare, an enterprise-wide solution for patient education and discharge instructions. ExitCare, InOrder and CPM are components of Elsevier’s integrated suite of clinical decision support and clinical reference solutions, all of which give healthcare providers highly relevant, evidence-based content.

“Elsevier has assembled a suite of clinical decision support and reference products that answer the industry’s needs for trusted, comprehensive and convenient clinical information in electronic form,” said Jay Katzen, President of Elsevier Clinical Solutions. “Our agreement with Cerner makes much of this suite available to a growing number of the most progressive healthcare institutions around the world.”

InOrder by Elsevier drives quality care by enabling physicians, clinicians and informaticists to author, review and manage order sets in a collaborative environment. It adapts to healthcare organizations’ through terminology services that allow you to import your existing order sets and author order sets based upon your hospital’s terminology and order items.

Elsevier’s CPM CarePoints promotes a patient-centered, interprofessional approach to care by providing clinicians with point of care access to evidence-based guidelines, care planning and clinical documentation tools for 250 medical, surgical and human response diagnoses. CPM CarePoints’ EHR-based system provides an all-inclusive framework for implementing evidence-based practice across all clinical domains.

BostonCollege High School has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service^™(EDS) from EBSCO Information Services as the basis for their library resource Corcoran One Search. After looking at several services, the librarians found that EDS had many highly desirable features including responsive web design, mobile accessibility and an easy-to-use discovery layer platform for students.

As recipient of the 2013 ALA Cutting Edge Technology Award, Boston College High School was looking for approaches that used responsive web design to ‘meet students where they are.’ According to Boston College High School Library Director, Tia Esposito, EDS was the next logical step. “Using EDS and providing our students with a single search option, gives our students an edge, and allows them to keep pace with the fast-moving trend in e-books, online databases, and other digital learning tools right from their phone in a single search. It’s just what they were looking for.”

EBSCO Discovery Service has continued to grow in popularity across the Boston College High School campus due to its ease of use and many unique features such as the AP news updates and Twitter feeds conveniently located on the side bar of the screen. Esposito says, “The feedback from our faculty and students has been extremely positive, some of the classes I presented this new service to found the students so excited by the new ease of use of our library resources that the students actually applauded.”

BostonCollege High School has also implemented many of the customization features including branding the EDS layout and adding links to their other library pages — making the search experience truly unique for its users.

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box-searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.