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SAGE announces winner of 2013 ALPSP travel grant

SAGE today announced the recipient of their 2013 library travel grant for the ALPSP International Conference.  Penny Andrews, Library Graduate Trainee at Leeds Metropolitan University won by answering “what would be your top tip to give students about conducting research” with:

“Don’t assume you’re on your own or that books are all the help you get. We’re here to give you skills.”

Penny was chosen by the SAGE judging panel for her consideration of the influential role of the librarian in supporting students and capturing the value of the librarian for academic institutions.

“As we’ve seen in our own research exploring library value, too often users fail to appreciate how much librarians can offer to support teaching and research, which is exactly what Penny’s entry points to,” said Clive Parry, Global Marketing Director, SAGE. “In an environment where both the education and research landscapes are rapidly evolving, supporting the dissemination of knowledge is key. The ALPSP International Conference provides an ideal environment for open discussion between both librarians and publishers to learn how to work together on this shared goal.”

Audrey McCulloch, Chief Executive, ALPSP, further commented, “The exchange of ideas and information between stakeholders is key to meeting the challenges facing our industry.  We’re delighted to have the support of SAGE in promoting the conversation between libraries and publishers and look forward to welcoming Penny Andrews to the ALPSP International Conference in September.” 

The travel grant supports a librarian or information professional with a free place at the ALPSP International Conference from 11-13 September (www.alpspconference.org).

IEEE Journals Sustain High Rankings in Newest Citation Reports

IEEE, the world’s leading technical professional organization for the advancement of technology, has maintained its position as one of the top publishers of science and technology journals. According to the 2012 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports© (JCR) released in June 2013, IEEE journals sustained their status as premier scholarly publications, earning high rankings in the Impact Factor report.

The following publications ranked #1 in their respective categories:

•    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (Automation & Control Systems)
•    IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (Computer Science – Artificial Intelligence)
•    IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part B, Cybernetics (Computer Science – Cybernetics)
•    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (Computer Science – Hardware & Architecture)
•    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (Computer Science – Theory & Methods)
•    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Engineering – Industrial)
•    IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (Engineering – Manufacturing)
•    IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (Telecommunications)

According to the 2012 report, IEEE publishes:

•    18 of the top 20 journals in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
•    10 of the top 10 journals in Telecommunications
•    8 of the top 10 journals in Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
•    7 of the top 10 journals in Automation & Control Systems
•    4 of the top 5 journals in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
•    3 of the top 5 journals in Computer Science, Cybernetics
•    3 of the top 5 journals in Robotics
•    2 of the top 5 journals in Computer Science, Information Systems
•    2 of the top 5 journals in Computer Science, Software Engineering
•    2 of the top 5 journals in Computer Science, Theory & Methods
•    2 of the top 5 journals in Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
•    2 of the top 5 journals in Remote Sensing

The report also found that IEEE publishes all of the top 10 journals in the Telecommunications category and 8 of the top 10 journals in the Electrical & Electronic Engineering category based on the Eigenfactor score, a scale that measures the number of times articles from a journal are published in the last five years.

The JCR offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world’s leading journals. By compiling articles’ cited references, the JCR helps to measure research influence and impact and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals.

Thomson Reuters ScholarOne Web Services Innovative Approach to Resource Integration Enhances Scholarly Publishing Process

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the preview of ScholarOneTM Web Services, an innovative addition to industry-leading publishing solution ScholarOne.

ScholarOne Web Services is a holistic approach to integration that will enable publishers to uncover connections between shared research and its impact in the broader world of scholarship. The new resource’s content, tools and services will help publishers remain on the pulse of their journal’s field of research and streamline the publishing process to deliver critical and influential content to the market quickly.

“With the launch of ScholarOne’s Web Services, the peer review system will seamlessly connect internal and external resources to support client missions,” said Jasper Simons, vice president of product and market strategy for the Scientific and Scholarly Research business of Thomson Reuters.   “Clients can integrate their internal tools and link with important industry initiatives like ORCID and FundRef, enabling a truly enterprise-wide solution of standardized, consistent data exchange.”

Through this initiative, Thomson Reuters continues its commitment to scalable solutions rather than utilizing web services to only support specific objectives or integrations. Amenities such as ScholarOne Web Services are designed to accommodate every customer need and budget, from freely available options offered as part of a subscription to paid services that support more specific requirements.

“As a client of Thomson Reuters, I am continually impressed by their market-driven development and enhancement path,” said Christian Kohl, director of Information and Publishing Technology at De Gruyter, a leading Open Access publisher. “This addition to ScholarOne allows clients to leverage full technology from ORCID and FundRef, making it an invaluable tool for clients. Having so much data and administrative capabilities gives researchers the ability to capture broad perspectives efficiently and effectively, leaving resources available for other internal initiatives.”

ScholarOne Web Services provides integration with ORCID, which allows clients to verify and map individuals to their work and automate administrative tasks, allowing for better-informed publishing decisions; and FundRef, which allows clients to capture unique funding identifiers and grant numbers as part of the submission process and include funding identifiers and grant numbers in published articles.

ScholarOne Web Services will also provide the option to extend connectivity with the Reviewer Locator, which allows clients to search the industry-leading Web of ScienceSM for appropriate reviewers, preventing review fatigue and accelerating the time to publish.

Beginning with the support for the FundRef taxonomy in September, components of the ScholarOne Web Services offering will continue to be released over the course of 2013.

Wiley Announces Increase in Impact Factors

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced a continued increase in the proportion of its journal titles indexed in the Thomson Reuters® 2012 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), with 1,192 (approximately 77%) titles now indexed, up from 1,156 in the 2011 JCR. Wiley titles now account for the largest share of journals in 50 categories.

In the 2012 JCR the number of Wiley journals with a top category rank increased by 19% (4) and the number of Wiley titles indexed in the top ten of their categories also increased by 11% (27). Of publishers with more than 100 journals indexed in the 2012 JCR, Wiley saw the largest proportion of titles (close to 60%) increasing in Impact Factor (IF).

Highlights:

  • 1,192 Wiley journals now have an IF.
  • 25 Wiley journals achieved a top category rank across 31 JCR categories, up from 21 in 2011.
  • 264 Wiley journals achieved a top 10 category rank across 341 categories, up from 237 in 2011.
  • 59.4% of Wiley journals increased their IF.
  • Wiley titles appear in 218 of the 232 subject categories.
  • Wiley journals make up the largest share of journals in 50 categories.
  • CA – A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a Wiley published journal, continues to have the highest IF in the JCR.

“We are honoured to work with the editors, societies, and publishing teams behind such high quality publications, and it gives us great pleasure to see the portfolio go from strength to strength.  All those involved, our colleagues and our partners, should be delighted by the latest JCR results,” said Steven Miron, Senior Vice President in Wiley’s Global Research business.

One of the largest changes this year is the partnership between Wiley and the American Geophysical Union, whose portfolio of influential geoscience and geophysics titles is responsible for 6% of citations to journals published by Wiley in the 2012 JCR. Of these titles, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems entered the Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences category in the top ten, with an IF of 4.117.

Other success stories include the first appearance of Advanced Energy Materials, entering the JCR with an Impact Factor of 10.043 – putting it in the top ten of all five of its JCR subject categories. Advanced Energy Materials joins the successful Advanced Materials series, which includes titles such as Advanced Functional Materials (9.765) and Advanced Materials (14.829). Collectively, these journals appear in the top ten of a JCR subject category 15 times, asserting the traction of this journal series within the scientific community.

This year also sees a continuing increase in IF of CA – A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, published on behalf of The American Cancer Society. Last year this journal became the first to achieve an IF over 100 and has this year broken its own record with an IF of 153.459 at 0% self-citation, a 51% increase from its 2011 IF. The Impact Factors of its two sister titles, Cancer (5.201) and Cancer Cytopathology (4.434), also increased.

The WIRES (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews) portfolio has continued to increase in strength, with seven WIRES titles now indexed in the JCR, three of which received their first IF this year.

Impact factors are a metric that reflect the frequency that peer-reviewed journals are cited by researchers, and are often used as a tool for evaluating a journal’s quality.

Highlights in Chemistry, Physical Sciences and Engineering:

Four publications rank at number one in their category this year, including Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (4.460 and number one in three categories); Acta Crystallographica Section D which is distributed on behalf of the IUCR and further increased its IF to 14.103, now ranking number one in two categories; the International Journal of Energy Research (1.987); and WIREs Computational Molecular Science (5.738) which received its first IF and entered the JCR at number one of the Mathematical & Computational Biology category.

Other journals with impressive first IFs include Advanced Energy Materials (10.043); Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology (2.679/ jointly published with the SCI); the International Journal of Applied Glass Science (1.548/published on behalf of the American Ceramic Society); and WIRES Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery (1.422). These excellent results underline Wiley’s constant efforts for innovation in publishing.

Angewandte Chemie, a journal of the German Chemical Society published under the Wiley-VCH imprint, saw its IF rise further to 13.734. It has strengthened its position as the leading multidisciplinary chemistry journal publishing both primary research and review articles. ChemSusChem, Angewandte’s sister journal jointly published by Wiley-VCH and ChemPubSoc Europe, received an impressive new IF of 7.475, a further increase of 43%.

Highlights in Social Sciences and Humanities:

Wiley publishes 424 ranked titles within the Social Science JCR categories and 19% (79 titles) are ranked within the top ten of their respective categories, achieving 90 top ten rankings. Wiley publishes the top ranked journal in seven of the Social Science JCR categories, including Business, Finance; Health Policy & Services; Psychology, Educational; Family Studies; Public Administration. The Milbank Quarterly topped categories in both the Science (Health Care Sciences & Services) and Social Science (Health Policy & Services) JCR. 17% of the Social Science JCR total citations received in 2012 were to Wiley published titles.

Eleven titles received an IF for the first time in 2012 including Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy which ranked within the top ten for its subject category. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being and Global Policy received their first IFs in 2012 and entered their subject categories within the top 20.

Wiley’s Social Sciences and Humanities titles received several notable increases, including Business Strategy and the Environment which increased by 65% from 1.960 to 3.236 and Review of Policy Research which increased by 72% from 0.646 to 1.113 placing it within the top ten journals in Public Administration. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry’s IF increased from 4.281 to 5.42 in 2012, ranking it second in Psychology, Developmental. Nine Wiley published journals saw their 2012 Impact Factors double, including Australian Accounting Review; Political Studies Review; Syntax; International Journal of Finance & Economics and The Developing Economies.

Wiley publishes more ranked titles than any other publisher in 12 out of 52 Social Science categories (including Anthropology, Business, Finance, Economics, Political Science, and three Psychology categories) and publishes the number one journals in nine categories (including Neuroimaging, Radiology, Biodiversity Conservation, Physical Geography, Zoology, and Palaeontology).

Highlights in Life, Earth, and Environmental Sciences:

Eighty-five journals within Wiley’s Life, Earth, and Environmental Sciences publishing program are ranked within the top ten of their category, giving 101 top ten rankings overall.  Eight journals rank at number one in their categories, including Ecology Letters which achieved an IF of 17.949 and retained its position as the number one ranking journal in Ecology.

Six new journals received their first IF including WIREs RNA at 4.186, Biotechnology Journal at 3.446 and the recently launched open access journal Ecology and Evolution at 1.184.

There were also strong performances for Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (4.375), FEMS Microbiology Reviews which rose from 10.960 to 13.231, Human Brain Mapping (6.878) and Reviews of Geophysics, published on behalf of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), which increased to 13.906 and ranks number two in Geochemistry & Geophysics.

Microbial Biotechnology, which recently moved to an open access model, achieved its second IF rising from 2.534 to 3.214. It went up 14 places in the Microbiology category to 38/116, and 21 places in the Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology category to 41/159.

Highlights in Health Sciences:

This year 329 Wiley health science journals featured in the JCR, including eight number one ranking journals and overall 62 journals which appear in the top ten of a subject category. Three titles have been indexed for the first time and received their first IF.

The number one ranked journals are CA – A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (153.459/Oncology), American Journal of Transplantation, (6.192/Transplantation), Addiction Biology (5.914/Substance Abuse), Addiction (4.577/Substance Abuse – Social Science), Periodontology 2000 (4.012/Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine), International Journal of Andrology (3.565/Andrology), Medical Education (3.546/Education, Scientific Disciplines) and BIRTH: Issues in Perinatal Care (2.926/Nursing, in both Science and Social Science JCRs).

Wiley now publishes the top three journals in the Substance Abuse Science category: Addiction Biology, Addiction, and Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

British Journal of Pharmacology was awarded an Impact Factor of 5.067 – making it the leading general pharmacology research journal in the pharmacology and pharmacy category.

Both journals published on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology, Arthritis & Rheumatism, and Arthritis Care & Research, remain in the top ten of the Rheumatology category.

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is ranked 11 of the 151 journals in the Medicine, General & Internal category. The total number of times the CDSR was cited increased from 29,593 in 2011 to 34,230, meaning the CDSR received the 6th highest number of citations in its category.

Ingram Grows its MyiLibrary® E-book Platform with 50,000 Additional Titles and New Functionality

As libraries adapt their collections and adjust their mix of print and digital content for patrons, Ingram Content Group Inc., today announced that it has grown its MyiLibrary platform, adding more than 50,000 titles and new functionality to meet the changing needs of today’s libraries.

“The MyiLibrary platform is one of the fastest-growing e-book access solutions in the library community today,” said Dan Sheehan, Vice President and General Manager, Ingram Content Group library services. “As the digital needs of libraries grow, we will continue to develop and reshape our title collections to provide our customers with the broadest and most comprehensive selection of content from the leaders in publishing today.”

More than 50,000 titles have been added to the MyiLibrary e-book platform since the beginning of the year. New titles include current bestsellers such as The Heist and Inferno, as well as premier content from academic publishers like the Peter Lang Publishing Group.  The MyiLibrary platform also includes new content from Random House imprints, including Melville House, Rizzoli New York, Seven Stories Press,Smithsonian Books, Soho Crime, and Steerforth Press, among others.

New functionality enhancements include the addition of an e-book loan access model, which makes the best use of resources to reduce a library’s number of turnaways. In addition, the MyiLibrary platform recently integrated with Readmill, an e-book reading app that provides patrons with additional flexibility to read content when, where and how they choose.

Used by more than 3,000 academic, professional and public libraries around the world, Ingram’s MyiLibrary platform provides a full range of resources and purchasing options from single-title acquisition to publisher and genre-specific subject collections. Ingram’s e-book solutions give libraries meaningful tools to make the best use of resources. Patrons who use the platform have the flexibility of obtaining content via download and online options as well as mobile options.

50 more libraries select OCLC WorldShare Management Services

Colleges like College Jaguar is greatly known for its extraordinary library and its infrastructure.To our surprise,now fifty additional libraries have selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services this year, choosing the Web-based library management services that simplify back-office operations, streamline library workflows, and provide a powerful discovery and delivery service for library users.

WorldShare Management Services offer unified, Web-based applications—from acquisitions and circulation, to metadata and license management, resource sharing and analytics—to streamline workflows, and create new value for their institutions and users.

“Moving to WorldShare Management Services makes a lot of sense for Palo Alto University,” said Scott Hines, University Librarian and Director of Academic Technology, Palo Alto University. “The integration of so many functions into a powerful interface that brings our resources and the world’s resources into easy grasp of our users is perfect. We are seeing staff workflows positively impacted by WorldShare Management Services, further increasing our return-on-investment. The WorldShare user community was also a big draw for us, and we’re very happy to be a new member.”

WorldShare Management Services were released for general availability in July 2011. Today, more than 120 libraries on three continents—Australia, Europe and North America—are using the services. More than 200 libraries have signed up to use WorldShare Management Services.

“I couldn’t be more pleased to see the WorldShare community grow so quickly,” said Andrew K. Pace, OCLC Executive Director of Networked Library Services. “With some institutions using WorldShare Management Services for more than two years, libraries are really starting to see the value of their investment, using the time and money they are saving to better manage local collections and meet the expectations of their end users. Moreover, newly integrated applications for WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, WorldShare Metadata and analytics have created a real tipping point for Webscale library management.”

Among the newest subscribers to OCLC WorldShare Management Services is the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, the first state library to subscribe and begin the implementation process. The following libraries are among the most recent to announce their selection of WorldShare Management Services:

  • Ave Maria University (Ave Maria, Florida)
  • Baptist Bible College and Seminary (Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania)
  • Beloit College (Beloit, Wisconsin)
  • Berry College (Mount Berry, Georgia)
  • Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kansas)
  • Butte College (Oroville, California)
  • California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco, California)
  • Children’s Hospital Colorado (Aurora, Colorado)
  • Christendom College (Front Royal, Virginia)
  • Cornell College’s Cole Library and Mount Vernon’s Public Library (Mount Vernon, Iowa)
  • Emporia State University (Emporia, Kansas)
  • Export-Import Bank of the United States Research Library (Washington, D.C.)
  • Fayetteville State University (Fayetteville, North Carolina)
  • Greensboro College (Greensboro, North Carolina)
  • Guilford College (Greensboro, North Carolina)
  • Iowa Wesleyan College (Mount Pleasant, Iowa)
  • Kirkwood Community College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
  • Luther Seminary (St. Paul, Minnesota)
  • Mary Baldwin College (Staunton, Virginia)
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
  • National Jewish Health (Denver, Colorado)
  • Oklahoma Department of Libraries (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
  • Palo Alto University (Palo Alto, California)
  • Palomar College (San Marcos, California)
  • Panola College (Carthage, Texas)
  • Pritzker Military Library (Chicago, Illinois)
  • Saint John’s Seminary (Camarillo, California)
  • Salem College (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
  • Santa Ana College (Santa Ana, California)
  • Santa Fe University of Art and Design (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
  • Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, New York)
  • South Plains College (Levelland, Texas)
  • Southwestern University (Georgetown, Texas)
  • Transylvania University (Lexington, Kentucky)
  • United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities (New Brighton, Minnesota)
  • University of Massachusetts, Lowell (Lowell, Massachusetts)
  • University of the West (Rosemead, California)
  • Utica College (Utica, New York)
  • Westfield State University (Westfield, Massachusetts)

More about OCLC WorldShare Management Services can be found on the OCLC website.

The BMJ rises to 4th place in global rankings of most cited general medical journals

The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) has risen from sixth to fourth place in the international rankings of the most influential general medical journals in the world, show new figures on research citations (impact factor) for 2012.

The BMJ has now overtaken two heavyweight US titles, PLos Medicine and the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Only the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) now rank above The BMJ, the flagship publication of international healthcare knowledge provider BMJ (formerly BMJ Group).

The BMJ’s impact factor* rose from 14.093 in 2011 to 17.215 in 2012—an increase of 3.112 points or 22%. The BMJ is now the most highly cited open access general medical journal in the world.

Not only is this increase greater than for any of the other publications in the world’s top 10 general medical journals in 2012, but The BMJ is one of only three general medical titles in the top 10 not to have decreased its impact factor since 2011.

Additionally, the title’s total citations rose from 74759 to 81336—a total increase of 8.7%.

Furthermore, The BMJ was not the only journal among the publisher’s growing stable of more than 40 specialist and open access titles to register an increase in impact factor.

Of the 25 eligible journals with comparative data over the past two years, 17 titles increased their impact factor.

Among notable gains were Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases—co-owned with the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)—which jumped from 8.727 to 9.111, retaining its number 1 ranking for a purely scientific and original research journal for the 5th year running.

Similarly, Heart—co-owned with the British Cardiovascular Society—rose from 4.223 to 5.014;Thorax—co-owned with the British Thoracic Society—rose from 6.848 to 8.376; while Tobacco Control rose from 3.011 to 4.111, so that it is now ranked third in the Social Science Public Health category.

The publisher’s paediatric titles—co-owned with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health—also registered gains. The impact factor for Archives of Disease in Childhood rose from 2.881 to 3.051, pushing the title up to 10th in the Pediatrics category; the Fetal & Neonatal Edition rose from 3.045 to 3.451, taking it to eighth position; while the Education & Practice Edition rose from 1.318 to 1.843.

And the BMJ’s first dedicated open access title, BMJ Open, which launched in 2011, acquired an impact factor of 1.583 in 2012.

BMJ also publishes titles on behalf of other organisations and learned societies, and several of these increased their impact factor over the past year.

Among them, the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care—published on behalf of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists—rose from 1.636 to 2.1, while the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery —published on behalf of the US Society for NeuroInterventional Surgery—rose from 0.923 to 1.378.

Commenting on the figures, BMJ Publishing Director Peter Ashman said: “Despite its flaws, the impact factor system is a globally accepted measurement and we are delighted that the ongoing development work with our editorial teams has resulted in an increase in our numbers.

For The BMJ in particular, our increase to 4th in the general medicine rankings—as a result of greatly increased citations—is a validation of the work that we have been doing in recent years to increase the relevance of our content to healthcare practitioners around the world. Almost a quarter of articles published in The BMJ have a US lead author, and we hope that even more US authors will now submit their best work to The BMJ.

ProQuest names Rafael Sidi as General Manager, ProQuest Information Solutions

Information industry veteran Rafael Sidi has joined ProQuest as General Manager, ProQuest Information Solutions. In his new role, he will lead strategic development of the company’s content-rich solutions for academic markets globally.

“Rafael has deep industry expertise, a rich history of collaboration with users and a strong vision for how information solutions can advance the mission of libraries and improve users’ research experiences and outcomes,” said Kurt Sanford, ProQuest CEO. “ProQuest is delighted to have such a capable industry leader join our team and lead the enhancement and expansion of our information solutions and services to our customers.”

Mr. Sidi comes to ProQuest after a dozen years at Elsevier, where he held several senior positions, including head of product management and development for many of the company’s largest, most successful and innovative products, including ScienceDirect, SciVerse, Engineering Village, illumin8 and Elsevier’s first e-book platform, Referex. He also led efforts that created the first STM online application marketplace and developer network. His product management roles served customers globally in academic, corporate and government markets. Prior to Elsevier, Mr. Sidi was Director of e-commerce operations for Bolt Media Inc., a teen-age social network platform.

Mr. Sidi holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Istanbul’s Bosphorus University and an MA from Brandeis University.

ProQuest Appoints Matthew Brine as Vice President and General Manager

ProQuest, an information company central to global research, appointed Matthew Brine as Vice President and General Manager of Serials Solutions. In this role, Brine will provide the vision, strategy and global leadership to deliver discovery and management solutions to libraries. With more than 20 years of experience leading technology companies through growth initiatives, Brine balances business rigor with focus on quality and customer service.

“Matt is an expert at driving product development with a relentless focus on customer satisfaction combined with a disciplined approach to business strategy,” said Kevin Sayar, ProQuest, senior vice president and general manager, ProQuest Workflow Solutions. “His strengths in building collaborative environments, deploying new technologies, and leading global organizations support our mission of meeting and exceeding customer expectations.”

“I’m thrilled to be joining a market leader with a long history of industry-firsts and technology achievements,” said Brine. “The development of Intota and continued innovation of Summon demonstrate a commitment to delivering best-in-class solutions that address the challenges facing academic libraries today.”

Most recently, Brine served as Vice President & General Manager for the EasyLink and Fax and Document Distribution business unit at OpenText, a $1.2 billon enterprise information software company. In this role he was responsible for all facets of the business, including business unit and product strategy, and go-to-market planning. His achievements include successfully launching new products and significantly enhancing existing ones, improving customer satisfaction, and exceeding revenue goals multiple years in a row. Brine’s progressive career includes leadership positions overseeing sales, marketing and business development, with public and privately-held companies such as Eli Lilly, a global pharmaceutical company, and HBS International, a healthcare information management company. In 2000, Brine joined Captaris, as Vice President, International, overseeing all international sales, marketing and field operations, until 2008, when the company was acquired by OpenText.

Brine holds a Master of Management (MBA) from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Thomson Reuters Previews Game-Changing New Solutions for Insights into Clinical Trials

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, revealed two new clinical trial intelligence software solutions today at the annual DIA meeting in Boston: Cortellis™ Clinical Trials Intelligence and Cortellis Site Performance Advisor.

The new solutions are designed to optimize clinical trials, decrease time to market, accelerate clinical trial development and maximize portfolio strategies for professionals in clinical operations and development, R&D benchmarking, R&D strategy, strategic resourcing, precision and translational medicine and at contract research organizations (CROs).

Clinical Trials Intelligence allow users to access and search information on more than 130,000 U.S. and global trials for biologics, diagnostics, biomarkers, medical devices and drugs targeting rare diseases. The solution also includes access to  200,000 press releases, 220,000 literature articles, 2.25 million drug development articles, 21,000 meeting abstracts, 8,000 conference reports, and transcripts of biomedical and medicinal chemistry industry analyst and investor meetings. It offers full integration with Thomson Reuters industry-leading drug pipeline content and is available via the web portal or an application programming interface (API).

Cortellis Clinical Trials Intelligence provides over a dozen dynamic visualizations that support fact-based decision making and enhance competitive positioning. It also includes a trial timeline viewer that provides an up-to-date, longitudinal view of the trial start dates, insights on trial duration trends and expected, actual or projected end dates for a given indication, company or individual drug.

“Cortellis Clinical Trials Intelligence is the most powerful resource of its kind to enter the Life Sciences market, enabling industry professionals to make informed decisions that direct their clinical strategies. Utilizing a comprehensive, responsive and easy-to-use interface, it locates patient trials with specific efficacy endpoints or efficacy biomarkers, offers dynamic analytics and delivers current, detailed information on trials,” said Wendy Hamilton, senior vice president, Thomson Reuters Life Sciences. “This product greatly reduces the time spent compiling and analyzing clinical information. It is a game changing solution in this space.”

Cortellis Site Performance Advisor is an integrated solution comprising the fastest recruiting sites, ideal countries for recruitment, and countries that have applicable, relevant patient populations, all of which is critical information for pharmaceutical and CRO executives. It offers powerful and dynamic analytics that easily pinpoint sites and countries connected to successful clinical trials.

Thomson Reuters is also presenting “Four Ways to Accelerate Your Clinical Portfolio Strategy” at DIA, a whitepaper exploring ways to accelerate clinical trial design through analytic approaches that leverage advanced technology and the power of Thomson Reuters as a global information business. According to the whitepaper, clinical portfolio strategies can be more effectively executed by looking at the drug lifecycle, deriving insights for more accurate trial duration prediction through curated data, keeping abreast of the competitive environment, and assessing drug safety.

Learn more about Cortellis.

SciFinder® Now Offers API Capabilities

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world’s authority for chemical information, announced today that the SciFinder® interface now enables a range of APIs designed to streamline researchers’ workflows. CAS has collaborated with several customers to develop API support for reaction, substance and reference searching.

CAS is initially offering this functionality to customers in the corporate market. The available web services will access SciFinder to search CAS databases for chemical information providing a means to seamlessly integrate a customer’s internal tools and systems with SciFinder.

“Scientists tell us that SciFinder is often where their work starts, and it is also a constant companion as they go through the research process,” said Chris McCue, CAS vice president, marketing. “When evaluating leads; analyzing synthetic pathways; researching other studies; and validating novelty, scientists want to be more effective in sharing information from SciFinder across internal platforms and tools. We are excited to better empower scientists with more variability in how they integrate vital CAS content with their internal data collections and systems. This new functionality will save time, reduce data recording errors and help produce better results overall.”

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a global biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has recently successfully integrated SciFinder with internal workflows supporting drug discovery research, providing Vertex scientists with links to specific patents based on select substances of interest to the company.

“Information integration is a key component of the Vertex informatics infrastructure,” said Pat Walters, principal research fellow, and group head of computational sciences at Vertex. “By creating links between internal data and external sources, we can provide our scientists with rapid access to information that might have otherwise been overlooked. SciFinder has been an important research tool at Vertex for many years.  Integrating with our research applications is a natural next step and will enable our scientists to more easily keep abreast of vital information.  The API enables us to seamlessly link our drug discovery data with the organized, high quality and current information from CAS.”

Organizations that would like to learn more may do so by contacting their CAS sales representative or the CAS Customer Center at help@cas.org.

Swets wins three year deal to supply periodicals to UK Houses of Parliament

Swets is pleased to announce that, following a competitive procurement process pursuant to the Public Procurement Directives, it has recently signed a three year contract with the UK Houses of Parliament for the supply and delivery of periodicals to both Houses. Together, the House of Commons Library and the House of Lords Library, acquire and maintain an extensive, significant collection of periodicals and this contract  will see Swets responsible for the ordering, delivery and online access of all such material.

“We are immensely proud to serve such a revered institution as the Houses of Parliament,” said Robert Jacobs, Swets’ Commercial Director for UK & Ireland. “Swets has firmly established itself as the leading provider of information solutions for a range of organizations, across many sectors. Our experience in facilitating the acquisition, delivery and online access of large volumes of information, in varying published formats, will play a key role in addressing the needs of both Houses.”

Steve Wise, Director of Information Management in the House of Commons Library said, “In its tender approach, Swets demonstrated a clear understanding of the requirements of both Houses, strong processes for handling claims; a comprehensive subscription management solution which was easy to use and came with a strong training offering.”

The Houses will use Swets’ sophisticated online procurement and content management platform, SwetsWise, to monitor and maintain all purchases and to simplify the acquisition process across both libraries. The libraries will also roll out the SwetsWise Online Content module to all users, providing them with a single interface through which to gain seamless, direct access to the libraries’ e journals, ensuring users get access to the content they need, whenever they need it.

This agreement sees Swets now the chosen periodicals supplier for the UK, Scottish and European Parliaments and further demonstrates the company’s ability to create customized information solutions for its customers, in whichever sector they operate. Further information on Swets’ full range of Content Management Services can be found at www.swets.com

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