Boston College 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.”

Boston College 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.

Reprints Desk, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Research Solutions, Inc. (RSSS), and Colorado State University (CSU) Libraries announced today that Reprints Desk’s A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection for full-text retrieval of scholarly research papers will soon be available to over 200 academic institutions that are members of CSU’s RapidILL system. RapidILL members will benefit from another cost-effective content acquisition option that features fast delivery of journal article PDFs with coverage across nearly 20,000 journal publications and special copyright royalty rates and delivery fees.

RapidILL is a library resource sharing system created by the interlibrary loan staff at Colorado State in 1997 to improve literature borrowing, and lending. Member libraries are able to request content that is automatically checked against a database of records to identify and initiate acquisition sourcing based on a number of business rules. Reprints Desk joins existing document suppliers Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), Linda Hall Library, and the Center for Research Libraries.

“Rapid participants have been seeking a method to easily obtain and pay copyright for articles without signing a restrictive contract.” said Tom Moothart, Assistant Dean of Resource Delivery Services at Colorado State University Libraries, “Reprints Desk will provide another avenue allowing libraries to efficiently order articles using their standard Rapid workflow.”

Reprints Desk’s A-Z Academic Document Delivery Collection is comprised of content from leading scholarly publishers, including Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Springer Verlag, Massachusetts Medical Society and dozens of others. Reprints Desk provides a high quality PDF within minutes for each document delivery request that the company receives and makes the service available for a low transactional service fee plus a special academic copyright royalty charge that can be as low as fifteen U.S. dollars.

“We are honored to be entrusted as a document supplier to the RapidILL community,” said Scott Ahlberg, Chief Operations Officer at Reprints Desk. “Reprints Desk understands the importance of making non-subscribed content available within library workflows and ensuring that academic libraries have a document delivery option that is tailored to fit within their larger collection management portfolio.”

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, visit http://info.reprintsdesk.com/academic-articles.  For more information about Reprints Desk, visit www.reprintsdesk.com.

IHS (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of information and analytics, today announced a new partnership agreement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), a global provider of knowledge and knowledge-based services in the areas of research, professional development, and education. The new agreement allows IHS to resell thousands of Wiley’s scientific and engineering titles as part of IHS’s subscription-based offerings on a limited exclusive basis to its global industrial customers.

Under the partnership, IHS will add Wiley content to IHS’s expansive collection of 90 million technical documents spanning engineering standards and related industry and technical knowledge. IHS gives engineers, scientists, researchers, product management and marketing professionals advanced research and knowledge discovery capabilities and a single point-of-access to the most extensive collection of technical knowledge, allowing them to make fast, informed decisions across the product lifecycle.

IHS will resell the following from Wiley as part of IHS subscription-based offerings:

• over 2,000 Wiley eBooks such as the Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook, Peterson’s Stress Concentration Factors, Taguchi’s Quality Engineering Handbook and Uhlig’s Corrosion Handbook
• select Wiley Global Research databases including the Wiley Database of Polymer Properties
• several major reference works including Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, both mainstays for chemists, biochemists, and engineers at academic, industrial, and government institutions.

The integration of Wiley content with IHS content collections and IHS’ tools to accelerate research and knowledge discovery eliminates the need for engineers and other technical professionals to have to search across multiple unique data sources and systems with multiple logins. As part of this agreement, IHS and Wiley will work together strategically in the areas of product development, marketing and editorial activities.

“We are excited to be partnering with one of the world’s largest publishers for professional and scholarly societies,” said Anurag Gupta, ‎executive vice president, Global Strategy, Products and Operations, IHS. “Our customers depend on IHS for single-point access to critical information, such as engineering standards. These same customers have been asking us to enhance our solution to contain single-point access to related technical knowledge. Our relationship with Wiley now allows us to do just that.”

“Our partnership with IHS enhances our ability to serve the world’s research and technical communities by offering world-class knowledge discovery capabilities that promote greater user engagement with our scientific and technical research,” said Jon Walmsley, Wiley’s vice president and managing director of Professional Practice and Learning. “We are excited to be working so closely with IHS as we further develop our strategic partnership in product development and editorial content creation.”

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the launch of two new editions of its intellectual asset management solution Thomson IP Manager: Cloud and Jumpstart. These are in addition to the locally installed Enterprise Edition, ideal for large portfolios and complex configurations. The three editions provide comprehensive IP management that enables collaboration between departments, speeds decision making and protects critical assets for organizations of all sizes and with varying asset management needs.

Thomson IP Manager Cloud Edition is hosted by Thomson Reuters, eliminating the need for in-house IT support while providing the highest level of data security, backup, automated upgrades and front-and-back-end support. Thomson IP Manager Jumpstart Edition is preconfigured for immediate, out-of-the-box use. It is also hosted by Thomson Reuters and includes a variety of standard workflows, reports, forms, and security groups for fast implementation and use.

“In today’s competitive market, effectively managing intellectual property assets is essential to execute a successful IP strategy. However, many organizations are being asked to manage these critical assets with fewer resources in the current do-more-with-less business environment,” said Stephanie Valentine, vice president commercial strategy, Thomson Reuters IP Solutions. “Thomson IP Manager offers IP professionals a powerful intellectual asset management solution to maximize efficiency, plus options to align with available resources so that they can focus on protecting their IP assets and achieving business goals.”

In addition to the new editions of Thomson IP Manager, all users will benefit from a new, intuitive interface to minimize clicks and promote user efficiency. Bold role-based features help streamline portfolio management processes so users can automate emails, export data and access frequently used tools. Additionally, the comprehensive IP Rules in Thomson IP Manager enables users to comply with global IP developments and make timely IP Payments. All of these enhancements are built on a new, state-of-the-art technology platform, providing more powerful performance for IP professionals.

From ideation to prosecution and commercialization, Thomson IP Management Services helps clients maximize the value of their IP portfolio, align it with their business strategy and drive global competitiveness. Thomson IP Management Services solutions integrate state-of-the-art portfolio management technology, comprehensive IP payment services, IP management consulting and a world-class IP Rules collection to provide unparalleled support of clients’ patents, trademarks, licenses and other intellectual assets.

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, recently collaborated with the Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (ANVUR), Italy’s national agency for the evaluation of universities  and research centers, for  the Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca (VQR), an exercise to evaluate the quality of the nation’s research efforts. The report is the largest-scale evaluation of research in Italy’s history.

The VQR examined research outcomes in 14 disciplinary areas of study published between 2004 and 2010 by 95 universities, 12 research centers and 26 other institutions to identify the significance of the nation’s research output and how it compares globally. By reviewing a significant number of Italian research outcomes, ANVUR was able to gain a greater understanding of Italy’s research strengths, impact and neglected fields of study. The exercise also measured Italian research performance against that of other European nations and the emerging BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China.

Thomson Reuters assisted ANVUR in composing the VQR by providing data from Web of ScienceSM, the industry’s leading data citation index. This data helped ANVUR perform a bibliometric analysis on close to half of the 184,878 research outcomes. The single articles were analyzed for level of significance, innovation and internationalization. Additionally, ANVUR utilized custom reports and citation metrics from Thomson Reuters InCitesSM, the premier web-based research evaluation tool to assess Italy’s performance internationally. The analysis found Italy’s impact to be higher than the worldwide average for institutional research output and the growth of its number of publications to be higher than the European average.

“Choosing Thomson Reuters as one of our partners was essential to assess the impact of indexed journal articles within the VQR for the largest research assessment Italy has ever undertaken,” said Professor Sergio Benedetto, coordinator of the VQR. “The bibliometric data from Thomson Reuters were crucial to compute the two indicators used in the VQR bibliometric evaluation, as were the custom reports from InCites in a global comparison of Italy’s research strength as compared to other industrial countries.”

The VQR report also revealed that Italy’s research impact is greater than Spain’s, on par with France, but below that of Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

“It was an honor to work with the ANVUR on this monumental project,” said Gordon Macomber, managing director of Scientific and Scholarly Research at Thomson Reuters. “Reviewing the scale of Italy’s vast scientific and scholarly research output is a complicated undertaking. We were happy to be among the partners to provide ANVUR with data to explicate the significant amount of research created by Italy’s researchers and institutions and to help evaluate its global impact.”

As part of the Thomson Reuters Research Analytics suite, InCites provides provosts, information professionals, research analysts and librarians with an unparalleled solution for conducting industry evaluations and benchmarking. InCites is powered by the multidisciplinary Web of Science, the world’s most trusted source for bibliometrics and citation information.

More than 6.5 million assignments of the ISO-certified naming standard International Standard Name Identifier, known as “ISNI“, are ensuring the right information gets connected with the right name. Published in early 2012, the standard applies a unique 16-digit code to public identities, providing a single identifier that can be leveraged across many applications, helping to sync alternate or disparate spellings of the same name, and eliminating confusion when names are alike. It’s been quickly accepted by information organizations, including Wikipedia. Bowker, an affiliated business of ProQuest and a registration agency for the standard, tracks assignments and usage of ISNIs.

“The rapid uptake reflects the standard’s ability to simplify the process of identification,” said Beat Barblan, Bowker’s Director of Identifier Services. “It’s a practical way to ensure accuracy when information organizations share information. With an ISNI, we know we are referring to the correct Joseph Stiglitz or Stephen King or Mark Wahlberg.”

The ISNI International Agency, a worldwide group of organizations that serve researchers, rights management organizations, authors, musicians, and other public contributors, created the standard to disambiguate names. The ISNI acts a link for the data about an identity and is used across all media industries. So, for example, information about Charles, Prince of Wales is distinct from information about Charles Prince, an author, or Prince Charles, an R&B artist, and the information attached to, say, “Tolstoy” is also attached to “Tolstoi.”

Once an ISNI is assigned by a registration agency, it is shared across the global digital information industry, enabling organizations to apply it to content by or about that party held in their databases. Users tapping into any of the organizations that use ISNIs will need only a name and just enough background data (such as a birth date or book title) to zero in on the correct identity. Then, the ISNI will take over, connecting all the appropriate public information. ISNIs are especially important for organizations administering rights, simplifying identification and administration of royalties.

Organizations and individuals can apply for an ISNI for any public identity — real or fictional — through a registration agency, such as Bowker.

To apply for ISNIs through Bowker or obtain more information, contact Beat Barblan, Director of Identifier Services, at beat.barblan@bowker.com. Use ISNI’s free lookup interface at http://www.isni.org/search.

Publishing Technology and CNPIEC, the China National Publications Import and Export (Group) Corporation, are proud to announce the unveiling of the CNP eReading platform at the Beijing International Book Fair this week.

At launch, the site carries over 200,000 individual book titles from more than 300 international publishers, extending their reach into the rapidly growing Chinese market and attracting new readers to digest their academic content for the very first time.

Following a deal signed at the London Book Fair in 2012, the digital hub has been developed by Publishing Technology, a world-leading provider of content solutions for publishers, on a custom-built online publishing platform. CNPIEC, the largest and most highly-developed government sanctioned publication import and export group in China, will manage the new site which is available in both English and Mandarin.

The CNP eReading platform presents international publishers with an exclusive opportunity to showcase their foreign language journals and ebooks to previously untapped Chinese audiences. The site is set to increase its presence dramatically in the next year with the continued assistance of Publishing Technology, who will invite its 250 ingentaconnect customers to host over 12,000 journal publications on the platform.

In order to assist this outreach programme, Publishing Technology’s extensive ingentaconnect client list of international publishers have been invited to the First International Journals Conference in China – held at the Wuhan International Expo Centre (September 14-16).

Mr Bogen Liu, Vice President of China Publishing Group and President of CNPIEC, commented: “We are thrilled with the CNP eReading platform. We have worked closely with Publishing Technology to deliver a product which has the potential to greatly widen the amount and diversity of foreign language content available in China. Publishing Technology’s affiliation with publishers across the globe has significantly extended the volume of international content we can offer our customers.”

George Lossius, CEO at Publishing Technology, stated: “We are extremely proud to play a continued role in the advancement of Chinese library digitisation and increasing the opportunities for international publishers to gain exposure in China. Our partnership with CNPIEC is helping the platform grow in strength and depth, whilst our connection with local digital publishing experts is benefiting our international clients. Our strong presence within China allows us to provide appreciable value and assistance to publishers who are understandably eager to meet the growing appetite for digital content in the world’s largest growing market.”