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Elsevier to publish the International Economics journal

Elsevier is pleased to announce it has been selected as the new publisher for the journal International Economics. The journal is published on behalf CEPII, the French research center in international economics, and is edited by Valerie Mignon and Farid Toubal of CEPII.

International Economics is devoted to the publication of high quality papers dealing with a wide range of issues related to international economics and especially welcomes empirical contributions that include but are not limited to topics in international trade, commercial policy, open macroeconomics and international finance, migration and factor movements.

“Since its launch in 1979, International Economics has published high quality research on a wide range of economic issues with a salient international dimension. Beyond the variety of approaches followed, the common thread has been to improve understanding of international, economic relationships and of the world economy, especially in regards to the best payday loans no credit check field,” said Sébastien Jean, Director at CEPII. “At CEPII we are pleased that International Economics is now published by Elsevier which will further promote and contribute its growing global visibility.”

Wendy Shamier, Publisher at Elsevier added, “We are honored that CEPII has selected Elsevier to publish their journal International Economics. The journal is a welcome addition to Elsevier’s strong and established portfolio of journals in the field of international economics and we look forward to its continued success.”

For more information or to submit an article, go to: www.elsevier.com/locate/inteco

Thomson Reuters Research Analytics Unveils 2013 Edition of Its Journal Citation Reports

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the release of the 2013 edition of its Journal Citation Reports® (JCR), the world’s most influential resource for evaluating peer-reviewed publications and the source of the annual Journal Impact Factors.

The Journal Citation Reports provides an assessment of a journal’s standing in scholarly literature through the objective evaluation of quantifiable, statistical information. The analysis comprises citation data, impact and influence metrics, and millions of cited and citing journal data points from the Web of ScienceSM, the industry’s leading citation indices in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

The 2013 edition, with separate sections for Science and Social Sciences, features 10,853 journal listings in 232 disciplines; 83 countries are represented. A total of 379 journals received their first Journal Impact Factor. Additionally, 33 journals were suppressed due to questionable citation activity. Suppressions aim to ensure the integrity of the reports; suppressed journals are re-evaluated after two-years for re-consideration in the JCR.

“Since its inception in 1975, the Journal Citation Reports continues to be a reliable benchmark for assessing the impact and influence of scholarly journals worldwide,” said Marie McVeigh, director of content selection for the Web of Science, Thomson Reuters. “Thomson Reuters understands the importance of these metrics in the scholarly community and is dedicated to preserving their accuracy and reliability in the ongoing selection of the world’s top-tier international and regional journals – journals that exemplify the quality demanded by researchers and authors worldwide.”

The journal selection process is an ongoing exercise focused on identifying, evaluating and selecting the most important and influential international and regional journals for coverage in the Web of Science. Once citations are available for a minimum two-year period, the data are analyzed and published in the JCR. The 2013 JCR edition contains data drawn from items published in 2012.

The Journal Citation Reports, within the Thomson Reuters Research Analytics suite, enables the scholarly community to evaluate research performance and impact of institutions, researchers, authors and papers globally.

Learn more about the Journal Citation Reports and how to submit journals. Follow on Twitter at @ImpactFactor.

EBSCO eBooks™ Now Available on Ingram’s OASIS® Academic Library Platform

Ingram Content Group Inc., and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) today announced that more than 400,000 e-book titles from EBSCO eBooks™ have been integrated with Ingram’s OASIS® content platform and are now available to academic libraries worldwide.

“Enabling librarians to select and order EBSCO eBooks from within their desired workflow allows more libraries to seamlessly integrate EBSCO eBooks into collection development processes, and in turn their collections for their patrons,” said Ken Breen, EBSCO’s Senior Director of E-book Products.  “Our collaborative work with Ingram will help more content reach more readers worldwide.”

The collaboration between EBSCO and Coutts Information Services, Ingram Content Group’s academic library company, has created one of the largest and most comprehensive content repositories of academic e-book content for libraries. Users of the OASIS platform that have their account enabled will have access to an expanded selection of scholarly, frontlist and award-winning e-book titles from leading publishers.

Users of the OASIS platform can view and select from e-books alongside print books, with no changes to existing and preferred workflows. Billing will be consolidated, offering libraries integrated acquisition services and invoicing for all EBSCO eBooks content.

“At Ingram, we continue to expand our services to provide complete end-to-end solutions for libraries, whether they need print, digital, print-on-demand or hard to find content,” said Dan Sheehan, Vice President and General Manager, Ingram Content Group library services.  “Through our work with EBSCO, more libraries will have access to the content that’s in demand by their patrons, all within their preferred workflow.”

The OASIS platform, Ingram’s academic content platform for its library company Coutts Information Services, is a comprehensive online library interface for bibliographic information and searching, book and e-book acquisition, collection development and workflow management. Through the OASIS platform, libraries are able to access a database of millions of titles; search, select and manage orders online; download records, including no-cost MARC downloads; monitor standing orders; manage approval plans and new title notification plans; track orders and access reporting information.

EBSCO’s extensive collection of e-book titles allows for a comprehensive and powerful search experience—with every search, relevant e-book titles appear directly alongside other EBSCOhost® databases, exposing users to the full depth of a library’s offerings and increasing usage and visibility of the library’s entire collection. EBSCO offers more than 420,000 high-quality e-book titles from leading publishers. Collections may be built from a growing selection of best-selling, frontlist and award-winning e-book titles across a wide range of subject matter or chosen from EBSCO’s pre-packaged collections that are hand-selected by EBSCO’s Collection Development team.

G8 science ministers’ recommendations on access to research

As preparations were underway in Northern Ireland for the 39th G8 summit, science ministers from G8 nations met with their national science academies to discuss the most pressing issues in research facing scientists worldwide. Their recommendations will be put to the G8 leaders during talks being held June 17-18. Among them are decisive actions required to make scientific research more open and more accessible.

In a statement released on June 13, the group noted that open enquiry is at the heart of scientific endeavour, and rapid technological change has profound implications for the way that science is both conducted and its results communicated. Further they announced their support for a clear set of principles for more open data, including that publicly funded research data should be made open, and that open data by definition should be easily discoverable, accessible and assessable.

Crucially, this set of principles acknowledges the need for open data to be written into government policy to ensure universal adoption, and for that policy to take into account the need for rewards and recognition for researchers opening up their data, and a digital infrastructure to support this data sharing. International collaboration will be essential to make this a global reality.

The G8 science ministers also made clear the importance of access to scientific research. This comes in the wake of steps taken in UK government policy (Universities Minister David Willets has mandated that all publicly funded research be published in gold or green open access venues) and wider lobbying from key figures in the research community. In the statement for G8 leaders, science ministers have outlined their main goals in relation to accessible research, highlighting the importance of peer review and the role of publishers and learned societies. The statement also reiterates the findings of the UK’s Finch Report of last year, namely that making publicly funded, peer-reviewed, published scientific research increasingly accessible will ‘accelerate research, drive innovation, and benefit the economy.’

To accommodate for the greater demand for data sharing alongside article publication open access publisher BioMed Central has developed a number of innovative journals and partnerships. From GigaScience, the big data genomics journal published in collaboration with the BGI, to an agreement with LabArchives that allows BioMed Central authors up to 100 MB of free storage in an online ‘notebook’ for research associated data. A number of its journals, including BMC Research Notes also provide a novel article type – a data note – that allows authors to submit data sets (either as associated files or via a link to an accessible deposition in a data repository) with a short accompanying report, separate to a full results article.

One area in particular that is receiving increasing attention and loud calls for greater openness is clinical trial research. The AllTrials initiative was founded early in 2013, and, although UK based, has international scope and ambitions. The campaign calls on governments to demand that all clinical trial research be published, and clinical trial data made publicly available within the constraints of ensuring anonymity of sensitive medical information. The campaign is supported by a number of publishers, societies and institutions, including the BMJ (co-founders of the initiative), BioMed Central, the Wellcome Trust, and GalxoSmith Kline. The campaign also has support from the European Patients Forum, which comprises 61 member bodies and over 150 million members, signalling the strengthening call from the public for transparency and accountability in the reporting of scientific research, especially that funded by public money.

The statement from the G8 science ministers is a step toward recognising this shift in public opinion and research demands. The outcomes of the G8 summit this week could kick start an international movement in opening up research and sharing data.

DOAJ announces new selection criteria

The Directory of Open Access Journals is delighted to announce new selection criteria and hereby announces that these new criteria are open for public comment until July 15th.

The DOAJ-team has developed the criteria and our Advisory Board has provided valuable input and comments.

With the growth in the number of research funders, institutional open access policies and mandates, all stakeholders involved – researchers (as authors and readers), research managers, staff managing publication funds, librarians, universities and research funders – need a trusted and reliable information resource that identifies good quality open access journals and filters out disreputable publishers. Equally, the former have a vested interest in not being associated with the latter.

We have tried to construct objective criteria that can facilitate compliance verification easily. In order to be listed in the DOAJ, a journal must meet the following criteria:

  • Journal will be asked to provide basic information (title, ISSN, etc.), contact information, and information about journal policies
  • Journal is registered with SHERPA/RoMEO
  • Journal has an editorial board with clearly identifiable members (including affiliation information)
  • Journal publishes a minimum of five articles per year (does not apply for new journals)
  • Allows use and reuse at leastat the following levels (as specified in the Open Access Spectrum, http://www.plos.org/about/open-access/howopenisit/ ):
    • Full text, metadata, and citations of articles can be crawled and accessed with permission (Machine Readability Level 4)
    • Provides free readership rights to all articles immediately upon publication (Reader Rights Level 1)
    • Reuse is subject to certain restrictions; no remixing (Reuse Rights Level 3)
    • Allow authors to retain copyright in their article with no restrictions (Copyrights Level 1)
    • Author can post the final, peer-reviewed manuscript version (postprint) to any repository or website (Author Posting Rights Level 2)

You may review the complete list of criteria here.

Future submissions for inclusion in to DOAJ must include the complete set of information provided by the publisher. This information will be publicly available in the Directory. The journals currently listed in the DOAJ will have to go through a re-evaluation process based on the new criteria. This work will take place over the next 12 months or so.

Coventry University Extends Library Services with Ex Libris Alma

Ex Libris Group®, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that Coventry University has selected the next-generation Alma solution from Ex Libris. Following its 2010 decision to implement Primo to improve the user experience, the university has now taken a strategic step to improve library operations with Alma. Alma will replace the Aleph® integrated library system and the SFX® OpenURL link resolver, enabling the library to increase efficiency by employing a single, cloud-based solution to manage its electronic and print resources. The combination of Alma and Primo will enable Coventry University to streamline workflows while continuing to offer their users access to the wealth of its resources via a single interface.
“Our decision to adopt Alma follows both an in-depth review of the marketplace and observations of successful implementations in the UK, Europe, and worldwide,” stated Caroline Rock, university librarian at Coventry University. “We are confident that Alma will provide the unified functionality appropriate for today’s library users as well as for efficient and effective management of our information resources. Alma will enable our library to contribute fully to the academic goals of the university. Additionally, with this implementation, we will be able to build on the Ex Libris solutions that have provided us with strong foundations in both information resource management and resource discovery.”
Christoph Frech, regional sales director for Ex Libris Europe, commented, “By joining the growing number of institutions implementing Alma, Coventry University reaffirms Alma’s place as an established service in the market. Alma is a natural step forward for institutions currently using Ex Libris solutions and for all libraries looking for a next-generation, cloud‑based solution. The university’s decision to adopt this solution clearly demonstrates that Alma presents a sustainable alternative to locally installed library software.”

Yale University Chooses Summon Discovery Service

Yale University selected the Summon discovery service from Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, to improve access to its distinctive collection, including 15 million volumes and information in all media. Yale University Library, the most recent of six Ivy League schools to adopt the Summon service, determined ease of customization, integrity of search results, a unified index architecture and the company’s track record for rapid innovation of new discovery features were essential in choosing to work with Serials Solutions.

The library conducted a thorough review of discovery services to identify a solution that would deliver improved discovery, has comprehensive coverage of its vast collection, increase usage of the library’s resources, and provide flexible and robust customization capabilities.

“As one of the world’s leading research libraries, providing easy access to our vast collection of resources is very important,” said Michael Dula, chief technology officer, Yale University Library. “The Summon API will enable us to create a more tailored user experience, customized interface, and connect our users to relevant content. While we carefully evaluated a number of services, Summon was the most obvious choice based on the ease-of-use and flexibility of the API, and the new features in Summon 2.0.”

Inherent to the service, the Summon API is used by dozens of libraries in creative and innovative ways. Customization trends among libraries reveal a range of uses with the Summon API – from custom interfaces to integration with open source interfaces to custom landing pages.

“We recognize the importance of providing libraries and librarians the opportunity to directly impact the discovery experience,” said John Law, vice president, discovery services, Serials Solutions. “In response to ever-changing user behaviors and the desire by libraries to provide more services that deliver greater value to researchers, the Summon service combines comprehensiveness with the flexibility to customize the user interface, and innovative features that allow libraries to offer layers of contextual guidance for users at the point they need it most.”

Used by more than 600 libraries in more than 40 countries, the Summon service is the first and only discovery service based on a unified index of content, leveraging its unique “match and merge” technology to combine rich metadata and full text from multiple sources to ultimately make items more discoverable. In just three years, the Summon unified index has grown from 200 million items to more than one billion items – with the vast majority of article and book content full-text searchable. Proven to increase usage of library resources, the Summon service consistently meets user expectations by delivering innovative new features for enhancing discovery.

SPARC Open Access Meeting 2014 to Focus on Convergence

The next SPARC Open Access Meeting, themed “Convergence,” will convene March 3–4, 2014, in Kansas City. The past year has seen growing momentum in the areas of open access, open data, and open educational resources. As the push for greater openness continues, these three fronts are converging in interesting and potentially transformative ways. Join us as leaders from the library community, academia, industry, student community, and other research avenues discuss how open access, open data, and open educational resources are intersecting, and the impact this convergence might have on research and discovery. The meeting is designed to emphasize collaborative actions that stakeholders can take to positively impact publishing, policy, digital repositories, author rights, and licensing.

Hotel reservations are now open. For room rates and more information, visit the SPARC Open Access Meeting 2014 webpage. Meeting registration will open in the fall of 2013.

Janet Lees to retire as OCLC EMEA Community Liaison

Janet Lees, OCLC Europe, the Middle East and Africa Community Liaison, has announced plans to retire after 31 years with the worldwide library cooperative.

Ms. Lees was among the first OCLC employees to be based outside the United States. She helped establish the OCLC office in Birmingham, England, joining the organization in January 1982. She was instrumental in making OCLC relevant in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Ms. Lees developed mutually beneficial relationships with libraries, cooperatives and other institutions across Europe and into the Middle East and Africa. She helped create longstanding relationships between OCLC and a number of distributors, including DBC (Denmark), DOC6 (Spain), IFnet (Italy), ITS (Eastern Europe) and particularly SABINET in South Africa, which helped bring many national groups of libraries into WorldCat and OCLC membership.

Ms. Lees served as Managing Director of OCLC EMEA from 1996 until 2002. After OCLC completed its merger with PICA that year, she was named Director of Sales for the combined operation. She served in that position until becoming Community Liaison for EMEA in January 2005.

“Janet Lees is widely respected in the library community for the depth and breadth of her knowledge and experience, as well as her generosity in sharing that knowledge,” said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO. “She played a major role in creating and supporting the OCLC regional council structure that was introduced in 2008. She has worked tirelessly to inspire a commitment to membership in EMEA libraries, and has seen participation in the OCLC cooperative and in regional elections grow substantially over the years. We are grateful to Janet for her outstanding, dedicated service to OCLC and libraries worldwide.”

During her tenure, Ms. Lees has attended 19 IFLA conferences and visited 45 countries on behalf of OCLC.

EBSCO and Al Manhal in deal to add Arabic content to EBSCO Discovery Service

Collections from Al Manhal, the largest provider of electronic resources in the Arab world, will be searchable via EBSCO Information Service’s (EBSCO) robust and comprehensive discovery service, EBSCO Discovery Service™(EDS). The agreement between EBSCO and Al Manhal will allow metadata for their eBook, eJournals, eReports and eDissertation collections to be added to EDS.

Al Manhal’s eBook Collection includes an exclusive collection of Arabic books available in 10 main subject areas: political science & international relations, business & economics, social sciences, law, language & literature, history, geography & biography, Islamic jurisprudence, Islam & other disciplines, specialized Islamic sciences and educational sciences.

The eJournal database from Al Manhal will also be added to the comprehensive collection of content in EDSand provide users with the most influential journals from leading universities, research institutes and scientific societies in the Arab world. The eJournal content covers humanities and social sciences as well as topics in the science, technical and medical fields. Al Manhal eReports databases include daily aggregated news of the latest regional issues in addition to more in-depth analyses of political, economic and security events in the region, delivered weekly and monthly. eDisserations are written by Arabic students and go through an evaluation process by leading experts before they are published.

Al Manhal is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Partners include the world’s largest scholarly journal & book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications, Nature Publishing, IEEE, ACM and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, Encyclopedia Britannica, World Book, ABC-CLIO, The HathiTrust and many others.

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means ofaccessing 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.

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 EBSCOhostplatform, and the same can be said for library administrators who can leverage their previous work with EBSCOadmin™.

BJS Celebrates 100th Anniversary

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), the premier surgical journal in Europe and one of the top surgical periodicals in the world, published by Wiley, is marking its 100th anniversary with a number of special activities.

As part of the commemorative events, a series of twelve leading articles, “The Centenary Collection”, will be published throughout the year. In the first of these special articles, “Surgical History,” Harold Ellis, Professor at King’s College London School of Medicine, looks back at volume one of BJS. Others reflect on leading surgical advances over the century, and some look to the future direction of surgery, with topics such as surgical collaboration by W.S.M. Summerskill and R. Horton of The Lancet.

“BJS has changed beyond recognition in 100 years and continues to evolve,” said J.J. Earnshaw, Joint Editor-in-Chief, BJS. “However, its ethos of high standards, surgical research, and training has been maintained through the century to the present day. BJS has and will continue to promote all that is best in contemporary surgery.”

The anniversary celebration is also being marked by a special event: “The Science of Surgery: A BJS Centenary Symposium” will be hosted on Saturday 22nd June 2013 at the University of Oxford. Notable speakers include the Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, Professor Derek Alderson, and academics such as Sir Muir Gray and Geoff Bilder. Topics include surgical research, surgical innovation, the introduction of new technologies, and the future of surgical journals. The proceedings of the symposium will be recorded and available on www.bjs.co.uk.

Looking forward, the website and electronic media will be placed at the forefront of the new BJS. “BJS is a journal of the future that will be a complete learning resource for the surgeon at all career levels, rather than solely a scientific journal,” said Earnshaw.

Soon surgeons will be able to personalize their use of the BJS website, select their specialist interest, and receive relevant content automatically. BJS is also looking to advance the popular Clinical Media Library (CML) with rich images, videos, podcasts, and all forms of digital content.

As an additional part of the centenary celebrations, BJS has made the first issue from 1913 available for free. This issue provides fascinating insight into historical Instructive Mistakes, Rare or Obscure Cases, New Instruments and Appliances, and an Obituary of Lord Joseph Lister. To access the issue, please visit: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bjs.v1:1/issuetoc.

SwetsWise Online Content upgrade goes live

Swets refines access management workflows for libraries and researchers with SwetsWise Online Content upgrade.
Swets announced today that it has released  the latest update to its SwetsWise platform; installing a revitalized end-user environment for users of the SwetsWise Online Content module. The update has been made freely available for all existing SwetsWise Online Content subscribers and is available for use immediately.

Swets’ aim with the product has always been to provide a single point of access to all of a library’s electronic resources and enable direct linking to all full-text, online articles. The latest upgrade introduces more content, improved search functionality and a totally revitalized end-user interface, making search and discovery much more intuitive and hassle free for the user.
With the new SwetsWise Online Content users will find:

  • A brand new interface built around intuitive, unified search functionality
  • More content and improved accessibility than ever before
  • 42 million searchable references, more than 14,500 full text titles from over 5,700 publishers
  • Handy filters to refine search queries for deeper, more precise investigation opportunities
  • Search and Publication alerts for favored titles and more

“One of the main focuses for librarians is to support and simplify the workflows of their researchers, students and patrons. Tailoring a collection of content to suit the demanding needs of users is important but ensuring the availability, discoverability and accessibility of that content is vital to the success of the work undertaken across their institution,” said David Main, CEO at Swets. “Access Management is one of the main pillars of our extensive range of content management services for libraries. The features installed with this free update will make it easier for our customers to streamline user  workflows, stimulate usage across their institution and unlock the potential value of all their electronic resources.”

The administrator tools included in SwetsWise Online Content have received minimal alterations, ensuring library administrators can continue with their existing workflows without disruption. Full specifications of the latest release, along with a collection of helpful user documents can be found at:
www.swets.com/swetswise/online-content-titlebank

View a quick tutorial of the interface and its main features at:
www.swets.com/video/swetswise-end-user-interface-tutorial

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