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Ex Libris Appoints New General Manager for European Region

Ex Libris® Group, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that Koby Rosenthal, a prominent manager in the high-tech industry, will run the Company’s European operations and serve as a corporate vice president effective May 6, 2013.

“We are thrilled to have Koby come on board as a senior executive,” said Matti Shem Tov, president and CEO of Ex Libris. “Koby’s impressive record at global high-tech companies such as Orbotech and Applied Materials, his deep technological understanding, and his vast international experience will be a major asset to Ex Libris.”

“I am delighted to be joining Ex Libris, a company with a large, prestigious customer base; leading technologies; an exceptional vision for the future; and dedicated, enthusiastic staff,” commented Rosenthal. “I look forward to working with the Ex Libris teams in the Hamburg office and throughout Europe, meeting our European customers, and extending the Company’s collaboration with the customer community.”

Expanded Public Access to Federally Funded Research: AAU, APLU, ARL Issue Call to Action

Today the Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and Association of Research Libraries (ARL) released a two-page statement by David E. Shulenburger calling on the research university community to provide input to the US Government for increasing access to the results of federally funded research. In February, John P. Holdren, Director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, issued a memorandum directing federal research funding agencies with R&D budgets of $100 million or more to develop a plan within six months to support increased public access to the results of research funded by the federal Government.

Shulenburger states:

To assure that resulting plans serve scholarship well, it is critically important that we provide input to federal agencies while they are considering what to propose to the White House, as well as during the Director’s approval process. We must help ensure that agency plans are efficient and effective, and that they meet the needs of the academy, the Government, and the public.

Read the full statement, “Expanded Public Access: A New Era with New Challenges” (PDF).

World Scientific Publishing Signs eBook Agreement with YBP Library Services

World Scientific Publishing (www.worldscientific.com), an international independent STM publisher, announced today that they have signed a new agreement with YBP Library Services (YBP), the academic division of Baker & Taylor.

Customers will be able to access the publisher’s 2012-2013 Front List Full Collection of eBooks that will be available for purchase from World Scientific Publishing through GOBI3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information), YBP’s acquisition and collection management interface. Currently, more than 300 ebook titles have been added, with plans to expand and grow the business partnership.

Information on title availability for the full range of World Scientific Publishing handbooks and reference works will be accessible by libraries through GOBI3, enabling YBP’s customers to view and select individual ebooks, as well as subject collection ebooks, from World Scientific Publishing with no change to their existing workflow. The result is a fully-integrated, user-friendly library acquisition process, from selection and profiling to ordering and invoicing.

“This partnership continues our long-term strategic initiative to provide our customers with the broadest possible access to leading scholarly content,” said Mark Kendall, Senior Vice President of Sales and Operations at YBP. “Our collaboration with World Scientific Publishing offers our academic customers the combination of World Scientific Publishing’s highly-respected and quality content and YBP’s value-added services to libraries and consortia.”

“We are pleased to continue forging strong relationships with YBP, first in the print arena and now in the digital space. YBP’s customer focused systems create great value for libraries, and we are proud to partner with them in delivering high quality content to our library customers,” said Max Phua, Executive Director of World Scientific Publishing Company.

Elsevier launches Japanese user interface to Scopus

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of a Japanese user interface to Scopus.The interface provides Japanese users with the ability to find their way through the product in their local language.

Japanese users are now able to find the research information they are looking for more efficiently – expanding beyond Scopus’ basic search functionalities to utilizing more advanced features such as personalization and alerts. As additional support all in-product help files have been translated into Japanese to further increase product understanding, helping Japanese librarians in their teaching and usage of Scopus.

“With a wide range of global content coverage and functionality, Scopus has become one of the most popular abstract and citation databases amongst researchers,” said Cameron Ross, Head of Product Management, Scopus & Engineering Village at Elsevier. “We are delighted to be able to offer the Japanese user interface to further meet the needs of our Japanese customers and users.”

“This local-language interface will help Japanese users accelerate the speed of their research, conduct analyses, determine their research strategy, provide trainings in a more efficient and effective way and gain information critical to develop their academic career,” said Tetsu Ikeda, Director, Science & Technology, Elsevier Japan. “We are excited to hear the interest and positive feedback already coming from our customers.”

To view the interface, go to www.scopus.com and click on “Japanese” in the footer or set your browser to Japanese.

EBSCO Appoints New General Manager to Lead UK and Nordic Operations

EBSCO announced today that Paul Harwood has been appointed into a new role as General Manager of the UK and Nordic operations for EBSCO Information Services. Paul will officially start with EBSCO on 30 May 2013.

Well known in the library, publisher, and intermediary communities, Paul has been active on various committees and professional interest groups, including a long association with UKSG, where he was Chair between 2006-2008 and he is currently a member of the UK Open Access Implementation Group. Most recently, Paul has been Deputy CEO of JISC Collections, playing a lead role in their open access activity for journals. Prior to JISC Collections, Paul successfully co-founded and grew the licensing company, Content Complete Limited and he joined JISC Collections as part of its acquisition of the company in December 2009. During his time at Content Complete, and more recently at JISC Collections, he has played a leading role in many of the NESLi2 journal negotiations with publishers. A librarian by training, Paul has recently obtained an MBA, and he has prior degrees in English, History, and Marketing.

Robert Schoenvogel, EBSCO’s European General Manager, welcomes Paul to EBSCO’s management team, commenting that “As an experienced and respected leader in the information industry, Paul brings to EBSCO a high level of energy and a keen focus on continuing to grow our leadership position in the UK and Nordic markets.”

Copyright Clearance Center Partners with PubMatch

Publishing Industry’s First International Rights Network Utilizing Copyright Clearance Center Solution to Create Web-based Sub-rights Licensing Service

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing and content solutions, announced a partnership with PubMatch, the book publishing portal and rights database jointly owned by Publishers Weekly and Combined Book Exhibit. Under the terms of the partnership, CCC and PubMatch will create an automated, Web-based exchange for sub-rights deals focused on whole book translation and distribution rights, using CCC’s RightsLink® transaction engine.

The world’s leading publishers use RightsLink to help increase revenue, streamline the online licensing process and enhance the licensing experience for their customers.

“Thanks to this new agreement between PubMatch and the CCC, rightsholders will now have a way of facilitating transactions that might have otherwise been lost,” said George Slowik, Jr., president of Publishers Weekly, speaking on behalf of PubMatch. “Utilizing the muscle of CCC’s RightsLink, parties will have a new resource to arrange and vet rights sales. This improved efficiency will make more works available in more languages and more markets internationally than ever before.”

“The combination of PubMatch and CCC will benefit a wide spectrum of users, including publishers, agents and authors,” said Miles McNamee, VP, Licensing and Business Development, CCC. “Rightsholders can list available titles and rights, and the service will make it easy for local publishers in any country to find available rights.”

New SPARC Community Resource on Article-Level Metrics

Today, SPARC released a new community resource, Article-Level Metrics — A SPARC Primer, delving into Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) an emerging hot topic in the scholarly publishing arena. Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles are being discussed, shared, and used. This new SPARC primer is designed to give campus leaders and other interested parties an overview of what ALMs are, why they matter, how they complement established utilities and metrics, and how they might be considered for use in the tenure and promotion process.

While Article-Level Metrics are not inherently part of the open access movement, they are tools that can be applied in a variety of ways that are of interest to SPARC and its constituents. The community can develop, distribute, and build upon ALM tools in a manner that opens up impact metrics as never before. These community efforts are transparent in the methodologies they use to track impact, as well as the technologies behind the processes. In this manner, ALMs dovetail with not just SPARC’s push for open access but various other “open” movements – open science, open data, and open source chief among them. ALMs that are free to use, modify, and distribute contribute to a world in which information is more easily shared and in which the pace of research and development is accelerated as a consequence.

Elsevier and O’Reilly Media Sign New Ebook Distribution Deal

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and technology publisher O’Reilly Media today announced that O’Reilly will distribute many of Elsevier’s academic, research-focused ebooks. This expands the depth of ebooks available from O’Reilly in areas such as computer security and networking, and includes leading imprints such as Morgan Kaufmann, Syngress, Academic Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, Newnes and Elsevier with more than 1,200 individual titles.

“The consumer ebook market is an emerging and changing one and we want to offer customers as many choices as possible,” stated Suzanne BeDell, Managing Director of Elsevier’s Science & Technology Books. “O’Reilly has a strong presence in the consumer market and provides us with a great opportunity to offer titles to many who might not otherwise see our content – all in a DRM-free format. That’s a win for both companies.”

Elsevier ebooks purchased through oreilly.com are offered DRM-free and are available in multiple formats, including PDF, EPUB, and .MOBI. Free ebook updates are also guaranteed, along with lifetime access.

“We’re honored to be working with Elsevier,” said Pascal Honscher, O’Reilly’s General Manager for Corporate Development. “Elsevier’s impressive selection of titles includes some of the most trusted imprints in tech publishing. Their reputation within the scientific community is unparalleled and the quality of their content is superb.”

“The alignment of digital content philosophies is an important part of the mix. Working with a publisher that shares and embraces similar ideals is particularly gratifying,” Honscher continued. “We’re thrilled to offer Elsevier’s ebooks to readers already gathered within the O’Reilly community.”

To learn more, visit http://www.oreilly.com.

Publishers’ online communities to double by 2015

The number of publisher-owned online communities is set to more than double over the next two years, according to new research released today by Publishing Technology at The London Book Fair.

The study, conducted by Bowker Market Research, a service of ProQuest affiliate Bowker, found that two thirds of responding publishers currently host reader communities, and that this is set to rise to over 90% over the next two years. A quarter expect to have seven or more networks up and running by 2015, with many respondents predicting a huge growth in the number of online communities for their company, from a current average of 2.1, to more than five over the next two years.

The survey, which included UK and US publishers across trade and academic sectors, revealed that trade publishers are currently most engaged in this area with 86% of respondents owning an online community in some shape or form.

The study also investigated the rationale and perceived benefits for publishers moving into this arena, revealing that:
· 84% of publishers felt their spending on online communities would increase in the next two years with only 14% envisaging expenditure remaining stagnant
· 64% of publishers with online communities were convinced that their investment in this market is already paying off and a further 24% believed it would do so in the short term
· 73% of all the publishers interviewed felt that online communities helped or would help them to engage better with their audiences
· 72% of trade publishers said they helped or would help to increase direct relationships with customers and 45% claimed they provided or would provide good marketing support to sales channels
· 40% of academic and professional publishers said that increasing knowledge and understanding of customers was a key benefit, whilst 40% felt increasing content usage was a priority

Although currently only 16% of all respondents viewed online communities as viable direct sales channels, the formats that have benefited most from online community activity are e-books for trade publishers (40%) and online resources for academic publishers (67%).

Jane Tappuni, Business Development Director at Publishing Technology, commented: “Online communities are far more than a channel for selling books, these results send a clear message that both trade and academic publishers want to use these platforms to establish closer relationships with their core readers, be it to communicate with them directly or to better understand their needs.”

She continued: “Online communities provide publishers with a way of striking up a direct rapport with their audiences and, at a time when publishing business models are evolving to become more consumer-focused, it comes as no surprise that publishers are ramping up investment in this area. This is the first major research that has been carried out in this field and the results are significant; they prove that publishers have moved far beyond the testing, experimental phase and now consider online communities to be a powerful tool that is an integral part of their marketing mix.”

Jo Henry, Director, Bowker Market Research, said: “There is a substantial amount of activity going on in this area as publishers seek new ways in which to engage directly with their consumers. It is interesting to note that in this survey US publishers were not significantly more advanced than UK ones – and that trade publishers appear to be leading the way in developing online communities.”

Key findings were made available at the joint Book Marketing Society (BMS)/Publishers Publicity Circle (PPC) London Book Fair panel on THE CAMPAIGN REVOLUTION: Reshaping the way publishers are reaching readers.

Trade and academic publishers in the UK and US were invited to contribute to the survey. The full results are available now on publishingtechnology.com/blog

De Gruyter presents new OA model for e-dition titles

With the new open-access model of De Gruyter can roughly 45,000 e-dition of publishing backlist titles are freely available. For a price of EUR 1,500 / $ 2,100, a customer can a book with the same standard as a commonly on the e-dition Buy produced work as an eBook that is then set access-free under CC-BY-NC-ND license on De Gruyter Online .

This extended open access offer is aimed primarily at libraries and research institutions, which at more titles ordered a quantity discount will be given. However, individuals can use the offer. For example, an author can be his own work later to be an open access titles. The possibility exists for all publications that have a release date in 2004 or earlier and are not included in any of the “best-of-package”.

“The option to open access for the e-dition complements the existing title granted open access features of the De Gruyter, “says Katrin Siems , Vice President Marketing & Sales at De Gruyter. “Library customers and authors can publish not only new releases and current journal articles open access, but also make archive titles digitally and freely available.”

In early April De Gruyter had 100 selected titles from his e-dition on the crowdfunding platform Unglue.it adjusted so that they can be made ​​using the open access books available worldwide.

APS partners with ACCUCOMS for shared representation in Europe, Turkey and MENA

The American Physiological Society (APS) signs an agreement for shared representation in Europe, Turkey, and MENA with ACCUCOMS.

The American Physiological Society is a nonprofit membership organization devoted to fostering education, scientific research, and dissemination of information in the physiological sciences. The American Physiological Society publishes 14 peer-reviewed journals and book series covering all aspects of physiology.

ACCUCOMS will ensure that the American Physiological Society’s journals are best placed for maximal market growth as well as for servicing and expanding their existing customer base in Europe, Turkey, and MENA. ACCUCOMS is a leading agency in these territories, with a successful track record of sales growth.

“APS is confident that this collaboration with ACCUCOMS will strengthen our activities and distribution as well as maximize sales in these three important regions, where ACCUCOMS dedicated sales representation is renowned,” says Rita Scheman, Director of Publications and Executive Editor at APS.

“Simon Boisseau, Director of Representation Services at ACCUCOMS: “We are looking forward to representing APS and growing their business in these territories. To achieve this, ACCUCOMS will approach a dual strategy for growth in new markets and customer retention and engagement in more mature markets. We will work closely with APS to develop these bespoke strategies that are relevant to their territory needs.”

New OCLC registry service shines a spotlight on libraries

Starting today, libraries can increase their visibility on the Web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program—a free service that works with popular Web services to promote libraries. Yelp, the popular local directory service, has agreed to be one of the first to work with OCLC on this new program.

OCLC uses information from a variety of sources to prepopulate location and contact information for thousands of libraries. The OCLC Library Spotlight program takes this a step further, providing a single, easy-to-use interface in which any library can add, edit and update its own information once, in order to populate multiple Web destinations. Initial data was taken from the WorldCat Registry, but libraries can add a variety of information, including pictures and links to services, social content and collections. A custom, mobile-optimized link allows libraries to easily publish information to smartphones and other mobile devices.

“The advantage of this program is that libraries can manage essential information about their local services in one central registry. Their information then becomes available in WorldCat.org and is fed into many OCLC partner websites and services,” said Chip Nilges, Vice President, OCLC Business Development. Library information that is entered into the OCLC Library Spotlight program will be syndicated into a variety of online environments and websites to more easily connect information seekers back to libraries.

OCLC’s Library Spotlight program extends the reach of all libraries to more audiences with essential information about libraries—through WorldCat.org and a network of partnerships across the Web. The simple process of claiming and managing a prepopulated profile gives any library a quick path to participation and visibility. This program represents one more way to register library data into the worldwide network of libraries.

“We are excited at the prospect of having Yelp’s participation in our Library Spotlight program. Because of Yelp’s huge reach into the consumer space—and its commitment to include libraries—all libraries can increase their visibility on this major location service by simply registering with OCLC. It’s a big win for all parties,” said Cindy Cunningham, Director of Partner Programs in OCLC’s Business Development group.

The initial phase of the program will focus on public and academic libraries in the US. Subsequent phases will include new partners to address additional library types and regions.

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