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Wiley Journals Comply With New Open Access Policies of UK Funders

John Wiley & Sons, Inc, announced today that the majority of Wiley’s journals in its open access publishing program now offers authors funded by The Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK the opportunity to publish their articles under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY license when paying an Article Publication Charge (APC). This will support authors in complying with funder requirements that came into place April 1, 2013. The CC BY license allows others to modify, build upon and/or distribute the licensed work (including for commercial purposes) as long as the original author is credited.

“Enabling RCUK and Wellcome Trust funded researchers to continue publishing in the journals of their choice is very important to us,” said Rachel Burley, Vice President and Director, Open Access. “Wiley is a strong supporter of sustainable open access and is committed to meeting the needs of authors and their research funders.”

Wiley has also updated its self-archiving policy for RCUK authors. If an author funded by RCUK chooses to publish in a Wiley journal but doesn’t select and pay for OnlineOpen, they will be able to self-archive the accepted version of the article after a 12 month embargo period (starting with first publication online), or after a 24 month embargo for authors funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). If a journal does not offer an open access option, the embargo period is reduced to 6 months (RCUK’s STM Councils) or 12 months for authors funded by AHRC and ESRC.

A limited number of society owned journals have not adopted the new self-archiving policy and/or the new OnlineOpen license policy and will continue to publish under the usual journal copyright license terms.

Wiley now publishes eighteen fully open access journals and additional journals are expected to publish in 2013. Wiley’s OnlineOpen option is offered by more than 1200 journals or more than 80% of its titles. This option is available to authors of articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication. When selecting OnlineOpen, authors, their funding agencies, or their institutions, pay an APC to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley Online Library. Wiley Open Access Journals and those published under OnlineOpen are deposited in PubMed Central.

SAGE Announces David Ross as Executive Publisher of Open Access

SAGE is pleased to announce that David Ross has been appointed as Executive Publisher of Open Access. In his new role, Ross will assume global responsibility for the strategic direction of OA in SAGE’s Journals program. He will oversee a team that will manage SAGE’s flagship Open Access journals: SAGE Open, SAGE Open Medicine, SAGE Open Engineering, and SAGE Open Medical Case Reports and develop systems, process and policies to support our OA publishing.

Ross has a rich history of experience with Open Access. He managed SAGE’s initial venture into OA publishing, a partnership with Hindawi, and was a founding board member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), the now burgeoning global trade association established in 2008 to represent the interests of OA journal publishers. As SAGE’s official representative on a number of OA panels and projects, Ross represented SAGE as one of the publishing partners for the Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP), a two-year projected launched in 2009 with the aim to disseminate broadly a description and analysis of models of open access publishing.

“SAGE is committed to the wide dissemination of scholarship to help inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students across many disciplines. For some years, we have offered Open Access publishing options and we see this new position as a way to continue to support OA publishing,” stated Bob Howard, SAGE’s Vice President of Journals. “In his time at SAGE, David has exhibited a robust and profound understanding of how Open Access is evolving and impacting scholarship. We are excited to see growth of SAGE Open, SAGE Open Engineering, SAGE Open Medicine, and SAGE Open Medical Case Reports and we look forward to expanding our portfolio of OA journals under his leadership.”

“I am delighted to take on this role and to invest more of my time here at SAGE in our Open Access publishing program,” Ross stated. “With government policy on the public distribution of research rapidly changing worldwide, it is important that we have some consolidated oversight to develop our OA program and offer journals that comply with the various initiatives and continue to publish rigorously peer-reviewed, widely disseminated research that support the academic community.”

Wolters Kluwer Health and John Wiley & Sons Extend Long-Term Agreement for Content on Ovid

Wolters Kluwer Health announced an extension of its long-term partnership with John Wiley & Sons to provide more than 460 premier journals on the Ovid medical research platform. The new agreement includes the addition of Early View (pre-publication) articles from Wiley journals on Ovid.

Ovid’s aggregated medical research solution delivers exceptional value to researchers and practitioners in its mission to provide users with the most current content available from its publishing partners. In addition to the journals, Ovid also licenses over 700 ebooks from Wiley.

“Content currency is critical for today’s medical researchers and is a core focus with our publishing partners. We’re pleased to further develop our Wiley partnership to bring their premier full text resources and pre-publication articles to our global user base,” said Andrew Richardson, Vice President of Business Development at Wolters Kluwer Health, Medical Research.

The OvidSP platform is a single destination for conducting efficient and effective medical research whether managing large scale document-intensive projects or making time-sensitive, evidence-based decisions. Users can search and discover current full text ejournals and ebooks, as well as bibliographic information, plus manage their results and research documents—all within the OvidSP platform. OvidSP combines leading search technology with powerful productivity tools to help users save time in the research process, so they can focus on the output of their work to answer important patient questions, uncover new theories, and make groundbreaking contributions to their field.

Oxford University Press launches new journal, Gastroenterology Report

Oxford University Press (OUP) is delighted to announce the launch of a new journal, Gastroenterology Report.

Gastroenterology research has developed quickly in China in the last decade, and as a result there is a gap between the current status of clinical journals in gastroenterology, and the increased demands international communication in the field. This new journal, Gastroenterology Report (GR), aims to be a pioneer in this regard: a high quality clinical journal originating in China that positions itself in what was, until now, a gap in the literature of the field.

Gastroenterology Report will be a high profile peer-reviewed online-only open access (OA) journal, co-owned by OUP and Digestive Science Publishing Company Ltd. It will cover all areas related to gastrointestinal sciences, including studies of alimentary tract, liver, biliary, pancreas, enteral nutrition, and related fields. The journal aims to publish high quality research articles on both basic and clinical gastroenterology, authoritative reviews that bring together new advances in the field, as well as commentaries and highlight pieces that provide expert analysis of topical issues.

Ting Wang, Managing Editor of Gastroenterology Report, says, “Driven by globalization, China has been increasingly involved in international exchanges and cooperation of medical research. In recent years, China’s medical communities have served as positive global counterparts to present their own research, share their own clinical experience, and seek to provide new platforms for the global exchange of scientific findings. However, as a non-English speaking country, and due to lack of experience, China is facing challenges to publish high-tier medical journals with international audiences. The close cooperation with OUP offers us a good opportunity to change this. We believe that the success and experiences of OUP in both publishing and marketing will help GR achieve its goal to become an internationally renowned medical journal, and fulfil its mission to promote the development of Gastroenterology and benefit the health of patients.”

Wendy Ding, Managing Director of Global Academic Publishing in OUP China, says, “We’re delighted to welcome the Gastroenterology Report to the growing list of OUP Open Access titles in the area of medicine and to the growing list of OUP China-based journals, and we look forward to working with the Journal’s editorial team to bring valuable leading research results from China and continue the OUP’s tradition of publishing the highest quality research in the field.”

Gastroenterology Report launched its first content on 26 March 2013. Visit the website for more information, submission guidelines, and to sign up to receive tables of contents by email: http://gastro.oxfordjournals.org/.

Wolters Kluwer Health announces enhancements to Sentri7

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today several new enhancements have been added to Sentri7®, a web-based, enterprise-wide electronic surveillance application that helps hospital staff identify at-risk patients.

The Sentri7 Pharmacy Module now prioritizes patients by need for intervention when pharmacists are rounding. Sentri7 also allows easier exchange of patient assessment information across shifts and provides finer control when a patient should be assessed. Pharmacists easily see the clinician that reviewed the patient last, as well as the time of the last review.

The Sentri7 Infection Prevention Module features the patient birth date on the patient card, allowing an infection preventionist to easily complete forms. Additionally, multiple enhancements have been made to comply with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).

Sentri7 by Pharmacy OneSource combines medication, laboratory, patient, radiology and surgery data to facilitate earlier, better, and more consistent interventions. Accelerating workflows can lead to shorter lengths of stay, lower costs, improved patient safety and reduced antibiotic resistance.

More information about Sentri7 can be found at www.sentri7.com.

Springer, CAS collaboration to accelerate chemistry research

Springer and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) will collaborate to include thousands of new experimental procedures for chemical reactions reported in Springer journals in the CAS databases. This collaboration will increase the visibility of articles with experimental procedures published in 165 Springer chemistry journals from 1985 to the present.

The addition of experimental procedures from Springer journal articles provides important information that helps scientists evaluate search results. Using SciFinder® The choice for chemistry research ™, a tool that allows scientists to explore the CAS databases, critical full-text articles which are essential to scientists in their research can be identified quickly.

CAS provides access to more than 62 million single- and multi-step reactions and synthetic preparations, as well as associated experimental procedures for reactions, through SciFinder®. The information in CAS is provided by journals from prestigious publishers and patents issued by major patent offices. CAS has long recognized how important global chemical publications are to research, and will continue adding relevant chemistry content throughout 2013.

“We’re delighted that experimental procedures from Springer are more accessible to researchers around the world through SciFinder,” said Berendina van Straalen, Head of Rights and Permissions, Special Licensing Department at Springer. “Scientists will now be able to easily identify the relevant Springer articles that will help them in the lab.”

Christine McCue, Vice President of Marketing at CAS, added, “CAS is dedicated to providing the most comprehensive and authoritative chemical information. The addition of experimental procedures from the respected Springer collection compliments the millions of procedures already available from other esteemed publishers and patent authorities. The information will help scientists using SciFinder identify the preferred synthetic methods, and is an integral part of the research cycle as they seek the original published research.”

SAGE to publish the South African Journal of Psychology

SAGE has begun a partnership with the Psychological Society of South Africa, (PsySSA) to publish its flagship journal the South African Journal of Psychology. The rigorously peer-reviewed journal is dedicated to publishing empirical, theoretical and review articles that focus on South African, African and international issues. The journal will be published four times a year.

Publishing contributions in English covering all fields of psychology, the South African Journal of Psychology is the flagship journal for South Africa addressing psychological issues of social change and development. Whilst the emphasis is on empirical research, the journal also accepts theoretical and methodological papers, review articles, short communications, reviews and letters containing balanced commentary.

“SAGE has a well-established global publishing programme in psychology and we are delighted to welcome this flagship title”, said Karen Phillips, Editorial Director, SAGE. “We see clear synergies between SAGE and the PsySSA in promoting rigorous research and encouraging the application of these findings. We look forward to developing this partnership and supporting the journal’s core offering to the psychology community in southern Africa as well as globally.”

“SAGE is well known for its core strengths as a publisher for the psychology community. Alongside its strong international presence, these are accolades which we look forward to benefitting from during our partnership,” commented Professor Anthony Pillay, editor. “The journal plays a key role in our mission to advance South African psychology as a science and profession of global stature. We believe that SAGE’s commitment to publish high quality international research is closely aligned with our publishing goal and we look forward to developing a successful future together.”

The new website will be http://sap.sagepub.com/

Thomson Reuters releases annual analysis of global patent trends

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, released its annual analysis of global patent trends today in its fourth-annual State of Innovation report. This publication tracks patent activity across 12 key technology areas using the Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPISM) database.

Key findings from the report include:

· Medical Device Patent Volume Rises: The largest increase in patent activity over the prior period was in the medical device technology area, which grew by 15.7 percent, a reinforcement of the importance of these inventions in addressing health issues of the world’s exploding population.

· Food, Tobacco, & Beverage Fermentation Innovation Sees Largest Subsector Increases: The sub-categories under the technology area of Food, Tobacco & Beverage Fermentation saw the largest subsector increases across all areas. When researching for a new high quality electric cigar humidor, one can click on a helpful link such as this one.

Tobacco-related innovation, which may include those smokes in canada, sparked up 58 percent and sugar-related inventions were sweetened 56 percent, as manufacturers of these goods seek alternative pathways to profit.

· Japan Most Prolific Country in Asia Pacific Region: Japan had the greatest representation amongst the top 10 assignees in the Asia Pacific region. China, despite being the world leader in overall patent filing volume, holds 27 of the top 120 assignee slots, whereas Japan has 67 of them.

· Computers & Peripherals – a Leader and Follower: The technology area with the largest overall volume continues to be Computers & Peripherals, for the fourth consecutive year, with a volume of 232,549 filings in 2012. Within this area, the subcategory of Computers inched ahead 3 percent (to a total of 201,608 filings), whereas scanners experienced a 34 percent decline over the prior period, as this technology becomes more obsolete.

“This report is an excellent example of the insights that can be gleaned from Thomson Reuters proprietary patent data in DWPI,” said Cynthia Murphy, senior vice president of Thomson Reuters IP Solutions. “As the market leader in global intellectual property information, it is the aim of our business to highlight valuable industry trends that enable strategic decision making.”

The data in this report were compiled using the Thomson Reuters DWPI database to aggregate granted patents and published applications (examined and unexamined) from January 1 through December 12, 2012.

View the full State of Innovation report here: 2012 State of Innovation: Twelve Key Technology Areas and their States of Innovation.

EBSCO Discovery Service Creates Buzz on Campus of Prep School

Nichols School, a Buffalo, New York school for grades 5-12, is one of the first schools in the country to implement EBSCO Discovery Service. Librarians weren’t looking for a discovery service but a demo of EBSCO’s EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) won the library staff over with the ease of searching and breadth of information available in EDS.

Although librarians Nichols School were not initially considering a library discovery service, Director of Libraries & Academic Technology, Susan Allen, saw EDS tying in with the library’s goals to prepare students for further education and to develop the professional skills they will need. “I am always looking for ways to model what our students will encounter in higher education. I am also trying to teach them the information literacy skills they need to be a solid, informed digital citizen.” Since implementation Allen says EDS has really had a positive impact on the library. “It is really nice for there to be an animated buzz about the library on campus.”

EDS provides users with access to a school’s entire collection via a single, customizable entry point. This easy-to-use search experience really impressed Allen. “I was floored by the ease of searching and the breadth of information that was available. I manage the resources but I was flabbergasted by the resources that are available. They were always available but not in a format that was as useful as they are now.” In the future, Allen hopes EDS will minimize their students’ use of Google and since the EDS implementation she has seen “fewer general web searches than in the past.”

The school integrated EDS into their existing library collection by taking advantage of some of the EDS customization features and transformed the search page to match the school colors and the heading of its web pages. Students have really responded well to the new service and Allen says usage in library sources has doubled since implementation.

Allen is also sees EDS as a valuable tool in faculty development “I have an online professional development course planned for our faculty this summer to refresh them in what constitutes research in the 21st century and how best to assign and assess research to meet the resources and methodologies available. EDS plays a prominent role in this class.”

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.

Oxford University Press launches the Journal of Complex Networks

Oxford University Press (OUP) is delighted to announce the launch of a new journal, the Journal of Complex Networks.

The study of complex networks has recently emerged as a truly interdisciplinary area of research. Scientists in many different fields already use the shared language of “network science” which has applications in a variety of fields ranging from physics and mathematics to social and economic sciences. This is a new discipline at the intersection of mathematics, physics, and computer science that studies the patterns of interconnections among diverse entities representing a variety of chemical, biological, informational, semantic, cognitive, socio-economical, infrastructural, and engineering systems.

In spite of the growing strength of this discipline, researchers often find it difficult to get their papers accepted in traditional journals. This situation is not due to any lack of quality but has more to do with the restrictive scope of many traditional journals. As a result, many excellent papers have been dispersed in specialised journals across Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, and Socio-economic sciences. This is a problem because it can impede necessary communication and interaction between researchers working in the same area.

The time is right therefore for a new interdisciplinary journal that can pull together these different research strands into a forum where collective learning of complex networks can take place. The Journal of Complex Networks publishes original articles and reviews with a significant contribution to the analysis and understanding of complex networks and its applications in diverse fields. The journal covers everything from the basic mathematical, physical, and computational principles needed for studying complex networks, to their applications in molecular, biological, ecological, informational, engineering, social, technological, and other systems.

Neil Scriven, Senior Publisher at OUP, says, “We are delighted to be involved with this exciting and growing area of research through the launch of Journal of Complex Networks. By developing a high-quality publication covering the whole spectrum of complex networks we will be providing a much-needed forum for the community under the expert leadership of Ernesto Estrada and his world-class editorial board. ”

Topics covered by the journal include (but are not limited to): Mathematical and numerical analysis of networks; Network theory and computer sciences; Structural analysis of networks; Networks and epidemiology; Social, socio-economic and political networks; Ecological networks; Technological and infrastructural networks; Biological and molecular networks; Evolving networks; Biomedicine related networks; Animal social networks; Climate networks; Cognitive, language and informational networks.

The editor-in-chief of the Journal of Complex Networks is Professor Ernesto Estrada of the University of Strathclyde. The journal launched its first content on 27 March 2013. Visit the website for more information, submission guidelines, and to sign up to receive tables of contents by email: http://comnet.oxfordjournals.org.

ebrary Launches Three-User License to Provide New Flexibility in Strategic E-book Acquisition

ebrary, a ProQuest business, is expanding its support of strategic e-book acquisition with a new three-user license model for perpetual archive titles, providing an additional layer of flexibility for libraries between its single-user and unlimited multiuser access options. Multi-user access, whether unlimited or three-user, is now available for over 68% of ebrary’s perpetual titles from publishers such as Taylor & Francis, SUNY Press, Wiley, and University of Edinburgh Press. Until now, many of these titles have been limited to single-user access and will now be more accessible to researchers, reducing the chance of turn-aways.

ebrary’s three-user model is integrated with not only its own patron driven acquisition and Extended Access™ models, but also with YBP’s GOBI³ for firm orders as well as demanddriven acquisition. This provides streamlined ordering for the library and a seamless experience for end-users, maximizing the return on a library’s e-book investment. To learn more about ebrary’s strategic approach to e-book acquisition – Transition, Diversify, Streamline™ – visit www.ebrary.com.

Knovel Adds Six Publishers

Continuing to respond to its growing international customer base, Knovel today announced the addition of six new publishers. The new publishers allow Knovel, a leader in providing a Web-based application that integrates technical information with analytical and search tools, to introduce more content to its existing collection and provide users with authoritative answers to their most critical questions.

“Our customers work with us to ensure their engineers have access to the critical data they need to get their jobs done efficiently, and our publishers help us to make that happen,” says Meagan Cooke, Director of Content Strategy for Knovel. “We’re pleased to be able to introduce a selection of great new content, which will be available across dozens of subject areas.”

New publishers include:

AIHA Publications: The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) is the premier association of occupational and environmental health and safety professionals. AIHA has developed a strong international reputation as a publisher of essential books for professionals.

Analytics Press: Analytics Press teaches applied business analytics and critical thinking skills by publishing books, reports, course materials and software, and by organizing seminars and workshops.

CBS Press: Copenhagen Business School Press is a specialized academic publisher of books on management, economics and organizations. Affiliated with Copenhagen Business School (CBS), CBS Press publishes, promotes and distributes English language titles for the Scandinavian and global markets.

Cengage Learning: Cengage Learning is a leading educational content, software and services company for the academic, professional and library markets worldwide. The company’s products and services are designed to foster academic excellence and professional development, increase student engagement, improve learning outcomes and deliver authoritative information to people whenever and wherever they need it.

Dover Publications: Dover Publications, Inc., founded by New Yorkers Hayward and Blanche Cirker in 1941, is headquartered in Mineola, New York. A niche book publishing house with over 120 employees, Dover produces more than 10,000 titles including books on mathematics, engineering, science, architecture, astronomy, chess, clip art and fine art, crafts, history, literature, music, children’s books, and titles by over two dozen Nobel Laureates. Mr. Cirker passed away in March 2000 at age 82, and the privately owned company was purchased by Courier Corporation.

Maritime and Coastguard Agency: The Maritime and Coastguard Agency implements the government’s maritime safety policy in the U.K. and works to prevent the loss of life on the coast and at sea.

“The strength of our business has allowed us to continue to grow and develop our inventory of math and science publications, and strengthening our digital presence has been a top priority over the past few years,” said Frank Fontana, President of Dover Publications. “Knovel is the perfect partner to help us introduce many of our print titles to online communities in digital format for the very first time. Knovel’s interactive charts, graphs and equations were especially appealing as we looked for the best way to present our content in this new format.”

Knovel works with more than 100 societies and publishers worldwide, ensuring that engineers have access to trusted sources of technical content across more than 30 subject areas. For more information about Knovel and publisher opportunities, please visit: http://why.knovel.com/solution/content.html.

Knovel was acquired by Elsevier in January 2013. For more information, please read the January 2013 press release.

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