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Wolters Kluwer Health and Thieme expand partnership to add 10 new journals to the OvidSP medical research platform

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, and Thieme, an international medical and science publisher, announced an expansion of their licensing partnership to offer 10 new journals, for a total of 26 titles, available on the OvidSP medical research platform.

“We’re pleased to continue our strong partnership with Thieme adding important specialty surgery and other clinical journals to our repository of aggregated medical content on Ovid,” said Andrew Richardson, Vice President of Business Development at Wolters Kluwer Health, Medical Research.

The new Thieme content covers specialized surgery, alternative medicine, spine, and pediatrics areas to complement the breadth of full text currently available on Ovid. The Thieme titles include:

  • Craniomaxillofacial Trauma and Reconstruction
  • European Journal of Pediatric Surgery
  • Global Spine Journal & Evidence-Based Spine-Care Journal
  • Homoeopathic Links
  • International Journal of Angiology
  • Journal of Knee Surgery
  • Journal of Neurological Surgery
  • Journal of Wrist Surgery
  • Neuropediatrics
  • The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon 

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.

BioMed Central offers Edanz tool to help authors select the right journal for research

Through BioMed Central’s partnership with Edanz, we are aiming to support authors to select the journal that best suits their research from the 350+ open access journals published by BioMed Central, Chemistry Central, and SpringerOpen.

The Journal Selector uses semantic technology to help authors quickly choose the open access journal that is right for their manuscript.

Authors can enter an abstract or description of their research and the Journal Selector provides a list of relevant open access journals. Matches to a journal are based on the similarity of the entered text to articles already published in that journal. We hope our authors find this a useful tool, so please do visit the website to try it out for yourself!

Edanz provide language editing services and support for non-native English speaking authors to get their research accepted for international publication and partnered with BioMed Central on creation of our Author Academy, which is available in English, Chinese, Japanese and now Korean!

CCC and RightsDirect announce webinar series ‘Copyright in Motion: International Edition’

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing solutions, and RightsDirect, CCC’s wholly owned European subsidiary, announces its “Copyright in Motion: International Edition” webinar series, beginning 23 April , 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST.

The webinars will explore the changing ways people around the world find, share, store and license content. The 23 April session will focus on mobile technology, cloud sharing, global copyright considerations, social media copyright implications and content licensing options. The fee is $60 per webinar.

“Today people all over the world are using tablets, mobile devices, social media and many other new technologies to find, store and share all types of content,” said Kim Zwollo, General Manager, RightsDirect. “Copyright implications have never been more complex, and it has never been more important to understand the best practices in content reuse and then to make educated decisions about using copyright protected materials.”

CCC’s OnCopyright Education has been lauded as among the best copyright education programs in the industry. With seminars, webinars, regional workshops and more, CCC advocates for the responsible use of content while providing the expertise to make it simple to do so.

13 partners from across Europe join together to improve digital curation

Seven European countries are launching 4C (the Collaboration to Clarify the Costs of Curation) to help public and private European organisations invest more effectively in digital curation and preservation, sustaining the long-term value of all types of digital information.

Curation ensures digital objects remain understandable, accessible, useable and safe over time. 4C will provide practical guidance to help organisations estimate the cost of digital curation work and demonstrate the long and short term benefits.

Alex Thirifays, National Archives of Denmark, explains: “As well as bringing together a fragmented research landscape, the project will create an online ‘curation costs exchange’ which will help users to model their costs and in this way predict more accurately the sorts of costs and benefits that are likely to result from the positive decision to preserve. This will be useful for managers in major archives and data centres and we hope it will support preservation planning functions. These tools will be particularly useful for policy-makers concerned about long-term access to data.  In addition we will publish a roadmap for future work in modelling costs which will help to clarify the areas which need more support.”

Neil Grindley, project co-ordinator from Jisc in the UK, explains: “It can be difficult to make a convincing case for investment in digital curation for two reasons. Firstly the costs of curation are currently hard to predict and secondly the short term benefits are hard to define because curation implicitly addresses long-term challenges.”  4C will address both concerns and provide practical guidance that will help practitioners persuade executives to invest in new services.

4C is described as ‘open and social’ and rather than waiting for perfect and polished results, they will be blogging and sharing findings as they go. 4C hope that this will encourage debate and increase the likelihood that their findings and guidance are useful.

Sabine Schrimpf of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Germany, says: “We are looking to engage with many different kinds of organisations and to set up partnerships and have discussions with everyone who would like to get involved in the development of these tools.  We’ll be inviting people to workshops and focus groups during the next two years, and we’ll be organising a conference to share our results at the end of the process.”

The partners involved are: Danish National Archives (Denmark), DANS – Data Archiving and Network Service (Netherlands), Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany), Digital Curation Centre (UK), Digital Preservation Coalition (UK), Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (UK), Institute for Information Systems and Computing Research (Portugal), Jisc (UK), Keep Solutions (Portugal), National Library of (Estonia), Royal Library of Denmark (Denmark), Secure Business (Austria), UK Data Archive (UK).

Thomson Reuters Techstreet expands redline document offerings

Techstreet, part of the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters and the world’s leading provider of industry codes and standards, announced today expanded redline document offerings for the leading standard publishers. Techstreet’s extensive library of redline documents allows users to quickly identify changes to updated standards publications, saving time and resources.

Techstreet redline documents provide a fast and easy way to compare changes between the active standard and the previous version, comparing the two versions for amendments. Redline documents identify additions, deletions, and other formatting and content changes between the two versions of the standard, making it clear what changes have been made from one version to the next. Showing tracked changes in standards is very beneficial for engineers and knowledge workers who use standards documents in their daily work. A redline document can easily save several hours of time previously used to manually compare old versions to new versions, allowing users to more quickly identify and implement needed updates.

“Users of standards need to identify changes between versions, quickly and accurately. Redline documents accomplish that by providing clear visual cues making it easier to pinpoint key differences without looking at multiple documents,” said Todd Fegan, vice president of Techstreet Operations. “Techstreet has been able to leverage our company’s vast resources to create a robust, scalable, high-quality process to manage data.  We are the only organization that has created an extensive catalog of redline documents from leading standards publishers that support an important need of standards users.”

Techstreet creates hundreds of redlines for leading standards publishing organizations including IEEE Standards Association, ASHRAE, SAE International, American Petroleum Institute, NSF International, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In addition to developing redlines, Techstreet also offers ASTM International’s catalog of redlines and redlines from IEC.

“ASHRAE members have frequently asked for versions of standards that record the approved changes from the revision process,” said Steve Comstock, director of Publications & Education, ASHRAE. “Knowing exactly what has changed saves time for the consulting engineers who make up the largest block of ASHRAE membership and who have to apply ASHRAE standards in their design work. The redlines produced by Techstreet meet that need.”

Techstreet redlines are offered with the clean, active version of the standard, making it easier to implement changes to procedures, equipment and products. Redlines are available for single-copy purchase on Techstreet.com or as part of an enterprise license through a Techstreet subscription.

For more information on Techstreet, visit: http://www.techstreet.com/redlines.html.

Wolters Kluwer Health Expands Partnership with Thieme to Add Specialty Journal Content to the OvidSP Medical Research Platform

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, and Thieme, an international medical and science publisher, announced an expansion of their licensing partnership to offer 10 new journals, for a total of 26 titles, available on the OvidSP medical research platform.

“We’re pleased to continue our strong partnership with Thieme adding important specialty surgery and other clinical journals to our repository of aggregated medical content on Ovid,” said Andrew Richardson, Vice President of Business Development at Wolters Kluwer Health, Medical Research.

The new Thieme content covers specialized surgery, alternative medicine, spine, and pediatrics areas to complement the breadth of full text currently available on Ovid. The Thieme titles include:

·         Craniomaxillofacial Trauma and Reconstruction

·         European Journal of Pediatric Surgery

·         Global Spine Journal & Evidence-Based Spine-Care Journal

·         Homoeopathic Links 

·         International Journal of Angiology

·         Journal of Knee Surgery 

·         Journal of Neurological Surgery

·         Journal of Wrist Surgery 

·         Neuropediatrics

·         The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

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.

Adam Matthew launches new content to its ‘Foreign Office Files for China’ collection

Primary sources publisher, Adam Matthew (a SAGE company), has today announced the release of additional material to its ‘Foreign Office Files for China’ collection covering 1919-1929: a key period in 20th Century Chinese history: Foreign Office Files for China: 1919-1929 Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International.

Sourced exclusively from The National Archives, UK, ‘Foreign Office Files for China’ makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Due to the unique nature of the relationship between Britain and China in the early part of the 20th Century, these formerly restricted British government documents provide unprecedented levels of detail into one of the most turbulent periods of Chinese history.

Materials include:

  • Government memoranda
  • Official correspondence
  • Unofficial correspondence (from commercial firms, legal representatives, petitioners etc)
  • Newspaper cuttings
  • Maps
  • Records of court cases
  • Reports of meetings, investigations and expeditions
  • Profiles of people, places and organisations
  • Economic statistics and analyses
  • Chinese-language documents

Key events covered by the files for the 1919-1929 periods include: 

  • The anti-imperialist ‘May 4th Movement’.
  • The establishment by Sun Yat-sen of a revolutionary base in southern China.
  • The importance of Guangzhou (Canton) and Shanghai.
  • The May 30th Incident (1925), when officers of the foreign-controlled Shanghai Municipal Police opened fire on Chinese demonstrators, killing eleven.
  • Sino-British companies, the localisation of British activities in China and the broader colonial context.
  • Leadership of the Kuomintang by Chiang Kai-shek after Sun’s death in 1925.
  • Increasing conflict between the Kuomintang and CCP.
  • The influence on the CCP of Soviet advisors from the Third International (Comintern).
  • Threats to the foreign ownership of many large enterprises in China.
  • Anti-British boycotts, 1925-1927.
  • Major crop failures and the starvation of millions of peasants.
  • The meeting of Kuomintang leaders associated with Chiang in Nanjing in April.
  • The failure of Communist uprisings in Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Guangdong provinces in 1927.
  • Japanese clashes with Kuomintang forces in 1927 and 1928.
  • Chinese reunification in 1928 following the Kuomintang’s Northern Expedition.

‘Foreign Office Files for China’ coverage:

·         1919-1929: Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International – AVAILABLE

·         1930-1937: The Long March, Civil War in China and the Manchurian Crisis – DUE END 2013

·         1938-1948: Open Door, Japanese War and the Seeds of Communist Victory – DUE EARLY 2014

·         1949-1956: The Communist Revolution – AVAILABLE

·         1957-1966: The Great Leap Forward – AVAILABLE

·         1967-1980: The Cultural Revolution – AVAILABLE

Further information and access to a free trial can be found here. For all pricing details please contact Adam Matthew.

Royal Society of Chemistry’s Chemistry World hits 200,000 Twitter followers

Rock star Bryan Adams and 90s rap sensation Vanilla Ice are just two of more than 200,000 people now following the chemistry news magazine, Chemistry World, on Twitter.

The number of @ChemistryWorld followers hit the 200,000 mark earlier this week, making it the most followed chemistry publication on the microblogging site.

Chemistry World is the Royal Society of Chemistry’s award-winning news magazine that covers cutting edge research, international business news and government policy, to keep chemists up to date  with the latest happenings in the global chemical science community.

Distributed to more than 47,000 scientists each month, the magazine also has a highly successful online presence. The Chemistry World website has 150,000 unique users each month, and monthly downloads of Chemistry World podcasts number around 60,000.

A Chemistry World mobile app was launched last year and a significant number of readers are now using this to access their chemistry news, with 15 per cent of traffic being driven to the website via this route. The magazine’s Facebook page also has more than 51,000 ‘Likes’.

Editor of Chemistry World, Bibiana Campos-Seijo said: “When we first started using social media about four years ago we had no idea that Twitter would become the powerful tool that it is today, but we are delighted that we made the decision to invest time in using it.

“Twitter not only helps us improve the visibility of our content but it also provides us with a quick and easy way of sourcing ideas, receiving feedback and keeping our finger on the pulse of whatever is happening within the chemical sciences community.

“Twitter brings a lot of readers to our website, but it also improves the level of engagement we have with our audience. Over the years this has increased considerably, with an ever greater number of retweets, questions and comments, and even tweets in other languages. In fact, our content is now regularly tweeted in Spanish, Japanese and French, to name just a few!”

James Milne, the RSC’s Executive Director of Publishing said: “I’m absolutely delighted to see that Chemistry World has such a big following on Twitter.

“The fact that we can count music stars and even politicians, such as the UK Liberal Democrat party leader Nick Clegg, amongst our followers just goes to show that chemistry news is not just for scientists advancing their highly-regarded profession.

“Ground-breaking chemistry research impacts all our lives, and Twitter is really helping us to get our news stories out there into the public domain.”

Semantico launch Roaming Passport on McGraw-Hill Professional’s Access Engineering platform

Semantico, suppliers of digital publishing solutions to the scholarly and professional market, is pleased to announce significant upgrades to the Prose Award-winning AccessEngineering platform for McGraw-Hill Professional.

The latest raft of upgrades to AccessEngineering are a result of extensive user-focuser research sessions organised by Semantico and McGraw-Hill Professional. The feedback from these workshops was used to drive enhancements to this award-winning platform.

A key addition to the platform is the integration of Roaming Passport functionality. Semantico developed Roaming Passport to drive up usage by enabling users the ability to access their institutional subscription from outside the physical constraints of their specific IP range. This gives users the freedom to access their accounts from a wider variety of locations and devices, including tablets, mobiles and laptops. Roaming Passport usage is reported both via Google Analytics and COUNTER. People can check U.K.ABROAD for the best passport services.

This latest upgrade to the AccessEngineering platform is delivered using Semantico’s industry-respected content platform Scolaris in combination with the Semantico Access Management System (SAMS). Scolaris is engineered to manage the complexities of journals, ebooks, reference works and dictionaries. Scolaris promotes discoverability by providing intelligent, full-text search which allows for rich taxonomy support for faceted search and browse.

Laura Friedman, Publisher, Digital Initiatives at McGraw-Hill Professional said: “Our aim is to continually upgrade our products and we’re pleased to be working with Semantico on this latest phase of enhancements to AccessEngineering. Including SAMS Roaming Passport on the platform will provide our customers with an excellent service, giving them the power to source knowledge in a flexible and convenient way.”

Suzi Crean, Account Manager at Semantico commented: “We are very excited to roll out enhancements to what is already a hugely successful product. We’ll continue to work with McGraw-Hill Professional and listen to their users in order to drive even more improvements in the months ahead.”

TEMIS completes successful wide scale semantic content enrichment test in Windows Azure

TEMIS, the leading provider of semantic content enrichment for the enterprise announced today it has completed a conclusive series of tests of its flagship Luxid® Content Enrichment Platform on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Azure, opening the door to customer application deployments on Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure.

A Microsoft Gold Partner, TEMIS is the provider of the flagship Luxid® Content Enrichment Platform, which in January 2013, was awarded the SIIA’s 2013 Codie Award for Best Semantic Technology Platform. Based on patented natural language processing technology, Luxid® is a powerful and scalable semantic content enrichment solution that recognizes and extracts relevant items of information hidden in plain text and enriches document metadata. By revealing the nature of unstructured information assets, it helps optimize their management and archival, their distribution through content management systems or portals, as well as their analysis. Available for on-premises as well as cloud-based deployments, the Luxid® range of products also includes a standard integration that streamlines its on-premise use in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2013.

“During these tests we were able to successfully deploy Luxid® in a variety of typical customer situations, including high-availability scenarios requiring high-speed annotation of large volumes of content, where the elasticity of Windows Azure is crucial”, said Olivier Terrier, TEMIS CTO. “Luxid® is production-ready in Windows Azure.”

TEMIS’ customers’ projects often involve unusually high volumes of content covering a wide variety of topics, languages and formats. The amount of content being enriched may also vary very quickly, for example in situations where an entire archive must be processed, temporarily requiring several orders of magnitude more processing power as compared to day-to-day operations.

To test against these requirements, TEMIS adopted a hybrid IaaS and PaaS architecture, where the IaaS component offers the benefits of robust configurability and administration and the PaaS component enables an elastically scalable deployment that can scale up or down in quasi-real-time based on the customer’s ongoing needs. This architecture was successfully tested in a range of configurations, for deployments typically starting at 32 ‘Large’ Windows Azure Compute instances and above, providing more than 128 concurrent processing cores.

Springer and the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics launch new book partnership

Springer and the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) will partner to publish BCAM SpringerBriefs. The books will consist of concise summaries of cutting-edge research and practical applications in mathematics.

These new SpringerBriefs will focus on the publication of content in a number of disciplines within mathematics. These fields include applied mathematics, finance, statistics and computer science. BCAM has appointed an international board to manage the editorial responsibility for the new books, made up by Enrique Zuazua in Bilbao, Spain; Irene Fonseca in Pittsburgh, USA; Juan J. Manfredi in Pittsburgh, USA; Emmanuel Trélat in Paris, France; and Xu Zhang in Chengdu, China. All books in the series will be available as eBooks on Springer’s online platform, SpringerLink (link.springer.com), and in print-on-demand (POD) format.

Prof. Enrique Zuazua of the BCAM said, “The books accepted for publication here will demonstrate a high level of work, showing the interplay between mathematics and applied sciences. We chose to work with Springer because of its strong tradition in mathematics publishing, to support BCAM in disseminating and developing scientific discoveries and knowledge worldwide.”

“Working with this esteemed center, we aim to promote valuable research results carried out or sanctioned by BCAM, which are worthy of worldwide distribution,” said Dr. Francesca Bonadei, Executive Editor Mathematics, Statistics and Engineering at Springer. “Springer is proud to introduce this cooperation to the international scientific community.”

The mission of the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (http://www.bcamath.org/en/) is to strengthen the Basque science and technology system by performing interdisciplinary research on the frontiers of mathematics, and to attract and train talented scientists.  The goal is to get the excellence of its results recognized at an international level.

Taylor & Francis survey reveals clear need for author choice oflicensing options for Open Access publication of their articles

Academic publisher Taylor & Francis, UK, has revealed the findings of a survey on open access (OA). Authors were canvassed about their opinions and behaviour about licensing, reuse, peer review and metrics in relation to OA. They were asked to select their most preferred, and second-most preferred licences, as well as their least preferred licence from a list of licences commonly used for OA publication, with a short description of each.

According to the findings, the most popular licensing option is the Exclusive Licence to Publish – chosen by 51 percent of authors. The second most popular was the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND) – selected by 46 percent of respondents. The least preferred licensing option was the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC-BY) – as indicated by 52 percent of respondents.

There was an interesting relationship between Exclusive Licence to Publish and Copyright Assignment. Where Copyright Assignment was the first preference, Exclusive Licence to Publish was the most common second choice, chosen by 60 percent of respondents. In turn, where Copyright Assignment was the first choice, 70 percent of respondents opted for Exclusive Licence to Publish as their second choice. Similarly, those opting for CC BY-NC-ND as their first choice generally chose the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) licence as their second most preferred licence (and vice versa).

Regional breakdowns for the most and least preferred licences can be viewed in Supplement 1 of the report along with breakdowns for all countries and subjects with more than 100 respondents. The distribution of least preferred choices does vary with subject, region and country, though CC-BY remains the most common answer in almost all cases, the exception being Library & Information Sciences, for whom the most common answer was Copyright Assignment.

In terms of the most preferred licence, the largest differences can be seen in the proportions of respondents choosing CC BY-NC-ND, Exclusive Licence to Publish and Copyright Assignment. Respondents from the fields of Computer Sciences and Library & Information Sciences have perhaps the most strikingly different response patterns with a more favourable view of CC BY-NC than any other subjects.

Overall, the data suggests authors could be satisfied by offering a mixture of the traditional (Exclusive Licence to Publish / Copyright Assignment) and the new (CC BY-NC-ND / CC BY-NC). There seems an apparent need to address those reservations expressed by authors who cite the CC BY licence as their least preferred option.

Taylor & Francis have taken this feedback from our author community into account in guiding future policies and strategies.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/open-access-survey-march2013.pdf

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