Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Announces First Interactive Mobile Edition of Clinical Anesthesia

April 23, 2013

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, today launched the first fully interactive, mobile edition of Barash’s Clinical Anesthesia, the authoritative text on anesthesiology. For the first time, readers can access the text plus all of the interactive multimedia content using their iPad® tablets and iPhones. The new digital package also allows subscribers to access the content online through a PC or Mac browser, and to receive the complete print edition—all for a single price.

Edited by six distinguished anesthesiologists from leading teaching institutions including Drs. Paul Barash of Yale University, Michael Cahalan of University of Utah, Bruce Cullen of University of Washington, Rafael Ortega of Boston University, textbook author Robert Stoelting, and Christine Stock of Northwestern University, Clinical Anesthesia, Seventh Edition covers the full spectrum of clinical options, providing authoritative coverage of pharmacology, physiology, co-existing diseases, surgical procedures, anesthesia equipment, and much more. All of the areas found on certification and recertification exams are covered in detail including patient preparation and positioning, airway management, nerve blocks and muscle relaxants, anesthetic effects on organ function, neonatal and pediatric considerations, and postoperative recovery.

The new e-textbook, built on the Inkling platform, incorporates a rich collection of video and images designed to give residents and practitioners one of the most detailed and comprehensive reviews of anesthesiology. Nearly 300 videos and more than 800 photographs and illustrations help demonstrate teaching points for procedures and concepts.

“It is the first anesthesia textbook of the 21st century to be built from the ground up specifically for use on an electronic platform,” said Dr. Barash. “Dazzling in its graphic make up, we use a combination of images, videos and tables which can be transferred to a PC, tablet or smartphone to enhance the reader’s understanding of our materials.”

The new Clinical Anesthesia e-textbook allows users to harness powerful interactive capabilities such as a precise index-based search across the entire text. Users also can select terms in the text and look them up on the fly using an electronic glossary, as well as highlight and take notes within the text and share with others in a study group. All referenced cases, studies and pages are linked throughout for instant access. Optimized video and high-resolution images offer breathtaking display on the iPad and iPhone.

All of the content is updated bi-monthly and includes regular postings of new videos.

Designed for residents, anesthetists in training, and practitioners, Clinical Anesthesia, Seventh Edition, is available now for one price that includes all three formats (print, website and mobile download) for $229.99. Download only is also available for the same price. For more information or to purchase, visit LWW.com.

Elsevier Announces MathJax Now Available on ScienceDirect

April 23, 2013

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical products and services, today announces the incorporation of MathJaxinto research papers published online on ScienceDirect. Developed through a collaboration of industry associations, MathJax is a new technology for high-quality, crisp display of mathematical symbols and equations on the web.

With the inclusion of MathJax, ScienceDirect can now display high-resolution, fully scalable symbols and equations seamlessly with the surrounding text, improving the readability and interpretation of authors’ research. With this development readers have the ability to magnify equations within an article for closer look, as well as copy and save equations for further research.

“Displaying mathematics and science online is challenging because of limited and inconsistent browser support for web standards such as MathML,” said Peter Krautzberger, MathJax Manager. “MathJax leverages existing web technology such as cascading style sheets and web fonts to provide reliable, clear and accessible rendering. The integration of MathJax within ScienceDirect is a big boost for mathematical and scientific content as it is now displayed natively and accessibly in all articles published in Elsevier journals.”

There are no further requirements for authors, editors and reviewers to benefit from MathJax. As part of the typesetting process, Elsevier converts mathematical symbols and equations included in submitted manuscripts into MathML, theWorld Wide Web Consortium standard for mathematics on the web. MathJax has the capability of displaying the generated MathML, ensuring that past and future articles published online on ScienceDirect can benefit from the enhanced display.

“Technology enhancements such as MathJax on ScienceDirect support our ongoing efforts to improve the ease-of-use of the research we publish and integrate user-friendly solutions,” says Laura Hassink, Senior Vice President Physical Sciences at Elsevier. “We believe this feature will greatly benefit authors, researchers and the mathematics community as a whole.”

The initiative to develop MathJax as a feature was launched in 2009 by the American Mathematical Society, Design Science, Inc., and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Elsevier was one of its first supporters making a commitment to support researchers who want to display and read mathematics on the web. Employing MathJax into research papers published online on ScienceDirect further extends this commitment by enhancing the usability and readability of Elsevier’s content to benefit researchers for the long-term.

For more information or to discover the additional benefits of MathJax and learn how to activate MathJax on ScienceDirect go to:www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences/mathematics/mathjax

SAGE strengthens commitment to digital with two Executive appointments

April 23, 2013

SAGE today announced the internal appointments of Martha Sedgwick as Executive Director of Product Innovation within the UK, and Todd Baldwin as Executive Director, Online Library and Reference Publishing within the US.

The promotions reflect SAGE’s continued commitment to developing innovative solutions that support education and scholarship. Sedgwick and Baldwin will now join SAGE’s global senior management team, providing a consolidated approach to SAGE’s online product development for the library and college market.

Sedgwick has extensive experience in developing online digital products and content delivery platforms for the library market. Having joined SAGE just over five years ago, Sedgwick has had a significant impact on both the development and launch of several highly acclaimed products including SAGE Research Methods, the award-winning research methods tool; SAGE Knowledge, the social science online e-book platform and SAGE Navigator a literary research tool.

Since joining SAGE in 2010, Baldwin has made a significant impact on SAGE’s online product strategy. Baldwin has been instrumental in the development of SAGE’s data products, including the award-wining State Stats in 2012, and the development of CQ Researcher. In 2013, he assumed management responsibility for the SAGE U.S. reference program, integrating the traditional reference publishing program with SAGE’s online library product development into a fully aligned publishing team.

“The way academics consume knowledge is shifting dramatically and our role as publishers is to deliver what our academic researchers, students and librarians need. With opportunities for electronic delivery quickly maturing, it is important that we continue to invest in our capabilities in this area and these promotions ensure that we do that,” said Karen Phillips, Editorial Director, SAGE London.

Michele Sordi, Vice President, Editorial , SAGE US, added, “In their time at SAGE, Martha and Todd have both demonstrated a highly intuitive and profound understanding of the online product market – its evolving importance for our publishing partners and the challenges involved in bringing new products to market successfully. Their new roles give them greater scope to focus on this and we are incredibly excited to see the development of SAGE’s online products under their global leadership.”

Ingram Expands OASIS® Library Platform Through EBL Collaboration

April 22, 2013

Ingram Content Group Inc., and EBL – Ebook Library, a leading e-book aggregator serving academic, corporate and research libraries worldwide, today announced an agreement that will allow libraries to search and purchase EBL e-book content on the Ingram OASIS^®content platform for academic libraries worldwide.

“As libraries develop e-book programs and services, it’s important for librarians to be able to seamlessly acquire the e-books their patrons want,” said Kari Paulson, President, EBL. “Through our work with Ingram, we are offering greater discoverability of our content and further supporting acquisition workflows.”

Through the alliance with EBL, Ingram will add more than 325,000 EBL e-book titles to the OASIS platform, substantially growing the selection of e-content available to libraries. Users of the OASIS platform can view and select from an expanded selection of 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 EBL content.

“As libraries reshape their content mix to meet the needs of the academic community, Ingram continues to refine its programs, services, and platforms to match library and patron need,” said Dan Sheehan, Vice President and General Manager, Ingram Content Group library services. “Through our work with EBL, users of the OASIS platform will have access to an enhanced selection of content that’s unmatched in the industry.”

Ingram continues to grow its offerings to provide a total solution for academic libraries through Coutts Information Services Inc. and Ingram Library Services Inc. Through the company’s comprehensive services, libraries can find all the materials they need whether print, digital, print-on-demand or hard to find content from one company, easing the burden of collection development, acquisition, and payment for libraries around the globe.

The Ingram OASIS platform is an 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.

JISC’s metadata application profile for repositories to comply with RCUK’s new OA policy

April 22, 2013

This month sees the UK’s Research Councils’ (RCUK) revised policy on open access (OA) come into force for publicly-funded research to be disseminated through OA routes. A new metadata application profile called RIOXX has been developed by Jisc and UKOLN to ensure that university Institutional Repositories can start to comply with this policy.

Currently key information about research outputs are not systematically recorded and funders and universities face a challenge in tracking research across systems. The first release of RIOXX and the associated guidance focuses on applying consistency to the metadata fields used to record research funder and project/grant identifiers. This will allow research outputs to be consistently tracked between systems thus saving time and effort for activates such as research reporting, compliance checking and gathering business intelligence.

Neil Jacobs, Jisc’s digital infrastructure programme director says: “The UK research community punches well above its weight in terms of the quality and quantity of research outputs. However, these are not systematically recorded and attributed to research grants, so it can be hard to demonstrate that impact. Researchers, universities and funders have a common interest in ensuring that the outputs from UK research are visible and correctly attributed to units of funding.”

RIOXX also takes into account the need for interoperability between repositories, current research information systems (CRISs) and the Outcome Collection Systems (ROS), and Researchfish operated by research funders. It is has taken into consideration other metadata schemas such as ETHoS and OpenAIRE. Future releases of the profile and guidelines will also include the agreed language to track OA publications, and support compliance monitoring with the Research Councils’ policy on OA.

Neil adds: “It is important for UK universities to start to plan to engage and implement the RIOXX metadata application profile as soon as possible as it will support greater automation of collection of information on publications and other research outcomes. Associated software enhancements will also be available to support easy implementation.”

Dr Mari Williams, chair of the RCUK Research Outcomes Project comments: “The RIOXX guidelines offer clear and practical guidance to organisations wanting to attribute research outcome information to specific funders and research grants in their repositories. We look forward to agreed Open Access vocabularies being included in the RIOXX Profile within the near future.”

If you would like to find out more about future events on how to adopt and use RIOXX please contact Balviar Notay, Jisc programme manager. For technical queries please email admin@rioxx.net.

Sparrows Selects Knovel for Global Engineering Teams

April 22, 2013

Sparrows, the global provider of oilfield engineering services, has selected Knovel to increase efficiency in its global business by enabling its engineering teams to work ‘smarter and faster’ with access to a consistent source of engineering references. Knovel, used by engineers worldwide, is a Web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools that delivers answers engineers can trust.

“Our organisation is global therefore consistency and continuity are important to the efficiency of the engineering teams,” said Ewen Kerr, Global Engineering Director at Sparrows, responsible for all aspects of the group’s engineering delivery. “Knovel allows engineers to use the same data wherever they are, and having the data online at their fingertips means they can work faster and smarter. I expect to see increased productivity savings because information from Knovel is from trusted sources and auditable, so engineers can search for data reliably with minimal support from senior engineers.”

Feedback from internal evaluations conducted by Sparrows pointed to an estimated time saving of between 20 and 30 percent for engineers to find answers and data using Knovel compared to searches using textbooks.

Sparrows is a fast growing, dynamic company and the market leader in engineered lifting and handling solutions to the offshore sector. Headquartered in Aberdeen, UK, it employs over 1,800 people worldwide including the US, India, UAE, Singapore, Australia, Brazil and Angola. Its 250-strong Engineering and Design Team, which provides turnkey engineering solutions from design through to build and implementation, is a focus of growth for the company, having already recruited over 60 new engineers this year.

Sparrows’ projects span new build designs, equipment upgrade and refurbishments and mechanical handling schemes involving mechanical, structural, electrical and hydraulic disciplines. These types of projects require information that Knovel provides. Knovel works with a network of more than 100 recognised societies and publishers to provide validated technical references and data across more than 30 subject areas.

“Knovel enables engineers to research solutions to problems or find alternative methods for carrying out repeat work scopes by giving them access to the latest industry practices,” said Kerr. “Knovel raises the level of professionalism in our Engineering and Design team. In industry, there is generally not enough focus on document control and knowledge management – Knovel will provide us with a ready-made data management solution.”

Knovel has more than 700 customers worldwide including top 10 firms in the oil and gas, engineering design, industrial equipment and process industries such as BP, Shell, Chevron and Subsea 7.

“Sparrows’ decision to adopt Knovel is a significant endorsement of the benefits Knovel brings to a global engineering company in the oil and gas sector, where its breadth of subject areas and instant global access provide engineers with the comprehensive data they need to gain a competitive edge,” said Humberto Bastos, Head of Sales, Knovel.

Thomson Reuters releases ‘Research Fronts 2013: 100 Top Ranked Specialties in the Sciences and Social Sciences’ report

April 22, 2013

The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today released its report, “Research Fronts 2013: 100 Top Ranked Specialties in the Sciences and Social Sciences,” identifying 100 important research areas across multiple fields of science.

Breakthrough Analysis of the Structure of Science Today
By examining highly cited research papers from 2007 through 2012, Thomson Reuters identified research fronts built on recently published “core,” or foundational, journal articles. These research fronts were segmented into 10 broad fields of science and social sciences, and a top 10 listing was provided for each. A research front consists of a group of highly cited core papers and the more recent literature that frequently co-cites these papers. They define specialty areas of contemporary research.

“Providing this type of analysis for the scientific community is one of the core competencies of our business,” said Gordon Macomber, managing director of Thomson Reuters Scientific and Scholarly Research. “Trend analysis provides researchers, funders, and institution administrators a bird’s-eye view of key areas of study with the most rapid growth. This knowledge may help them make better informed decisions on where they should expand their research efforts, allocate funds and focus other resources.”

Based on Thomson Reuters analysis, the top research fronts are:

FIELD	RESEARCH FRONT
Agricultural, Plant, and Animal Sciences	Impact of climate change on food crops
Ecology and Environmental Sciences	Ocean acidification and marine ecosystems
Geosciences	Analysis of the formation of tectonic plates in the southern central Asian orogenic belt
Clinical Medicine	Transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Biological Sciences	Genetic analysis of DNA methylation and missing heritability
Chemistry and Materials Science	Enhanced visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production
Physics	Alkali-doped iron selenide superconductors
Astronomy and Astrophysics	Galileon cosmology addressing the continuous expansion of the universe
Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering	High-energy rechargeable lithium-air batteries
Economics, Psychology, and other Social Sciences	Urban policy mobilities and global governance issues

Climate Change Research Appears Across Multiple Disciplines

Climate change is a theme that appeared in several of the research fronts identified in the study. Specifically, the effects of climate change are present in the areas of Agricultural, Plant and Animal Sciences; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Geosciences; and, Economics, Psychology and other Social Sciences.

Data from Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators, a unique compilation of science performance statistics and trend data based on journal article publication counts and citation data from across Thomson Reuters science databases, was used to identify the fronts.

Access the full Thomson Reuters Research Fronts 2013 paper onScienceWatch.com, a Thomson Reuters open, web-based resource dedicated to scientific metrics and research performance analysis. Since 1989, ScienceWatch has provided the scientific community and media professionals with data and commentary on the people, places and topics in the forefront of science.

Royal Society of Chemistry wins prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise

April 22, 2013

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is today celebrating being awarded the UK’s highest accolade for business success – the 2013 Queen’s Award for Enterprise.

This prestigious award recognises outstanding business achievement by UK organisations. The RSC has been honoured in the International Trade category for its sustained and impressive international growth.

The recommendations committee, chaired by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, commended particularly the RSC’s overseas earnings growth of 45 per cent over six years.

Also commended were the RSC’s exports to 86 countries worldwide, with recent high increases in sales to the US, India and China, and its world class portfolio of high-profile scientific conferences.

The RSC’s success will be recognisable by the Queen’s Award emblem, which can be used on its products and materials for five years.

RSC Chief Executive, Dr Robert Parker said: “We’re honoured to have the hard work of our employees and members recognised with the Queen’s Award. For the next five years, we can display with pride yet more evidence of our international success.”

SAGE supports library travel grant for ALPSP International Conference 2013

April 19, 2013

SAGE has announced it will be sponsoring a librarian place again at this year’s Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) International conference. The annual event takes place this year from Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 September 2013 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

As a world-leading independent academic and professional publisher, SAGE has supported the ALPSP conference as a sponsor since its launch in 2008. This is the third year SAGE has supported a librarian travel grant at the event, which provides a free place at the conference for a librarian or information professional, including entry to the ALPSP awards dinner, travel within the UK, and accommodation for one person.

“We are delighted that SAGE is once again running their librarian travel grant competition, to encourage librarians to attend and importantly, to meet new friends and start new conversations with the publishing community. Previous winners have commented on how useful they found the conference and we look forward to welcoming this year’s winner,” Said Audrey McCulloch, Chief Executive of ALPSP.

To enter the competition to win a sponsored place librarians must answer the following question in 140 characters or less either via email or via Twitter to @SAGELibraryNews:

Question – What would be your top tip to give students about conducting research?

The winner of the 2012 travel grant, Stephen Buck, EResources and Periodicals Librarian at Dublin City University Library said, “I was a delighted to be given the ALPSP award last year. It was a great opportunity to broaden my exposure to, and awareness of, the issues affecting publishers and their relationships with libraries and to provide an enhanced perspective on relevant themes that have helped facilitate the generation of ideas and building of expertise moving forwards.”

“In an environment where both the education and research landscapes are rapidly evolving, it is increasingly important that both librarians and publishers work together to support the dissemination of knowledge,” said Clive Parry, Global Marketing Director, SAGE. “The ALPSP Conference has become a pivotal conference for understanding these changes, and provides an engaging environment for open dialogue between publishers and librarians. We are delighted to once again be supporting ALPSP in facilitating this conversation.”

Ex Libris Appoints New General Manager for European Region

April 18, 2013

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

April 18, 2013

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

April 18, 2013

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.