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University of Nebraska Omaha is 100th OCLC WorldShare Management Services user in production

The University of Nebraska Omaha is now live with OCLC WorldShare Management Services, making it the 100th institution worldwide to fully implement the new Web-based, cooperative library management and discovery services.

“We wanted a library management system that was cutting-edge,” said Steve Shorb, Dean of the Criss Library at the University of Nebraska Omaha. “Moving to WorldShare Management Services is going to allow us to keep pace with current and emerging trends in technology and take full advantage of new developments and applications created specifically for libraries as they become available.”

WorldShare Management Services provide a Web-based environment that streamlines cataloging, acquisitions, license management and circulation workflows, and offers the WorldCat Local discovery service for library users. WorldShare Management Services (WMS) were released for general availability in the United States in July 2011. Today, just 20 months later, 100 libraries on three continents—Australia, Europe and North America—are already using the services and some 65 more are in the implementation process to begin using the services in the future.

“As we commemorate the 100th implementation of WMS at the University of Nebraska Omaha, we are also celebrating our shared commitment to library cooperation,” said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, on campus Wednesday to help introduce the services to students and faculty. “Throughout its history, OCLC has been fortunate to work with leading libraries to help create innovative new services. The OCLC cooperative worldwide is grateful to the Criss Library staff for its part in helping to improve library workflows and provide exciting and powerful discovery tools for library users.”

Working together with WorldShare Management Services, libraries can share data, applications and workflow improvements with peer institutions, end users and partners. Since WorldShare Management Services are built on an open, collaborative platform, libraries can add the features and functions needed to support their unique communities. Libraries without development resources can take advantage of applications developed by others in the library community.

“We wanted a platform that was more flexible and open to APIs,” said Rene Erlandson, Director, Virtual Services, Criss Library. “We wanted a more full-featured ILS, and WMS gives us the flexibility and features that will help us continue to grow and add new services as they are developed within the community.”

That spirit of cooperation in the WMS community was a key to the decision to move to WorldShare. “It’s wonderful to work in a dot-org environment, rather than a dot-com environment,” said Mr. Shorb.

Moving to WorldShare Management Services meant that Criss Library staff would change the way they approached their work. “Our staff has been open to the process; Steve has created an atmosphere that is receptive to change at the library,” said Ms. Erlandson. “Staff has been looking forward to using a system that is more flexible and allows them to streamline their processes. We have been able to cut down steps in our workflows—in some cases from seven steps to two.”

“The Criss Library laid the groundwork for a successful change effort,” said Rob Ross, Director, Implementation Programs, OCLC. “It was clear that staff members had already considered how their roles might change, what professional growth opportunities this transition presented them, and what new value they could create for patrons. This adventurous spirit, along with tremendous energy, creativity and passion from the library’s leadership, contributed significantly to the overall success of their transition to WMS.”

The move to WorldShare Management Services has already generated cost and time savings for the Criss Library. According to Mr. Shorb, the move has helped the library to acquire 300,000 e-book titles for the campus, and in the future they plan to reallocate library staff to create an institutional repository for the university.

“In the future we hope to have the ability to stream video and become more involved with distance learning, online education and MOOCs,” said Mr. Shorb. “By streamlining other processes and eliminating server maintenance, some of our IT staff might have more bandwidth to focus on streaming video and help us grow our digital collections.”

Moving to WorldShare Management Services helped Mr. Shorb save time in his plan to replace his library’s ILS. “Once we made the commitment to WMS, my two-year plan was cut down to six months,” he said.

More about OCLC WorldShare Management Services can be found on the OCLC website.

ProQuest names Tiffany Williamson as Vice President of Operations for Marketing, Sales and Customer Experience

In support of delivering a superior customer experience, ProQuest appointed Tiffany Williamson as Vice President of Operations for Marketing, Sales and Customer Experience. In this new role, Williamson will drive strategy and operations excellence across sales and marketing, with a particular focus on aligning ProQuest’s businesses creating an integrated approach to the market. In addition, Williamson will lead a team dedicated to segment strategy, ultimately delivering greater value and enhancing the customer experience.

“Tiffany embraces a customer-centric approach to operations and has a deep understanding of directing cross-functional initiatives to drive transformation,” said Michael Gersch, ProQuest, senior vice president, global marketing, sales, and customer experience & service. “We welcome her expertise in strategic market planning and experience in leveraging systems and technology for continuous improvements.”

“I’m eager to apply both my experience and my passion for operations excellence at a company that values its customers so deeply,” said Williamson. “I’m looking forward to developing a comprehensive, integrated approach that makes ProQuest an even more compelling brand.”

Williamson comes to ProQuest from LexisNexis, where she was general manager of a workflow solutions business. In that role, she led product strategy and acquisition integration, implemented a multi-faceted customer retention plan and led day-to-day operations during a period of high growth in the business. During her tenure at the company, which spanned more than a decade, she also held leadership roles in strategy and market planning, and all aspects of product management.

Williamson holds a JD and certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) from Pepperdine University School of Law, and a BA in Speech Communications from Colorado State University. She is also certified in Pragmatic Marketing.

Springer teams up with Committee on Institutional Cooperation

Today Springer and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) will hold their first-ever publishing symposium at University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center. The gathering was established as an important opportunity to create dialogue between early-career publishers and librarians, in an effort to nurture closer collaboration as both consider the future of scholarly communication.

The goal of the meeting is to create wider understanding of both the cultures, expectations and pressures on each side as they work together to serve their important constituencies and the wider scientific community. Attendees will be asked to focus on where the interests of both groups intersect and diverge in order to engender a closer sense of shared purpose, and to create stronger partnerships as all look to the future of their respective fields.

“At Springer we are always looking to better understand our customers and to help them do their jobs better,” said David Celano, Springer’s Vice President of Academic and Government Sales for North America. “As the landscape of scientific communication continues to change, we are excited to work with the CIC to sit down alongside some of our newest librarian partners to create closer relationships and build lasting cooperation.”

Mark Sandler, Director of the CIC explained, “The idea for this symposium was born out of a conversation I had with a young and deeply committed Springer editor.  That chance encounter convinced me that there could be high value in a caucus between some of our early career librarians and folks at a similar career stage at a major publisher.  It is my hope that this meeting will result in greater understanding of the roles and aspirations of career professionals in libraries and publishing, and I am happy that we have found such a willing partner in Springer.”

With a total attendance of roughly 30 participants made up of early-career librarians, CIC staff and Springer personnel, a wide range of important issues are on the agenda. Topics will range from social media’s place in academic context, to mobile technology, open access and end-user needs, to name a few. Both parties agree that if each person leaves with one positive take away or new understanding, then the organizers have met their goals.

Royal Society of Chemistry adopts CC BY licence for Gold open access papers

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced today that it is making a change to copyright arrangements for open access papers published in RSC journals.

From 1 April 2013, authors will have the option to publish under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license when choosing to publish their research via the Gold open access route.

Publishing research articles under the CC BY licence, a requirement by many funding agencies, makes the article available for anyone to copy, distribute, adapt or make commercial use of it, as long as the research is attributed to the author or licensor.

RSC Managing Director for Publishing, Dr James Milne said: “The RSC is a strong supporter of sustainable open access and has traditionally offered a relatively liberal licence for Gold open access articles. This move to make research findings published in RSC journals available under the Creative Commons licence continues to show our commitment to enhancing access to chemical sciences research.

“Adopting the CC BY licence also aligns us to the requirements of a number of funding agencies who promote and support Gold open access, including Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust. All RSC journals are therefore ‘open access compliant’ for these funding agencies.”

The RSC will also offer authors of Gold open access papers the option to publish under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) licence, should they and/or their funders find this more appropriate.

Emerald supports International Women’s Day with free access to key research

In support of International Women’s Day on 8th March, a global event that celebrates the economic, political and social achievement of women, Emerald Group Publishing is providing free access to key research. Two journals and three book series echoing this year’s theme, “The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum”, are freely accessible online from 8 – 22 March by visiting: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/tk/iwd2013 

The two journals are Gender in Management and International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship. They both aim to advance knowledge and practice in the fields of leadership, enterprise and entrepreneurship for women. Recent articles include an investigation into financial discrimination faced by women running small to medium-sized businesses; the under-representation of female leaders in creative and cultural industries, based on a study for the Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP) in the UK; and an exploration of the differences between men and women experiencing “emotional exhaustion” of work-family conflict and burnout.

The three book series include Advances in Gender Research, Comparative Social Research, and Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, which have all published research on issues surrounding gender equality. Recent volumes have tackled intersecting dynamics of gender, family and work; firms, boards and gender quotas; as well as economic stress and the family.

As a publisher, Emerald is committed to demonstrating the real-world, practical application of the content it publishes, and is proud to support initiatives such as International Women’s Day.  First observed on 8th March 1911, International Women’s Day has grown to become a global day of recognition and celebration across developed and developing countries alike. It is supported by governments, charities, educational institutions, women’s groups and corporations around the globe.

To find out more about International Women’s Day, and how to get involved, visit http://www.internationalwomensday.com/ 

For more information about Emerald’s journals and book series collection, visit http://www.emeraldinsight.com

LWW and the American College of Sports Medicine launch seven new exercise science manuals and textbooks

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has published seven new editions of their exercise science list in partnership with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). Several titles provide the content students and professionals must master to obtain multiple ACSM certifications, including ACSM Certified Personal Trainer, ACSM Certified Health Fitness Specialist or ACSM Certified Clinical Exercise Specialist.

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) offers certifications in various areas of fitness including personal training, health fitness, clinical exercise, and clinical exercise physiology, all of which are accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA). One of the most well-known certifications is the ninth edition of the “Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription,” which is considered a leading reference in the field. ACSM has certified thousands of health and fitness professionals worldwide and provides resources to help people maintain fitness and health through exercise. To hide treadmill, you can use a folding cover or a piece of furniture such as a bookcase or cabinet to conceal it when not in use. Alternatively, you can place the treadmill in a room or area of the house that can be closed off, such as a basement or spare room.

“This partnership leverages LWW’s widely respected publishing platform and the expert scientific and clinical knowledge of our members,” said Katie Feltman, Director of Publishing for the ACSM. “These new publications significantly expand access for both students and professionals to the definitive science and evidence in the sports medicine field, which ultimately translates into better clinical outcomes for patients.”

The seven new titles published as part of the partnership include:

ACSM’s Certification Review, Fourth Edition
ACSM’s Exercise for Older Adults, First Edition
ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, Ninth Edition
ACSM’s Health-Related Physical Fitness Assessment Manual, Fourth Edition
ACSM’s Resources for the Health Fitness Specialist, First Edition
ACSM’s Resources for the Personal Trainer, Fourth Edition
ACSM’s Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, Seventh Edition

All titles include online ancillary support via thePoint.lww.com, which can include online texts, image banks, PowerPoint Slides, and test generators.

“Our partnership with the American College of Sports Medicine allows us to work with the country’s leading experts on exercise and personal fitness to develop the information tools that students and professionals need for both education and certification,” said Julie Stegman, Vice President and Publisher, Health Professions and Nursing Education. “We are pleased to offer this suite of learning tools to support the learning needs of this vital group of health professionals.”

All of the new books and tools are available at lww.com, or go to thePoint.lww.com to learn more about ancillary support tools.

New Head of Content Management for IOP Publishing

Natasha Mellins-Cohen has been announced as the new Head of Content Management for IOP Publishing and will start in her new role on 2 April 2013.

Natasha has over ten years’ experience in the scientific, technical and medical publishing industry and is currently Head of Publishing Operations at BioMed Central. In this role she has overseen processing and strategy for the peer review process, production services for over 300 journals and has worked to improve data integrity and export processes. She also overhauled the production workflow, rolling out a new platform and negotiating with new suppliers.

Natasha regularly speaks about current publishing issues such as open access and delivered the keynote speech at the STM e-Production Seminar 2012. She has a BSc in Biomedical Sciences and MSc in Bioinformatics and previously worked at the Royal Society of Medicine Press.

James Walker, Group IT Director and Director of Production at IOP Publishing said of the new appointment: “We are delighted to be welcoming such an experienced professional to our senior management team. Natasha has an excellent knowledge of production and editorial processes which will be invaluable to the success of our journals, magazine, website and ebooks portfolio.”

Natasha takes on the role from Sharon Toop, who retired at the end of 2012 as Head of Production, after 38 years’ service with IOP Publishing.

ASME Digital Collection Launches on Powerful New Publishing Platform with Silverchair

ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) has announced the launch of the ASME Digital Collection(formerly the ASME Digital Library) on SCM6, an online publishing platform from Silverchair Information Systems. The state-of-the art platform will provide expanded accessibility and discoverability for ASME’s e-Books, journals and conference proceedings by leveraging the latest in semantic technology and a host of other features and functionality.

“The new publishing platform from Silverchair allows us to fully integrate all of our content and improve information discovery for researchers, educators and students,” said Philip DiVietro, ASME Managing Director of Publishing. “The ASME Digital Collection’s unparalleled depth, breadth and quality of mechanical engineering technical content is easier and faster to access than ever. We are pleased to collaborate with Silverchair to provide a unified user experience.”

The Silverchair SCM6 platform features a wide range of applications and capabilities including:

  • A new taxonomy that delivers highly accurate and related content of greater relevance drawn from ASME’s collection of proceedings, journal articles as well as eBooks
  • Full text and taxonomic search capabilities optimized for mechanical engineering information with precise filtering by multiple facets
  • New topical collections to browse content in specific subject areas and easily find the most recent publications in those areas across all ASME publications
  • Enhanced content display and tools enables sophisticated organization and viewing of tables and figures, the ability to export to PowerPoint slides for lectures and presentations, as well as additional tools to manage content sharing, citation and permission requests, and more
  • Improved usability, information discovery and ease of readingfacilitated by an intuitive user interface employing the best practices in web interface design
  • Personalization capabilities that enable customized page display, saved figures and tables, email alert management, subscription summaries and article access as well as mobile access activation through a personal login
  • Optimized viewing for all web-enabled smart phones and tablets

“The launch of the new ASME Digital Collection is a milestone for Silverchair and a new benchmark for STM publishers,” said Thane Kerner, CEO of Silverchair Information Systems.  “Working with ASME, we have extended our semantic coverage across mechanical engineering, integrating one of the largest portfolios of technical information available today into a cohesive digital library optimized for the information needs of today’s professional users.”

Additional Resources from Oxford University Press Now Searchable to EBSCO Discovery Service™ Users

EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and Oxford University Press (OUP) have extended their partnership enabling two additional authoritative resources from OUP, University Press Scholarship Online and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, to be searchable within EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Oxford University Press is the world’s largest university press offering content in more than 40 languages for audiences from pre-school to secondary level schoolchildren; students to academics; general readers to researchers; individuals to institutions.

University Press Scholarship Online provides more than 10,000 titles in 24 subject areas from 10 leading university presses. Content includes a balance of classic works of scholarship along with newly-published works. The valuable resource also includes book-level and chapter-level records.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography offers over 50,000 biographies written by named, specialist authors. The dictionary is the national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century and is overseen by academic editors at Oxford University, UK, and published by Oxford University Press.

The new agreement between EBSCO and OUP allows EDS users to search University Press Scholarship Online and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography while mutual customers may further extend their search to access the full text on the Oxford site. Oxford University Press customers may use an EDS CustomLink already created in EBSCOadmin™ to access full text on the Oxford site.

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

The EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers (and growing), which accounts for more than 350,000 publications from the world’s top publishers and information providers. However, because EDS is a custom solution, the complete index to materials for any given customer may be expanded greatly beyond the coverage referenced for the Base Index. In terms of depth of coverage for publications in the EBSCO Discovery Service Base Index, content extends back to the 15th century, and in some cases, even earlier. The inclusion of custom catalogs, repositories and other resources may certainly further extend the dates of archival coverage for a given institution.

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. 

EBSCO Discovery Service is quickly becoming the discovery selection for many libraries (www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-news), and an obvious partner for content providers. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost® platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC—which is not typical in the discovery space. Further still, in the many universities and other libraries where EBSCOhost is the most-used platform for premium research, users are not asked to change their pathways or habits for searching. There’s simply more to discover on the familiar EBSCOhost platform, and the same can be said for library administrators who can leverage their previous work with EBSCOadmin™.

Credo Survey Suggests Students Lack Basic Information Skills Critical for Academic and Workforce Success

A survey developed by librarians and sponsored by Credo found that many college students falsely perceive their level of information literacy. The data collected suggests that while students display an understanding of information skills, they are not successful at the next step —application of the skill. These information skills are critical to success in the classroom, but they also extend beyond campus to prepare students for success on the job and in everyday life.

In one example from the survey findings, a majority of the 1,500+ respondents grasped the concept of information literacy as it relates to finding, evaluating and using information, but 46% of students admitted to looking for a copyright symbol to determine accuracy of a source and over half admitted they were unfamiliar with the purpose and basic characteristics of scholarly journals.

“These results are eye-opening,” commented Credo CEO Mike Sweet. “This is clear evidence that many students are not learning the basics of how to research, skills that transfer beyond the classroom to ensure success in the workforce and beyond.  At Credo, we have the innovative learning technology and the collaborative relationships with librarians and educators that will ensure that the ‘Fourth R’ is covered both earlier and more often so students can be more successful.”

The full results of the survey along with a paper authored by Dr. Allen McKiel, Dean of Library Services at Western Oregon University, will be unveiled on Thursday, April 11 at the 2013 ACRL Conference in Indianapolis, IN. Registration for the presentation of results is now open at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ACRL_Breakfast. Registration to receive a complimentary copy of the full survey results is now open athttp://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Survey_Results.

De Gruyter Signs 10,000 Title eBook Agreement with YBP Library Services

De Gruyter, the international academic publishing house, announced today that it has signed an agreement with YBP Library Services (YBP), the academic division of Baker & Taylor, whereby nearly 10,000 titles from De Gruyter’s eBook program, e-dition, will be made available for purchase through GOBI3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information), YBP’s acquisition and collection management interface. De Gruyter publishes more than 850 new titles annually in medicine, the humanities, natural sciences and law, in addition to more than 600 journals and digital media publications.

“We are delighted to be taking this key step with YBP in making De Gruyter content and that of our partner publishers easily accessible to the library market in America and internationally. As the market for electronic content continues to grow, this capability will become even more important. We are pleased to partner with YBP for the benefit of our customers,” said Ben Ashcroft, Director Global Sales at De Gruyter.

“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 De Gruyter offers our academic customers the combination of De Gruyter’s highly-respected and quality content and YBP’s value-added services to libraries and consortia.”

Through its partnerships with publishers (Böhlau Verlag, Otto Schmidt Verlag, Detail) and university presses (Harvard University Press) DeGruyter offers a backlist of more than 60,000 titles, spanning 260 years of publishing history to academic institutions worldwide.

Wiley Launches New Open Access Journal: Immunity, Inflammation and Disease

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced today the launch of a new open access, interdisciplinary journal providing rapid publication of cutting-edge research across the broad field of immunology.

Immunity, Inflammation and Disease, the latest journal to be launched from the Wiley Open Access program, is supported by a number of major societies; British Society for Immunology; European Federation of Immunological Societies; European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology; and the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, as well as leading journals in the field, including Allergy (Impact Factor 6.3), European Journal of Immunology (Impact Factor 5.1) and Clinical and Experimental Allergy (Impact Factor 5.0).

All articles in Immunity, Inflammation and Disease will be published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License on Wiley Online Library and deposited in PubMed Central immediately upon publication. A publication fee will be payable by authors on acceptance of their articles. Authors affiliated with, or funded by, an organization that has a Wiley Open Access Account can publish without directly paying any publication charges.

Marc Veldhoen, a group leader at the Babraham Institute in Cambridgeshire, UK, has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief for the new journal. Dr. Veldhoen studied Medical Biology at the Faculty of Medicine, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and went on to pursue his post doctorate at the National Institute for Medical Research Mill Hill, UK.

“It is my hope and goal with Immunity, Inflammation and Disease to make a contribution towards quality open access scientific publishing and to stimulate debate. Being part of Wiley means we will make full use of its experience with quality peer reviewed scientific publishing,” said Dr. Veldhoen. “My aims are to shape it into a high quality journal publishing new and original data, and to encourage the preservation of the original scientific method of open discussion and frank exchange of thoughts and ideas.”

“We are delighted to be launching this new open access journal in immunology, particularly with support of our long term publishing partners which will be invaluable in ensuring that the new journal goes from strength to strength,” said Bob Campbell, Senior Publisher, Wiley.

The journal is open to submissions now. Visit the journal’s website www.immunityinflammationdisease.com for further information and future updates.

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