Five New Databases from Accessible Archives Inc. Available in EBSCO Discovery Service™

April 12, 2013

A new agreement between EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and Accessible Archives, Inc. will enable additional primary source content to be discoverable within EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Metadata from five new Accessible Archives’ databases will be added to EDS, the most comprehensive and robust collection of metadata from the best content sources. The addition of this content will serve as a valuable resource for EBSCO Discovery Service users with an interest in American history and culture.

The new databases from Accessible Archives include:

· Frank Leslie’s Weekly

· The National Anti-Slavery Standard

· National Citizen and Ballot Box

· The Revolution

· American County Histories IV: West

Frank Leslie’s Weekly is an illustrated literary and news publication that ran from 1852 until 1922. Frank Leslie’s Weekly provided reports of wars from John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry and the Civil War until the Spanish-American War and the First World War. It also included extensive coverage of events such as the Klondike gold rush of 1897, the laying of the 1858 Atlantic Cable and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

The National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Established in 1840, the Standard sought to extend the rights of slaves across the country and also advocated suffrage for women.

The National Citizen and Ballot Box was a monthly journal edited by American women’s rights advocate, Matilda Joslyn Gage that published essays on a wide range of issues, including regular columns about prominent women in history and female inventors.

The women’s suffrage movement was also the subject of The Revolution, a weekly women’s rights newspaper that was the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Published between 1868 and 1872, The Revolution’s influence on the national woman’s rights movement was enormous and it confronted subjects not discussed in most mainstream publications of the time.

American County Histories IV: West is one of four geographic groupings of American County Histories an essential resource for local historical and genealogical research. American County Histories IV: West includes county histories with regional overviews and general community conditions for Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

Accessible Archives, Inc. is an electronic publisher of primary source full-text historical databases encompassing rich, comprehensive material found in leading historical periodicals, books and newspapers. Accessible Archives content also provides unique historical elements reflecting broad views of American history and culture. Information includes: eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements and genealogical records.

EBSCO Discovery Service users will have the ability to search the full text of Accessible Archives resources bringing an extended list of results alongside additional library resources. EDS 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.

Accessible Archives, Inc. 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, and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, World Book, ABC-CLIO, and many others.

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^™.

Waseda University first in Asia to acquire the Springer Book Archives

April 12, 2013

Today, Springer announced that the Waseda University Library, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, acquired the English-language Springer Book Archives (SBA). Members of the university community now have online access to Springer content dating back to 1842 via SpringerLink (link.springer.com), Springer’s online platform. This is the first such purchase, not only at a Japanese university or research institute, but in all of Asia.

The SBA is an eBook collection of newly digitized historic titles published by Springer since its foundation. Currently, the English collection comprises more than 43,000 eBooks, which will increase to 50,000 when the SBA project is completed at the end of 2013 as planned. “Counting the German-language books, which are also being added, 100,000 significant scientific works will be available, preserving the scholarly record and linking the past, present and future of research,” said Olga Chiarcos, Director of Production for Germany, and project manager for the SBA.

This unprecedented collection of historic scholarly content is available without digital rights management and allows for full-text searchability. The eBooks offer a wide variety of reading options since they can be used across devices, and can even be ordered through print on demand (POD). By offering a POD option for most of the titles, Springer is also bringing books unavailable for decades back to bookshelves.

“We are thrilled to be able to add the SBA to the Springer content that we already offer to students, researchers and faculties at our university and library,” said Makoto Nakamoto, the administrative director of Waseda University Library. “We are also proud to be the first university in Asia to offer such an extensive amount of historical content, and we imagine that there will be high demand for such a useful resource across the region.”

When Springer launched its first eBook collections in 2006 (containing books published since 2005), Waseda University Library acquired all collections, in all disciplines. With the purchase of the SBA, all English titles from Springer, ranging from rare books that were out-of-print in the past, to titles just published, will be available at the Waseda University Library.

PeerJ Announces the First Institutions to Provide PeerJ Memberships to their Faculty

April 12, 2013

PeerJ Inc. (https://PeerJ.com), the publisher of PeerJ (a peer reviewed Open Access journal) and PeerJ PrePrints (a preprint server) today announced the first four universities to enter into an institutional arrangement to centrally fund PeerJ membership fees for their faculty.

“We have seen a lot of interest from institutions in the PeerJ model”, said Peter Binfield, Publisher and Co-Founder of PeerJ. “Our membership fees are already very low for individual authors, and so this means that an institution is able to centrally fund the memberships of a large number of faculty and authors for a very low outlay. Literally, for the price of one year’s access to two or three subscription journals, a library can make a single payment and provide PeerJ memberships to hundreds of their faculty. And those memberships are for life, meaning that the faculty can then publish with PeerJ for free, forever.”

Universities who have already entered into these arrangements for their faculty include Duke University, the University of Nottingham (UK), the University of Birmingham (UK), and Arizona State University.

“The University of Nottingham is a longstanding advocate of open access publishing, and we are delighted to be working with PeerJ” said Rob Johnson, of the University of Nottingham. “Their publication model offers a genuine and affordable alternative to authors and academic institutions seeking to secure free access to their research.”

Anali Perry of Arizona State University Libraries said that “PeerJ is breaking ground with an innovative publishing platform and business model, presenting an affordable, high quality option for researchers in the biological, medical, and health sciences. The Arizona State University Libraries are pleased to support PeerJ’s creative effort in scholarly publishing.”

PeerJ emphasizes research integrity; high ethical standards; constructive peer-review; exemplary production quality; and leading edge online functionality. The journal is indexed by PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC), Scopus and Google Scholar. There is an Editorial Board of over 800 world class researchers, and a 20-member Advisory Board which includes 5 Nobel Laureates. In addition, PeerJ members benefit from the ability to publish articles in PeerJ PrePrints.

Institutions can choose to purchase individual memberships for their authors in advance (and distribute them as they choose), or they can pre-pay for memberships which are then used by their faculty as and when they come to publish at PeerJ. Both options allow an institution to provide an Open Access option to a large number of their authors, in an extremely cost effective way.

Any Institution, Library, Consortia, Foundation or Funding Body interested in discussing one of these arrangements can contact PeerJ at info@peerj.com or via their website at https://peerj.com/pricing/institutions/

Springer signs eBook deal with the Virtual Library of Virginia and the Washington Research Library Consortium

April 12, 2013

Springer announced that it has signed a major deal with the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) and the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC). The agreement gives students and researchers from across more than 80 campuses access to Springer eBook content.

“We are very happy that we could come to an agreement with these two important organizations,” said David Celano, Springer’s Vice President of Library Sales for the Unites States and Canada. “We know deals of this sort serve library users well while allowing us to offer the best price possible for this amount of content. This is why Springer always actively pursues agreements with state-wide and major consortia.”

With the completion of this deal, users at the private and public institutions belonging to VIVA and WRLC will have access to tens of thousands of Springer’s eBooks via SpringerLink (link.springer.com), Springer’s online platform. The schools covered by this agreement include Georgetown University, The University of Virginia, George Mason University, Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Tech, to name a few. And with Springer’s liberal usage policies (no digital rights management and inter-library loan rights), libraries will be able to share these resources with each other easily and efficiently.

For more information on eBooks and eBook packages, please contact your Springer representative or visit springer.com/ebooks.

Wolters Kluwer Health Global Customer Support Awarded Omega’s NorthFace ScoreBoard AwardSM for Customer Service Excellence

April 10, 2013

Wolters Kluwer Health is pleased to announce that its Global Customer Support team supporting the Ovid and LWW Journals business has received the NorthFace ScoreBoard AwardSM from Omega Management Group Corp for achieving excellence in customer service and support in 2012. The award is presented annually to companies that exceed expectations in customer satisfaction scores—based solely on direct customer feedback. Omega is an expert in customer experience management (CEM) strategy, and helps companies boost revenue and profits by consistently exceeding customer expectations for service quality. Wolters Kluwer Health received a top score of 4.7 (out of 5.0) in receiving its second consecutive NorthFace ScoreBoard Award.

“We are delighted with this honor for the second consecutive year from one of the leading pioneers in customer service assessment,” said Neil Schmidt, Vice President and General Manager, Global Operations with Wolters Kluwer Health, Medical Research. “Our teams are passionate about delivering unmatched service to our customers—you could say it’s the DNA of our business to be customer-centric in all that we do. The Omega award validates the team’s efforts to support our global Ovid customer base and LWW journal subscribers and members.”

“We were very impressed with the Wolters Kluwer Health Support team as a repeat recipient of our NorthFace Award,” said John Alexander Maraganis, president & CEO of Omega. Wolters Kluwer, like many of our participating companies are repeat award recipients, which shows that, despite the tough economy, implementing a CEM strategy is a reliable, proven way to achieve business success and value creation for customers.”

This award recognizes excellence in customer satisfaction scores over the last calendar year across the Ovid and LWW customer service, technical support, training, sales engineering, and integration support services teams assisting customers in 117 countries. The audit includes a quarterly review of customer survey process and ratings. Companies must achieve a customer satisfaction rating of 4.0+ out of a possible 5.0 score (or equivalent rating system), over a 12-month calendar period.

Omega’s methodology measures customer satisfaction and loyalty levels on a 5-point scale (or equivalent) regularly during the year in such categories as technical support, field service, customer service and account management.

“Due to its unique ‘customer-only vote’ criteria, the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award has been viewed from its inception as the only objective benchmark for excellence in customer service,” Maraganis said. “Our research indicates that companies that consistently achieve a 4.0 rating or above, which we call the ‘Loyalty Zone,’ are succeeding in locking in profitable, long-term customer relationships, and this significantly raises the bar on their competitors.”

Future Science Group launches Pharmaceutical Bioprocessing

April 9, 2013

Future Science Group has announced the launch of Pharmaceutical Bioprocessing, a new bimonthly peer-reviewed online and print publication dedicated to addressing all aspects of bioprocessing for the development and manufacture of biopharmaceutical healthcare products. The journal is the latest addition to the internationally recognized Future Science portfolio.

Pharmaceutical Bioprocessing captures the latest key innovations and debate emerging in this burgeoning field and will serve as an essential ‘one-stop shop’ for researchers and other stakeholders. It is supported by a multidisciplinary, international editorial board comprising leading researchers and opinion leaders from academia and industry.
The journal fills an important gap in literature with its exquisite focus on this field, providing readers with concise, high-value information, enriched with expert commentary and analysis. “Pharmaceutical Bioprocessing will serve as a new engine of activity for exchanging ideas between bioprocessing scientists and technologists”, said Distinguished Professor Mike Butler, of the University of Manitoba (Canada), who is on the journal’s editorial board.
Elisa Manzotti, Publisher at the Future Science Group, said, “We are delighted with this launch issue. Biotechnology is now really delivering products for the pharmaceutical industry and, ultimately, the patient. However, novel biological therapies often present major challenges in terms of consistent, reproducible production. The launch of this high-quality, peer-reviewed resource to support these efforts is therefore extremely timely, and I’m sure this will be a welcome forum for those at the sharp end of biological drug development and manufacture. Our and our thanks go to everyone involved with its inception”.

Pharmaceutical Bioprocessing provides an authoritative forum for the publication of original research articles, reviews and perspectives covering all areas of advanced bioprocess science and technology – from manufacturing to purification, through to the assessment and preparation of the final product for patient delivery. Each issue also features news updates along with regular editorial and opinions on hot topics and pressing areas of debate, and Interviews with international experts.

The full content of the launch issue is free-to-access on the journal’s website:
http://www.future-science.com

The Springer Book Archives now contain 72,000 titles

April 9, 2013

Today at the British UKSG Conference in Bournemouth, Springer announced that the Springer Book Archives (SBA) now contain 72,000 eBooks. This news represents the latest developments in a project that seeks to digitize nearly every Springer book ever published, dating back to 1842 when the publishing company was founded. The titles are being digitized and made available again for the scientific community through SpringerLink (link.springer.com), Springer’s online platform.
By the end of 2013 an unprecedented collection of around 100,000 historic, scholarly eBooks, in both English and German, will be available through the SBA. Researchers, students and librarians will be able to access the full text of these books free of any digital rights management. Springer also offers a print-on-demand option for most of the books.

Notable authors whose works Springer has published include high-level researchers and Nobel laureates, such as Werner von Siemens, Rudolf Diesel, Emil Fischer and Marie Curie.Their publications will be a valuable addition to this historic online archive.

”Creating the product we envisioned, with the high standards of quality our customers need, was no easy undertaking,” said Olga Chiarcos, Director of Production for Germany, and project manager for the SBA. “Locating the books was a particular challenge, made easier by the cooperation of our library partners. And scanning and digitizing these titles was a meticulous effort requiring a painstaking attention to detail. But in the end, we know users and customers will be happy with what we have created.”

When complete, the SBA will contain roughly equal numbers of titles in English and German. The archives include around 50 different imprints, the majority of which are scientific publications, reflecting Springer’s long publishing tradition. Some well-known specialist book imprints include the long-standing German engineering publisher Vieweg (now SpringerVieweg), the U.S. computer book publisher Apress and the U.S. science publisher Copernicus.
For more information visit the SBA section on Springer’s website at www.springer.com/bookarchives.

Wiley Selects TEMIS for Semantic Big Data Initiative

April 9, 2013

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), a leading publisher serving the global Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly (STMS) communities, today announced it has signed a major license and services agreement with TEMIS, the award-winning provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions.

Wiley will use TEMIS’s Luxid® Platform to enhance its STMS content, providing more sophisticated search and discovery tools to professional and academic researchers. Wiley will also leverage Luxid® to identify similar and related documents promoting greater user engagement with one of the largest scientific archives of its kind.

“In an age where online resources play a central role in new research, it is of paramount importance that users are able to quickly identify and access the content they need”, said Patrik Dyberg, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Wiley. “Wiley hosts one of the world’s broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering STMS research, and this partnership offers researchers new tools for using this knowledge.”

In addition to indexing Wiley’s massive research archive, Luxid® will be used to annotate current and future information sources, including reference works, databases and Wiley’s collection of 1,500 journals.

“We are proud to be selected by Wiley to extract tremendous value from their content across products and disciplines and help them deliver actionable knowledge to their customers”, said Guillaume Mazieres, Executive Vice President, North-America Operations, TEMIS. “Wiley and TEMIS share a passion for innovation that materializes in this semantic big data initiative.”

SAGE to publish The Journal of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Screening (JIEMS)

April 9, 2013

SAGE today announced that it will publish The Journal of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Screening (JIEMS), a new open access, online-only journal in 2013, with manuscripts being accepted in mid-April. JIEMS will be the official journal of the Latin American Society of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Neonatal Screening (SLEIMPN).

Published continuously, JIEMS will disseminate peer-reviewed original research articles, short reports, clinical cases, and reviews that will advance clinical and experimental research on inherited genetic disorders and on screening activities. Topics will include basic and applied research findings that have implications for the understanding of disease pathogenesis, development of diagnostic strategies and of innovative therapies, as well as screening of diseases in populations and in selected groups.

The journal will be edited by Dr. Roberto Giugliani, Chief of the Medical Genetics Service of Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre and Professor of the Department of Genetics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Dr. Giugliani, who is a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, is also Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for the Development of Medical Genetics Services in Latin America, is the Coordinator of the Brazilian National Institute of Population Medical Genetics (INAGEMP) and Chair of the Administrative Council of SLEIMPN.

“This partnership between SLEIMPN and SAGE will fill a gap in the field of metabolic diseases, as the new journal will offer to the international research community an open-access alternative for the scientific communication in the area of inborn errors of metabolism and screening. It will be managed with a user-friendly web-based platform and peer review system,” stated Dr. Giugliani.

JIEMS will publish papers from a variety of different health, life, and biomedical science researchers including geneticists, genetic counselors, dietitians, biochemists, molecular biologists, reproductive medicine researchers, obstetricians/gynecologists, neonatologists, pediatricians, and pathologists.

“SAGE is happy to grow its global portfolio of strong medical and scientific journals with the addition of JIEMS,” stated Bob Howard, SAGE’s Executive Director of journals. “We look forward to working with the Latin American Society of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Neonatal Screening to provide an outlet for scientists and physicians to publish their quality, peer-reviewed research in an open access format.”

BISG study reveals correlation between genre preference and reading device selection

April 9, 2013

Multi-function tablets have become consumers’ preferred e-reading devices, overtaking dedicated e-readers for the first time, according to the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)’s closely watched Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey, an ongoing study conducted with book research powerhouse Bowker. Results from the first installment in Volume Four of the survey show 44 percent of e-book readers prefer a tablet, up from 37 percent in the August 2012 survey. During the same period, respondents’ choice of a dedicated e-reader fell from 49 percent to 42 percent. The study suggests the trend will continue as respondents’ intent to purchase a dedicated e-reader has dropped, while intent to purchase has remained consistent for tablets, at about 37 percent.

“Like so many other changes in e-book consumption, the move toward tablets developed very rapidly,” said Angela Bole, BISG’s Deputy Executive Director. “This ongoing survey provides an opportunity for companies in the book business to stay ahead of these trends as they emerge.”

Understanding device use is important as the survey reveals further correlation between device choice and genre preference, with certain fiction genres continuing to dominate on dedicated e-readers, while some specialized nonfiction genres perform better on other devices. For example, those who prefer dedicated e-readers were more likely to select general fiction, mystery, literary fiction, or romance as key e-book genres than users of other types of devices. How-to guides and manuals were more popular with those who prefer reading e-books on personal computers. Consumers who prefer e-reading via smartphones were more likely to read travel books than either tablet or dedicated e-reader users.

The study also shows the consistent upward swing in preference for e-books over print. About 82 percent of Power Buyers (consumers who acquire e-books on a weekly basis) say they prefer e-books over print and nearly 70 percent of Non-Power Buyers say they now prefer e- over print.

“In the five years that Bowker has powered the BISG Consumer Attitudes study, we’ve seen e-reading of key fiction genres become mainstream,” said Jo Henry, Director of Bowker Market Research. “As consumers turn from dedicated e-reading devices to tablets, the study will continue to monitor the impact on genres, physical book acquisition, and retailers, and track the evolution of the all-important Power Buyer.”

About Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading
Since November 2009, Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading has been tracking the habits and preferences of print book consumers who say they have acquired an e-book or a dedicated e-reading device within the past year. Volume Four is sponsored by Barnes & Noble and Hachette Book Group. In addition to two PDF Summary Reports, Volume Four of Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading is published as a dynamic online report via Real-Time Reporting: a unique web-based tool set displaying the raw data derived from responses – drillable, sortable with on-demand accessibility.

Data for Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading was derived from a nationally representative panel of book consumers (men, women, and teens). Each month a new group of more than 6,000 respondents complete surveys about their book purchasing behavior for Bowker Market Research.

The survey findings are available for sale both as a PDF Summary Report and as a complete data compendium, accessible online. A substantial discount is available for BISG members. For more information, or to order a copy of Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading, visit www.bisg.org/publications/product.php?p=19&c=437.

Numérique Premium chooses Publishing Technology’s pub2web solution for its ebook platform

April 9, 2013

Paris-based content aggregator Numérique Premium (a subsidiary of Nouveau Monde editions) has announced a partnership with Publishing Technology to provide a new, custom-built site for its ebook platform Numérique Premium. The platform serves as the definitive digital library of essential classics, monographs and reference works in History and Social Sciences for the worldwide academic community

The ebook specialist’s new online hub, to be developed on Publishing Technology’s pub2web platform, will be home to all currently available content, which, by the end of the 2013, will total over 2000 titles within 14 disciplines from 25 publishers. Histoire Premium will boast agile technology allowing institutions to bundle ebooks into bespoke compilations on demand. For the first time, the site will also function fully in French and English.

The platform will be both robust and flexible enough in design and functionality to support anticipated growth. All content on the current site will be transitioned in time for the start of the 2013-2014 academic year in September, with an influx of newly-available material planned to triple the number of publications available worldwide. The pub2web hosting solution’s extensible design allows for a quick turnaround of such a complex project.

The revamped Histoire Premium site will offer its academic research community an improved, user-friendly online experience with advanced options for individual publisher and collection pages. The site will also provide superior and specialised search, browse, faceting and filtering options. Further benefits include:
· Easy upload options, so the site can be updated with new publishers and titles in real time
· Preview features so users can make well-informed decisions prior to the downloading of ebooks
· Citation service management including BibTEX, EndNote and RefWorks
· Statistical expertise and integrated analytics services
· Improved discoverability via improved site navigation and SEO

Yannick Dehée, President, Numérique Premium, commented: “We are excited to partner with Publishing Technology on a custom site for our unique collection. Publishing Technology’s vast publishing and library experience, along with pub2web’s explicitly designed features to increase visibility and usability for libraries, made the company an ideal partner for our ebook platform. We welcome the advanced options to personalise every aspect of the site for both new and existing customers. The redevelopment of Histoire Premium is crucial to the success of our ongoing digital strategy.”

George Lossius, CEO at Publishing Technology, said “We are delighted to be working with Numérique Premium on this important project, especially as this is the first instance of a pub2web site for an ebook specialist. Our platform provides a smooth migration path with immediate benefits and the ability to unify multiple types of content, which has been especially successful for content aggregators like this one. The robust new Histoire Premium on pub2web will help generate new revenue opportunities and subscriptions along with flexibility for future development.

Universities Improve Discoverability of Research with Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index

April 9, 2013

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced that numerous institutions around the world are using its Data Citation Index solution to aid in the discovery of global data sets that connect researchers to data repositories.

Australia’s University of Queensland, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Queensland University of Technology, and University of Adelaide; Europe’s University of Leeds and University of Surrey; and, North America’s Tufts University are among many institutions finding value in the Data Citation Index. It ensures work they do is discoverable, properly attributed and that their researchers are able to leverage work done by others, as well as helps progress research projects they’re funding.

“The Data Citation Index is a valuable research tool for our institution and we look forward to promoting it to our customers,” said Bob Gerrity, university librarian, the University of Queensland. “In the absence of a tool like the Data Citation Index, it is often quite difficult to find and appropriately credit prior research. The Data Citation Index from Thomson Reuters creates a single source for the discovery of foundational research in selected data repositories around the world, and assures it is attributed in a way that appropriately acknowledges intellectual debt.”

Thomson Reuters launched its Data Citation Index in October 2012. It worked in close collaboration with industry leaders from the California Digital Library’s UC Curation Center and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) to capture bibliographic records and cited references for digital research, in order to promote the accurate identification, attribution and measurement of this growing body of scholarship.

“The Data Citation Index is a valuable tool for our researchers and we’re pleased that Thomson Reuters has taken the initiative to bring such an offer to market,” said Miriam Allman of Tufts University.

Data Citation Index allows users to gain a comprehensive view of the genesis of research projects and influence the future paths they may take, while minimizing the duplication of work and speeding the scientific research process.

“Global scientific and scholarly research output is accelerating,” said Gordon Macomber, managing director, Thomson Reuters Scientific and Scholarly Research. “The rapid adoption of the Data Citation Index solution by leading research institutions around the world is testimony to how critical it is to identify the right data sets to further enhance the scientific research process. We continue to invest in it in order to provide easy access to data sets and to develop the citation standards the global scientific and scholarly community relies on Thomson Reuters to provide.”

Thomson Reuters provides additional information on Data Citation Index.