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PeerJ selected for indexing by PubMed Central (PMC), PubMed and Scopus

PeerJ Inc, the Publisher of the Open Access, peer reviewed journal ‘PeerJ’, and the preprint server ‘PeerJ PrePrints’ is pleased to announce that the journal has been accepted for indexing by PubMed Central (PMC), PubMed and Scopus. PeerJ articles will start to appear in PMC, PubMed and Scopus in the next few weeks (and in addition all PeerJ content has been fully indexed by Google Scholar since launch).

In addition to being indexed in these major Abstracting and Indexing venues, PeerJ facilitates full discoverability via the following routes:

* all PeerJ articles are fully Open Access (via a Creative Commons, CC-BY 3.0 license) meaning that they fully comply with all Funder and Institutional mandates for OA publication.

* all PeerJ articles are marked up with comprehensive metadata: all HTML content contains embedded microdata, article are made available as an XML download (to the NISO JATS standard), as well as in PDF format. Machine-readable metadata for each article is provided as JSON, RDF/XML, BibTeX, RIS and many other formats, and is deposited with indexing services such as CrossRef, to maximise discoverability.

Elsevier announced today the acquisition of Mendeley for around $100million

Elsevier announced today the acquisition of Mendeley for around $100million to Beef Up In Social, Open Education Data.

Researchers worldwide use Mendeley’s desktop and cloud-based tools to manage and annotate documents, create citations and bibliographies, collaborate on research projects and network with fellow academics.

“Mendeley is an innovative company with great culture, talent and collaborative spirit, and we will keep it that way,” said Olivier Dumon, Managing Director of Academic and Government Research Markets at Elsevier. “Not only that, but together we intend to scale and evolve Mendeley in ways that benefit the entire research community. We will provide greater access to content, data, and analytics tools to Mendeley’s users and its flourishing third-party app ecosystem, all of which will enable us to increase both Elsevier’s and Mendeley’s engagement with researchers.”

“Our vision is to make science more collaborative and open, and now we have the support of the world’s largest science information provider, whose resources will enable us to accelerate our progress towards this vision,” said Victor Henning, PhD, Co-Founder and CEO of Mendeley. “Above all, we will remember what has made Mendeley a success: ensuring that everything we do makes our users’ lives easier.”

Launched in late 2008, Mendeley was the brainchild of three PhD students wanting an easier way to manage their research papers and collaborate with colleagues overseas. They developed a desktop app that could automatically extract metadata and keywords from PDFs, thus turning loose collections of PDFs into structured, searchable research paper databases that were synchronized to the cloud.

From the start, they were thrilled by the idea that this crowd-sourced data would allow Mendeley to analyse research trends across academic disciplines in real time, show readership statistics for individual research papers, connect researchers with similar interests and generate research paper recommendations based on collaborative filtering.

To welcome Mendeley’s individual users, Elsevier is increasing the product’Freemium offer. The free storage level has expanded from 1 gigabyte to 2, and the amount of storage provided in the premium levels has expanded as well. For institutions, the
Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE) [http://blog.mendeley.com/design-research-tools/leading-universities-adopt-mendeley-data-to-accelerate-research-analytics-by-3-years] will continue to be available. MIE is a tool that helps universities analyse research activity in real time, complementing the traditional Impact Factor system of academic citations. It also enables librarians to extract more value from resources by optimizing their subscriptions and providing a better service to their researchers by tracking which journals are being read by faculty and students.

This union extends a history of collaboration between the two companies that began in 2009. For example, Elsevier has referred users to Mendeley, invited Mendeley to build apps on ScienceDirect [http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/about ] using its open APIs, and sponsored Mendeley’s Science Online London conferences on Open Science.

NPG to launch Scientific Data to help scientists publish and reuse research data

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today is pleased to announce the Spring 2014 launch of Scientific Data. Open for submissions this autumn, Scientific Data is a new open-access, online-only platform for the publication of descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets. Scientific Data will initially focus on experimental datasets from the life, biomedical and environmental science communities with future plans to expand to other fields in the natural sciences.

Scientific Data will introduce and publish a new type of content called Data Descriptors: peer-reviewed, scientific publications that provide detailed descriptions of experimental and observational datasets. Data Descriptors will be a combination of traditional scientific publication content and structured information curated in-house, and are designed to maximize reuse and enable searching, linking and data mining. Data Descriptors may be associated with articles from a broad range of journals.

“Over recent years researchers, funders and learned societies alike have been calling for new ways to make scientific research, and research data, more available, reusable and reproducible,” says Jason Wilde, Nature Publishing Group Business Development Director. “Scientific Data’s central mission is to help foster the sharing and re-use of the data underpinning scientific research.”

“Scientific Data will allow for the formal peer-review, publication and citation of data sets and will provide a real opportunity to promote open data and promote the re-use of data held by NERC and other research organisations,” says Mark Thorley, Head of Science Information at the Natural Environment Research Council and Chair of the Research Councils UK Research Outputs Network.

Scientific Data gives credit through a citable publication, for depositing and sharing research data. Data Description will be accessible and searchable via the Scientific Data online data platform, under a Creative Commons license. The actual data files will be stored in one or more public, community-recognized systems. The full release of Data Description and associated data will be verified as part of the peer-review process. Where a community recognized repository does not exist, Scientific Data supports the deposit of the data into a more general repository such as Dryad and Figshare. All accepted data descriptors will be published on payment of an article-processing charge (APC) that will also cover the Data Description curation process.

Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Associate Director and Principal Investigator at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre, has worked with the NPG team for the past months to define the Data Description’s concept; she has now been appointed Honorary Academic Editor of Scientific Data. She will work closely with the Advisory Panel which is comprised of senior scientists, data repository representatives, bio-curators, librarians, and funders who guide the policies, standards, and editorial scope.

“The ongoing conversation around data curation, sharing and publication has become increasingly exciting as various organisations have moved to encourage and in some cases support the sharing and reuse of data in context,” says Honorary Academic Editor Sansone. “To inform the internal development of Scientific Data, I will continue to stay abreast of the fast-paced fields of data management and scholarly communication.”

Mark Bide to be independent Chair of the Publishers Licensing Society

The Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) Board has appointed Mark Bide to be its independent Chair with effect from 1 June 2013.  Mark is currently PLS’ Head of Business Development, having previously served as a consultant to PLS for over 15 years since the mid-1990s. He is a well-known and respected figure in the publishing industry which he has served in many different capacities over 40 years. Mark’s strategic approach to the management of rights and publishing in the digital environment is just one of the many strengths which equip him very well to chair PLS at this exciting point in its history.

PLS’ outgoing Chair, Mark Millar, is stepping down at the end of his term, having taken up a new and demanding role outside publishing. Mark Millar has served on the PLS Board for the last five years,and as Chair for the last three, during which time he made an invaluable contribution to PLS.

Mark Millar said:

“My Chairmanship of PLS coincided with a time of great change in the industry, as well as in the strategic direction of PLS, and has proved to be both challenging and enjoyable. I particularly enjoyed working with Sarah Faulder and the PLS staff and wish them all the best for the future.  I am delighted to be succeeded by Mark Bide, whose skills and experience will help support the team with the exciting new rights management services for publishers that PLS is developing.”

Sarah Faulder, Chief Executive of PLS, commented:

“PLS has had some interesting challenges to deal with over the last couple of years and I have enjoyed working through these with Mark Millar. Mark has been immensely supportive and positive throughout and I shall miss him. PLS is very fortunate that Mark Bide is willing to take on the chairmanship and I look forward to continuing to work with him in his new role, both on the exciting developments in which he has been very instrumental and in taking PLS forward.”

Mark Bide said about his new role:

“I am delighted and flattered that the Board of PLS has entrusted this position to me at a time when copyright is so high on everyone’s agenda, and when collective management and collective administration are so much in the spotlight. This is the culmination of a working relationship that goes back more than 15 years, and I am greatly looking forward to tackling the challenges that we face.”

Mark Millar was one of the PPA representatives on the Board and we are delighted that Jim James of Haymarket Media Group has agreed to replace Mark on the PLS Board in this capacity.

Australasian universities welcome Springer Book Archives

Region’s universities embrace access to more than 170 years of scientific publishing.

By the end of 2013, Springer will offer online access to 100,000 eBooks with historic content through its Springer Book Archives (SBA), available anywhere, at any time, via SpringerLink (link.springer.com). As early adopters, Australasian universities were some of the first to offer access to this wealth of scientific content to students, faculty and researchers. Official launch events for the SBA will be held at the University of Melbourne on 5 April 2013, and at The Higher Education Technology Agenda Conference in Hobart, Australia on 8 April.

“The Springer Book Archives marks the culmination of years of planning, scanning and converting our historic titles to a digital format,” said Derk Haank, Springer’s CEO. “Our vision is to change the economics of the books business. We’re harnessing digital technologies to both deliver the best possible service to customers, and improve supply-chain efficiencies. And by offering tens of thousands of books available online for the first time, we are making ‘out of print’ a thing of the past for Springer titles.”

An undertaking of this magnitude involved thousands of hours to carefully scan each historic title, clean up any markings or imperfections, convert illustrations into high-resolution digital images, make the content discoverable and offer it to users in convenient formats. The end result of these efforts is an unprecedented collection of historic, scholarly eBooks, available DRM-free with full text searchability, and optimized for any device. Springer is also bringing titles unavailable in print for decades, if not longer, back to bookshelves by offering a print-on-demand option.

Rudolf Diesel, Paul Ehrlich and Emil Fischer are among the notable names who will appear in the SBA. Works of many Nobel Laureates are  among the titles offered, including those of a number of Australian luminaries.

The University of Melbourne, Australia’s highest ranking university, became the first institution in the southern hemisphere to purchase the SBA in November 2012, ahead of its official launch in January 2013.   The University of Auckland, La Trobe University and The University of South Australia all subsequently purchased the SBA ahead of its official launch, and numerous other institutions are in discussions to acquire it.

University of Melbourne Librarian Philip Kent said, “We have been aware of the project since 2010 and have been monitoring developments since.  The University has invested in this historic content, that includes works from scholars such as Einstein, because it paves the way for future research outcomes.”

“The progressive attitude of Australasian academic libraries towards electronic information resources, and the solutions that the SBA provides, are both major factors in the level of interest in the region,” said James Mercer, Sales Director South East Asia and Oceania for Springer. “The SBA is helping these libraries to provide spaces that are conducive to learning, and access to quality information in a format and medium that their clients use.”

 

EBSCO Awards Seven Scholarships for Librarians to Attend 2013 ALA Annual Meeting

In co-sponsorship with the American Library Association (ALA), EBSCO has awarded seven librarians $1,000 scholarships to attend the ALA Annual Meeting in Chicago, June 27– July 2, 2013. As part of the application process, librarians were asked to write an essay on the topic of how attending the conference will contribute to the librarians’ professional development.

The EBSCO ALA Annual Conference Sponsorship is an annual award consisting of $1,000 for actual reimbursed expenses designed to allow librarians to attend the ALA Annual Conference. The scholarship recipients will be honored by EBSCO and ALA representatives during the conference at a breakfast on Sunday, June 30, 2013.

The scholarship winners, including two first time attendees and two Emerging Leaders, are:

·          Jannie R. Cobb, Librarian, National Labor College, Silver Spring, Md.

·         Nancy Condon, Member Library Services Librarian, Uncle Remus Regional Library System, Madison, Ga.

·         Sara Arnold-Garza, Residency Librarian, Albert S. Cook Library, Towson University, Towson, Md.

·         Elizabeth Kahn, School Library Media Specialist, Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology Academy, New Orleans, La.

·         Caitlin Moen, Catalog Librarian, LAC Group, Metairie, La.

·         Hannah Q. Parris, Access Services Librarian, Johnson & Wales University, Denver Campus Library, Denver, Colo.

·         April Wallace, Director, Pinson Public Library, Pinson, Ala.

Sara Arnold-Garza from Towson University says the scholarship will help her make the most out of being named an ALA Emerging Leader, “As a member of the 2013 class of ALA Emerging Leaders, I’ll receive leadership training, meet other new professionals who are enthusiastic and engaged, and connect with the opportunities for professional success afforded by ALA.”

Applications were judged by an ALA-designated jury: jury chairman Julius C. Jefferson Jr., information research specialist, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Stacy L. Creel, assistant professor, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Miss.; Elizabeth Nelson, knowledge analyst, UOP LLC, Woodstock, Ill.; Elizabeth M. Williams, information literacy librarian, Belk Library, Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C.; and Courtney L. Young, head librarian and associate professor, Kelly Library, Penn State Greater Allegheny.

EBSCO is dedicated to supporting the professional development of librarians around the world and has a long tradition of co-sponsoring scholarships to ALA conferences, providing funds for conference registration, travel, and expenses.

New Partner Development Manager, North America for IOP Publishing

Beth Mayes has been appointed as Partner Development Manager, North America for IOP Publishing (IOP).

Based in Boston, Beth will develop relationships with organisations in North America. She has over ten years’ publishing industry experience in a broad range of areas from product development to marketing and sales.

She co-founded Dublin Six, Inc., a consultancy, specialising in providing technical services and products to electronic publishers and digital libraries. Prior to this role, Beth worked for Springer Science & Business Media as Director of Development, eProduct Development & Innovation. She has a Bachelor of Science in Education.

Beth will be working closely with Jane Roscoe, Head of Partner Development at IOP. Jane said of Beth’s appointment: “Beth has extensive industry experience, a strong work ethic and an ability to quickly build and maintain close business relationships. It is great to have her on board.”

Oxford Journals compliant with Research Councils UK and Wellcome Trust open access policies

Oxford University Press (OUP) is pleased to announce that from 1 April 2013 our journals will be compliant with the Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust policies on open access (OA). OUP is mission-driven to facilitate the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research. We embrace both ‘gold’ and ‘green’ open access publishing to support this mission. We are committed to working with our society partners to support sustainable OA for each community, and have consulted with each of our partners to decide on the best route to compliance for each journal.

OUP’s open access programme, Oxford Open, dates back to 2004. We publish 13 fully open access titles, and over 120 ‘hybrid’ titles. In total through these two channels we published over 3,200 open access papers in 2012. With the new funding policies in place, we want to ensure we meet the needs of our authors and will be extending open access options to virtually all our journals.

Mandy Hill, Publishing Director, Global Academic Business, OUP, said: ‘OUP has a long and proud history of open access publishing. We were one of the first publishers to transition a major subscription journal to open access. In addition the uptake of our hybrid option has largely been higher than industry trends.’

The RCUK’s policy on open access requires authors to comply either by publishing ‘gold’ OA using a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC-BY), or by ‘green’ OA after embargo periods specified by the RCUK and laid out in the Publishers’ Association flow chart below. Authors will be able to comply via both routes with OUP:

-‘Gold’ open access – the vast majority of our titles will offer authors the option of making their paper immediately available by payment of an APC (Article Processing Charge). Authors will be able to choose between various Creative Commons licences, including CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, and CC-BY-NC-ND. The exact choice of licences will be dependent on individual journal policy.

-‘Green’ open access – the embargo periods for OUP journals will largely comply with the RCUK/Wellcome policies, as laid out in the RCUK and Government endorsed flow chart.

Mandy Hill further commented: ‘We look forward to continuing to help authors comply with their funders’ mandates, particularly in what promises to be a time of change. We will also continue to work with the RCUK and other funders to report back on the outcomes of the new policies.’

PeerJ Launches ‘PeerJ PrePrints’ – a new ‘Preprint Server’ for the Biological and Medical Sciences

PeerJ (https://peerj.com), the Open Access publisher of the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ, today launched ‘PeerJ PrePrints’ an entirely new ‘preprint server’ for the Biological and Medical Sciences. With the launch of PeerJ PrePrints, the publication ecosystem of PeerJ is now complete and thriving at the NEW YORK COLOCATION.

For an academic article, publication in a peer reviewed journal is simply the end point in what has typically been a lengthy process of drafts, comments from colleagues, and revisions. The physical sciences have, for a long time, circulated these drafts (or ‘preprints’) amongst their colleagues in a community-wide practice which culminated in the creation of the successful arXiv preprint server. However, despite the apparent benefits of gaining early feedback, preprint servers have not taken off in the Biological or Medical sciences. Although there have been several experiments, for example by Nature Preceedings or the BMJ’s NetPrints.org, the biological and medical fields have so far failed to embrace preprints in the same way that their physical sciences colleagues have done.

Despite this history, it is the belief of PeerJ that an increased awareness of the benefits of early and open sharing, combined with advances in the ease of online publishing, means that the time is right for the biological and medical sciences to finally take advantage of a preprint server dedicated to their fields. By doing so, authors can establish their priority, seek wider feedback, distribute their work in advance of formal publication and develop a stronger narrative before submitting that work to a formal peer-reviewed journal.

“We believe that this is a concept whose time has finally come,” said Jason Hoyt, CEO and Co-Founder of PeerJ. “We have received a lot of feedback from potential authors, and they are crying out for a service like this.”
“With the launch of PeerJ PrePrints, authors now have a venue where they can experience an end-to-end publication process for their journal articles,” said Peter Binfield, Publisher and Co-Founder of PeerJ. “An author can submit their early drafts to PeerJ PrePrints, gain feedback, issue revisions, and then when they are ready they can submit that article to the PeerJ journal for peer review and ultimate publication in a formal, peer-reviewed journal.”

Other than passing a basic vetting process, PeerJ PrePrints are not peer reviewed, and so should not be viewed as a formal publication. However, all PeerJ PrePrints receive a permanent, stable identifier (a Digital Object Identifier) and are formally archived for long term preservation.

All PeerJ PrePrints publications are issued under a Creative Commons CC-BY license and publication in PeerJ PrePrints is free for all PeerJ Members. ‘Basic’, ‘Enhanced’ and ‘Investigator’ Members can publish an unlimited number of preprints per year, whilst ‘Free’ Members can publish one per year, as detailed at: https://peerj.com/pricing/.

Authors wishing to experience the future of publishing can now submit PeerJ PrePrint articles at https://peerj.com/preprints and they can submit PeerJ journal articles, for formal peer review, at https://peerj.com/

Wiley Journals Comply With New Open Access Policies of UK Funders

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

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

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

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

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

SAGE Announces David Ross as Executive Publisher of Open Access

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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