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BMJ Group launches new learning tools for 2013

BMJ Learning and BMJ Quality are launching new tools to add to the support and learning it already offers to doctors and other healthcare professionals around the world.

The end of 2012 saw the introduction of revalidation for all doctors in the UK meaning every clinician will have to show that they have taken the necessary steps needed to stay up to date in their area of practice.

As such, BMJ Learning are now offering four new podcasts modules for those working in primary care, secondary care and appraisers, plus an interview with Professor Sir Peter Rubin, Chair of the General Medical Council. They are an up to date overview of what will be required to revalidate and how it will work.

As the first doctor in the UK to revalidate, Sir Rubin says that this is “historic” and “the biggest change since the GMC was established”. He says the key is “planning and recording as you go along” and he recommends e-portfolios, which are also available on the BMJ Learning site.

And the new resources available don’t stop there….

Developed by practising healthcare professionals, the new BMJ Quality Improvement Programme makes it simple for anyone to carry out a healthcare improvement project. Providing an online workbook with step-by-step guidance through the improvement journey, users have the option of working on their own project or a pre-written project on an area such as COPD, diabetes and dementia.

Included in the programme are over 20 learning resources, case examples and an on-call faculty of experts available to support users through their project and publication journey.

So far, users have saved their organisations over £700k with the help of the BMJ Quality Improvement Programme.

All BMJ Group resources regarding revalidation are now available online. News articles about the subject, links to podcasts, learning modules and doc2doc discussions on revalidation can all be found at http://revalidation.bmj.com

Serials Solutions Introduces Summon Spotlighting

Summon Spotlighting, a new feature of the Summon discovery service, provides dynamic display options for specialized content types. Image Spotlighting dramatically improves discoverability of libraries’ most unique and valued collections. Libraries benefit from increased exposure and use of their local collections, image content and archival materials – and researchers are able to discover, view and navigate this high value content in an experience similar to Open Web search engines.

The unique architecture of the Summon unified index allows for hundreds of digital collections contributed by Summon customers to be made available for discovery by patrons at any library with the Summon service. Exposure to locally curated image content from disparate special collections and repositories increases significantly – and researchers benefit from easy access to highly relevant and freely available image content beyond what is available at their own library.

“We are pleased to be able to provide libraries with opportunities to make their highly valued repositories and local collections more discoverable,” said John Law, vice president, discovery service, Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business. “Researchers around the world will benefit from the ability to more easily discover image content available in the hundreds of digital collections and repositories curated by members of the Summon community.”

With Image Spotlighting, relevant thumbnail images display dynamically in search results from all types of image collections and repositories (local, open access, commercial, non-profit) such as collections contributed by Summon customers, LUNA Commons, and mutual customers of the Summon service and Bridgeman Education or the ARTStor Digital Library. Convenient links guide users to view more images, as well as link directly to the content in the native repository or collection.

The Max Planck Society and De Gruyter Sign Agreement for Open Access Publishing

The Max Planck Society (MPG) and the academic publisher De Gruyter concluded a trend-setting framework agreement on the publication of Open Access books. The contract relates to being published works created under the auspices of the currently 80 Max Planck Institutes, and that should be free for every user on the Internet. It covers all the disciplines in which the MPS is active, that is, both the natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences and includes monographs and anthologies.

“This agreement with De Gruyter, we offer our scientists a coordinated legal and organizational framework for the publication of books in open access,” explains Dr.Ralf Schimmer , Director of Scientific Information Provision in the Max Planck Digital Library. “We are responding to increasing requests from the Max Planck Institutes and extend support of open access publication of our scientists of magazines now on the books division.”

De Gruyter has for its Open Access partners an attractive offer that realizes the maximum dissemination of content. In addition to the world free access to these via De Gruyter Online (www.degruyter.com) are only shown as printed versions.

“The agreement with the Max Planck Society supported that De Gruyter provides unique Open Access model, an advanced form of scientific publishing,” Dr. says Anke Beck , vice president of publishing at De Gruyter. “And we can enrich with the publications of the renowned institutes of society our program in all subject areas to höchstklassige content.”

In recent years, De Gruyter with various research projects, among others, with the Center of Excellence The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations (Topoi) of the Berlin Antique College and the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging at (MEA) Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, already successfully published books Open Access.

SAGE makes Open Access more accessible to social science and humanities scholars with $99 article fee

SAGE, a leading international academic and professional publisher, today announced that the price of publication in SAGE Open has been discounted to $99 per article. SAGE Open, launched in May 2011, was the world’s first broad-based gold open access journal for the social sciences and humanities.

This bold move by the independent publisher aims to make high quality, peer reviewed open access publishing a more accessible option for researchers in the humanities and social sciences, where often little or no direct research funding is available.

“Since our founding nearly fifty years ago, SAGE have championed social science research and recognized the crucial role social science plays in society, so ensuring scholars in these disciplines are able to publish their research is crucial to our mission” said Ziyad Marar, Global Publishing Director, SAGE. He continued,

“With the current increase in demand for open access publication, we recognise that this move is needed urgently: more scholars are being required by their institutions or funders to make research immediately available, without any funding being made available to support them.”

A recent survey revealed more than 70% of accepted authors had personally paid the article processing charge (APC) to enable their research to be published in SAGE Open. Author declarations further show that less than 15% of all articles published across SAGE’s Humanities and Social Sciences portfolio in 2012 had allocated funding.

“This move ensures that authors are able to publish their research Open Access, while maintaining the same standard of high quality peer review, copy editing, typesetting, and electronic delivery you would expect of SAGE as a premier social science publisher,” said Bob Howard, Vice President, US Journals, SAGE.

Since its launch in May 2011, SAGE Open has received more than 1400 manuscripts, and more than 160 articles published. The journal was winner of the 2012 Apex Award for Excellence.

For further information visit www.sageopen.com

Thomson Reuters Hosts Challenge to Generate Ideas for Expanding the Scientific Discovery Experience on the Web of Knowledge

The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, announced today at the American Library Association (ALA) MidWinter Meeting the launch of its Ideation Challenge, a contest for the scientific and scholarly research community designed to expand the discovery experience offered by Thomson Reuters Web of KnowledgeSM.

The Web of Knowledge is an online, multifaceted research platform that provides a single point of access to premier multidisciplinary content alongside emerging trends, subject-specific content and research data. Resources available on the platform include objective content, citation analysis functionality, and bibliographic management tools, as well as access to full text documents in the sciences, social sciences and the art and humanities. The Ideation Challenge will award $10,000 to the selected individuals who develop innovative concept papers describing new ways users can interact with the content and tools in Web of Knowledge.

The Ideation Challenge is the first in a series of innovation challenges to be hosted by the Scientific & Scholarly Research group of Thomson Reuters. It is designed to raise awareness for relevant news and commentary, recognize excellence in research and encourage professional development. The first place winner will receive $6,000 USD. Second and third place winners will receive $3,000 USD and $1,000 USD, respectively. There are 20 million users of the Web of Knowledge, ranging from students, information professionals, researchers and teaching faculty.

“As technology evolves, so too must the content and tools that support research excellence,” said Gordon Macomber, managing director of the Scientific & Scholarly Research group at Thomson Reuters. “The Ideation Challenge taps into the expertise of our user community and creates an open dialogue that puts their suggestions first and demonstrates our commitment to ensuring their voices are heard.”

Thomson Reuters is partnering with crowdsourcing leader InnoCentive for the Ideation Challenge. “We were very excited when Thomson Reuters approached us about partnering with them on this important Ideation Challenge,” said Dwayne Spradlin, CEO of InnoCentive. “How users search for and interact with content is continuously evolving, and we applaud Thomson Reuters for staying on the cutting-edge of innovation by harnessing crowdsourcing to solicit ideas from the world’s smartest problem solvers.”

The Ideation Challenge runs from January 24 to the weekend of February 24 and will be judged by a panel of technical and subject matter experts from within Thomson Reuters. After winners are announced, Thomson Reuters will launch the Build Challenge, where they will make Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge APIs available to participants who can develop programs that advance the practice of online scientific and scholarly research. This second, programmatic challenge will begin in April, with a whitepaper and code delivery expected.

Visit the Thomson Reuters booth, # 1911, at the ALA MidWinter Meeting in Seattle to learn more about the Ideation Challenge. Attendees can also learn about recent additions to the Web of Knowledge at the session: “Informing our Evolution: A discussion with our Product Management Team,” from 8:30-10 a.m. pacific standard time, Sunday, January 27.

Visit www.wokinfo.com/challenge to learn more about the Ideation Challenge. For terms and conditions of the Ideation Challenge, visit https://www.innocentive.com/ar/contract/printUnsigned/107.

Springer launches the “Springer Book Archives”

Springer now offers online access to 37,000 historic, English-language eBooks with the launch of the Springer Book Archives (SBA) at the 2013 American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting (ALA MW). The SBA will be completed by the end of this year, and when finished researchers, students and librarians will be able to access more than 170 years of science through 100,000 titles, available anywhere, at anytime, via Springer’s online platform, SpringerLink (link.springer.com).

“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 was to make those titles previously unavailable to researchers accessible, and breathe new life into the discoveries that have powered scientific progress. We have literally eliminated ‘out of print’ for Springer titles.”

Rudolf Diesel, Paul Ehrlich and Emil Fischer are among the notable names who will appear in the SBA when it is complete. Overall, the work of more than 200 winners of the Nobel Prize will appear in the SBA, proving that at Springer great minds don’t go out of print, they go online.

“Springer’s commitment to the needs of our customers is absolutely central to our strategy,” said Syed Hasan, President of Global STM Academic and Government Sales for Springer. “After hearing time and again that libraries and researchers who depend on the availability of Springer content wanted this accessibility, there was no question that we needed to forge ahead with this historic project.”

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. And by offering a print-on-demand option for most of the books in the SBA, Springer is also bringing titles unavailable in print for decades, if not longer, back to bookshelves.

The ALA MW opens on January 25 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA. Springer staff will be on hand offering visitors a chance to try the SBA at the Springer booth, number 2045, in the main exhibition hall. Opportunities for interviews with Springer’s senior managers and SBA project staff are also available.

Jisc Collections, Open Access Key to launch UK Gold OA article payments pilot

Jisc Collections, the UK academic community’s shared service for content licensing and administration, has entered into an agreement with Open Access Key (OAK), the online payment platform for open access publishing, to run a 12 month pilot project, Jisc APC, to test its role in managing and processing Gold OA article payment charges made by its member institutions.

Lorraine Estelle, CEO of Jisc Collections said: “We are very pleased to be partnering with OAK which will test the efficiencies that a trusted third party can bring to the processing of Gold OA payments for both institutions and publishers. We hope that this extension of our established activity in the area of subscription-based resources will help all relevant stakeholders move forward during this transition phase in scholarly publishing.”

The new Jisc APC service will seek to reduce the administrative burden on the various parties involved in making an article available. The combined offering brings together OAK’s innovation in this new area and the trusted status of Jisc Collections in processing and managing payments on behalf of UK institutions and publishers.  An invitation to participate will shortly be issued by Jisc Collections to UK Institutions interested in joining the project. Discussions with publishers will commence at the same time. The pilot will be overseen by a Steering Group comprising stakeholders and funders from across the education and research sector.

Simon Thomson, CEO of Open Access Key said: “Jisc Collections has shown tremendous initiative with this project to provide leadership and structure for the academic and publishing community following the Finch Report recommendations. We in turn are delighted that OAK has been selected to provide the financial and administrative workflow platform. We have worked closely with individual academics, universities, research funders and publishers to create a time and cost efficient service with user friendly functionality. We are excited to continue this development working for Jisc Collections and the stakeholders in the project.”

The pilot commences officially on 2 April 2013 and is in response to the publication of the Finch Report in the UK and the subsequent announcements from RCUK.  The report recommended a balanced programme of action to enable more people to read and use the publications arising from research, and to accelerate the progress towards a fully open access environment. The report also made a clear policy direction towards the support for Gold OA publishing in the UK, where publishers receive their revenues from authors rather than readers, and so research articles become freely accessible to everyone immediately upon publication.

To find out more please contact Paul Harwood, Jisc Collections deputy CEO on p.harwood@jisc-collections.ac.uk.

Ingram adds new e-book lending model to MyiLibrary® e-content platform for academic, professional & libraries

As more libraries develop digital programs as part of their core offering, Ingram Content Group Inc., today announced it has added a new content access model to its MyiLibrary® e-content platform to provide libraries greater flexibility in e-book lending.

“As use of our MyiLibrary solution grows, our ongoing development of the platform continues to be driven in a large part by industry growth and direct library and patron feedback,” said Dan Sheehan, Vice President and General Manager, Ingram Content Group library services.  “Patron usage of e-books continues to climb, and the addition of our new multi-user concurrent Access Model gives libraries the flexibility to meet the content requirements of their patrons, and manage budgets effectively.”

MyiLibrary’s newest model, its Access Model, enables libraries to purchase a set of access credits for an e-book and lend it simultaneously to multiple patrons for a set cost, and lending period. For libraries, the model can easily eliminate turnaways due to concurrent use, and provides libraries with a relevant tool to make the most out of high usage titles.  The Access model is compatible MyiLibrary’s other popular acquisition models including Perpetuity, Patron Selection and Short-Term Loan.

Ingram’s MyiLibrary platform, the fastest-growing and most comprehensive online e-content solution for libraries, provides a single source for content hosting, archiving, discovery, access and purchasing. More than 3,000 academic, professional, and public libraries around the world have integrated the platform into daily lending activities, and have access to more than 400,000 titles that cover all major disciplines. Using the platform, library patrons can read content online, or download to a PC, laptop or digital device.

Copyright Clearance Center Announces Partnership with Amigos Library Services

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing and content solutions, has announced a partnership with Amigos Library Services, one of the largest library service networks in the nation.

Amigos is a not-for-profit consortium of more than 800 US libraries across 22 states that provides access to the latest innovations and services, continuing education, vendor discounts, and professional advice to the library community.

This partnership extends Amigos’ content and licensing offerings and gives its members value-added services on top of CCC’s licensing and content solutions. Amigos’ academic library members can now pay for article purchases from CCC’s Get It Now solution through their Amigos Deposit Account. In addition, academic institution members receive a discount on the service fee when they purchase CCC’s Annual Academic Copyright License through Amigos.

Get It Now is an easy-to-implement, cost-effective, always-on service that gives library patrons instant access to unsubscribed journal content from leading publishers. The Annual Copyright License provides users with a single, multi-use license for their institution, allowing faculty, researchers and staff to share content across campus with ease.

“We are pleased to be working with a trusted partner that has a longstanding reputation for providing value to member libraries,” said Miles McNamee, Vice President, Licensing and Business Development, CCC. “Both organizations share a common vision of creating innovative solutions for academic libraries.”

“We’re excited to be offering CCC’s products and services like Get It Now to our member libraries,” said Gerrye McEntire, Manager, Member Discount Services, Amigos Library Services. “Amigos adds value to Get It Now through integrated billing and convenient purchasing.”

CCC enters into partnerships with leading organizations to offer corporate, academic and publisher customers a broad set of solutions that simplify copyright compliance and access to content.

OCLC and Gale expand partnership

OCLC and Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, have agreed to make all Gale databases and archives fully discoverable through WorldCat Local, and to explore broadening discoverability of Gale collections through other applications available through the OCLC WorldShare Platform.

OCLC and Gale have been offering access to some of Gale’s most popular databases to mutual subscribers through the WorldCat Local discovery and delivery service. This new agreement will enable OCLC to index metadata and full text for all Gale databases and scholarly archives and make them discoverable through WorldCat Local for mutual subscribers.

In addition, Gale and OCLC will identify metadata that could be made discoverable to any user through OCLC WorldShare Platform applications, making it possible for libraries to better manage these resources—from selection and acquisition, to circulation and access.

“Discoverability of our products is critical to serving the needs of our end users. We’re excited to work with OCLC and expand access to our content for users around the world,” said Frank Menchaca, Executive Vice President, Research Solutions, Cengage Learning.

“This expanded partnership builds on the success of our previous work with Gale to provide access through WorldCat Local to some of Gale’s most popular databases,” said Chip Nilges, OCLC Vice President, Business Development. “This new agreement is a significant step forward in our effort to make the full range of library resources accessible through the WorldShare Platform. We are very pleased to be able to continue our work with Gale to provide access to the content our member libraries—and library users—want most.”

Gale will work with OCLC to register all its collections, including the Gale Virtual Reference Library platform and the Gale In Context collections, within the OCLC WorldShare Platform. Gale and OCLC will index for discovery all full text associated with e-books and periodicals in the collections. Gale will provide OCLC with updated Gale Knowledge Base profiles and library holdings information for all collections, making them fully discoverable and easily accessible to mutual subscribers.

Gale and OCLC will also identify metadata from these collections that can be made discoverable to users around the world through WorldCat.org, the OCLC website that offers access to the global catalog for discovery of library materials.

The OCLC WorldShare Platform is a global, interconnected Web architecture that supports OCLC services and applications, and provides flexible, open access to library data through APIs and other Web services. Libraries, developers and partners can use this data to build and share applications that streamline and enhance their local library workflows. Adding metadata from Gale databases and archives to the WorldCat knowledge base, for example, enhances the ability of library staff to select, acquire and manage their Gale content, using both OCLC applications and other applications in their workflow.

New journal Cancer & Metabolism launches today

New journal Cancer & Metabolism launches today with a selection of articles that highlight the altered metabolic pathways that drive cancer. Altered glucose metabolism of tumor cells was first noted by Otto Warburg in the 1920s, for which he won the Nobel Prize. In later years, the discovery of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes transformed our understanding of cancer, but left metabolism neglected. Now recent advances show that many oncogenes drive cancer by altering metabolic pathways, leading to an explosion of research. It is also clear that metabolic diseases, such as diabetes and obesity, are linked to cancer in ways that are not entirely clear.

The launch issue of Cancer & Metabolism includes pioneering research that for the first time observes the Warburg effect during normal cerebellum development, as well as in medulloblastoma, a childhood cancer, which is accompanied by a Commentary in BMC Biology; a study on the crucial role of sterol regulatory element binding protein in lipid synthesis for cell survival and tumor growth; newimaging methods for measuring chemotherapy responses; as well as timely reviews on activated lymphocytes as a model for carcinogenesis and the discovery of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier.

Cancer & Metabolism is edited by clinician scientists Chi Van Dang, Abramson Cancer Center, USA, and Michael Pollak, Segal Cancer Center and McGill University, Canada. Professor Dang commented that “It has become self-evident that metabolism and bioenergetics are regulated by cancer genes. Cancer & Metabolism is launched uniquely to fulfil the needs of a burgeoning field.” Professor Pollak added that “The scope of Cancer & Metabolism will allow for an interdisciplinary readership including cancer biologists, endocrinologists, oncologists, clinical trialists and population scientists.”

Cancer & Metabolism welcomes studies on molecular biology and genetics; whole-body metabolism, including diabetes and obesity, in relation to cancer; cancer metabolomics and metabolism-based imaging. The journal accepts basic research as well as preclinical and clinical studies of metabolism-related cancer therapies.

You are warmly invited to join in the success of this journal by submitting your next research article for publication. For more information, please visit the journal website or contact the Editorial Office.

Ingram Content Group adds Random House, Inc. content to its MyiLibrary® e-book platform

As libraries adjust their lending models to meet today’s digital requirements, more are turning to Ingram’s MyiLibrary®platform. Ingram Content Group announced it will now offer Random House, Inc. U.S. titles to libraries via the platform.

“We are pleased to be working with a partner as respected as Ingram to further serve the library marketplace,” said Skip Dye, Vice President, Library and Academic Sales, Random House, Inc.

Random House will add more than 36,000 titles to Ingram’s MyiLibrary e-book platform. Titles will be both frontlist and popular backlist titles from all Random House, Inc. imprints and each of their publisher- distribution clients, including Beacon Press, National Geographic Books,North Atlantic Books, Quirk Books, Smithsonian Books, Soho Press, Wizards of the Coast, and many others.

The MyiLibrary platform is one of the fastest-growing e-book access solutions in the library community today. Used by thousands of libraries around the world, the platform provides a full range of resources and purchasing options; from single-title acquisition to publisher and genre-specific subject collections. Ingram’s coordinated e-book solutions give libraries meaningful tools to make the best use of budget dollars. Patrons that use the platform have the flexibility of obtaining content via download as well as mobile options where content can be read on the most popular e-reading devices on the market today.

“Libraries are continuing to adapt their collections and adjust their mix of print and digital content to meet the changing needs of patrons,” said Dan Sheehan, Vice President and General Manager, Ingram Content Group library services. “Libraries that work with Ingram have access to the broadest and most comprehensive selection of content with immediate access to more than 11 million print, digital and audio titles.  We are pleased to add Random House titles to our MyiLibrary collection for more readers worldwide to enjoy.”

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