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Over 12,000 Wiley Online Books Made Available in Developing Countries Via Research4Life

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced that its 12,200 Online Books would be made available through the Research4Life initiatives of HINARI, AGORA and OARE, benefitting research and academic communities in 80 low- and middle-income countries including Malawi, Cambodia, and Bolivia.

Research4Life provides 6,000 institutions in developing countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed online content from the world’s leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. The addition of Wiley’s Online Books brings the total number of peer reviewed scientific journals, books and databases now available through the public-private Research4life partnership to almost 30,000.

“Our goal with Research4Life is to provide and support quality research in developing countries in order to advance higher education, inform public policy decisions and ultimately improve quality of life,” said Emily Gillingham, Director of Library Relations at Wiley who also serves as the new Chair of the Executive Council for Research4Life. “We hope the addition of this vast collection of Online Books will make a real difference to researchers in countries which can least afford it and as such is a central part of Wiley’s social responsibility program.”

“Through Research4Life we’ve been able to really level the playing field in terms of access to primary research material in the developing world,” said Kimberly Parker, HINARI Programme Manager at the World Health Organization. “This is vital for supporting local authorship and helping researchers in poorer countries to participate in and contribute to the global scientific knowledge base.”

The Wiley Online Books Collection includes handbooks, dictionaries, companions, encyclopedias and landmark book series from award-winning authors and renowned researchers in the life, health and physical sciences, social sciences and the humanities. Online Books are available on Wiley Online Library and offer the benefits of unlimited concurrent user access, cross-searching with journals, and no DRM restrictions. Access to the majority of Wiley’s peer-reviewed journals, the Cochrane Library, Current Protocols and major reference works are already included in the Research4Life programs.

“We are delighted to be able to add Wiley’s books to Research4Life for access by researchers in eighty countries across Africa, Latin America, and Asia,” said Antonia Seymour, VP and Director of Science, Technical, Medical and Scholarly Books at Wiley. “Not only will they have access to our 12,200 Online Books already digitized but we will also be adding the 100 or so new books published each month,” she added.

Cambridge University Press and Chinese Laser Press to launch open access journal

Chinese Laser Press and Cambridge University Press have announced that they will be launching a new open access journal from 2013.

The new journal, High Power Laser Science and Engineering(HPLaser), will be an online-only (printed version available only in China), international and peer-reviewed journal focusing on all aspects of high power laser science and engineering. HPLaser will be dedicated to strengthening the exchange of information in this area.

HPLaser covers topics in both physics and engineering, and aims to be the leading international journal combining high power laser science and engineering. The journal will build on the need to strengthen information exchange in the area of high power lasers, with research of the highest quality and act as an academic forum for scientists and engineers in this field to share their latest discoveries.

For the first year, Cambridge University Press and Chinese Laser Press will waive publication costs, and after this a low article processing charge (APC) of £1,000/$1,500 will be set.

Ms Yang, General Manager at Chinese Laser Press, said: ‘It is a great opportunity to collaborate with Cambridge University Press to establishHPLaser, which will provide a new and important chance for scientists to publish their significant research results in high power laser fields, and the collaboration combines the advantages of both parties in publishing, marketing, and other areas.’

Katy Christomanou, Publishing Director for STM at Cambridge University Press, said: ‘Cambridge University Press is delighted to be part of this new venture with the Shanghai Institute for Optics and Fine Mechanics, and its affiliated company Chinese Laser Press. There have been great advances in this field over recent years, and Chinese researchers have been an integral part of the international collaborations behind that progress. It is fitting that the first journal dedicated to the science and engineering of high power lasers is the product of an international partnership, and is an open access publication, making it freely available to all.’

High Power Laser Science and Engineering will be hosted on Cambridge’s industry leading platform, Cambridge Journals Online (CJO), and Chinese Laser Press’s journal online platform (www.opticsjournal.net). Content will be available online from the beginning of 2013. All articles will be handled according to the highest standards of peer-review and produced to the high quality production values associated with Cambridge University Press. The journal will publish original articles, rapid communications (letters), invited reviews and comments.

Serials Solutions Summon Discovery Service to Index French Open Access Works

Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, continues its emphasis on indexing open access content from around the world in the Summon® discovery service. Le Cléo, le centre pour l’édition électronique ouverte (The Centre for Open Electronic Publishing), is working with Serials Solutions to have their scientific research content indexed in the Summon service.  Founded by French research and academic institutions, Le Cléo publishes thousands of scientific works with a focus on social sciences and the humanities.

The following content will be indexed in the Summon service:

Revues.org is a web platform for journals and book collections in the humanities and social sciences, and currently consists of more than 380 academic journals, in French as well as other languages.

Calenda publishes dates for conferences, seminars, calls for papers and other announcements that are of interest to the scientific community in France and other countries. To date, it has documented more than 20,000 events in the humanities and social sciences, with a dedicated scientific council sets standards for the scope and significance of the scientific news that is covered.

Hypotheses.org is a publication platform for academic blogs that enables researchers to provide real-time updates of their research efforts, with more than 550 separate blogs currently available.

By making content available in multiple languages, Le Cléo’s platforms have developed an international reputation and are widely visited by non-French speakers. Inclusion in the Summon service allows libraries to easily add these resources to their collection for use by their researchers.

Used by more than 500 libraries in more than 40 countries, the Summon service is the first and only discovery service based on a unified index of content. Proven to increase usage of library resources, the Summon service consistently meets user expectations by delivering innovative new features for enhancing discovery.

SAGE to publish The Economic and Labour Relations Review from March 2013

SAGE and the University of New South Wales today announced an agreement to publish its journal The Economic and Labour Relations Review (ELRR) from March 2013.  

The Economic and Labour Relations Review is the official publication of the Centre for Applied Economic Research and the Industrial Relations Research Centre at the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales. A double-blind refereed journal, ELRR focuses on development and policy making within the economics and industrial research sectors. Published four times a year, it is co-edited by Associate Professor Anne Junor, Associate Professor Peter Kriesler, Associate Professor Hazel Bateman, Professor P. N. (Raja) Junankar, Professor Michael Quinlan, Associate Professor Peter Sheldon and Associate Professor Michael Johnson, all at the University of New South Wales.

“SAGE has a strong portfolio of journals within the economics, industrial and labour relations sectors and we are delighted to be able to welcome The Economic and Labour Relations Review to this group”, remarked Karen Phillips, Editorial Director, SAGE. “We are committed to providing our publishing partners with a long-term, first class publishing service, and we are really delighted to add a second UNSW journal to our portfolio.”

“The Economic and Labour Relations Review provides a critical forum for the review of economic policies and labour relations, and at our heart is the commitment to making this academic research accessible to all working in this broad field,” said Anne Junor, Executive Editor. “SAGE is committed to ensuring high quality research reaches an international audience, a commitment that is closely aligned with our own goals for the journal. We look forward to benefiting from this and to developing a long-standing partnership with SAGE.”

The first SAGE issue will publish in March 2013. The new website will be http://elrr.sagepub.com.

AAAS / Science Renews Long-Standing Relationship with HighWire

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced its decision to renew their relationship to their long-standing ePublishing partner, HighWire Press.

AAAS’s reputation as a pioneer in scientific publishing comes from more than 150 years of a mission-driven goal to advance science and serve society. Since 1995, as one of HighWire’s first society partners, and now into the future, the two organizations will continue to share a collegial and collaborative working relationship, exploring new ways to innovate in the scientific marketplace.

Stewart Wills, Science‘s Editorial Director, Web and New Media, said of the decision: “HighWire’s roadmap for the future dovetailed nicely with our own plans for developing our Web sites and other information products, and afforded us an opportunity to actively participate in that development on the Drupal platform, which AAAS is using for a number of efforts. This was an important factor in our decision, as it will allow for tighter integration across our sites and for more experimentation and responsiveness around the needs of our own users, while still taking advantage of the community-based strengths of HighWire’s platform.”

AAAS has long been a distinguished source of content for their members and the scientific communities they serve. Over the years of working with HighWire, AAAS has created a series of connected digital assets, from the prestigious and multi-media content of Science, to experimenting with topical Knowledge Environments, to reaching new users with leading research news and career sources.

“AAAS is a recognized authority in the STM world, truly a scholarly market leader,” said Tom Rump, HighWire’s Managing Director. “Science‘s editorial excellence, combined with the HighWire Open Platform which leverages Drupal co-development services, will create exciting new publishing and technology solutions.”

Major Life Science Publishers Optimised For Utopia Documents

Although Utopia Documents enhances and makes interactive every PDF, from any publisher, those published by Springer, BMC, PLOS, eLife, Portland Press, and the American Society of Plant Biologists have extra features enabled.

These PDFs, when being read with the free scientific semantic PDF reader Utopia Documents, make navigation of scientific information, including the most up-to-date literature and databases, easier and more convenient than it has ever been. In-text direct reference links, exportable tables, links to a great variety of resources (generated on-the-fly), article level metrics, citation formatting options, look-ups, among others, make life appreciably easier for researchers and students alike. Sharable comments, domain-specific annotations, 3D renditions of molecule structures, and the like, complement the range of features Utopia Documents offers. Utopia Documents is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. More details about bespoke enrichments are available from Utopia Content Services http://utopiacontentservices.com/

About Utopia

Utopia Documents is a free PDF reader that connects the static content of scientific articles to the dynamic world of online content.

It enables publishers to bring their content to life. And it enables readers to get the most out of the scientific literature. The standard features of Utopia Documents work with any PDF, but publishers can have Utopia Documents ‘primed’ to bring out extra features in the PDFs of their publications. Features such as the incorporation of their article-level metrics, the exportability of tables into a spreadsheet, the linking of in-text references not only to the full reference, but to the actual article that is being referenced. There is even a possibility for publishers to include their own databases as a resource in Utopia Documents.

Utopia Documents is currently in version 2.2.1 and freely available to researchers, students, and anybody else who wants to read scientific articles more efficiently than before. To date, Utopia Documents is already ‘primed’ to deliver extra features for PDFs from, among others, Springer, BioMed Central, ASPB,PLOS, eLife, and the open access articles in PubMedCentral (PMC International).

Over 12,000 Wiley Online Books Made Available in Developing Countries Via Research4Life

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced that its 12,200 Online Books would be made available through the Research4Life initiatives of HINARI, AGORA and OARE, benefitting research and academic communities in 80 low- and middle-income countries including Malawi, Cambodia, and Bolivia.

Research4Life provides 6,000 institutions in developing countries with free or low cost access to peer-reviewed online content from the world’s leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. The addition of Wiley’s Online Books brings the total number of peer reviewed scientific journals, books and databases now available through the public-private Research4life partnership to almost 30,000.

“Our goal with Research4Life is to provide and support quality research in developing countries in order to advance higher education, inform public policy decisions and ultimately improve quality of life,” said Emily Gillingham, Director of Library Relations at Wiley who also serves as the new Chair of the Executive Council for Research4Life. “We hope the addition of this vast collection of Online Books will make a real difference to researchers in countries which can least afford it and as such is a central part of Wiley’s social responsibility program.”

“Through Research4Life we’ve been able to really level the playing field in terms of access to primary research material in the developing world,” said Kimberly Parker, HINARI Programme Manager at the World Health Organization. “This is vital for supporting local authorship and helping researchers in poorer countries to participate in and contribute to the global scientific knowledge base.”

The Wiley Online Books Collection includes handbooks, dictionaries, companions, encyclopedias and landmark book series from award-winning authors and renowned researchers in the life, health and physical sciences, social sciences and the humanities. Online Books are available on Wiley Online Library and offer the benefits of unlimited concurrent user access, cross-searching with journals, and no DRM restrictions. Access to the majority of Wiley’s peer-reviewed journals, the Cochrane Library, Current Protocols and major reference works are already included in the Research4Life programs.

“We are delighted to be able to add Wiley’s books to Research4Life for access by researchers in eighty countries across Africa, Latin America, and Asia,” said Antonia Seymour, VP and Director of Science, Technical, Medical and Scholarly Books at Wiley. “Not only will they have access to our 12,200 Online Books already digitized but we will also be adding the 100 or so new books published each month,” she added.

Semantico expands Sales, Project and Development teams in response to business growth

As a direct result of Semantico’s strong sales growth and an expanding client portfolio, Semantico has recently recruited five new personnel to join the Sales, Project and Development teams.

Our new staff are hand-picked for their industry experience and range of skills, and will be tasked to help to continue the outstanding quality of service that Semantico provides.

The new team members are:

  • Giles Gailer. Giles has a BSc in Biochemistry/Microbiology and MSc in Biomedical Sciences. He has been involved in publishing since 2001 having worked with major players such as Springer. Giles joins Semantico’s Sales Team as an Account Manager.
  • Susan Crean. Suzi hails from the USA and has extensive project management experience in digital and traditional publishing environments. Suzi will be working as an Account Manager for the Sales Team.
  • Esther Moore. Esther is an experienced Project Manager having worked for an international IT company where she headed up the offshore service projects team. Esther will be Semantico’s latest Digital Project Manager.
  • Luke Timms. Luke is also a Digital Project Manager. He has previously worked as a Producer for Electronic Arts, Zoe Mode and Kaplan International Colleges.
  • Sean O’Connell. Sean is Semantico’s newest Java Web Developer. His previous experience includes working for DB Education, Sigmer, BSkyB and HBOS.

EBSCO Publishing Creates E-book Subscription Collections for Engineering and Technology Professionals

EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released EngineeringCore™ and ITCore™ , two e-book subscription collections designed to support the learning and reference needs of engineering and technology professionals. The collections are available as annual subscriptions that give users unlimited access to all titles.

EngineeringCore provides professionals with an easy way to access e-books specific to their research and learning needs. The collection offers more than 4,200 e-book titles spanning all major engineering disciplines and covering top subjects such as biotechnology, energy sciences, industrial safety, innovation & technological advancement, materials, optics & photonics, robotics and more.

The ITCore collection contains more than 3,500 titles to support all IT needs, from expert-level programming and cybersecurity to systems administration and web design. Subjects include: mobile devices, networks and platforms; LANs and MANs; open source software; E-commerce; scripting and programming languages; and data warehousing. ITCore also features certification exam preparation guides as well as basic guides and tutorials for desktop applications and software to support staff.

The collections include thousands of titles from leading publishers, with new titles added on a quarterly basis. Users can print, email and save chapters, or transfer them to a number of e-book readers and mobile devices including the Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook and Sony Digital Book. The collections provide a robust e-book experience that includes the ability to search alongside EBSCO’s industry-leading magazine and journal collections, create and add notes and bookmarks, as well as save research for future reference.

EBSCO Publishing Vice President of Product Management, Tad Goltra, says EngineeringCore and ITCore, like the previously released BusinessCore, are important additions to EBSCO’s e-book collections. “EngineeringCore and ITCore provide customers with access to broad subscription collections that can serve as the foundation of their working library. Customers also have the ability to add individual titles to their collections on a permanent basis, giving them the flexibility they need to assemble their optimal collection.”

As with all e-books available from EBSCO, EngineeringCore and ITCore will integrate seamlessly with all EBSCOhost® content. The EngineeringCore and ITCore subscription collection may also be integrated into organizational portals and Intranets, learning management systems (LMSs), as well as mapped to an organization’s key competencies allowing users to have easy access to relevant content wherever and whenever it is needed.

More information about e-book subscription collections is available at: www.ebscohost.com/ebooks.

Australia’s Macquarie University selects Ex Libris’ Alma library management solution

Ex Libris® Group, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that Macquarie University has selected the Alma library management solution. By adding Alma to the Primo® discovery and delivery solution, which the Macquarie community uses for searching the university library’s local and global collections, Macquarie offers staff members and researchers a single environment for resource management and discovery. This environment provides seamless access to library resources as well as a range of new services. Macquarie joins over 120 other institutions worldwide that have chosen to take advantage of the tight integration between Alma and Primo for the management and discovery of all resource types and collections.

JoAnne Sparks, university librarian at Macquarie University, commented: “As students and academics move from accessing their content in the print world to mostly electronic offerings, there is a growing gap between the functionality required for managing, exposing, and enabling the discovery of electronic resources and the functionality of the traditional, print-oriented library catalog and related back-office software. We were seeking a next-generation library system that would manage our increasingly electronic collections more effectively and would integrate seamlessly with our Primo discovery system. A key requirement was the ability of the new system to integrate with our automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS), which provides access to 80% of the library’s print collection. Alma is the only solution on the market that meets this requirement.

“Through Alma, we can consolidate the management of electronic, print, and digital collections,” continued Ms. Sparks. “The solution’s tight integration with Primo enables us to meet the needs of our clients, who can now access library services such as reservations and loans via a single interface. Our staff members are excited by the opportunities that the Alma Analytics module affords us for evaluating our resources and collections—thus introducing a strong future focus into our collection development efforts. With our move to Alma, we look forward to continuing our long partnership with Ex Libris and the Ex Libris user community.”

Holley Dumble, Ex Libris director of sales for Australia and New Zealand, remarked: “The trend of moving solutions to the cloud demonstrates academic libraries’ enthusiasm for collaborating on a global scale and providing their institution with tangible benefits, such as lower costs, higher productivity, and an enhanced discovery experience. We are delighted that Macquarie University has become the first new Alma site in 2013, joining the active customer community that has sprung up around the cloud-based Alma solution, particularly in Australia.”

BMJ builds new relationships with India’s medical professionals

This week, the BMJ – one of the world’s leading medical journals – takes to the road to talk to senior health professionals and political leaders across India.

Starting in Delhi, BMJ editors and senior personnel will be joined by representatives from the British High Commission in a series of roadshows to help support government plans for universal health coverage throughout India.

To succeed in its ambitious plans, India needs its doctors to be able to readily access the most reliable and up-to-date evidence and guidance. With the BMJ’s global reputation as a leading provider of trusted evidence-based support for doctors, researchers and patients, it is ideally placed to help, through its journals, its online learning service, and its decision-support tools.

The roadshows will showcase BMJ India – a dedicated edition of bmj.com to help doctors in India find medical news, comment, research, and education that is directly relevant to them.

BMJ’s first India Editor, Dr Anita Jain, will oversee the content of bmj.com/India and says she is confident that doctors will find it both informative and inspiring.

She explains: “This tailor-made offering includes all of the BMJ’s internationally acclaimed content, along with a rich mix of high quality research and commentary on Indian medicine and healthcare, designed to help doctors practice the best possible medicine and ensure the best possible outcomes for their patients.”

For example, recent content includes an article by Kounteya Sinha, Health Editor at the Times of India, suggesting that “mass economic migration is the greatest threat to India’s HIV control programme” and asks how this can be tackled? And a feature by Dr Soumyadeep Bhaumik from Kolkata argues that India has the worst snakebite problem in the world, especially among poor people and children from rural communities, yet treatment and the training of doctors in India are lacking.

From Delhi, the BMJ will travel with Deputy High Commissioner Sanjay Wadvani to Kolkata on 5 February, then onto Chennai with Deputy High Commissioner Mike Nithavrianakis on 6 February.

The final roadshow will take place on 7 February in Mumbai with Deputy High Commissioner Peter Beckingham, followed by the official launch of bmj.com/India.

BMJ Editor in Chief, Dr Fiona Godlee says: “The BMJ aims to improve health and make a real difference to clinical practice worldwide. We are delighted to be supporting India’s ambition to become a world leader in medical training and research, by providing an outlet for the work and opinions of India’s doctors. We want to work with Indian states and institutions to provide the widest possible access to our content.”

Tim Brooks, CEO of the BMJ Group added: “It is an honour to be a part of this historic transformation of India’s health system. Our team here in India, and colleagues in the UK, look forward to a long and positive relationship with both the government, and doctors across India.”

LWW launches iPad app for Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced the launch of an iPad® app for Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills, the premier web-based procedures reference product used by hospitals and institutions. The new app augments a facility’s existing Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills database by offering immediate access to all of its content—including custom content—without the need to always have an Internet connection. This newly created, un-tethered access also lends itself well to disaster recovery and home healthcare applications.

For example, when Hurricane Sandy pounded the East Coast last October it became readily apparent to millions just how helpless we become when cell phones are out and the Internet is down. Although this new app was not designed specifically for hurricane preparedness, it does make it possible for existing Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills customers to gain access to their custom databases, even when no Internet connection is available.

Available immediately as a free iTunes® download, the new app is only accessible to authorized users from institutions that currently subscribe to the online database. Upon entering a valid user name and password, the app downloads the user’s facility-specific version of the database complete with all customized procedures as well as any critical notes that may have been added.

“Customers love the fast, online access we provide to their nursing procedures but they also want something in place when their devices do not have access to the Internet,” said Carolyn Dalton, Senior Digital Product Manager, Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional & Education. “The beauty of this app is the offline capability, which allows them to always have their facility-specific procedures accessible to their staff, and protects their access in disaster recovery and remote-use situations.”

In addition to disaster recovery, home health care is another key area where the self-contained app provides benefit. Many community health nurses are travelling daily to places where they lack any form of Internet access. The app allows these health workers to have the same capabilities and access to the same information that all staff is looking at regardless of whether they are online or off.

Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills, part of Lippincott’s Nursing Solutions family of products, gives nurses accurate, step-by-step guidance for over 1,300 evidence-based procedures. Most procedures are accompanied by video clips and/or high-quality visuals that aid in understanding. The online resource provides skills checklists and competency tests for each procedure to help facilities verify staff competence. Each procedure undergoes a thorough annual review process to ensure the most up-to-date clinical information is provided. Facilities can customize and add procedures to meet their specific needs.

The new Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills app for iPad and iPad Mini is available immediately to existing institutional users via a free iTunes download. To learn more, visit www.LippincottSolutions.com/LNPS, or call (855) 695-5070.

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