Nature Publishing Group (NPG) offers site license access to Investigación y Ciencia

February 5, 2013

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) now offers site license access to Investigación y Ciencia, the Spanish-language edition of Scientific American, as well as its sister publication, Mente y cerebro, and archives. All titles, available in Spanish, will be hosted on the Investigación y Ciencia platform,http://www.nature.com/libraries/IyC/index.html. Both Investigación y Ciencia and Mente y cerebroinclude articles from Scientific American in Spanish as well as brand new articles published by the Spanish speaking community. Together with Scientific American, Investigación y Cienciacomplements the consumer media portfolio NPG offers to site license customers in the Spanish speaking scientific community.

The NPG sales team will offer site license access to government, corporate and academic customers. A current site license subscription includes access to the current year and the previous 4 years in PDF format. The archive site license collection is available as a one time purchase and includes access to Investigación y Ciencia (content back to 1996 PDF format) and Mente y cerebro(content back to 2002 PDF format).

Investigación y Ciencia, founded in 1976, is the best-selling consumer science magazine in Spanish speaking countries. Mente y cerebro, a bimonthly magazine, is the Spanish-language edition ofScientific American Mind. It features articles based on neuroscience and focuses on topics such as Alzheimer’s, drug addiction, memory, artificial intelligence, and learning. Both magazines are published by the Spanish publishing house, Prensa Científica. Licences and customer support will be continued to be handled directly by the Prensa Científica team.

The Investigación y Ciencia portfolio is the latest in archive offerings from NPG. The Spektrum der Wissenschaft portfolio, for German-speaking customers, is hosted on the Spektrum platform,http://www.spektrum.de. Scientific American’s complete archive, back to volume 1, issue 1 in 1845, is available on nature.com. The Nature archive 1869-1996 is also available on the nature.com platform.

Elsevier launches Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry as part of its suite of life science solutions

February 5, 2013

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry. It offers medicinal chemists access to comprehensive, referenced and well-structured data to enhance the compound selection process across discovery and pre-clinical stages in drug research and development. Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry will significantly improve the efficiency and productivity of researchers engaged in the process of designing compounds and optimizing their compatibility with one or more targets in order to successfully treat a disease.

Dr. Juergen Swienty-Busch, Product Lead for the Reaxys suite at Elsevier said, “The greatest challenge of medicinal chemistry is to reduce the number of drug candidates that fail in late stages, significantly increasing the cost of bringing a drug to market. The well-known mantra ‘fail early, fail cheap’ is now central to the drug discovery process, with much of the responsibility borne by medicinal chemists.”

Medicinal chemists develop strategies to find new drugs and to improve not only the efficacy of compounds but also selectivity, ADME properties and safety end-points. To support these strategies, medicinal chemists need to have access to up to date, well organized and high quality experimental data on druggable targets, pharmacological effects, biological data points, and ADME properties associated with chemical compounds.

Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry sources its data from a vast repository of peer-reviewed journal articles, patents and regulatory information, encompassing millions of compounds and associated biological data linked to thousands of druggable proteins. It brings this information together into a single, easily searchable solution that gives pharmaceutical companies access to comparative data.

Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry can be used in conjunction with Elsevier’s suite of life science products; including Reaxys, the leading chemistry discovery engine, and PharmaPendium, which focuses on regulatory approvals and drug safety. This solution effectively brings together lead identification, confirmation and drug repurposing.

ALPSP announces the launch of two new specialist eLearning workshops

February 5, 2013

ALPSP eLearning provides expert industry training in a convenient and flexible way – allowing delegates to fit training into a busy schedule.

Highly interactive, with exercises, an online tutor, comprehensive resources centre, and Q&A sessions, delegates can learn at their own pace and in a way best suited to them. Each workshop has been developed from our existing programme of expert face to face training and takes between 6-8 hours to complete, with a full 3 months access (exercises can be repeated, sections revisited throughout this period, ensuring knowledge and skills are retained).

We are delighted to announce two new specialist courses:

Citation Analysis for Publishers
International Copyright

A special introductory price of £196 for ALPSP members and £276 for non-members runs until the end of March 2013 for these new courses.

Are you interested in fundamental skills for new staff? Our introductory courses are now just £150 pounds for ALPSP members and £195.00 for non-members.

Introduction to Journals Marketing
Introduction to Journals Publishing
Fundamentals of eProduction

Multiple purchase deals are also available –just call to discuss.

We’ve two online demos available now for viewing: Citation Analysis for Publishers and Introduction to Journals Publishing: http://www.alpsp.imago3.com/

For further information visit www.alpsp.org or contact Amanda Whiting
Tel: +44 (0)1865 247776, email: amanda.whiting@alpsp.org

American Institute of Physics forms AIP Publishing LLC to sharpen focus on scholarly publishing

February 5, 2013

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announces the formation of AIP Publishing LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary. The purpose of AIP Publishing LLC is to support the scientific and educational mission of the AIP through scholarly publishing activities in the physical and related sciences.

The LLC’s board will include experienced publishing experts to enable the publishing group to adapt quickly to changes in the marketplace in which it operates and to plan for the future in a rapidly changing environment. AIP Publishing LLC will focus on expanding its publishing of the best research in the physical sciences to deliver greater value to scientists, students, libraries and other subscribers with an interest in the physical and related sciences.

John S. Haynes, previously AIP vice president for publishing, will lead the new subsidiary as its chief executive officer. “With a comprehensive range of top-cited journals,” remarked Haynes, “the creation of AIP Publishing LLC places the organization in an excellent, strategic position to deliver even more benefit to global researchers whilst continuing to provide great value to library customers worldwide. We will also continue to strive to serve physical sciences organizations, including AIP’s Member Society publishing partners, and help them to advance their missions.”

“When AIP’s Member Societies created AIP more than 80 years ago, the institute devoted its attention to the development of physics as a field of human activity and to the economy of publishing physics journals,” said Louis Lanzerotti, chair of the AIP Governing Board and chair of the LLC. “Since then, AIP has grown in many important ways. It feeds the newswires with accurate and interesting science news, introduces students to the larger science community, tracks our community’s demographics, education and career trends, and curates history of the physical sciences.” He continued, “The Governing Board found that AIP’s publishing operations now required its own path for growth and development.”

The headquarters of AIP Publishing LLC remains in Melville, New York, and all previous contact information (including mailing address, telephone, email and web links) remains unchanged.

Thomson Reuters launches first EndNote software app for the iPad

February 5, 2013

The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the launch of the first EndNote^® software application (app) for the iPad^®. This new app utilizes sync capabilities, enabling EndNote X6users to easily view, edit, organize and share their research materials from their iPad.

The EndNoteSync capability within the new app offers seamless access to users’EndNote libraries from multiple computers and devices, now including their iPad. It provides the ability to update, manage and synchronize references in EndNotedesktop and EndNote Web with just one click. Users will also be able to easily transfer their data and references, as well as attach PDF files from their existingEndNote libraries to the app, thus allowing them to manage and share their references with greater mobility.

The new EndNote for iPad app also includes a built-in Web browser and direct export capabilities, which enable users to search online databases and import references into their EndNote library. The app further allows functionality for reading and annotating full-text PDF files.

EndNote keeps its users in step with the constantly evolving world of scholarly research and publishing by providing the ability to search, organize and share reference materials, as well as automatically format bibliographies, cutting down on the time spent collecting research and writing manuscripts, patent applications and grant proposals. It is integrated with other industry-leading sources from Thomson Reuters, including the Web of Knowledge^TM, ScholarOneManuscripts^TMpeer-review systems and company research management and profiling tools.

“EndNote allows users to customize the way they organize research information and search databases,” said Chris Burghardt, vice president at Thomson Reuters. “Now, with the creation of the EndNote for iPad, users will be able to access their research and PDF files, with true mobility – anytime and anywhere – adding another dimension of accessibility and efficiency to their work.”

The EndNote for iPad app is available in every Apple App Store^SM. To register your copy of EndNote X6, visit www.endnote.com/register, or to learn more about EndNote, visit endnote.com.

Elsevier and Kanazawa University in Japan Collaborate to Map University’s Research Performance

February 5, 2013

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced its collaboration with Kanazawa University in Japan by providing access to SciVal and consultative support in mapping the university’s research performance.

With the help of SciVal Consultants, Kanazawa University used SciVal to map out its research expertise and areas of growth, identify potential resources to accelerate funding acquisition and gather actionable insights to enhance collaboration between the university and industry partners. These analyses, which were conducted during the past months, will be used by Kanazawa University’s research administrators (URAs) as a basis for defining the university’s future research strategy.

“Using Elsevier’s SciVal suite we have been able to make a concrete industry-university matching list and benchmark local funding opportunities,” said Professor Koetsu Yamazaki, Vice President for Research and Director of Organization of Frontier Science and Innovation at Kanazawa University. “Based on these findings we have now outlined various interesting industry-university cooperation projects which we aim to incorporate into the university’s research strategy.”

Niels Weertman, Vice President of SciVal at Elsevier, added, “We are very happy to support Professor Yamazaki and other URAs at Kanazawa University in their research evaluation activities by not only providing access to SciVal, but also by supporting the team with our expertise in data interpretation. Through our collaborative approach, we will continually work with Kanazawa University to advance their research strategies, pinpoint emerging trends, and identify new opportunities for collaboration both locally and internationally.”

Springer partners with the Australian Neuroscience Society

February 5, 2013

pringer and the Australian Neuroscience Society (ANS) have entered into a new partnership to publish a series of book titles in neuroscience. The new titles will be available via SpringerLink (link.springer.com). The society will maintain editorial direction for the books, while Springer will be responsible for production and distribution.

“ANS is delighted to be entering into this publishing partnership with Springer,” said ANS Secretary, Joe Lynch. “Teaming up with Springer will enhance the society’s international appeal by providing a high profile means to disseminate Australian neuroscience research. We are certain that these new avenues of distribution will serve the goals of ANS well.”

Springer and the ANS aim to publish three contributed volumes per year, all of which will be focused on general topics in neuroscience, and should be of interest to those whose research focus is the brain and the nervous system. By partnering with Springer, the society stands to benefit from the publisher’s global marketing and distribution networks.

“Like with all our society partners, Springer is excited to have been chosen for this new venture,” said Carolyn Honour, Springer’s Editorial Director for Biomedicine. “We are excited to collaborate with the ANS on a book partnership that will create worldwide visibility and ease of access to the valuable work of its researchers.”

TEMIS Named SIIA Content CODiE Award Winner for Best Semantic Technology Solution

February 4, 2013

TEMIS, leading provider of semantic content enrichment solutions, today announced that its flagship Luxid® Content Enrichment Platform was named a winner for the 2013 SIIA CODiE Awards for “Best Semantic Technology Solution”. Winners represent the information industry’s best products, technologies, and services created by or for media, publishers, and information services providers.

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, announced TEMIS as a CODiE Award content winner.

Based on patented and award-winning natural language processing technology, Luxid® Content Enrichment Platform is a powerful and scalable semantic content enrichment solution that recognizes and extracts relevant items of information hidden in plain text and enriches document metadata. By revealing the intimate nature of enterprise informational assets, it helps optimize their management, distribution, access and analysis.

“We are extremely proud of this CODiE award, which recognizes our strong commitment to meeting our customers’ semantic content enrichment needs”, said Daniel Mayer, VP Marketing, TEMIS. “And it is all the more important for us because for the first time a CODiE recognizes semantic content enrichment technologies as a separate product category addressing what is becoming a standard requirement for all information- and content-centric organizations.”

“We are especially pleased with the high-caliber of this year’s CODiE Award winners. The products selected as finalists stand as a testament to the dedication finalist companies have not only to meet, but also to exceed their customer and partner expectations,” noted SIIA Vice President for the Content Division, Kathy Greenler Sexton. “This was an extremely competitive year for the Content CODiE Awards.”

Winners were announced during a special Awards luncheon on January 31st in New York City during the SIIA’s annual flagship conference for information industry leaders, IIS 2013: Breakthrough.

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. The first round review of all nominees is conducted by media, publishing, and information services executives with considerable industry expertise, including members of the industry, analysts, media and bloggers, bankers and investors. The judges are responsible for selecting the CODiE Awards finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners.

For more information about the SIIA CODiE Awards, visit: http://www.siia.net/codies

Oxford University Press to publish new OA journal Conservation Physiology

February 1, 2013

Oxford University Press (OUP) is pleased to announce the launch of Conservation Physiology, an open access journal, edited by a prestigious team of experts headed up by Steven Cooke, from Carleton University, Canada. Conservation Physiology is published on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology(SEB) which is committed to promote and increase the influence of Experimental Biology within the scientific community. Both OUP and the SEB recognised the expanding reader demand for research in the developing area of conservation physiology and hope this journal will serve as a home and rallying point for this rapidly emerging discipline. Publication fees will be waived for the launch period.

Biodiversity across the globe faces a growing number of threats associated with human activities. In response to this, conservation physiology is rapidly emerging as an important discipline that combines and applies basic knowledge from the traditional fields of ecology and physiology, leading to better informed strategies for conservation, resource management and policy.

Conservation Physiology will publish research on all taxa (microbes, plants and animals) focused on understanding and predicting how organisms, populations, ecosystems and natural resources respond to environmental change and stressors. Physiology is considered in the broadest possible terms to include functional and mechanistic responses at all scales. The new journal also welcomes research towards developing and refining strategies to rebuild populations, restore ecosystems, inform conservation policy and manage living resources.

Steven Cooke, Editor-in-Chief said: ‘”The conservation community is desperate to not just document problems but to understand the mechanisms underlying population declines and opportunities for reversing such trends. Conservation physiology is about understanding mechanisms and establishing cause and effect relationships in an effort to inform policy and provide evidence to support improvements in conservation practice. This new journal is also well positioned to be the go-to source for those interested in predicting how organisms, populations and ecosystems will respond to environmental change and other human activities including restoration.”

Jennifer Boyd, Assistant Publisher at OUP said: ‘OUP is delighted to be working with the SEB on this new journal, and I am personally very excited to be part of this launch.Conservation Physiology is the first dedicated journal in this area which has previously been under-served by the existing publishing landscape. We look forward to the journal becoming the natural home for this important research.’

Professor Keith Lindsey, President of the SEB said “We are very excited about this journal which, for the first time, brings together all sections of the SEB’s scientific community. We are looking forward to extending our working relationship with OUP, which already publishes the Journal of Experimental Botany on our behalf, and to the success of our first foray into fully open access publishing.”

Visit the website for more information about the journal: www.conphys.oxfordjournals.org

EBSCO Publishing releases new e-book subscription collection for public libraries

February 1, 2013

EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released its latest e-book subscription collection focused on the needs of public library patrons. eBook Public Library Collection^™ includes over 25,000 general reference e-book titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature and science & technology.

eBook Public Library Collection complements any public library’s general reference collection and includes many industry leading publishers with numerous best-selling titles. As a pre-packaged collection, eBook Public Library Collection saves libraries time by organizing titles and makes it easy for patrons to discover titles they need.

The collection will provide libraries with a substantial selection in the areas of self-help, health and fitness, games, crafts and hobbies to improve mental health, medical, cooking and religion. In addition to the larger concentrations listed, above, eBook Public Library Collection also features recreation and leisure, geography, commerce, finance, the family, marriage, women, folklore, social and public welfare, and home economics.

eBook Public Library Collection is offered as an annual subscription and includes unlimited simultaneous access for users, and titles are continually added at no additional cost. Each title is offered with unlimited users allowing more users access to each title in the collection. eBook Public Library Collection also offers unlimited downloads to a variety of devices.

As with all e-books available from EBSCO, eBook Public Library Collection will integrate seamlessly with all EBSCOhost^® content. Users will be able to search the collection on its own or side-by-side with other EBSCOhost databases.

More information about eBooks on EBSCOhost is available at: www.ebscohost.com/ebooks

Serials Solutions to index SciELO e-book collection in Summon discovery service

February 1, 2013

Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, is working with Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) to index its e-book collection in the Summon® discovery service. Recognizing that much scholarly work in the humanities and social sciences is published in book form rather than in periodicals, SciELO introduced this collection as a parallel to its widely-accessed collection of scientific academic journals. The collection is a mix of open access and commercial e-books from major academic publishers in Brazil and Latin America.

The majority of titles are selected by a peer-review process and are devoted to social sciences and humanities, including fields such as architecture, art, economics, education, geography, history, linguistics, literature, media, music, performing arts, philosophy, political science and sociology. The initial collection is approximately 250 books and is expected to increase by 500-1000 more books each year.

SciELO’s objective is to maximize the use, visibility, accessibility and impact of the work of Latin American scholars. With the addition of these resources in the Summon service, the works will be more widely available to a worldwide audience.

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.

Elsevier and NWO Collaborate to Enhance Research Excellence in the Netherlands

February 1, 2013

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information solutions and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), today announce their collaboration with a 5 year access agreement to Elsevier’sReviewer Finder and Scopus, which will further improve NWO’s assessment process of research grant applications.

As a leading research funding council in the Netherlands, NWO’s mission is to actively contribute to the growth of Dutch science by structurally and continuously investing in world-class scientists and research excellence. Using Reviewer Finder, a component of Elsevier’s SciVal® suite, NWO will more efficiently identify the best matching peer reviewers to assess its grant applications. Furthermore, Reviewer Finder will help NWO identify conflicts of interest between potential reviewers and applicants, ensuring the applications are reviewed by the most appropriate experts. With Scopus, NWO will have access to the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scholarly literature (nearly 20,500 journals from more than 5,000 publishers worldwide) providing an extended view on the world’s peer-reviewed published research.

“For certain research fields Reviewer Finder is an effective way to find the most suitable experts for the assessment of grant applications and will help us shorten the assessment time and enhance our capabilities to focus on research excellence,” said Mr. Cas Maessen, Senior Policy Officer at NWO. “Through our research programs we fund thousands of top researchers at universities and institutes across the Netherlands, steering the course of Dutch science. Selecting the best research projects is critical in this process and therefore requires having the best tools at hand.”

“We are very pleased that a major research funding organization like NWO has chosen to use our analytical tools,” said Nick Fowler, Managing Director A&G Institutional Markets at Elsevier. “We aim to deliver insights and tools that help major funding organizations and research institutions allocate their resources and achieve their desired research outcomes as efficiently as possible.”