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Elsevier Announces its Acquisition of the Journal of Choice Modelling

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce that per January 2013 it will publish the Journal of Choice Modelling (JOCM).

JOCM was founded in 2008 by its editors, Stephane Hess (University of Leeds) and John Rose (University of Sydney), who will remain in charge after the transfer to Elsevier. The team of Associate Editors will continue to comprise of: Michel Bierlaire (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Michiel Bliemer (University of Sydney), Juan de Dios Ortúzar (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Riccardo Scarpa (Queen’s University Belfast) and Kenneth Train (University of California, Berkeley).

JOCM publishes papers which either make a methodological contribution to or present an innovative application in the field of choice modelling. The journal covers topics such as transport and marketing where the analysis of choice behaviour is a topic of interest. While it mainly focuses on the use of discrete choice models, other methods and survey design are also discussed.

“The journal has gone from strength to strength over the last five years, attracting authors and readers from the various disciplines in which choice modelling is a core analytical technique,” said Editors-in-Chief Hess and Rose. “Our decision to publish with Elsevier is a reflection of our belief that this will strengthen the academic impact of the journal, and lead to further increases in interest from authors, while maintaining access for as wide a group of readers as possible, facilitated by its inclusion in existing ScienceDirect libraries. We look forward to our collaboration with great excitement.”

Chris Pringle, Executive Publisher at Elsevier added, “Since the Journal of Choice Modelling’s interests extend from transport into marketing, finance, environmental economics and beyond, its focus on choice modelling nicely complements our existing journals in both economics and transport, in a growth area which we wanted to represent more strongly in our list. JOCM and its editors have a track record of demonstrated success, and we are very happy to have the opportunity to add such a high quality journal to the Elsevier family.”

The Journal of Choice Modelling will publish four issues in 2013. The current back catalogue consisting of the first five volumes of JOCM will be hosted on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect journals platform where they will continue to be available free of charge to any reader.

Springer and the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan launch book series, NIMS Monographs

Springer and the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan will partner to publish a new book series NIMS Monographs. The series will publish titles on major and advanced research themes of the research institute, one of the most important in materials sciences in Japan. Starting in 2013, five to ten titles will be published annually. All books will be available as eBooks on Springer’s online platform link.springer.com, and in print-to-order (PTO) format. The first two titles, “Smart Biomaterials” and “Fiber Fuse – Light-Induced Continuous Breakdown of Silica Glass Optical Fiber”, are expected to be published in July 2013.

Since its inception, the NIMS has been continuously and actively engaged in fundamental R&D related to materials. In recent years, the NIMS has promoted the discovery of new phenomena and new functions of materials by utilizing nanotechnology and establishing a variety of pioneering global technologies, including characterization techniques and material design/control technologies.

Dr. Junichi Sone, Vice President of NIMS said, “We are encouraging our scientists to write and publish books on their research to promote the activities and achievements of NIMS globally. We believe Springer’s eBook strategy in particular will greatly enhance the visibility of NIMS publications throughout the world.”

Takeyuki Yonezawa, Editorial Director Physical Sciences and Engineering at Springer Japan, said, “We are delighted to collaborate with the National Institute for Materials Science on the launch of a book series that will highlight the research accomplishments of NIMS researchers. Springer is proud to introduce its book series to the international scientific community.”

The National Institute for Materials Science (http://www.nims.go.jp) is an independent administrative institution specializing in materials science and one of the largest research centers in Japan. The NIMS was established with the mission of improving the level of materials science and technology in Japan.

HighWire incorporates article-level metrics with ImpactStory

HighWire Press is pleased to announce it has entered into a strategic collaboration with ImpactStory, a researcher led, non-profit organization with a drive to help redefine the impact of research articles.

Article level metrics monitor the conversations around an article, as a complement to citation reports which measure a journal’s overall impact. ImpactStory aggregates impact data – the number of times an article is accessed and mentioned in editorials, news, tweets and blogs, as well as bookmarked, favorited, and recommended, in addition to those cited by another research paper, from sources such as CrossRef, Mendeley, and PubMed.

“People bookmark and download research articles for a reason,” says Jason Priem, PhD student and co-founder of ImpactStory, who coined the term altmetrics. “Articles that provoke interesting discussions amongst fellow scientists may or may not get cited a lot, but they are still providing important feedback and quality indicators. Additionally, activity in venues like Wikipedia, Twitter, and Delicious provide evidence of broader impact of articles that are increasingly important to research funders.”

“As a publisher we believe our role on the open web is to help authors increase the surface area of their research and to uncover interesting interactions with that research,” said Ian Mulvany, Head of Technology, eLife. “Being able to provide article-level metrics and indicators of these interactions is a critical piece, and we are delighted to be working with HighWire and ImpactStory to do that.”

As part of the collaboration with ImpactStory, HighWire will manage the relationship on behalf of the participating publishers on the HighWire Open Platform, registering articles and displaying these metrics on their online journal and book sites.

According to Tom Rump, Managing Director at HighWire, “Our strategy is to continually embrace the future of electronic publishing by supporting technology that provides insight into furthering the research communication process.”

Knovel Expands Content More Than 20 Percent In 2012

Knovel, today announced a banner year for content growth, including a record 23 percent increase in content across all subject areas. Additionally, each of the 30 subject areas available grew by at least 15 percent. The selection process for new titles, charts, graphs and equation assets was based on direct feedback from Knovel’s active community of engineers and other professionals.
This feedback led to the addition of three entirely new subject areas in 2012. Knovel also continued its brisk pace of development in Knovel’s Critical Content line exclusively available to its customers. Knovel’s interactive objects available via charts, graphs and equations now exceed 100,000. This significant growth in content complements Knovel’s breadth of offerings aimed at helping engineers solve both big challenges and everyday tasks.
“Many engineers are incredibly frustrated with the research dilemma they face on a daily basis. They either spend significant time searching through multiple sources to find validated information or take their chances using public search tools that offer information of questionable validity,” said Knovel CEO Chris Forbes. “Knovel offers engineers a single point of access to the technical references they demand, and our focus on the needs of engineers has driven a significant expansion of the engineering resources available through Knovel.”

With the recent addition of two publishing partners, Thieme and ASQ, Knovel added a total of nine new publishing partners in 2012. This expands Knovel’s international sources of content and rounds out a roster of partners to more than 100 authoritative sources. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) are also among the partners added in 2012.

While Knovel sources a majority of content from its publishing partners, the company also strategically works with credible sources and renowned experts to create content that fills gaps in engineering information resources. The resulting work is added to Knovel’s Critical Content line.

“One of the biggest research issues engineers face is finding reliable data for very specific questions related to material selection,” said Knovel Senior Vice President and Co-founder Sasha Gurke. “We created Knovel’s Critical Content line to identify and provide the data that engineers need but is not easily accessible.”

For more information about Knovel, please visit http://why.knovel.com. Existing customers can talk to their account services representative about new content available and subscription options.

Elsevier Selected as Publisher of The Journal of Social Studies Research

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce that the International Society for the Social Studies has selected Elsevier to publish The Journal of Social Studies Research (JSSR)beginning in January 2013.

Published four times a year, The Journal of Social Studies Research is an internationally recognized peer-reviewed journal designed to foster the dissemination of ideas and research findings related to the social studies.

Associate Professor William B. Russell, Director of the International Society for the Social Studies and Editor-in-Chief of JSSR said, “We are very pleased work with Elsevier. As a leading journal in field of social studies education, collaborating with Elsevier will help ensure that JSSRcontinues to move forward and stay abreast on the current publishing trends and the needs of our authors and readers.”

Ann Corney, Executive Publisher at Elsevier added, “We are extremely excited to working closely with the International Society for the Social Studies and the University of Central Florida on this publication. We look forward to bringing The Journal of Social Studies Research to a wider, international audience and working with the journal’s editorial team to develop an enhanced publishing experience for readers, authors and reviewers.”

For more information go to: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-journal-of-social-studies-research/

SAGE to publish Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports

SAGE has begun a partnership with the American Federation for Medical Research (AFMR) to publish Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, a new, rigorously peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to publishing high quality case reports. SAGE will begin publication of the journal in 2013.

AFMR is an international, multi-disciplinary association that aims to further research to improve medical care and to enhance the career development of its members. This new journal will provide an outlet for interns, residents, fellows, and early-career faculty to demonstrate important new scholarly activity.

“Rigorous descriptions of informative clinical observations are critical to the advancement of medical science. This new journal will provide an outstanding venue for the publication of important clinical cases,” said Dr. Michael McPhaul, editor of the journal.

Articles in Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports will be published online continuously and on a monthly basis.  The journal will be published based on an open access, author-pays model and will be open and available to the public without a subscription. Members of AFMR will be able to publish in the journal at a reduced author fee.

“The Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports will provide an important avenue through which researchers can advance biomedical research for the benefit of both scholarship and medicine,” said Bob Howard, SAGE Executive Director of Journals. “We are happy to welcome the journal and the American Federation of Medical Research to the SAGE family.”

Apple, publishers settle e-book pricing case with European Commission

Apple and four major publishers have settled a case with European antitrust regulators after negotiations began in September, ending an ongoing row over e-book price fixing.

The iPhone and iPad maker, along with HarperCollins, Hachette Livre, Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck-owned Macmillan, and CBS-owned Simon & Schuster (ZDNet is also owned by CBS), all agreed to legally binding conditions that would ease pricing restrictions on Amazon and other e-book sellers.

A fifth publisher, Penguin — owned by U.K. group Pearson — is still under investigation as the publisher “chose not to offer commitments,” but the Commission said it was still in discussions with the publisher.

The European Commission said in a statement that the companies, “may have contrived to limit retail price competition for e-books in the European Economic Area (EEA), in breach of EU antitrust rules.” In order to address these concerns, the e-book publishers have offered to, “terminate on-going agency agreements and to exclude certain clauses in their agency agreements during the next five years.”

It’s taken a year for European antitrust authorities to reach this point after U.K. trading authorities first raided offices and began investigating on behalf of the EU. Once the EU was involved, allegations were made that Apple and its partner publishers had conspired to restrict competition by fixing the prices of e-books.

To continue reading the report by  for Between the Lines please click here.

Jisc welcomes the launch of Futurelearn

Jisc welcomes the announcement by the Open University today to bring together a range of free, open, online courses from leading UK universities through MOOCs (massively open online courses).

Professor Martyn Harrow, chief executive at Jisc said: “The development of Futurelearn aligns with Jisc’s vision to make the UK the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world. We are excited about the possibilities MOOCs offer and are looking forward to supporting the Open University and other education institutions in exploring their benefits.”

Jisc has been supporting activity within online learning across the UK to enhance the learner experience and open up access to education and learning for over 20 years.

One recent example has been the development of the ‘open classroom’ model funded by Jisc at Coventry University – linking in with over 60 universities across the world. The MOOC is a photography module which is being run with fee paying students as well as virtual learners. The benefits are already being realised as the larger class size means international contacts can be made, renowned and higher profile speakers and lecturers are secured and learners gain a wider variety of peer reviews from around the world.

This announcement by the Open University is an important step in allowing UK education to be at the forefront of the next generation of MOOCs – helping to build an online community for learners.

If you’re new to MOOCs read David Kernohan’s blog post on an introduction to what they are and how they can benefit learners.

With MarkLogic, the Royal Society of Chemistry opens up 170 years of science to stimulate international innovation.

To spur innovation in the UK and beyond, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is now making accessible a trove of its information spanning the past 170 years.

The RSC has announced that it is working with MarkLogic Corporation, provider of MarkLogic® Server, the Enterprise NoSQL database, to unlock scientific data dating back to the RSC’s 1841 origins.

This will help to ensure Britain’s place in world science as articles and educational material – much of which has never been available before – becomes accessible to entrepreneurs, researchers and educators around the world.

Before working with MarkLogic, the RSC had information stored in many formats which were housed across multiple locations and systems. With the huge growth of data and formats, it had become almost impossible to effectively manage all of its content which includes over one million images, hundreds of thousands of articles from over 200,000 authors and millions of science data files.

MarkLogic and the RSC have brought all of this data into one integrated repository, easily accessible to anyone online.

This data model lets MarkLogic easily ingest all types of content, embracing spreadsheet-based or unstructured material such as editorial, comments, pictures, social content and videos.

Each piece of content is automatically tagged, which allows users to discover content quickly and understand the context around it, connecting the dots between different pieces of research, video, journal articles or images.

The RSC has also introduced a host of new applications for children, journals for researchers and made mobile and social an integral part of its platform, all based on MarkLogic’s Enterprise NoSQL database.

Dr Robert Parker, RSC chief executive, said today: “The RSC began the process of making its data more open, social and mobile in 2010 and chose MarkLogic to bring all of its data into one database capable of handling any data, at any volume, in any structure. The project has already resulted in a 30% increase in the number of visitors accessing its 500,000 journal articles, a 70% increase in volume of searches on its educational websites, and an expanded international profile, with significant growth in visits from researchers in India, China and Brazil.”

The new big data platform has also allowed the RSC to publish three times as many journals and four times as many articles as it did in 2006, as well as introducing a variety of new applications aimed at expanding its educational offering and making chemistry more accessible to a wider audience.

Dr Parker added: “For example, the RSC developed a ‘Chemistry in the Olympics’ website where users could access hundreds of free, high-quality chemistry resources for teaching and learning, which proved extremely popular in the run-up to the Olympics. Using MarkLogic’s big data platform has allowed us to open uptake the world of chemistry to a much wider audience whilst increasing the volume and quality of the research that we publish. We are also making RSC resources available on mobile and integrating social elements where appropriate.”

Gary Bloom, MarkLogic CEO and president, said, “The RSC is very forward-looking in moving from a printed environment to an online environment, and delivering information in whatever way the end user wants to receive it. We are delighted to work with the RSC to open their rich archive of information, and make their invaluable resources even more accessible to innovators and educators around the world.”

More information: Brian Emsley, Royal Society of Chemistry, 0207 440 3317; 07966 939257

Publishing Technology ends landmark year with new launch

Publishing Technology, marked the end of a highly successful year by announcing a major go live for its customer, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Developed on Publishing Technology’s pub2web platform, the IET’s Digital Library has become the organization’s central access point for all of its online content, dating as far back as 1872 and integrating over 185,000 articles and 3,500 videos.

The go-live crowns a year in which Publishing Technology announced a major international deal with HarperCollins to implement one of the world’s largest global publishing systems on its advance platform. The company also signed 15 new publishers to its scholarly research portal, ingentaconnect, including the Institute for Noise Control Engineering, SUNY Research Foundation and the New Zealand Law Review.

Earlier in the year, the company successfully launched Brill Online and teamed up with CNPIEC in China to launch the Digital Gateway, the most significant digital publishing platform to be launched for Chinese libraries. The company’s industry consultancy arm, PCG (Publishers Communication Group), also enjoyed considerable success, signing a global deal with Bloomsbury Publishing to sell and market the Churchill Archive and Drama Online. It also brokered an agreement with consortia groups to make the Churchill Archive available at a discount to over 500 libraries in the UK, US and Canada.

Publishing Technology continued to report strong financial growth, posting a six per cent increase in revenues in its unaudited interim results for the first half of 2012. The company also redefined its suite of products and services to strengthen messaging to the market and express the breadth and quality of its commercial portfolio in a cohesive way, solidifying its position as the leading provider content solutions that transform business. Publishing Technology unveiled its new look, refined offering and new website at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

As a testament to the company’s sustained growth and influence in the publishing industry, Publishing Technology CEO, George Lossius, was appointed onto the London Book Fair advisory board and was one of very few technology providers who made The Bookseller 100, a list of the most influential people in publishing. He commented: “Across the board the company has performed extremely well this year. We’ve made major inroads into new markets, signed high profile deals with some of the world’s largest publishers and solidified our position as the market leading content solutions provider in both trade and academic publishing.”

He continued: “We’ve worked extremely hard to build up our market position and brand, grow and improve our products and services and seek out new opportunities and partnerships across the globe. As the digitization of publishing marches on apace, we find ourselves in a fantastic position to capitalize on these developments and build on this momentum.”

SAGE to publish Journal of Clinical Urology from January 2013

SAGE and The British Association of Urological Surgeons today announced a new agreement to publish Journal of Clinical Urology (Formerly British Journal of Medical and Surgical Urology) from January 2013.

Journal of Clinical Urology, edited by Mr Ian Pearce, is an official publication of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS). Published six times a year, the clinically-focussed journal covers the whole scope of urology in five sections to align it with the BAUS specialist sections: oncology; endourology; female neurological and urodynamic urology; andrology and genito-urethral surgery; and academic/basic science. It publishes high-quality original audit and research, commissioned reviews, comment articles and relevant case reports, with the overall aim of being readable, educational and clinically relevant to everyday urological practice.

“We are growing a strong portfolio in clinical medicine, and our selection by the British Association of Urological Surgeons to publish their prestigious journal is a credit to this,” said Karen Phillips, Editorial Director, SAGE. “We are delighted to be working with such a strong editorial board and see the Journal of Clinical Urology as a key journal for enhancing understanding on clinical studies within this sector. At SAGE we are aligned with the core values of our society partners and look forward to ensuring that the high quality research reaches an international audience.”

“BAUS is delighted to be working with the team at SAGE to continue the development of the journal” commented Ian Pearce, Editor of Journal of Clinical Urology.

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

Serials Solutions Summon Service Expands Discovery of Content from Five German Publishers

Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, is working with several eminent German publishers to index their scholarly content in the Summon® discovery service. This German-language content is among the most widely subscribed to by academic institutions in Germany, as well as many libraries worldwide, and includes resources covering law, life sciences and the humanities. Content to be indexed from five leading publishers includes:

Makrolog Content Management AG will make the contents of its Recht für Deutschland database available for indexing in the Summon service. The largest collection of German law gazettes, it includes a historical collection, federal collection and a complete German regional/state collection. Recht für Deutschland also contains the entire body of European Law.

Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH will allow full-text indexing of their 12 legal journals, which offer extensive coverage of topics within environmental law among other legal specialties.

Schweizerbart Science Publishers and Borntraeger Science Publishers, two affiliated publishing houses, will provide metadata from their collections of German-language life-science journals. Combined, this rich collection comprises several dozen titles.

Georg Olms Verlag AG will include the content from their Olms Online resource in the Summon service. Olms Online includes more than 400 volumes spanning German literature, literary studies, philosophical works and other subjects in the humanities. These works are reprints augmented with new scholarly content such as introductions, afterwords, notes and indexes. Moving forward, all new single publications from the publisher’s 2013 catalog will be included as well.

Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht will allow indexing of their 30 German-language journals and all e-books. With a focus on theology and religion, psychology, history and other humanities, they publish approximately 250 new titles annually.

Working with these publishers, Serials Solutions continues its commitment to make the work of German scholars more discoverable, for the benefit of institutions in Germany and researchers using the Summon service around the world. The Summon service offers search and relevancy that is optimized for German-language content which delivers more precision for native language researchers than traditional databases and other discovery services.

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.

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