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Canadian Healthcare Journals to Be Indexed in Serials Solutions Summon Service

Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, is working with Longwoods Publishing to index its healthcare journals in the Summon® discovery service. Most of the content is devoted to Canadian medical practice, but some journals have an international focus. All of the publications are a combination of free-access content such as columns and editorials, and paid-access research articles.

Titles to be indexed in the Summon service include:

Healthcare Quarterly documents and disseminates leading practices in health-service delivery and policy development.

Healthcare Papers reviews new models in healthcare, bridging the gap between academia and the world of healthcare management and policy.

Healthcare Policy publicizes research relating to health policy development and decision making, in spheres ranging from governance, organization and service delivery to funding and resource allocation.

Electronic Healthcare explores best practices, policy and innovations in e-models, e-practices and e-products for e-health, for improving health-service delivery and policy development.

Nursing Leadership covers politics, policy, theory and innovations that contribute to leadership in nursing administration, practice, teaching and research.

World Health & Population publishes contributions by researchers, policy makers and practitioners in developing countries and communities to enable excellence in healthcare worldwide.

These resources are widely subscribed to by libraries.  The addition of the Longwoods journals in the Summon service is another mark of the company’s commitment to delivering a better research experience.

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.

RSI Content Solutions Named to Philadelphia Future 50 For Second Year in a Row

RSI Content Solutions, a leading content management software provider, was recognized by Philadelphia SmartCEO magazine as a winner of the 2013 Philadelphia SmartCEO Future 50 award. The Future 50 Awards program recognizes 50 of the area’s fastest-growing companies based on employee and revenue growth over the past 3 years. The 2013 Future 50 winners collectively generate $1.23 billion in annual revenue and employ more than 12,000 individuals in greater Philadelphia.

The Future 50 Awards program, now in its 3rd year of celebration in Philadelphia, kicked off with an application process in September 2012. More than 650 local business executives and guests attended a gala on January 17th, 2013 at the Drexelbrook to celebrate the winners and their achievements.

“The companies we are honoring this year are growing in spite of the economic hardships we have all been facing. These companies are investing in themselves, and investing in their people and are rising above the rest. They deserve to be recognized and celebrated because they are moving our economy and this region forward,” says Jaime Nespor, group publisher of SmartCEO magazine, “We are proud to recognize them for their achievements and growth.”

“We are honored to receive this recognition for the second year in a row,” stated Barry Bealer, CEO and co-founder at RSI Content Solutions.  “But it’s worth stating that RSI Content Solutions is only as successful as its customers. If our publishing clients can increase revenue and growth through better content management, then we have done our job.”

For more than a decade, RSI Content Solutions has been a trusted content management services and solution provider to the publishing industry. Learn how organizations like Oxford University Press, Elsevier Health Sciences, LexisNexis Pacific, Texas Instruments and many others use RSuite CMS and DocZone and see the latest features of the software at www.rsicms.com.

Elsevier In Advanced Talks To Buy Mendeley For Around $100M

The world of ed-tech is ramping up another notch, and getting a lot more open in the process: educational publishing giant Elsevieris in advanced talks to buy Mendeley, a London/New York-based provider of a platform for academics to share research and collaborate with each other via a social network. TechCrunch understands from sources close to the companies that the deal is underway and should close this quarter, possibly by the end of February — all things being equal — and will be in the region of $100 million. The news comes at a pretty busy time for Mendeley: it has also closed a recent round of funding — value undisclosed but thought to be under $10 million — with investors including Access Industries, Passion Capital, Tom Glocer(Ex-CEO Thomson Reuters), and UK-based Andurance Ventures.

Prior to today, the company had only publicly disclosed a raise of $2 million from Passion’s Stefan Glaenzer, Alex Zubillaga and Ambient Sound Investments.

Elsevier was contacted for comment and a spokesperson had this to say:

“Elsevier often looks at acquiring companies that could improve our customer offering and add value.  Some we end up acquiring, most we do not. In all cases, as I’m sure you understand it’s never good to address speculative questions, regardless if they’re on target or not, and we’ll take the same approach here.”

Mendeley, meanwhile, did not confirm nor deny the news: “We don’t comment on rumors,” Mendeley’s CEO and co-founder Victor Henning told TechCrunch.

TechCrunch also understands that there had been others approaching Mendeley, including Thompson Reuters and Nature Publishing, a division of Macmillan, owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group — “effectively, the other big players in the world that Mendeley is disrupting,” said TC’s source.

To continue reading the TechCrunch report click here

 

Duke University Press E-Books Will Move To Highwire

Expanded Partnership Will Provide a New Home for the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection for a Seamless Research Experience across Books and Journals

Duke University Press and HighWire Press are pleased to announce a major expansion of their partnership to include the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection. Beginning with the 2014 collection, e-Duke Books, an annual collection of at least 100 new electronic books published by Duke University Press as well as more than 1,500 backlist titles, will move to HighWire’s Open Platform and the newly developed Folio e-book solution.

With the launch of the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection on HighWire, Duke University Press’s readers and library subscribers will benefit from HighWire’s long record of innovation and reliability. The integrated platform will connect users with content more effectively by incorporating searching across all of Duke’s publications—not only e-books but their highly ranked journals as well.

“HighWire has been a fabulous partner for us, ever since we moved our electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences, including the e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collections, to their platform in 2005,” said Steve Cohn, Director of Duke University Press. “Above all, we are very much looking forward to having our books and our journals on a single platform, where we can provide a seamless research experience to users and offer a variety of collections to libraries that include both book and journal content together. We think that’s the way the world of scholarly publishing needs to be moving, and we think HighWire will be the ideal collaborator for helping us move in that direction with integrity and creativity.”

Key features of the e-Duke Books collection on Folio will include a device-friendly reading experience, viewable in PDF and mobile-optimized e-reader formats; toll-free inter-content access to cited material also hosted by HighWire, including journal articles from Duke, Oxford University Press, and SAGE Publications; and increased content granularity for better discovery, sharing, and navigating.

“The HighWire Open Platform provides Duke University Press with flexible options to deliver reader experiences that are appropriate for their content,” said Tom Rump, Managing Director at HighWire. “Our e-book solutions enhance the versatility of the platform, offering Duke and others the opportunity to integrate their multiple content types – books, journals, figures, data, etc. – in one highly discoverable service.”

All e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection content will be available on the new platform in December 2013. The current 2013 collection will be unaffected by this change and will continue to be hosted by ebrary® through the end of this year. Throughout 2013, e-Duke Books customers will receive frequent communications to ensure a smooth and timely transition. Additional library transition resources, including a growing list of FAQs, are now available at dukeupress.edu/e-duke-books-platform-transition-resources.

For more information about the platform transition, please contact Duke University Press Customer Service at edukebooks@dukeupress.edu.

TEMIS Launches Luxid® Community, the First Collaborative Semantics Platform

EMIS, the leading provider of semantic content enrichment solutions, is pleased to announce that the Luxid® Community Platform will be going into open beta this month.  The Luxid® Community Platform is an online collaboration platform where semantic content enrichment practitioners can meet their peers, exchange best practices, share information extraction components and accelerate their projects. TEMIS will unveil the Luxid® Community Platform in four dedicated events in New York, Berlin, Paris and London starting January 29th, where TEMIS customers and partners will be invited to join the platform and help further shape its directions. To learn more about the Luxid® Community Platform, register for the launch event of your choice on the TEMIS website at http://www.temis.com/join-the-luxid-community.

“Structuring their unstructured content is becoming a burning need for organizations, but the corresponding ecosystem is still fragmented. With the Luxid® Community Platform, our goal is to help our customers and partners to collaborate and facilitate the mainstream adoption of semantic content enrichment technologies”, said Daniel Mayer, VP Marketing of TEMIS. “To enable synergies, the Luxid® Community platform will also include a Marketplace where organizations can exchange components that are relevant to their semantic content enrichment process.”

TEMIS helps organizations structure, manage and exploit their unstructured information assets. Its flagship platform, Luxid®, exploits off-the-shelf extractors called Skill Cartridges® to extract targeted information from unstructured content and semantically enrich it with domain-specific metadata. This enables professional publishers to efficiently package and deliver relevant information to their audience, and helps enterprises to intelligently archive, manage, analyze, discover and share increasing volumes of information. Luxid® includes a suite of productivity tools enabling TEMIS customers and partners to customize existing Skill Cartridges®, develop new ones from scratch, as well as optimize quality and performance.

Springer to collaborate with Scion on open access journal

Starting in January 2013, Springer and Scion, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute, will cooperate to publish the New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science. As of Volume 43, Issue 1, the journal will be part of the SpringerOpen portfolio.  As a fully sponsored open access journal, it will be freely available on www.nzjforestryscience.com and SpringerLink without subscription charges or registration barriers.

Founded in 1971, the New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science covers the breadth of forestry research, science and technology development. While the focus is on planted forests, articles on a wide range of forestry topics such as tropical species, climate change, and policy are also published. Included in the journal are original research articles, short notes, subject reviews, book reviews and conference papers. Scion will retain editorial management with Dr. Ruth Falshaw of Scion as editor. The journal was accepted by ISI this year, and Thomson Reuters will include the New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science in its databases from 2013. An impact factor will be available starting in 2015.

“We are delighted to partner with Springer, who shares our vision about open-access scientific publication.  This arrangement will help the Journal to further achieve its goal of disseminating high-quality research to the international forestry community,” says Dr Falshaw, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal.

Dr. Jacco Flipsen, Editorial Director Life Sciences at Springer, says “We are excited to work with SCION on the Open Access publication of their reputed Journal. Springer has an extensive publication program in Forestry, both books and journals, and we further strengthen our position through this partnership. At the same time, we help SCION in the wider distribution and findability of their Journal”.

Gordon Macomber to Lead Scientific and Scholarly Research Business of Thomson Reuters

Gordon Macomber has been appointed to the role of managing director of the Scientific and Scholarly Research (SSR) unit of the Intellectual Property & Science business at Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Keith MacGregor, who formerly led the unit, has moved into the role of strategic advisor to the business, working closely with global customer groups including government agencies, funding bodies, publishers and research institutions.

Mr. Macomber has a successful history in leading Thomson Reuters businesses and has been recognized for the delivery of innovative products, platforms and solutions in the academic, professional and legal markets. Mr. MacGregor has nearly a decade of experience with SSR in establishing meaningful relationships and partnerships with customers in the scientific research community. He will continue to provide his strategic insight to the business in the future.

These changes are part of the business’ strategic plan for 2013, which includes a commitment to deliver even-more innovative, intuitive solutions and more robust content. Additionally, a customer advisory board will be launched. These plans were influenced by feedback from more than 800 customer interviews.

“Whether you are a funder, institution administrator, policy maker, publisher, researcher, librarian or one of our other business partners, Thomson Reuters is committed to providing you with enhanced products and services to ensure you meet your research needs,” said Mr. Macomber. “Iterative co-creation of our scientific platforms and solutions with customers is an excellent way to fully meet client expectations and allow us to rapidly test innovative ideas. Our products are deeply embedded in our customers’ workflow and decision making processes across the global scientific research ecosystem. Exceeding client needs is our primary goal.”

The Scientific and Scholarly Research business of Thomson Reuters is the provider of the Web of KnowledgeSM, Web of ScienceSM, InCitesSM, EndNoteSM, ScholarOneSM, and other valuable solutions.

New Study: Over 6.7million Students Learning Online

The 2012 Survey of Online Learning conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group reveals the number of students taking at least one online course has now surpassed 6.7 million. Higher education adoption of Massive Open Online Courses remains low, with most institutions still on the sidelines.

“The rate of growth in online enrollments remains extremely robust, even as overall higher education enrolments have shown a decline,” said study co-author Jeff Seaman, Co-Director of the Babson Survey Research Group. “Institutional opinions on MOOCs are mixed,” added co-author I. Elaine Allen. “Some praise them for their ability to learn about online pedagogy and attract new students, but concerns remain about whether they are a sustainable method for offering courses.”

Todd Hitchcock, Senior Vice President of Online Solutions, Pearson Learning Solutions, stated, “Learning is no longer limited to four walls – learning can happen anywhere – and it already is happening everywhere, everyday. The growth of online learning underscores this need for quality, flexible education programs that meet the demands of our 21st-century workforce.”
Frank Mayadas, Senior Advisor to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and founding President of the Sloan Consortium noted “As in past years, the survey demonstrates the continuing robust growth in a wide range of institutions. It underscores the importance of online learning in higher education in the U.S. What a remarkable ten year period the survey has captured.”

Key report findings include:

  • Over 6.7 million students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2011 term, an increase of 570,000 students over the previous year.
  • Thirty-two percent of higher education students now take at least one course online.
  • Only 2.6 percent of higher education institutions currently have a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), another 9.4 percent report MOOCs are in the planning stages.
  • Academic leaders remain unconvinced that MOOCs represent a sustainable method for offering online courses, but do believe they provide an important means for institutions to learn about online pedagogy.
  • Seventy-seven percent of academic leaders rate the learning outcomes in online education as the same or superior to those in face-to-face classes.
  • The proportion of chief academic officers who believe their faculty accept the value and legitimacy of online education has not increased – it now stands at only 30.2 percent.
  • The proportion of chief academic leaders who say online learning is critical to their long-term strategy is at a new high of 69.1 percent.
  • The perception of a majority of chief academic officers at all types of institutions is lower retention rates for online courses remain a barrier to the growth of online instruction.

The tenth annual survey, a collaborative effort between the Babson Survey Research Group and the College Board, is the leading barometer of online learning in the United States. Based on responses from over 2,800 academic leaders, the complete survey report, “Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States” is available at
http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/changing_course_2012

Previously underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the report has been able to remain independent through the generous support of Pearson and the Sloan Consortium.

Naturwissenschaften – The Science of Nature celebrates 100 years

STM publisher Springer has announced that its flagship multidisciplinary science journal Naturwissenschaften – The Science of Nature is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2013. The journal was founded in 1913 by the physicist Dr. Arnold Berliner. Originally published in German, the journal now publishes exclusively in English.

In 1912, Arnold Berliner proposed a journal to Springer that would cover the entire field of the natural sciences. His plan was to “inform everyone working in the natural sciences of what interests him outside his own subject.” The first issue appeared in January 1913.

Naturwissenschaften – The Science of Nature covers all aspects of the natural sciences, focusing on articles in biology, chemistry, geology and physics. Published monthly, the journal is dedicated to the fast publication of high-quality, peer-reviewed research. Reviews, Original Articles, Concepts & Synthesis, Short Communications, and Comments & Replies are published in Naturwissenschaften on link.springer.com as Online First articles before appearing in print.

Dr. Sven Thatje of the University of Southampton’s Department of Ocean and Earth Science at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, servers as the Editor-in-chief of the journal.

For the 100th anniversary, the Arnold Berliner Award will be established in recognition of its founder. The award will be given annually for the best research article published in Naturwissenschaften during the previous calendar year.

EBSCO Publishing and Ingram Collaborate to Make eBooks on EBSCOhost® Available via OASIS® Library Platform

EBSCO Publishing and Ingram today announced an agreement aimed at benefitting mutual customers of Ingram’s OASIS® (Online Acquisitions and Selection Information System) and eBooks on EBSCOhost®. The agreement will allow libraries to order eBooks on EBSCOhost through OASIS.

EBSCO is the first outside e-book provider to be incorporated into OASIS. “As libraries develop programs to meet the changing needs of their patrons, Ingram is uniquely positioned to help content reach its destination, regardless of whether that destination is the printed page or a digital device,” said Dan Sheehan, Vice President and General Manager, Ingram Content Group library services. “Through our work with EBSCO, OASIS users will have access to an expanded selection of digital content, and, the added flexibility to acquire materials that they and their patrons require from one comprehensive source.”

EBSCO Publishing’s Senior Director of E-book Products, Ken Breen, says their work with Ingram is another way that EBSCO is able to serve the needs of its customers. “EBSCO is committed to working with its customers to improve their ordering process. Working with established providers enables libraries to select and order e-books available within their preferred workflow.”

EBSCO and Ingram continue to work on a development plan to support all user models. eBooks on EBSCOhost via OASIS is expected to be available to academic libraries in the spring.

The OASIS platform is Ingram’s comprehensive online library interface for bibliographic information and searching, book and e-book acquisition, collection development and workflow management. Through OASIS, libraries are able to access a database of millions of titles; search, select and manage orders online; download records, including no-cost MARC downloads; monitor standing orders; manage approval plans and new title notification plans; track orders and access reporting information.

EBSCO’s extensive collection of e-book titles on EBSCOhost allows for a comprehensive and powerful search experience—with every search, relevant e-book titles appear directly alongside other EBSCO databases, exposing users to the full depth of a library’s offerings and increasing usage and visibility of the library’s entire collection. EBSCO offers more than 350,000 high-quality e-book titles from leading publishers. Collections may be built from a growing selection of best-selling, frontlist and award-winning e-book titles across a wide range of subject matter or chosen from EBSCO’s pre-packaged collections that are hand-selected by EBSCO’s Collection Development team.

ACCUCOMS launches user interaction program for Elsevier

ACCUCOMS will train Elsevier users in Turkey as part of a newly launched user interaction program. The user interaction program trains researchers and librarians in the use of Elsevier’s scholarly tools and solutions, such as ScienceDirect and Scopus.

In 2013, ACCUCOMS will organize user training sessions on behalf of Elsevier at more than a hundred libraries and universities in Turkey as a continuation of Elsevier’s training support for universities over the past years. Training sessions will show researchers how Elsevier’s various tools and solutions can benefit them and their research or studies.

“Since we believe that training existing customers will increase loyalty and advocacy for our products, face-to-face trainings for our end-users take precedence over other services,” said Gamze Keskin, Customer Development Manager at Elsevier. “We are very happy to be cooperating with ACCUCOMS to create further awareness about Elsevier products and services within the research and library community, train end-users and stimulate usage. Our main ambition is to maintain the most efficient and effective user experience to ensure that the contribution of our solutions is beyond expectation and creates value for research workflows.”

“The need for effective user training sessions became apparent to us through our sales and marketing activities for publishers,” said Pinar Erzin, Managing Director at ACCUCOMS. “Trainings will be conducted by dedicated trainers for the scientific community, who will also be trained by Elsevier specialists. They will follow the original business workflows in order to achieve the most efficient results. We are very excited about this first user interaction program for Elsevier.”

Wiley Acquires Assets of FIZ Chemie Berlin

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced today that it has acquired the assets of the FIZ Chemie Berlin, a leading provider of online database products for organic and industrial chemists. The acquisition aligns with the company’s long-term strategy to support research, learning, and professional practice through high quality content and services. Wiley is expanding its presence in Berlin with the new venture providing roles for more than 30 skilled information professionals.

“This is an outcome that represents the best combination of public investment and private enterprise, given Wiley’s deep roots in chemistry publishing and its high-profile German and international chemistry society partnerships,” said Christian Köhler-Ma, Leonhardt Rechtsanwälte, Berlin, who managed the sale of the assets.

“The FIZ suite of databases and services are a great addition to Wiley’s deep reservoir of chemical databases, journals, books and references. The FIZ products and services will enable Wiley to build a new generation of information products to help boost the productivity of chemists,” said Steve Miron, Senior Vice President, Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly, Wiley.

The products include the ChemInform weekly abstracting service and reaction database (CIRX), as well as the abstracting journal Chemisches Zentralblatt, the InfoTherm database of thermophysical properties, and eLearning tools and services.

Dr. Jon Walmsley, Managing Director, Physical Sciences and Engineering, said, “The acquisition will position Wiley’s premier Chemistry publishing program and its society partners for future growth. This portfolio, which includes such eminent society journals as Angewandte Chemie (GDCh) and European Journal of Organic Chemistry (ChemPubSocEurope), as well as book and reference brands like Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry and Larock’s Comprehensive Organic Transformations will provide a powerhouse of brands with which to leverage the capabilities of the new operation. In addition we will make significant investments in the sales and marketing of the products.”

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