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Elsevier Launches New Open Access Journal – Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services announces the launch of a new, international, open access journal, Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis.

Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis provides a forum for the rapid publication of short, structured case studies in engineering failure analysis and will form an essential compendium for practitioners in this field. The scope of the journal will include case studies of component failures in mechanical, civil, aerospace, mining, oil and gas, medical, electrical, transportation, power generation, process and forensic engineering, although failure of engineering components in other disciplines will also be considered.

The Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Richard Clegg said of the launch, “Like medical practitioners, most failure analysts use a combination of a deep understanding of science and knowledge of past experience to provide an optimal solution to their challenges. We hope to develop the journal into an indispensible body of experience in engineering failures, which will assist experienced and novice engineering failure analysts to more quickly come to an understanding of the causes of the failures which they are studying.”

Dr. George Pantazopoulos from ELKEME Hellenic Research Centre for Metals S.A., Athens, Greece, first author of the first paper submitted and accepted for publication in the journal, said, “The journal focuses on real failure analysis case studies in engineering applications across the industry and as an open access journal it provides a channel for better exchange of failure analysis experience among engineers from all industrial sectors. Rapid publication allows faster sharing of such experience for improved future practice.”

Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis is the first title in a series of open access journals called ‘Case Studies in …’ to be launched by Elsevier within the field of engineering. Journals in the series will all follow the article based publishing model which allows for immediate publication of final version of a paper without waiting for other articles to be ready to compile a full issue.

The first articles of Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis are available to view online on ScienceDirect.

For more information or to submit an article, go to Case Studies in Engineering Failure Analysis.

Portland Press Limited to relocate customer and client service operations to London

As a key element in its long-term business development strategy, Portland Press Limited has announced that it will move its customer and client service operations, Portland Customer Services, along with its IT, marketing and sales operations, to its London headquarters from the current Colchester base by the end of 2013. This will allow the integration of these operations with the publishing, membership, conference and educational activities that are carried out in London.

This transition, together with other operational improvements, is part of Portland Press’s plans to enhance and improve support for its valued clients, through an even more efficient, streamlined and cohesive service.

22 years after Portland Press was founded, developments in client needs and technological infrastructure, as well as a strategic plan to grow the client services business, mean that now is the ideal time for the organization to integrate its operations at one site that not only fits its business needs better but also provides a base at a convenient central London location.

Caroline Black, Managing Director of Portland Press, said: “This development marks an exciting new phase for Portland Customer Services and we look forward to seeing our client support business going from strength to strength. Having all our activities under one roof will bring tremendous strategic and operational benefits to all parts of the organization.”

Kate Baillie, Chief Executive of the Biochemical Society, said: “The Biochemical Society is committed to developing collaborations across the bioscience community. Capitalizing on the success of Charles Darwin House, reintegrating the business at our London home provides the opportunity to support the needs of the Society and the wider sector.”

AIP appoints Judith MacManus-Driscoll to lead new OA journal in materials science

AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), is pleased to announce the appointment of Judith MacManus-Driscoll as editor of its new open access, rapid publication journal, APL Materials. Affiliated with AIP’s highly regarded Applied Physics Letters (APL), APL Materials will build on the history and rich tradition of APL, now celebrating its 50th anniversary.

MacManus-Driscoll is a professor of materials science in the department of materials science and metallurgy of the University of Cambridge (UK). Her research focuses on the properties of complex oxide materials and nanostructures with wide-ranging functions. During the last 20 years of her career, she has published more than 250 papers in this area. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics (UK), a member of the Materials Research Society, and a long-term visiting staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

“I am extremely pleased and proud to take on the position of editor for this new open access publication,” commented MacManus-Driscoll. “APL Materials is being launched at a very exciting time for materials science and a similarly exciting time for academic journals. We are only at the beginning of this exciting journey of condensed matter design and control. The journal will communicate the most valuable and timely research in the field, enabling us, for example, to further our quest for ever-higher-performance functional products and to address needs that range from healthcare to our urgent demand for clean energy.”

“Under Professor MacManus-Driscoll’s editorship, APL Materials will rapidly become one of the premier publications serving the materials science community,” stated John Haynes, vice president of publishing at AIP. “The second of AIP’s gold open access journals, APL Materials will span the entire breadth of functional materials research, covering chemical, biological and physics topics.”

Just as nature does not apply rigid borders to science disciplines, neither will APL Materials. The journal will publish both experimental and theoretical articles on materials with a range of functional properties including, but not limited to, electronic, optical, electrical, magnetic, biological, ionic, multifunctional, and emergent phenomena. Manuscripts focusing on materials aspects of small‐length‐scale phenomena and devices are also invited.

LWW and Amirsys Publish “Osborn’s Brain,” the Much-Anticipated New Neuroradiology Text By World-Renowned Author Ann Osborn

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, together with Amirsys Publishing, Inc., today announced publication of Osborn’s Brain: Imaging, Pathology, and Anatomy, the much-anticipated new text from world-renowned neuroradiologist and author Dr. Anne G. Osborn. Ever since she published her award-winning 1993 classic, Diagnostic Neuroradiology—the best-selling neuroradiology text of all-time—her admirers around the world have pleaded for a “new Osborn” teaching text. Osborn’s Brain promises to be the new gold standard of its field.

Written for neurologists, neuroradiologists, and neurosurgeons, Osborn’s Brain is designed to help residents, fellows, and practitioners think logically about the various pathologies that can affect the brain. The new 1,300-page volume weaves the critical aspects of brain imaging together with spectacular pathology examples and relevant anatomy. Osborn’s Brain contains more than 3,200 high-resolution radiologic and pathologic images as well as detailed, full-color medical illustrations—all paired with clearly written explanatory text.

The format of Osborn’s Brain departs significantly from Osborn’s other recent publications. Rather than using bulleted text, Osborn returns to detailed prose of her earlier texts. Although she had said she would never write another prose-based text, according to Osborn, the prose format helps readers understand the reasoning behind the conclusions and makes the book an easy-to-read yet comprehensive learning resource. Furthermore, Osborn’s signature summary boxes are sprinkled throughout the text to highlight the most important points from each section and facilitate quick review.

“Instead of approaching imaging in the conventional manner—starting with congenital anomalies and proceeding through the spectrum of acquired disorders—I structured the book as a learning curriculum,” said Anne G. Osborn, author and University Distinguished Professor of Radiology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. “I start with the most immediate ‘must know’ topics, beginning with trauma, then move to a discussion of non-traumatic hemorrhage and vascular lesions. Presenting the most critical topics first gives quick access to what matters most.”

“Anne Osborn has a rare gift for taking a highly complex topic and making it visually appealing and easy to understand,” said Susan Driscoll, President and CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional & Education division. “In Osborn’s Brain, she strikes a chord again by presenting the most up-to-date look at brain pathologies in a way that both informs and exhilarates. This impressive new volume will resonate as well with first-year residents as it will with seasoned neuroradiologists.”

Anne G. Osborn, MD, is an internationally acclaimed teacher and lecturer, and author of several texts that are considered the definitive references in her field. She was the first recipient of RSNA’s Outstanding Educator Award. Cited as one of the “20 Most Influential” people in radiology by Diagnostic Imaging magazine, she was the first woman elected president of the American Society of Neuroradiology, the largest subspecialty society in radiology.

Available now, the hardbound Osborn’s Brain: Imaging, Pathology, and Anatomy comes with a companion eBook, accessible online with fully searchable text. Priced at $349, Osborn’s Brain can be purchased by visiting www.LWW.com/osbornsbrain. For more information, visit www.LWW.com.

EBSCO Publishing’s ExPub Releases R2 to Provide Access to ECHA REACH Registrations Database

Companies impacted by the European Union’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulations now have a valuable tool in R2 (REACH Registrations) from Expert Publishing (ExPub). R2 provides integrated access to the Official ECHA REACH Registration Database leveraging the EXPERTIndex to provide the most relevant search results.

R2 contains key information submitted by companies on more than 7,600 unique substances including: CAS number and other identifiers; composition; classification and labeling; physical/chemical properties; toxicological properties; and eco-toxicological properties. R2 will be updated as the ECHA updates it website.

ExPub’s proprietary search engine allows users to simultaneously search the REACH Registrations and millions of other documents found in more than 140 collections including the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB®), the Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (RTECS®), the Merck Index®, the complete set of the IARC Monographs, the 12th Report on Carcinogens, the EPA’s Integrated Risk Information Systems, and MSDS from over 27,000 different vendors. And, with its 2.4 Million terms and synonyms, the EXPERTIndex produces search results that are 100 percent relevant.

ExPub is the premier provider of up-to-date, decision-support chemical information for the global environmental health & safety community. ExPub databases provide access to millions of documents containing comprehensive human and/or environmental hazard data needed to manage the impact of chemicals in the workplace or on the environment. ExPub provides more than 140 databases containing millions of documents from government and licensed sources covering more than 400,000 unique substances and accessible via 2.4 million chemical names and synonyms. Databases include: ChemEXPERT™, ReproEXPERT™, ListEXPERT™, DrugEXPERT™, and MSDSonline®.

Elsevier collaborates with Dutch Fulbright Center to support early career researchers in the Netherlands

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announces its collaboration with the Dutch division of the Fulbright Center, a bi-national non-profit organization focused on enhancing the collaboration between the United States and the Netherlands in science.

The collaboration between Elsevier and the Dutch Fulbright Center aims to provide support and guidance to young researchers in the Netherlands in the broadest sense. Activities will range from providing advice in relation to writing and publishing research papers, networking, funding and career planning. Planned Elsevier- Fulbright activities are:

Participation in Elsevier’s Early Career Researcher Program; workshops in which young researchers are advised on how they can successfully write and publish their research papers and on how to get funding for conducting research abroad through a Fulbright scholarship.

Sponsoring of two Elsevier / Fulbright PhD scholarships in 2013 (more information available at www.fulbright.nl).
Providing free access to ScienceDirect and Scopus from 2013 onwards for Dutch Fulbright Scholars.

“A Fulbright scholarship stands for more than financial support alone. It provides guidance, opens doors to social events and other career-building activities,” said Marcel Oomen, Director of the Dutch Fulbright Center. “Our participation in Elsevier’s Early Career Researcher Program is a new part of our own program, as is the service that our grantees now have free access to ScienceDirect and Scopus. We are very happy to be working with Elsevier and hope it will enrich the experience of our grantees.”

Martin Tanke, Managing Director Journals at Elsevier, added, “In today’s competitive academic world it is a challenge for young researchers to build a successful research career. At Elsevier we aim to provide optimal career guidance and support to researchers who want to build their careers more effectively.”

Improving Customer Retention and Renewal Rates – An ACCUCOMS Report

Publishers need to focus on establishing a dialogue with their customers if they want to improve their retention and renewal rates. This is the main conclusion of a new report by ACCUCOMS, Improving Customer Retention and Renewal Rates. The report is based on a survey among publishers as well as feedback from libraries, and outlines several sales and marketing strategies publishers can use to identify potential cancellations and stimulate earlier renewals.

In September 2012, ACCUCOMS held a survey among society, academic, nonprofit and commercial publishers. The questions addressed sales and marketing priorities as well as subscription renewal trends. The survey found that in recent years, a quarter of subscribers (26%) had been renewing their subscriptions later in the renewal cycle. For 2012, more publishers expected subscription renewals to decrease (44%) than to stay the same (39%). The survey also found that publishers mainly use email newsletters and printed materials (38%) to reach out to customers. Feedback from libraries described longer decision-making processes and an increased focus on usage statistics.

In the report, ACCUCOMS recommends using the decision-making processes to establish a two-way conversation between publishers and their customers. Publishers need to focus on increasing product awareness and usage, improving product experiences and providing solutions for issues before they turn into reasons not to renew.

The report can be accessed and downloaded via the ACCUCOMS website:
www.accucoms.com/report/improving-customer-retention-and-renewal-rates

Springer to publish book series with the Portuguese Centro Internacional de Matemática

Springer and the Centro Internacional de Matemática (CIM) of Portugal will work together to publish a new book series CIM Series in Mathematical Sciences. The first book will evolve from the international conference “Mathematics of Energy and Climate Change” which takes place in March 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference is part of the UNESCO-supported world-wide program “Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013.”

Approximately four books will be published annually in the series. Proceedings, lecture course material from summer schools and research monographs will be included in the new series. The Centro Internacional de Matemática will hold editorial responsibility for the books and Springer will handle production, marketing, sales and distribution. The titles will be available as eBooks on Springer’s online platform link.springer.com and in print-to-order (PTO) format.

Prof. Alberto Adrego Pinto, President of CIM, said, “The collaboration with Springer will bring mathematics developed in Portugal to a global audience and will help strengthen our contacts with the international mathematics community.”

Dr. Martin Peters, Executive Editor Mathematics at Springer, said, “We are very glad to have Centro Internacional de Matemática as a partner. It is clear that the collaboration will result in high-quality publications, and, moreover, it will strengthen our links to mathematicians in Portugal.”

Success Prompts Aries to Rename “Preprint Manager” to “ProduXion Manager”

Aries Systems, the developer of workflow platforms for scholarly publishers, is pleased to announce that it has renamed its production tracking solution from “Preprint Manager” to “ProduXion Manager.”

Aries’ cloud-based workflow solutions have been adopted by more than 4,800 scholarly journals and are used to process millions of manuscripts.

The ProduXion Manager module improves the efficiency of manuscript workflow by administering metadata, tracking files, and enabling issue and vendor management. ProduXion Manager has been adopted by dozens of publishers including the world’s largest Open Access journal (PLOS ONE), Nature, the American Meteorological Society and the American Society of Civil Engineers.

As a result of integration with third-party solutions, the system processes, ingests and transmits increasing volumes of XML data. Richard Wynne, VP Sales and Marketing at Aries, explained, “XML has become so central to manuscript production tracking that the name change to ProduXion Manager will help communicate the value offered by the system.”

Caroline Kennedy named Honorary Chair, National Library Week 2013

Caroline Kennedy has been named the 2013 Honorary Chair of National Library Week (April 14-20, 2013), according to the American Library Association. During National Library Week and throughout the month of April, libraries of all types—public, school, academic and special— hold special events to highlight the unique role libraries play in American society and encourage the public to use their resources. Those resources include computers, books and e-books, homework help, assistance with resumes and job searches, accurate financial information, adult education courses, support for immigrants and more.

As Honorary Chair, Kennedy will appear in public service announcements (PSAs) promoting National Library Week. The PSAs, developed by the American Library Association’s Campaign for America’s Libraries, will be placed in magazines and online throughout the spring. ALA will also offer free customization of the PSAs for libraries.

An advocate for reading, literacy and libraries, Kennedy has written or edited 10 bestselling books on American history, politics and poetry. Her latest book, “Poems to Learn by Heart”—due to be published in March 2013 from Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Publishing Worldwide with original illustrations by award-winning artist Jon J Muth—is a companion to her New York Times #1 best-selling collection “A Family of Poems.”

In addition, Kennedy is scheduled to speak at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 27. More information regarding her appearance is available on the ALA Midwinter Meeting website.

In December 2011, Kennedy spoke at the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award ceremony in New York City. . In that speech, she said that many librarians she has met are “professionals who are excited about their changing role in a changing world – who are dedicated to serving others, who respect scholarship, and who understand that you are our guides on a lifelong journey of intellectual collaboration and collaborative composition… . Your work is truly life changing.”

Mendeley Institutional Edition expands its user base in Asia-Pacific region

Mendeley Institutional Edition powered by Swets (MIE), the web-based research analytics dashboard and social collaboration platform, has expanded its reach into the Asia–Pacific market and is being rolled out at the University of Nottingham Malaysia campus. This prestigious foreign campus of the University of Nottingham in the UK joins other institutions in the region, including Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council (AFFRC) of Japan, in adopting the platform.

The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus library has a large international student base, necessitating a great degree of flexibility in the tools they use to conduct and manage their research. All libraries signing up for the MIE can roll out premium versions of Mendeley’s end-user platform to all researchers across their institution. MIE’s cloud-based solution has opened up new possibilities for the Campus’ end users to work and collaborate remotely, an important factor for the University.

“Mendeley Institutional Edition is just the right application for our researchers to connect to their resources, databases and journal citations anytime, anywhere,” says Ms Khan Quay Kin, Senior Librarian at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. “It supports access via multiple devices, across different platforms and browser environments. It is simple and intuitive to use and the web importer feature enables the citation of references within seconds!”

From the library point of view, keeping track of reading and publication trends among this diverse group was a huge bonus to the library. The insights provided by the tool will give the library a more central role in the research workflow undertaken across their institution and greater visibility of end-user behavior and how to refine the library collection to meet their changing needs.

During the implementation stage, Swets and Mendeley worked with the library to build a customized citation style that, although based on the Harvard system, was unique to this institution. This again demonstrates the flexibility of the system for our customers.

“We are delighted that The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus have chosen to add Mendeley Institutional Edition to their library portfolio,” says Debbie Dore, Chief Commercial Officer at Swets. “They serve as a clear example of the platform’s international appeal and highlight the fact that the data inherent within the platform can be of great value to all institutions, no matter their location.”

As more institutions adopt the platform, the value of such an integrated system becomes ever greater. The possibilities for further growth in the tool’s analytics capabilities and benchmarking are revealed as layers will be added to what is based on the one of the largest citation databases in existence.

Elsevier Launches New Open Access Journal – Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports a new, online-only, Open Access journal devoted to the rapid publication of case reports on the behavioral aspects of seizures and epilepsy. As a sister journal to Epilepsy & Behavior, case reports published in the new journal will benefit from wide exposure and cross-promotion of the two titles.

Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports presents original peer-reviewed case reports that feature novel observations, significantly add to previously-reported observations, or provide compelling illustrations of important clinical principles related to the care of patients who have epilepsy and associated behavioral aspects. Topics are drawn from a variety of fields, including clinical neurology, neurosurgery, neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, and neuroimaging.

Steve Schachter, Professor at the Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA and Editor-in-Chief of Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports said of the launch, “Case reports are the beacons of the scientific frontier, drawing the attention of the scientific community to previously unknown, unobserved, or unaccepted phenomena and thereby influencing the course of scientific progress. This new launch will provide the community with a highly-visible journal in which to publish case reports in this field.”

Dieter Schmidt, Emeritus Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany and Associate Editor of the journal, added, “Unexpected observations not only satisfy our curiosity, but may offer clues to better understand the natural history of epilepsy, point out potential new avenues of treatment and teach us to hone our diagnostic acumen.”

Articles published in Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports are freely available to anyone and are published online on ScienceDirect.

For more information or to submit an article, go to Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports.

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