Ten of Taiwan’s most innovative companies and academic institutions were honored at an award presentation today during the inaugural “Thomson Reuters Taiwan Innovation Awards 2012”. This is the first time that the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, is organizing the Awards to recognize the most innovative commercial enterprises and academic institutions headquartered in Taiwan for their spirit of innovation in Research & Development (R&D).

Ten organizations received recognition in one of two sectors: Corporate and Academic.

Corporate
• AU Optronics Corp
• Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
• ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
• Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co. Ltd
• MediaTek Inc

Academic
• Industrial Technology Research Institute
• National Chiao Tung University
• National Chung Hsing University
• National Taiwan University
• National Tsing Hua University

The recipients were selected based on research and analysis using Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPISM), Derwent Patents Citation Index™ and Thomson InnovationSM. Their innovation was assessed according to a series of proprietary, patent-based metrics, including the level of patented technology originating in Taiwan (Taiwan as priority market).

Criteria for the 2012 Taiwan Innovation Awards included the size of the patent portfolio, success rate (ratio of applications to granted patents), global protection of the invention and influence of the innovation (as determined by the number of citations to the original invention).

“Innovation drives economic growth and success. A key industry indicator of innovation worldwide is patenting activity. The importance of intellectual property as a major source for Taiwan’s economic and technological development is evidenced by the increasing creativity and impact of Taiwan research and technology around the world,” said Dr. Wong Woei Fuh, managing director of Asia at Thomson Reuters. “Thomson Reuters is pleased to recognize these outstanding organizations which reflect the diversity of Taiwan’s innovation, spanning display solutions, IT, semi-conductor manufacturing, and multi-disciplinary scientific research.”

Said Mr. Bob Stembridge, expert patent analyst and manager, customer relations, Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, “According to Thomson Reuters Derwent World Patents Index®, Taiwan is particularly focused on filing patents in semiconductors, computer components, memory boards and devices when compared to South Korea, Japan, China, and US for 2011. The last 10 years have seen a substantial increase in Taiwan’s patenting activity from 39,000 applications in 2002 to over 73,000 applications in 2011 at an average CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 8.8 percent.”

Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPISM) is the world’s most trusted source of patent information, expertly indexed and featuring enhanced titles and comprehensive abstracts. Highly qualified editorial staff produce English-language titles and abstracts for over 47 major patent-issuing authorities, enabling insight that otherwise would be missed. There are over 20.7 million unique inventions covering more than 45.2 million patent records in DWPI; the invention-based documentation allows users to see worldwide protection for a single invention. DWPI provides unparalleled access to established and emerging innovation centers globally, covering agricultural and veterinary medicine, electronic/ electrical engineering, chemistry, pharmaceuticals and polymers, high technology and much more.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the launch of StatisticsViews.com, a new website created for professional statisticians, analysts, students, and any user of statistics in interdisciplinary subjects as the first place to go when looking for any information related to statistical research.

StatisticsViews.com provides all users of statistics with access to the best statistics information that Wiley offers, delivering a new service and “one-stop shop” for the statistics community.

Covering biostatistics, business and economics, engineering, environmental statistics, social science, tools, methods, and resources, the website allows users to quickly find everything in their area of interest, bringing statistics together in one accessible site. To aid easy navigation, StatisticsViews.com is split into areas of statistical application.

Feature articles are exclusively published on StatisticsViews.com. Additionally, news items, events, early view articles, books, videos, tutorials, interviews with leading as well as up-and-coming statisticians, career development information, jobs, webinars, and society details can all be viewed on one page, delivering aggregated content in a meaningful way for statisticians.

“Wiley is the world’s leading statistics publisher, and we are proud to launch StatisticsViews.com,” said Jon Walmsley, VP & Managing Director, Physical Sciences & Engineering, Wiley. “By providing access to the latest statistics news, research, and training materials, the new site aims to support members of the subject community at every stage in their career.”

New items are added every day, including exclusive interviews with leading practitioners and reports from key events. A recent news article and feature articles include:

• International Year of Statistics committee announces video contest
• Feature on publication of special issue marking the centennial of the birth of statistician Jerome Cornfield
• Feature interview with a leading LSE professor on the statistical significance of the speeches of U.S. Presidents from Wilson to Obama

“Wiley aims to maintain the highest level of editorial integrity for StatisticsViews.com and ensure that we continually publish quality content of relevance and interest to the entire statistics community,” said Publications Manager and Editor for StatisticsViews.com, Alison Oliver. “We are very excited aboutStatisticsViews.com which we hope will grow and expand in delivering new products and services in response to the changing needs of the community.”

Technology publisher O’Reilly Media is pleased to announce an agreement with global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Beginning immediately, O’Reilly will become an online distributor for Wiley’s extensive technology ebook program, which includes such leading brands as Wrox, Sybex, and For Dummies®. Nine imprints in all are included in this distribution model, totaling over 3,000 individual titles.
“We are excited to share our technology titles with the O’Reilly community, which includes many leaders and innovators in that industry,” says Peter Balis, Director of Digital Business Development at Wiley. “Wiley is focused on offering products and services that enable our customers to be effective and successful in their professional lives. Our relationship with O’Reilly will broaden Wiley’s reach to the professional technology community.”

“We’re thrilled to be working with Wiley,” says Pascal Honscher, O’Reilly’s General Manager for Corporate Development. “Wiley’s impressive selection of thousands of highly relevant titles, which include some of the most recognizable and trusted brands in technology publishing, will be of great interest to our audience. It’s an honor to make these Wiley books available to more readers online.”

This alignment of philosophies and business models is exciting to all involved.

“Partnering with another publisher, one that shares and embraces similar digital content ideals—where content is made available to customers in multiple digital formats, all without DRM—is particularly gratifying,” Honscher says.

To learn more, visit http://www.oreilly.com.

E-book consumers are decidedly shifting to multi-function tablets and away from dedicated e-readers, according to the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)’s closely watched on-going Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey. The fourth and final installment in Volume Three of the Bowker-powered survey shows that tablets have risen by about 25 percent over the past year as the first choice for respondents’ e-reading device, while dedicated e-readers have fallen by the same amount. The rise of tablet popularity has been fueled largely by Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which increased over the past year from no use to be the first choice for more than 17 percent of e-book consumers. Other Android devices, such as Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Tablet, have also increased as the first choice for respondents’ e-reading device, from two percent in August 2011 to nearly seven percent in August 2012, while Apple’s iPad has held steady around 10 percent.

“We’ve discovered throughout the course of this survey work that we can chart the future based on what is currently happening with e-book ‘Power Buyers.’ Their e-book purchasing and e-reader preferences have proven to be reliable predictors of market trends,” said Angela Bole, BISG’s Deputy Executive Director. “Based on this, the introduction of new tablet devices by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, and Microsoft is likely to continue the trend of preference for tablets over dedicated e-readers through the upcoming holiday season.”

Power Buyers – those who purchase e-books at least weekly – are rapidly increasing their preference for tablets as e-reading devices. More than 38 percent indicated that tablets are their primary e-reading device, compared with about 19 percent a year ago. Dedicated e-readers are preferred by less than half of Power Buyers today, compared with more than two thirds last year.

Further, tablets designed specifically for the purchase and consumption of books excel when it comes to that activity, but underperform for all others—sometimes by wide margins. Almost 60 percent of respondents who currently own Amazon’s Kindle Fire report that they read e-books “very often,” compared with 50 percent of those who currently own an Apple iPad. The two most common activities reportedly performed “very often” by iPad owners are Web browsing (60 percent) and creating or reading emails or text messages (59 percent). Kindle Fire owners report those activities at 30 percent and 25 percent, respectively.

BISG’s Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey also looks at genre preferences, revealing that nonfiction genres, notably how-to guides/manuals and scientific/medical/technical titles, are generally preferred by respondents who read e-books on desktop, laptop, or netbook computers. “This possibly suggests the need to improve e-reading device capabilities for non-linear e-book content,” said Jo Henry, Global Director of Bowker Market Research.

Since November 2009, Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading has been tracking the habits and preferences of print book consumers who say they have acquired an e-book or a dedicated e-reading device within the past year. Volume Three is sponsored by Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, and Harlequin. In addition to quarterly PDF Summary Reports, Volume Three of Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading is published as a dynamic online report via Real-Time Reporting: a unique web-based tool set displaying the raw data derived from responses – drillable, sortable with on-demand accessibility.

Data for Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading was derived from a nationally representative panel of book consumers (men, women, and teens). Each month a new group of more than 6,000 respondents complete surveys about their book purchasing behavior for Bowker Market Research. Out of nearly 65,000 possible panelists, respondents were qualified for the BISG e-book survey by selecting “Digital/E book” as a binding type of a book they had acquired or indicating that they owned a dedicated e-reader device (such as Kindle, NOOK, or Sony Reader) during any month in 2012. This process yielded a survey sample of more than 1,000 e-book consumers.

The survey findings are available for sale both as a PDF Summary Report and as a complete data compendium, accessible online. A substantial discount is available for BISG members. For more information, or to order a copy of Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading, visit www.bisg.org/publications/product.php?p=19&c=437.

Two not-for profit organizations, ORCID and CrossRef, have collaborated to solve the problem of ambiguous author names in scholarly content. ORCID began assigning unique identifiers to researchers in October. As part of the ORCID Registry, individuals can search the metadata from CrossRef, the largest organization assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to scholarly content, and add their works to their personal ORCID records.

Connecting researchers with their research has been hampered by lack of data standards, and in particular a standard for identifying individuals. ORCID provides researchers a Registry to create a unique personal identifier, and has been working with the research community to embed these identifiers in research workflows.

One key component of the ORCID interface is the ability to import metadata on research works to populate an individual’s ORCID record. As an affiliate member of CrossRef, ORCID provides its users the ability to search and import bibliographic metadata from CrossRef. “Linking the unique document identifier (the CrossRef DOI) with the unique person identifier (the ORCID iD) is essential for ensuring accurate attribution of authors and other content creators,” said Ed Pentz, Executive Director of CrossRef and a member of the ORCID board.

In addition to importing past works, ORCID is working with CrossRef and the publishing community to ensure that ORCID identifiers collected during the manuscript submission process are incorporated into article metadata and included with the information submitted to CrossRef. “As important as importing past works, is implementing an automated process for updating the ORCID record with new publication information. This is one way researchers will truly benefit from having an ORCID identifier,” said Laure Haak, Executive Director of ORCID. Already at the launch of the ORCID Registry, a number of publishers and manuscript tracking system vendors had integrated ORCID identifiers into their author profile and submission processes (for a list, see the ORCID Launch Partners web page).

In order to access the CrossRef bibliographic metadata, ORCID has become an affiliate of CrossRef. Likewise CrossRef is a founding member of ORCID. CrossRef has modified its metadata schema so that publishers can include ORCID iDs with their bibliographic metadata deposits. The CrossRef system will allow querying for ORCIDs from its records early in 2013.

In an article published in Learned Publishing in October, Haak, Pentz, and co-authors described recommended best practices for collecting and displaying ORCID identifiers in research papers (See http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20120404). Since it is not possible to deduce name or other identifying information from the ORCID identifier, it is important to visually display the identifier with the author name: as a footnote or in-line in the HTML and PDF versions of published manuscripts; in the article metadata used on journal websites; in the article metadata sent to CrossRef and bibliographic databases such as Pub-Med; and in downloadable reference lists using the RIS, BibTeX or Endnote format. The ultimate goal is to have the ORCID unique identifier associated with the article DOI whenever a scholarly contribution is made or reported.

John Wiley, a global provider of content and workflow solutions in areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly research; professional development; and education, announced today a new collaboration with TED, the non-profit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, to create and supply instructor materials for their recently launched series of “TED Studies.”

To support the demand for integrating TEDTalks into classroom coursework, TED created TED Studies – 21 collections of curated talks, organized into popular academic subject areas. Wiley will commission instructor materials to accompany TED’s offering to educators. These materials will be offered at no cost with TED’s video content on iTunesU, Wiley.com and other platforms around the world.

“Combining the TEDTalks series for academia with Wiley’s high-quality, customized educational materials and expertise creates a powerful new resource for effective, flexible, and personalized teaching and learning,” said Stephen M. Smith, Wiley’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

Commissioned from leading authors who are specialists in their academic and professional fields, the instructor materials developed for each TED Study will provide teachers with valuable curriculum content. Each set of instructor materials will include contextualizing essays, assignment questions and activities, key debates, experiments, and glossaries relating to the TEDTalks. Links to related content from Wiley and other publishers will be included for lecturers to share with students, or for lifelong learners to interact with directly.

“Our goal is to provide teachers with innovative, engaging resources that can be used to supplement curricula and bring lessons to life,” said Logan Smalley, Director of TED-Ed, TED’s education-focused initiative. “TED-Ed is committed to lessons worth sharing, and we are thrilled to offer these 21 collections as a new resource – particularly with the perspectives of highly regarded teachers and innovators from Wiley’s vast network.”

The TED Studies span a wide range of subject areas in which Wiley has a wealth of content and author relationships. The first authors to join the project are:

• Prof Cary Cooper, Lancaster University Management School and co-founder of Robertson Cooper – TED Psychology: Understanding Happiness
• Prof Tamara Sonn, College of William and Mary – TED Religion: Understanding Islam
• Prof Robin Lock and Patti Frazer Lock, St. Lawrence University; Dr Kari Lock Morgan and Dr Eric Lock, Duke University; Dennis Lock, Iowa State University – TED Statistics: Visualising Data
• Prof John Kingston, University of Massachusetts – TED Linguistics: Exploring the Evolution of Language
• Prof Jeff and Lisa Smith, University of Otago – TED Education: Creative Problem-Solving
• Prof Alex Rogers, University of Oxford – TED Marine Biology: Deep Oceans
• Prof Tom McPhail, University of Missouri, St Louis – TED Media & Journalism: Covering World News
• Prof Patricia Campbell, American Public University – TED Government & Politics: Cyber-influence and Power
• Prof Max Boykoff and Dr Kanmani Venkateswaran, University of Colorado, Boulder – TED Environmental Studies: Climate Change
• Prof Jose Oscar Mur-Miranda and Prof Ben Linder, Olin College –TED Design+Engineering: Ingenuity in the Developing World
• Prof Jeff Forshaw, University of Manchester and Dr Peter Millington, University of Sheffield—TED Physics: The Edge of Knowledge
• Prof Brian McGrath, Parsons The New School for Design and Prof David Grahame Shane, Columbia University—TED Urban Design: The Ecology of Cities

Several other courses and author teams will be announced over the year.