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IOP Publishing announces the launch of article level metrics

IOP Publishing has announced the launch of article level metrics on its journal platform IOP science.

Article level metrics are increasingly being used by authors and readers to view the wider impact of an article beyond traditional citations. The metrics also provide a new way for readers to discover content.

The first article level metrics features have been launched across 36 journals, providing a mixture of article usage data and data from third-party services. Article usage data include the total number of article downloads and video abstract views. Data from third-party services are captured from CiteuLike, Mendeley, Connotea and Nature Blogs, in addition to citation counts from CrossRef. Data from third parties are displayed in real time, a unique feature of article level metrics on IOPscience.

Graham McCann, Head of Product Management and Innovation, IOP Publishing said, “Our authors are increasingly under pressure to prove the impact of their research and by aggregating these data we are helping them get the recognition they need. We are committed to providing researchers with the best publishing and reading experience and look forward to adding more metrics over the coming year.”

Future plans for this project include the addition of more article level metrics from relevant third-party services and the graphical presentation of the usage data to further enhance their value to authors and readers.

Article level metrics are part of IOP’s ongoing Article Evolution project, launched in September 2011 to improve the online delivery of research articles, enabling readers to interact with research in new ways.

For more information go to iopscience.org/article-level-metrics.

Article level metrics on nature.com

Article level metrics are now available on twenty journals on nature.com, Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) publishing platform. Nature.com users can now view an article’s citation data, page views, news mentions, blog posts and social shares including Facebook and Twitter. This enhanced functionality went live today on Nature, the Nature research journals and Nature Communications, and is also available on Scientific Reports. Article level metrics are available on research articles published since 2011 and are openly accessible to all.

“These metrics transparently show the impact and reach of articles published in our journals, enable evaluation, and help readers see what others find interesting and notable,” said Kira Anthony, Editorial Development Manager, NPG. “The interest in both traditional metrics and ‘altmetrics’ from the research community is clear, and NPG is pleased to offer this improved functionality and service to our readers and authors. Institutions, funders and those mining data are also beginning to look at this information, for example for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) evaluation in the UK. Some REF panels will look at article citations and consider other measures of tracking research impact.”

Citation data is pulled from Web of Science, CrossRef and Scopus and is updated daily. The counts for each article link out to a citation list. Page views on nature.com are updated daily. Readers can see total views (HTML+PDF) of the article, and track the cumulative count on a given day using an interactive graph. Page view data only reflect usage on the nature.com journal platform and are only for articles published on or after 1 January 2012.
News, blog posts, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit bookmarks data, are provided by Altmetric and updated hourly using Altmetric’s application programming interface (API). Altmetric is supported by Digital Science, a Macmillan company focused on technology to aid scientific research. Blog and Google+ lists link out to the original posts, and news links out to the original article. To be included, third party news pieces must contain a link to the relevant article on nature.com. A world map shows the number of tweets per country.

“We’re pleased to see Altmetric data integrated onto nature.com,” said Euan Adie, Founder of Altmetric. “NPG joins a growing number of publishers using the Altmetric API to enrich their article level metrics. Pulling together all of the online discussions about a paper enables scientists to see what their peers find interesting, and authors can quantify the attention their articles are receiving.”

ISSCR to Launch Open-Access Journal, Stem Cell Reports

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) announces the launch of Stem Cell Reports, its new online, open-access journal. With a focus on shorter, single-point articles, Stem Cell Reports will publish high-quality, peer-reviewed research presenting conceptual or practical advances across the breadth of stem cell research and its applications to medicine. Stem Cell Reports will be published by Cell Press, with the inaugural issue to debut in June 2013 in conjunction with the ISSCR 11th Annual Meeting.

Under the leadership of distinguished Editor-in-chief Christine Mummery, PhD (Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands), Stem Cell Reports will provide efficient, fair and informed review and publication. Dr Mummery is joined by Associate Editors Nissim Benvenisty, MD, PhD (Hebrew University, Israel), Thomas Graf, PhD (Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain), Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD (Keio University School of Medicine, Japan) and David Scadden, MD, PhD (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University, USA).

Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, ISSCR President and Nobel Laureate said, “We are thrilled to announce the launch of the ISSCR’s journal, Stem Cell Reports. This unique, open-access forum will provide the membership and the wider scientific community with high visibility for their research and accelerate the speed with which advances and new ideas are shared and expanded.”
“We are delighted to partner with Cell Press to publish Stem Cell Reports,” said Nancy Witty, ISSCR Executive Director and CEO. “The ISSCR’s journal will be a valuable and complementary addition to our affiliated journal, Cell Stem Cell, also the result of a highly successful collaboration between the ISSCR and Cell Press.”

Christine Mummery, PhD, Editor-in-chief added, “Science moves forward through dissemination and discussion and the ISSCR’s journal will play a critical role in driving progress in the field. Stem Cell Reports will focus on publishing succinct, novel insights in stem cell research and regenerative medicine in a timely fashion—and fully available to the global community.”

Stem Cell Reports will begin accepting submissions in December 2012 for publication in the inaugural issue, due to be published in June 2013. Stem Cell Reports authors will retain full copyright over their articles, which will be published using Creative Commons licenses.

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice Now Available on the iPad

The Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, the premier source of practice-based information for public health management expert, announced today the availability of the journal on the iPad to be launched with a special November/December issue focused on public health services and systems research. The Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, (JPHMP) is published in print, online and digitally by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

“In today’s increasingly digital environment, offering the journal on the iPad provides an important option for our readers to have convenient, anytime access to the critical public health information in the journal,” said JPHMP Editor-in-Chief Lloyd F. Novick, MD, MPH. “We are very pleased to bring the journal to the digital forefront and make it available for demonstration at the APHA 140th Annual Conference, October 27-31, in San Francisco.”

The November/December special issue, guest edited by Glen P. Mays, PhD, MPH and Douglas Scutchfield, MD, offers articles based on research funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation exploring public health services and systems research (PHSSR), and its impact on the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services. Advancements in the PHSSR field, supported by leading public health professional associations and the government, serve as a compass for the direction the field must take in the face of economic uncertainties and fiscal pressures in order to best support public health. However, as Mays notes, as a relatively new field of research, PHSSR must adopt improved measurement approaches and analytic methods, and cultivate improved data sources, to produce more definitive evidence. Articles in this issue cover recent advances in PHSSR, include a broad scope of topics, methodologies, and practical applications, and span topics in public health organization, governance, financing, workforce, and decision making. A podcast from the Robert Wood Johnson foundation is also available on the iPad app.

Essential Information for Public Health Management Professionals Available Digitally
The iPad edition of Journal of Public Health Management and Practice presents each issue in a state-of-the art digital format for a print-like reading experience. Each issue is delivered directly to the reader’s iPad for convenient download and includes enhanced features, such as video, podcasts, and the ability to share articles and content via email. The app also provides links back to the journal website, where subscribers can search, access, complete continuing education opportunities and read the full contents of every issue of Journal of Public Health Management and Practice from 1995 to the present.

Subsequent issues of the journal will be available on the iPad app on the same bimonthly schedule as the current online and print editions. During an initial trial period, all readers of the journal will have free full access to open issues on the iPad. After this free introductory period, subscribers will continue to enjoy full access via a simple login process.

Experience the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice at APHA
Attendees at the 140th Annual Conference are encouraged to visit the Wolters Kluwer Health – Lippincott Williams & Wilkins booth (#1609) in the Exhibit Hall to try the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice app.

SCO Publishing Increases Spanish Content in EBSCO Discovery Service™

EBSCO Publishing’s (EBSCO) recent agreement with content partner, Digitalia will enable Spanish content, serving a vast range of interest and needs, to be discoverable within EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Digitalia is a global leader in quality content with thousands of e-books from the most renowned Spanish and Latin American Publishing Houses, as well as relevant Spanish journals that cover all topics of interest.

Founded in 2007, Digitalia content includes selected Spanish titles designed to support the needs of libraries, academic institutions and students. Digitalia’s collection includes over 8,000 Spanish Language digitized books and journals encompassing a broad spectrum topics including:
Architecture
Art
Caribbean Studies
Cinema Studies
Economics and Business
Engineering and Technology
Historic Periodicals of Spain
History
Languages, Linguistics and Philosophy
Philosophy
Political Science
Religion and Mythology
Science
Social and Behavioral Sciences
The agreement between EBSCO and Digitalia enables EDS users to search the full text of Digitalia’s content creating an easy way for users to find and utilize the extensive Spanish content.

Digitalia is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Partners include the world’s largest scholarly journal & book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications, and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, World Book, ABC-CLIO, and many others.

The EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers (and growing), which accounts for more than 350,000 publications from the world’s top publishers and information providers. However, because EDS is a custom solution, the complete index to materials for any given customer may be expanded greatly beyond the coverage referenced for the Base Index. In terms of depth of coverage for publications in the EBSCO Discovery Service Base Index, content extends back to the 15th century, and in some cases, even earlier. The inclusion of custom catalogs, repositories and other resources may certainly further extend the dates of archival coverage for a given institution.

Thomson Reuters Expands Relationship with Tunisian Government to Advance National Scientific Research

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced an expansion of its longstanding relationship with the Tunisian National University Center of Scientific and Technical Documentation which gives university researchers and administrators access to Thomson Reuters InCitesTM. The agreement marks a key step in the nation’s effort to advance how it conducts, measures and evaluates its research programs.

With the recent addition of InCites, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Tunisia will be able to more effectively analyze and assess its national research output as well as gain a clearer understanding of the country’s research activity compared to other nations. InCites will also provide the Ministry with a unified view of its universities and help establish a single national policy for crediting universities accurately and appropriately.

Since 2004, research institutions across Tunisia have relied on the world’s leading citation data in the Web of KnowledgeSM to connect with the most influential journal literature from around the world. Powered by data in the Web of Knowledge, the analytic tools in InCites will provide the Ministry with a much clearer view of what the country’s research strengths are and where its biggest opportunities for growth lie.
“The partnership with Thomson Reuters will enable our researchers to access the most influential scholarly content in order to advance their work, which will be very beneficial to our decision-makers in charge of national policy research,” said Professor Mohamed Haouari, principal advisor to the Tunisian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research. “Thanks to several relevant indicators, InCites allows for a detailed study of our national scientific production by discipline and helps us follow its evolution over time.”

“We are pleased to work with Tunisia to help foster a vibrant research environment,” said Keith MacGregor, executive vice president of Thomson Reuters. “The Web of Knowledge platform has provided Tunisian researchers valuable resources in advancing their work, and now with InCites, administrators can identify and support the most impactful research and key collaboration networks, and ultimately help Tunisia reach its goal of producing world-class scientific research and innovation.”

InCites, part of the research analytics suite of solutions provided by Thomson Reuters, supports strategic decision making and the evaluation and management of research. This suite includes consulting services, custom studies and reports, web-based platforms and enterprise systems. For more information, visit http://researchanalytics.thomsonreuters.com/incites/.

What Authors Want From Open Access Publishing

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the results of an author survey on open access, with over ten thousand respondents from across Wiley’s journal portfolio. The research explored the factors that authors assess when deciding where to publish, and whether to publish open access. Among the top factors considered by authors were the relevance and scope of the journal, the journal’s impact factor and the international reach of the journal.

Over 30% of respondents had published at least one open access paper, and 79% stated that open access was more prevalent in their discipline than three years ago. In the survey, an open access article was defined as “free for all to read, download and share online and the author, their institution or funding body pays a fee to ensure that the article is made open access.”

Among authors yet to publish open access, the list of reasons given included a lack of high profile open access journals (48%), lack of funding (44%) and concerns about quality (34%). Authors said they would publish in an open access journal if it had a high impact factor, if it were well regarded and if it had a rigorous peer review process.

“Our goal was to better understand the opinions and behavior of our authors towards open access publishing. It’s clear from the survey results that authors are increasingly embracing this publishing model, and we have seen evidence of that too in the growth of our Wiley Open Access publishing program,” said Rachel Burley, Vice President and Director, Open Access, Wiley. “The survey results also highlight the need for open access journals to continue to build a strong foundation of rigorous peer review, wide international reach and a sharp focus on quality to respond to the needs that authors expressed in this research.”

The survey, conducted in May 2012, was sent to 104,000 authors who published research in Wiley journals in health, life, physical, and social sciences, and the humanities, during 2011. The total number of authors who participated in the survey was 10,673, representing a 10.3% response rate.

The responding authors represented a range of international opinions on open access. While 30% of authors were located in the United States and 10% were based in the UK, other represented nations included Germany (4%), China (4%), and India (3%).

One in three authors (32%) had already published in an open access journal. The highest proportion of open access authors came from a medical background (28%), closely followed by biological sciences (24%), and 71% were based in an academic setting. In contrast, authors who had not published open access papers predominantly came from social science disciplines.

The survey results are available online via slideshare.

SAGE to publisher the Journal of International Medical Research

SAGE has today announced the purchase of The Journal of International Medical Research from Field House Publishing LLP.

The Journal of International Medical Research, edited by Professor Malcolm Lader, King’s College London, is a peer reviewed international journal, now in its 40th volume. All published content is made freely available on a page charge, open access basis.

This bi-monthly journal is focused on publishing original medical, pre-clinical and clinical research, reviews, preliminary and pilot studies. It takes pride in the specialist technical editing which benefits every paper, and enables authors to convey their research results clearly to the medical community to the highest standards. The journal provides rapid peer review and post-acceptance production, features very much appreciated by authors. The journal is indexed by Medline and ranked in the Thomson Reuters’ Journals Citation Report ®.

“The Journal of International Medical Research provides a forum for some of the best international research and academic discussion for those engaging in the fields of pre-clinical and medical research,” said Karen Phillips, Editorial Director, SAGE. “We are developing a strong programme of journals representing the leading researchers, practitioners and societies in medicine and continue to build long-term partnerships with this community. We are delighted to be working with such a distinguished editorial board and are looking forward to developing the journal as part of our portfolio.”

“Medical research is an influential and continually changing discipline, with much of the research having large implications for best practices and the way we address our medical systems,” said Professor Malcolm Lader, Editor. “There is an increasing need for quick publication of timely, high quality and distinctive research within this sector. SAGE’s commitment to timely dissemination and global publication of high quality research is closely aligned with our core values. SAGE’s growing presence with the medical sector highlights their continued commitment to supporting new emerging research and as such we are looking forward to creating a successful future with SAGE.”

The first SAGE issue will publish in November 2012.

British Ecological Society Partners With Wiley Open Access Journal Ecology and Evolution

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced a new partnership between the British Ecological Society (BES) and the Wiley Open Access journal Ecology and Evolution. This latest partnership brings the number of high profile journals supporting the open access title to 16. Eleven of these partner titles are ranked in the top 20 ecology journals by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).

BES journals will join other high impact titles in offering authors a rapid manuscript transferal system which maintains the integrity of peer review and allows authors to meet the requirements of their funders.

Since the inaugural issue of Ecology and Evolution in September 2011, more than 250 papers have been published in the journal. The support of the five BES journal titles, all of which rank in the top 20% of ecology journals (ISI), will ensure Ecology and Evolution continues to attract the latest prestigious research from across the discipline.

Ecology and Evolution publishes papers under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original work is properly cited. An article publication charge (APC) is payable by authors on acceptance of their articles and under this new partnership BES members can take advantage of a 10% discount on this charge.

“Having published ecological journals for 100 years, we are delighted to announce this partnership as we embark on the BES’s centenary year,” said Georgina Mace, President of the BES. “Our established journals receive increasing numbers of high quality submissions each year and this involvement with Ecology and Evolution will enable us to further serve our ecological community by publishing more of this important ecological research.”

Ecology and Evolution is also expanding its editorial expertise with the appointment of new editor Dr Andrew Beckerman, from the University of Sheffield, UK, who joins Allen Moore, from the University of Georgia, USA, in leading the journal.

Dr Beckerman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences. His research links genetics, behaviour and life history to the distribution and abundance of organisms and the structure and dynamics of communities. Andrew has previously served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Animal Ecology and Ecology Letters.

“I am excited to join Allen and the team on this journal with its broad subject coverage cutting across ecology and evolution, and to become part of an interesting venture in open access publishing,” said Dr Beckerman.

“We are thrilled that the BES has chosen to extend our 60-year relationship by collaborating with us on the open access journal, Ecology and Evolution,” said Liz Ferguson, Editorial Director, Life Science, Wiley. “This new partnership is a great fit for the editorial ambitions of Ecology and Evolution and we are also delighted to welcome Andrew at this critical stage of the Journal’s development.”

assignFAST: A New Prototype Service for Efficient FAST Subject Assignment using Autosuggest

OCLC Research announces the availability of assignFAST, a new Web service that automates the manual selection of FAST Subjects (the Authorized and Use For headings) based on autosuggest technology.

Subject assignment is a two-phase task. The first phase is intellectual: reviewing the material and selecting the correct heading. The second phase is more mechanical: finding the correct form of the heading, along with any diacritics; cutting and pasting it into the cataloging interface; and potentially correcting formatting and subfield coding. If authority control is available in the interface, some of these tasks may be automated.

assignFAST consolidates the entire second phase of the manual process of subject assignment into a single step based on autosuggest technology. The service can easily be added to an existing browser based interface, providing both subject selection and authority control in a single step.

A demo is provided at http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/assignfast/. This interface is only intended to show how the feature can be integrated into an existing interface. The Web service is available at http://www.oclc.org/developer/services/assignfast/. Three potential cataloging formats are given: a common (non-MARC) format, an OCLC Connexion®-style format, and a MARCBreaker-style format. Other formats could be added by a programmer by following these examples.

Since this functionality takes up little space, it could also be useful as an OpenSocial gadget, which can be added to the OCLC WorldShareTM Platform or other OpenSocial platforms. Three gadget URLs are provided in the example cataloging formats mentioned above.

assignFAST takes advantage of the features of FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology). Faceting, along with a fully controlled vocabulary, allows simple selection and authority control to take place that would be hard to accomplish in LCSH.

BMJ Group launches six specialty editions of its open access title BMJ Open

The international medical publisher BMJ Group has launched six specialty editions of its innovative online journal BMJ Open (bmjopen.com/editions) to coincide with Open Access Week.*

The editions showcase BMJ Open’s specialist research, and will initially cover dermatology, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, neurology, obstetrics & gynaecology, and oncology.

BMJ Open, which launched in February 2011, is BMJ Group’s first online general medical journal dedicated solely to publishing open access research.

All its research, supplementary files, and peer reviewers’ reports are fully and openly available online. Underlying data, where available, is linked to in open repositories, such as Dryad.

To date, BMJ Open has published more than 600 original research papers and protocols, many of which have attracted considerable attention from academics, healthcare professionals, and the media.

High impact studies have included a technique to pick up outbreaks of hospital acquired infections more quickly from Oxford University; the potential link between sleeping pills and cancer from California’s Scripps Clinic; and unique research on the wellbeing and quality of life of people with locked-in syndrome in France.

Commenting on the launch of the new editions, BMJ Open’s Editor in Chief, Dr Trish Groves said: “BMJ Open has grown rapidly in reputation and content, and we’re delighted to be able to increase still further the visibility of the journal’s specialty research in these new editions.”

She added: “The title is now a natural home for open access medical research from all fields.”

Springer celebrates its 100th SpringerOpen journal

Springer recently celebrated the addition of its 100th title to the SpringerOpen family of open access (OA) journals, in addition to its existing BioMed Central portfolio. The launch of the Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development (www.jserd.com) not only secures Springer’s position at the forefront of OA publishing, but also signifies its commitment to establishing open access as an option for all disciplines. Springer has more than 330 fully OA journal titles.

Springer is further proving that OA is a viable option for all researchers, regardless of their areas of specialty. By publishing open access journals in areas as diverse as mathematics, economics, business and the hard sciences, among others, Springer is accelerating its growth of OA titles into all disciplines.

“Open access is a sustainable part of scholarly publishing today, and will continue to develop in the years to come,” remarked Peter Hendriks, President STM Publishing for Springer. “We want to be the best at serving researchers and libraries, and by offering a growing number of OA options in all disciplines, Springer is working hard to meet the needs of these important stakeholders.”

All content of SpringerOpen journals – including research articles, reviews, and editorials – is fully and immediately open access, and is accessible to anyone with an internet connection.  No subscription is needed. SpringerOpen journal articles are subjected to the same rigorous peer review as Springer’s subscription journals, and published under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

Earlier this year Springer announced SpringerOpen Books, bringing the OA option to book authors as well. Efforts like these, along with its established BioMed Central brand, all comprise a large and growing open access portfolio. For more information visit www.springeropen.com.

 

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