Copyright Clearance Center Announces “Copyright Fundamentals in the Workplace” Online Certificate Program

October 19, 2012

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing solutions, announces its “Copyright Fundamentals in the Workplace,” an Online Certificate Program beginning Monday, Oct. 29, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET, and ending on Friday, Nov. 2.

The course’s three two-hour live online sessions will guide participants through the complex world and principles of copyright. They will learn how to evaluate potential exceptions and limitations to copyright protection, the times when copyright permission is needed, and the various ways of sharing content and the implications of each. Registration is $750.

“Copyright Fundamentals in the Workplace” is part of CCC’s OnCopyright Education Certificate Program, made up of industry-specific courses designed for a variety of user communities and the challenges they face in managing copyright.

CCC’s OnCopyright Education has been lauded as among the best copyright education programs in the industry. With seminars, webinars, regional workshops and more, CCC advocates for the responsible use of content while providing the expertise to make it simple to do so.

Elsevier Business Intelligence content now available from the British Library

October 19, 2012

The latest news and analysis from Elsevier Business Intelligence, a global leader in the field of healthcare industry information, is now available from the British Library’s Document Supply service. EBI provides business intelligence on regulatory, business and reimbursement issues that are vital to the healthcare industry.

The British Library’s Document Supply service is able to provide electronic articles from all publications offered by EBI including the well respected The Pink Sheet, The Gray Sheet and InVivo. The licence signed by both organisations allows the British Library to supply EBI articles through its copyright fee paid service. See: www.bl.uk/articles

Simon Bell, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Licensing at the British Library, said: “We are delighted that the unique content published by EBI will now be available to our Document Supply customers. By adding this content to the wealth of electronic resources already available via Document Supply we will enhance our excellent offering to researchers.”

EBI President Randy Charles said “We are excited to be able to expand the reach of our world-class biopharma content to a broader global audience.”

ProQuest and SSRN to dramatically increase working papers available in ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Central and more

October 19, 2012

ProQuest and the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) are dramatically increasing the organization’s working papers available through ProQuest’s popular ABI/INFORM business information product as well as ProQuest Central and a variety of niche databases. Working papers will double to more than 100,000 by the close of 2012 and will grow to more than 150,000 over the next three years.

“SSRN is devoted to the rapid distribution of ‘tomorrow’s research today’ and we’re delighted to provide another efficient discovery avenue through ProQuest,” said Jeff Wilensky, ProQuest vice-president, publishing. “We’re committed to a superior research experience. Adding the SSRN content to our information products improves service to scholars by providing previews of top quality research months or even years ahead of when it will be published in journals.”

The expanded agreement follows some important findings by ProQuest in the types of resources most valued and used by academic researchers. Access to pre-publication working papers is becoming increasingly vital for researchers looking to find the latest research and ideas in their field. ProQuest’s research with business faculty shows that working papers are used 85 percent of the time when doing active research as part of creating a scholarly work.
Access via ABI/INFORM, widely considered the industry standard for business research, will enable researchers to discover the latest SSRN working papers in fields such as economics, finance, management, corporate governance, entrepreneurship, political science, and health. Researchers can access papers within a feature-rich environment that allows for the easy management, sharing, and manipulation of content. ABI/INFORM also includes thousands of full-text journals, periodicals, downloadable data, market and industry reports, trade publications and dissertations.

“We are excited to be working with ProQuest to expand usage of the papers in the SSRN eLibrary”, said Gregg Gordon, SSRN President and CEO. “The author is our primary customer and this relationship will help us get their research read.”

The expanded agreement with SSRN is part of ProQuest’s ongoing commitment to connect serious researchers with content that inspires advances in global knowledge. To learn more, visit www.proquest.com.

Elsevier Launches Core Measures in Mosby’s Nursing Consult

October 19, 2012

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of Core Measures in the Quality and Safety section of Mosby’s Nursing Consult. Core Measures is in addition to content on CMS Never Events and Medication Safety already available in Nursing Consult.

The Quality and Safety section of Mosby’s Nursing Consult provides nurses with resources to preserve patient safety and implement quality improvement measures. Quality and Safety information is reviewed regularly and updated as nursing evidence and practice evolve. Educators can use the information for in-service staff sessions and librarians can use the updated content to provide research support for a hospital.

Healthcare facilities are required to follow the Core Measures in order to receive Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reimbursement and accreditation by The Joint Commission (TJC). Core Measures serve as a standardized set of evaluation criteria to assess care through recommended treatment, patient education, patient assessment and discharge instructions. On the other hand, for those who haven’t secured a Medicare yet, they may first want to ask questions like are you covered for prescriptions on Plan G.

“Nurses play a critical role in ensuring patient safety and managing patient care,” said Barbara Cullen, Vice President, Healthcare e-Learning for Elsevier. “Understanding Core Measures helps nurses understand established benchmarks and standards for treating complex conditions and diseases, reduce complication risks, prevent readmissions and integrate evidence-based nursing practices into their day-to-day activities.”

CMS Never Events offers links to resources such as books, journals, guidelines, patient education, images, and tools for ten healthcare-acquired conditions to assist nurses in preventing situations such as conducting surgery on the wrong patient or at an incorrect site.

Medication Safety provides resources to help nurses minimize the risk of medication errors and improve medication safety. Information is included on pediatric populations and specific classes of drugs to improve patient care.

A webinar with free continuing education credit will be held on Friday, October 19 at 2:00 pm ET. This detailed webinar will cover why Core Measures were created and illustrate the importance of Core Measures in ensuring quality of patient care. Register online for this webinar.

Project ROBUST: Combining Scientific Excellence and Industry Relevance

October 18, 2012

Project ROBUST is receiving positive feedback from the scientific community as well as from potential industry clients for its work on the analysis and management of Online Communities. Only recently ROBUST researchers from the Open University in Milton Keynes received the Best Paper Award at the SocialCom Conference in Amsterdam. At the same time the dialog that ROBUST maintains with large industry accounts confirms the real-world relevance of the ROBUST research agenda.

ROBUST – (EC Project 257859, cf. http://www.robust-project.eu/) is concerned with the observation that Business Online Communities have become an important part of many professional environments in large organizations, comprising often many hundreds of thousands of participants and millions of contributions and posts, but that at the same time sound methods that help managing and administrating the massive data set that created here are often missing: Which communities flourish, which are fledgling? Which factors are responsible that newbies feel welcome and experts feel rewarded? And what can the community owners do about this with limited resources while facing an endless stream of posts and exchanges on these platforms.

In order to investigate this, the EU project assembles a diverse set of partners from academia, small software companies as well as big corporations to investigate challenges and solutions here. Coordinated by the University of Koblenz, participants from SAP Research in Dresden, IBM Haifa, Softwaremind from Krakow in Poland, the Technical University Berlin, Polecat from Dublin, the Open University in Milton Keynes, the DERI Institute from the National University of Ireland in Galway, IT Innovation from Southampton and TEMIS from Paris cooperate in addressing these tasks in the form of dedicated software components and best practices.

As diverse as these challenges are, so are the solutions that start to take shape in the ROBUST project: IT Innovation progresses with an application allowing to model and monitor the various risks a community owner might be facing (experts leaving or exchanges becoming unproductive), Polecat is working on visual metaphors to provide a quick insight into the health of a community while the University of Koblenz is investigating whether and how patterns of agreement and disagreement among participants correlate with their observed participation.
TEMIS, working on components that automate the analysis of the textual content inside the communities, is busy with the creation of an infrastructure allowing to exchange these components with comparable installations also outside ROBUST in order to allow for sustainable exploitation of ROBUST results beyond and outside the context of the project.

“ROBUST not only addresses a real-world challenge in the administration of Business Online Communities, it also provides a perfect environment for a company like TEMIS to proceed with refining and developing our components on these tasks”, declares Stefan Geißler, Managing Director of TEMIS Germany. “The consortium with large IT companies, introducing their Communities as test beds on the one hand side and excellent research partners on the other hand represents a precious opportunity to investigate use cases on hot topics around Big Data and Social Media.”

Fig 1: One particular approach pursued in ROBUST is work around the visualization of the “Health” of a community with appropriate graphic metaphors. The example here – chosen for its obvious visual appeal – exemplifies work being carried out by Polecat, aimed at providing users/administrators with a high-level feedback about the state of affairs on a given community.

The scientific work carried out in ROBUST has repeatedly lead to distinguished publications. Very recently Claudia Wagner, Matthew Rowe, Markus Strohmaier and Harith Alani from the Open University received the Best Paper Award for their contribution “Ignorance isn’t Bliss: An Empirical Analysis of Attention Patterns in Online Communities” at the SocialCom Conference in Amsterdam.
With this type of blessing and benefitting from work on the implementation of a prototype system carried out in ROBUST, the project is now increasingly discussing the perspective to employ ROBUST results also in industrial contexts and real-world settings.

IOP Publishing and the Sinopec Geophysical Research Institute renew publishing partnership

October 18, 2012

IOP Publishing (IOP), Bristol, UK and the Sinopec Geophysical Research Institute (SGRI), Nanjing, China, have announced the renewal of their publishing partnership. Building on nine years of collaboration, the partnership will ensure that the Journal of Geophysics and Engineering continues to be a distinguished journal within its field.

The Journal of Geophysics and Engineering covers research and developments in geophysics and related areas of engineering. Since the journal was first published in 2004, the journal has grown significantly and is now published six times per year.

Over half of IOP’s journals are published in partnership with other learned societies and research organisations. IOP is committed to providing high-quality publishing services to authors, readers, librarians and partners to disseminate research within the international scientific community.

Wolters Kluwer Health to Acquire Health Language, Inc., a Leader in the Medical Terminology Management Market

October 18, 2012

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for professionals, students and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Health Language, Inc., a leader in Medical Terminology Management (MTM), a rapidly growing segment of the point-of-care market. The acquisition is part of Wolters Kluwer Health’s strategy to continually enhance its leadership position in the point of care market by providing customers with access to a comprehensive set of evidence-based disease and drug information knowledge platforms and robust software solutions.

Health Language’s medical content terminology databases and software solutions enable hospitals, electronic medical record system providers (EMRs) and payers around the globe to manage, update and map disparate medical vocabularies and administrative codes used in U.S. and international settings. MTM is expected to see rapid growth as healthcare entities become increasingly interconnected and the need for sharing clinical data grows. This trend has been accelerated by Meaningful Use legislation in the U.S., promoting the use of electronic health records and evidence-based medicine to improve quality standards in health care.

“Medical terminology management is quickly emerging as a core point-of-care market as hospitals, EMRs and payers are increasingly focused on interoperability of systems to realize the advantages of healthcare information technology,” said Arvind Subramanian, President & CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Solutions. “Health Language has built a leadership position in meeting this important interoperability need. This acquisition allows Wolters Kluwer Health to enhance its current market leading point-of-care solutions and better position its customers to fully leverage existing and emerging healthcare quality and reimbursement initiatives. The acquisition also provides Wolters Kluwer Health with greater access to payers, key customers for various Health Language offerings.”

Health Language databases and software products include more than 180 standard terminologies and proprietary content sets to enable easier information sharing across many healthcare information technology systems. The company also provides clinical content and professional services to enable interoperability, web-based terminology mapping, Meaningful Use compliance and ICD-10 conversion, a system of coding created by the World Health Organization that is in various phases of implementation worldwide.

“Over the past 12 years, we have built trusted solutions for healthcare providers, payers and EHR vendors to address data management challenges—from legislative measures and new care models, to data analysis and enhanced decision support,” said George Schwend, President and CEO of Health Language. “We are energized by this new chapter with Wolters Kluwer Health and look forward to
supporting their focus on further extending their industry reach and offering the most robust point-of-care products and services available in the market.”

The company’s products and services are highly complementary with those of Wolters Kluwer Health, which is an industry leader in providing a comprehensive suite of point-of-care products and services, including evidence-based clinical disease and drug information knowledge platforms, clinical documentation software and clinical surveillance and pharmacy productivity software solutions.

Health Language is headquartered in Denver, Colorado and has approximately 85 employees.

The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of required regulatory approvals. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For more information on Wolters Kluwer Health, visit www.wolterskluwerhealth.com. For more information on Health Language, visit www.healthlanguage.com.

Triple Tree, LLC acted as exclusive advisor to Health Language, Inc..

ProQuest Study Looks Beyond Journals to Identify What Other Sources Faculty Consult for Research

October 18, 2012

In addition to using scholarly journals for active research projects, business faculty rely on materials that share insights and ideas ahead of publication, according to a new study from ProQuest that explores non-journal resources. Business faculty members are using working papers, printed books, pre-prints, conference proceedings and dissertations to explore specific research topics. When asked about passive forms of research — such as staying up-to-date in the field or identifying ideas for further research — newspapers join books at the top of most-used resources.

“Scholarly journals are an established resource of research, but greater clarity has been needed to understand how other content types are being used in the research process,” said Jeff Wilensky, ProQuest Vice President, Product Management. “This study shows us that faculty require a breadth of resources in addition to journals to meet their active research requirements in creating scholarly content.”

The study was based on usage statistics in the key scholarly business database ABI/INFORM and a survey of more than one hundred business faculty members and graduate students in the U.S. The survey results found that research for active projects most frequently included exploration of working papers (85%), print books (85%), pre-publication papers (84%) and raw data (83%), followed by conference proceedings (74%), and abstracts (64%), ebooks (56%), and dissertations or theses (55%). Less popular, but still important, were patents, grey literature, SWOT analysis, videos, standards, best practices reports, blogs, and book reviews.

Also surprising was the popularity of print books versus their “e” counterparts. Despite the growth of e-books, print currently has a stronger following with faculty.

“We expect preferences between print and ‘e’ books to shift quickly over the coming years,” said Mr. Wilensky. “We believe these results are reflective of a combination of habit and availability of content in ebook format, rather than a long-term preference for print.”

For both print and “e,” respondents indicated they will use their own or professional allowance funds to purchase books without checking availability in the library. The convenience of having the item within easy reach is a factor, especially for books that are referred to frequently.

The heavy use of raw data is a growing area of spending and interest among business librarians as they explore how best to meet their researchers’ needs through acquisition, management, and curation. A ProQuest study on data use and archiving is underway, with results available later this year.

Exploration of non-journal research sources is an area of ongoing global study by ProQuest. U.S. research results are available as a white paper here. Global trends and regional differences will be published later in 2012.

Thomson Reuters announces addition of 21 million more scientific journal articles in Thomson Innovation

October 18, 2012

Thomson Reuters 2012 IP Solutions Customer Conference: The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the addition of 21 million more scientific journal articles in Thomson Innovation, making it the undisputed platform leader for IP intelligence and collaboration. Today’s conference session, Prior Art Searching: See the Whole Picture, will discuss the benefits and importance of the non-patent collections which now comprise 85 percent of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO’s) minimum documentation requirement.

Access to patent content, scientific journals, conference proceedings, business data and news information are critical in the quest to determine if an idea is unique and has potential for further development. The latest Thomson Innovation enhancements make this quest much easier and more complete, integrating a deeper scientific literature back file and access to full text of journal articles within one, unified platform.

“A thorough prior art search needs to include more than just published patent applications and grants. Thomson Innovation’s new scientific literature content fulfills that need and more as it provides researchers with an all-inclusive resource to help determine the novelty of an idea,” said Cindy Poulos, vice president of Product Management for Thomson Reuters IP Solutions.“With the dramatic increase in patent litigation activity over the past several years, it’s more important than ever to ensure thorough prior art research to determine patentability or freedom to operate.”

Users can now opt to access the entire Web of Science backfile from within Thomson Innovation, with coverage from 1898, or select entitlements grouped by date range – and links are available to order the full text of the records or connect to internal holdings and Open Access Publications. Also available are funding acknowledgement data to track funding sources or monitor a competitor’s R&D, the ability to track literature citations to see who cited key scientific research and how the research was used, and a tenfold increase in the number of journal articles that can be analyzed in landscape maps, charts and text clusters.

“Our latest enhancement to scientific literature content in Thomson Innovation is a direct reflection of how customer feedback drives our product development,” said Cynthia Murphy, senior vice president of Innovation and Asset Management, Thomson Reuters. “With today’s technologies, it’s important to highlight older research and provide more than just an abstract for effective prior art research.”

The latest enhancements and content additions to Thomson Innovation are available at http://thomsoninnovation.com.

Elsevier Publishes Landmark Book on Computer Architecture in Enhanced, Multimedia eBook

October 18, 2012

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the release of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 5th Edition by John L. Hennessy (President of Stanford University) and David A. Patterson (Pardee Professor of Computer Science, University of California Berkeley) as an enhanced eBook.

Adapted from the classic textbook, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 5th Edition, this interactive eBook from Inkling focuses on the dramatic and evolutionary developments in mobile and cloud computing. Using their quantitative approach to design and analysis, Hennessy and Patterson explore the ways in which software and technology in the cloud are accessed by cell phones, tablets, laptops, and other mobile computing devices. The running context in each chapter is computing for personal mobile devices (PDMs) and warehouse scale computers, with examples from the real world that help to illustrate and describe the impacts of these revolutionary changes.

“We’re honored to create a unique, multifunctional version of this classic text,” said Suzanne BeDell, Managing Director, Science and Technology Books, Elsevier. “With this new eBook Elsevier continues to innovate with content delivery.”

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 5th Edition enables students to explore cutting edge computing architecture – including mobile and cloud computing using innovative multimedia features:

Video content in selected chapters including “Cray-1 Supercomputer 30th Anniversary” (The life and machines of Seymour Cray are explored at the Computer History Museum) and “Google Efficient Data Centers Summit” (Barroso, Hamilton, 2008).
Animations including a set demonstrating “Matrix Multiplication.”
David Patterson’s PowerPoint presentation on “Cache Blocking.”
ALL appendices (A-L) included.
Embedded hyperlinks allow quick access to all cross-referenced content (chapters, sections, figures, tables, and URLs).
Print text page numbers listed in the margins, to allow Inkling users to quickly locate content whenever a printed text page number is cited or referenced.
Solutions to selected end-of-chapter exercises.
Distributed exclusively on the Inkling store, the Inkling eBook-version is available for USD $74.99, or $11.99 per chapter.

To take a look before you buy, Inkling offers chapter 2 for free. Download the inkling app from iTunes, Register with Inkling, and click the “free chapter download” button here: https://www.inkling.com/store/computer-architecture-hennessy-5th/

Ex Libris Introduces Browsing Functionality in Primo 4.1

October 17, 2012

Ex Libris® Group, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce the release of version 4.1 of the Primo® discovery and delivery solution. In addition to various other enhancements, the new version introduces browsing functionality, yet another method that assists users in exploring their library’s collections.

Part of the ongoing incorporation of OPAC functions in Primo, the addition of the browsing functionality enables library users to browse by subject heading, title, author name, or call number. OPAC options that were previously added to Primo include submitting requests for specific items, handling loans, managing fines, and communicating with the library through the discovery layer.

Primo is the only solution that provides library users with access to OPAC functionality within the discovery user interface. The addition of browsing, also a first in the discovery market, comes as a natural next step in the Primo solution’s evolution as a one-stop shop for discovery and delivery. With the integration of OPAC functionality in the discovery layer, libraries benefit from a reduction in the total cost of ownership, because they no longer need to maintain their traditional OPAC user interface, and users access all library services from a single entry point.

“The browsing functionality, which enables library users to navigate more easily to content, was one of the enhancements that librarians requested the most,” commented David Beychok, vice president of discovery and delivery solutions at Ex Libris. “Browsing complements the search functionality to support the various modes of information seeking. When users cannot specify exactly what they are looking for, browsing helps them find items by identifying relevant topics or names that match their needs or by using call numbers to create a virtual bookshelf through which they can navigate.”

Springer Publishing Company Acquires Minority Nurse Magazine

October 17, 2012

Springer Publishing Company is proud to announce its acquisition of Minority Nurse magazine and MinorityNurse.com from Alloy Education. Established in 1993, the magazine reports on current topics of interest to minority nursing professionals, faculty, and students. The first issue published under the Springer Publishing Company imprint, the Education Issue, was mailed to subscribers on September 25, 2012.

Minority Nurse magazine has a readership of over 36,000 and the website receives 60,000 unique visitors each month, with a growing list of over 30,000 registered users. Together, the magazine and website serve as a focal point for educational resources and employment opportunities for nursing faculty and administrators, students searching for scholarships and educational programs, and practicing nurses interested in career change and advancement.
Recent data highlights the need for publications that serve a growing minority population. Statistics from the 2011 Census indicate that minorities represent over 25% of the population and, for the first time, minority births outnumber whites (50.4% vs. 49.6%), foreshadowing an increase in the 9.8% of current practicing nurses who are African-American, Hispanic, Native American, Asian, or Filipino.

Springer Publishing Company has a strong commitment to nursing practice and nursing education and will continue to expand upon its sponsorship of the annual Minority Nurse Scholarship Program. The publisher will also update and enrich MinorityNurse.com’s web tools for identifying and evaluating other nursing scholarship opportunities; undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs; and career opportunities.

“Springer Publishing Company is pleased to include Minority Nurse magazine and MinorityNurse.com among our growing program of books and journals serving the nursing community,” said Ted Nardin, CEO of Springer Publishing Company. “We are especially pleased to include these highly regarded publications that address an issue of great and increasing importance to nursing and to the entire healthcare community.”

For information about advertising, please view the 2013 Minority Nurse media kit: nursing professionals, or media kit: academic and faculty.