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eLife, the new open-access journal for outstanding scientific advancements, has published its first four research articles.

First announced in summer 2011, eLife is a researcher-led initiative for the best in science and science communication. Backed by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust, the initiative’s first aim is to launch an open-access journal for outstanding advances in life science and biomedicine, which is also a platform for experimentation and showcasing innovation in research communication.

The eLife journal Web site is set for launch by the end of 2012, but the first collection of articles was released today – listed at the eLife Web site with the full content available at the online archive of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, PubMed Central (PMC), and its mirror sites including UKPMC.

According to Randy Schekman, the journal’s Editor-in-chief, “We see no reason to delay the availability of these discoveries. Our editors have identified them as important, inspiring contributions of the high caliber expected for eLife. So, while the launch of our own journal Web site isn’t expected until December, we will best serve our authors, and science, by just getting them out there.”

eLife’s initial collection of content describes:

A hormone involved in response to starvation that dramatically increases the lifespan of mice in which it is overexpressed, although further research into side effects is needed (Zhang et al.).
A critical signaling molecule involved in the interaction between a species of single-celled organisms and bacteria – an important advance in efforts to understand the evolution of multicellularity (Alegado et al.).
The results of a two-year field trial that demonstrates how a specific group of chemicals released by plants in response to herbivore attack can increase the fitness of the plants in the Darwinian sense of increasing reproductive success (Schuman et al.).
How cells cope with the stress of poorly folded proteins, and specifically how fission yeast deploys the same cellular machinery as other organisms but in an unusual and very different way (Kimmig et al.).
Links to the freely available full text for each article, plain-language summaries (the eLife digest), expert commentaries (Insights), and an editorial describing the motivations behind this move, are available at http://www.elifesciences.org/articles.

The initiative will continue to publish accepted articles this fall, in advance of the final development and launch of the eLife journal Web site, towards the end of the year.

For more information about eLife, visit http://www.elifesciences.org.

Wolters Kluwer Health Appoints Cathy Wolfe President & CEO of Medical Research

Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced the appointment of Cathy Wolfe as President & CEO of its Medical Research business, effective January 1, 2013. With well-known brands of Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research provides innovative online research services as well as leading medical, clinical and nursing journal publishing solutions for healthcare practitioners, students and research professionals in more than 180 countries.

A veteran of Wolters Kluwer, Wolfe has served as the CEO of Wolters Kluwer U.K. since 2007. She has been with the company since 1996, including key leadership positions in the U.S. and the U.K., and has a track record of delivering strong results and innovation. During her time at Wolters Kluwer, Wolfe has led numerous large and complex technology and product development initiatives that have resulted in the launch of innovative digital solutions that combine software, services and information.

Wolfe will succeed Karen Abramson, who led the Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research business since 2006 and was recently appointed as President and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting’s CCH Business Unit effective in September. Wolters Kluwer Health President & CEO Bob Becker will continue to lead the Medical Research Business Unit until Wolfe assumes the role in January.

“We are thrilled to welcome Cathy to our Health division leadership team,” said Becker. “Her global expertise combined with her proven track record of developing and launching innovative products in both electronic and print formats will position our Medical Research business to continue its focus on delivering leading-edge solutions to meet the evolving needs of our global customers.” While CEO of Wolters Kluwer U.K., Wolfe led the business to strong results and became known for driving customer-focused innovation and operational efficiencies. Prior to becoming CEO of the U.K. business, Wolfe served as Vice President of Tax & Accounting publishing group for CCH while based in the Chicago area.

“I am excited to join the Health team,” said Wolfe. “Wolters Kluwer Health and its Medical Research business are on the forefront of developing and delivering solutions that help our global customers improve patient care and fuel new discoveries. This is a critical time in healthcare, and I’m excited to be part of this ongoing transformation to deliver the best research and information that impacts care.”

Wolters Kluwer Health is a global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, with leading brands including Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Ovid®, Pharmacy OneSource®, Lexicomp and UpToDate®, among others. Its customers include professionals, students, institutions and organizations across the globe. Products and services include industry-leading textbooks and jo

Global Health database from CABI hits 2 million records

Global Health, the only specialist bibliographic, abstracting and indexing database dedicated to public health research and practice, now has over 2 million records.

Derived from over 6,000 journals, reports, books and conferences, the open serials policy and coverage of international and grey literature mean that over 50% of the serials in Global Health are unique to the database*. Proceedings, theses, electronic only publications and other difficult-to-obtain sources are all included dating from 1973 to the present. Global Health also hosts nearly 30,000 full text papers from difficult to find journals, reports and conferences.

“Uptake of the database has grown by 10% in the last year alone,” said Andrea Powell, Executive Director of Publishing, CABI. “This growth is testament to the usefulness of the database. Public health researchers really value access to a comprehensive overview of high quality research information in their area.’

Over 160,000 records are selected and added to the database every year, with over 95% including an abstract. Publications come from over 100 countries in 50 languages and an English abstract is created for all relevant non-English-language papers to provide access to research not available through any other database. The unique blend of content available on Global Health has quickly made it an essential resource for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in public health, international health and related areas working nationally and internationally.

As a companion to the Global Health database CABI has also created the popular Global Health Archive, available as a one-off purchase. The archive includes almost 800,000 records dating from 1910 to 1972.

Metapress Introduces the Essential Platform

Metapress®, an industry leading hosting service for academic content, announces the Metapress Essential™ platform to support smaller publishers. This new platform allows small publishers to receive the same features that enable large publishers to launch an online presence and manage content.

“Metapress recently completed market research to better understand the needs of smaller publishers,” said Metapress General Manager Mark Williams. “Publishers who specialize in content unique to their field of study need the ability to deliver their content to institutions and researchers around the world. The new platform enables them to electronically distribute their content without the overhead they may experience with other hosting companies.”

The Essential platform is part of the Metapress service portfolio that includes Standard and Tailor Made services.

In business since 2000, Metapress became the industry’s first content management system with dimensional navigation across a variety of content types; the service offers a variety of commercial models — from annual subscriptions to journals to short-term article rentals. Metapress provides a comprehensive solution to Web-publishing needs and offers an established way to electronically publish titles, including journals, books, reference works, and databases.

In defiance of the euro crisis, the industry shows a new “spirit of achievement”

The Frankfurt Book Fair closed on Sunday, having achieved a slight (0,6 percent) increase in total visitor numbers compared to 2011, with a total of 281,753 visitors. The fact that the number of visitors on the trade visitor days declined only marginally (by 1.6 per cent) shows that the industry remains optimistic and is well equipped to face its challenges. As Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, remarked, “Here at the Frankfurt Book Fair we witnessed the courage and innovative power of Europe, and of the international publishing industry. Despite the economic crisis in Southern Europe, all the important representatives of international and European publishing were here in Frankfurt. And the amount of interest shown in translations from the so-called smaller language areas, and in digital projects continues to grow.” This was also evident from the increased significance of the rights trade, which has now become highly complex. The Literary Agents & Scouts Centre in Hall 6.0 grew by 4.4 per cent, compared to 2011. Around 100 agents more than last year held their appointments in the proverbial 30-minute tact, which adds up to an additional 1,300 meetings every day.

“You might find it hard to believe,” said Dr. Gottfried Honnefelder, Chairman of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association, “but the more globalised the book business becomes, the more strongly people feel a need to meet each other in person at least once a year – and above all in Frankfurt. Live conversations about people and books are irreplaceable.” The presence of international publishers in Frankfurt is growing, and industry observers judged the mood among the publishers as more open and adventurous than it was a year ago. “Here in Frankfurt, modern publishing presented itself,” said Juergen Boos. “We’re experiencing the new generation of book people – rich in ideas, equipped with new competencies and highly networked. An entirely new spirit of achievement has taken hold.” This also includes the integration of new players from the fields of technology, film and games into the Book Fair universe; and it means the relationship between publishers and readers is becoming ever closer. With roughly 1,000 visitors, the StoryDrive Festival made it clear that questions of digitisation, creativity and innovation are no longer just matters for the industry specialists.

Also collecting excellent feedback was the programme of the Frankfurt Academy, whose 3,300 professional participants used the Frankfurt Book Fair as a way of meeting important players from the book industry as part of an international knowledge network; they identified new business models and trends, witnessed international examples of best practice, and exchanged their ideas.

The uncontested highlight of the Book Fair was the presentation by the Guest of Honour New Zealand, which won the admiration of trade visitors and general public alike with its charming understatement, its magnificently designed pavilion and its colourful mix of performance, dance, singing, multimedia and high literature.

Oxford University Press partners with the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law

Oxford University Press (OUP) is pleased to announce its partnership with the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), for the publication of the Uniform Law Review.

Published since 1996, the Uniform Law Review is a forum for exploring all aspects of UNIDROIT’s work, including the reception, adoption, and impact of both UNIDROIT model laws and principles and harmonization measures from the United Nations and the wider community of international organizations. As such, it is a valuable resource for all those involved in international private commercial law, and is a bilingual English-French publication. Read this source article for more legal information.

“The Uniform Law Review has been a unique vehicle for legal thinking and practical information on the legal harmonization work done by UNIDROIT and other international organizations”, said José Angelo Estrella Faria, Secretary-General of UNIDROIT. “The Review and its readers stand to benefit from OUP’s outstanding publishing standard and marketing channels, and from the new editorial process we have put in place.”
Uniform Law Review will benefit from the full range of online functionality offered by Oxford Journals, including continuous publication, related article recommendations, and a fully optimized mobile site, ensuring improved discovery and access for researchers.

“We are really pleased to be partnering with UNIDROIT and working with them to further develop and extend the reach of Uniform Law Review,” said Rhodri Jackson, Senior Publisher, Law Journals at OUP. “We want to ensure the community views the Review as an invaluable resource for any commercial or private lawyer or scholar.”
The addition of Uniform Law Review further boosts OUP’s publishing in commercial law and private international law and fits well with titles such as Vogenauer and Kleinheistermap, Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts; Schwenzer, Hachem and Kee, Global Sales and Contract Law; and the Oxford Private International Law series.
OUP will begin publishing articles in 2013, in addition to providing access to the journal’s archive, from 1996 initially. The first issue published by OUP will be Volume 18, Issue 1. For more information about Uniform Law Review, including subscriptions, article submission guidelines, and how to register for free content-alerting services, please visit http://ulr.oxfordjournals.org.

Copyright Clearance Center Launches Open Access Solutions

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing solutions, announces the launch of Open Access Solutions.

CCC helps publishers manage variable Open Access (OA) models through its RightsLink® platform, which supports unique pricing rules, licenses and messaging for OA journals, encouraging compliance with funding agency requirements.

CCC’s Open Access Solutions also include secure tools for managing author publication charges, as well as color charges, page charges and reprint orders. Both authors and publishers have 24/7 access to these tools, including reporting and customer service.

CCC makes it easier for publishers to charge different Open Access fees pre-publication based on variables such as author affiliation/membership, funding source and journal type; communicates publisher-specified reuse rights post-publication to users seeking permissions for all content including Open Access articles; captures valuable data about user interest in and reuse of publishers’ Open Access publications; and provides the ability for publishers to add RightsLink to its content wherever it resides online, even in third-party repositories such as HighWire or PubMed Central.

“Today publishers are testing pricing and rights models for Gold Road, hybrid and pure Open Access journals,” said Roy Kaufman, CCC Managing Director of New Ventures. “There are complex questions to consider as publishers balance the new opportunities with the need for sustainable publishing infrastructures.”

RightsLink is an easy-to-use licensing solution, enabling publishers to offer permissions at the point-of-content – hosted on a website, mobile application or third-party aggregator.

For 30 years CCC has been creating rights licensing solutions to help rightsholders increase royalties for content, extending their reach into global corporate and academic markets, and providing tools to more efficiently manage their permissions business.

Applied Science & Technology Source New from EBSCO Publishing

EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has released Applied Science & Technology Source™, a new full-text resource designed to facilitate the research needs of users in all applied sciences and computing disciplines. Applied Science & Technology Source was developed from a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO and H.W. Wilson.

Applied Science & Technology Source provides accurate and diverse content that focuses on traditional engineering challenges and research, as well as research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. The database offers users full text for more than 1,200 journals including leading trade and industrial journals and professional and technical society journals. Additional content includes buyers’ guides, directories and conference proceedings and the database also features a database-specific thesaurus and searchable cited references for key journals.

Applied Science & Technology Source provides comprehensive coverage for a wide variety of applied science specialties including subjects such as:

• Acoustics
• Aeronautics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Energy Resources and Research
• Engineering and Biomedical Materials
• Food & Food Industry
• Marine Technology
• Neural Networks
• Nuclear engineering
• Optical and Neural Computing
• Robotics
• Space Science

EBSCO and H.W. Wilson merged in 2011 in what was viewed by the companies as an ideal match. The acquisition led directly to heightening the value and quality of EBSCO and Wilson resources as well as the creation of a line of source products, including Applied Science & Technology Source. EBSCO plans to release additional source products focusing on specific subject matter over the next few months.

Serials Solutions Summon Service Expands Chinese-language Content with Hyweb Technology

Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, has signed an agreement with Hyweb Technology to enable the discovery of its Chinese journal content from the Summon® web-scale discovery service. The inclusion of metadata for Hyweb’s more than 900 journals represents 90% of Taiwanese journals published. Researchers will be able to discover a vast collection of Chinese-language materials alongside their library’s other resources to gather the most relevant information for their projects.

The agreement represents another step by Serials Solutions toward building the most comprehensive collection of Chinese-language materials discoverable in a single unified index. The Summon service offers advanced native language searching capabilities for 17 languages, and a new Chinese-language searching enhancement enables users to search Chinese titles and authors with Pinyin separated spaces at the character level, which aids in discovery of this content.

“Serials Solutions commitment to the Chinese-language market was a positive factor for us in choosing to develop a content agreement with them,” said Yang-Juh Lai, president, Hyweb Technology. “The global reach of customers using the Summon discovery service, with an interface that is available in 32 languages and dialects, ensures greater exposure of this material to researchers worldwide.”

“As libraries around the world adopt the Summon service, it is important that we continue to build and maintain a single index that delivers the most relevant coverage researchers expect when they begin their research,” said John Law, vice president discovery services, Serials Solutions. “The integration of Hyweb’s content makes Summon even more useful for researchers to quickly and easily discover authoritative Chinese-language materials.”

Wolters Kluwer Presents Latest Online and Mobile Innovations at 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair

Wolters Kluwer, a global leader in professional information services, will present its latest online and mobile solutions to international audiences visiting the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair. From today until October 14, 2012, in Hall 4.2 at stand P401, Wolters Kluwer is pleased to introduce the latest company innovations in mobile applications, software solutions, online platforms, and e-book publishing to customers, authors, partners, and general visitors.
Wolters Kluwer experts and executives will participate in various professional events at the fair on topics and issues addressing the latest industry trends. Today, Wolters Kluwer Germany CEO Ulrich Hermann will take part in a panel discussion on ‘Social Media Monitoring and Big Data’, organized by the German Book Trade Academy from 11am to 12 pm at the Forum Education in Hall 4.2, Stand B1450. On October 12 at 12 pm, Christian Dirschl, Content Architect at Wolters Kluwer Germany and Intelligent Solutions blogger, will discuss the benefits of networked publishing as a participant in a panel of experts at the forum “Production in Publishing”, in Hall 4.0, Stand A1320. This forum is considered a barometer for new strategies, processes, production methods, software solutions and design trends in the fields of book production and content creation.

Wolters Kluwer Health’s premier Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) brands will be represented at the company stand showcasing new content and offerings.

Ovid recently announced an expanded partnership with the University of Adelaide’s Joanne Briggs Institute (JBI) to be the exclusive channel for their complete evidence-based practice (EBP) solution on OvidSP. Ovid will also showcase OvidOpenAccess, a new search discovery feature that integrates thousands of Open Access (OA) resources within the OvidSP from Medknow, a leading, global Open Access publisher and part of Wolters Kluwer Health; and PMC (formerly known as PubMed Central), the digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the US National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Wolters Kluwer Health is leading the industry’s digital transformation of medical journals with more than 70 iPad R app editions in the market. LWW is helping its partners leverage the iPad’s multimedia and rich linking capabilities to deliver unprecedented value and content engagement opportunities for its authors, editors, readers, and advertisers.

For the legal and regulatory markets, Wolters Kluwer is represented by Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, showcasing leading product lines Kluwer Law International and Aspen, Akademiai Kiado, as well as Wolters Kluwer Germany with its latest publications for German legal and business professionals, and latest developments around its online legal knowledge database Jurion. With Jurion Wolters Kluwer Germany has created a tool for researching specialized legal content as an integral part of the legal work process. It brings together Wolters Kluwer’s core competencies in the fields of publishing content, software, technology and services in a portal application, enhancing the workflow of lawyers and making them more productive and efficient. On October 11 at 6pm Wolters Kluwer Germany and Hengeler Mueller will host an “Author’s Evening” at WestendDuo, Bockenheimer Landstrasse 24.

On October 10 at 5pm, Wolters Kluwer welcomes partners and guests to its Authors & Customer Reception at the company’s stand P401 in Hall 4.2.

For a detailed program on all activities during the Frankfurt Book Fair, visit www.wolterskluwer.com.

IOP Publishing announces the launch of its ebook programme and a new partnership

IOP Publishing (IOP) has today announced its entrance into the book market as part of a long-term strategy to expand its support to the research community by offering the broadest range of publishing services to authors and readers.

The IOP ebook programme will provide an additional content channel for authors looking to publish with a society publisher. The programme has been designed to meet the demands of today’s research community by delivering authoritative, high-quality books in physics.

The new portfolio will cover topics across the physical sciences and will support the needs of physicists as well as researchers from other disciplines who are working in interdisciplinary areas of research.

IOP has had a long history in books publishing and was one of the first publishers to experiment with ebooks. The company sold the books division in 2005 to focus on its journals portfolio; however, since then the landscape and demand for ebooks has changed dramatically. IOP is now excellently positioned to serve the needs of the community.

This innovative e-first book programme is built with the future in mind. As born-digital content, free of legacy issues, it is designed to meet the needs of the research community in a changing publishing environment.

IOP is also delighted to announce a strategic partnership with Morgan and Claypool Publishers (M&C) to build a dedicated collection as part of the overall ebook program. M&C have combined an innovative editorial approach with an e-first model which has made them one of the leading innovators in high-quality book publishing.

M&C’s publishing model – which already serves the engineering and computer science communities with its Synthesis Digital Library, and the life sciences community with its Colloquium Digital Library – will be adopted to create a new physics collection.

M&C’s unique publishing model emphasizes the rapid digital publication of short books on key research topics that can be incrementally revised and expanded over time. The model makes it possible to publish tutorial works on active research areas much earlier than with traditional print book models. Its books provide access to advanced research that is much more accessible than the original research literature and provides extensive linked bibliographies for readers who wish to go further.

Olaf Ernst, Commercial Director of IOP Publishing said: “It is a natural fit for IOP, through its close relationship with the physics community, to launch a high-quality ebook programme that will complement its existing journals portfolio. We have a shared vision with M&C to serve the research community by delivering high-quality content through an innovative publishing approach. This will form the basis of a strong partnership and I very much look forward to working together on this.”

Michael Morgan, President and CEO of Morgan and Claypool, said: “We are very enthusiastic to collaborate with IOP and to benefit from its deep knowledge and commitment to the physics discipline in jointly developing a resource that we both believe will be of significant value.”

Commissioning content will begin immediately.

IET’s Inspec Database Adds 13 Millionth Record

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has today announced that Inspec, its database indexing cutting-edge science and engineering research, has reached 13 million records. Cementing Inspec’s position as one of the most extensive sources of engineering research in the world, the milestone has been hit with an important piece of medical technology research, highlighting the IET’s commitment to making essential, high quality scientific and technological intelligence available worldwide.

The paper, Quantitative assessments of geometric errors for rapid prototyping in media applications, looks at the geometric accuracy of Rapid Prototyping models, a major issue in medical applications, and proposes an innovative new method to measure accuracy. The article is authored by a team of researchers from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago, Chile, and has just appeared in ISI-ranked Rapid Prototyping Journal, published by Emerald Group Publishing.

Daniel Smith, head of academic publishing at the IET, explains: “Inspec is as much to do with the quality of content, from journal articles, conference proceedings, books and video, as the quantity of its records. 13 million is a significant milestone for us but what defines Inspec is that the research indexed by the database is of the highest quality and is driving innovation in its specific industry. For example to ensure the articles being selected are of the highest relevance and are being categorised correctly, our team is made up of subject specialists not simply indexing experts. It’s that dual focus on providing quality information whilst continually expanding the database that our subscribers rely on.”

In addition to the quality of content made available, Inspec has worked to ensure its database provides precisely the kind of service its subscribers expect. Unlike free web sources, Inspec’s indexing takes into account everything from chemical substance to numerical data, making searches far more precise and allowing researchers to drill down and retrieve specific information far quicker than previously possible.

“Scientists and engineers from all over the world search Inspec to find quality intelligence which can aid their own research,” added Smith. “This saves time and money, and of course accelerates research activities. Furthermore that kind of knowledge sharing is vital if we are to continue to help in driving research and ultimately, leading scientific and technological innovation.”

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