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SCOAP3 Article Processing Charges announced

As part of the SCOAP3 tendering process conducted by CERN for the benefit of SCOAP3, the agreed-upon Article Processing Charges (APCs) for SCOAP3 participating journals are now publicly available.

Within the SCOAP3 model, these APCs are not paid by authors, but centrally by SCOAP3, from a common fund to which libraries, library consortia, research institutions and funding agencies jointly contribute

Following the effective award of contracts to several journals, and starting January 1st 2014, these journals will publish all SCOAP3 Articles submitted by any author as Open Access in perpetuity under a CC-BY license. Publishers will reduce their subscription fees, where those exist, to account for this conversion of entire journals, or parts thereof, to Open Access. SCOAP3 Articles are defined as either all articles appearing in journals mostly carrying High-Energy Physics content, or articles appearing in “broad band” journals which have been submitted by researchers to arXiv.org under the corresponding categories.

In detail, the maximum yearly payment by SCOAP3 for each journal in 2014 will be based on the individual journal APC and number of SCOAP3 Articles published in 2011 (the latest year for which complete data are available). The APCs themselves and the SCOAP3 budget envelope are fixed for the duration of the three-year contract period (through 2016). In 2015 and 2016, the maximum yearly payments are eligible to grow at a capped rate of between 4% for “large” journals and 25% for “small” journals, to account for potential growth in the number of articles.

The APCs, the reference number of SCOAP3 Articles for 2011 and the corresponding fraction of each journal appear here, in alphabetical order:

Publisher Journal SCOAP3Articles (In 2011) SCOAP3Percentage of journal (In 2011) Article Processing Charge
American Physical Society Physical Review C 107 9.9% 1900 USD
American Physical Society Physical Review D 2989 100% 1900 USD
Elsevier Physics Letters B 1010 100% 1800 USD
Elsevier Nuclear Physics B 284 100% 2000 USD
Hindawi Advances in High Energy Physics 28 100% 1000 USD
Institute of Physics Publishing/Chinese Academy of Sciences Chinese Physics C 16 7.2% 1000 GBP
Institute of Physics Publishing/Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft New Journal of Physics 20 2.7% 1200 GBP
Institute of Physics Publishing/SISSA Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 138 30.9% 1400 GBP
Jagellonian University Acta Physica Polonica B 23 22.1% 500 EUR
Oxford University Press/Physical Society of Japan Progress of Theoretical Physics(to become PTEP) 46 36.2% 1000 GBP
Springer/Società Italiana di Fisica European Physical Journal C 326 100% 1500 EUR
Springer/SISSA Journal of High Energy Physics 1652 100% 1200 EUR

Contracts between publishers and CERN, acting for the benefit of SCOAP3, will be signed after the successful conclusion of three crucial next steps in the SCOAP3 process:

  1. Reconciliation of subscription fee reductions between publishers and SCOAP3participating libraries, to take place in the last quarter of 2012 and into the first quarter of 2013;
  2. Conclusion of a memorandum of understanding between CERN and SCOAP3partners, which will define a robust governance structure to oversee the operation and future development of SCOAP3;
  3. Completion of the SCOAP3 budget envelope through re-direction of those subscription funds by existing and prospective SCOAP3 partners.

SPARC and World Bank announce speakers for Open Access Week 2012 webcast

SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the World Bank are pleased to announce the speakers for their co-sponsored kickoff event for Open Access Week 2012. The event will take place Monday, October 22, 4pm – 5:30pm, at the World Bank in Washington, DC.

The distinguished panel of speakers is comprised of experts from the broad range of stakeholders in the Open Access movement: researchers, students, policy makers, publishers and academics. The following speakers will discuss why Open Access is an imperative to them, and to their work:

• Michael Carroll, Professor of Law, American University and founding Board Member, Creative Commons
• Matt Cooper, President, The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students
• Maricel Kann, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland and member, PubMed Central National Advisory Committee, NIH
• Carlos Rossel, Publisher, The World Bank
• Neil Thakur, Special Assistant to the Deputy Director, Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

The 90-minute panel will be moderated by Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC, with ample time for questions from audience members. Immediately following the question and answer session, SPARC will sponsor a reception for those attending and participating in the panel discussion. Registration is only required for in-person attendance and can be done by emailing Andrea Higginbotham at SPARC. To view the webcast and participate in the live blog, simply go to the World Bank’s Live portal.

Wolters Kluwer Health Launches Cardiovascular Endocrinology Journal

Wolters Kluwer Health is pleased to announce the publication of Cardiovascular Endocrinology, a new online, peer-reviewed journal committed to fostering effective collaboration between cardiologists and endocrinologists in addressing diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and related diseases and conditions. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, is the publisher of record for the journal. 

“The growing global prevalence of obesity-associated diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia makes it imperative that cardiologists, endocrinologists, and others have a forum for new treatment and therapeutic developments. The new journal aspires to provide this forum by ensuring that researchers and clinicians have access to research and opinion that bridges these disciplines,” said Andrew J. Krentz, Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular Endocrinology.

“We’re pleased to announce the official launch of Cardiovascular Endocrinology journal that brings together these specialists to focus research on some of the world’s most widespread and intractable health problems,” said Jayne Marks, Vice President Publishing, Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research. “With LWW’s well-regarded portfolio in both cardiology and endocrinology combined with our strong global reach, we’re encouraged about the contributions the journal will bring to these disciplines to improve patient care.”

Highlights of the inaugural issue include original research on a potential role for natriuretic peptide therapy in human cardiac ischemia and a review article on the role of melatonin in hypertension. In addition, subscribers have an opportunity to earn CME credit—provided by the Lippincott CME Institute—through LWW’s XtraCredit mobile application.

The editorial board encourages prospective authors to submit original manuscripts for publication in Cardiovascular Endocrinology. For more information, including specific instructions and guidelines, visit the journal’s website athttp://www.cardiovascularendocrinology.com.

The online quarterly journal is available to individual subscribers via LWW’s online journal platform and institutional access is provided through OvidSP, the world’s leading medical research platform from Ovid, also a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

ProQuest® and ebrary® Make the 253rd Edition of The Annual Register Available as an E-book

When The Annual Register debuted in 1758, libraries were still scarce around the world and protective of their holdings, which were often chained to desks as a safeguard. During the ensuing 254 years, the chains were broken; libraries evolved even further by pushing content outside their walls, providing patrons with 24/7 remote access via computers. That “liberation” continues as the 253rd edition ofThe Annual Register, one of libraries’ most trusted references, makes its debut as an e-book via ProQuest business unit ebrary.

For more than two centuries, The Annual Register has been a “go-to” for librarians who value its year-by-year record of both major and minor world events, with text hearty enough to satisfy serious researchers and straightforward enough to answer a general query. The complete archive of the reference became available as an online tool through ProQuest in 2007, enabling researchers to scan the full-text of every edition in a single search. Now ebrary, the leader in strategic e-book acquisition, will enable libraries to make contents of the last ten editions available as e-books, supported by its rich features and functionality, such as notes, highlights, and shareable bookshelves. The Annual Register can be ordered as an individual e-book — through perpetual archive and patron driven acquisition models — or as part of the most scholarly Academic Complete™ subscription collection. As an e-book, the Annual Register will not only be accessible on any web-enabled device, but it will go mobile via ebrary’s dedicated iOS and Android™ apps.

“The opportunity to provide this content via e-book will allow us to significantly increase its reach to even a broader audience,” said Mary Sauer-Games, ProQuest vice-president, publishing. “Librarians continue to advise us that providing offline access to e-books is more or equally important than providing online access and that non-fiction titles have surpassed fiction in user demand. Opening access to The Annual Registerto e-book users was just another logical step in this work’s evolution.”

From its earliest days, The Annual Register has been considered an essential resource for journalists, politicians, historians, and any individual with an interest in the world’s current affairs. Major events and their historical contexts are provided by specialist contributors; more than 80 were involved with the 253rd edition. Covering 2011 in depth, the new edition explores political developments, obituaries, extracts from critical documents, photographs, and expert analysis in such areas as economics, international organizations, the environment, science and the arts, religion and the law. In addition, the reference remains loyal to its first publishers whom intended The Annual Register to be entertaining as well as enlightening allowing for documentation of less dramatic matters such as public holidays and celebrity weddings.

Significant events of 2011 that are covered in the new edition include:

  • Japan’s earthquake and tsunami
  • Killing of Osama bin Laden
  • Extremist massacre in Norway
  • Final space shuttle mission
  • Worldwide “Occupy” protests
  • Phone hacking damage to Murdoch media enterprise
  • Political crisis in Greece
  • Growth in global population to 7 billion
  • Royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton

In addition to its electronic versions, the Annual Register is also available in its traditional hardcover format.

*American Reference Books Annual

The Physiological Society and Wiley Renew Partnership

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and The Physiological Society have announced the renewal of their publishing partnership, building on over eight years of collaboration. The renewed partnership will ensure the society’s titles, The Journal of Physiology and Experimental Physiology, continue to develop as thought leaders of physiological research.

“Since their establishment The Society’s journals have built a reputation for excellence and quality,” said Professor Jonathan Ashmore, President of The Physiological Society. “Over the last eight years this reputation has grown and our partnership with Wiley has helped to build on this.”

Professor Ashmore continued, “Our journals already accommodate the needs of funders and research scientists around the world, offering an open access route for those who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers through Wiley’s OnlineOpen option, and all our journal content becomes free to access after 12 months. Our renewed partnership with Wiley will ensure that the journals stay at the forefront of innovation in a time of rapid evolution in academic publishing.”

“The renewal of Wiley’s partnership with The Physiological Society allows us to build upon almost a decade of collaboration, with new initiatives that benefit both authors and readers of these prestigious journals,” said Stephen M. Smith, President and CEO, Wiley. “Together we will continue to support and promote the latest world-class physiological research through sustained innovation using new delivery channels and models.”

The Journal of Physiology publishes the latest research from across the discipline, with the aim of developing our understanding of the principles and mechanisms which govern our bodies. Published since 1879, the journal’s international editorial board is led by Editor-in-Chief, Professor David Paterson of Oxford University, and currently holds an Impact Factor of 4.881.

Wiley has supported the journal’s role as an opinion leader with new initiatives including the publication of dedicated neuroscience issues – eight of which will be published in 2012.

Experimental Physiology, edited by Professor Paul McLoughlin of University College Dublin, focuses on emerging areas of physiological and pathophysiological research, with emphasis on molecular and cellular functions. The journal holds an impact factor of 3.211 and will move to online-only publication from 2013.

Maney Publishing deploys Editorial Manager to humanities and social science journals

Fast-growing Maney Publishing is building on its long-standing relationship with Aries Systems by deploying the Editorial Manager (EM) peer review system to some 40 humanities and social science (HSS) publications in the near future. EM is currently available for Maney’s entire list of STM journals and interest in using online submission and refereeing has been growing amongst HSS journals for some years. This is a major development for a system first employed for scientific journals and represents an imaginative partnership between Aries and Maney that will give Maney’s HSS journals a strong competitive edge. Humanities journals increasingly expect to use the same technology as STM titles.

Liz Rosindale, Maney’s Publishing Manager, Humanities, comments: “Maney has recently signed new publishing agreements with organizations such as the European Archaeological Association and the International Institute for Conservation, which are now successfully using Editorial Manager for their journals. We have a growing number of other humanities journals already using the system and others, such as Environmental Archaeology, Ambix, and Palestine Exploration Quarterly for which we will install EM for 2013. We are keen to deploy the system for our journals because it enhances service to authors, stimulates copy flow, and significantly reduces editorial administration for our editors, while streamlining the process for referees.”

Maney’s CEO Michael Gallico welcomed the new agreement: “Richard Wynne at Aries has worked with us flexibly to extend our use of EM to the humanities and social sciences, which will give us an end-to-end service to authors and editors. I am delighted that Maney can now offer this facility to our growing list of HSS editors and partner societies.”

Oxford University Press Launches Journal Of Antitrust Enforcement

A wide number of forums pay increasing attention to developments in competition law and policy, reflecting the increased significance attributed to competition law enforcement. Current debate, while stimulating, has not yet attributed adequate attention to the enforcement of competition law, and it is this gap that the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement intends to fill. The journal will explore public and private competition law enforcement at both domestic and international levels.

Rhodri Jackson, Senior Publisher, Law Journals and Oxford Open at OUP, said: “We’re delighted to add JAE to our thriving and expanding competition law portfolio. JAE joinsJournal of Competition Law and Journal of European Competition Law, as well as our comprehensive books list and upcoming Oxford Competition Law service. William Kovacic and Ariel Ezrachi are stellar names with impressive records, and we’re looking forward to working with both editors to make Journal of Antitrust Enforcement an essential title for all practising and academic competition lawyers in the coming years.”
Ariel Ezrachi, Editor-in-Chief, said: “The journal will provide a unique platform for discussing the law, policy, economics, and politics entwined in competition law enforcement. This exciting venture will enrich existing debate and contribute to shaping our future competitive environment. We are delighted to work in partnership with OUP to promote scholarship in this core area.”

All JAE content will be freely available online in 2013, with content going online from today. Read the first article from the journal, Barry J Rodger’s “Why not court? A study of follow-on actions in the UK” now. For more information about the journal, including subscriptions, article submission guidelines, and how to register for free content-alerting services, please visit: www.antitrust.oxfordjournals.org

Poacher turns gamekeeper as first issue from ‘gold’ open access publisher Social Sciences Directory is launched

Just nine months after its creation, UK-based ‘gold’ open access publisher Social Sciences Directory announces the publication of its first issue on September 24th 2012. Social Sciences Directory is a multi-disciplinary journal that is published online-only.
It brings together both scholarly peer-reviewed research and additional value-added content (such as case studies, presentations, reports and conference proceedings), on a platform that is easily navigable and responsive to changing user behaviour. A central concept is that most research is now carried out online using keyword searches, and Social Sciences Directory simplifies the process by: removing individual journal titles in favour of a large repository; and by making the resulting content freely available. Submissions have been received from the UK, Australia, France, Brazil, India, Ethiopia, India and Kenya, whilst editors and reviewers from all over the world have offered their services, demonstrating an appetite and widespread support for the initiative.

Dan Scott, founder and director, commented:
“Having worked in subscription publishing for years, I heard academics and librarians complain about it but say there was no viable alternative. Our first issue, which has been created by a team of volunteer editors, authors and reviewers, with very little funding, will demonstrate that quality research can be rapidly peer-reviewed and published. Open access publishing provides significant benefits for authors and readers alike in widening access, allowing author copyright retention and providing better value-for-money for taxpayers. We will do so by charging very low article processing charges (GBP100/USD150/EUR120) and offering low-cost institutional memberships (GBP2,000/USD3,000/EUR2,400). Core to our thinking is that Social Sciences Directory provides a platform for published research across a broad range of disciplinary areas and from a wide international catchment. We intend to publish a regular schedule of research going forwards, as well as launching a sister website Humanities Directory in the next few months.”

The first issue will contain papers on:
· Making successful transition to retirement in Australia
· Knowledge, attitude and belief of pregnant women in India
· Gender equality in the work place

Gartner Says Worldwide Cloud Services Market to Surpass $109 Billion in 2012

The public cloud services market is forecast to grow 19.6 percent in 2012 to total $109 billion worldwide, according to Gartner, Inc. Business process services (also known as business process as a service, or BPaaS) represent the largest segment, accounting for about 77 percent of the total market, while infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is the fastest-growing segment of the public cloud services market and is expected to grow 45.4 percent in 2012.

“The cloud services market is clearly a high-growth sector within the overall IT marketplace,” said Ed Anderson, research director at Gartner. “The key to taking advantage of this growth will be understanding the nuances of the opportunity within service segments and geographic regions, and then prioritizing investments in line with the opportunities.”

BPaaS is the largest segment primarily because of the inclusion of cloud advertising as a subsegment. BPaaS is forecast to grow to $84.2 billion in 2012, up from $72 billion in 2011. In 2011, cloud advertising represented about 47 percent of the total public cloud services market, making it the biggest identifiable subsegment in the forecast. Through 2016, cloud advertising will continue to account for about 47 percent of total public cloud services spending.

Software as a service (SaaS) is the next-largest segment and is forecast to grow to $14.4 billion in 2012, while IaaS is forecast to grow from $4.3 billion in 2011 to $6.2 billion in 2012. In 2010, the IaaS market was less than one-third the size of the SaaS market. By 2016, the IaaS market will grow to almost equal the size of the SaaS market.

Growth in application infrastructure services (also known as platform as a service, or PaaS) will also be high, although it is a smaller market relative to the other segments. PaaS is strategic and considered to be a critical growth driver for other segments, including BPaaS and SaaS. The PaaS segment is forecast to grow to $1.2 billion in 2012. Cloud management and security services constitute a new forecast segment comprising cloud security services, IT operations management (ITOM) and storage management (including backup and recovery services). The cloud management and security services segment is forecast to grow to $3.3 billion in 2012.

Although North America is the largest region and is expected to produce the largest absolute increase in market size, Gartner expects the highest regional growth rates in emerging Asia/Pacific (including India and Indonesia), greater China, Eurasia (including Russia) and Latin America (including Argentina, Mexico and Brazil).

Western Europe is forecast to grow the slowest during the forecast period, largely due to ongoing eurozone economic issues, while growth will also be lower in mature Asia/Pacific markets due to ongoing economic challenges in the Japanese market.

North America will account for the greatest percentage of absolute growth in the cloud services market, with 61 percent of all growth from 2010 through 2016. Western Europe will follow, with 17 percent of absolute cloud services growth over the same period. This highlights the dominance of North America and Western Europe in the development, availability and adoption of cloud services.

High growth rates will occur in emerging markets, including the top three growth countries of India, Indonesia and China. However, 79 percent of spending increases will come from North America and Western Europe. For cloud services providers, this will require a strategic approach when considering both high-volume and high-growth markets. Both will be important in the development of sustained, global strategies.

“The total public cloud services market size in 2011 was $91.4 billion, and it will grow to $206.6 billion in 2016. As the market grows, IaaS will become a larger part of the overall market, while the market share of cloud management and security services will grow as well,” said Mr. Anderson. “When targeting specific markets within the cloud services marketplace, we recommend evaluating both potential market size and growth rates. These will vary by segment, subsegment, region and country.”

Additional information is available in the report “Forecast Overview: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2011-2016, 2Q12 Update” at http://www.gartner.com/resId=2126916.

Elsevier Launches the Legacy Collection of eBooks on ScienceDirect

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today announces digitizing its Legacy Collection in seven disciplines, expanding its content on ScienceDirect. With the addition of the Legacy Collection to ScienceDirect, highly relevant, scientific books from the mid-20th century to the present will be accessible online as early as December 2012.

“Modern scientific research builds upon what was discovered before,” said Suzanne BeDell, Managing Director, Science and Technology Books at Elsevier. “Researchers, faculty, and librarians alike will be able to efficiently access valuable foundational book content that appears in data searches in a digital format.”

Librarians at academic, corporate, and government research institutions now have the option to rapidly expand their book collections and researchers can access additional context for existing material, complementing current content across a rich range of sources. Usage patterns for existing deep backlist books on ScienceDirect provide ample evidence that researchers continue to use books published before 2000 in their work.

George A. Olah, 1994 Chemistry Nobel Laureate, Founding Director of the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and contributor to the Legacy Collection remarked, “One book, Chemistry of Energetic Materials, includes contributions from three Nobel Laureates and seven members of the National Academy of Science, It speaks for itself that this is a very active field of fundamental science with far reaching practical importance.”

The Legacy Collection content on ScienceDirect provides additional scientific strength in the following subject-based collections:

Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Engineering
Materials Science
Physics and Astronomy
Title-by-title lists can be found at the following site: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/books/legacy

The Legacy Collection marks a significant expansion of the eBook content available on ScienceDirect, which features more than 15,000 books and 2,500 journals along with more than 11 million articles, a content base that is growing at a rate of almost 0.5 million additions per year, with archives that reach as far back as 1823.

National League for Nursing partners with Lippincott Williams & Wilkins to expand publishing reach

The National League for Nursing (NLN) has teamed with Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, to expand the scope and reach of its publishing.
LWW will be the exclusive distributor of print and e-books for the NLN, and will provide market development and production support for the program. The NLN, the nation’s largest membership organization for nurse faculty and leaders in nursing education, will collaborate with LWW to determine book topics and authors, and will work with NLN members to ensure that the content meets the needs of nurse faculty.

As the first phase of this partnership, LWW is overseeing the publication of three NLN titles which will be showcased at the 2012 NLN Education Summit, which started yesterday in Anaheim, CA. More than 1,500 of the nation’s leading nurse educators and researcher will participate in this year’s summit from September 19-22, 2012. The new releases, available in print and e-book, include:

Hispanic Voices: Progreso, Poder, y Promesa
Simulation in Nursing Education: From Conceptualization to Evaluation; 2nd edition
The Scope of Practice for Academic Nurse Educators
As an additional benefit of the NLN partnership with LWW, NLN members will receive a 20 percent discount on products available via lww.com. LWW and the NLN will also work together to deliver member-only engagement opportunities.

“This partnership enables the National League of Nursing to expand the reach of our publishing, and to further drive educational outcomes that ultimately improve our nation’s health,” said Dr. Beverly Malone, CEO of the NLN. “LWW has the expertise to guide us as we build our content portfolio, support our Centers for Nursing Education, and help faculty advance in their careers. We know we can count on LWW to broaden the influence of our titles and provide our members with top notch services and support.”

A leading publisher of trusted nursing and other health content, LWW produces high quality, student-tested and faculty-endorsed resources for students, faculty, and practitioners in nursing and health-related fields. LWW’s text and review products, as well as e-books, mobile apps, and online solutions support nursing students, educators, and institutions.

“The National League for Nursing is a leading force and driver of excellence in nursing education. LWW shares the commitment to strengthen the nursing workforce,” says Susan Driscoll, CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health’s Professional and Education Group. “We look forward to collaborating with the NLN, with nurse faculty, and with key opinion leaders, to rapidly develop and promote groundbreaking offerings for faculty and student development.”

Semantico to redesign web publishing platform for Now Publishers

Semantico has won the contract to redesign the web publishing platform used to deliver Now Publishers’ highly-respected series of Foundations and Trends® reference journals. Now is a rapidly growing, forward thinking publishing house whose products make research accessible around the world.

Semantico will redesign and reengineer the existing Now platform using industry respected technologies Scolaris and SAMS. Scolaris is the next generation integrated content platform, engineered to manage the complexities of journals, ebooks, reference works and dictionaries. Scolaris promotes discoverability by providing intelligent, full-text search which allows rich taxonomy support for faceted search and browse.

SAMS, Semantico’s renowned access management system will be used to generate greater subscription opportunities for Now. SAMS is the most widely used access management system in its class and integrates seamlessly with Scolaris to control access across users and institutions, as well as providing a host of flexible options for business models and optimal monetisation of content.

The new site will showcase Now’s journals collection and Foundations and Trends® (FnT) products. Each FnT covers a major branch of a scientific discipline and provides state-of-the-art review articles by leaders in their field. Each review is up to 150 pages providing a complete review of the topic. FnT combines the peer-review of journals, the high-usage of reference works and the pedagogy of textbooks.

Mike Casey, Chairman, Now, said: “Now is a progressive publishing house. The new platform will deliver more functionality and a better user experience for our existing customers, while enabling the company to introduce the new, innovative, publishing products currently under development. We’re looking forward to working with Semantico and to launching the new platform.”

Richard Padley, Managing Director, Semantico added: “Semantico is very pleased to be working with Now, as a publisher of the highest impact factor journals in the computer science field we feel this is an apt subject area to be working in. We look forward to helping them grow their business over the coming years.”

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