Seven more university presses select Ingrams MyiLibrary e-book platform

June 20, 2012

As public, academic and professional libraries expand and develop digital offerings for patrons, more University Presses are working with Ingram and its comprehensive MyiLibrary® e-book platform to expand the reach of content to more readers worldwide.

The most recent university presses that have selected MyiLibrary to expand content reach include the University of South Carolina Press, University of Arizona Press, University of Minnesota Press, Southern Illinois University Press, University of New Mexico Press, University of Arkansas Press, and the University of Ottawa Press.

With more than 250,000 titles covering all major disciplines, Ingram’s MyiLibrary platform is the fastest growing online e-book aggregation platform for libraries. The platform offers libraries the flexibility to acquire and access content on individual title, publisher-specific, or subject collection level based on unique requirements and resources. Almost one thousand titles have been added from the most recent presses using the platform.

“At Ingram, we’re seeing a notable surge in the adoption and offering of e-books through our MyiLibrary e-book platform,” said Rich Rosy, Vice President and General Manager, Ingram Content Group library services. “We’re pleased to add more content from the world’s leading University Presses to our selection – using MyiLibrary, publishers are expanding the reach of content to the many libraries that are developing digital programs to meet the changing content needs of their patrons.”

The newest University presses that have added content to the MyiLibrary platform join Duke University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Michigan Press, Vanderbilt University Press, University of California Press, and others that are already using the platform.

Sir David Bell appointed as the next Chairman of the Cambridge University Press Syndicate

June 20, 2012

Sir David Bell will be the next Chairman of the Press Syndicate, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge has announced. Sir David will take up the position early in the new academic year.

The University of Cambridge’s statutes provide for the Vice-Chancellor or a duly appointed deputy to act as Chairman of the Press Syndicate, the body which supervises the affairs of the Press on behalf of the University, comprising senior academics from the University of Cambridge and external members.

Professor Tony Minson, former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor of Virology and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, has been Chairman of the Syndicate since 2009 and will be stepping down as planned as he approaches the end of his term.

Sir David Bell was appointed Chief Executive of the Financial Times in 1993 and was its Chairman from 1996 to 2009. In July 1998 he was also appointed Pearson’s Director for People with responsibility for the recruitment, motivation, development and reward of all its employees. Sir David Bell is a non-executive director of The Economist. He retired as a director of Pearson plc at the end of 2009 after 13 years on the Board. He is currently serving on the Leveson Enquiry.

Sir David was born in Henfield, Sussex, and educated at the University of Cambridge and the University of Pennsylvania.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, expressed his deep gratitude to Professor Minson for his transformative leadership over the past three years, and said: “Cambridge University Press, and the Syndicate which governs it, is of great strategic importance to the University. I am delighted both personally and on behalf of the University to have secured the services of so distinguished a business figure and publisher as Sir David Bell to chair the Press Syndicate in the coming years.”

Discover Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies at IACMR, Hong Kong, June 20-24

June 20, 2012

Free online access to nine Emerald journals and the complete case studies collection

Emerald Group Publishing is delighted to attend the International Association of Chinese Management Research (IACMR) Conference in Hong Kong, from June 20-24, 2012, and invites all delegates to visit the Emerald stand to find out more about the latest products and services. In line with this year’s Conference theme of “Building Ethical and Sustainable Organizations in China”, Emerald offers free online access to its complete Emerging Markets Case Studies collection as well as nine research journals with a focus on sustainability, business ethics and regional management development from June 20-July 4, by visiting http://www.emeraldinsight.com/tk/IACMR2012

The selected journals in free access reflect Emerald’s increasingly strong presence in China, including a growing portfolio of region-specific content from the Asia Pacific. The selection features the well-respected Nankai Business Review International, which Emerald publishes in association with Nankai University, Journal of Science and Technology Science in China, as well as ISI-ranked titlesChinese Management Studies and Journal of Organizational Change Management.

Also available will be the complete Emerging Markets Case Studies collection featuring over 160 teaching case studies. This collection focuses on business decision making and management development throughout key global emerging markets. It has been developed in response to increasing demand from business educators and practitioners for quality-controlled teaching cases. Written primarily by case-writers working in developing economies, it offers local perspectives with global appeal

Visitors at the Emerald stand can find out more about the company’s book publishing programme, with recently published titles such as Action Research for Sustainable Development in a Turbulent World and Entrepreneurial and Business Elites of China. Emerald also recently signed an exclusive book distribution partnership with Paths International to bring knowledge from China to scholars around the world. As part of this agreement, Emerald distributes Paths’s collection of books that have been written in China by Chinese experts and makes them available to international communities of researchers and students. For more information about Paths International’s book collection, visit www.pathsinternational.com

For more information about Emerald products and services, visit www.emeraldinsight.com/tk/IACMR2012

ebrary Announces Extended Access

June 20, 2012

New service provides the benefits of multi-user access for purchased titles with less upfront costs

Adding a new dimension to its strategic approach to ebook acquisition, ebrary®, a ProQuest business, today announced Extended Access™ for titles purchased under a single-user license. Extended Access reduces up-front costs to the library, eliminates speculative purchases of multiple copies, and prevents turn-aways when titles are in use.

“Libraries no longer need to purchase multiple copies of e-books up-front based on what they think researchers may need, and they do not have to worry about turn-aways for titles in high demand,” said Kevin Sayar, President and General Manager of ebrary. “Extended Access allows libraries to strategically and more affordably expand the availability of purchased titles for a higher return on investment.”

There are a number of ways that libraries can purchase e-books from ebrary: They can buy individual titles and packs outright, automate purchases through their e-approval plans, and buy titles that are triggered based on usage through patron driven acquisition.

With Extended Access, libraries can now more cost-effectively purchase titles under a singleuser license and ensure access. If a title is in use, and another researcher needs it, the library can upgrade to a multi-user access model when available, purchase another copy, or take a short-term loan. The process can be automated and seamless to end-users, or libraries can receive email notifications and trigger the additional purchases themselves. Extended Access also provides an advantageous way for libraries to complement their Academic Complete™ subscription with perpetual archive titles. Academic Complete, ebrary’s flagship subscription product named as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, has always offered simultaneous, multi-user access and now includes over 75,000 scholarly e-books. The thousands of libraries throughout the world who use Academic Complete as their base collection can now more affordably purchase additional titles with access on-demand.

Finch Report on Open Access released today

June 19, 2012

The Finch Report on Open Access in the UK is out: http://tiny.cc/7a44fw (PDF). If you open this document with Utopia Documents, you can see – and add – comments that will be publicly visible.

If you don’t have Utopia Documents yet, it’s free and you can download it from http://utopiadocs.com/

This report, Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications, is the product of a year’s work by a committed and knowledgeable group of individuals drawn from academia, research funders and publishing. The task which we were set was by no means straightforward. We were charged with recommending how to develop a model, which would be both effective and sustainable over time, for expanding access to the published findings of research.

There is no simple answer to the question set. Indeed had there been a simple answer there would have been no need to undertake this exercise. Members of the group represented different constituencies who have legitimately different interests and different priorities, in
relation to the publication of research and its subsequent use. What united them however was a commitment to work towards an outcome which, although inevitably not perfect from any constituency’s individual perspective, would signal an acceptable and sustainable future.

I believe that this report represents such an outcome, though inevitably there will continue to be debates about the best way of progressing these objectives. This could not have been achieved without the high level of commitment shown by group members, their willingness to cooperate in this enterprise and the sheer amount of work which was undertaken by many people – including members of three sub-groups – to get us to the final outcome. This was a working group in the fullest sense, and I am enormously grateful to all its members.

Thomson Reuters Report Shows Growth in South Korean Trademark Filings

June 17, 2012

South Korea, Asia’s fourth largest economy, has undergone rapid consumer growth and a revolution in intellectual property enforcement that has created numerous opportunities for multinational brands, according to a new report published today by the Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters. The report, Trademarks in South Korea: Branding the New Cultural Wave, highlights South Korea’s evolution into a progressive protector of digital rights and outlines best practices for firms seeking brand protection in the region.

The Thomson Reuters study finds that the ratification of the Korean Free Trade Agreement helped spur rigorous intellectual property enforcement nationwide, creating an environment that better protects brand owners. This strong culture of intellectual property protection, combined with broad-based economic growth, resulted in a 171 percent increase in trademark filing over the last 15 years in South Korea, with analysts projecting continued growth for this market.

Following are some key observations in the report:

South Korean Trademark Filing Underscores Consumer Growth: Between 1996 and 2011, trademark filing in South Korea grew by 171 percent, with the bulk of that filing focused in consumer-facing trademark classes, such as advertising, food & beverage and hotels, and clothing & footwear.

Top Filing Companies: The individual companies registering the most trademarks in 2011 represent a cross-section of industries, including electronics (LG, Samsung), cosmetics (Amorepacific) and diversified food companies (Lotte, CJ Cheil Jedang).

The World’s Strongest Anti-Piracy Laws: After seeing its burgeoning music industry nearly devastated by digital piracy, South Korea adopted some of the toughest anti-Internet piracy laws of any developed nation, incorporating a three-strike rule that will shut down websites that host copyrighted content illegally.

Best Practices – First-to-File System Presents Challenges: South Korea’s first-to-file system for trademark registration makes it essential for brand owners to file a mark well in advance of a Korean brand introduction.

The data in this report was compiled using SAEGIS on SERION^Rfrom Thomson CompuMark to identify trends in trademark applications, registrations, objections and claims between 1996 and 2012.

View the full report:
Trademarks in South Korea: Branding the New Cultural Wave

Sage Expands Open Access Publishing Portfolio Into Engineering And Medicine

June 15, 2012

A further three broad-spectrum open access journals to launch: – SAGE Open Medicine, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports and SAGE Open Engineering.

Los Angeles, CA (June 15, 2012) – SAGE today announced they are launching a further three broad-spectrum open access journals – SAGE Open Medicine, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports and SAGE Open Engineering.

The new journals build on the success of SAGE Open: the only broad-spectrum open access journal for the humanities and social sciences. Launched in March 2011, the journal has received more than 1000 submissions in its first year of publication.

All three new titles complement SAGE’s rapidly expanding portfolio in engineering and medicine, providing an even wider choice of publication opportunities for authors:

SAGE Open Engineering will be the first broad-spectrum journal dedicated to the field, focussing on all aspects of engineering and materials science.
SAGE Open Medical Case Reports will provide a vehicle for the publication for the many short case reports that often do not find a place in traditional primary research journals, but provide key insights into real medical cases essential for physicians, and ultimately help to improve patient outcomes.
SAGE Open Medicine will cover all aspects of medicine. It will welcome articles across the health sciences in the broadest sense, including all clinical medical specialties, veterinary medicine, nursing, allied health and dentistry.

The titles will be rigorously peer-reviewed by experts in the relevant fields and will not limit content due to page budgets or narrow thematic focus. Rather, they will accept articles solely on the basis of the scientific and methodological validity of each article. The journals will be supported by author-side article processing charges.

Tessa Picknett, Executive Director, Science Technology & Medicine, SAGE said: “Researchers are looking for new open access outlets for their research. SAGE’s mission is founded in the belief that education is intrinsically valuable and that the dissemination of usable knowledge is key to building a healthy society. The launch of these three new open access journals demonstrates SAGE’s willingness to embrace new models and research communication mechanisms, with the goal of disseminating vital research to the broadest community.”

The journals will be open for submissions later in the summer of 2012. For more information about SAGE’s Open Access publishing see www.sagepub.co.uk/openaccess.

Serials Solutions Helps Librarians Become More Efficient

June 14, 2012

Serials Solutions^®, a ProQuest^® business, today announced multiple new features and enhancements to its management solutions are now available. The new capabilities with 360 Resource Manager and 360 Counter focus on the ability to populate data into the resource management system more easily; improved workflows and communications; and reporting enhancements to help optimize decision making. Implementation of these services will generate immediate benefits – and accelerate the migration to a new web-scale management solution, including Intota™, which is currently in development.

“The collection of these new features and functionality is a result of user feedback, our deep understanding of ongoing challenges in eResource Management, and our commitment to delivering best-in-class solutions to the market,” said Ashley Bass, senior product manager, Serials Solutions. “Data and effective management of data is paramount to a librarian’s success in managing workflows and making decisions. These new capabilities will positively impact their ability to work more efficiently, save time and control costs.”

Librarians understand the value of a centralized repository of data for workflow efficiencies, communications, reporting, analytics and decision management. However, populating the data into the system can be a challenge. The new Data Population Services breaks this barrier by leveraging the expertise of Serials Solutions professional support and training staff. The process enables librarians to begin quickly optimizing workflow and sharing information. With the new License Template Library, users can view and copy pre-populated license data for their resources, eliminating the need to manually find and enter the information on their own.

The ability to populate disparate types of data can be achieved through a variety of product features. These new features help libraries realize a return on investment of services from Serials Solutions – even faster. These services are standards-based (such as DLF-ERMI and COUNTER), ensuring the library can convert and organize its e-resource information into structured definitions. By using 360 Resource Manager and 360 Counter now, the library will garner benefits today, while preparing its e-resource data for the future. This means that the data can be easily migrated later into Intota, the new unified collection management system under development by Serials Solutions. The company is committed to advancing the capabilities of its management solutions to meet customer requirements today, and in the future.

To learn more about these enhancements and the new features in the portfolio of management solutions, register here to attend a webinar on June 13^th.

Thomson Reuters Delivers Efficient Enterprise Access To Industry Standards With Enhanced Techstreet Subscriptions

June 14, 2012

Techstreet, a business of the Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters and the world’s leading provider of industry codes and standards, today announced the launch of the newly enhanced “Techstreet Subscriptions”. This improved enterprise offering for web-based management and distribution of Techstreet information provides technical, engineering and R&D professionals with accurate and easy access to current and relevant industry standards.

“Techstreet Subscriptions is an essential tool for any corporation seeking quick and current access to the latest industry-critical information,” said Michael Long, central quality manager, Cameron International, an enterprise-wide user of Techstreet data. “Enhanced search options and ease of use make this a powerful service that will save time and increase our employee productivity.”

The Techstreet Subscription service, which provides unlimited access to a controlled set of documents for multiple users in one or more locations, now has faster and more responsive search options to locate documents quickly. These include suggested search, filtered search and the ability to save searches for future use. Users can also learn of newly added, relevant industry standards with a new document notification center for managing content alerts. A redesigned user interface offers a clean and modern look for easy navigation.

“Techstreet Subscriptions is setting the standard as the leading web-based platform for fast, easy and accurate access to online standards across small, medium and large organizations,” said Todd Fegan, vice president and general manager of Techstreet. “We are pleased to provide our customers with the powerful tools they need to do their jobs efficiently.”

TechStreet
Techstreet, part of Thomson Reuters, uses advanced Web technologies to speed delivery of industry codes and standards to engineers and technical professionals worldwide. Anyone can freely and easily search an online database of over 500,000 codes, standards and technical books aggregated from over 350 of the world’s leading authorities. Standards are available for individual purchase in PDF and print, or as an enterprise license through Techstreet Subscriptions. For more information, visit www.techstreet.com

Edanz Journal Selector helps authors overcome publication barriers

June 13, 2012

Edanz launch a free tool for authors to match their manuscript to suitable journals

Whats New?

Free help for authors in choosing their target journal
18,000+ journals indexed
An online platform dedicated to helping scientists publish their research
State-of-the-art, patented algorithms from Parity Computing

The worldwide author community now has a dynamic new way to select the most appropriate journal in which to publish. As part of its mission to help scientists communicate their research globally, Edanz has launched the free-to-use Journal Selector as part of its Journal Advisor platform. Journal Selector, which indexes over 18,000 journals, uses state of the art semantic technology to match an author’s research to journals that publish articles on similar topics.

To Download the Press Release, click here.

The journal selector uses cutting-edge semantic technology to help authors overcome the barrier of choosing a suitable journal. Authors enter their abstract or a sample text and the Journal Selector provides a list of journals that publish in related areas. They can then refine the results based on considerations such as publication frequency, Impact Factor or publishing model, including open access.

Visit the Edanz Journal Advisor here:

http://www.edanzediting.com/journal_advisor

eLife selects HighWire to build and host anticipated new open-access journal

June 13, 2012

eLife, the new funder–researcher collaboration in science communication, has selected HighWire Press as the platform for its new open-access journal for life and biomedical science.

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.

“To further our goals to serve science and scientists with our journal, it is essential that we select a technology platform that provides a solid foundation, but is also flexible and makes it possible to do more with research content,” said Randy Schekman, the Editor-in-Chief of eLife. “We’re confident that HighWire is the right technology partner for eLife.”

eLife will take full advantage of HighWire’s Open Platform, its strategic consulting services, and community networking opportunities. The powerful technology behind the platform offers eLife the flexibility to use open-source tools such as Drupal to develop the front-end display – to create widgets, mobile versions, interactive commentary, semantic enrichment, and more.

“HighWire’s deployment of open-source technology, commitment to interoperability, and enthusiasm to work with third-party developers giveseLife tremendous opportunities to explore new territory in research communication,” added Ian Mulvany, eLife’s Head of Technology. “We wanteLife to become a catalyst for innovation – attracting and facilitating experimentation by the research community.”

“The HighWire Open Platform is designed for innovative publishers to find new ways to reach their audience,” said Tom Rump, Managing Director of HighWire. “We welcome the excitement this project brings to our co-development team, and are thrilled to be an active participant in advancing the conversation in the pursuit and exchange of knowledge.”

“HighWire is an established player hosting some of the most important journals in the world, and supporting a publishing community where open access is on the rise,” added Mark Patterson, eLife Managing Executive Editor. “We look forward to working with our colleagues to share experiences and best practices as we find our ways ahead in this exciting and ever-changing environment.”

New Open Access Publisher Introduces Innovative Business Model – Pay Once, Publish for Life

June 12, 2012

PeerJ Inc. (http://peerj.com), a new Open Access academic publishing company, formally announced itself today. Founded by seasoned academic publishing and technology professionals from PLoS ONE and Mendeley, PeerJ will publish a broad based, rapid, peer-reviewed journal (‘PeerJ’) and an innovative preprint server (‘PeerJ PrePrints’). PeerJ will open for submissions in Summer 2012, and will publish its first articles in December 2012.

“PeerJ significantly moves the needle towards universal Open Access publishing for all academics,” stated Peter Binfield, Co-Founder and Publisher of PeerJ. “We provide authors with publication at an affordable price, starting at just $99 for life; an inclusive venue in which to publish their peer reviewed research; and an innovative and dynamic approach towards academic publishing in the internet era.”

PeerJ will publish all well reported, scientifically sound research in the Biological and Medical Sciences. The journal will operate a rigorous peer review process and will deliver the highest standards in everything it does. “We have an attractive model that authors will appreciate; a great team who know what needs to be done; and the unique opportunity to take Academic Publishing to a new level. PeerJ is 100% committed to improving the academic publishing process for both authors and readers” said Binfield.

Jason Hoyt, Co-Founder and CEO, explained that “PeerJ will innovate in everything it does and will set new standards for both the publishing experience and the dissemination of research. We will go beyond publishing by building tools to be open sourced back to the academics who make PeerJ possible, as well as to interested developers. We will continue to innovate and experiment around the open access model, and we will strive to deliver an outstanding service to our authors.”

Unique among academic publishers, PeerJ provides authors with low cost lifetime memberships giving them the rights to publish their papers freely thereafter. Three membership plans exist – Basic, Enhanced and Investigator. All member plans confer lifetime rights, and the three tiers allow members to publish once, twice, or an unlimited number of times per year in PeerJ. Each author on a paper must be a member and the Basic membership plan is just $99. To celebrate the launch, PeerJ is offering discounts of $30 off the Enhanced membership and $40 off the Investigator membership until September 1, 2012 (see:http://peerj.com/pricing/).

Funding for PeerJ has come from a partnership between O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) and O’Reilly Media – as such, Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media and an Open Source leader, will join the governing Board of PeerJ. Tim was instrumental in helping to block the passage of the 2012 RWA bill in the U.S. Congress (which would have negatively affected open access to academic content in the US) and is a passionate advocate for open, unfettered communication in academia. Co-founders Binfield and Hoyt are excited to have his involvement and Tim had this to say about PeerJ: “It’s easy to forget that technological revolutions also demand business model revolutions. Open access is transformative for science publishing, not only because it spreads knowledge more efficiently, but because it slashes the cost of producing and consuming that knowledge.”

Early comments from thought leaders in the field have included the following:

“It’s exciting to see a new entrant to the Open Access publishing scene with a truly innovative business model – the flexibility of payment options that PeerJ offers to authors should encourage more researchers to choose to make their articles openly available.”
Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)

“PeerJ is more than just an innovative publishing initiative. It pulls scientific publishing back from the career-advancing service it has primarily become, restoring its origins: scholarly communication. It covers all the bases: from informal initial public exposure via preprints, via formal peer-reviewed publishing, to post publication commenting and versioning tools. All fully open, of course, and usable by people as well as computers. It has the makings to put the ‘community’ back into ‘communication’. PeerJ significantly lowers any financial barriers in the process as well, and avoids the undesirable side-effects and perverse incentives of loading the costs on accepted formal publications alone, which is what we see in current scientific publishing. I have no doubts about its success.”
Jan Velterop, Open Access pioneer

“Scholarly communication is changing, and the PeerJ business model is an interesting one that may accelerate that change and therefore deserves attention. Pete Binfield changed publishing at PLoS and is poised to do so again with PeerJ.”
Phil Bourne, Professor of Pharmacology, UCSD. Co-director of the Protein Data Bank; recipient of the Jim Gray e-Science award; and recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award.

“Clearly PeerJ is taking the open access publication model further than it has ever gone before. I’m impressed at the planning and thought in the PeerJ model, in the founding team, and in the possibilities promised by the company.”
John Wilbanks, Senior Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the ‘Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’ (the world’s largest foundation dedicated to entrepreneurship); Founder of ‘Consent to Research’ and until 2011, the Head of Science at Creative Commons.

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About PeerJ: PeerJ is a privately held Open Access publisher of scholarly scientific content, which offers researchers a lifetime membership, for a single low price, giving them the ability to publish all future articles for free. The company has two publications – a peer-reviewed journal named “PeerJ” and a preprint server called “PeerJ PrePrints”. PeerJ is based in San Francisco, CA and London, UK.

About OATV: O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) is a seed stage venture capital fund located in San Francisco, CA. OATV is in the business of funding disruptors, innovators and hackers of the status quo. OATV takes a cash efficient approach to seeding and growing businesses which creates a natural alignment with the entrepreneurs it funds. In addition to capital, OATV brings a depth of operational experience and industry relationships to amplify the efforts of its portfolio companies.

About O’Reilly Media: O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

About Open Access: Open Access is the practice of providing unrestricted, free, online access to peer-reviewed scholarly content (typically journal articles). Copyright is retained by the authors, and a Creative Commons ‘attribution license’ is commonly applied, meaning that anyone can re-use the material provided they attribute the original source.

For more information, or to schedule interviews, email press@peerj.com