IEEE approves dozens of standards and standards-development activities

August 16, 2012

IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization advancing technology for humanity, today announced dozens of new, revised and reaffirmed standards and standards-development projects. Detailed information on the standards and projects recently approved by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board is available at theIEEE-SA Standards Board Approval Web page.

Among the new standards that have been published is IEEE 2200™ – Standard Protocol for Stream Management in Media Client Devices. By defining interfaces for intelligently distributing and replicating content over heterogeneous networks, the standard is designed to support the delivery of rich media (such as high-definition and three-dimensional content) to portable devices in a way that is not limited by cost and available network bandwidth. IEEE 2200 is available for purchase at the IEEE Standards Store.

Newly published revised standards include:

IEEE 802.16™ – Standard for local and metropolitan area networks Part 16: Air Interface for Broadband Wireless Access Systems. The standard is designed to support rapid worldwide deployment of innovative, cost-effective and interoperable products from multiple vendors for broadband wireless access (BWA), facilitating competition by providing alternatives to wireline broadband access, encouraging consistent worldwide spectrum allocations and accelerating commercialization of BWA systems. This standard specifies the air interface, including the medium access control and physical layers (MAC and PHY), of combined fixed and mobile point-to-multipoint BWA systems. IEEE 802.16 is available for purchase at the IEEE Standards Store.

IEEE 1815™ – Standard for Electric Power Systems Communications – Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3). The standard is intended to extend DNP3 protocol structure, functions and interoperable application options for the smart grid. It is designed to provide flexible support of varied applications from low-cost distribution feeder devices to full-featured systems. IEEE 1815 is available for purchase at the IEEE Standards Store.

IEEE C37.104™ – Guide for Automatic Reclosing of Circuit Breakers for AC Distribution and Transmission Lines. The standard describes present practices automatic reclosing control of circuit breakers on both transmission and distribution lines, as well as application considerations and coordination practices. IEEE C37.104 is available for purchase at the IEEE Standards Store.

IEEE-SA also reaffirmed standards, including IEEE 139™-1988 (R2006) – Recommended Practice for the Measurement of Radio Frequency Emission from Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) Equipment Installed on User’s Premises. The standard describes procedures for inspection and radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic field measurement in evaluating equipment such as dielectric and induction industrial heaters, medical diathermy, ultrasonic equipment, RF plasma devices and RF stabilized welders. These procedures are designed to help ensure that the equipment does not interfere with radio communications, navigation and other essential radio services. IEEE 139 is available for purchase at the IEEE Standards Store.

Among the standards-development projects that IEEE-SA approved is IEEE P2030.4™ – Draft Guide for Control and Automation Installations Applied to the Electric Power Infrastructure. When completed, this document is designed to provide guidance in applying the smart grid interoperability reference model (SGIRM) of IEEE 2030 – Guide for Smart Grid Interoperability of Energy Technology and Information Technology Operation with the Electric Power System (EPS), and End-Use Applications and Loads – in the development of control and automation components for the smart grid. IEEE P2030.4 is planned to outline the requirements of designing control and automation applications while adhering to a common open architecture.

Also, the IEEE-SA approved the standards-development project, IEEE P2030.100™ – Draft Recommended Practice for Implementing an IEC 61850 Based Substation Communications, Protection, Monitoring and Control System. When completed, this recommended practice is intended to outline the necessary steps and procedures a utility should undertake to implement an IEC 61850 substation in a multi-vendor equipment environment. IEEE P2030.100 is planned to be a practical, working implementation guide addressing equipment configuration, procurement specification, documentation procedures and general design philosophy.

OCLC publishes bibliographic linked data for most widely held works in WorldCat

August 16, 2012

OCLC has published bibliographic linked data for the most widely held works in WorldCat. This downloadable file—representing nearly 1.2 million resources—contains approximately 80 million linked data “triples,” the term for the most granular relationship possible between discrete pieces of information.

“This is an important step for libraries and linked data,” said Richard Wallis, OCLC Technology Evangelist. “Organizations wishing to develop linked data services can experiment with this data set before going into full development. They’ll also be able to stress-test new services using a very large and important set of up-to-date, linked library data. We are really interested to see what people will do with this data.”

The linked data is provided as RDF serialization, and uses the Schema.org ontology as well as library extensions to Schema.org that OCLC has been working on with members and partners over the last year. It is being made available, under an ODC-BY data license, in a single, 1-gigabyte, compressed (GZip) file, which can be downloaded from here.

While WorldCat contains bibliographic records for more than 275 million items, the choice was made to select the most widely held materials for this release in order to help keep the file at a manageable size. Jeff Young, the OCLC Research software architect who did much of the modeling necessary to generate the linked data file, explains, “To make the cut, a resource had to be held by at least 250 libraries. This seemed to us to be a good balance between providing widely useful data while making it reasonably manageable for most uses.”

“OCLC expects that the file will be useful as a source of raw data. Information about works, authors and publishers can be dissected and recombined in this format much more easily,” Mr. Young said. “This provides a great tool for researchers in library science, as well as those who may want to do cultural, historical, sociological or other research based on the rich data libraries have been contributing to WorldCat for decades.”

Mike Teets, OCLC Vice President for Innovation, added, “This release will make it easier for the wider linked data community—commercial providers, retail organizations, researchers and scholars—to include library information in their workflows. It will also make it easier for libraries to do the same in reverse, connecting their materials back to the Web through services that people use every day.”

In June 2012, OCLC added Schema.org tags to WorldCat.org records, improving the way in which library information is represented to search engines. OCLC has also developed linked data resources for the Dewey Decimal Classification System, FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) and the VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) service. The release of these 1.2 million records as linked data is the next step in OCLC’s linked data strategy.

“We are focusing our efforts on getting WorldCat data into accessible forms for local experimentation and development,” explained Mr. Teets, “with the objective that this will promote libraries as a trusted hub for linked data.”

“This really is an effort that requires input from many sources,” continued Mr. Teets. “Designing and generating linked data in this way requires many vocabulary and modeling choices, and we want to get as much input and commentary from the library community as possible.”

To take part in the discussion about library linked data, sign up to participate in the linked data discussion forum on the OCLC Developer Network or send your thoughts via e-mail to data@oclc.org.

Elsevier Acquires Atira, a Provider of Research Management Solutions

August 16, 2012

Elsevier, the leading global provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today the acquisition of Atira, a provider of software and tools that help academic institutions and researchers manage and improve their research outcomes. Atira complements Elsevier’s SciVal by expanding the scope of data to report on research activities across an academic institution, and by broadening the range of tools and dashboards to analyse those data.

“Universities, research institutes and funding bodies increasingly want to have a clear and holistic view of their research inputs, throughputs and outputs” said Nick Fowler, Elsevier’s Managing Director, Academic and Government Institutions. “Atira’s software and tools help these institutions get an up-to-date and dynamic picture of their funding sources, research groups, collaborations, publications, citations, and commercial activities. This information helps them to focus and manage resources in order to achieve their desired research outcomes.”

Atira’s main product, Pure, is a flexible research information system that enables the planning, evaluation and reporting of research activities. Pure accesses, extracts, incorporates and normalizes data from internal data sources such as human resources, finance and grant awards systems, from research projects’ progress reports, from subscribed datasets such as Scopus and from other proprietary and public datasets, to enable a complete picture of the research enterprise. Pure makes it easy to aggregate, process and visualize these disparate data sources into dashboards and tools, enabling research leaders to monitor and manage their institutions’ research activities and to identify opportunities for improvement, e.g., to win more grants, retain strong performers, and demonstrate impact to attract funding and talent. Funding bodies and government departments also have an increasing thirst to coll ect, evaluate and analyze data. Pure’s tools help support this purpose by helping universities submit data, for example, to national assessment exercises such as the UK’s Research Excellence Framework.

“Atira and Elsevier both aim to provide quality information that helps institutions and researchers monitor and manage their research outcomes” said Thomas Jørgensen, Director of Atira. “We are excited to join Elsevier because by leveraging their global reach we can make our solutions available to more academic and government institutions around the world more quickly, while continuing to serve our current markets.”

Atira is a Danish company founded in 2002 and operating in Northern Europe. Its technical domain is computer science and software engineering with a focus on server-side software architecture and systems integration. Financial details of the acquisition are not being disclosed.

ACS Publications and CAS jointly launch Reference QuickView

August 16, 2012

ACS Publications and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the information divisions of the American Chemical Society (ACS), announced jointly today the introduction ofReference QuickView, a dynamic new feature powered by CAS’ SciFinder^® that enables readers of web content to view directly the text of abstracts linked to bibliographic citations within an ACS Publications journal article or book chapter.

Reference QuickView enables readers viewing the full-text HTML version of an ACS article to scan abstracts from the broader literature, across millions of citations drawn from a broad array of scientific disciplines covered by CAS. Navigational features facilitate quick review of an article’s references and corresponding abstracts. Links to the Reference QuickView display are placed conveniently in-line within footnotes found in the article text.

Abstract content is drawn from across the chemical literature from publications before 1907 to the present, as indexed by scientists at CAS. Reference QuickView is available for research articles and book chapters published since 2010, across the ACS portfolio of 41 high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly journals and ACS Symposium Seriesbooks.

Researchers using Reference QuickView can dig deeper into the research literature by selecting “View Full Text Options” to access the full text of the cited reference, or they can choose “More from SciFinder^®” for a pathway to the corresponding CAS Reference Detail page, where they can discover more about substances, reactions, related structures, patents and other specifics. A video highlighting the key benefits and functionality of Reference QuickView can be found on ACS Publications’ YouTube channel via the following URL:www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyYP_1fCRCo.

“This new streamlined browsing experience is a unique benefit of the ACS Web Editions platform. We view this as an important step forward for ACS Publications, and a significant benefit to the millions of researchers that visit ACS Journals each month,” said Jonathan Morgan, director of Digital Strategy & Platform Development. “Providing expanded, immediate access to information that aids scientists in the discovery process, and facilitates their ability to quickly assess the relevance of a paper, is a priority for our web development and IT teams. It’s also another example of the power behind ACS Publications’ partnership with CAS and SciFinder^®, and what those collaborative efforts can offer to the broader chemistry enterprise.”

Reference QuickView is just one of the many powerful, collaborative features that have been co-developed by ACS Publications and CAS. Other examples in recent years have included article-level substance, reaction and patent links to SciFinder^® from ACS articles, CA Section subject tagging for ACS articles, and the appearance of ACS Journal TOC graphics and reaction narratives within SciFinder^®.

“Chemists and other scientists around the world rely on SciFinder^®every day to explore research covered in the CAS databases, the most complete, authoritative collection of disclosed chemistry information. The new Reference QuickView feature is another ACS advancement that helps scientists leverage the unique combination of the prestigious chemistry journals from ACS enhanced with information from SciFinder^®,” added Kirk Schwall, director of SciFinder^® Product Development.

A Push Grows Abroad for Open Access to Publicly Financed Research

August 16, 2012

Researchers, publishers, and librarians have spent a lot of this year firing up the longstanding debate over access to published research. You’ve probably heard the big questions: Who gets to see the results of work the public helps pay for, when should they get to see it, and who’s going pay for it? This summer, the fervor has gone global, with policy makers in Britain, elsewhere in Europe, and in Australia signaling that they’re ready to come up with some answers. Details vary from country to country and proposal to proposal, but the overall warming trend looks very clear.

Last month, David Willetts, the British minister in charge of universities and science, announced that the government had accepted almost all the recommendations in a June report from the Finch Group, a committee set up to explore how to broaden access to published research. Janet Finch, a sociologist and university administrator, led the group, which included several publishers’ representatives as well as open-access advocates and other interested parties.

In its response, the government endorsed the idea that publication in open-access journals (or in hybrid OA journals, in which only some of the content is open) should be the goal. It said that public-sector agencies that support research, like Research Councils UK, should find effective, flexible ways to help cover publishing costs while maintaining as much open access to research results as possible.

And in a statement that ought to gladden the hearts of fair-use advocates, the government said: “Support for open-access publication should be accompanied by policies to minimize restrictions on the rights of use and re-use, especially for non-commercial purposes.”

Soon after the British government endorsed the Finch Report, Research Councils UK issued its own updated policy on open access. It spelled out the expectation that researchers whose work is supported by the councils will “maximize the opportunities to make their results available for free.” Then the European Commission weighed in, announcing on July 17 that it would make open access “a general principle of Horizon 2020,” the European Union’s framework for supporting research from 2014-20.

In Denmark, meanwhile, a group of government research councils had already come out strongly in favor of open access in late June, in a move that got very little attention elsewhere but adds to the collective momentum for policy changes that we’re seeing on that side of the Atlantic.

“The funding agencies in Europe are coming down pretty strongly on the idea that the research they fund should be freely available,” said Michael B. Eisen, an associate professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley and one of the founders of the Public Library of Science, or PLoS, a heavily used open-access publisher. That position “sets a lot of things in motion,” he said.

To continue reading the report by By Jennifer Howard please visit – http://chronicle.com/article/Push-for-Open-Access-to/133561/

HighWire appoints Hugh Blackbourn to lead UK customer support team

August 16, 2012

HighWire Press is delighted to announce that Hugh Blackbourn has been appointed Senior Publication Manager, leading HighWire’s customer support team based in the United Kingdom.

Hugh is an experienced publisher, having spent nearly 4 years as Head of Publishing for the Wellcome Trust, where he was responsible for all web and print publications profiling the Trust’s activities. While there, he helped formulate the proposal that would become eLife, a researcher‐led digital publication to be hosted on HighWire later this year.

“I have been a HighWire fan for some time,” said Hugh from his London office. “This is a wonderful opportunity to add my expertise to an organization focused on supporting and extending the reach and influence of research communication.”

“I am absolutely thrilled to have someone so experienced ‐ and demonstrably successful ‐ in research, publishing, and business join the HighWire team,” says Mark Johnson, HighWire’s Director of Publisher Relations. “Hugh is going to be a tremendous resource for our clients in the UK and Europe.”

Hugh is a biologist by training, with a PhD from Reading University followed by postdoctoral research at both Reading and Cambridge University. He left academia to become the launch Editor of Trends in Plant Science, and subsequently became the Managing Editor of a range of Trends titles.

Prior to working at the Wellcome Trust, Hugh was a publisher at Nature Publishing Group, where he led the Nature Reviews collection of journals (2004‐2007), launched Nature Protocols, and later led the Nature Life Sciences collection of journals (2007‐2008). In addition to his editorial and business development work, he obtained an MBA from The Open University in 2003.

Wolters Kuwers Ovid released OvidOpenAccess

August 16, 2012

Immediate and Unrestricted Access, via OvidSP, to Thousands of Full-Text Resources from Peer-Reviewed and Scholarly International Journals

Today’s medical and scientific professionals—whether they’re involved in research or clinical practice—require easy access to research material that’s published everywhere in the world so they can keep up-to-date on the latest theories and practices and improve healthcare outcomes. That’s why the Open Access publishing model—which enables the free and fast flow of important papers, studies, and articles—is so critical to the research life cycle.

The benefits of Open Access publishing include:

Immediate access to unrestricted research—including evidence-based material—produced by medical and healthcare professionals located all over the world
Discovery of hard-to-find research published globally
A shared forum for the public discussion of current and up-to-date medical research
Increased visibility for authors of cutting-edge research
Easy dissemination of important research findings, especially for educational purposes
Cost reductions for budget-challenged institutions and those in emerging economies

With OvidOpenAccess, all institutional subscribers to OvidSP can offer their users an opportunity to discover relevant Open Access material alongside their subscribed Ovid content in a single integrated search – at no additional cost.

This freely available content is displayed in a separate and easily identifiable search results set and includes:

Growing list of over 70,000 journal articles and abstracts from more than 200-peer reviewed and highly cited clinical and research journals published by Medknow Publications, one of the world’s largest Open Access publishers and affiliated with more than 160 professional medical societies and associations
Bibliographic citations of articles published in more than 1,000 unembargoed journals accessible through PMC (formerly known as PubMed Central), a critical digital source of biomedical literature—much of it hard-to-find archival material—from the U.S. National Institutes of Health
Wide variety of medical and scientific disciplines, including nursing, general medicine, pharmacology, and alternative medicine, as well as evidence-based medicine and research

Plus—users can use save and export their OvidOpenAccess search results into a project or folder in My Projects!

Allen Press, Inc., Releases 2012 Study on Scholarly Journal Pricing

August 15, 2012

Allen Press, Inc., publisher and printing services provider, has released the 2012 Study of Subscription Prices for Scholarly Society Journals (http://allenpress.com/resources/education/jps).

The study, published regularly, has evolved as a result of the current economic climate and the changing nature of scholarly publishing. The study summarizes data on historical prices over the past two years from approximately 220 publications appearing in the Allen Press Buyer’s Guide to Scientific, Medical, and Scholarly Journals™as well as more than 20 society/association publishers who were surveyed about pricing trends and future plans for their publications.

A new component provides an overview of the challenges facing libraries with potential impact on scholarly publishers. This includes insights into how libraries make purchasing and cancellation decisions in the 21st century. In addition, the study reports on industry trends pertaining to content distribution and subscription models.

“The study was originally conceived as a tool to guide society publishers in setting prices for their publication. In recent years, in light of the changes affecting scholarly publishers and libraries, it has evolved into much, much more. Our goal is to provide society and association publishers with an overview of the issues facing libraries and publishers and insight about what initiatives other scholarly publishers are considering in response to user preferences and budget challenges,” said Melanie Dolechek, Director of Publishing and Marketing at Allen Press.

The free publication is now available on the Allen Press website at http://allenpress.com/resources/education/jps. You may also request a printed copy from the website.

Totally agrees partnership with BMJ Evidence Centre for the shared decision making programme

August 15, 2012

Totally, the AIM quoted digital health and technical solutions company, is pleased to announce it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the BMJ Evidence Centre, part of the BMJ Group, to assist the Company in the delivery of the £1.6 million national NHS Shared Decision Making contract that Totally secured and announced in February 2012.

The BMJ Evidence Centre’s clinical information specialists search and appraise the medical literature to provide a robust evidence base. Writers and editors on the consumer health team liaise with clinical experts and patient representatives to deliver practical and innovative shared decision making tools that enable patients to make the right decisions about their own healthcare options.

Under the terms of the agreement the BMJ Evidence centre will provide the evidence base and the editorial for patient decision aids (“PDA”) in thirty five long term condition disease areas.

These PDAs will sit on top of the interactive web based ‘SANDY’ system, which Totally has built for the NHS and which forms the basis of the National Shared Decision Making platform. Totally will also organise the Medical advisory groups, who will help with scoping the outline of the various PDAs, before the evidence and editorial work begins.

The content of the patient decision aids will also be available via mobile applications and are planned to be embedded into GP databases and linked up to IT systems throughout the NHS via the ‘SANDY’ system.

This represents an important partnership between Totally Health and the BMJ Evidence Centre. The Company fully expects that the partnership will form the basis of a solid evidence base for the National Shared Decision Making programme for many years to come.

Commenting on this strategic partnership, Totally Chief Executive Officer, Clare Thompson, said:

“It is very important for the patient decision aids to have a robust, transparent evidence base that can be translated into easily understandable patient information. We are delighted that the BMJ Evidence Centre is working with us on this project”.

Tracy Eastman, Director of the BMJ Evidence Centre said:

“We believe that the patient decision aids provide crucial information for patients as they make decisions about their health. The BMJ working in close collaboration with Totally Health and the NHS representatives are constantly striving to ensure that patients and clinicians have access to evidence based knowledge to inform their decision-making and choices.

LWW Announces Enhancements to Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor Online Point-of-Care Reference

August 15, 2012

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, announced today that it has incorporated several evidence-based content enhancements to Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor, an online clinical decision-support solution used by nurses in hospitals and other healthcare institutions. Key upgrades include the establishment a dedicated pediatric specialty area and access to a supplemental health library of popular reference eBooks. Offering comprehensive, easy-to-access content, Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor provides the fastest answers to the questions nurses seek at the point-of-care.

The new pediatric specialty area was created by the revision of existing pediatric content and the addition of 37 new disease entries and 37 new nursing care plans, each designed to guide nurses through all aspects of clinical care. The pediatric section now boasts a total of 71 disease entries and the same number of care plans.

With these additions, Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor now includes over 500 individual disease entries and a total of more than 3,000 collective entries of critical, evidence-based information spanning diseases, treatments, diagnostic tests, drugs, signs & symptoms, nursing care plans and patient education. Using the system’s proprietary synoptic search, the product delivers the appropriate entry within seconds of a nurse’s inquiry.

“Our goal is to keep Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor comprehensive and current without sacrificing any of the speed or ease-of-use that make it so popular with nurses,” said Judith McCann, MSN, RN, Chief Nurse, Professional & Education, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. “The addition of the new pediatric section helps bolster our strength in this important area yet still allows nurses to find what they are looking for quickly without having to wade through a sea of superfluous content.”

The other key upgrade provides access to a supplemental library of 15 nursing-reference eBooks that have been integrated into the product’s architecture to provide in-depth, supplemental information when nurses need it for further reference. A total of 30 eBooks will be available in January 2013 and more will be added in the future. Some of the most prominent nursing- and physician-oriented titles include Cardiac Nursing, 6e (Woods et al); The Clinical Practice of Neurological and Neurosurgical Nursing, 6e (Hickey); Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice, 9e (Nettina); and Wound Care Essentials: Practice Principles, 3e (Baranoski and Ayello).

“Access to the supplemental health library adds a second layer of decision support at the back-end of a search without bogging down the search process,” continued McCann. “In addition to nurses, hospital educators and administrators also approve of Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor because it’s a reliable, turnkey solution that they can quickly adapt and implement into their institutions to ensure consistency across departments and hospitals in a system.”

Written by nurses for nurses, Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor is the leading nurse-centric resource designed for online and mobile point-of-care environments. In use in hospitals and healthcare institutions worldwide, the product is accessible from any Internet-enabled device including PCs and mobile devices such as iPad and Android tablets. Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor is part of Lippincott’s Nursing Solutions, a series of evidence-based nursing products that improves patient outcomes, enhances nurse competency, standardizes care and promotes clinical excellence.

NPG invites submissions for Experimental & Molecular Medicine journal

August 15, 2012

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is inviting submissions for Experimental & Molecular Medicine (EMM)following its publishing partnership with the Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (KSBMB). NPG will co-publish EMM, South Korea’s highest ranked journal, on nature.com from January 2013. Submissions can now be made at www.nature.com/emm.

EMM publishes original research papers and reviews on genetic, molecular and cellular studies of human physiology and diseases. Research areas include cancer biology; immunology; neuroscience; cardiovascular biology; metabolic diseases; genetics and genomics; gene therapy; and stem cells and regenerative medicine. The journal seeks to highlight the improved clinical benefits for human health from experimental and translational research performed using specific molecular tools.

The international editorial board is led by Editor-in-Chief Professor Dae-Myung Jue, of the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul. With the move to NPG, content will be published as open access, freely available to researchers worldwide. An article-processing charge (APC) will be levied per article accepted for publication, and authors have a choice of two Creative Commons licenses.

“We are pleased to have partnered with NPG and look forward to publishing EMM on the renowned nature.com platform,” said Professor Dae-Myung Jue. “We hope to develop our journal within the community by sharing the latest developments in experimental and medical research to a wider global audience.”

“We are delighted to have signed our first publishing partnership in Korea,” said Dugald McGlashan, Publisher of NPG’s Asia-Pacific Academic Journals. “We look forward to receiving our first manuscript submissions through nature.com and are working closely with the KSBMB to ensure a successful transition to nature.com in 2013.”

NPG publishes 60 journals that have either an open access option or are entirely open access. 58 of its 62 academic and society publications (94%) have introduced open access options or are open access journals. A full list of open access titles that NPG publishes is available on nature.com.

Wiley to Sell Travel Publishing Program to Google

August 14, 2012

On March 7, 2012, John Wiley & Sons, announced that it intends to explore opportunities to sell a number of its consumer print and digital publishing assets in its Professional/Trade business as they no longer align with the company’s long-term business strategy. Those assets include travel (including the well-known Frommer’s brand), culinary, general interest, nautical, pets, crafts, Webster’s New World, and CliffsNotes.

On August 10, 2012, Wiley entered into a definitive agreement to sell all of its travel assets, including all of its interests in the Frommer’s brand, to Google. Proceeds from this sale, and others that may arise from the sale of other consumer assets, will be redeployed to support growth opportunities in Professional/Trade; Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly; and Global Education businesses.