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New Editor-in-Chief appointed for Physica Scripta

Dr Suzy Lidström has been announced as the new Editor-in-Chief of Physica Scripta, a leading international journal for experimental and theoretical physics.

Dr Lidström is currently self-employed, working with Swedish researchers on their publications. She undertakes a range of tasks from proofreading and copy-editing through to assisting with funding applications.

She has a degree in physics with applied physics from Sussex University, UK and a PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden, where she studied the diffusion of particles in metals. The department used nuclear techniques, such as muon spin rotation spectroscopy, to study solid state phenomena. Experiments were conducted at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, CERN and TRIUMF.

At Uppsala University, Dr Lidström worked with Professor Roger Wäppling, the outgoing Editor-in-Chief of Physica Scripta. In the past she worked as an Editor at Shell Research on a wide variety of subjects, from engineering and pure physics to safety-related research and oil extraction.

Dr Lidström’s research and business experience makes her a natural fit to lead Physica Scripta. She also brings to the journal a tremendous enthusiasm for the public understanding of science.

Dr Lidström said of her appointment: “I am very much looking forward to starting in my new role and working with the Physica Scripta editorial board and publishing staff. The journal has grown significantly under Professor Wäppling’s leadership and so I have a difficult but exciting challenge ahead of me – to maintain Physica Scripta’s reputation and to augment it.”

Professor Wäppling will officially hand over his role to Dr Lidström in February 2012 but will continue to act as consultant to the editorial board for the next few months. Professor Wäppling has done an impressive job of taking the journal forward over the past 15 years, particularly in helping to grow its levels of submissions, which increased by 20% between 2010 and 2011.

Professor Wäppling said “Working with Physica Scripta as Editor-in-Chief for the past 15 years and as Scientific Advisor for 10 years prior to that has been a real honour. I was particularly pleased to celebrate the journal’s 40th anniversary last year and work with the Nobel Foundation to publish the biographies of the 2010 Nobel Prize laureates.”

Two editorials from Professor Wäppling and Dr Lidström will be published in the March and April issues of Physica Scripta.

California Digital Library Joins PKP as Major Development Partner in Open Access Publishing

As the scholarly publishing landscape heats up with more talk of boycotts and Open Access mandates, research libraries increasingly find themselves at a crossroads between publishers and faculty — and eagerly working to provide new solutions to entrenched problems.  The California Digital Library’s (CDL) latest foray into this space, on behalf of the University of California system, focuses on supporting open source publishing infrastructure through a major development partnership with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP).

As a result of this agreement, the CDL will assist with PKP’s ongoing development and support of its open source software suite — Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems (OCS), and Open Harvester System (OHS), with Open Monograph Press (OMP) due for release in the coming year.

Chuck Eckman, Dean of Library Services at Simon Fraser University stated: “The California Digital Library is widely recognized for its record of innovation and leadership in the domain of scholarly publishing and the SFU Library is thrilled at the prospects this new collaborative venture creates for advancing our shared scholarly communication goals.”  Laine Farley, Executive Director of CDL, noted, “Not only are we extremely pleased with the flexibility afforded by OJS, we are also delighted to join this growing international community and contribute to the future growth of this publishing solution.”

The California Digital Library, in partnership with the University of California campus libraries, supports and encourages open access publishing initiatives within the UC system through its eScholarship publishing and institutional repository platform. eScholarship provides a suite of open access, scholarly publishing services and research tools that enable departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship.  Home to 45 peer-reviewed journals (http://escholarship.org/uc/search?smode=browse;browse-journal=aa), eScholarship has recently transitioned to OJS as its journal management and submission system and has integrated OJS with its pre/post-print, books and working papers repository, which contains more than 45,000 UC-affiliated publications.

John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University, Library Scholar in Residence and Professor (Limited Term) in Publishing Studies at Simon Fraser University, and founding Director of PKP stated: “Given the leadership, innovation, and engagement shown by CDL in moving scholarly communication into a digital era marked by a spirit of greater openness and sharing aimed at the advancement of learning, this partnership provides a wonderful opportunity for PKP to further explore ways that faculty and librarians can work together to make more of what we do more of a public good.”

The California Digital Library provides digital library development and support for the University of California libraries and the communities they serve.  The CDL Publishing Group delivers open access digital publication services to the University of California academic community, supports widespread distribution of UC research materials, and fosters new models of scholarly publishing through the development and application of advanced technologies. (For further information contact Catherine Mitchell, director of CDL Publishing at catherine.mitchell@ucop.edu 510.587.6132.)

PKP is dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research.  With more than 11,500 installations of Open Journal Systems (OJS); Open Conference Systems (OCS); and Open Harvester Systems (OHS) around the world, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) has proven that open source software can be a game changer in scholarly publishing.

In September 2011, PKP officially launched a major sustainability campaign to ensure the continued development and enhancement of its open source software suite and to provide better support for the growing PKP user community.  To find out more about this initiative and how your site can become a PKP sponsor visit the PKP Web site at http://pkp.sfu.ca.

Source: http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2012/02/07/california-digital-library-joins-pkp-as-major-development-partener-in-open-access-publishing/

EBSCO Publishing releases MEDLINE Complete, expands access to leading content for biomedical research

EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) continues to expand access to leading content for biomedical research with the release of MEDLINE Complete®.MEDLINE Complete is the largest full-text companion to the MEDLINE index ever assembled and provides full text for more than 1,850 journals. This wide-ranging file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the MEDLINE index — available inMEDLINE Complete with no embargo.
MEDLINE Complete provides authoritative journal coverage of the following disciplines: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences as well as many other areas. With coverage dating back to 1857 and full-text back to 1865, MEDLINE Complete is the definitive research tool for medical literature.
Users of MEDLINE Complete can access the resource anytime and anywhere using EBSCO’s mobile technology. All databases available through EBSCOhost®, are available through one or more mobile applications that are supported by most mobile devices.
MEDLINE Complete is part of a growing collection of multidisciplinary medical resources offered by EBSCO including: DynaMed ™, CINAHL®, Nursing Reference Center™, Rehabilitation Reference Center™ and Cochrane Collection Plus.

Southern Medical Journal now available for the iPad

In keeping with its mission of helping physicians to provide the best possible care to patients in an era of rapidly changing medical practice, the Southern Medical Journal (SMJ) is now available for the iPad®. The official journal of the Southern Medical Association,SMJ is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

Having switched to an online-only format in 2010, SMJ continues to be progressive in its use of digital technology with the launch of an iPad app. “Our new iPad app furthers SMJ’s mission by delivering essential content on interdisciplinary disease management,” comments G. Richard Holt, MD, MSE, MPH, MABE, Editor-in-Chief of SMJ. “Southern Medical Journal for the iPad presents critical research and commentary in a mobile format that will help our readership make the most of their limited time to keep up with new clinical information.”

“The Southern Medical Association is a very innovative organization that embraces technology as a means of better serving its members, so it is appropriate that Southern Medical Journal is now available on the iPad,” comments Karen Abramson, President & CEO, Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research. “Making its valuable content available digitally will help to make this respected journal more convenient and accessible than ever.”

Valuable Clinical Updates in a Mobile Format
The new SMJ for the iPad app is available for download on the iTunes App StoreSM. The February issue is the first issue available for the iPad, with free access being made available to all users for a limited time. After this introductory period, SMA members and non-member individual subscribers will continue to have full access via a simple login process. Each monthly issue will be posted on the same schedule as the current online-only journal.

Published continuously since 1908, SMJ provides a multidisciplinary focus on a broad range of topics of interest to physicians and other healthcare specialists. Topics covered range from general medicine and surgery to the medical and surgical subspecialties, along with child and maternal health, mental health, emergency and disaster medicine, public health and environmental medicine, and bioethics and medical education.

Southern Medical Journal for the iPad uses optimized digital technology to provide a print-like reading experience. Along with the full contents of each monthly issue, the SMJ app delivers an enhanced reading experience with such features as adjustable text and image sizing via the “pinch and zoom” function, the ability to share articles via email and social media, and more.

Southern Medical Journal continues to be available via the SMJ website, and the app includes a link to the site, where users can view supplemental data and browse the complete journal archives. The app was developed by the SMA’s publishing partner, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Emerald strengthens its portfolio with 8 new titles in 2012

Emerald Group Publishing Limited, a leading independent publisher of global research with impact in business, society, public policy and education has announced eight new journals scheduled for launch in 2012.  These additional journals will publish high-quality research from emerging and fast-growing fields of study, including such areas as organizational ethnographies, entrepreneurship and sustainability.

New titles strengthening Emerald’s Social Sciences portfolio include: Asian Education and Development Studies, International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies and the International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education.

Additions to Emerald’s Business, Management and Economics portfolio include: the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, theInternational Journal of Emergency Services, the Journal of Organizational Ethnography  – and strengthening Emerald’s Built Environment portfolio, Smart and Sustainable Built Environment.

As an international publisher, Emerald continues to build its presence in emerging countries with an active new launch programme for region specific publications. 2012 sees the launch of the South Asian Journal of Global Business Research, which is sponsored by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology in Pakistan.  Supported by an international Editorial Advisory Board, this new title will publish business research from and about SE Asia, and fuse together eastern and western research endeavours.

Full editorial details of each journal can be accessed at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/new/forthcoming.htm

Emerald remains committed to strengthening its portfolio through new launch and acquisition activity, working with eminent academics from leading faculties and business schools from around the world.  These new journals have established key links with some of the best-known organizations in their fields, which include in 2012, the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the British Educational Research Association.

To find out more about Emerald’s new launch and acquisition activity, visit http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/new/index.htm

Established Journal Evolutionary Applications to Publish Under Open Access Model

Wiley-Blackwell, today announced that Evolutionary Applications has joined the Wiley Open Access publishing program. All newly published articles in the journal will be open access and free to view, download and share for non-commercial use.

Since its launch in 2008, Evolutionary Applications has attracted very high quality submissions and has attained an Impact Factor of 5.145, as well as winning the 2009 ALPSP award for the best new journal.

Liz Ferguson, Publisher of Evolutionary Applications at Wiley-Blackwell comments: “This is the first journal that Wiley has converted to publish under an open access model. Evolutionary Applications is a great fit with our new Wiley Open Access publishing program; our substantial presence in this area and our growing experience with open access makes us confident that the journal will continue to go from strength to strength and appeal to both authors and readers under an open access model.”

Evolutionary Applications continues to publish under the direction of Louis Bernatchez, Editor-in-Chief, and Michelle Tseng, Founding and Managing Editor. “I’m very excited about this new development for Evolutionary Applications,” says Tseng. “This open access initiative combined with our double-blind reviewing process, and the fact that we remain the only journal specializing in applied evolutionary biology, reaffirms our status among the most innovative journals in the field.”

Louis Bernatchez adds, “Everyone will now be able to read the journal irrespective of specialty, host institution or location. The open access article publication charge model will also allow the journal to grow in size without the constraints of a page budget, and thus keep better pace with our yearly increase in high-quality submissions.”

Evolutionary Applications will publish all articles under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. A publication fee will be payable by authors or their funder on acceptance of their articles.

Please visit the Evolutionary Applications website for further information and future updates.

Publishing Technology announces new appointment

Publishing Technology, the largest provider of software and services to the publishing industry, has appointed Kevin Haskins as Senior Business Development Executive.

Haskins brings to Publishing Technology a wealth of system and service sales experience from multiple technology verticals including digital marketing, financial, political and non-profit and at one time sold content for CQ Press.  He will work from the company’s North American offices in Somerset, New Jersey and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he will be working alongside Director of Business Development, Linda Reiss on sales of the company’s enterprise applications suite advance in the United States and Canada.

Built on over 30 years of industry expertise, advance is the next generation of information management solutions, providing a flexible platform designed to drive efficiencies across the publishing process.  Haskins will be responsible for developing new leads for the advance modules Product Manager, Contracts, Rights & Royalties, Order to Cash and Relationship Manager within publishing and related industries

Randy Petway, EVP Strategy and Development at Publishing Technology, commented: “Following an extremely productive 2011 in which Publishing Technology signed over 50 new contracts, we are delighted to welcome Kevin to the team. His proven record of successful account relationship management across the technology sector will be an asset as we seek to build upon our success in 2012 and beyond.”

Kevin Haskins, Senior Development Executive, stated: “I am eager to parlay my strategic expertise and commitment to fostering long-term relationships to the publishing industry.  My perspective from the software field will arm me with the technical expertise to make new connections as we continue to grow the market for advance with a unique and holistic approach.

The Future of Peer Review

Source TechCrunch – This guest post was written by Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu — a site that serves as a platform for academics to share their research papers and to interact with each other.

Instant distribution

Many academics are excited about the future of instant distribution of research. Right now the time lag between finishing a paper, and the relevant worldwide research community seeing it, is between 6 months and 2 years. This is because during that time, the paper is being peer reviewed, and peer review takes an incredibly long time. 2 years is roughly how long it used to take to send a letter abroad 300 years ago.

Many platforms are springing up which enable research distribution to be instant, so that the time lag between finishing a paper, and everyone in the relevant research community worldwide seeing it, is measured in hours and days, rather than months and years. Some of the strong platforms areAcademia.edu, arXiv, Mendeley, ResearchGate and SSRN.

What about peer review?

One question many academics have is: in a future where research is distributed instantly, what happens to peer review? Will this be a world where junk gets out, and there is no way to distinguish between good and bad research?

To continue reading click here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/05/the-future-of-peer-review/

Source TechCrunch

IOS Press signs deal with ACCUCOMS for representation in Turkey

STM publisher IOS Press has signed an exclusive agreement with ACCUCOMS for sales representation in Turkey. ACCUCOMS now represents IOS Press in Turkey, Italy and the USA. The representation services provided by ACCUCOMS include customer service and sales activities such as lead research, site visits, product demonstrations and license negotiations with individual institutions, large corporations, multi-nationals and consortia.

Popke Huizinga, Sales/Deputy Director at IOS Press: “This new agreement in Turkey provides us with a concentrated sales and marketing presence in a fast-growing economy. ACCUCOMS has local knowledge and extensive market experience, which allows us to further raise our profile in this increasingly important country. We were looking for a partner who not only strengthens our relationships with existing customers and communicates with all customers in their native language, but also generates new business by expertly navigating the Turkish market. Based on our experiences with ACCUCOMS we are confident they can help us achieve our goals.”

Pinar Erzin, Managing Director of ACCUCOMS: “Our cooperation with IOS Press so far has been very successful. ACCUCOMS sales representatives in Italy and the US are currently in negotiations with academic institutions, government agencies, societies and pharmaceutical companies. There is a worldwide market for IOS Press’s scientific and medical titles, so international sales representation for IOS Press is a rewarding job. Our team in Turkey has immediately started providing high-quality customer service and boosting sales for IOS Press’s journals, books and e-products.”

SAGE Journals Available Via Mobile Devices

SAGE’s entire online journal collection is now available in a mobile-optimized format with the help of HighWire Press’ Mobile Web Interface.

Visitors to one of the more than 640 SAGE journal sites using their iPhones, Androids or other smartphones are automatically redirected to the mobile version. Subscribers can now view content in a format designed specifically for the small screen size and functionality of their mobile device.

“We made all the journal content mobile because we’ve noticed a surge in mobile usage,” said Bob Howard, Executive Director of Journals at SAGE. “HighWire’s mobile web design is suited to improve the web browsing experience for library patrons and society members, engaging those readers more closely in their daily workflow.”

Each of SAGE’s mobile journal sites feature the full text content of the current issue (with user authentication), OnlineFirst articles, archives, and tables of contents, in addition to providing simplified search, personalization, and article share options. The mobile sites maintain the look and feel of the full web versions for consistency.

“Our research shows that mobile users highly value the ability to access scholarly content on the go,” said HighWire’s Managing Director, Tom Rump. “HighWire’s innovative mobile program is designed to meet that demand. We’re proud to work with SAGE in providing a successful solution to their readers’ mobile needs.”

Mobile-optimized sites will be created for every new SAGE journal launched in the future, ensuring readers are kept up-to-date wherever and whenever they need scholarly information.

Springer to publish journal and book series for Entomological Society of Brazil

Starting in 2012 Springer will partner with the Entomological Society of Brazil to publish the journal Neotropical Entomology and a new book series Entomology in Focus. Prof. Fernando L.Consôli of the University of São Paulo is editor of both the journal and the book series.

Founded in 1972, Neotropical Entomology is a bimonthly journal publishing original articles written by Brazilian and international experts in several subspecialties of entomology, including bionomics, systematics, morphology, physiology, behavior, ecology, biological control, crop protection and acarology. The Forum section publishes extensive reviews and thought-provoking articles on contemporary issues in entomology. According to the ISI Impact Factor, Neotropical Entomology is the best-ranked entomological journal in Latin America.

Publishing at least three books a year, the new series Entomology in Focus will deepen our understanding of the diversity, life and ecology of insects. Books in this series will provide a comprehensive synthesis of basic and applied topics in the field of entomology, including insights into how humans can benefit from these organisms and at the same time diminish their negative effects.

Zuzana Bernhart, Senior Publishing Editor Plant Sciences at Springer, said, “Brazilian entomology is renowned for the high quality of its research, and Springer is delighted to be able to join the prestigious Entomological Society of Brazil to bring this knowledge to the global market. We are proud to publish the Society’s journal Neotropical Entomology, in addition to launching a brand new book series which will continue its tradition of excellence in this scientific area.”

Prof. Antônio Ricardo Panizzi, President of the Entomological Society of Brazil, said, “With Springer as the publisher of the journal Neotropical Entomology, and the launch of the new book series Entomology in Focus, the Brazilian Entomological Society is taking innovative steps forward. Our goal is to bring entomology from the neotropics to the attention of the worldwide community.”

NPG offers further open access options

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce an expansion in open access among its society-owned titles. A new open access journal, Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids, has now launched at www.nature.com/mtna. In addition Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics and Spinal Cord now offer open access options.

Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids is the official journal of the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy and is a companion title to the high impact journal Molecular Therapy. It builds upon the success of Molecular Therapy in publishing important peer-reviewed research and cutting-edge reviews and commentaries targeted to advances in oligonucleotide and gene-based therapies. All content is open access so is freely available to researchers worldwide through the nature.com platform. An article-processing charge (APC) will be levied per article accepted for publication.

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (CPT) is the official journal of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. It is a cross-disciplinary journal in experimental and clinical medicine devoted to publishing advances in the nature, action, efficacy, and evaluation of therapeutics. Spinal Cord is the official journal of the International Spinal Cord Society and is a multi-disciplinary title covering the whole-system of spinal cord injury.

Authors publishing original research in CPT and Spinal Cord can opt to pay an APC to make their paper open access immediately on publication. The articles are deposited in PubMed Central at the time of publication, and authors can self-archive the final, published PDF of their work immediately.

“Open access has been central to NPG’s growth over the last two years so we are pleased to be expanding open access options among our society titles,” said Martin Delahunty, Associate Director, Academic Journals & Pharma Solutions, NPG. “We are also delighted to welcome Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids to our growing catalog of society titles.”

NPG has expanded open access options on journals published in China and Japan, and 55 of its 59 academic and society publications (93%) have now introduced open access options or are open access journals. Read more about NPG’s open access activities in its 2011 annual letter to customers.

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