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Getting the rights right: Speakers announced for next SPARC-ACRL forum

Presenters have been announced for “Getting the rights right for the future of scholarly communication,” a timely panel discussion hosted by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and set for the upcoming meeting of the American Library Association (ALA) in Dallas, TX. The forum will be held Saturday, January 21, 2012 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM at the Dallas Convention Center, room A201/202.

The potential for using the digital environment to accelerate scholarship depends not only on unfettered access to publications and data, but also – equally – on having the clearly stated rights to use and re-use the materials. Only with full re-use rights are we able to realize the true potential of Open Access to create new knowledge, build on earlier findings, and translate research for educational and commercial use.

This SPARC/ACRL forum will explore the troubles of getting the rights piece wrong and how we can unlock the future of scholarship and scholarly communication if we get the rights piece right. With brief presentations and plenty of opportunity for discussion, speakers will share the latest in rights-related developments and highlight ideas for libraries to help reshape this crucial piece in the scholarly communication puzzle and make sure the future is open. Presenters will include:

  • David Prosser, Executive Director, Research Libraries UK, on recent purchase negotiations.
  • Lisa Macklin, Director, Intellectual Property Rights Office of the Emory University Libraries, on the Georgia State University e-reserve case.
  •  Jon Voss, Historypin Strategic Partnerships Director, on linked data.
  • Greg Grossmeier, Education Technology and Policy Coordinator, Creative Commons, on the importance and potential of open licensing.
  • Wim Van der Stelt, Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Springer, on changing practices within the commercial publishing sector.

Other publishers and forum participants will also be invited to share related updates and join in this engaging and informative discussion.

The forum will be held Saturday, January 21, 2012 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM at the Dallas Convention Center, A201/202.

The ACRL Scholarly Communications Discussion Group, which offers a more intimate setting to explore issues that surface at the forum, will explore some of the ethical issues with getting rights right and Open Access and be held Sunday, January 22, 2012 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM in the Sheraton Dallas Hotel, Majestic 05.

Separate registration for this event is not required. For further details on the forum, visithttp://www.arl.org/sparc/forum.

National Library of France Chooses EBSCO Discovery Service

Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF), the National Library of France has selected EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) as its library discovery solution. As a long time EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) customer, the National Library of France was pleased with EDS’s comprehensive index solution and ability to incorporate many of the library’s information resources. After looking at several discovery services, the librarians at BNF were confident that EDS was the best service to expose users to the national library’s collection — one of the largest and richest e-collection of any library worldwide.

BNF had been looking to modernize its aging information system and librarians were impressed with the impact EDS could have on the library — particularly the depth and breadth of coverage in the Base Index of EDS. Before looking at EDS, librarians had been unfamiliar with this type of comprehensive index. Demonstrations by EBSCO’s sales team made it clear that an index the size of EDS’s would be capable of pulling together content that might otherwise go undiscovered.

BNF Director of the Science and Technology section Hervé Colinmaire, says, “We were pleased with the index solution in EDS and feel that it will work well with our library. What interested us most in the EDS index solution is the capacity of the search engine to retrieve information at the smallest and deepest level of information.”

BNF’s information system consisted of many different layers of information without any integration. Colinmaire says EBSCO was the right fit to bring together BNF resources while providing easier access for the end user. “EDS provided our users the possibility to browse through a ‘jungle’ of resources dispatched in different tools and parts of our site. We think that our library will benefit greatly from EDS as we’re absolutely confident that the vast amount and range of our resources will be much better known and publicized.”

Colinmaire says other important factors in the decision to implement EDS as the discovery service at the National Library of France was the unique ability to incorporate French resources into EDS as well as licensed and full text databases. “We believe EDS was the right fit for our library because it provides the best coverage rate possible for our collection and the best opportunity to grow with our collection. We were also particularly interested in the capacity of EDS to give access to our French speaking resources allowing our patrons to access as much content as possible in one place.”

Future plans include the integration of EDS with the BNF OPAC to further expand the integrated one-stop search experience for users. EDS customers build upon the base index by adding metadata representing their own unique collections including their catalog (OPAC), databases, archival collections — using EDS as the base of an institution-specific discovery experience.

BNF also plans to also taking advantage of a number of the customizability optionsavailable within EDS to include value-added features to further create a unique discovery solution for the National Library of France. BNF is currently planning to create LibGuide widgets on the result list and to customize the EDS interface colors.

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box-searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.

The Base Index for EBSCO Discovery Service forms the foundation upon which each EDS subscribing library builds out its custom collection. Beginning with the Base Index, each institution extends the reach of EDS by adding appropriate resources including its catalog, institutional repositories, EBSCOhost and other databases, and additional content sources to which it subscribes. It is this combination that allows a single, comprehensive, custom solution for discovering the value of any library’s collection.

The EDS Base Index is comprised of metadata from the world’s foremost information providers. At present, the EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers. Although constantly growing, today the EDS Base Index provides metadata for nearly 50,000 magazines & journals, approximately 825,000 CDs & DVDs, nearly six million books, more than 100 million newspaper articles, more than 400,000 conference proceedings and hundreds of thousands of additional information sources from various source-types.

Oncology Times Now Available for the iPad

 Wolters Kluwer Health announced today the release of Oncology Times app for the iPad®. Now cancer care professionals and others can access the latest oncology news and trends with the dynamic new Oncology Times app. Oncology Times is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins  (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

Oncology Times for the iPad is available as a free download at the iTunes App Store, providing free full-text access to each issue in an enriched, more convenient print-like format. The new iPad edition seamlessly integrates the full text of each issue with the convenience, portability, and ease of the iPad. Each article appears on continuous full screens, with adjustable text sizing.

The app combines the award-winning, insightful content readers have come to expect from Oncology Times, with digital enhancements to make it even more timely and appealing. Oncology Times for the iPad will help its busy hematology/oncology audience by giving them a mobile edition that’s available whenever they want, wherever they go.

“We’re pleased to bring Oncology Times to readers in a digital format, giving clinicians options in how they want to access content to stay current in their specialty,” said Karen Abramson, President and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research.

After downloading the app, readers will have iPad access to each new issue of Oncology Times as soon as it’s published. The app includes a range of exciting features, including:

  • Fast and intuitive navigation for both rapid scanning and in-depth reading
  • Ability to quickly share articles via email and to connect to social media
  • Hyperlinks to related journal studies, websites, and other rich resources
  • Convenient notification via email or app icon when new issues are ready for download
  • Quick access to embedded videos, podcasts, images, and other multimedia, as well as editorial supplements and inserts
  • Link to the online newspaper to view blogs, expand searching, browse archives, and more
  • Customization of all downloaded issues, either to store or delete

The free app is now available for download at the iTunes App Store. The print edition of Oncology Times will continue to be delivered free of charge to U.S. physicians, nurses, and pharmacists specializing in oncology and related fields. Each biweekly issue of Oncology Times for the iPad will be posted on the same schedule as the current print and online editions.

Jason S Gardner appointed Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

Dr Jason S Gardner has been announced as the new Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, a leading international publication in condensed matter physics.

Dr Gardner is currently a research scientist in experimental condensed matter physics at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg and Indiana University, USA. He has already made an excellent contribution to the journal having been an advisory board member since 2005 and also serving on the journal’s executive board. Dr Gardner has published over 120 papers in the past 15 years and has spoken at over 65 worldwide conferences.

Dr Gardner’s extensive research background makes him a natural appointment to lead Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. His primary research area is in the rapidly growing field of neutron scattering on magnetic model systems such as spin liquids, spin ice and low-dimensional systems.

He gained his first degree and PhD from Warwick University and his MSc from Keele University. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at McMaster University and Los Alamos. He was a staff scientist at the Chalk River Laboratory for five years before moving to the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2001. Working closely with international colleagues, Dr Gardner has developed a program of materials synthesis, bulk characterization and facilities research. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

Dr Gardner said of his appointment “It is a great honour but also a real challenge. The journal is doing well thanks to the work of my predecessors, Marshall Stoneham and David Ferry. As the new Editor-in-Chief, I hope to continue to improve still further the journal’s status in condensed matter science and look forward to reading a lot more outside my usual fields of interest.”

Dr Gardner takes over the role, as of 1 January 2012, from Professor David Ferry of Arizona State University, USA, who leaves the position after five years, having done an impressive job taking the publication forward. Under Professor Ferry’s guardianship the journal has achieved its highest ever Impact Factor (2.332) and the immediacy index is also at its highest ever level. His tenure has also seen the introduction of popular subject sections, a stricter refereeing policy and new online features (such as LabTalk ).

Professor Ferry said “I have thoroughly enjoyed my five-year posting as Editor-in-Chief. My special thanks are given to all the Editorial Board members and the team at IOP Publishing for their help and support, and also to the members of our various boards who have been so important as we have moved the journal forward. I would like to wish my successor, Dr Gardner, an enjoyable and successful tenure as Editor-in-Chief.”

You can read Dr Gardner’s editorial as incoming editor on IOPscience.

CABI upgrades Research for Development portal with better search features

Researchers now have faster and easier access to information on development projects, thanks to an upgrade to the Department for International Development’s (DFID) website.

For the first time, research that had previously been communicated through the Research for Development (R4D) website is now fully integrated into DFID’s website, creating a one-stop shop for all information relating to the UK Government’s international development activities.

The Research for Development (R4D) portal, which contains information on all research funded by DFID, was initially established in 2006 and managed by CABI.

Although the website was already proving successful in the dissemination of research, this upgrade will take that further, with research searchable not only by a simple keyword but also by country or region, by theme, by research contacts, or by advanced boolean search.

CABI has decades of experience in providing users with clearly organized, accessible data and has applied this to the new site. Martin Parr, who leads the team working on the project, explained: “This upgrade has created a much more modern, exciting interface for R4D” adding that, with this project, “CABI is helping to open up access to research and provide DFID with a means to quantify and qualify the research that it funds”.

AIP Publishing announces new cover designs for its portfolio of journals

AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), announces that it will start the New Year with new cover designs for its portfolio of leading journals. The coherent new look will give each journal a fresh, consistent appearance without altering any of the high-quality content that the physics community has relied on for years. It will begin rolling out the new designs in January 2012, starting with Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, and The Journal of Chemical Physics. The roll out will continue throughout the first quarter of 2012 based on the publishing cycle of each journal.

“In keeping with the continuing evolution of AIP Publishing as a distinct, highly visible and well-respected brand, we’re moving into 2012 with a fresh new design that unites our entire family of highly cited journals,” said Vice President of Publishing John Haynes.

The new look, which is already familiar to users of the publisher’s online journals, will make its debut with 2012 print editions of these AIP’s journals: Applied Physics Letters, Chaos, Journal of Applied Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, Low Temperature Physics, Physics of Fluids, Physics of Plasmas, and Review of Scientific Instruments. The online-only journals — AIP Advances, Biomicrofluidics, Journal of Laser Applications, and Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy — also feature the same look on their homepages.

HighWire Bolsters Management Team with Key Business Development and COO Appointments

Stanford University’s HighWire Press is pleased to announce the appointments of Bill Matthews as Director of Business Development, and Ed Braniff as Chief Operations Officer. The staff structural expansion is designed to further enhance HighWire’s organizational focus on innovation, community and customer service.

Bill Matthews will be responsible for the business development activities at HighWire including sales, marketing and strategic partnerships. With 25 years of experience and progressive responsibility in sales, marketing research, online publishing, and information industries, Bill brings an outstanding pedigree of business practices to HighWire consisting of a consultative communication style, customer-focus approach, and a high degree of ethical standards.

Bill has held executive management positions at several online publishing technology companies, most recently at NetSeer, a web-based technology company focused on understanding user intent within a semantic framework. He also served as VP of Business Development at TACODA and had a successful term at I/PRO, the internet’s first website traffic verification service, where he built, managed, and developed I/PROs Account Management and Sales organizations, eventually being appointed to President. Prior to I/PRO, Bill spent 16 fruitful years at A.C. Nielsen.

“I’m thrilled to be working with HighWire and Stanford University,” said Bill. “The scholarly publishing industry is evolving, and I see many opportunities emerging. HighWire’s solid reputation, open platform approach, and aligned interest with the publishing community, put the company in a great position to further its mission of ensuring that scholarly publishers thrive.”

Edward Braniff has stepped up to take on the role of Chief Operations Officer at HighWire. Ed has been a consultant at HighWire since June 2011, working directly with HighWire’s Managing Director, and has been an integral part of HighWire’s operational excellence and customer support initiatives. Ed has an excellent record of driving operational change, enhancing systems and processes, unifying product offerings and overseeing operational changes. Ed worked for AT&T for 20+ years, as Chief Financial Officer for their technology and network division, following a series of roles within the company providing strategic business advice in sales, operational and financial divisions. Most recently, Ed has held senior level positions with a technology startup in Virginia and as the CFO for Cedar Group North America, the Financial Director of the company in London, and the Chief Operating Officer of North American operations. Ed has also provided interim management and held CFO, President and CEO positions in the automotive and packaging industry in the US and in Israel.“Ed brings to us great perspective and experience,” says HighWire’s Managing Director, Tom Rump. “I couldn’t ask for a more seasoned veteran in helping drive HighWire’s vision and success.

Springer launches SpringerLink mobile app for iPhone

Springer has launched the SpringerLink mobile app for iPhone and iPod Touch. It is free to download from the iTunes App Store providing access to the science platform www.springerlink.com containing articles and chapters from over 2,000 peer-reviewed journals and 49,000 books. In total SpringerLink is offering over 5.4 million documents spanning every area of science, technology and medicine.

The SpringerLink mobile app includes a number of features like personalized notifications, save and share abilities, advanced search, document details with abstracts and full-text views available to institutional subscribers. In addition, the app provides users with a multi-functional home screen, allowing for keyword  and advanced searches. Included in the advanced search is a save search feature that allows the user to save any advanced search so that it may be quickly executed from the home screen. The user can be notified from the app’s home screen when any new chapters or articles are published that meet the criteria of his or her saved search, allowing a user to specify his or her areas of interest and quickly check for new, relevant publications.

Free content in the form of article abstracts, over 127,000 open access research articles, plus book and journal covers and other document details are included in the app.  Full-text is available to all users with institutional subscriptions.  Users may instantly view materials while connected to a subscriber-based network. In cases where a user is not connected to the network but has a valid username and password, he or she will be presented with a link to log into SpringerLink.com.  Upon log-in, the user will be redirected to the full-text PDF of the original request.  Users can then share and save documents via email, Facebook and Twitter directly from the SpringerLink mobile app.

“The SpringerLink mobile application represents Springer’s continued focus on providing useful digital tools to researchers, students and professionals,” said Patricia Cleary, eProduct Management at Springer. “As more and more research is done away from the desk and on the go, it is our responsibility to make sure our customers are equipped to conveniently access Springer’s vast collection of content.”

Springer’s content platform SpringerLink (www.springerlink.com) provides electronic access to more than 2,000 scientific and specialist journals, more than 48,000 eBooks, more than 1,500 book series and about 200 reference works. The publications cover topics from 12 subject collections such as mathematics, computer science, medicine, engineering, economics, law, humanities and social sciences. It also makes available 25,000 searchable online protocols in life sciences and biomedicine.

Wolters Kluwer Completes Sale of Its Pharma-Related Marketing & Publishing Business to Springer

Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company focused on professionals, today announced that it has completed the sale of its pharma-related Marketing & Publishing Services business to Springer Science+Business Media. The sale is part of Wolters Kluwer’s strategy to focus on core health markets through its Wolters Kluwer Health & Pharma Solutions division.

“The sale of our pharma-related business will allow us to focus future investments in our core healthcare business in key growth areas such as point of care,” said Nancy McKinstry, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of Wolters Kluwer. “We are committed to continued investments in innovative solutions that help clinicians around the globe access critical information to improve healthcare.”

The agreement encompasses the Marketing & Publishing Services business unit, part of the Wolters Kluwer Health & Pharma Solutions division. Marketing & Publishing Services is a leading global provider of strategic marketing next to the google ppc firms, who focuses on publishing and business intelligence products and services to the pharmaceutical industry as well as to medical libraries and academic and research institutions, and there are also other marketing product services online, such as Victorious marketing services and others. The sale represents approximately 35% of the company’s pharma-related assets in terms of revenue, with Adis and inScience Communications as the leading brands, and encompasses approximately 450 employees globally.

The intention to divest the Pharma Solutions business was announced in July 2011. The proceeds from this divestment are expected to be used for general corporate purposes including the reduction of debt levels in line with the company’s stated objectives and investments in the business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

For more information on Wolters Kluwer Health, visit www.wolterskluwerhealth.com. For more information on Pharma Solutions, visit www.wolterskluwerpharma.com

RSC Publishing supports Japanese Shibboleth

RSC Publishing is pleased to announce that it is developing the RSC Publishing Platform to work with Shibboleth institutions all over the world giving customers and users more access to high impact scientific content.

Already compliant with UK Access Management Federation, RSC Publishing is now meeting the requirements of the Japanese Federation GakuNin for their Shibboleth compliance.  GakuNin member institutions can now access content they subscribe to with their GakuNin username and password whether on or off campus.

Shibboleth offers federated identity-based authentication and authorisation which allows one security domain to be shared with the users of that federation, enabling members to have single sign on and removing the need for multiple usernames and passwords. It is a well used project all over the world with academic institutions.

Stephen Hawthorne, Sales Director at RSC Publishing says, “The RSC fully supports easing access to quality content for researchers worldwide and implementation of the Japanese Federation GakuNin for Shibboleth is the next step in our strategy to achieve this.”

As well as working towards global Shibboleth compliance, RSC Publishing high impact content is still accessed through registered IP addresses and Athens. For any technical queries, please
EMAIL technicalsupport@rsc.org

Thomson Reuters Suspends Sale Of Healthcare Business

Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced that it has suspended the divestiture process for its Healthcare business.

Since announcing the planned divestiture in June, global economic conditions have become more challenging and the company believes they are not conducive to concluding a transaction that reflects the fair value of the Healthcare business at this time. Thomson Reuters is committed to continuing to invest in and grow the Healthcare business until improved market conditions allow the company to complete a divestiture at attractive terms.

The Healthcare business continues to perform well with strong revenue growth and expanding margins. The current organization and structure remain in place and the focus on serving customer needs is unchanged. The results of the Healthcare business will continue to be included within “Other Businesses” in Thomson Reuters financial statements.

Karger Medical & Scientific Publishers Choose Temis To Provide Semantic Content Enrichment

TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, today announced a new contract in STM publishing with S. Karger AG, a long-standing academic publisher of scientific and medical journals and books based in Basel, Switzerland.

Karger has chosen to partner with TEMIS to provide the scientific community with next-generation navigation features within its information portal. Karger is licensing the Luxid® for Content Enrichment Platform as well as its Medical Entity Relationships Skill Cartridge®, a semantic solution specifically designed to mine and enrich medical content.

Luxid® for Content Enrichment produces value-added metadata that turn documents into actionable knowledge, enabling advanced content analytics and strategic information discovery. The Medical Entity Relationships Skill Cartridge® identifies key medical entities and relationships such as diseases, symptoms, conditions, therapeutic treatments, diagnostic methods and anatomical terms. It also identifies related biological terms such as cells, tissues and proteins. The Medical Entity Relationships Skill Cartridge® also extracts relationships between entities, providing the user with semantic links between treatments and diseases, diagnostics and diseases, or even risks associated with treatments or diagnostics.

With this semantically-enhanced metadata, Karger will increase the relevance of the search results available on its portal and provide users with powerful content navigation features such as faceted searching and related document linking between articles and book chapters in its growing library which includes about 80 scientific journals and 60 serial and non-serial book titles.

“We are looking forward to implementing these powerful tools to help users discover our most relevant biomedical content for their research needs”, said Gabriella Karger, Chief Executive Officer of Karger Publishers. “We are confident that TEMIS technology will prove a great enhancement towww.karger.com.”

“We are extremely pleased that Karger, a well respected pioneer in scientific electronic publishing, has chosen TEMIS to assist with its discoverability requirements”, said Peter Camilleri, Director – Publishing Solutions at TEMIS. “Luxid® 6 will enhance overall end-user experience of Karger’s online portal and drive increased usage to this important resource.”

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