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Sage Begins Publishing Two Leading Psychiatry Journals

SAGE will begin publishing Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry and Australasian Psychiatry from 2012 on behalf of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP).

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry is a leading monthly, peer-reviewed journal. It publishes original articles and reviews that detail findings from local and international research and reports the opinions and views of psychiatrists relating to the science of psychiatry. It provides an important forum for scientific debate and the articulation of views from both academics and clinicians

Australasian Psychiatry is a bi-monthly, peer reviewed journal that promotes the art of psychiatry and its maintenance of excellence in practice through lively and informed discussions about issues relevant to the practice of psychiatry which include, but are not restricted to, articles about psychiatric treatments, innovative service developments, cultural issues, the history of psychiatry, ethics and the humanities.

“SAGE could not be more pleased to welcome these two prestigious journals from The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists into our successful and continuously growing Psychiatry list” said Karen Phillips, Editorial Director, SAGE. “We pride ourselves on the dissemination of important research and know that the influential articles contained in these journals will be of great benefit to those working within this field. We look forward to further developing these key publications.”

“The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists takes great pride in its leading psychiatry journals, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry and Australasian Psychiatry, and looks forward to partnering with SAGE to further develop the journals to contribute to the body of literature and expand the existing knowledge about psychiatry,” said Dr Maria Tomasic, President of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. “Mental illness is a major concern in our community and psychiatric research publication is essential to improving the lives of those living with mental illness.”

The official 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair App launches

Navigating around the Frankfurt Book Fair was made that little bit easier today as the fair’s new official app, Frankfurt Book Fair App – Book Fair to Go, was launched courtesy of Publishing Technology, the largest provider of software services to the publishing industry. The app is now available for free download on Apple iPhone® and Google Android™ devices.

Frankfurt Book Fair, 12-16 October, is the largest event in the publishing calendar and brings publishers, booksellers, agents, authors and other delegates from across the globe together under one roof.

The Book Fair’s 2011 app, developed by Eyeled, has been designed to make life easier for delegates, helping them to navigate around the show with ease, familiarise themselves with all participating exhibitors, keep up-to-speed with the events programme and plan their time accordingly.

Not only does this year’s app contain traditional features, such as exhibitor listings, detailed hall plans and a full event schedule; it also includes the brand new Tour Planner module, allowing users to take a visual air tour of the halls, along with extended information on each exhibitor. The app even caters to the social media savvy with Twitter integration capabilities

Mark Carden, EVP, Global Sales and Marketing at Publishing Technology commented: “Anyone who has been to Frankfurt Book Fair will know that it is the size of 14 football pitches and can be an intimidating labyrinth for seasoned delegates as well as newcomers. This free app will help visitors and exhibitors alike find their way around the show, manage their diaries and generally get the best out of their time in Frankfurt. We are delighted to be enhancing delegates’ experience by facilitating the official app.”

Frankfurt Book Fair App – Book Fair to Go can be downloaded for free at the Apple App Store and Android Market

US Library of Congress to present symposium on digital content preservation

The Library of Congress on Oct. 20 will present “Preservation Roadmaps for the 21st Century: Transitioning to a Digital Future,” a symposium to address the challenges facing cultural heritage institutions as they balance the preservation needs of legacy collections with the growing and complex demands presented by the collection of converted and born-digital assets.

The day-long program, organized by the Library’s Preservation Directorate, will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 20, in Room 119 on the first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C.

Presenters at the symposium will include senior managers from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Smithsonian Institution, National Park Service, Library of Congress, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and various foundations.

Collection and project managers, developers, caretakers and funders are invited to register for the symposium. Program and registration information can be found atwww.loc.gov/preservation/outreach/symposia/transition/.

“Transitioning to a Digital Future” is the final program in the three-part series “Future Directions Symposia.” The series began in October 2010 with “Understanding the Physical Environment,” which was followed in March 2011 with “Assessing Options for Large Collections.”

The Library of Congress continues to balance the preservation of legacy collections with the growing need to provide remote and electronic access to converted and born-digital resources. The Library has participated in and led many initiatives in this arena, ranging from the Heritage Health Index survey of national collections to surveys of digital readiness. Like many other cultural stewards, the Library stands on a precipice as it strives to balance resources against the needs of clients, constituents and collections.

The Oct. 20 symposium is sponsored by the Library’s Preservation Directorate and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Additional support is provided by the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation (FAIC).

The mission of the Library’s Preservation Directorate is to assure long-term, uninterrupted access to the intellectual content of the Library’s collections, either in original or reformatted form. The directorate coordinates and oversees all Library-wide activities relating to the preservation and physical protection of Library materials. For more information, visit www.loc.gov/preservation/.

CLIR has been a leader in fostering the management and expansion of the public’s access to digital and non-digital information. CLIR was created in 1997 as an independent, nonprofit organization through the merger of the Council on Library Resources and the Commission on Preservation and Access.

The Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and the largest library in the world, holds nearly 147 million items in various languages, disciplines and formats. The Library serves the U.S. Congress and the nation both on-site in its reading rooms on Capitol Hill and through its award-winning website at www.loc.gov.

Google close to launching e-books platform in UK

Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, is reportedly preparing an ‘imminent’ UK launch of its e-books platform for selling digital titles, with members of Gardners Hive network able to sell the e-books from their websites.

According to reports published in The Bookseller, the company recently held a closed meeting with more than 100 independents at the Booksellers Association’s Independent Booksellers Forum at the University of Warwick in Coventry, which outlined how the system could work. The service is expected to be launched within the next four weeks, with an announcement date at the Frankfurt Book Fair mooted.

While Google has refused to comment on any launch plans, the service will reportedly allow independents to have access to selling e-books. An independent can add a Google e-bookstore to its website, or act as an affiliate, which means it would receive a commission for sending a customer to Google’s e-bookstore from its own website.

A third option was discussed by Gardners Commercial Director Bob Jackson at the conference. He said independents that have signed up to its Hive website will be able to sell Google e-books from their own page on hive.co.uk. It means an independent will have access to Google’s catalogue of e-books, as well as the 180,000 e-books Gardners stocks.

Google launched e-books in the US in December 2010. Any e-books purchased are stored in an online library. Readers can access their books across laptops, netbooks, tablets, smartphones and e-readers.

Source – Scope

MarkLogic announces key executive appointments

MarkLogic® Corporation, today announced key executive appointments that strengthen the management team as the company manages its aggressive growth and surpasses revenue targets. Ron Avnur has been promoted to the position of Chief Technology Officer, Gary Lang has been named senior vice president of engineering, and Deb Blackburn is the new vice president of human resources. These individuals will further expand MarkLogic’s dominance as a leader in powering organizations to manage unstructured information and Big Data.

As Chief Technology Officer, Avnur is responsible for establishing the technical vision for MarkLogic and leading all aspects of technology development, including strategic direction, growth objectives, and examining trends in the market where MarkLogic can capitalize.

As senior vice president of engineering, Lang is responsible for MarkLogic product development. He brings more than two decades of experience to MarkLogic in delivering large, complex products and systems, architectural design, and direction setting for high-revenue software projects.

The addition of Blackburn as vice president of human resources puts MarkLogic at the forefront of people management. Blackburn understands the modern HR department that works as a strategic business partner to the company and its employees.

“We are in an intensely competitive world where the right leadership is a key differentiator in companies that are successful, and those that fail,” said Ken Bado, president and CEO, MarkLogic. “Ron, Gary, and Deb bring proven leadership and vision to MarkLogic at a time when our company growth is at an all time high. All three are individuals who believe in people, empower and invest in their teams so they reach maximum potential, and do so in a positive environment where people are proud to be in the organization and truly tied to its goals and success.”

Ron Avnur, CTO
Avnur was one of the first employees at MarkLogic. Hired in 2003, Avnur began his career as a senior engineer and was responsible for key features in the early versions of MarkLogic Server. As the company’s growth accelerated, Avnur became vice president of engineering in 2008, and was later promoted to senior vice president of engineering. Avnur has overseen the successful and timely releases of all MarkLogic products. As CTO, Avnur will guide the release of MarkLogic 5 scheduled for later this fall.

“MarkLogic has a long and proud history as a technology leader and innovator. I am excited to continue to contribute to our ongoing success in delivering products that our customers and partners trust,” said Avnur. “MarkLogic is the game changing solution that organizations turn to when they need to leverage big, complex, and unstructured information in real time. Over the course of many years, I have been privileged to watch our customers build exciting applications on MarkLogic – applications that have generated billions of dollars in new revenue.”

Gary Lang, senior vice president, engineering
Lang comes to MarkLogic from Microsoft, where he was a leader in the development of the next version of Visual Studio. Prior to Microsoft, Gary was vice president of platforms and global engineering at Autodesk, where he led an organization of 1,200 employees worldwide providing platform and product engineering for Autodesk’s core products as well as new software and services for emerging businesses. His organization was responsible for developing code for almost all of Autodesk’s desktop and SaaS products, such as AutoCAD, Inventor, and Seek, which generated up to $2.5B in revenue. During this period, Lang also served as the vice president of global engineering for the company and managed its offices in China and Singapore.

Earlier in his career, Lang was vice president of engineering for Autodesk’s infrastructure division. He led the engineering team for all geospatial products, including Map and MapGuide Server. Lang was also a co-creator of the OSGeo Foundation, the first industry-wide open source foundation for geospatial software and services.

Lang has a bachelor’s degree in computer and information science from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

 

Springer grants Haitian students and researchers free access to online platform

As Haiti continues to rebuild in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, Springer Science+Business Media is granting 15,000 students and researchers in the devastated country access to its online platform SpringerLink. Springer provides them with scientific content from approximately 2,000 research-level scientific journals including French-language editions and the state-of-the-art book series Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Access to journal articles and eBook content ranges from the current year back to 1997.

The digital library project in Haiti is being set up by Bibliothèques sans Frontières (BSF) in partnership with the State University of Haiti. In total, 23 international publishing partners support this initiative to provide immediate and easy access to electronic information resources.

The creation of this innovative library project aims to provide an efficient response to the destruction of 9 of Haiti’s 11 state university libraries. Students and researchers will have access to a vast range of content covering the latest research findings in science, technology, medicine, information technology, humanities, and behavioral and social sciences.

Access to Springer content is temporarily free of charge as ‘help for self-help’ to all users of the State University of Haiti for an initial period from 2011 to 2013. Thereafter, Springer will undertake a thorough review of the usage and impact this access has had for all the users in Haiti.

“The establishment of this academic structure aims to provide a quick and meaningful response to the lack of documentary infrastructures, in the aftermath of the disaster of January 12, 2010. But Bibliothèques Sans Frontières wants to deepen its collaboration with UEH: the ground for an international reference central academic library has already been prepared. We wish that, starting from 2012, a remote book loan service would be available to all the students of the UEH,” said Patrick Weil, President of Bibliothèques Sans Frontières.

“Bibliothèques sans Frontières should be highly commended for establishing this ‘pantheon’ of science in Haiti, which will be of insurmountable value to all students, teachers, doctors, researchers and other academics in the whole country. We wish Haiti every future success in the rebuilding of their country,” said Alan Harris, Licensing Manager Developing Country Initiatives at Springer.

Elsevier/MC, Care Communications offer ICD-10 solution for healthcare organisations

Elsevier / MC Strategies,  today announced its collaboration with External link  Care Communications, a leader in Health Information Management (HIM) consulting. The result is a comprehensive resource for an ICD-10 transition, from planning through implementation and beyond.

“Healthcare organizations preparing for the transition to ICD-10 need to investigate the right tools that will help thoroughly educate and train coders, providers and other key users of ICD-10, efficiently and economically,” said Deborah Neville, RHIA, CCS-P, PCS, Director of Revenue Cycle, Coding and Compliance, Elsevier / MC Strategies. “By collaborating with Care Communications and combining our resources, we are able to offer a complete suite of ICD-10 preparedness tools and services that will bring users up to speed and allow them to be ready and fully operational before the 2013 implementation date.”

Elsevier’s External link  e-learning ICD-10 suite, which includes its ICD-10 Roadmap and educational resources such as a series of white papers and webinars, will be fully integrated into Care Communications’ offerings to offer a robust, complete solution. The ICD-10 Roadmap is divided into four phases of the transition – evaluation, planning, action and management – and offers recommendations for planning as well as an educational program that provides the right training at the right time. The newest External link  white paper from Elsevier, “Two Years and Counting,” includes where healthcare organizations should be in their transition process, and provides an in-depth look at the four phases of transition.

Care Communications will offer the e-learning solution to healthcare organizations as a part of its ICD-10 readiness and implementation services designed help professionals navigate the path to successful ICD-10 transition, assisting at every point within the transition process.

“Our ICD-10 customers asked us to expand our ICD-10 services to include an on-line resource for coder and provider assessment and education. After careful evaluation we chose the MC Strategies ICD-10 e-learning solutions due to its thoroughness and flexibility,” said Kathy Johnson, Vice President of Coding Quality and Compliance, Care Communications.  “Adding the e-learning solution to our assessment and implementation services was the final piece in the puzzle and we are now able to provide a complete ICD-10 readiness portfolio that will continue to grow our position as a leader among ICD-10 consultants and providers.”

To stay current with the ICD-10 transition, please find Elsevier ICD-10 on Facebook at External link http://www.facebook.com/ICD10Online and on Twitter at @ICD10Online. For more information about Elsevier ICD-10 eLearning Solutions, including purchasing information, please visit External link  www.ICD-10online.com or call +1 866 429 3067.

Maney re-launches two key health science titles

Maney Publishing is pleased to announce the relaunch of two key titles. From 2012 Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology will become Pathogens and Global Health and Annals of Tropical Paediatrics will relaunch asPaediatrics and International Child Health.

Pathogens and Global Health will to continue to publish 8 issues per year, in print and online, with a new cover, A4 double column format, and internal design. Under its new Editor, Andrea Crisanti (Imperial College, London), the new title will increasingly cover the scientific and clinical subjects that reflect the international political and research agendas, such as microbial pathogenesis, host-microbe interactions, immunology, epidemiology, infectious disease, disease control and global health. Diseases such as tuberculosis, AIDS, diarrhoea, influenza, dengue and pneumonia continue to represent worldwide health problems that require global solutions. Furthermore, in recent years tropical regions have become progressively less homogenous as a consequence of the economic development and the implementation of disease control measures.

Paediatrics and International Child Health will also continue with its existing frequency and schedule, being published quarterly in print and online, and will have a new look and layout. The change of title reflects the fact that the journal publishes papers relevant to the developing world, and the word ‘tropical’ is no longer considered appropriate for those countries which do not have a tropical climate, and therefore do not have tropical diseases in the strictest sense. The new title embraces the key subjects on which the journal publishes: ‘paediatrics’, which encompasses clinical and laboratory aspects, and ‘international child health’ which covers the wide spectrum of subjects in community child health.

Both journals will be made available via ingentaconnect where subscribers can access the full texts and back archives, along with other related titles.

During October these two titles will be included in Maney’s Feature of the Month: Infectious Diseases and Global Health campaign. From 1st October to 15th November 2011, experts in the field will be given access to over 50 journal articles free of charge!  There will also be a wealth of extended content on hot topics in the field of infectious diseases and global health from key policy makers, plus interviews with the editors and more. Additionally, Maney is offering a subscription discount of 15% off any individual or institutional subscription, or 25% off when you or your library subscribe to both journals together. Visit www.maney.co.uk throughout October to find out more.

Mark Simon, Publishing Director for Maney Publishing commented, “In 2006, the Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology celebrated its one hundredth anniversary, having been founded by Sir Ronald Ross who discovered the Malaria parasite in the Anopheles mosquito. We are now relaunching both this journal and Annals of Tropical Paediatrics, under new titles, but with sequential volume numbering, so that they will provide many more years of value to readers and authors alike.”

For further information visit www.maney.co.uk/journals/pgh or www.maney.co.uk/journals/pch

Princeton goes open access to stop staff handing all copyright to journals

Prestigious US academic institution Princeton University will prevent researchers from giving the copyright of scholarly articles to journal publishers, except in certain cases where a waiver may be granted.

The new rule is part of an Open Access policy aimed at broadening the reach of their scholarly work and encouraging publishers to adjust standard contracts that commonly require exclusive copyright as a condition of publication.

Universities pay millions of dollars a year for academic journal subscriptions. People without subscriptions, which can cost up to $25,000 a year for some journals or hundreds of dollars for a single issue, are often prevented from reading taxpayer funded research. Individual articles are also commonly locked behind pay walls.

Researchers and peer reviewers are not paid for their work but academic publishers have said such a business model is required to maintain quality.

At a September 19 meeting, Princeton’s Faculty Advisory Committee on Policy adopted a new open access policy that gives the university the “nonexclusive right to make available copies of scholarly articles written by its faculty, unless a professor specifically requests a waiver for particular articles.”

“The University authorizes professors to post copies of their articles on their own web sites or on University web sites, or in other not-for-a-fee venues,” the policy said.

“The main effect of this new policy is to prevent them from giving away all their rights when they publish in a journal.”

Under the policy, academic staff will grant to The Trustees of Princeton University “a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all copyrights in his or her scholarly articles published in any medium, whether now known or later invented, provided the articles are not sold by the University for a profit, and to authorise others to do the same.”

In cases where the journal refuses to publish their article without the academic handing all copyright to the publisher, the academic can seek a waiver from the open access policy from the University.

The policy authors acknowledged that this may make the rule toothless in practice but said open access policies can be used “to lean on the journals to adjust their standard contracts so that waivers are not required, or with a limited waiver that simply delays open access for a few months.”

Academics will also be encouraged to place their work in open access data stores such asArxiv or campus-run data repositories.

Princeton University spokesman, Martin A. Mbugua, said the policy was not an outright ban on staff handing copyright to journal publishers.

“It is a new open access policy that gives our faculty an advantage, and the option of seeking a waiver,” he said.

A step forward

Having prestigious universities such as Princeton and Harvard fly the open access flag represented a step forward, said open access advocate Professor Simon Marginson from the University of Melbourne’s Centre for the Study of Higher Education.

“The achievement of free knowledge flows, and installation of open access publishing on the web as the primary form of publishing rather than oligopolistic journal publishing subject to price barriers, now depends on whether this movement spreads further among the peak research and scholarly institutions,” he said.

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Sage Recognizes Most Downloaded/Cited Articles 2009-2010

SAGE has published a collection of the top downloaded and cited journal articles from across its entire journals portfolio for 2009-2010. The list recognizes more than 100 articles that were the most downloaded and most cited published from 2009-2010 and the most downloaded articles from SAGE ‘s deep backfile. The list covers articles across 39 disciplines, reflecting the full breadth of SAGE’s publishing, from Anthropology, to Special Education, to Neuroscience and Neurology and Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine.

The collection features a number of articles from journals ranked in the recently released 2010 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2011). SAGE’s journals celebrated excellent growth in the 2010 JCR results, achieving 27% growth in the number of titles receiving Impact Factors with 385 journals now indexed. 54 SAGE journals received their first Impact Factor with the 2010 report. Both SAGE’s JCR results and this new highly downloaded/cited collection capture a broad range of the prestigious society titles published by SAGE, such as the American Psychological Science Association journals.

The top three most highly downloaded articles across the disciplines that SAGE publishes were from Psychology, Education and Management:

Psychological Science – Do Green Products Make Us Better People?

Educational Researcher –  Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship in a Digital Age: Web 2.0 and Classroom Research: What Path Should We Take Now?

Journal of Management  – Leadership in Teams: A Functional Approach to Understanding Leadership Structures and Processes

The top three most cited articles were from Psychology, Clinical Medicine and Geography:

Perspectives On Psychological Science – Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition

Reproductive Sciences – Inflammation and Pregnancy

Holocene – High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects

“With an ever growing collection of research available online and a growing imperative to show research impact, this initiative shines a spotlight on just a fraction of the high quality contributions our authors make across SAGE’s 670+ titles,” said Karen Phillips, Editorial Director, SAGE. “Usage is an important metric alongside citations in measuring the quality and impact of our journals. We are therefore delighted to recognize the outstanding contributions of these authors.”

 

Articles in the collection have been made free to access. To see the full list and read in full, visit  http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/download.htm

De Gruyter extends its interdisciplinary technology portfolio

De Gruyter is launching three new journals, adding to its existing interdisciplinary technology portfolio at the interface between science, technology and medicine. Two of these journals are being produced in partnership with specialist organizations.

From 2012, DGLM (the German society for laser medicine) and the SALC (Swiss laser surgery association) will produce their official journal, Photonics and Lasers in Medicine, with de Gruyter. The new specialist journal will deal with topics relating to the use of lasers in all forms of minimally invasive surgery, endoscopic operating procedures and dermatology. Together the two organizations have around 400 institutional and individual members.

In 2012, De Gruyter will also start producing the new specialist journal Advanced Optical Technologies in partnership with the European Optical Society (EOS). This journal addresses readers from applied science and industry, with a range of articles dedicated to the science and application of state-of-the-art optical technologies and processes. The journal uses a new format aimed particularly at users, including concise “tutorials” designed to educate the user about new processes and developments from industry and research. Together, the member organizations of the EOS currently include around 6,500 members from all over Europe.

Nano-Photonics, De Gruyter’s third new international specialist journal in 2012, provides an interdisciplinary platform for work on the interaction of light with nanostructures such as nanotubes, photonic crystals and DNA. Specialist articles by physicists, engineers and material scientists will sum up current developments in different disciplines relating to all aspects of nanophotonics, one of the world’s most rapidly growing subject areas.

“The three new journals make an excellent addition to our international specialist journal portfolio in the areas of optics, photonics and clinical medicine, which means the portfolio will continue to grow considerably during 2012 at a high scientific level” said Dr. Alexander Grossmann, Vice President Publishing STM at De Gruyter.

Touch Briefings accepted for indexing in Scopus and Embase

Touch Briefings announce that its following clinical journals have been accepted for indexing in Scopus and Embase:

  • European Cardiology
  • Interventional Cardiology
  • US Cardiology
  • European Endocrinology
  • US Endocrinology
  • European Gastroenterology & Hepatology Review
  • European Musculoskeletal Review
  • European Psychiatric Review

Scopus and Embase – both under the management of Elsevier – aim to provide comprehensive, authoritative and reliable coverage of biomedical literature, enabling clinicians and medical researchers to capture the most relevant, up-to-date information published in the clinical domain.

Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, whereas Embase comprises over 24 million articles compiled from over 7,500 mostly peer-reviewed journals.

“Becoming indexed in both databases strengthens further our journals’ standing as respected reference resources for clinical communities. It ensures our expert review articles will benefit from enhanced visibility and reach, assisting Touch Briefings in continuing to support excellence in clinical practice,” commented Jonathan McKenna, Associate Publishing Director at Touch Briefings.

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