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Swets adds Impact Factor analysis to SwetsWise Selection Support

Swets announced the successful implementation and release of impact factor analysis into SwetsWise Selection Support, the most comprehensive holdings evaluation tool currently available. SwetsWise Selection Support offers an unparalleled range of features that assist librarians in making more informed collection development decisions. Usage statistics, subscription details and price information are combined into one clear overview and customers can quickly report on the price-per-use of any particular title. The new impact factor analysis allows for further, in-depth evaluation of a library’s holdings, measuring the wider impact of content as well as the usage and cost per use.

SwetWise Selection Support’s impact factor functionality helps the librarian to define the most appropriate titles for their collection by calculating the effectiveness of a title over a three year period. This is based on the number of times an article is reviewed, cited, indexed or used in other notes and proceedings over that time. By doing so, the librarian can determine and compare the influence of titles against those in the same field.

“Selection management is becoming ever more important for our customers,” said Frans van Ette, Business Development Director at Swets. “Implementing impact factor analysis into SwetsWiseSelection Support means we now offer them the most complete holdings evaluation and analysis tool available in the market today. It acts as another clear example of Swets’ ability to develop class leading, sophisticated solutions tailored directly to the needs of our customers.”

SwetsWise Selection Support’s impact factor functionality utilizes SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) data, developed by SCImago (www.scimagojr.com). This data is generated using a similar algorithm to the Google PageRank™ and the SJR is available both on screen and in downloadable reports. When researching a title, the SJR eliminates self-citations when excessive and provides extensive coverage of over 18,000 journals, including many non-English language titles. The results provide customers with a clear gauge of the visibility and impact of a title over the past 10 years.

More information on all of the selection management features of SwetsWise Selection Support can be found on www.swets.com/swetswise/selection-support

Winners of 2011 ALPSP Awards announced

The winners of the 2011 ALPSP Awards were announced at the ALPSP International Conference Dinner on Thursday 15 September.

ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing 

The Council of ALPSP was delighted to make this award to Cliff Morgan of John Wiley & Sons. Cliff has worked in publishing for over 36 years, during which time he has been closely involved in special projects in the fields of digital preservation, funder mandates, article metrics, legal deposit and article versioning. He has used his extensive knowledge and experience to the benefit of both commercial and not-for-profit publishers through his longstanding involvement with and commitment to the work of ALPSP, the PA, the STM Association, COUNTER and JISC.

ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation 

The winner was Your Better Life Index by the OECD. This interactive tool presents statistics and raw data sets in a new and accessible way, and has quickly achieved increased awareness and usage of OECD publishing content.

A Highly Commended Certificate was awarded to Berg Fashion Library from Berg Publishers. This ambitious project involved creating a complex fashion taxonomy and employing intuitive navigation and strong visual design to meet the needs of the fashion and artistic community.

Also shortlisted were: F1000 Posters from the Faculty of 1000 and SCM6 by Silverchair Information Systems.

ALPSP Award for Best New Journal 

The winner was Chemical Science, published by RSC Publishing. Launched to present high quality cutting edge research across the chemical sciences, it has achieved swift success. There are very close links with the community and the journal is clearly defined by the science and the user.

A Highly Commended Certificate was awarded to Bioanalysis published by FutureScience Ltd. The journal has seen rapid success, with growth both in subscription and advertising. The interactive Bioanalysis Zone website is being used to build stronger links with the community.

Also shortlisted were: Celebrity Studies, published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis and Nature Communications, published by Nature Publishing Group

About the Awards 

ALPSP Award for BEST NEW JOURNAL – open to any peer-reviewed journal launched in the last 1-3 years. The judges consider the main aspects of the journal including its launch: market research, editorial strategy, marketing and commercial success.

ALPSP Award for PUBLISHING INNOVATION – in recognition of a truly innovative approach to any aspect of publication. Applications are judged on their originality and innovative qualities, together with their utility, benefit to their community and long term prospects.

Panel of Judges for Publishing Innovation & Best New Journal and Publishing Awards. 

Hazel Woodward, University Librarian & Director of Cranfield Press (Chair)

Stephen Ball, Senior Lecturer in Publishing, The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies and Assistant Editor, The Political Quarterly 

Richard Gedye, Director of Outreach Programmes, STM

Hugh Look, Senior Consultant, Rightscom

David Smith, Business Innovations Manager, CABI

Mark Ware, Director, Mark Ware Consulting

Jouve encourages innovation with launch of new department

International content and digital services provider, Jouve, continues its longstanding commitment to innovation, with the launch of a new department dedicated to inspiring and developing pioneering technology. This new project aims to promote new business relationships with innovative start-ups, as well as encouraging entrepreneurial spirit among its staff.

Benoit Drigny has been appointed Group Director of Innovation. In his new role, Benoit will have the main challenge of creating an Innovation Department, which will allow the company to continue to identify new areas of growth, and to develop innovative projects using the new business models associated with emerging technologies.

The Innovation Department will comprise a support and an operational division. The support side will include evaluation and adding value, producing business models and business plans, reporting on the innovation portfolio, and promoting innovation via internal and external communication. The operational side will pilot selected projects and create partnerships with smaller companies working with innovative ideas and processes.

Benoit Drigny commented: “As a value driver for Jouve and our clients, innovation represents the future of our business. Within our ‘Innovation Garage’ we will strengthen communal initiatives and promote the emergence of ground-breaking new projects. The projects initiated by the Innovation Department are primed to represent more than 20% of the turnover of the Jouve Group within three years!”

Benoit will work with the strategic marketing department to aid creative teams and market visionaries both within and outside of the group, and will be responsible for partnerships and relationships with new businesses and start-ups.

A number of the themes which sit at the centre of these new challenges for businesses and consumers are currently being examined, including new user-behavior, content and formats, and mobility, security and monetization.

The creation of this dedicated department and this appointment, represent Jouve’s commitment to continually develop new innovations – a policy that has been at the centre of its strategy since the company’s formation.

EBSCO predicts up to 6 percent increase in publisher prices for libraries

Publishing services provider EBSCO, US, has announced that it expects the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic/medical libraries for 2012 (before currency impact) to be in the range of 4 to 6 percent.

Since the last publication of this report a year ago, the global economic environment is seen to have remained challenged, and EBSCO projections indicate 2012 publisher price increases consistent with last year in the mid single digits. Underneath this veneer of consistency, however, much change is afoot in the information industry for both publishers and librarians, EBSCO has pointed out. These emerging trends are a response to the seemingly permanent economic challenges faced by librarians and publishers as well as the result of new and innovative technologies.

On the library side, budgets remain under extreme pressure, with over 30 percent of librarians forecasting budget decreases of more than 5 percent in a recent EBSCO survey. While recent publisher price increases have trended in the mid single digits, any price increases at all in the current budget environment clearly present difficult purchasing decisions for librarians. To date, librarians have implemented a variety of tactics to bridge the growing budget gap: elimination of print and print-plus-online formats in favour of electronic-only content, cancelling e-package “Big Deals” that consume a large part of their content budgets, and reducing overall staffing and service levels.

While these tactics have been effective in many cases, librarians are increasingly being forced to consider even more fundamental changes to their purchasing and operating strategies given the accelerating funding pressures, it is noted. For instance, with regard to collection development, librarians are now taking usage analysis more and more into account when making decisions on what to renew and what to cut. This type of analysis is becoming easier to undertake given the new usage products being developed by EBSCO and other companies in the information industry. With these tools, librarians will be able to understand very precisely what content is absolutely critical and what content may be expendable given the dire budget situation.

Ultimately, it is expected, librarians will use this knowledge to reduce the overall cost of content to match budget reductions while still maintaining the most impactful content for their patrons.

With this level of usage transparency, analysis and scrutiny, content quality will be the key factor. This could put further pressure on the ‘Big Deal’ e-package models. For instance, it seems likely that those publishers with the best content in each discipline will still be able to command pricing power for their top journals. However, it remains to be seen whether they will be able to bundle their second- and third-tier journals with their top-tier journals in order to preserve revenue. What does seem clear is that those publishers lacking top-quality content will most likely be in a difficult spot from a pricing and revenue growth perspective, and this may lead to further consolidation in the publishing industry.

Source: Scope

RSC’s new flagship journal wins ALPSP Award

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s new flagship journal Chemical Science last night won ‘Best New Journal’ at a prestigious publishing awards ceremony.

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) praised Chemical Science for its relevance and quality.

“Launched to present high quality cutting edge research across the chemical sciences, it has achieved swift success. There are very close links with the community and the journal is clearly defined by the science and the user,” said ALPSP in the award citation on their website.

Dr Robert Eagling, Managing Editor of Chemical Science, said: “We are thrilled to receive this prestigious award against such tough competition. This is the culmination of over three years’ hard work by the team, and I thank them all for their efforts.

“I would also like to extend a special thanks to the Associate Editors and, in particular, the Editor-in-Chief, Professor David MacMillan, who have been instrumental in getting Chemical Science where it is today.”

Chemical Science publishes original research articles of exceptional significance from across the chemical sciences. The journal helps to define the important areas by publishing the most significant cutting-edge research. Submissions must appeal to the general chemical science community, or be of exceptional interest to specialist researchers.

Launched last year with a groundbreaking series of three conferences held in three continents over three sequential weeks – the ‘International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences’ (ISACS) – Chemical Science has already established itself as the home of truly excellent chemical science research. A further three international conferences were held earlier this year, in Boston, Manchester and Beijing, with planning for the 2012 events well underway.

Dr James Milne, RSC’s Acting Managing Director of publishing, said: “This award is worthy recognition of the incredible efforts of everyone involved in making Chemical Science the success it has so quickly become – our authors, reviewers and the journal’s dynamic editorial board.

“It is also great recognition for the exceptional service provided by the RSC’s dedicated editorial, production and marketing staff; providing authors and customers with the best experience possible whenever they interact with this new leading journal for the chemical sciences.”

The ALPSP Award for Best New Journal is open to any peer-reviewed journal launched in the last 1-3 years. The judges consider the main aspects of the journal including its launch: market research, editorial strategy, marketing and commercial success.

De Gruyter acquires 67 journals from Berkeley Electronic Press

The academic publisher De Gruyter and The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) today announced that they have reached an agreement for De Gruyter to acquire bepress’s journal portfolio. The agreement covers a total of 67 journals in the areas of Law, Business/Economics, Humanities, and Natural Sciences.

Berkeley Electronic Press was founded in 1999 by scholars as an alternative to existing academic publishers, and in particular their pricing policies. Since then, the press has succeeded in creating high-quality content, primarily as a result of founding their own journals and by attracting top-notch scholars.

Bepress President and CEO, Jean-Gabriel Bankier, said “We are proud of the journals we founded and the innovative journal model we developed, and believe our journals are in good hands with De Gruyter. We are exiting the subscription-based journal publishing business because we believe we can have the greatest impact on scholarly communications by dedicating ourselves to enabling library-led publishing and research dissemination programs with Digital Commons.”

De Gruyter will take on the journals with immediate effect. They will be integrated into the existing editorial offices, and personnel will be added as needed. The subject area Business/Economics, which was previously not part of the De Gruyter portfolio, will be under the publishing supervision of the Law Department.

“The acquisition of Berkeley Electronic Press’ journals is an important milestone in De Gruyter’s internationalization efforts,” according to Dr. Sven Fund, Managing Director. “Not only will we gain the highest quality English-speaking authors and their content for our program, but we will also be able to add a prestigious community of subscribers to the De Gruyter family.”

De Gruyter’s portfolio increases from 173 to 235 journals through the acquisition.

Three new members elected to Wiley’s Board of Directors

Mari Baker, Jean-Lou Chameau, and Linda Katehi Elected to Wiley’s Board of Directors

Peter Booth Wiley, Chairman of the Board, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced today that Wiley’s shareholders have elected three new members to the publisher’s Board of Directors effective today.  All three were elected for the first time.

“We are pleased to welcome Mari J. Baker, Dr. Jean-Lou Chameau, and Dr. Linda Katehi to Wiley’s Board of Directors,” said Mr. Wiley. “Their extensive executive experience in leading academic institutions and corporations and knowledge of the markets Wiley serves will bring valuable new perspectives to our Company.”

Mari J. Baker became Chief Executive Officer of PlayFirst, Inc. in 2009.  Previously she was executive-in-residence at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers where she incubated and launched Navigenics, Inc. and served as its founding President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (2006-2009); President of BabyCenter, LLC (1999-2006) and Senior Vice President of Intuit, Inc. (1989-1999) Ms. Baker is currently a director of Velti, Inc. (VELT); an officer in the Young Presidents Organization; and a Member of the Advisory Council for Stanford University’s Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Ms. Baker served on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University from 1996-2003 and continues to serve as an Emeritus Trustee.  She holds a B.A. degree in Economics and Sociology from Stanford University

 Jean-Lou Chameau is President, California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Before he assumed the presidency of Caltech in 2006, Chameau had a distinguished career as a professor of civil engineering and a university administrator.  A native of France, he received his graduate education in civil engineering at Stanford University.  In 1980 he joined the civil engineering faculty at Purdue University, where he subsequently became full professor and head of the geotechnical engineering program. Moving to Georgia Tech in 1991, he was named director of the school of civil and environmental engineering.  He was the president of Golder Associates, Inc., an international geotechnical consulting company, from 1994 to 1995, after which he returned to Georgia Tech as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and vice-provost for research. He was named dean of its college of engineering, the largest in the country, in 1997, becoming provost of the university in 2001.  Dr. Chameau currently serves on the boards of the Council on Competitiveness, the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, MTS Systems Corporation and Safran.  He is also serving on the Academic Research Council of Singapore and the Advisory Committee of InterWest Partners. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the French Académie des Technologies.

 Linda Katehi was appointed chancellor of the University of California, Davis, in 2009. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, was chair until 2010 of the President’s Committee for the National Medal of Science and of the Secretary of Commerce’s committee for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Previously, Dr. Katehi served as provost and vice-chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois from 2006-2009; the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University from 2002-2006; and associate dean for academic affairs and graduate education in the College of Engineering and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan from 1998-2002. She earned a Ph.D. in Engineering from UCLA.

Mr. Wiley took the opportunity to thank Richard Hochhauser, who retired at the end of his last term, for his contributions to Wiley’s Board of Directors.

Wiley’s Board of Directors currently has thirteen members.

Pearson Acquires Connections Education

Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, is announcing today the acquisition of Connections Education from an investor group led by Apollo Management, L.P.

Through its Connections Academy business, the company operates online or ‘virtual’ public schools in 21 states in the US—serving more than 40,000 students in the current school year. It also is bringing out its own TEFL course, and has already garnered rave mytefl reviews. These virtual charter schools are accredited and funded by the relevant state and are free to parents and students who choose a virtual school in place of a traditional public institution or other schooling options.

Virtual schools serve a diverse population of students including those who may be gifted, struggling, pursuing careers in sports or the arts, in need of scheduling flexibility, or who have chosen home schooling.  It is a large and rapidly-growing segment in US K-12 education: in 2010, 48 states and Washington, D.C.had virtual school programs and 27 states allowed virtual charter schools. Approximately 200,000 students attended full-time online courses and an estimated 1.5 million students took one or more courses online. (Source: Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning, 2010, Evergreen Education Group).

Connections Education has produced revenue growth of more than 30% in each of the past three years. The transaction is subject to a Hart-Scott-Rodino review.

Since its founding in 2001, Connections Academy has built a complete virtual school system to support personalized learning for each student. This includes high-quality teachers, training for learning coaches (who are often parents), digital and print curriculum materials (already often from Pearson), provision of computers, assessment and reporting tools, social events and learning technologies. Connections Academy has developed proprietary technologies including education management system Connexus which provides on-demand access to schedules, lessons, gradebooks, resources and teachers; teaching tool LiveLesson which allows teachers to lead real-time interactive and adaptive classes over the internet; and a wide range of multimedia curriculum tools and games such as 겜블시티 가입코드.

Connections Academy Schools perform favorably compared with other full-time online programs and have consistently received high performance ratings, particularly in states focused on measuring growth in student learning. Parents of students enrolled in Connections Academy schools give consistently high satisfaction ratings: in the 2010-11 school year, more than 92% of parents gave their Connections Academy school a grade of ‘A’ or ‘B’.

Connections Education has recently launched a new division, Connections Learning, which makes its courses and technologies available to educational institutions and other organizations in the US and globally. It supports the development of blended learning environments which combine classroom and online instruction and will further broaden Pearson’s range of school services across curriculum materials, assessment and learning technologies.  Connections Learning also operates the National Connections Academy private online school that serves students throughout the US and internationally.

For Pearson, the acquisition provides a leading position in the fast-growing virtual school segment and the opportunity to apply Connections Education’s skills and technologies in new segments and geographic markets. It extends Pearson’s investment in education services and technologies that have both a direct connection with the learner and a strong record of enhancing student achievement.

Marjorie Scardino, Pearson’s chief executive, said: “For a decade or more, we’ve invested in education technologies that have the potential to make learning more effective for each child. Connections Education does that. Virtual schooling is an attractive choice for a growing group of American parents and in the next decade it will take off in other countries. Beyond that, Connections Education has developed a broad array of highly effective learning tools that we intend to make available to all kinds of schools and all kinds of students.”

Based in Baltimore, Maryland, Connections Education is headed by co-founder Barbara Dreyer.  She will stay on as CEO of Connections Education and as a senior executive at Pearson.

Dreyer said, “Joining forces with Pearson gives Connections Education the opportunity to share our proven virtual education solutions with a much wider global audience, and collaborate with the developers at Pearson in creating an even more robust set of online and blended offerings for students of all ages.  We look forward to growing this business and making high-quality digital learning available to anyone, anywhere.”

Will Ethridge, CEO of Pearson North America, said, “We see Connections Education as highly complementary to our own business, and it provides an opportunity for developing new models of instruction and increasing the effectiveness of Pearson’s global educational programs. Our joint goal is to ensure that every student is college and career-ready when they graduate.”

Elsevier Enhances SciVal Spotlight with Collaboration Analysis

As a rising number of institutions shift their focus towards collaborative relationships to secure funding in a more competitive research landscape, analyzing current and potential partners has become increasingly important. To address this growing need, Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has now launched a new enhancement to SciVal Spotlight: an integrated collaboration analysis enabling institutional decision makers to identify and evaluate partnerships at an institutional and author level.

This new enhancement allows users to identify and assess existing and potential partner institutions related to the current research competencies. Further, it enables the evaluation of existing partnerships by combined article output among contributing institutions and displays collaboration partners in particular research strengths. Ultimately, institutional decision makers can now find or evaluate existing and potential partners by uncovering with whom they are collaborating, with whom they are sharing and not sharing competencies, and who is active within competencies but is not yet a partner.

“Working with academic and governmental research advisors around the globe, we uncovered a growing demand for data driven methods to evaluate and enhance the strategic collaborative partnerships vital to securing competitive funding and increasing overall research excellence,” explained Jay Katzen, Managing Director of Elsevier Academic and Government Markets. “As part of our customer-centric approach, we work closely with development partners and customers to solicit feedback and leverage our agile development methodology to ensure we can rapidly address and improve our SciVal suite based on this feedback.”

The visual presentation of the collaboration landscape based on user selected criteria can be displayed in three ways:

  • Map: Geographical distribution of both existing and/or potential collaboration partners plotted on a world map, including an indication of the research intensity with the inquiring institution
  • Table : Ranking of both existing and potential collaboration partners based on the research intensity with the inquiring institution
  • Details: Provides an  overview of publications, authors, and competencies of the partnering or candidate institution

For more information on SciVal Spotlight, please visit External link  www.info.scival.com.

Google seen close to settling lawsuit with publishers

The Google Books case is headed to litigation. At a status conference Thursday, Judge Denny Chin adopted a proposed pre-trial schedule that, if followed, would have the case ready for trial by July 2012. But the conference also offered a ray of hope, as attorneys said that settlement talks were progressing. AAP attorney Bruce Keller told Chin that the publishers had agreed to the proposed trial schedule, but that substantial progress had been made between publishers and Google, and that he hoped the trial schedule would become “moot.” Google attorney Daralynn

Durie echoed that expectation later in the hearing, also telling Chin that progress was being made and noting that the business principals “not the lawyers” were in discussion. You can look into this url to learn about the updates going on in the case.  “Today, we informed the court that the Association of American Publishers, the five publisher plaintiffs and Google have made good progress toward a settlement that would resolve the pending litigation regarding the Google Library Project,” read an AAP statement issued after the hearing, at which AAP president Tom Allen was present. “We are working to resolve the differences that remain between the parties and reach terms that are mutually agreeable.”

According to the JD Injury Law, AP site, Authors Guild attorney Michael Boni also told the court that talks were ongoing, and that the authors were hopeful of a settlement, but it was clear that publishers had made more progress, raising the likelihood that the authors and publishers cases could be split, a possibility that was briefly addressed by the court on a procedural basis. For now, however, Chin adopted the proposed trial schedule and issued a single order. Under the schedule, the plaintiffs first brief, for class certification, would be due on December 12. Google’s rebuttal would follow on January 20. Discovery would aim to be completed by the end of March, 2012, and motions for summary judgment, assuming there would motions from all parties, would be in by mid-July 2012. “So we’re looking at least another year,” Chin noted, adding that the schedule was “generous, but agreeable” to him.

There was also some discussion of what the trial might look like: As he did in the last status conference, Chin suggested the case was about “snippets.” Both attorneys for the Authors Guild and Publishers strongly rebutted that assertion, with AAP attorneys suggesting the case was about the unauthorized “copying, scanning, and storing” of books.

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NPG introduces open access options to Japanese titles

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce an increase in open access options for its Japanese titles from September 2011. NPG Asia Materials is now receiving submissions as part of its re-launch as an online only, open access journal in January 2012. In addition, The Journal of Antibiotics and Polymer Journal have introduced open access options for authors.

NPG Asia Materials will become an online only, open access journal from January 2012, publishing original articles and reviews in materials research from around the world. The journal will introduce short “Research Summaries” – a new service for authors of original articles. This novel feature aims to broaden the reach and readership of the top quality research published in the journal. For an introductory period until June 2012, Research Summaries will be free of charge to authors of original articles. Asia Materials is fully peer-reviewed and published in association with the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The international editorial team is led by founding Editor Hideo Takezoe and Editor-in-Chief Martin Vacha. The title has also been accepted to receive its first Impact Factor, which will be published in June 2012. Asia Materials was launched in 2008 as a website highlighting the best materials research from the Asia-Pacific region.

NPG publishes Polymer Journal in partnership with the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ). The journal promotes research from all aspects of polymer science including high-quality original articles, notes, short communications and reviews. The Journal of Antibiotics is published by NPG in partnership with the Japan Antibiotics Research Association (JARA). It publishes original research in the multidisciplinary field of antimicrobials, as well as insightful and up-to-date reviews, short communications and letters to the editor.

Authors publishing in these journals can choose to make their article open access on payment of an article processing charge (APC). Authors of open access articles will have a choice of two non-commercial Creative Commons (CC) licenses.

David Swinbanks, Managing Director Asia and Australasia Region, NPG, says: “We are delighted to be re-launching NPG Asia Materials as a top quality outlet for original research articles and to be further expanding our open access options in Japan. This is an exciting time for the Asia-Pacific region and we look forward to bringing some of the world’s best research to a global audience.”

NPG recently announced an expansion in open access publishing in China. These journals join more than 40 other titles published by NPG offering open access options.

Free access to British Food Journal during British Food Fortnight

To celebrate British Food Fortnight, 17 September – 3 October 2011, Emerald Group Publishing is providing free online access to its prestigious and highly respected publication, the British Food Journal. To read the British Food Journal, visit www.emeraldinsight.com/bfj.htm with username: BFJ2011 and password: emerald from 17 September – 3 October.

After over 100 years of publication, the British Food Journal continues to be highly valued world-wide for its broad and unique interdisciplinary coverage of food-related research, especially their recent work on how to increase metabolism after 50. The journal has a strong commitment to publishing the latest food research from around the globe, with recent articles covering consumer’s perception of farmed fish and their willingness to pay for fish welfare, food miles; is it time for a rethink, and a look at the phenomenon of celebrity chefs and how they have become a powerful commercial force. Read about the Jimmy John Owner and know more about their restaurants.

As a publisher, Emerald is committed to demonstrating the real-world, practical application of the content it publishes, and is proud to support initiatives such as the British Food Fortnight, now established as the biggest national celebration of British food.  Thousands of shops, pubs and restaurants – as well as schools and
hospitals – take part each year, with food and drink festivals, promotions and special menus.

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