Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on February 8, 2017
Global publishers select Scope’s ConSCIse™ solution to enhance book discovery, develop abstracts and keywords for book chapters
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced that more than fifteen major book publishers have now developed enriched chapter level metadata by leveraging Scope’s ConSCIse solution. The need for enhanced book chapter metadata was reinforced in a white paper from PCG, an Ingenta Company, noting that book publishers are increasingly adopting the journal publishing model for displaying search results for book content by delivering enhanced metadata for the book chapter along with journal articles.
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Leading US copyright experts to debate ‘Fair Use’ at Charles Clark Memorial Lecture
Delegates at The London Book Fair will in 2017 hear two eminent copyright law specialists debate one of the most controversial areas of international copyright law – the doctrine of Fair Use. Judge Pierre Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, has been a major architect of the Fair Use doctrine in the United States, most recently as the author of the Google Books decisions. Intellectual property lawyer and former General Counsel for the US Copyright Office Jon Baumgarten has litigated precedent setting Fair Use cases and advocates a more narrow interpretation of the doctrine as applied in those cases.
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Wiley Education Services expands partnership with Mattersight Corporation improving student experiences and learning outcomes through data
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. has announced that Wiley Education Services, a division of Wiley that provides solutions and services for online, hybrid, and, on-ground learning to higher education institutions, is expanding its partnership with Mattersight Corporation, the pioneer in personality-based software applications. As the only partnership of its kind in the higher education industry, Wiley Education Services will expand its use of Mattersight’s revolutionary Behavioural Analytics technology solution within its overall suite of business analytics to improving student experiences and learning outcomes through data.
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IET launches inaugural issue of new OA journal – IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has published the first issue of its latest open access journal – IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications. The new journal covers emerging issues including security, privacy issues and data analytics techniques in addition to classical cyber-physical systems (CPS) research topics such as control, real-time computing and system validation.
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Initial outcomes of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group now open for public comments
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has announced the publication of the initial outcomes of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group for public comment. In April 2016, COAR launched a working group to help identify new functionalities and technologies for repositories and develop a road map for their adoption. For the past several months, the group has been working to define a vision for repositories and sketch out the priority user stories and scenarios that will help guide the development of new functionalities.
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Purdue University continues partnership with Overleaf after successful year-long pilot
Scientific writing and publishing tools provider Overleaf has announced that Purdue University will continue in a five year partnership after a successful year-long pilot. During the pilot, premium Overleaf accounts and customized writing templates were provided to all students, faculty and staff. Purdue University Graduate School were looking for a way to overcome LaTeX intimidation and accessibility hurdles faced by their students.
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Kudos announces integration with Editorial Manager
Kudos, the service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, and Aries Systems, have announced a partnership through which plain language summaries will be captured at the point of submission within Editorial Manager. Editorial Manager has created a helpful video guide for publishers wanting to set up the integration.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on February 7, 2017
Wiley launches content sharing pilot providing greater access to research
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc. has announced the launch of a content sharing pilot on Wiley Online Library. Content sharing will facilitate research collaboration by providing authors and subscribers with a simple tool for sharing free-to-read full-text articles with non-subscribers. In addition, the pilot will provide the public with greater access to the latest research discoveries when linking to Wiley articles from over 50 media outlets globally.
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Elsevier in deal to provide University Office CRIS system IRMA access to Scopus data
University Office, an international leader in research management and administration applications and solutions, and STM publisher Elsevier have announced an agreement to provide the University Office CRIS system IRMA (Integrated Research Management Application) with access to data from Elsevier’s Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. IRMA is a web-based integrated research management system, which allows the comprehensive management of an organisation’s research.
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Wolters Kluwer to publish two new journals for the American College of Healthcare Executives
Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has been named publisher of two new journals – the Journal of Healthcare Management (JHM) and Frontiers of Health Services Management – by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). The new partnership begins with the January/February 2017 issue of JHM, and the Spring 2017 issue of Frontiers.
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HighWire announces promotions and key appointments to Executive Leadership Team
Scholarly publishing company HighWire Press, Inc. CEO, Dan Filby has announced changes to the Executive Leadership Team and the creation of two new executive roles. Abhinav Mittal is the Chief Technology Officer; Maya Sommers is now Director, Professional Services; Colin Caveney takes up a new role as Consultancy Director; Tasha Mellins-Cohen is the Director, Strategic Engagement Services.
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Emerald journals return strong CiteScore results
The new CiteScore metric based on Scopus data has shown that 77% of Emerald’s journals in Scopus’ Business, Management & Accounting category rank in the top half of all its indexed titles. According to CiteScore, Emerald is the publisher with the most Business, Management & Accounting titles, with over 16% of the whole sector.
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Five new Pensoft journals integrated with Dryad to improve data discoverability
Academic publisher Pensoft has strengthened its partnership with Dryad by adding its latest five journals to the list integrated with the digital repository. All authors who choose any of the journals published under Pensoft’s imprint will now be able to opt for uploading their datasets on Dryad. At the click of a button, the authors will have their data additionally discoverable, reusable, and citable.
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ACCUCOMS renews collaboration with the Royal Society of Chemistry in Latin America
ACCUCOMS has renewed its collaboration with the Royal Society of Chemistry in Latin America. ACCUCOMS will once again represent the Royal Society of Chemistry in Latin America (excluding Brazil), with the objective to retake opportunities created in the past, and generate new sales. ACCUCOMS has a track record of success with the Royal Society of Chemistry having represented it both in Turley and Latin America for several years previously.
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Latest Publications: UC Davis/UC Davis Medical Center

by rheyer Posted on February 6, 2017
Search Alert: 120 new results
Your search alert called “UCD/UCDMC” has found 120 new results on Scopus. |  View all new results in Scopus
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1 . Optimization of culturing conditions of recombined Escherichia coli to produce umami octopeptide-containing protein Zhang, Y., Wei, X., Lu, Z., Pan, Z., Gou, X., Venkitasamy, C., Guo, S., Zhao, L. 2017 Food Chemistry ,
227 pp. 78 – 84 .
2 . Exact integration scheme for planewave-enriched partition of unity finite element method to solve the Helmholtz problem Banerjee, S., Sukumar, N. 2017 Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering ,
317 pp. 619 – 648 .
3 . Engineering Neurospora crassa for cellobionate production directly from cellulose without any enzyme addition Lin, H., Hildebrand, A., Kasuga, T., Fan, Z. 2017 Enzyme and Microbial Technology ,
99 pp. 25 – 31 .
4 . The effects of neonatal amygdala or hippocampus lesions on adult social behavior Bliss-Moreau, E., Moadab, G., Santistevan, A., Amaral, D.G. 2017 Behavioural Brain Research ,
322 pp. 123 – 137 .
5 . Investigation of the performance improvement in decreasing aspect ratio interdigitated flow field PEMFCs Cooper, N.J., Santamaria, A.D., Becton, M.K., Park, J.W. 2017 Energy Conversion and Management ,
136 pp. 307 – 317 .
6 . Molecular dynamics simulations of ternary lipid bilayers containing plant sterol and glucosylceramide Emami, S., Azadmard-Damirchi, S., Peighambardoust, S.H., Hesari, J., Valizadeh, H., Faller, R. 2017 Chemistry and Physics of Lipids ,
203 pp. 24 – 32 .
7 . A novel pulmonary polyomavirus in alpacas (Vicugna pacos) Dela Cruz, F.N., Li, L., Delwart, E., Pesavento, P.A. 2017 Veterinary Microbiology ,
201 pp. 49 – 55 .
8 . Valid statistical approaches for analyzing sholl data: Mixed effects versus simple linear models Wilson, M.D., Sethi, S., Lein, P.J., Keil, K.P. 2017 Journal of Neuroscience Methods ,
279 pp. 33 – 43 .
9 . Autophagy and autoimmunity Wu, D.J., Adamopoulos, I.E. 2017 Clinical Immunology ,
176 pp. 55 – 62 .
10 . Construction of Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated tomato black ring virus infectious cDNA clones Zarzyńska-Nowak, A., Ferriol, I., Falk, B.W., Borodynko-Filas, N., Hasiów-Jaroszewska, B. 2017 Virus Research ,
230 pp. 59 – 62 .
11 . Motion compensation using origin ensembles in awake small animal positron emission tomography Gillam, J.E., Angelis, G.I., Kyme, A.Z., Meikle, S.R. 2017 Physics in Medicine and Biology ,
62 ( 3 ) pp. 715 – 733 .
12 . Within-day improvement in a behavioural display: wild birds ‘warm up’ Schraft, H.A., Medina, O.J., McClure, J., Pereira, D.A., Logue, D.M. 2017 Animal Behaviour ,
124 pp. 167 – 174 .
13 . Can we continue to deny neuraxial anesthesia to otherwise-healthy parturients with thrombocytopenia? Ray, N.P. 2017 Anesthesia and Analgesia ,
124 ( 2 ) pp. 704 – 705 .
14 . Sled fixation for horizontal medial malleolus fractures Wegner, A.M., Wolinsky, P.R., Cheng, R.Z., Robbins, M.A., Garcia, T.C., Amanatullah, D.F. 2017 Clinical Biomechanics ,
42 pp. 92 – 96 .
15 . Childhood Adversity’s Enduring Impact on Homeless Older Adults Hinton, L. 2017 American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry ,
25 ( 2 ) pp. 118 – 119 .
16 . Fatal Emmonsia sp. Infection and fungemia after orthotopic liver transplantation Kappagoda, S., Adams, J.Y., Luo, R., Banaei, N., Concepcion, W., Ho, D.Y. 2017 Emerging Infectious Diseases ,
23 ( 2 ) pp. 346 – 349 .
17 . Prediction of traffic loading-induced settlement of low-embankment road on soft subsoil Wei, X., Wang, G., Wu, R. 2017 International Journal of Geomechanics ,
17 ( 2 ) , art. no. 06016016
18 . A Trial of Concurrent Care: Shedding Light on the Gray Zone Hargadon, A., Tran, Q., Stephen, K., Homler, H. 2017 Journal of Palliative Medicine ,
20 ( 2 ) pp. 207 – 210 .
19 . Future Directions in the Study of Early-Life Stress and Physical and Emotional Health: Implications of the Neuroimmune Network Hypothesis Hostinar, C.E., Nusslock, R., Miller, G.E. 2017 Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology ,
pp. 1 – 15 .
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20 . Neighborhood Disorder and Physical Activity among Older Adults: A Longitudinal Study Mooney, S.J., Joshi, S., Cerdá, M., Kennedy, G.J., Beard, J.R., Rundle, A.G. 2017 Journal of Urban Health ,
pp. 1 – 13 .
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21 . Studies on the detection, expression, glycosylation, dimerization, and ligand binding properties of mouse Siglec-E Siddiqui, S., Schwarz, F., Springer, S., Khedri, Z., Yu, H., Deng, L., Verhagen, A., Naito-Matsui, Y., Jiang, W., Kim, D., Zhou, J., Ding, B., Chen, X., Varki, N., Varki, A. 2017 Journal of Biological Chemistry ,
292 ( 3 ) pp. 1029 – 1037 .
22 . Differential Equations and Exact Solutions in the Moving Sofa Problem Romik, D. 2017 Experimental Mathematics ,
pp. 1 – 15 .
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23 . Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume Hibar, D.P., Adams, H.H.H., Jahanshad, N., Chauhan, G., Stein, J.L., Hofer, E., Renteria, M.E., Bis, J.C., Arias-Vasquez, A., Ikram, M.K., Desrivières, S., Vernooij, M.W., Abramovic, L., Alhusaini, S., Amin, N., Andersson, M., Arfanakis, K., Aribisala, B.S., Armstrong, N.J., Athanasiu, L., Axelsson, T., Beecham, A.H., Beiser, A., Bernard, M., Blanton, S.H., Bohlken, M.M., Boks, M.P., Bralten, J., Brickman, A.M., Carmichael, O., Chakravarty, M.M., Chen, Q., Ching, C.R.K., Chouraki, V., Cuellar-Partida, G., Crivello, F., Den Braber, A., Doan, N.T., Ehrlich, S., Giddaluru, S., Goldman, A.L., Gottesman, R.F., Grimm, O., Griswold, M.E., Guadalupe, T., Gutman, B.A., Hass, J., Haukvik, U.K., Hoehn, D., Holmes, A.J., Hoogman, M., Janowitz, D., Jia, T., Jørgensen, K.N., Karbalai, N., Kasperaviciute, D., Kim, S., Klein, M., Kraemer, B., Lee, P.H., Liewald, D.C.M., Lopez, L.M., Luciano, M., MacAre, C., Marquand, A.F., Matarin, M., Mather, K.A., Mattheisen, M., McKay, D.R., Milaneschi, Y., Muñoz Maniega, S., Nho, K., Nugent, A.C., Nyquist, P., Loohuis, L.M.O., Oosterlaan, J., Papmeyer, M., Pirpamer, L., Pütz, B., Ramasamy, A., Richards, J.S., Risacher, S.L., Roiz-Santiañez, R., Rommelse, N., Ropele, S., Rose, E.J., Royle, N.A., Rundek, T., Sämann, P.G., Saremi, A., Satizabal, C.L., Schmaal, L., Schork, A.J., Shen, L., Shin, J., Shumskaya, E., Smith, A.V., Sprooten, E., Strike, L.T., Teumer, A., Tordesillas-Gutierrez, D., Toro, R., Trabzuni, D., Trompet, S., Vaidya, D., Van Der Grond, J., Van Der Lee, S.J., Van Der Meer, D., Van Donkelaar, M.M.J., Van Eijk, K.R., Van Erp, T.G.M., Van Rooij, D., Walton, E., Westlye, L.T., Whelan, C.D., Windham, B.G., Winkler, A.M., Wittfeld, K., Woldehawariat, G., Wolf, C., Wolfers, T., Yanek, L.R., Yang, J., Zijdenbos, A., Zwiers, M.P., Agartz, I., Almasy, L., Ames, D., Amouyel, P., Andreassen, O.A., Arepalli, S., Assareh, A.A., Barral, S., Bastin, M.E., Becker, D.M., Becker, J.T., Bennett, D.A., Blangero, J., Van Bokhoven, H., Boomsma, D.I., Brodaty, H., Brouwer, R.M., Brunner, H.G., Buckner, R.L., Buitelaar, J.K., Bulayeva, K.B., Cahn, W., Calhoun, V.D., Cannon, D.M., Cavalleri, G.L., Cheng, C.-Y., Cichon, S., Cookson, M.R., Corvin, A., Crespo-Facorro, B., Curran, J.E., Czisch, M., Dale, A.M., Davies, G.E., De Craen, A.J.M., De Geus, E.J.C., De Jager, P.L., De Zubicaray, G.I., Deary, I.J., Debette, S., Decarli, C., Delanty, N., Depondt, C., Destefano, A., Dillman, A., Djurovic, S., Donohoe, G., Drevets, W.C., Duggirala, R., Dyer, T.D., Enzinger, C., Erk, S., Espeseth, T., Fedko, I.O., Fernández, G., Ferrucci, L., Fisher, S.E., Fleischman, D.A., Ford, I., Fornage, M., Foroud, T.M., Fox, P.T., Francks, C., Fukunaga, M., Gibbs, J.R., Glahn, D.C., Gollub, R.L., Göring, H.H.H., Green, R.C., Gruber, O., Gudnason, V., Guelfi, S., Håberg, A.K., Hansell, N.K., Hardy, J., Hartman, C.A., Hashimoto, R., Hegenscheid, K., Heinz, A., Le Hellard, S., Hernandez, D.G., Heslenfeld, D.J., Ho, B.-C., Hoekstra, P.J., Hoffmann, W., Hofman, A., Holsboer, F., Homuth, G., Hosten, N., Hottenga, J.-J., Huentelman, M., Pol, H.E.H., Ikeda, M., Jack, C.R., Jenkinson, M., Johnson, R., Jönsson, E.G., Jukema, J.W., Kahn, R.S., Kanai, R., Kloszewska, I., Knopman, D.S., Kochunov, P., Kwok, J.B., Lawrie, S.M., Lemaître, H., Liu, X., Longo, D.L., Lopez, O.L., Lovestone, S., Martinez, O., Martinot, J.-L., Mattay, V.S., McDonald, C., McIntosh, A.M., McMahon, F.J., McMahon, K.L., Mecocci, P., Melle, I., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Mohnke, S., Montgomery, G.W., Morris, D.W., Mosley, T.H., Mühleisen, T.W., Müller-Myhsok, B., Nalls, M.A., Nauck, M., Nichols, T.E., Niessen, W.J., Nöthen, M.M., Nyberg, L., Ohi, K., Olvera, R.L., Ophoff, R.A., Pandolfo, M., Paus, T., Pausova, Z., Penninx, B.W.J.H., Pike, G.B., Potkin, S.G., Psaty, B.M., Reppermund, S., Rietschel, M., Roffman, J.L., Romanczuk-Seiferth, N., Rotter, J.I., Ryten, M., Sacco, R.L., Sachdev, P.S., Saykin, A.J., Schmidt, R., Schmidt, H., Schofield, P.R., Sigursson, S., Simmons, A., Singleton, A., Sisodiya, S.M., Smith, C., Smoller, J.W., Soininen, H., Steen, V.M., Stott, D.J., Sussmann, J.E., Thalamuthu, A., Toga, A.W., Traynor, B.J., Troncoso, J., Tsolaki, M., Tzourio, C., Uitterlinden, A.G., Hernández, M.C.V., Van Der Brug, M., Van Der Lugt, A., Van Der Wee, N.J.A., Van Haren, N.E.M., Van ‘T Ent, D., Van Tol, M.-J., Vardarajan, B.N., Vellas, B., Veltman, D.J., Völzke, H., Walter, H., Wardlaw, J.M., Wassink, T.H., Weale, M.E., Weinberger, D.R., Weiner, M.W., Wen, W., Westman, E., White, T., Wong, T.Y., Wright, C.B., Zielke, R.H., Zonderman, A.B., Martin, N.G., Van Duijn, C.M., Wright, M.J., Longstreth, W.T., Schumann, G., Grabe, H.J., Franke, B., Launer, L.J., Medland, S.E., Seshadri, S., Thompson, P.M., Ikram, M.A. 2017 Nature Communications ,
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24 . Influence of flake density and tempering on the feeding value of steam-flaked corn for feedlot cattle Gutierrez, B.H., Alvarez, E.G., Montano, M.F., Salinas-Chavira, J., Torrentera, N.G., Zinn, R.A. 2017 Journal of Applied Animal Research ,
pp. 1 – 4 .
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25 . White matter hyperintensities correlate to cognition and fiber tract integrity in older adults with HIV Watson, C., Busovaca, E., Foley, J.M., Allen, I.E., Schwarz, C.G., Jahanshad, N., Nir, T.M., Esmaeili-Firidouni, P., Milanini, B., Rosen, H., Carmichael, O.T., Thompson, P.M., Valcour, V.G. 2017 Journal of NeuroVirology ,
pp. 1 – 8 .
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on February 6, 2017
Quertle and Elsevier collaborate to integrate ScienceDirect full-text searching within new artificial intelligence discovery tool
Quertle, developer of the first artificial intelligence (AI) biomedical big data discovery platform (BioAITM) for biomedical literature, and STM publisher Elsevier have announced that searching of the full-text biomedical and life science content on ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s leading information source with over 14 million publications, will be integrated into Quertle’s artificial intelligence discovery product QinsightTM.
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Wolters Kluwer’s Sentri7® solution receives 2017 Category Leader award for Clinical Decision Support-Surveillance in the 2017 Best in KLAS report
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that its Sentri7® solution has received the 2017 Category Leader award for Clinical Decision Support-Surveillance in the 2017 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report. Having captured the Category Leader designation in two previous Best in KLAS reports, the clinical surveillance and decision support platform was awarded top honours for: general satisfaction; functionality and upgrades; and sales and contracting.
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Jisc and OCLC partner to build new UK-wide service that will transform library collaboration
Jisc and OCLC have announced a partnership to build a new shared service that will aggregate academic bibliographic data at scale, improving library collection management and resource discovery for students and researchers. Jisc has announced that OCLC, the global library cooperative, has been awarded the contract to develop a new national bibliographic knowledgebase (NBK).
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Knowledge Unlatched and JSTOR partner to study usage of Open Access books
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access initiative supporting monographs in the humanities and social sciences, and JSTOR, the digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources, are partnering to study usage patterns in Open Access by cross-promoting KU titles. While KU will continue to host its titles on the OAPEN platform, it will expand the hosting of 30 Open Access titles to JSTOR.
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International Journal of Metrology and Quality Engineering now fully Open Access
STM publisher EDP Sciences has announced that International Journal of Metrology and Quality Engineering(IJMQE) is now a fully gold Open Access journal, meaning that all published articles will be available for anyone to read at any time from the publication date. IJMQE was previously a subscription journal, but the move to Open Access demonstrates EDP Sciences’ support of Open Science and allows unrestricted access to published science.
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State Library Victoria selects Ex Libris Rosetta for digital asset management, collection, and preservation
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that State Library Victoria has chosen the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system to manage its digital resources and sustain them in perpetuity. Rosetta will be replacing the library’s DigiTool® digital asset management system. Opened in 1856 as the Melbourne Public Library, State Library Victoria is Australia’s oldest and busiest public library.
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ACCUCOMS appoints Geoff Worton as North America Sales Director
ACCUCOMS has announced the appointment of Geoff Worton as North America Sales Director. In his new role, Worton will be focusing on publisher facing business development. Geoff Worton previously held global sales management positions at Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Nature Publishing Group, Elsevier Science, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Lettie Y. Conrad (Carving Out a Content Discovery Strategy); Sam Herbert (Introducing Content Enrichment as a strategic publishing capability); Kent Anderson (Scientific Publishing in a Time of Political Assaults); Marlene Belfort (Science as tranquilizer and trailblazer); and Colin Talbot (No longer welcome: the EU academics in Britain told to “make arrangements to leave”). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on February 6, 2017
Elsevier acquires Plum Analytics from EBSCO Information Services
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the acquisition of Plum Analytics from EBSCO Information Services, a global information services company providing research and discovery platforms and access to premium content. The acquisition will enable Elsevier to significantly expand access to Plum Analytics’ altmetrics to more researchers and more institutions.
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SAGE Publishing and the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health partner to publish Global Advances in Health and Medicine
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing will partner with the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health to publish Global Advances in Health and Medicine (GAHM), a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to improving health and well-being through whole-person and whole-systems care and healing. Launched in 2012, GAHM publishes six times per year in association with the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health.
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Kathrin Grün named Head of PR and Communications at the Frankfurter Buchmesse
Kathrin Grün has been appointed Head of PR and Communications at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, effective February 1, 2017. She will now be responsible for external corporate communications and product communication at national and international levels, and for positioning the company in the public eye. In her new position, Kathrin will report to Katja Böhne, Vice President Marketing & Communications at Frankfurter Buchmesse.
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Brill becomes ORCID member
Academic publisher Brill has become a member of ORCID, effective January 1, 2017. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an independent, non-profit initiative whereby researchers are assigned a unique ORCID iD that can be used to link all of their publications, affiliations, name variations, and other relevant information to their ORCID record.
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American Library Association accepting submissions for 2017 John Cotton Dana Award
The American Library Association (ALA) is now accepting submissions for the John Cotton Dana Award (JCD). The award, managed by the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) division of ALA, honours outstanding library public relations. Eight $10,000 awards are granted each year by the H.W. Wilson Foundation at an annual Awards Ceremony sponsored by ALA and EBSCO Information Services.
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Oxford University Press to publish Biology of Reproduction
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced a partnership with the Society for the Study of Reproduction to publish Biology of Reproduction. The latest issue is now available online and can be accessed at: https://academic.oup.com/biolreprod/issue. This issue will initially be freely accessible.
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Nebraska Medicine to integrate POC Advisor from Wolters Kluwer to improve sepsis outcomes
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that Nebraska Medicine will integrate POC AdvisorTM into clinical workflows to improve sepsis outcomes. POC Advisor uses real-time clinical surveillance and analytics to deliver highly accurate sepsis alerts and patient-specific treatment advice to clinicians at the point of care.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on February 2, 2017
STM Online services to grow, says new Simba Information report
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a report, STM Online Services 2016-2020, according to which, online services continue to be the fastest growing of all content delivery segments, faster than journals and much faster than books. Before elimination of trading between publishers, STM online services are estimated to have grown 3.6% to $5.8 billion in 2016, and are expected to deliver a similar pace of growth annually to 2020.
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Elsevier announces new joint publication with the International Federation of Automatic Control
STM publisher Elsevier and the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) have announced the launch of a new joint publication, IFAC Journal of Systems and Control. The journal will publish research papers on generalisable, extensible and transferable innovations across all aspects of the field of control and automation.
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SAGE Publishing relaunches MethodSpace with new Big Data Hub
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the relaunch of its popular MethodSpace website, a free-entry online community with over 20,000 registered social and behavioural science researchers. The revamped site includes a hub focused on how social science research is using big data.
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De Gruyter announces structural changes, reorganises management of open access business
Independent academic publisher De Gruyter has reorganised the management of its open access business by integrating peer-reviewed open access activities more closely within Editorial activities. A separate business unit is being created to offer open access publishing services for third parties. The separate business unit will be managed by Jacek Ciesielski, who has been named Vice President, Publishing Services, De Gruyter.
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IET and River Valley Technologies announce new partnership for delivery of peer review solution
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced a new partnership with River Valley Technologies to supply a state of the art peer review solution to support its leading publishing programme. The IET is working with River Valley Technologies to offer a highly effective and flexible peer review that is focused on the author, editor, and reviewer experiences and is easily re-configurable to the evolving business and customer needs.
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BVA and BMJ appoint new editor for Veterinary Record
The British Veterinary Association and BMJ have announced the appointment of award-winning health journalist Adele Waters as editor of BVA’s journals – Veterinary Record, In Practice, Veterinary Record Open and Veterinary Record Case Reports. The new appointment follows the retirement of Martin Alder in December after 26 years in the post.
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Dr. Philippe Sansonetti named new Chief Editor of EMBO Molecular Medicine
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), a professional organisation of life scientists in Europe, has announced the appointment of microbiologist Philippe Sansonetti as new Chief Editor of EMBO Molecular Medicine. Dr Sansonetti, who is the Director of the Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis Laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, takes up the post with immediate effect.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on February 1, 2017
Wolters Kluwer and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons partner to release Spine Injuries in Athletes
Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, in partnership with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), has announced the release of Spine Injuries in Athletes, a comprehensive reference book that covers the treatment of spine injuries in athletes. Edited by Dr. Andrew C. Hecht, the book offers advice from leading experts on how to manage a variety of on field injuries with surgical, non-surgical, and rehabilitation plans tailored to specific sports.
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American Geophysical Union and Wiley extend partnership
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is renewing its partnership with Wiley to help realize the AGU’s strategic goal to transform the future of scientific publishing in an evolving marketplace and vision to collaboratively advance and communicate science. Since AGU entered into its first partnership with Wiley, it has flourished, demonstrating benefits to scholarly research and communications on a number of fronts.
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University of California selects HighWire’s BenchPress for its new journal – Case Studies in the Environment
Scholarly publishing company HighWire Press has announced that University of California Press (UC Press) has selected BenchPress as the manuscript submission, editorial tracking, peer review, and production tracking system for its new journal, Case Studies in the Environment. The new journal, which is set to launch in mid-2017, is now accepting online submissions.
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LibLynx to launch LibLynx Gateway – a new e-resource access solution for Libraries
LibLynx, an independent provider of cloud-based Identity and Access management (IAM) solutions, has announced the launch of LibLynx Gateway, an online resource access management tool for libraries. LibLynx Gateway uniquely combines a powerful access and authentication infrastructure with an optional personalized and mobile-ready user portal, providing libraries with a highly flexible and customised solution.
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Taylor & Francis UK selects Sheridan for its US journals program
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis UK (T&F UK) has chosen Sheridan as print provider for its US journals program. T&F UK Journals Group journals will be produced on Sheridan’s digital press platform, which features an HPTM T240 Inkjet Press. The press is the first of its kind in the US utilizing HP’s HDNA technology, which supports high definition printing of short run journals.
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Stockholm University partners with Kudos to map the effect of research communications
Kudos, the service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, has announced that Stockholm University is the latest university to sign up for Kudos for Institutions. By channeling researchers’ communications about their work through a central system, and mapping these actions against a range of metrics, Kudos provides institutions with deep, actionable insight into the most effective ways to increase publication impact.
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Frontline Medical Communications announces promotions of Sally Cioci and Josh Prizer to Group Publisher
Frontline Medical Communications (FMC) recently announced the promotions of Sally Cioci and Josh Prizer to Group Publisher. For the past several years Sally has led Dermatology News® and Pediatric News® as the Publisher of both titles, while also serving as Associate Director, SDEF Sponsorships for Global Academy for Medical Education, an affiliate of FMC. Josh joined FMC in 2014 and has been a solid contributor since joining the organisation.
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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

by rheyer Posted on January 31, 2017
Oxford University Press to publish Diseases of the Esophagus
Academic publisher Oxford University Press and the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus (ISDE)have announced a new partnership to publish Diseases of the Esophagus, ISDE’s monthly scientific journal. The journal offers comprehensive articles on diseases of the esophagus from both medical and surgical viewpoints.
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University of Hawai‘i Press in deal with De Gruyter for worldwide sales of its electronic academic publications
The University of Hawai’i Press (UHP) and academic publisher De Gruyter have formed a partnership for the worldwide sales of UHP’s electronic academic publications. This includes a frontlist of titles and a backlist of approximately 800 titles, which is expected to grow.
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OpenAthens white paper reveals the importance of information security for authentication systems
OpenAthens has published a new white paper that discusses the complexities facing information professionals and publishers when ensuring the security of access and authentication processes. Available from the OpenAthens website, ‘Approaches to authentication: the importance of information security‘, draws on experiences from across the information industry to highlight the key security issues around different authentication methods.
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Atypon opens development hub in Rochester, New York
Publishing technology company Atypon has opened an office in Rochester, NY to keep pace with their aggressive hiring of software engineers, front-end developers, solution architects, and project managers. The global company has nearly tripled its staff in the past three years. Atypon is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with offices in New York City, Alabama, the UK, Jordan, and Greece.
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Inera and Overleaf partner to improve author writing experience
Overleaf, an innovative provider of scientific writing and publishing tools, and Inera, provider of the eXtyles and Edifix family of editorial and XML solutions, have announced a partnership to improve the author writing experience by helping authors easily structure, correct and then upload and use their bibliographies while writing. Authors who use BibTeX can easily create their BibTeX bibliography files using Edifix and then upload those files to Overleaf.
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Reprints Desk appoints STM industry expert Sharon Mattern Büttiker as Director of Content Management
Research Solutions, Inc., a pioneer in providing cloud-based solutions for scientific research, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Reprints Desk has hired Sharon Mattern Büttiker as Director of Content Management. Mattern will work on expanding Reprints Desk’s publisher relations and content portfolio in support of the company’s planned launch of new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product offerings later in 2017.
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by rheyer Posted on January 31, 2017
Elsevier announces publication of Gorilla Pathology and Health: With a Catalogue of Preserved Materials and four additional veterinary science and zoology books
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Gorilla Pathology and Health: With a Catalogue of Preserved Materials by John E. Cooper and Gordon Hull. It consists of two cross-referenced parts. The first, the book itself, is a review of pathological changes and tissue responses in gorillas. What makes the publication unique is the second part, a comprehensive descriptive catalogue of the location and nature of gorilla material in museums and scientific institutions throughout the world, greatly benefiting research and study.
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New OCLC Research report on digitization in public and state libraries
The Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced that OCLC Research has published a new report: Advancing the National Digital Platform: The State of Digitization in US Public and State Libraries. This report summarises the results of a needs assessment and gap analysis of digitisation activities by public libraries and state library agencies in the US.
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Education publishers sue Amazon marketplace vendors over counterfeit sales
Education publishers Pearson Education, Cengage Learning and McGraw Hill have summoned Amazon to disclose the names and financial accounts of online vendors allegedly selling low-cost pirated copies of the publishers’ books via the Amazon marketplace site. According to a report in the Financial Times, the publishers are suing 100 unnamed Amazon marketplace sellers for copyright infringement, accusing the sellers of ‘hiding behind the anonymity of internet pseudonyms’.
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CARL releases Roadmap towards sustainable scholarly communication
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has released a Scholarly Communications Roadmap that presents clear activities it aims to undertake to stimulate positive change towards an open, sustainable, effective and innovative scholarly communication system. The full text of the document is available in Englishand in French.
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Call for Proposals for PKP 2017 International Scholarly Publishing Conference now open
The Public Knowledge Project has issued a Call for Proposals for the PKP 2017 International Scholarly Publishing Conference to be held in Montreal, Quebec from August 2- 4, 2017. The conference will address issues of community voice, ownership, and control as it relates to open access publishing, global knowledge creation and sharing, open educational resources, citizen rights, scholars as publishers, and open source technologies.
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Wound Care Education Institute and the Journal of Wound Care announce joint venture to publish new digital journal – Wound Central
Wound Care Education Institute® (WCEI) and the Journal of Wound Care (JWC) have entered into a joint venture to publish a new digital journal called Wound CentralTM. The journal offers a unique combination of advanced wound care education as well as practical bedside how-to basics. It provides original research and case reports, written and double blind peer reviewed by leading authorities in the wound care industry.
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NRF hosts first African DSpace-CRIS Repository Workshop
The National Research Foundation (NRF) hosted a successful DSpace-CRIS workshop at its National Facility the iThemba Labs, in Cape Town from December 4-5, 2016. It was attended by 38 participants including IT administrators, librarians and repository practitioners, drawn from various universities and research councils.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Holly Else (How likely are academics to confess to errors in research?); Perry Hewitt (Guest Post: Perry Hewitt – Bringing the Cathedral to the Bazaar: Academic Content and Wikipedia); Ann Rogerson (Free Internet based paraphrasing tools: further threats to academic integrity); Valeria Arza and Emanuel López (Embedding open science practices within evaluation systems can promote research that meets societal needs in developing countries); Cat Williams (Altmetrics for books: a guide for editors). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.
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Synthesis Digital Library Update December, 2016

by rheyer Posted on January 31, 2017
The Following Lectures Were Published
Synthesis Collection Seven:

Incidental Exposure to Online News

Borchuluun Yadamsuren, Columbia College, Missouri
Sanda Erdelez, University of Missouri  
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services

Digital Heritage Reconstruction Using Super-resolution and Inpainting

Milind G. Padalkarand Manjunath V. Joshi
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT)
Synthesis Lectures on Visual Computing: Computer Graphics, Animation, Computational Photography, and Imaging

Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web

Diana Maynard and Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield
Isabelle Augenstein, University College London
Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology

Node Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks

Xue Zhang, Arizona State University
Cihan Tepedelenlioglu, Arizona State University
Mahesh Banavar, Clarkson University
Andreas Spanias, SenSIP Center, Arizona State University
Synthesis Lectures on Communications

https://doi.org/10.2200/S00742ED1V01Y201611COM012

Quantifying Research Integrity

Michael Seadle, Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
https://doi.org/10.2200/S00743ED1V01Y201611ICR053

Geometric Programming for Design Equation Development and Cost/Profit Optimization (with illustrative case study problems and solutions), Third Edition

Robert C. Creese, West Virginia University
Synthesis Lectures on Engineering
https://doi.org/10.2200/S00747ED3V01Y201616ENG027

Digital Forensic Science: Issues, Methods, and Challenges

Vassil Roussev, University of New Orleans
Synthesis Lectures on Information Security, Privacy, and Trust
https://doi.org/10.2200/S00738ED1V01Y201610SPT019

From Tool to Partner: The Evolution of Human-Computer Interaction

Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research
Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics
https://doi.org/10.2200/S00745ED1V01Y201612HCI035

The Human Side of Engineering

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin-University of Dublin
Synthesis Lectures on Engineering
https://doi.org/10.2200/S00748ED1V01Y201612ENG028

Quantum Robotics: A Primer on Current Science and Future Perspectives

Prateek Tandon, Stanley Lam, Ben Shih, Tanay Mehta, Alex Mitev, and Zhiyang Ong
Quantum Robotics Group
Synthesis Lectures on Quantum Computing
https://doi.org/10.2200/S00746ED1V01Y201612QMC010

Analysis and Design of Transmitarray Antennas

Ahmed H. Abdelrahman, University of Colorado Boulder
Fan Yang, Tsinghua University
Atef Z. Elsherbeni, Colorado School of Mines
Payam Nayeri, Colorado School of Mines
Synthesis Lectures on Antennas
https://doi.org/10.2200/S00749ED1V01Y201612ANT012

Fuzzy Information Retrieval

Donald H. Kraft, Colorado Technical University and Louisiana State University
Erin Colvin, Western Washington University
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
https://doi.org/10.2200/S00752ED1V01Y201701ICR055
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