Luminos Newsletter

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Luminos Newsletter


The Luminos newsletter is designed to keep you apprised of news and developments about Luminos, UC Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs.

In this edition we profile Luminos’s newest member library, talk to Books at JSTOR Director Frank Smith about the inclusion of open access monographs on JSTOR’s platform, look back at OA Week, and, given that it is University Press Week, we check in on the status of university press publishing and how open access fits into its future.


Newly Published Luminos Titles



Forthcoming Luminos Titles



Membership News


We are pleased to welcome Queensland University of Technology as our newest Luminos Member Library. Queensland University of Technology, which joins us at the Courier level, has long been committed to open access advocacy and support. In 2003, the university introduced the world’s first university-wide policy to require open access for all peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers. The Luminos model is in line with Queensland University of Technology’s strong endorsement of the concept of sustainable business models for scholarly monograph publishing built on partnerships and distributed costs. If your library is ready to join as our next Luminos Member Library, please visit us at luminosoa.org or email luminos@ucpress.edu for details.


Luminos Titles Available at Books at JSTOR


We are pleased to announce that Luminos titles are now available on the Books at JSTOR platform. Like all ebooks on JSTOR, Luminos titles are DRM-free and have no limits on chapter PDF downloads or printing. Users will not need to register or log in to JSTOR to access the titles. JSTOR provides chapter level discovery, free MARC records, and is supplying metadata and full text for these titles to discovery services; more information for libraries is available here. In addition, titles are preserved in Portico, ensuring that they will be available to researchers in perpetuity.

We asked Books at JSTOR Director Frank Smith about the decision to include open access titles on JSTOR. For the full interview, click over to our blog.


UC Press Celebrates Open Access Week


UC Press celebrated Open Access Week (October 24-30) with a series of blog posts featuring guest posts from Luminos authors and other OA content. What lies behind an author’s decision to publish an open access book? For Chris Benner and Manual Pastor, authors of Equity, Growth, and Community, open access publishing is part of their commitment to democratize access to scholarship of consequence. Roger Mosley, author of Keys to Play, explains what Mozart and Super Mario have in common. UC Berkeley’s Scholarly Communication Officer Rachael Samberg talks about why open access is important to her. Read more.


University Presses and Open Access


Learned Publishing, the official journal of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) devoted its fall issue to university presses. Among the contributors is UC Press Director Alison Mudditt, who talks about the importance that open access will play in the long term viability of monograph publishing:

“UC Press, along with a handful of other presses, has been at the forefront of developing ways not only to preserve but to reinvigorate monographs through open, digital models. A wide variety of innovative initiatives have emerged from collective models, such as Knowledge Unlatched, to new programmes (such as Luminos here at UC Press) and new presses (such as Amherst College Press and Lever Press) and the development of shared infrastructure to support these new models. Given that the core challenge of monograph publishing is that the revenue-recovery model is no longer adequate, all of these models seek to share cost recovery more widely across a range of potential funding sources. We are still in the early days, but presses are learning a great deal, and many of the early indicators are impressive. . . . “

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Scholarly Kitchen also recently weighed in on the future of university presses, looking at experiments, including Luminos, with open access publishing:

“There is an effort afoot in the university press and higher education communities to transition humanities monographs to open access, which to some is a vital element of repositioning humanities fields to take a more public role. . . .”

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Scope – Knowledgespeak: STM Industry Daily News Alert

Emerald looks to widen scope of its Library & Information Science journals to address new trends, appoints a number of new editors
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has announced changes to some of its key Library & Information Science journals. According to Eileen Breen, Publisher at Emerald, Library Science is becoming more interdisciplinary and outward-looking. Working at the interface with Information Systems research – as well as Information Science and Educational research – is broadening the impact of the field. Emerald is therefore adapting to these trends by broadening the scope of several of its titles, making name changes and appointing new editors.
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Wellcome Open Research launches with first articles
Wellcome’s publishing platform, Wellcome Open Research, has launched with its first articles published and freely available to view. These articles will shortly undergo open peer review. They span a range of formats – from more traditional research articles to data notes, software tools and study protocols, and are from academics across a range of career levels.
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Ithaka S+R and PALCI join NFAIS as new members
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAISTM) has announced that Ithaka S+R and the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) have joined NFAIS as new members. Ithaka S+R is a not-for-profit service that helps the academic community navigate economic and technological change. The Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) was formed in 1996 as a grassroots federation for the purpose of resource sharing with 35 academic libraries in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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USDA and CHORUS sign MoU to advance public access to content reporting on USDA-funded research
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and CHORUS have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to advance public access to content reporting on USDA-funded research. USDA already links from the PubAg portal to CHORUS-verified, publicly accessible content on CHORUS Publisher Members’ sites.
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Consortium partners for new European Commission funded SCOPE Project announced
The European Science Foundation (ESF), l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) have been selected as Consortium partners for the new European Commission funded SCOPE project. The Grant Agreement has been signed by all partners and the project will be launched in 2017.
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ACRL announces publication of Rewired: Research-Writing Partnerships within the Frameworks
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has announced the publication of ‘Rewired: Research-Writing Partnerships within the Frameworks,’ edited by Randall McClure. College and research librarians have been working alongside professors invested in writing in the disciplines for decades, but new kinds of partnerships are emerging as faculty members and librarians are re-imagining their work for students in a world where writing is both global and largely digital.
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Synthesis Digital Library Update September and October, 2016

Synthesis Collection Seven:

Interactive GPU-based Visualization of Large Dynamic Particle Data
Martin Falk, Linköping University, Sweden
Sebastian Grottel, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Michael Krone and Guido Reina, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Geometric Continuity of Curves and Surfaces
Przemysław Kiciak, University of Warsaw, Poland
Web Indicators for Research Evaluation: A Practical Guide
Michael Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Data Association for Multi-Object Visual Tracking
Margrit Betke, Boston University
Zheng Wu, The Mathworks, Inc.
Anywhere-Anytime Signals and Systems Laboratory:
From MATLAB to Smartphones
Nasser Kehtarnavaz and Fatemeh Saki, University of Texas at Dallas
Differential Privacy: From Theory to Practice
Ninghui Li, Dong Su, and Weining Yang, Purdue University
Min Lyu, University of Science and Technology of China
Embedded Systems Design with the Texas Instruments MSP432
32-bit Processor
Dung Dang, Texas Instruments
Daniel J. Pack, The University of Tennessee
Steven F. Barrett, University of Wyoming
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Latest Publications: UC Davis/UC Davis Medical Center

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1 . Sleep Apnea in Multiple System Atrophy of Cerebellar Type: A 3.0 T MRS/Volumetry Pilot Study Takado, Y., Terajima, K., Shimohata, T., Nakayama, H., Watanabe, M., Okamoto, K., Ozawa, T., Nishizawa, M., Kwee, I.L., Igarashi, H., Nakada, T. 2017 eNeurologicalSci ,
6 pp. 6 – 8 .
2 . Longitudinal evolution of true protein, amino acids and bioactive proteins in breast milk: a developmental perspective Lönnerdal, B., Erdmann, P., Thakkar, S.K., Sauser, J., Destaillats, F. 2017 Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry ,
41 pp. 1 – 11 .
3 . Predictors of residual disease after unplanned excision of soft tissue sarcomas Gingrich, A.A., Elias, A., Michael Lee, C.-Y., Nakache, Y.-P.N., Li, C.-S., Shah, D.R., Boutin, R.D., Canter, R.J. 2017 Journal of Surgical Research ,
208 pp. 26 – 32 .
4 . Surface energy effects on the stability of anatase and rutile nanocrystals: A predictive diagram for Nb<inf>2</inf>O<inf>5</inf>-doped-TiO<inf>2</inf> da Silva, A.L., Hotza, D., Castro, R.H.R. 2017 Applied Surface Science ,
393 pp. 103 – 109 .
5 . On the limitations of Volumetric Energy Density as a design parameter for Selective Laser Melting Scipioni Bertoli, U., Wolfer, A.J., Matthews, M.J., Delplanque, J.-P.R., Schoenung, J.M. 2017 Materials and Design ,
113 pp. 331 – 340 .
6 . Subterranean production of neutrons, <sup>39</sup>Ar and <sup>21</sup>Ne: Rates and uncertainties Šrámek, O., Stevens, L., McDonough, W.F., Mukhopadhyay, S., Peterson, R.J. 2017 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ,
196 pp. 370 – 387 .
7 . Microstructure investigations of Yb- and Bi-doped Mg<inf>2</inf>Si prepared from metal hydrides for thermoelectric applications Janka, O., Zaikina, J.V., Bux, S.K., Tabatabaifar, H., Yang, H., Browning, N.D., Kauzlarich, S.M. 2017 Journal of Solid State Chemistry ,
245 pp. 152 – 159 .
8 . A biorefinery for efficient processing and utilization of spent pulp of Colombian Andes Berry (Rubus glaucus Benth.): Experimental, techno-economic and environmental assessment Dávila, J.A., Rosenberg, M., Cardona, C.A. 2017 Bioresource Technology ,
223 pp. 227 – 236 .
9 . Maternal androgens in avian brood parasites and their hosts: Responses to parasitism and competition? Hahn, D.C., Wingfield, J.C., Fox, D.M., Walker, B.G., Thomley, J.E. 2017 General and Comparative Endocrinology ,
240 pp. 143 – 152 .
10 . Using one year post-fire fire severity assessments to estimate longer-term effects of fire in conifer forests of northern and eastern California, USA Miller, J.D., Safford, H.D., Welch, K.R. 2016 Forest Ecology and Management ,
382 pp. 168 – 183 .
11 . Intracellular trafficking of a pH-responsive drug metal complex Kheirolomoom, A., Ingham, E.S., Commisso, J., Abushaban, N., Ferrara, K.W. 2016 Journal of Controlled Release ,
243 pp. 232 – 242 .
12 . Anomalous Deposition of Co-Ni Alloys in Film and Nanowire Morphologies from Citrate Baths Dryden, D.M., Sun, T., McCormick, R., Hickey, R., Vidu, R., Stroeve, P. 2016 Electrochimica Acta ,
220 pp. 595 – 600 .
13 . State-level medical marijuana laws, marijuana use and perceived availability of marijuana among the general U.S. population Martins, S.S., Mauro, C.M., Santaella-Tenorio, J., Kim, J.H., Cerda, M., Keyes, K.M., Hasin, D.S., Galea, S., Wall, M. 2016 Drug and Alcohol Dependence ,
169 pp. 26 – 32 .
14 . Discussion of “Gene expression models for the prediction of longitudinal dispersion coefficients in transitional and turbulent pipe flow” by Ahmed M. A. Sattar Mirzaei-Nodoushan, F., Bozorg-Haddad, O., Fallah-Mehdipour, E., Mariño, M.A. 2016 Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice ,
7 ( 4 ) , art. no. 07016001
15 . Development and validation of a Weibull–Arrhenius model to predict thermal inactivation of black mustard (Brassica nigra) seeds under fluctuating temperature regimens Dahlquist-Willard, R.M., Marshall, M.N., Betts, S.L., Tuell-Todd, C.C., VanderGheynst, J.S., Stapleton, J.J. 2016 Biosystems Engineering ,
151 pp. 350 – 360 .
16 . Observation of coupling between vibrational and configurational entropy in a supercooled molecular chalcogenide glass-forming liquid Sen, S., Aitken, B.G. 2016 Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids ,
451 pp. 111 – 115 .
17 . Influence of IV contrast administration on ct measures of muscle and bone attenuation: Implications for sarcopenia and osteoporosis evaluation Boutin, R.D., Kaptuch, J.M., Bateni, C.P., Chalfant, J.S., Yao, L. 2016 American Journal of Roentgenology ,
207 ( 5 ) pp. 1046 – 1054 .
18 . Renal cell carcinoma with inferior vena cava involvement: Prognostic effect of tumor thrombus consistency on cancer specific survival Mager, R., Daneshmand, S., Evans, C.P., Palou, J., Martínez-Salamanca, J.I., Master, V.A., McKiernan, J.M., Libertino, J.A., Haferkamp, A., Haferkamp, A., Capitanio, U., Carballido, J.A., Chantada, V., Chromecki, T., Ciancio, G., Daneshmand, S., Evans, C.P., Gontero, P., González, J., Hohenfellner, M., Huang, W.C., Koppie, T.M., Libertino, J.A., Espinós, E.L., Lorentz, A., Martínez-Salamanca, J.I., Master, V.A., McKiernan, J.M., Montorsi, F., Novara, G., O’Malley, P., Pahernik, S., Palou, J., Moreno, J.L.P., Pruthi, R.S., Faba, O.R., Russo, P., Scherr, D.S., Shariat, S.F., Spahn, M., Terrone, C., Tilki, D., Vázquez-Martul, D., Donoso, C.V., Vergho, D., Wallen, E.M., Zigeuner, R. 2016 Journal of Surgical Oncology ,
114 ( 6 ) pp. 764 – 768 .
19 . Isotretinoin: controversies, facts, and recommendations Bauer, L.B., Ornelas, J.N., Elston, D.M., Alikhan, A. 2016 Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology ,
9 ( 11 ) pp. 1435 – 1442 .
20 . From old concerns to new advances and personalized medicine in lupus: The end of the tunnel is approaching Doria, A., Gershwin, M.E., Selmi, C. 2016 Journal of Autoimmunity ,
74 pp. 1 – 5 .
21 . Synthesis of IR-780 dye-conjugated abiraterone for prostate cancer imaging and therapy Yi, X., Zhang, J., Yan, F., Lu, Z., Huang, J., Pan, C., Yuan, J., Zheng, W., Zhang, K., Wei, D., He, W., Yuan, J. 2016 International Journal of Oncology ,
49 ( 5 ) pp. 1911 – 1920 .
22 . Atherosclerotic plaques in the aortic arch and subclinical cerebrovascular disease Tugcu, A., Jin, Z., Homma, S., Elkind, M.S.V., Rundek, T., Yoshita, M., Decarli, C., Nakanishi, K., Shames, S., Wright, C.B., Sacco, R.L., Di Tullio, M.R. 2016 Stroke ,
47 ( 11 ) pp. 2813 – 2819 .
23 . Insights into the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton through comparative tectonic analysis: A record of outward growth of Precambrian continents Kusky, T.M., Polat, A., Windley, B.F., Burke, K.C., Dewey, J.F., Kidd, W.S.F., Maruyama, S., Wang, J.P., Deng, H., Wang, Z.S., Wang, C., Fu, D., Li, X.W., Peng, H.T. 2016 Earth-Science Reviews ,
162 pp. 387 – 432 .
24 . Processing of It and This in Written Narrative Discourse Çokal, D., Sturt, P., Ferreira, F. 2016 Discourse Processes ,
pp. 1 – 18 .
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25 . Upstream—Downstream Shifts in Peak Recruitment of the Native Olympia Oyster in San Francisco Bay During Wet and Dry Years Chang, A.L., Deck, A.K., Sullivan, L.J., Morgan, S.G., Ferner, M.C. 2016 Estuaries and Coasts ,
pp. 1 – 14 .
Articles not published yet, but available online Article in Press
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SAGE Publishing and Perusall in deal to support digital pedagogy and increase class preparation
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced a new agreement allowing access to a selection of SAGE textbooks through the eBook platform and social annotation tool Perusall. Perusall allows students and instructors to annotate digital texts together, connect with other classmates, and respond to questions directly on the text before coming to class, enabling students to come to class better prepared.
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Open Access books set to grow 30% a year through 2020, says Simba report
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a report titled ‘Open Access Book Publishing 2016-2020.’ The report notes that while the movement to unlock the vaults of scientific, technical and medical (STM) research is revolutionizing academic journal publishing, scholarly and professional book publishers are experimenting with open models simply to keep the venerable monograph from extinction.
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Clarivate Analytics’ new EndNote X8 supports global collaboration, open science and takes guesswork out of journal submissions
Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, has announced the availability of EndNoteTM X8, the next iteration of the leading software for researchers, librarians and students to find, manage and create bibliographies, citations and references to research smarter. EndNote X8 now includes support to share an entire EndNote research library, including references, PDFs and annotations with up to 100 people.
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CRF to launch new journal on structural heart disease
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) has announced that it will launch a new international journal focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of structural heart disease and the importance of the heart team in managing these disorders. Structural Heart: The Journal of the Heart Team will publish its first issue in late Spring 2017 with submissions opening in early 2017.
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RCVS Knowledge launches RCVS Vet History – Archive Catalogue
RCVS Knowledge has announced a new way to access their unique veterinary history collections. The new Archive catalogue is now available to view online, with detailed descriptions of hundreds of items from the last 150 years. Following the appointment of a qualified archivist in October 2015, a five year project commenced to improve access and awareness of the wealth of material held.
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IFLA to continue fight for access to knowledge at 33rd meeting of the SCCR at the World Intellectual Property Organisation
Libraries in too many countries around the world lack the basic laws needed to do the best by their communities. And even where laws exist, they frequently fail to take account of the realities of the digital age. As such, the gap between what our communities expect and what libraries are able to offer is growing. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) will therefore be speaking up at the 33rd meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organisation this week.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (How Wrong Is Greta Van Susteren about Libraries?); Iain Begg (By engaging with the media academics can enjoy benefits to their research); Phil Davis (Is Publication Success a Matter of Dumb Luck?); and Cat Williams (Do scientists and members of the public engage with research differently on social media?). 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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Nature Communications to incorporate transparent peer review following a successful ten-month trial
Nature Communications is incorporating transparent peer review into the journal on a permanent basis, following a successful ten-month trial. In this scheme, authors are given the option to publish the peer review history of the paper alongside their published research. All papers submitted from January 2016 qualify for this scheme. Since the trial began, around 60% of published authors have actively opted into transparent peer review.
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Chinese researchers responsible for ‘fake peer review’ scandals, says study
The BMJ-run Postgraduate Medical Journal published a study, according to which, efforts by China’s government and scientific bodies to root out academic misconduct and encourage publishing ethics may help to remedy the problem. The study, titled, Characteristics of retractions related to fake peer reviews, published in the September issue, further notes that pressure to publish scientific papers at Chinese universities may explain why more researchers are creating fake peer reviewers to assess their work.
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EPJ-N accepted for indexing in Emerging Sources Citation Index
STM publisher EDP Sciences has announced that EPJ Nuclear Sciences and Technologies (EPJ-N) has been accepted for indexing in the Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). This means that articles published in the journal will be searchable, discoverable and citable via Web of Science.
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Stephen McLeod appointed Editor-in-Chief of Ophthalmology Journal
Dr. Stephen McLeod, the Theresa M. and Wayne M. Caygill, MD, Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at UC San Francisco, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Ophthalmology, the official journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He will assume the new role effective January 1, 2017.
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Pain Management highlights recipients of the American Pain Society Clinical Centers of Excellence award in a series of interviews
Pain Management, a MEDLINE-indexed journal, is publishing a series of interviews highlighting pain management centers which have been awarded the American Pain Society Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management. Future Science Group (FSG) published journal, Pain Management, has released the first in a series of interviews, which highlight recipients of the American Pain Society (APS) Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management award.
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Taylor & Francis Group and the Urban Affairs Association announce new publishing partnership
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group and the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) have announced a new publishing partnership. Beginning with the 2017 Volume, Taylor & Francis will publish and distribute UAA’s highly regarded journal, the Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA), under the Routledge imprint. The Urban Affairs Association is dedicated to creating interdisciplinary spaces for engaging in intellectual and practical discussions about urban life.
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London Info International 2016: inaugural conference programme
London Info International 2016 has announced its inaugural conference programme. The event is schedule to be held from December 6-7, 2016.The opening keynote by David Worlock on December 6 will look at the current state of the scholarly research and professional publishing world, the challenges, the opportunities and threats and will offer his unique insight into the future of this community. While conference places are filling fast, a few places are still available. Click here to register for the conference.
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Elsevier’s diagnostic decision support solution STATdx updated with new user interface translations in eight languages
STM publisher Elsevier has announced new user interface translations for its leading diagnostic decision support solution STATdx. Users will now be able to select from eight different languages (other than English) to display throughout the user interface, including: Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, German, French, and Japanese. Current users of STATdx get to enjoy this new feature for free.
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EBSCO Health appoints Dr. Terence K. Trow as Deputy Editor, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
EBSCO Health has announced the appointment of Dr. Terence K. Trow as the Deputy Editor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Trow brings nearly 30 years of medical, teaching, research and editorial experience to EBSCO Health’s evidence-based clinical reference tool, DynaMed Plus®.
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IEEE and IEEMA jointly unveil new publication focusing on the international advancements and improvements in electricity
Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced a collaborative effort with the Indian Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers’ Association (IEEMA) to present a coffee table book entitled, ‘The Foundations of Electricity: 125 Years of Electricity‘. The book, written by Robert A. Dent, focuses on the international advancements and improvements in electricity—from 1882 through 2010.
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Canadian Scholarly Publishing Working Group to ensure wide dissemination of research results
Stakeholders including scholarly publishers, academic libraries, funders, and researchers have joined forces to develop a framework for advanced, robust, sustainable, collaborative models for the Canadian dissemination of the scholarly record. The Canadian Scholarly Publishing Working Group recently held a full-day meeting in Ottawa continuing its exploration into sustainable collaborative journal and article publishing models, followed by an examination of needs related to research data, monographs and new forms of scholarship.
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The National Central Library of Rome adds about 2 million records into WorldCat
The National Central Library of Rome (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma) has loaded nearly 2 million records into WorldCat, a comprehensive database of information about library collections, to increase visibility of these Italian collections around the world. The National Central Library of Rome holds a large number of special collections and print materials dating back to the 15th century. Following the initial load of 2 million records, the National Central Library of Rome will continue to add records to WorldCat.
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Elsevier expands pulmonary patient education video library, adds more than 50 new titles
STM publisher Elsevier has expanded its pulmonary patient education video library, adding more than 50 new titles, and introduced a bariatric video library. In addition, Elsevier has launched six individual video titles focused on in-demand topics including Fall Prevention, Lumbar Puncture, Thoracentesis, Reducing Falls After Stroke, and Pressure Injury Prevention. All of the new titles are available in English and Spanish.
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SPIE journal Neurophotonics accepted into Science Citation Index Expanded
Neurophotonics, a journal published by not-for-profit publisher SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has been accepted for inclusion in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), part of the Web of Science. The journal is already included in PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, and several other abstracting and indexing databases.
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University of Gloucestershire selects OCLC WorldShare Management Services
The University of Gloucestershire has selected WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as its new library management system. WMS is the library services platform that offers all the applications needed to manage a library, including acquisitions, circulation, metadata, resource sharing, license management and a single-search discovery interface for library users.
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IDPF members approve plan to combine with W3C
The member organisations of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) have approved, by a margin of 72 (88%) in favour to 10 (12%) opposed, a plan proposed by the IDPF Board of Directors to combine IDPF with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The plan will now proceed, with anticipated completion of the combination by January 2017 still subject to finalization of the necessary definitive agreements.
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KU Libraries, Open Access Network, SPARC and Allen Press to jointly sponsor OA symposium
The University of Kansas Libraries, Open Access Network, Allen Press and SPARC are jointly sponsoring an international symposium, ‘Envisioning a World Beyond APCs/BPCs,’ in Lawrence, Kan., on November 17-18. The symposium will consider current models available for achieving an expansive, inclusive and balanced worldwide open publishing ecosystem.
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Five new members appointed to Global Challenges Research Fund Strategic Advisory Group
Five new members have been appointed to the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Strategic Advisory Group. The new members with varied backgrounds from academia and international development have been appointed for an initial two years to provide advice and support to the GCRF.
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Jisc Collections and Elsevier sign agreement securing access to research publications and initiating open science collaboration
Jisc Collections and STM publisher Elsevier have signed a landmark agreement granting academics access to globally-published, high-quality research at costs lower than the industry average. In addition, Jisc Collections and Elsevier have agreed to cooperate on several Open Science opportunities, leveraging Elsevier’s world class technology and analytics capabilities to help make science in the UK more collaborative, transparent, effective, and efficient.
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Ex Libris expands its operations in Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that it is increasing its investment in the Czech, Hungarian, and Romanian markets. Having reached agreements with its local partners—Charles University, MULTIDATA Praha, and Ex-Lh—the company will now be playing a direct role with the markets in these areas.
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Concordia launches the first open-access academic press in Quebec
The Concordia University Press is now accepting submissions for scholarly book proposals from across the globe as the university ventures into the digital world of publishing with its new open-access press. The university is the first in Quebec and only the third in Canada to offer open-access scholarly book publishing.
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ScienceOpen announces new partnership with Cold Spring Harbor Press
Research network ScienceOpen has announced a new publishing partnership with Cold Spring Harbor. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press is an internationally renowned publisher of books, journals, and electronic media, located on Long Island, New York, USA. Since 1933, it has helped to advance scientific knowledge in all areas of genetics and molecular biology, including cancer biology, plant science, bioinformatics, and neurobiology.
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Ringgold and PSI partner to harness the power of linked data
Ringgold, an ISNI Registration Agency, and Publisher Solutions International, Ltd. (PSI) have signed an agreement that will enable both companies to provide services based on the power of combining Ringgold’s Identify Database and PSI’s IP Registry. The process is underway to map Identify and the IP Registry.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Yoo Jung Kim (Access to Science Research for Everyone); James Georgalakis (UK research can tackle global challenges but only if we heed lessons on research impact); Michael Clarke (Working Effectively with Consultants); Lettie Y. Conrad (The Latest in Search: New Services in the Content Discovery Marketplace); and Jenn Watt (Author embraces e-publishing with series of e-books). 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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Elsevier announces six new neurological diseases titles in recognition of Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness and Caregivers Month
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of Drug Discovery Approaches for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders: Alzheimer’s Disease, edited by Adeboye Adejare. Also in recognition of Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness and Caregivers Month, Elsevier has published five additional titles on Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases, with a sixth slated for publication in March 2017.
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Nature Research announces new journal – Nature Sustainability
Nature Research has announced a new journal Nature Sustainability, which will publish the most significant research about how humankind can sustain life in a finite world. The journal will launch in January 2018, enhancing Springer Nature’s longstanding commitment to publishing research that tackles some of the most pressing problems of our time.
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AAUP Digital Monograph Costing Tool released
The Association of American University Presses has announced the publication of the AAUP Digital Monograph Costing Tool, created with the help of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which supported the creation of the tool and accompanying documentation. The AAUP Digital Monograph Costing Tool was created by Nancy Maron and Kim Schmelzinger, co-authors of the February 2016 Ithaka S+R study, “The Costs of Publishing Scholarly Monographs,” on which the tool is based.
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Credo, Arkansas State University partner to improve college readiness, student success
Credo – the industry leader for information literacy, critical thinking, and research solutions – and Arkansas State University are embarking on a partnership to bring information literacy resources and instruction to regional Arkansas high school students in support of their college readiness. The innovative collaboration is designed to provide research instruction to high school students to help prepare them for college success, even before they arrive on a campus.
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Bibliometric leaders unveil new methods to understand biomedical science
ÜberResearch, a data and analytics solutions and services company serving scientific funders and research organisations, has announced a set of innovative methods from a collaboration undertaken with a group of international bibliometric experts which represent a progression for the field of bibliometrics as it relates to the analysis of the life sciences. These methods will help researchers more easily identify variation in topics, and novelty in biomedical fields.
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