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SAGE white paper presents collaborative opportunities for improving discoverability in 2015
Academic publisher SAGE has released a new whitepaper ‘Improving the Discoverability of Scholarly Content: Academic Library Priorities and Perspectives,’ which discusses new ways for members of the scholarly communications supply chain to come together to solve discoverability issues. Those attending the ALA Midwinter Meeting are invited to join Elisabeth for a special in-booth presentation of the white paper results on January 31st at 2pm in the SAGE Booth #4021.
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EBSCO and the American Medical Association expand partnership to promote visibility and adoption of top medical journals
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and the American Medical Association (AMA) are expanding their relationship in an effort to further promote visibility and adoption of the top medical journals around the world. While EBSCO has long made AMA journals available via its subscription services, EBSCO will now act as a sales agent for The JAMA Network.
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Elsevier publishes five new geology books essential for professionals in the oil and gas industries
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of five new geology books. These include the updated and revised third edition of Elements of Petroleum Geology, written by preeminent petroleum geologists, Dr. Richard Selley and Dr. Stephen Sonnenberg. Elements of Petroleum Geology reviews the concepts and methodology of petroleum exploration and production, and reflects the vast changes in the field since publication of the previous edition.
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American Publishers and Authors require OFAC to permit US publication of books and articles from Syria
A coalition of leading publisher and author associations has written to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) of the Treasury Department demanding that it revise trade regulations that effectively prohibit American publishers from publishing books and journal articles written by Syrian authors. The Association of American University Presses, the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishers division, and PEN American Center have condemned the portion of the amended and re-issued Syrian sanctions regulations dictating that American publishers may not enter into transactions for Syrian works.
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Oxford University Press publishes first issue of the European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced the publication of the first issue of European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy (EHJCVP), which it is publishing on behalf of the European Society for Cardiology (ESC) and the Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy. The journal’s website can be found at http://ehjcvp.oxfordjournals.org/.
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Orbis Cascade Alliance and Ex Libris complete implementation of a shared resource management and discovery system
The Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of 37 North American academic institutions known for innovative collaboration, and library automation services provider Ex Libris Group have announced the completion of a two-year effort to migrate Alliance members to a shared, next-generation library management and discovery solution. Alliance member libraries have migrated from 37 locally hosted systems comprised of four discovery and three ILS platforms to shared use of the cloud-based Alma unified resource management solution and Primo discovery solution.
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Accessible Archives retains Scholarly iQ to upgrade COUNTER Usage reporting capabilities
Accessible Archives, Inc., a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has announced that usage statistics for its collections will become available April 1, 2015 using the new COUNTER Release 4 (R4) standards. Scholarly iQ, a provider of eBusiness solutions to the academic publishing market, is the new vendor providing the reporting and data management services.
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Elsevier launches Knovel Quick Search for Autodesk Inventor
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of Knovel Quick Search for Autodesk Inventor. This easy-to-use search application enhances engineers’ workflow by enabling access to Knovel’s extensive and trusted content resources without leaving the Inventor environment. Users can resolve critical engineering questions during the design and simulation process, enabling efficiency from start to finish.
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Wiley appoints Mark Allin as Chief Operating Officer
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced the appointment of Mark Allin as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective May 1, 2015. In this new role, Allin will continue to report to Steve Smith, President and CEO, and have strategic and operational responsibility for Wiley’s three businesses.
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Informa Healthcare acquires medical journals
Informa Healthcare, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, has announced the acquisition of Postgraduate Medicine, Hospital Practice and The Physician and Sportsmedicine. All three journals provide a rapid publication service and present semi-themed issues that enhance the impact of published articles. These journals will transition on to the Taylor & Francis Online platform during 2015.
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Future Science Group launches new OA journal – Future Science Open
Publisher Future Science Group (FSG) has launched Future Science Open, the publisher’s first fully open access journal. Each month, Future Science Open will publish research in all areas of biotechnology and medicine, as well as topics in biological, life and physical sciences that are relevant to human health.
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ALPSP appoints Lucy McBride as Events and Membership Administrator
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has announced the appointment of Lucy McBride to the position of Events and Membership Administrator. Lucy joins ALPSP with a wealth of industry experience in events and marketing. She most recently worked for Swets in a number of roles in communications and commercial support functions.
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New Analytics On Demand apps improve outreach and provide insights to multi-branch systems
Public libraries face challenges demonstrating their value to the communities and stakeholders they serve – just 22 percent of Americans say they know most or all of the services provided by their public library. To help libraries overcome these barriers, Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has added three new applications to Analytics On Demand, the first affordable big data analytics solution for public libraries.
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Lynne Miller joins TBI as Associate Director, Client Services
TBI has announced the appointment of Lynne Miller as Associate Director, Client Services. Lynne previously held the post of Associate Director, Society Engagement at Wiley. TBI provides outsourced business development, market research and marketing services to publishers and other organisations in the research information sector.
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Elsevier celebrates International Year of Light 2015, collaborates in the production of documentary film – Einstein’s Light
STM publisher Elsevier has announced its collaboration in the film production of Einstein’s Light which was first presented at the Opening Ceremony of the International Year of Light 2015 (IYL2015) held at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Einstein’s Light explores how scientific imagination and innovation advance knowledge frontiers featuring Dr. Albert Einstein and Dutch Nobel Laureate Dr. Hendrik Lorentz as models.
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Wiley-VCH and the Korean Chemical Society partner to jointly publish the Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
Wiley-VCH, part of the scientific and technical publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and the Korean Chemical Society have signed an agreement to closely cooperate and jointly publish the Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society. The journal will be available online from volume 2015 in Wiley Online Library, one of the most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources, visited by 15 million users a month.
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Dow partners with the American Chemical Society to improve chemistry teaching all over North America
The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and the American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT) are partnering to invigorate chemistry education and support STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in the nation’s schools. Dow and AACT will work together to convene a series of teacher summits and create more than 750 lesson plans, multimedia resources, demonstrations and other high-quality chemistry teaching materials for use in K–12 classrooms.
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OA journal Palgrave Communications publishes first papers
Palgrave Communications, the new high quality open access (OA) online-only, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary journal has published its first articles. The papers, which are all free to access, span a wide range of disciplines including international studies, political science, theatre and performance studies, and operational research.
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Thieme selects TEMIS’s Luxid Webstudio for thesaurus management
Semantic Content Enrichment solutions provider TEMIS has announced that scientific and medical publisher Thieme has chosen TEMIS’s Luxid Webstudio to help its teams manage their thesauri and terminologies. Luxid Webstudio will help different departments of the group to manage, expand and customise the complex vocabularies they use to semantically enrich their content.
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Edmodo and Cambridge University Press announce strategic partnership
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and Edmodo, an e-learning platform for primary and secondary teachers and pupils, have announced a strategic partnership to encourage effective instruction and deeper student learning. With this partnership, both parties seek to bring premier educational content and technology to schools in the United Kingdom.
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University of Haifa opts for Ex Libris Alma
Library technology solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the University of Haifa’s Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library is the first early adopter in Israel of the Alma® library management solution. Haifa University will be replacing the Aleph® integrated library system. Alma will be integrated with the University Library’s Primo® discovery and delivery solution – for which the library developed a Hebrew interface in cooperation with Ex Libris.
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New grants awarded to OCLC to support joint strategy, research and prototypes initiated by the Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries and Museums
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services to advance and sustain professional development and continuing education for information workers across the United States. The grants will support continued work of the Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries, and Museums to produce strategies for effective staff learning programs.
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Wolters Kluwer Health releases updates to Sentri7 electronic surveillance solution
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced the release of updates to its Sentri7® electronic surveillance solution to improve the efficient and effective management of antimicrobials in hospitals and health systems. The advanced offering will help antimicrobial stewardship teams improve patient care and lower costs by optimizing use of drugs associated with antibiotic-resistant strains.
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The Max Planck Society and De Gruyter in deal to share bibliographical references
The Max Planck Society, which runs a large number of research institutes throughout Germany and beyond, and academic publisher De Gruyter have reached an agreement to share bibliographical data. Under the agreement, De Gruyter will provide the Max Planck Society with bibliographical records for all of its past and future publications on language and linguistics.
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Reprints Desk, Inc. launches Article Galaxy Widget, accelerates scientific discovery by simplifying lowest cost
Reprints Desk, Inc., a Research Solutions company and document delivery supplier, has officially launched its Article Galaxy Widget, a time-saving tool that provides web browser access to scientific, technology and medical (STM) research articles indexed by more than 50 popular search sites and discovery databases, like Google Scholar, PubMed, ResearchGATE, Web of Science and Scopus, as well as numerous publisher websites. Launched as beta version in June 2014, Article Galaxy is already in use at dozens of research-oriented organisations where it has received widespread praise and appreciation for its ease-of-use and advanced functionality.
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Boopsie for Libraries announces tremendous growth in 2014
Boopsie, Inc., the leading mobile platform-as-a-service provider for libraries worldwide, demonstrated a tremendous surge of momentum in 2014. Among other achievements, the company has grown its customer base by more than 30 percent over the previous year.
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Almost half of IT staff in HE are not involved in the delivery of transnational education by their own institution overseas, says report
Almost half of IT staff in higher education (HE) are not involved in the delivery of transnational education (TNE) by their own institution overseas, according to a joint report by Jisc and the Observatory of Borderless Higher Education (OBHE). The research – which was designed to uncover the current state of TNE in UK HE institutions – found that 45 percent of IT staff were in the dark regarding TNE activities.
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CGG’s Multi-Physics Business Line now fully operational
CGG, a fully integrated Geoscience company, has confirmed that its new Multi-Physics Business Line is now up and running within its Acquisition Division. The new Business Line combines all of CGG’s Airborne capabilities with its GravMag Solutions business.
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Wolters Kluwer Health announces launch of UpToDate Anywhere in Japan
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced the launch of UpToDate Anywhere in Japan. UpToDate Anywhere enables Japanese hospitals and healthcare organisations to provide clinicians with mobile access to UpToDate, the acclaimed evidence-based clinical decision support resource. Clinician usage of UpToDate nationwide is expected to steadily increase as mobile access becomes available in the country’s healthcare institutions.
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EBSCO Health and MEDCOM Inc. sign reseller agreement
EBSCO Health, part of EBSCO Information Services, has announced an agreement with MEDCOM Inc. A leader in nursing education for more than 50 years, MEDCOM produces online healthcare training courses designed to give nursing students, allied health students and nurses access to the latest nursing content. The new agreement will allow EBSCO Health to resell a nursing education resource from MEDCOM Inc.
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NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on metadata indicators for accessibility and licensing of e-content
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a new Recommended Practice on Access License and Indicators (NISO RP-22-2015) that defines metadata to be used to indicate free-to-read content and a link to license terms for the use/re-use of that content. Access and License Indicators (NISO RP-22-2015) is available for free download from the ALI Working Group webpage on the NISO website at: www.niso.org/workrooms/ali.
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Dr. John Morrison named new Editor-in-Chief of BrainFacts.org
Dr. John Morrison of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai began his term on January 1 as editor-in-chief of BrainFacts.org, a public information initiative of The Kavli Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and the Society for Neuroscience. Morrison joins an editorial board composed of leading neuroscientists from across the globe in providing guidance on content development, ensuring scientific validity, and facilitating engagement from the scientific community.
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Oklahoma State University Library joins HathiTrust
Oklahoma State University Library has become the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. Launched in 2008, HathiTrust has a growing membership currently comprising more than 80 partners.
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Credo adds new titles and video collections to its Academic Core collection
Credo, the industry leader for information skills solutions, has announced the addition of nearly 50 new titles to its Academic Core general reference collection this month. The new titles come from notable publishers such as Harvard University Press, National Geographic Society, SAGE, and others, as well as videos from the MacNeil/Lehrer PBS Newshour.
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Reprints Desk expands reach to over 200 academic libraries with three new library consortiums deals
Research Solutions subsidiary Reprints Desk, Inc., a document delivery supplier, has announced new agreements with three new library consortiums to provide group purchase pricing incentives to more than 200 academic library members who are now eligible to sign up for Reprints Desk’s award-winning Article Galaxy software platform to retrieve scholarly research articles that are not available via journal subscriptions. The new library consortiums are: University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) Consortium of Libraries, Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS), and the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium (PALCI).
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Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners in deal to merge majority of Macmillan Science and Education with Springer Science+Business Media
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Holtzbrinck) and BC Partners (BCP) have reached an agreement to merge Springer Science+Business Media (owned by funds advised by BCP) in its entirety with the majority of Holtzbrinck-owned Macmillan Science and Education (MSE), namely Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and the global businesses of Macmillan Education. The transaction is subject to approval by various competition authorities, and this is expected during the first half of 2015.
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Elsevier acquires media monitoring company Newsflo
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the acquisition of Newsflo, a London-based company that helps researchers and academic institutions to measure the wider impact of their work by tracking and analysing media coverage of their publications and findings. The acquisition is effective immediately and financial terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.
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CCC announces findings from open access roundtable discussion with UK institutions and publishers
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organisation, recently brought together institutions from the UK and publishers from both the US and UK for an Open Access roundtable discussion to explore the implications of managing Open Access fees on a large scale. During this meeting, held at University College in London, the attendees examined a number of issues related to fragmentation, approach and processes, including ways vendors can play an expanded role in addressing the challenges.
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Editage becomes first adopter of Aries’ manuscript ingest functionality for Editorial Manager
Aries Systems, a provider of workflow solutions to STMS publishers, societies, and researchers, announced at their Eleventh Annual European Editorial Manager User Group Meeting in London, England, that Editage, the flagship manuscript editing brand of Cactus Communications, is the first adopter of its new ‘ingest service’ for Editorial Manager (EM). As part of the collaboration, Editage will soon be able to transfer author manuscripts directly to participating journal EM submission sites and simplify the manuscript submission workflow for both journals and authors alike.
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SAGE launches OA journal Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of a new peer-reviewed, ‘gold’ open access journal, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine (GGM). An interdisciplinary journal sponsored by the Southern Gerontology Society (SGS), GGM will publish original research, review articles, and will serve as an interactive forum for the exchange of gerontological and geriatric knowledge.
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ProQuest Dialog adds new features to its patents product
ProQuest has announced that its professional search service for researchers in the pharma, engineering and patents industries, ProQuest Dialog, recently added two new features to its patents product. ProQuest Dialog now features hyperlinks to non-patent literature and patents cited throughout its patent content collections. Additionally, ProQuest Dialog users can now search and export full images for more than 149 million patents through the LexisNexis Univentio database.
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Professor Benjamin List appointed new Editor in Chief for Thieme Chemistry journal SYNLETT
Professor Benjamin List, director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr, has been appointed head of the SYNLETT editorial board, effective immediately. Professor List takes over the position of editor-in-chief from Professor Peter Vollhardt of UC Berkeley, who will continue his work for the English-language journal for synthetic chemistry as Editor for Accounts and Synpacts.
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California Digital Library, UC Libraries, and Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service announce new partnership
The California Digital Library (CDL) and the UC Libraries are partnering with Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service. In the coming year, CDL’s Web Archiving Service (WAS) collections and all core infrastructure activities, i.e., crawling, indexing, search, display, and storage, will be transferred to Archive-It. This new partnership will allow the CDL to meet its mission and goals more efficiently and effectively and provide a robust solution for stakeholders.
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PPF names Elizabeth Just Business Development Manager
Publisher Promotion & Fulfillment (PPF) has named Elizabeth Just to the position of Business Development Manager, responsible for identifying opportunities related to the outsourcing of order fulfillment, distribution, customer service, and marketing for publishers. Just comes aboard as part of PPF’s overall rebranding effort.
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National Agricultural Library unveils PubAg, a new search engine for published USDA research
The National Agricultural Library (NAL) has unveiled PubAg, a user-friendly search engine that gives the public enhanced access to research published by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. PubAg, which can be found at PubAg.nal.usda.gov, is a new portal for literature searches and full-text access of more than 40,000 scientific journal articles by USDA researchers, mostly from 1997 to 2014.
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Elsevier launches Knovel Polymer Matrix Composites Database
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of the Knovel Polymer Matrix Composites Database. The new database helps companies replace existing materials or select new composites during the engineering research and design process, helping engineering teams increase efficiency in the early materials selection stage, lower costs of testing and maintenance, and ultimately improve material performance.
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Astronomical Society of the Pacific and IOP Publishing announce publishing partnership
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have announced a new partnership to publish the journal, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP). The new collaboration will enable both organisations to further their outreach mission by communicating astronomy research to a broader spectrum of the scientific community.
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Stanford University Press awarded funding from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to accelerate integration of interactive scholarly works
Scholars of digital humanities and computational social sciences will soon have an academic publisher offering a validated, peer-reviewed process for their interactive scholarly research projects. Stanford University Press, with grant funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will accelerate the integration of interactive scholarly works, usually revealed as Web sites, and new narratives enriched with digital objects and rich linking, into its publishing portfolio.
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Draft road map for Ebola vaccine development
A draft road map for the expedited development, testing, manufacture, delivery and financing of Ebola vaccines has been published by a global group of experts supported by the Wellcome Trust. The panel of 26 international experts, convened by the Wellcome Trust and the Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota, explain how the substantial scientific, financial, social and logistical challenges to rapid Ebola vaccine development and deployment can be overcome through collaboration between governments, industry and philanthropic bodies.
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OCLC acquires Sustainable Collection Services
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has acquired Sustainable Collection Services (SCS), the industry leader in helping libraries manage their print collections. All four SCS staff members will join OCLC as employees. The team will participate in the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Chicago, January 30–February 2 at Booth #1916, adjacent to the OCLC Booth #1818.
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The American Medical Association selects Sheridan to produce commercial reprints and eprints from The JAMA Network
The American Medical Association has selected Sheridan to produce all reprints and ePrints offered through The JAMA Network, beginning January 1, 2015. The JAMA Network publishes some of the most highly cited and influential journals in the world.
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ORCID, Hypothes.is and NIF partner on Helmsley Trust-supported open annotation project
The Hypothes.is Project together with partners at the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) and ORCID has been awarded a 3-year, $2.2M grant by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to bring annotation to biomedicine. Web annotations, a new standard for digital notes on top of an existing online resource, are proving transformative in diverse fields from scholarly publishing to education, open government, and journalism. This project will bring these advances to biomedicine, where they have the potential to make a unique impact.
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SAGE launches open access journal, Academic Pathology
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of Academic Pathology, a new open access journal that addresses the innovations in leadership and management of academic departments of Pathology. Sponsored by the Association of Pathology Chairs, the journal will begin publication in 2015.
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36th Annual IATUL Conference 2015: Call for papers and posters ends February 13
The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) will be hosting the 36th Annual IATUL Conference 2015 of the International Association of University Libraries (IATUL) with the title ‘Strategic Partnerships for Access and Discovery’ in Hannover from July 5-9, 2015. The conference language will be English.
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Elsevier and the Association for Nursing Professional Development collaborate to develop an online course to help new nurses transition to the clinical setting
STM publisher Elsevier and the Association for Nursing Professional Development (ANPD) have announced that they are collaborating to develop a cutting-edge eLearning course to help nursing professional development specialists successfully transition new nurses to the acute-care, medical-surgical setting. This new product adds to Elsevier’s library of exclusive, co-developed products with key nursing associations, including the Emergency Nurses Association and the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
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Springer celebrates third anniversary of interdisciplinary open access journal, SpringerPlus
STM publisher Springer is celebrating the third anniversary of the launch of its highly successful open access journal, SpringerPlus. Having opened for submissions on January 12, 2012, the journal publishes sound science from all disciplines, accepting submissions that present original research, case descriptions, and methods. Over 1,600 articles have been published to date.
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EDP Sciences and SICOT launch new OA journal – SICOT-J
EDP Sciences and SICOT (International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology) have announced the launch of a new open access journal, SICOT-J. The journal will be part of the EDP Open portfolio and will cover the entire field of orthopaedics and traumatology. Professor Hatem Said, of Assiut University, Egypt and Professor Jacques Caton, of Clinique Orthopedique Emilie de Vialar, Lyon, France, are co-Editors of the new journal working with a global team of associate and section editors to manage the journal and its peer review process.
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Princeton High School selects EBSCO Discovery Service to improve discoverability of library resources
EBSCO Information Services has announced that Princeton High School, a public high school in New Jersey, has selected EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS). The school chose EDS to improve discoverability of its library resources and to raise the level of the research being conducted by students.
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Digital Publishing Interest Group publishes Group Note of DPUB IG Metadata Task Force Report
The Digital Publishing Interest Group has published a Group Note of DPUB IG Metadata Task Force Report. The Metadata Task Force of the DPUB IG found, through extensive interviews with representatives of various sectors and roles within the publishing ecosystem, that there are numerous pain points for publishers with regard to metadata but that these pain points are largely not due to deficiencies in the Open Web Platform.
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Allen Press’ annual Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing Seminar titled Life in the Fast Lane scheduled for April 16
Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc. will present its annual Emerging Trends in Scholarly PublishingTM Seminar titled Life in the Fast Lane on April 16, 2015, at the Embassy Suites DC Convention Center. Leaders in the field of scholarly and electronic publishing will share their expertise, experience, and analysis on a variety of topics ranging from access to research, developments in digital publishing, collaboration, and sustainability of scholarly publishing.
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Hearst Health announces venture investment in health optimization pioneer Welltok
Hearst Health, a unit of Hearst Corporation, announced a venture investment in Welltok, Inc., creator of the CaféWell platform, which allows insurers, hospitals and other health managers to work with consumers to help them achieve better health. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.
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Cengage Learning and LearnLaunch partnership to accelerate technology start-ups
Education company Cengage Learning and LearnLaunch, an organization dedicated to expanding Boston’s edtech ecosystem, have announced a partnership to boost the Boston edtech community. Recognising Boston as a center for both excellent education and technology innovation, Cengage Learning has made a commitment to participate in LearnLaunch’s Accelerator program, which identifies edtech start-ups and provides them with mentoring opportunities to help them grow.
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WVU receives $1 million grant to develop scholarly publishing platform
The West Virginia University has been awarded $1 million from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Scholarly Communications and Information Technology program to develop a new academic publishing platform for mixed-media and print-based scholarship materials. Dubbed Cairn, this editorial-management system will be a modular publishing platform for print-like and scholarly multimedia journals, books and data sets.
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WriteLaTeX relaunches under new name of Overleaf in 2015
WriteLaTeX, a provider of tools for writing scholarly papers in an online collaborative academic world, is relaunching in 2015 under the new name of Overleaf as part of a major upgrade to the service. The move is part of their efforts to make the power of LaTeX more accessible to more people.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Alice Meadows (Peer Review — Recognition Wanted!); Lorraine Estelle (Unravelling the true cost of publishing in open access); Gary Collins (The TRIPOD Statement: enabling the transparent reporting of prediction model studies); Kent Anderson (Is Google Now a Publisher Offering Other Publishers an Inadequate Deal?); and Danny Crichton (In war with publishers, tech companies take wrong approach). 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 set to launch OA journal that will publish sound research across all disciplines
STM publisher Elsevier has announced it is developing a new open access journal covering all disciplines. The journal will be developed in close cooperation with researchers, enabling continuous improvement in line with their needs and feedback. The official launch is planned in 2015.
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Nature Plants joins Nature family of research journals
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced the launch of Nature Plants, the newest member of the Nature family of research journals. It is the first journal in the field to focus on excellence in research across the plant sciences, building upon the cross-disciplinary model established by Nature Climate Change.
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Authors Guild v. HathiTrust litigation ends in victory for fair use
For the past several years, HathiTrust and five of its member universities have been engaged in litigation after being sued by the Authors Guild. On January 6, 2015, the parties entered a settlement on the sole issue remaining before the district court, ending the litigation in a victory for HathiTrust and fair use. The Library Copyright Alliance applauded the decision, noting the Second Circuit rightly concluded that HDL’s activities are protected by fair use, ensuring the ‘safety valve’ of fair use is well functioning and providing meaningful balance through limitations on the copyright holder’s rights.
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In first LWW issue, Journal for Healthcare Quality puts focus on Healthcare Transitions
In its first issue published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, the Journal for Healthcare Quality presents a special issue on Healthcare Transitions. The special issue presents nine original papers, authored by leading experts in healthcare quality and related fields. Beginning with the current volume, LWW assumes publication of the Journal for Healthcare Quality, the NAHQ’s professional forum for continuous advancement of healthcare quality practice.
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NISO publishes revised SUSHI Standard and Supporting Documentation
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a revision to the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol (ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2014). The SUSHI standard defines an automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic resource usage data utilising a Web services framework that can replace the user-mediated collection of usage data reports.
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eBook use rise 33 percent in 2014 in Libraries through OverDrive
Capitalising on the latest advances in eBook technology and popular catalogue availability, public libraries saw digital checkouts rise again to record levels in 2014. According to OverDrive, an eBook and audiobook platform for libraries and schools, circulation of eBooks, audiobooks and other digital media increased 33 percent in 2014 to 137 million checkouts, while web traffic and discoverability similarly increased, especially on mobile devices.
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OCLC’s Worldshare Interlibrary Loan service now fully integrated with British Library Document Supply Service to streamline ordering process
OCLC and the British Library now offer a new option for fast, flexible purchase from the British Library Document Supply Service that enables library staff to confirm the availability of required documents before placing an order, and provides a wide range of choices for delivery and price. Rather than sending OCLC WorldShare Interlibrary Loan requests without knowing whether the British Library can supply the required items, the new option makes clear whether an item is held in advance of ordering – and also whether a digital delivery option is available that will reduce delivery times to as little as several minutes.
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