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Temis Selected To Provide Semantic Indexing And Content Enrichment Solution For Gannett

TEMIS, a leading provider of semantic content enrichment solutions, today announced it has signed a license and services agreement for its flagship software solution, Luxid®, with Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), an international media and marketing solutions company.

Gannett has chosen to deploy TEMIS’ Luxid® semantic tagging and linking software as a tagging engine that assists in the categorization of news articles and consistent indexing of content against a common taxonomy.

“Gannett is further strengthening its enterprise-wide content management expertise and the efficiency of its digital and mobile products and services with the selection of TEMIS,” said Jack Williams, President of Gannett Digital Ventures.

“We are honored that our flagship Luxid® for Content Enrichment Platform has been selected by an industry leader with the strength, ambition and vision of Gannett,” said Guillaume Mazieres, EVP North American Operations of TEMIS. “Luxid® has shown it is the most capable content enrichment solution serving the publishing industry today. Luxid® will help Gannett deliver high-quality, easily findable, targeted content within an unparalleled digital experience.”

Gannett will first deploy Luxid® within its internal editorial workflow and content management processes. The company will later enhance online and mobile readers’ navigation and content discovery experience across the company’s full suite of digital products.

Researchers input into open access future

Humanities and social science researchers are being invited to help JISC Collections understand the future of the monograph through an online survey [http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/oapenukresearcher]

Share your views

In an open access model the monograph is made freely available, but the process requires some investigation to establish the priorities for such a business  model.  Readers or their libraries do not have to pay to read it online because the costs of the publishing process such as typesetting and marketing are recovered through alternative routes such as research grants, institutional funding or perhaps through readers purchasing print editions or particular formats for their iPad or Kindle.

Caren Milloy, head of projects at JISC Collections said: “We’re six months into the project and, following a series of focus groups, have identified some key questions for researchers – both as authors and readers. The findings from this survey will combine with interviews and surveys of other stakeholder groups to help us understand the big issues and priorities that an open access publishing model must accommodate.”

To thank you for your help, if you complete the survey before 16 April 2012 you will be entered into a draw for Amazon vouchers – there are three £100 vouchers, three £50 vouchers and three £25 vouchers to win.

OAPEN-UK is an Arts and Humanities Research Council and JISC funded project exploring the issues impacting upon the publishing of scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences (HSS).

The project is working with Taylor & Francis, Palgrave Macmillan, Berg Publishers, Liverpool University Press, University Wales Press, research funders and universities, to understand the challenges and steps required to move towards an open access publishing model for scholarly monographs. Further information on OAPEN-UK is available on the project website:

OAPEN-UK has two strands: an open access pilot gathering data on the usage, sales and citations of 60 monographs, and a wider research project which explores the environment for open access publishing.

If you’d like any further information, please contact Ellen Collins ellen.collins@researchinfonet.org or Caren Milloyc.milloy@jisc-collections.ac.uk

Read more about the project and its findings to date on the OAPEN-UK website

Follow the project on Twitter @oapenuk

WileyChina.com – Now Featuring Bespoke Pages for China’s Life Scientists

New Pages Provide Author Services, Publishing Guidance and Access to the Latest Research for the Chinese Research Community

Beijing, China. March 30, 2012 [Click here to read in Chinese] – Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, has launched a new series of life science pages on WileyChina.com. The pages, ranging across the life science spectrum, will make the website a key resource for Chinese scientists looking for the latest research, or for guidance in publishing their own results in international journals.

The new content will include free papers from leading international journals, features on Chinese journals and editors, Chinese-language author services and support, and new special themed pages each month, starting with climate change and plant science in March.

Each new page will feature a wealth of content. This month the pages include a new special collection of articles fromWIREs Climate Change which brings together 15 of the most significant papers related to the environmental issues highlighted by China’s National Climate Change Program.

Two presentations in Mandarin have also been added to the Author Workshops page; Author Strategies for Successful Publication and Publication Ethics.

Following the launch of climate change and plant science in March, subsequent pages will include: proteomics in April, stem cells in May, biotechnology in June, ecology, conservation and aquaculture in July, food science and technology in August, microbiology in September, and earth and environmental science in October.

“Our WileyChina.com online community provides a place for us to share knowledge and tools to support the research and learning needs of Chinese life scientists,” said Mike Davis, Vice President and Managing Director of Life Sciences at Wiley-Blackwell.

Gene Oliver promoted to Vice President, OCLC Global Systems and Information Technology

Gene Oliver has been promoted to Vice President, OCLC Global Systems and Information Technology.

Mr. Oliver joined OCLC in 1984 as a Systems Analyst. In 28 years with OCLC, he has held progressively larger roles including various systems management, department management and director positions.

In 2007, Mr. Oliver was promoted to Executive Director, Systems Management. He has assumed broader responsibilities for data center expansion and integration of global data and systems operations. OCLC operates two data centers in Ohio, and recently opened data centers in Europe and Australia, part of a plan to operate local and global systems at Webscale in support of OCLC WorldShare Management Services.

“Gene Oliver has made enormous contributions to the OCLC cooperative through his dedicated service and expertise in systems management,” said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO. “Under Gene’s leadership, OCLC will continue to deploy the global infrastructure to support our cloud services platform for the world’s libraries.”

In his new role, Mr. Oliver will continue to oversee the OCLC Systems Management Division. He will also assume new management and coordination responsibilities for OCLC Enterprise Applications in Dublin. With the international integration of systems management activities and the build-out of international data centers, he will oversee the OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa internal IT operations and data center technical staff.

In addition to opening new data centers in Europe and Australia, OCLC recently achieved International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification for information security management. This standard recognizes OCLC’s capability to manage information security related to the provision of secure IT infrastructure and data center management.

Nature Publishing Group to co-publish new OA journal – Light: Science & Applications

Light: Science & Applications (LSA), a new online open access journal, launches today with the publication of its first articles. The journal is co-published by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. LSA covers fundamental research as well as issues in the applied sciences that are related to optics and photonics. The journal is live at www.nature.com/lsa.

LSA will publish original articles, reviews, editorials and research summaries on a weekly basis as they are ready thereby offering authors rapid decision and publication services. All articles are freely available online immediately on publication. An article-processing charge (APC) is levied per article accepted for publication, and articles are published under a Creative Commons License.

“We are delighted to co-publish Light: Science & Applications, NPG’s first open access physical sciences journal and first academic journal in optics and photonics,” said Dr. Dugald McGlashan, Publisher of NPG’s Asia-Pacific Academic Journals.

The LSA editorial team is led by Editor-in-Chief Professor Jianlin Cao, and Co-Executive Editors-in-Chief Professor Tianhong Cui and Dr. Stefan Kaierle. An editorial board of distinguished optics and photonics researchers from across the globe support the journal and the editorial team.

“The partnership between Nature Publishing Group and CIOMP utilises the core strengths of both organizations. NPG’s expertise in publishing together with the visibility offered by nature.com and CIOMP’s academic influence in optics research are great assets to LSA,” said Professor Cao. “We are all working closely to ensure LSA becomes a leading journal in its field and I encourage authors to submit their excellent work to Light: Science & Applications (LSA).”

NPG publishes 59 journals that have an open access option, or are entirely open access. 57 of its 61 academic and society publications (93%) have introduced open access options or are open access journals. NPG plans to launch further open access journals in 2012.

Elsevier Appoints New Managing Director of A&G Research Markets

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced the appointment of Olivier Dumon as the new Managing Director of its Academic and Government Research Markets group. Dumon replaces Jay Katzen, who now manages the Clinical Decision Support department in Elsevier’s Health Sciences division.

Olivier Dumon brings more that 15 years of international experience to Elsevier, among which five years at eBay where he led the company’s product management, vertical strategy and the customer service organization, focusing strongly on improving the eBay search engine. This boosted business in France, after which Oliver moved to eBay’s headquarters in San Jose (California), continuing his search projects on a global scale. After five years he was approached to become the Vice President Product Management of Search and Data at AT&T Interactive. In this role, Olivier launched several initiatives to improve the quality of data and the relevance of the Yellow Pages search engine, resulting in a top 3 ranking of business finder sites in terms of customer satisfaction. Olivier has a MBA from Harvard and a BSc from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Grenoble.

“With his background and experience, Olivier is very well placed to lead the A&G Research Markets group in developing valuable information solutions for researchers,” said Ron Mobed, CEO of Elsevier Science & Technology. “Moreover, his four years in Silicon Valley, where organizations are accustomed to constantly having to adapt to the rapidly changing environment, will certainly be of added value to our company. Over recent years, Elsevier has made significant strides in improving the research experience, for example by extracting more insight from data by introducing analytics functionality and launching the Application Marketplace. Our A&G Research Markets group has played and will continue to play a major role in this process, which places Olivier in a key position in our company.”

Elsevier’s A&G Research Markets group helps researchers within academic and government institutions to be more productive. Among other things, the group is responsible for the development and delivery of the  SciVerse platform for scientific search and discovery, which includes SciVerse Hub and Application Marketplace and integrates ScienceDirect and Scopus. SciVerse facilitates collaboration, rewards innovation and generates higher content value. Combined with productivity-enhancing applications, this allows researchers to work more efficiently and enhance their research outcomes.

Springer launches new platform for the corporate sector: Springer for R&D

Springer Science Business Media has launched a new corporate platform, Springer for R & D, which provides access to over 5.6 million research documents, all optimized for specific corporate markets.Springer for R & D aims to become the primary resource destination for all new corporate and medical customers. All articles in Springer for R & D are taken from Springer’s online platform SpringerLink, which will remain in its existing form serving the academic community.

“Springer for R & D represents a big step forward in the continued growth and development of tailor-made products for our corporate customers,” said Peter Coebergh, President Corporate & Healthcare Markets at Springer Science+Business Media. “With the vast amount of scientific and professional information Springer has to offer, it was a logical step to optimize those materials for our customers’ needs. The new platform will allow us to offer new business models that are more in alignment with corporate customers’ business goals.”

Featuring new content navigation by industry sectors, Springer for R & D provides instant access to pertinent materials to groups of customers in industry sectors from Automotive to Oil, Gas & Geosciences and from IT to Biotechnology*. The platform utilizes agile software development methodologies, enabling Springer to quickly develop and deploy new features. This same methodology allows Springer to optimally offer content to both the niche research organization and the large multinational company alike.

Bioscience Reports To Convert To Full Open-Access

The Biochemical Society is pleased to announce that its peer-reviewed journal, Bioscience Reports will be accepting submissions for Open Access from 2nd April with the first full open access issue available from August 2012. All papers published from the August issue will be freely available online and subscriptions will no longer be charged from January 2013.

For more than 30 years Bioscience Reports has published articles on the fundamental mechanisms involved in cell biology, molecular biology and biochemistry to enable our understanding of normal development and diseases.

The Biochemical Society and its publishing arm, Portland Press Ltd, are committed both to widening access to the scientific literature and to providing a fast, painless publishing experience for authors. In addition to welcoming submissions of all good-quality papers within its remit, Bioscience Reports is supported by the prestigious Biochemical Journal. The Editors of the Biochemical Journal will, with the authors’ permission, refer good-quality, sound research papers, together with the reviewers’ comments, to Bioscience Reports. Authors will then receive a swift decision on the basis of those reports, speeding up considerably the time to publication.

Caroline Black, Managing Director of Portland Press, has confirmed the reasons for the transition of Bioscience Reports to open access: “Portland Press is committed to exploring all ways of broadening access to and dissemination of research. We believe that for Bioscience Reports open access is the most appropriate way to achieve this and are excited about the opportunities ahead for the journal. This development also supports the Biochemical Society’s mission to promote the molecular and cellular biosciences for the benefit of all.”

Editor-in-Chief  Wanjin Hong also believes that this is a positive move for Bioscience Reports: “It is my experience that more authors are seeking to make their papers more accessible to others. In 2010-11, we have seen a steady increase in Opt2Pay submissions, whereby authors pay to have their articles freely available immediately upon publication. All submissions will continue to be rigorously peer reviewed and only good-quality, sound scientific studies will be published. The only real change is that from August 2012 we are providing immediate free access to this high-quality science.”

Bioscience Reports will be the third open access title published by Portland Press Limited (joining ASN NEURO [www.asnneuro.org] and Cell Biology International Reports [www.cellbiolintrep.org]). Portland Press has also broadened access to its journal content to unprecedented levels through a number of other initiatives: all Biochemical Society journals offer “Opt2Pay” so that authors can comply with funding mandates; articles are available free or at very low cost to institutions in developing countries through the HINARI scheme; after a short embargo period, access barriers to articles in our journals are lifted; our library licence permits ‘walk-in’ access; and we make individual articles available to rent for a modest fee through DeepDyve.

Wellcome Trust gets tough on open access

The Wellcome Trust has reacted to Research Councils UK’s beefed-up open-access proposals by indicating that it will get “much tougher” on compliance with its own mandate.

The giant biomedical charity already requires papers produced with Wellcome funding to be made open access within six months of publication, which is the period RCUK also mooted in its draft policy unveiled earlier this month.

But Robert Kiley, the trust’s head of digital services, admitted that the current compliance rate of 55 per cent was “simply not acceptable”.

He said many details of the trust’s get-tough policy were to be determined, but one idea was to make institutions “take some responsibility” for the compliance of their Wellcome-funded researchers. He noted that open-access compliance at the trust’s own Sanger Institute near Cambridge was 85 per cent.

He said the trust might require institutions to officially confirm that all publications associated with a grant had been made open access before the final instalment was paid. Another idea was to take Wellcome-funded researchers’ open-access records into account when they reapplied for funding and activate further grants only once their previous research was openly accessible.

The trust also intended to follow RCUK’s lead and require papers to be published according to the terms of a Creative Commons “CC-BY” licence, which allows unlimited reuse of content subject to proper attribution to the original author.

To continue reading the Times Higher Education article please click here

Brazil and India set for greatest growth in e-book purchase, says Bowker research

Australia, India, the U.K. and the U.S. are leading the world in e-book adoption rates, according to Bowker Market Research’s Global eBook Monitor, The study tracks consumer attitudes to and purchasing of e-books in major world markets. Bowker Market Research is a service of Bowker, an affiliated business of ProQuest.

“The market for e-books is experiencing exponential growth internationally, with news each week of new e-readers and specialist e-tailers,” said Kelly Gallagher, vice-president, Bowker Market Research. “Publishers and retailers must adapt to a very changed landscape. This research is essential for effectively navigating that new landscape and creating successful business models.”

Research for Bowker’s Global e-book Monitor was conducted among the online population in 10 countries – Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, South Korea, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S. – in early 2012. India, Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. lead in adoption of e-books, with more than 20 percent of respondents reporting purchasing e-books in the six months prior to the survey. Respondents in France and Japan were the least likely to have purchased an e-book, at five percent and eight percent respectively. While purchase behavior varies by country, awareness is relatively consistent: more than 80 percent of respondents in each country know it is possible to digitally download a book (Fig 1).

The Monitor reveals that the market for e-books is set for a rapid increase in Brazil and India. Over 50 percent of respondents from these two countries said that they are likely to buy an e-book in the next six months, a prediction that would double the number of e-book buyers in India, and triple the number of e-book buyers in Brazil. About a third of respondents in the U.K. and U.S. say they have plans to purchase an e-book soon, compared to one in five in France, and one in seven in Japan.

Age and gender are consistent predictors of purchase behavior globally. For example, in most countries surveyed, men are more likely than women to buy an e-book (Fig 2). Germany shows the greatest divergence, with 18 percent of male respondents having bought an e-book in the past six months, compared to only 8 percent of women. In almost all markets, the older the respondents, the less likely they are to have recently purchased an e-book (Fig. 3). Purchase rates in India, Brazil, the U.K., U.S. and France are highest in the 25–34 age group, with Australia, Spain, Germany, South Korea and Japan highest among 18-24 year olds.

The numbers of e-books downloaded in the past six months within genres indicates significant differences between countries. In the U.K. and Australia the concentration is on adult fiction, while in India and South Korea the concentration is on both professional/business and academic/textbooks.

The Global eBook Monitor (GeM) tracks consumer purchases of e-books, and attitudes about e-books, in ten major world markets and aims to inform the publishing industry during a critical period of change. An annual study, over time it will create a unique view of market shifts in response to new digital formats. GeM currently operates in partnership with Pearson, Tata Consultancy Services, AT Kearney, and Book Industry Study Group (BISG). It employs online surveys hosted by Lightspeed Research or their affiliates in 9 countries, and by MTi in the US¹. The minimum number of respondents in each country was 1000; samples were designed and weighted to be representative of the adult (18+) population in terms of age, sex and region, but were by definition drawn from the online population only.

Key findings from the research will be presented and debated at two webinars hosted by the BISG on 2nd April and 23rd April. For registration details, please contact BISG. A key findings report will be available on request from participating companies. For further details please contact:

  • Angela Bole, Book Industry Study Group
    +1 646-336-7141 x11 or angela@bisg.org

Individual country reports will be available for purchase at the end of April. For further details, please contact Bowker Market Research: jo@bookmarketing.co.uk.

Source: http://www.bowker.co.uk/en-UK/aboutus/press_room/2012/pr_03272012.shtml

Swets appoints Ryoji Fukada as Chairman Swets Japan

Swets is delighted to announce that Ryoji Fukada has joined the company as Chairman for their Japanese Office. Mr Fukada brings a wealth of experience with him; covering 37 years in the international publishing sector, including pioneering Elsevier’s Science Direct product into the Japanese market and most recently as Managing Director for Springer Japan. Earlier in his career Mr Fukada played a key role in opening Swets’ Japanese office and establishing a firm business foothold for the company not only in Japan but across the South East Asia region.

“I am pleased to be returning to Swets at this point in my career because the plans and goals the company has for Japan, and the Asian region at large; are truly exciting,” said Mr Fukada. “Swets is investing heavily into the region and I look forward to implementing our plans for developing our existing business and, in particular, establishing relationships in new sectors and partnership opportunities.”

“We are pleased to welcome Mr Fukada back to Swets,” said Debbie Dore, Chief Commercial Officer at Swets. “His extensive knowledge and experience of the industry and the Asian region are sure to benefit us immensely. We are sure that, under his stewardship, our Japanese office can continue to expand its horizons and bring future rewards for the company.”

Mr Fukada is based at Swets’ Tokyo office.

Publishing Technology, GSE launch resource for digital academic publishing

Publishing Technology, the largest provider of software and services to the industry, and newly established online scholarly publisher GSE Research, announce the launch of GSE Research Online, a resource defining the new age of digital academic publishing.

GSE Research’s portal is a bold concept to drive interaction and engagement across the academic audience, policy-makers and the corporate world in an interactive professional network supporting governance, sustainability and the environment.

Built on the pub2web platform, the site leverages semantic technology and novel functionality for an enriching, engaging and synergised user experience, which has been refined and honed following extensive user testing and feedback. The site supports a range of author benefits including rapid publication, a choice of open peer review or traditional peer review options, collaboration tools with article metrics to follow. The GSE vision allows the full breadth of stakeholders within this field to join in the conversation, share content, review and comment on papers, find collaborators, locate experts in the field for conference speaking or job opportunities.

The site boasts features further transformative, semantic enhancements:

  • Taxonomy creation – tailored to the GSE community’s specific needs but also mapped to industry standards to ensure optimal interoperability.
  • Semantically enriched content– supporting new ways of delivery and navigating to content.

·         Article context – the ability to place scholarly articles within their external context by displaying contextual information from trusted external resources such as news and government data sets, providing a real value add for readers and increasing engagement with the platform.

·         Taxonomy visualizations – to enable researchers see at a glance via article “fingerprints” what a paper is about and more easily navigate the data based on a particular field of interest.

  • Faceted navigation – for accessing site content by applying multiple search filters based on taxonomy.
  • Concept pages – to serve as entry points or “homepages” for topical concepts such as “Air Pollution” or “Greenwash”.
  • The Research Exchange – a professional social network driven by location, subject specialty and articles published.

To facilitate and promote awareness of the GSE vision, Publishing Technology’s internationally recognised sales and marketing consulting firm, Publishers Communication Group, through its offices in Boston, Oxford, Sao Paulo, Beijing, and New Delhi, is also supporting the GSE sales and marketing team in their international activities to institutions.

www.gseresearch.com

John Peters, Publishing Director at GSE Research Ltd, commented:

“It’s with great excitement and anticipation that we launch the website, now available to the global academic publishing community. The new site represents a radical new way for academics to collaborate and explore new content, in real time and really exploits the benefits of semantic enhancements to deliver this. Bringing together academics from around the world, across environment, sustainability and governance, and allow them to share research and discuss topics with each other with greater ease, has always been our ultimate goal, and the pub2web platform has brought our concept to life with highly innovative technology and flourish.”

Louise Russell, Chief Operations Officer at Publishing Technology, said:

“GSE’s digital strategy and concept for their site is testament to their whole philosophy. The GSE approach benefits from not being restricted by the traditional content ‘containers’ of journals and books and create an online platform that turns the traditional model on its head. Exploring critical and innovative ways of empowering a whole community through online collaboration, the new site launches with semantic enrichment embedded within the workflow from day 1, support for rapid publication, a broader range of author benefits all integrated with a community model that fosters conversation and engagement. GSE have a unique and innovative approach to publishing and we are delighted to have played a part. The pub2web platform is a flexible and interoperable solution that will support GSE’s business every step of the way.”

The GSE Research model and approach has already received high praise from some leading names in the academic publishing industry. Professor Baback Yazdani, Dean of Nottingham Business School, commented: “This is an important field, and GSE Research are taking an innovative and welcome approach to scholarly publishing in the digital era,” and industry commentator David Worlock, referred to GSE as “a project to watch, but also a trend to be noted.”

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