Yearly Archives: 2006

Societies

Citations to OnlineEarly Articles and their Effect on Impact Factor

Introduction There has been much discussion as to how Thomson Scientific treats citations to our OnlineEarly articles, and particularly whether this will have a positive or negative effect on the Impact Factor. The first thing to note is that the Impact Factor calculation and the creation of dynamic citation linkages within Web of Science (i.e.…

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Iain Craig By
Associate Director, Market Research & Analysis

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Prestigious Journals Transferring to Blackwell in 2007

The following prestigious journals will be transferring their publishing arrangements to Blackwell from the beginning of 2007. We are still in negotiation with several more societies who may join before the start of the year, or part way through. Listed is the journal name and that of the previous publisher. Acta Paediatrica – Taylor &…

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Emily Gillingham By
Director of Library Relations

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Societies Research Libraries

Blackwell Ventures into Online Reference Publishing

We are delighted to inform you of the launch of our first online reference product. Blackwell Reference Online will be the largest academic collection of reference material in the humanities and social sciences to be published online. Launched at London’s Online Information conference on November 29th, Blackwell Reference Online will hold almost 300 volumes and…

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Paul Millicheap By
Director, Books Marketing

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Societies Libraries

Librarians Meet in Rome

On October 11th, we held our 7th Library Advisory Board meeting in Rome. As with all these meetings it sparked plenty of interesting discussion with such topics covered as bibliometrics, methods of valuing journals, the future of the big deal, the changing role of subscriptions agents, the role of reference resources in libraries, whether Google…

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Emily Gillingham By
Director of Library Relations

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Overview of the Japanese Journals Marketplace

Although the economy’s phase of spectacular growth is long over, the economic stagnation of the 1990s has largely been put behind Japan and the economy is now growing at around 3% per annum. It is worth the reminder that Japan remains the world’s second largest economy; the gross domestic product (GDP) of Tokyo is bigger…

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David Fisher By
Vice President, Institutional Sales & Business Development

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Publishing Seminar Explores the Internationalization of Korean Journals

Having made a foray into the Korean publishing market with the signing of Blackwell’s first Korean journal, Entomological Research, this year, we wanted to build on our understanding of the market and to share our experience of publishing international journals with local societies and editors by running a Publishing Seminar in Seoul in August. Titled…

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Mark Robertson By
Vice President & Publishing Director

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Blackwell Holds First UK Executive Seminar in London

The Blackwell Executive Seminar: Opportunities and Challenges in Society Publishing was held on September 22nd 2006 at the Royal Society in London, United Kingdom. The seminar drew more than 100 attendees from societies and journals across the UK. The program included 10 speakers who addressed how technology is impacting society publishing, communicating effectively with the…

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All about RightsLink

For the last 18 months, Blackwell has been working with the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service, an automated, online permissions licensing system. RightsLink enables customers to secure permission to reuse digital content for a variety of purposes directly from within full-text articles available on http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/homem. Just click on the link called Request Permissions which you’ll…

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Sue Mattingley By
Manager, International Rights

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What is a DOI?

Background A DOI® (Digital Object Identifier) is a name for an entity, or item of content, on digital networks. It is a persistent identifier that provides information about where that content is located on the internet. The DOI remains constant even though the location of the content item may change over time (e.g. a journal…

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Edward Wates By
Vice President & Director, Global Journals Content Management

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New Look for Blackwell Synergy – Preview available now

Blackwell Synergy will soon be relaunched with a brand new design. This redesign provides easier navigation, faster loading times, and improved access to tools for researchers. In addition, the new website will meet the latest accessibility standards (ADA section 508 and W3C’s WAI-AA). The main visible changes are the moving of the major functions to…

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Lorna Berrett By
Director, Society Project Management

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