Yearly Archives: 2010

Societies

Your Starter for Ten: An Interview with Allan Adler, Vice President of Legal and Governmental Affairs at the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and John Tagler, Vice President and Executive Director of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the AAP

http://www.publishers.org/ 1.  Allan and John, can you tell our readers about the main activities of the AAP and particularly its Professional/Scholarly Publishing division?   JT:  I’ll be happy to lead off with information about the PSP division.  We have a little over 130 members.  What is interesting in the AAP context is the diversity of the…

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David Nicholson By
Vice President & Journals Publishing Director

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Thomson’s New Book Citation Index

At the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, Thomson Reuters announced the launch of a book citation index to complement their existing citation index products, such as the Science Citation Index and Conference Proceedings. The Book Citation Index will be launched in the second quarter of 2011 and will be an integral component of Thomson’s Web…

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Duncan Campbell By
Associate Director, Journals Digital Licensing

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Scientific Data Management: How the European Union is Responding to the Challenge

On the 6th October 2010, a report entitled ‘Riding the Wave: How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data’ was formally presented to the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes. This report is the result of a series of brainstorming sessions by a group of experts, as well as a process…

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If You Build It, Will They Come? How Researchers Perceive and Use Web 2.0

This report was published by RIN (Research Information Network) in July, but does not seem to have attracted much comment, perhaps because the findings did not indicate radical change. The study indicates that a majority of researchers are making at least occasional use of one or more Web 2.0 tools or services for purposes related…

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Bob Campbell By
Senior Publisher

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Societies Research

Ease of Access to Journals Articles for Researchers

Across the world, researchers in all disciplines rate journal articles as the most important type of information.  They can get access to them, indeed 93% of the 3800 respondents found access “very easy” or “fairly easy”, but there is more to be done.  So the publisher/library system works well for journals but, where publishers are…

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Christine Nelson-Rivers By
Project Manager, Society Relations

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Scholarly Communication: The Future for Academic Authors

Most authors have only recently grappled with e-books and the potential for online delivery of their text. Academic journals have been delivering digital content from online platforms since 1996. Most such journals are still available as print-on-paper because of continuing demand from some subscribers but the e-version now dominates, especially in STM (science, technology, medicine).…

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Bob Campbell By
Senior Publisher

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Societies Libraries

Library Discovery Services – A Better Way to Find What You’re Looking For

Imagine you’re an undergraduate (or a graduate student, or a professor) at Harvard (or Cambridge, or the Sorbonne, or anywhere, really). Your library subscribes to thousands of e-journals and thousands more e-books, hundreds of databases, and still has row upon row of shelves holding strange things called ‘books’. Confronted by this overwhelming choice and with…

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Duncan Campbell By
Associate Director, Journals Digital Licensing

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Societies Research

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) Update

Launched late in 2009 as a collaborative effort to solve the problem of name ambiguity among contributors to scholarly research with a system that assigns them unique identifiers, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID ) initiative has made significant progress in its first year of activity. Since all the communities within the world of…

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Craig Van Dyck By
Vice President, Global Content Management

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Converting Journals to Online Only

For some time now, Wiley-Blackwell has been publishing selected journals in online only format, where market needs do not require a print option. With feedback from librarians, researchers, and students showing that they are using print less and less, for 2011, we have chosen a pilot group of 44 Wiley-Blackwell owned titles to convert to…

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

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Recent Wiley-Blackwell Events for Societies and Journals

US Executive Seminar Wiley-Blackwell’s 2010 Executive Seminar took place at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on December 10. Bringing together over 100 senior society executives and journal editors, the theme of the day was New Business Models and Opportunities in Scholarly Publishing. The keynote speaker, Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law…

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Alice Meadows By
Director of Society Relations

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