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December 16, 2011 – The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, publishers of JBJS (Br), are pleased to announce the launch of Bone & Joint Research (www.bjr.boneandjoint.org.uk), a new open access journal.
Bone & Joint Research gives researchers and developers a new way to reach the global orthopaedics community more effectively. It also offers readers the latest frontline research and is completely free to access online. Editor-in-Chief, Andy Carr, Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford, UK and founder of the Botnar Research Centre, explains “we believe open access is the way forward with this journal; instant online access to knowledge is what people expect.” He continues, “As a researcher myself I’m excited about the potential this journal offers our community to share our work with the world. Publishing in BJR provides you the opportunity to become part of a new wave of authors. We will publish to the same high standards as JBJS (Br)"
The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, publishers of JBJS (Br), are pleased to announce the launch of Bone & Joint Research (www.bjr.boneandjoint.org.uk), a new open access journal poised to revolutionise research communication in the field of orthopaedics.
Bone & Joint Research gives researchers and developers a new way to reach the global orthopaedics community more effectively. It also offers readers the latest frontline research and is completely free to access.
“Open access is now a well-established publishing model in the research community,” commented Peter Richardson, the Society’s Managing Director, “We see it co-existing with traditional subscription-based journals like JBJS (Br) which we have published for over 60 years. We saw an opportunity to harness our reputation and expertise in orthopaedic publishing to meet a clear demand from orthopaedic researchers. Our authors tell us that they want their articles to be published as quickly as possible, and then made accessible to the widest possible audience. They also don’t want to compromise on quality so we have maintained our rigorous editorial and peer review process for this new journal.”
Unlike traditional journals, all articles published within Bone & Joint Research are free to access online. Instead of libraries paying a subscription fee, authors, or their funding bodies, pay a publication charge that then ensures their work is instantly and freely available worldwide. As a not-for-profit organisation, the British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery has made publication charges as affordable as possible with waivers for low income countries and a special 10% discount for reviewers and members of partner Associations.
Editor-in-Chief, Andy Carr, Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford, UK and founder of the Botnar Institute, explains “we believe open access is the way to go with this journal; instant online access to knowledge is what people expect.” He continues, “As a researcher myself I’m excited about the potential this journal offers our community to share our work with the world. Publishing in BJR offers you the opportunity to become part of a new wave of authors. We will publish to the same high standards as JBJS (Br) and I believe the journal will quickly gain a reputation as a major new force in transforming the musculoskeletal sciences.”
Bone & Joint Research is now open for submissions, including clinical and translational laboratory studies as well as studies from the device and pharmaceutical industries.
The journal is now live at www.bjr.boneandjoint.org.uk or to submit your paper http://orthodox.jbjs.org.uk. To review for us or become a part of this important open access movement email us at reviewer@bonejointresearch.org.uk
About the Editor
Andrew Carr FRCS FMedSci
Professor Carr is the Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Head of the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences at the University of Oxford and Divisional Director of Musculoskeletal and Rehabilitation Clinical Services at The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Having founded the Botnar Research Centre as an Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences in 2002 and the NIHR musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit in 2005, Andy Carr has been a prominent figure in orthopaedic research for some time. He was part of the Oxford University team that designed a series of patient reported outcome measures following surgery, which became used worldwide by all national joint replacement registries (NJR) and by the NHS to monitor all hip and knee replacement operations performed in the UK. At the forefront of orthopaedic research, Andy is currently investigating the role of arthroscopic surgery, considering stem cells and growth factors in the management of age related chronic shoulder pain due to rotator cuff tendinopathy and tear (PAROT, CSAW and UKUFF trials).
His awards include the Robert Jones Gold medal of the British Orthopaedic Association. He was elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2009.
Deputy Editors
Professor Matt Costa, University of Warwick, UK Professor John Sperling, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Associate Editors
Professor Chris Little, The University of Sydney, Australia Professor Britt Wildemann, Julius Wolff Institute, Berlin, Germany
About the Publisher
British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery
JBJS (Br) is the flagship journal of the British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, which is renowned for its high standards of peer review and editorial to ensure its subscribers receive the best quality articles in orthopaedic surgery. The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery (BESBJS) is an innovative publisher whose mission is to advance and improve education in orthopaedic surgery. In order to best serve the orthopaedic community, the Society is launching BJR to provide researchers with an opportunity to participate in this growing area of orthopaedics in a journal that has the potential to reach a wider audience and has a faster publication process than traditional journals.
December 14, 2011 – Sheridan Develops Full-Text App for Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Hunt Valley, MD – The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) has enlisted The Sheridan Group’s services to develop a full-text journal application for its premier publication Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). Launched through the Apple Store on November 1st, its availability coincided with the ASN Annual Meeting, Kidney Week 2011, in Philadelphia, PA.
JASN is the world’s leading kidney journal serving as the journal of record for prescribers and thought-leaders throughout the global renal community.
With the availability of this free full-text app, subscribers can keep up to date with full-text articles and news published in the journal. Articles feature all print images and figures, as well as the ability to watch and listen to related video and audio sound bites. The app also features article bookmarking functionality, social media sharing integration, and full-text search support of author, title and article.
“ The American Society of Nephrology is very pleased with this release and with positive response from ASN members. The JASN App is yet one more tool with which our members and subscribers can access the highest quality science in nephrology,” stated Bob Henkel, Senior Manager of Publishing Services.
“The launch of the JASN app reinforces the importance of delivering Scientific, Technical and Medical content to users on mobile devices,” said Mark Witkowski, Vice President of Technology Development at The Sheridan Group. “The Sheridan Group is committed to developing a platform of innovative publishing tools enabling our publishers to build stronger and more meaningful relationships with readers.”
Sheridan Mobile Full-Text Apps are but one in a suite of Mobile products developed and supported though the Sheridan Technology Group. Others include Sheridan Mobile Alerts, Sheridan Mobile Editions, Sheridan Mobile ePrints, and Sheridan Print-to-Mobile QR Codes.
About The American Society of Nephrology - The mission of the American Society of Nephrology, headquartered in Washington, DC, is to lead the fight against kidney disease by educating health professionals, sharing new knowledge, advancing research, and advocating the highest quality care for patients. www.asn-online.org
About The Sheridan Group - Located in Hunt Valley, MD, The Sheridan Group is a leading provider of print, publishing services and technology solutions to publishers, associations, university presses, and catalogers. Comprised of The Sheridan Press, Dartmouth Printing Company, Dartmouth Journal Services, The Dingley Press, and Sheridan Books, each company within The Sheridan Group has a market specialty that supports scholarly journals, magazines, catalogs, or books. www.sheridan.com
December 5, 2011 – Allen Press, Inc. (www.allenpress.com) publisher and printing services provider, has introduced BrightCopy?, a digital publication platform that allows publishers to leverage traditional print media for optimized reading online.
LAWRENCE, Kan. – December 5, 2011 – Allen Press, Inc. (www.allenpress.com) publisher and printing services provider, has introduced BrightCopy?, a digital publication platform that allows publishers to leverage traditional print media for optimized reading online.
BrightCopy provides an outlet for publishers who need an online solution that preserves the look and feel of their print publication, supports robust advertising opportunities, and offers a media-rich experience for readers. Built on an HTML5 mobile optimized platform, BrightCopy extends the accessibility of content from printed page, to desktop computer, to mobile device, ensuring that readers can access content whenever and wherever.
BrightCopy is a full-featured digital publication platform that meets the needs of users and publishers alike. User tools such as linking, searching, zooming, and social sharing functionality are standard features. Publishers enjoy robust reporting capabilities, advertising and sponsorship opportunities designed to capitalize on advertising profitability, and sophisticated access control and digital rights management (DRM ) options.
“At Allen Press, we have long recognized that an online presence is vital to the success of any publication,” said Allen Press Product Marketing Manager, Joanna Gillette. “With BrightCopy, we’re giving publishers the ability to take advantage of the tools that an online environment can provide without sacrificing design or advertising revenue.”
About Allen Press, Inc. - Allen Press, Inc., plays a vital role in the dissemination of knowledge and information by partnering with organizations in the scientific, technical, and medical community to promote their interests and achieve their goals. Headquartered in Lawrence, KS, Allen Press provides a comprehensive portfolio of integrated services in the broad areas of print, online, distribution, and publishing services. Founded more than 75 years ago, Allen Press is a trusted partner of scholarly societies, professional associations, and corporations worldwide.
December 5, 2011 – AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), and Publishing Technology plc (LSE: PTO) announce a partnership to build the next generation of AIP’s Scitation, scheduled for launch in the fourth quarter of 2012.
AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), and Publishing Technology plc (LSE: PTO) announce a partnership to build the next generation of AIP’s Scitation, scheduled for launch in the fourth quarter of 2012.
The new custom platform will be developed using Publishing Technology’s pub2web hosting solution, enabling AIP and its Member Societies to house an impressive portfolio of journals and conference proceedings as well as Physics Today magazine and historical documents from AIP’s Physics Resources Center.
"With our strategic shift to concentrate our resources on serving our readers, authors, librarians and our Member Society publishing partners, we are excited to find an impressive partner to deliver the best possible way forward,” said John Haynes, Vice President of Publishing at AIP. “Enhanced functionality, discoverability and customer experience are paramount in our business and Publishing Technology has the international expertise to provide the first-class infrastructure our readers expect."
Designed to put users at the center combining a flexible and extensible architecture with sophisticated information commerce, leading-edge semantic technology and industry standards, the pub2web interface will provide the research community with new opportunities for collaboration and discovery. During the design phases, the user community will be engaged through focus groups, dialogue, training and usability testing. Authors, readers and librarians can expect a seamless transition, new interactive communities and an overall enhanced user experience tailored to their specific needs. According to AIP’s Chief Information Officer Evan Owens, “Publishing Technology’s pub2web hosting platform will provide the foundation for the AIP collection of specialized physics-related content with a rich array of semantic features as well as deliver industry-standard support for the needs of library and individual subscribers. We look forward to working with the company’s development team to revolutionize the user experience.”
Louise Russell, Chief Operating Officer of Publishing Technology’s Online Division, offered, "We are excited by the prospect of providing AIP and its Member Societies with the technology to take their digital strategy to the next level. Focusing on the needs of authors, readers and librarians to deliver new, personalized discovery routes into content will break down traditional silos and allow for experimentation and added value. By bridging multiple content types from multiple member publishers and extending their reach, the new Scitation will be a premier research destination on the Web."
About Publishing Technology plc - Publishing Technology’s products and services include advance, ingentaconnect, VISTA, author2reader, pub2web, ICS and PCG. The Publishing Technology group enables publishers to focus on their core competences by providing a single, trusted partner for both technology requirements and business development services. It is one of the largest providers of software and services for the publishing industry, servicing eight out of ten of the world's largest publishers. The group’s proposition uniquely spans front and back office systems – complemented by a range of business development services – to provide the industry's only end-to-end suite of software specifically designed to support the publishing process. Capabilities cover editorial & production, product information, billing & fulfillment, content conversion & hosting, website development, marketing programs, information commerce, customer relationship management, rights & royalties and business intelligence. All application modules can be configured independently to meet specific publishers' needs and to allow flexible integration with existing systems. Associated sales and marketing services include consultancy and research, sales representation and telemarketing. The company is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and has offices in the UK, US, Brazil, India, China and Australia.
About pub2web - The pub2web platform is a customized, multi-content publications portal—delivering all the functionality needed to support evolving online strategies and to satisfy the user base, however diverse their needs. Customers benefit from proven, regularly-updated technology while also maintaining full control of their brand, their content and their user relationships. It allows customers to help their users to explore all their content – whatever its format – with progressive browsing options driven by pub2web’s award-winning data storage and modeling.
Visit www.publishingtechnology.com, follow on Twitter @publishingtech, or connect on LinkedIn.
About AIP - The American Institute of Physics is an organization of 10 physical science societies, representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators and is one of the world's largest publishers of scientific information in physics. AIP pursues innovation in publishing of scholarly journals and offers publishing services for its Member Societies. AIP’s suite of publications includes 15 journals, two of which are published in partnership with other societies; magazines, including its flagship publication Physics Today; and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. Through its Physics Resources Center, AIP also delivers valuable services and expertise in education and student programs, science communication, government relations, career services for science and engineering professionals, statistical research, industrial outreach, and the history of physics and other sciences.
Visit www.aip.org, or follow on Facebook or Twitter @ AIP_Publishing.
November 3, 2011 – Rockefeller University Press JournalsGoing Mobile via Sheridan’s Full-Text Apps.
Hunt Valley, MD – The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and The Journal of General Physiology will soon be available in the iTunes App Store as downloadable, full-text, mobile applications. With the combined efforts of the Sheridan Technology Group and Dartmouth Journal Services (DJS), iPhone and iPad apps were developed in conjunction with The Rockefeller University Press (RUP). App users can stay up-to-date with the latest articles, search full-text, and bookmark content for later viewing. The apps will include a number of features that are firsts for Sheridan’s mobile app offering, including individual and institutional authentication, PDF download, and access to supplemental data and related articles. Another first, user-configurable offline caching of content, provides access to full-text articles (including high resolution figures and tables) – anywhere, anytime – even without a network connection.
In addition to journal content, the apps also offer access to a number of social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, plus RUP’s biosights and biobytes podcast series and other RSS feeds. The incorporation of social media tools makes it easy to share content, and the instant alert feature immediately notifies users of the availability of new content.
RUP plans to launch the apps, free of charge, in mid-November 2011. During a brief introductory trial period, access to full-text will be available to all who download them. After the trial period, access to full-text will require a subscription, but abstracts will be available to all users.
“These apps represent the next step in our ongoing mission to publish excellent science and provide it to our readers in the latest technological formats,” said Mike Rossner, Executive Director at Rockefeller University Press. “We have been delighted to partner with Sheridan and DJS in the development of our mobile apps."
Sheridan Full-Text Apps are the latest in a suite of mobile products developed and supported through Sheridan Technology. Others include Sheridan Mobile Alerts, Sheridan Mobile Editions, Sheridan Mobile ePrints, and Sheridan Print-to-Mobile QR Codes.
Mark Witkowski, Vice President of Technology Development at The Sheridan Group commented, “Delivering content to mobile devices is a critical component of Rockefeller University Press’s publishing strategy and we are honored to have partnered with them on this important platform. Readers of the journals will benefit from the integration of multi-media, social media, and industry leading content.”
About Rockefeller University Press - The Rockefeller University Press (RUP), located in New York City, is committed to quality and integrity in scientific publishing. RUP’s goal is to publish excellent science using the latest technologies and to conduct rigorous peer review while applying the highest standards of novelty, mechanistic insight, data integrity, and general interest. www.rupress.org
About Dartmouth Journal Services - Based in Waterbury, VT, Dartmouth Journal Services is a leading provider of technology-based journal publishing solutions for scholarly, technical, and medical publishers, societies, associations, and university presses. It is one of five Sheridan Group companies providing print, publishing services and technology solutions to the publishing industry. www.sheridan.com
About The Sheridan Group - Located in Hunt Valley, MD, The Sheridan Group is a leading provider of print, publishing services and technology solutions to publishers, associations, university presses, and catalogers. Comprised of The Sheridan Press, Dartmouth Printing Company, Dartmouth Journal Services, The Dingley Press, and Sheridan Books, each company within The Sheridan Group has a market specialty that supports scholarly journals, magazines, catalogs, or books. www.sheridan.com
October 4, 2011 – APHA launches The Nation’s Health App,An iOS and Android Mobile Edition Developed by Sheridan.
Hunt Valley, MD – The American Public Health Association has enlisted The Sheridan Group’s services to develop and launch an iOS and Android-compatible app, providing mobile access to The Nation’s Health newspaper. Content from the publication can be viewed as full-page expandable images or as individual text articles. The app, which debuted with the September 2011 issue of the newspaper through both Apple and Android app stores, is currently free for all users.
The Nation’s Health app features patent-pending Media Deck technology, allowing advertisers to incorporate web content and interactivity into the app simply by inserting a URL into the digital edition. When readers click on the URL, they launch a Media Deck that brings the content into the page – without leaving the app or the publication.
The monthly newspaper of the American Public Health Association, The Nation’s Health is a nationally recognized, award-winning source of news for public health professionals.
“The Nation’s Health has long been a leader in providing the latest public health news and information,” said Michele Late, executive editor of The Nation’s Health. “This app allows us to expand our audience and reach new readers through the latest technology. It’s easy to use and available for a range of phones and tablets, letting readers bring the newspaper wherever they go.”
Sheridan Magazines Digital Services Manager Harry Wilson commented, “Our mission is to empower our customers’ communications process. Sheridan Magazines is proud to help the APHA increase their digital reach as they educate on the vital issues affecting the health of our nation."
Sheridan Mobile Edition Apps are but one in a suite of Mobile products developed and supported though the Sheridan Technology Lab. Others include Sheridan Mobile Alerts, Sheridan Full-Text Apps, Sheridan Mobile ePrints, and Sheridan Print-to-Mobile QR Codes.
About The Nation’s Health - The Nation’s Health is published 10 times a year by the American Public Health Association. The paper’s 30,000 readers include APHA members, legislators, the media and subscribers. Subscriptions are available and may be purchased online at www.thenationshealth.org.
About The Sheridan Group - Located in Hunt Valley, MD, The Sheridan Group is comprised of The Sheridan Press, Dartmouth Printing Company, Dartmouth Journal Services, The Dingley Press, and Sheridan Books. Each company has a market specialty – scholarly journals, magazines, catalogs, or books. The Sheridan Group is a leading provider of print, publishing and technology solutions to publishers, associations, university presses, and catalogers. www.sheridan.com.
September 13, 2011 – Oxford, 13 September 2011 – Publishing Technology plc (LSE: PTO), the largest provider of software and services to the publishing industry, has been selected to build an academic publishing platform for GSE Research.
Oxford, 13 September 2011 – Publishing Technology plc (LSE: PTO), the largest provider of software and services to the publishing industry, has been selected to build an academic publishing platform for GSE Research.
GSE Research’s new online platform for research into governance, sustainability and the environment will be built using Publishing Technology’s innovative semantic web based publishing software, pub2web.
The new GSE Research platform will be among the first of its kind offering the option of an open peer review model alongside the traditional peer review system. This new publishing model is aimed at speeding up the submission process and encouraging heightened engagement and collaboration amongst users.
GSE Research’s prime objective is to bridge the gap between the scholarly research community, policy-makers and the corporate world by building an inclusive and interactive community that shares its views on papers and research in real time. It will be a completely digital model free of the constraints of the traditional scholarly publishing model, which has generally replicated content from print into online.
GSE is the brainchild of one of the world’s top sustainability researchers, Professor Walter Leal, and academic publisher John Peters (former CEO, Emerald Group Publishing).
Authors submitting content to GSE Research will be able to share research both inside and outside of the academic community with speed and efficiency. It will also be possible to discuss papers, opinions and network within the community using the site’s socially collaborative approach. All contributors will have the option to choose between an open access model and a more traditional subscription-based model when it comes to publishing their content.
Visitors to the site will benefit from the semantic web technology native to the pub2web platform combined with a number of features driven by the newly created taxonomy which factors in all areas of GSE Research’s content. The site will be able to connect discourse from a wide, interdisciplinary academic and public policy landscape and present contextual external content resources alongside GSE content, to improve discoverability and transform the user experience.
John Peters, Publishing Director at GSE Research Ltd, commented:
“I have worked in academic publishing for more than 25 years and this project has been my dream. It represents a totally new way for academics to collaborate and read other work, in real time, and hopefully with real results. This site will bring 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. It should be an effective model for academics to share their research outside of academia – with business and government. The pub2web platform offers a high degree of interoperability and integration with external resources and systems, which was a key driver for selecting Publishing Technology to help bring our concept to life.”
Louise Tutton, Chief Operations Officer at Publishing Technology, said:
“As a new scholarly publisher, GSE are in the position of starting their publishing activities from scratch, without the same constraints of the existing publishing model. This has allowed GSE to move away from the traditional content ‘containers’ of journals and books and create an online platform that turns the traditional business model on its head. We have also been working closely with GSE to create a cross-discipline taxonomy within this specialist area. This new taxonomy combined with pub2web’s wider functionality, including text mining capabilities, will help users discover the content they need across GSE’s platform with ease.
“We are excited to be part of this ambitious new publishing venture. We hope more traditional publishers will follow GSE’s lead and take a radical review of how to increase discoverability of their content and best meet the needs of their customers.” she concluded.
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 David Worlock, noted industry commentator, referred to GSE as “a project to watch, but also a trend to be noted”.
GSE Research - GSE Research Limited is a newly established online scholarly publisher in the globally important areas of Governance, Sustainability and Environment. It publishes a variety of materials including working papers, presentations, student studies, and practitioner-derived research papers, as well as traditional scholarly research papers.
GSE addresses an important need. Every large organization in the world – private and public – is under pressure to ‘do something’ about sustainability and impact on the environment. This pressure comes from governments, consumers and consumer groups, employees and students, and indeed shareholders.
GSE Research aims to collect, organizes disseminate, support and provoke research to change the world for the better by providing a valuable bridge between scholarly research and practice in its target fields through its innovative approach to funding, reviewing, community building and pricing.
Publishing Technology plc - The Publishing Technology group enables publishers to focus on their core competences by providing a single, trusted partner for both technology requirements and business development services. It is one of the largest providers of software and services for the publishing industry, servicing eight out of ten of the world's largest publishers.
Publishing Technology’s products and services include advance, ingentaconnect, VISTA, author2reader, pub2web, ICS and PCG.
The group’s proposition uniquely spans front and back office systems – complemented by a range of business development services – to provide the industry's only end-to-end suite of software specifically designed to support the publishing process. Capabilities cover editorial & production, product information, billing & fulfilment, content conversion & hosting, website development, marketing programs, information commerce, customer relationship management, rights & royalties and business intelligence. All application modules can be configured independently to meet specific publishers' needs and to allow flexible integration with existing systems. Associated sales and marketing services include consultancy and research, sales representation and telemarketing. The company is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and has offices in the UK, US, China, Brazil, India and Australia.
About Walter Leal - Walter Leal is a Senior Professor at London Metropolitan University (UK), Uppsala University (Sweden) and at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, where he heads the Research and Transfer Centre 'Applications of Life Sciences'. He is editor of the award-winning book series 'Environmental Education, Communication and Sustainability’ and founding editor of the 'International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education'.
Prof. Leal is one of the top sustainability researchers worldwide. He has written, edited or co-edited over 60 books and has nearly 200 published papers and book chapters to his credit. He is a Review Editor of Working Group II at the IPCC, which assesses the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change, negative and positive consequences of climate change, and options for adapting to it.
About John Peters - John Peters is Publishing Director of GSE Research Ltd, based in England, providing advisory and information resources in governance, sustainability and environment. He holds visiting posts at the University Campus Suffolk, and the International Business School Kochi (Cochin) Kerala, India.
From 1999 to 2010 John was previously Publishing Director, then CEO of Emerald Group Publishing in the UK and President of Emerald Publishing Inc., based in Massachusetts, USA, leading the company through international expansion, revenue growth and a number of strategic acquisitions. He left Emerald at the end of 2010 to set up GSE Research.
September 8, 2011 – SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, announced today that it has selected Silverchair Information Systems to host the SPIE Digital Library on its SCM6 platform as of June 2012.
BELLINGHAM, Washington, and CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, USA — 7 September 2011 — SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, announced today that it has selected Silverchair Information Systems to host the SPIE Digital Library on its SCM6 platform as of June 2012.
The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive research resource on optics and photonics, with more than 320,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present and more than 150 SPIE Press books. SPIE publishes approximately 17,000 new technical papers and 15 to 20 new books in the SPIE Digital Library each year.
“We chose Silverchair as a strategic partner largely because its strong semantic capabilities will enable the SPIE Digital Library to be a truly integrated information portal,” said Eric Pepper, SPIE Director of Publications.
“In addition to supporting essential publishing and usage functionality, SCM6 will enable us to draw connections between topically related information across the SPIE corpus, link to valuable content from other sources of interest to the researchers who use our database, and facilitate user personalization,” Pepper said. “These are exciting future directions for our Digital Library and our many subscribers and users.”
On Silverchair’s SCM6 platform, the SPIE Digital Library will have new features that will assist researchers.
SCM6 is the latest release of Silverchair’s natively semantic product development and hosting platform. SCM6 supports scientific, technical, and medical (STM) and scholarly publishers, societies, and other organizations to deliver the full array of content formats, functionality, and personalized user experience required by today’s rapidly changing information marketplace.
“We are thrilled to be working with SPIE, the leader in applied optical technology, and an organization that is advancing knowledge at the intersection of optical science and engineering,” said Thane Kerner, Silverchair CEO.
“The Silverchair hosting of the SPIE Digital Library corresponds with a significant extension of our semantic infrastructure. We have heretofore focused on the life sciences. We are now expanding our semantic systems to support both the physical sciences and engineering,” Kerner said. “SPIE’s forward-thinking, integrated approach to publishing provides the perfect partner for the next step in our semantic roadmap.”
SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving approximately 180,000 constituents from more than 170 countries, the Society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth. SPIE annually organizes and sponsors approximately 25 major technical forums, exhibitions, and education programs in North America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific. SPIE provided over $2.3 million in support of education and outreach programs in 2010. Additional information is at www.spie.org.
Founded in 1993, Silverchair delivers advanced semantic technologies, publishing platforms, and e-learning solutions to scientific, technical, and medical publishers, professional societies, and the federal government. Silverchair is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Additional information is at www.silverchair.com.
August 31, 2011 – London and Beijing, 31st August 2011 – Publishing Technology plc (LSE: PTO), the largest provider of software and services to the publishing industry, has announced its expansion into the prospering Chinese market by delivering local online hosting platforms and domestic sales representation.
-Company to offer full-service digital publishing solutions for Chinese content-
London and Beijing, 31st August 2011 – Publishing Technology plc (LSE: PTO), the largest provider of software and services to the publishing industry, has announced its expansion into the prospering Chinese market by delivering local online hosting platforms and domestic sales representation.
Based in Beijing and managed by digital publishing expert Helen Sun, Publishing Technology China will directly target Chinese publishers, offering a complete publishing solution through ingentaconnect, the largest single platform for research publishers. Ms. Sun will combine her vast industry experience and knowledge of the Chinese market with an existing network of experienced sales representatives located around the country. The innovative technology together with native expertise will increase visibility of Chinese content, create new revenue streams, and facilitate sales to researchers and librarians globally.
The joint venture is the latest extension of Publishing Technology’s operations as demand for digital publishing solutions increases across the globe. Home to over 15,500 electronic publications and over 250 partners, the ingentaconnect interface will be offered in both Mandarin and Cantonese along with a subset of high-profile content to several thousand libraries across the country, creating a new user base for international publishers in addition to encouraging Chinese publishers to move online.
As part of the launch, the company’s Publishers Communication Group (PCG) division will also leverage the established national sales network to roll out its sales and marketing services. Initially, PCG will represent the American Association for Cancer Research in mainland China, as well as BioOne in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
George Lossius, CEO of Publishing Technology, commented: “The Chinese publishing industry is fast-paced and flourishing, currently growing at an astonishing rate of 19% a year. With over 8,000 academic journals and a booming scientific research community, second only to that of the US, China represents a major opportunity for us – and it is also relatively untapped in terms of digital resources for publishers and end users. Helen is a tremendously talented digital publishing expert with a proven track record in the Chinese market. This, coupled with Publishing Technology’s innovation and market-leading product, will make it a winning partnership.”
Helen Sun, CEO of Publishing Technology China said: "It is a great honour to work with such a trusted and established company as Publishing Technology, and even more exciting to become a part of it. The joint venture with Publishing Technology will provide not only world-leading technologies with proven marketing and customer service support to Chinese publishers, but it will also offer a great distribution platform in China to all publishers across the Atlantic. Our partnership combines leading digital technologies with digital content providers that already have a wide network within the publishing industry and library community in China and we look forward to welcoming more publishers to our rapidly increasing client base.”
Publishing Technology plc:
The Publishing Technology group enables publishers to focus on their core competences by providing a single, trusted partner for both technology requirements and business development services. It is one of the largest providers of software and services for the publishing industry, servicing eight out of ten of the world's largest publishers. Publishing Technology’s products and services include advance, ingentaconnect, VISTA, author2reader, pub2web, ICS and PCG.
The group’s proposition uniquely spans front and back office systems – complemented by a range of business development services – to provide the industry's only end-to-end suite of software specifically designed to support the publishing process. Capabilities cover editorial & production, product information, billing & fulfilment, content conversion & hosting, website development, marketing programs, information commerce, customer relationship management, rights & royalties and business intelligence. All application modules can be configured independently to meet specific publishers' needs and to allow flexible integration with existing systems. The company is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and has offices in the UK, US, Brazil, India, China and Australia.
Publishers Communication Group, Inc, a division of Publishing Technology, is a full-service marketing and sales consulting firm that was established in 1990 as a resource for scholarly publishers to more effectively work with the global library market. PCG offers sales representation, international multi-lingual telemarketing services, qualitative and quantitative marketing research, customer services operations, and strategic consulting.
August 16, 2011 – Sheridan Magazines Offers Customers Time-Saving SendMyAd, the Industry’s Most Powerful Preflight/Approval Ad Portal
Hunt Valley, MD – Through a recent agreement with Blanchard Systems, Sheridan Magazines now offers publishers access to the SendMyAd smart ad portal, widely recognized as the most comprehensive ad preflight tool available. The speed and accuracy with which the interactive web-based portal assesses ad quality is unmatched, delivering instant preflight approval, or—in cases where an ad fails the approval process—detailed troubleshooting information and powerful tools for making on-the-spot corrections. An easy-to-use intuitive interface for both publishers and their advertisers, it is utilized by over 700 publications to date.
SendMyAd is not just for print ads; it also supports mobile ads for digital magazines on devices such as the Apple iPad and other e-readers. SendMyAd easily accommodates a wide array of file types.
SendMyAd is customizable. Publishers can set the portal to receive ads to their unique specifications, customize email notification messages, and customize approval cycles. The system generates custom job tickets, allowing publishers to track ad materials from upload through delivery. Upon ad preflight approval, SendMyAd automatically converts and delivers the file to the desired publisher destination.
Morris Media Group, a Sheridan Magazines customer, used SendMyAd to prefight and upload over 80 ads in its first week using the tool. Said Publisher Geoffrey Morris, “The transition to SendMyAd was remarkably smooth. Our production crew ? and, more importantly, our advertisers ? found the service easy to use. Advertisers liked the added quality control as well.”
Sheridan Magazines’ Manager of Digital Services, Harry Wilson said, “Our customers have seen a dramatic decrease in the amount of time they spend working with advertisers to tweak their ads. The tools and interface allow the advertiser to achieve ad submission success easily and intuitively, minimizing issues and improving the production process.”
About SendMyAd, LLC. - SendMyAd, LLC, a wholly owned business unit of Blanchard Systems, provides an end-to-end Software as a Service ad portal for publishers, letting them create a web-based environment where advertisers and agencies can collaborate online to automate the workflow of receiving, approving and delivering print, web and e-reader ad materials. The easy to use system allows advertisers to preflight ads and receive in interactive preflight report based on the publisher's specifications. Ads can be trimmed and repositioned to meet a publication's specifications. Meanwhile, the Job Ticket collects all the information about the ad as metadata and a digital receipt provides all ad information as a multi-page PDF file. www.sendmyad.com.
About Sheridan Magazines - Sheridan Magazines delivers superior magazine and special interest publication printing, binding, co-mailing, and distribution services from the Dartmouth Printing Company facility in Hanover, NH. Sheridan Magazines also offers a range of technology solutions for magazines such as dynamic and mobile editions. It is one of five Sheridan Group companies providing print, publishing services and technology solutions to the publishing industry. (Hunt Valley, MD). www.sheridan.com/magazines.
August 12, 2011 – The Endocrine Society Contracts Sheridan to Develop Endo Pubs Mobile App.
Hunt Valley, MD – Dartmouth Journal Services, a Sheridan Group company, has recently launched a mobile journal application for The Endocrine Society. The free Endo Pubs iPhone app became available in the iTunes App Store on May 23, 2011 with future releases of an iPad-optimized version and Android version scheduled for later this year.
“Endo Pubs puts a wealth of groundbreaking scientific abstracts in the palm of the user’s hand,” said Scott Hunt, Executive Director and CEO of The Endocrine Society. “Users will be able to review and share abstracts from The Endocrine Society’s prestigious journals, as well as abstracts from ENDO 2011: The 93rd Annual Meeting & Expo.”
Developed as a content discovery application, the Endo Pubs app features access to article abstracts for four Endocrine Society journals: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Endocrinology, Molecular Endocrinology, and Endocrine Reviews. The app also provides content search, user selected “My List” or bookmarking of articles for later use, and social sharing of article links via email. In conjunction with The Endocrine Society ENDO 2011 Annual Meeting, full access to the entire library of Annual Meeting Abstracts has been added.
Forthcoming updates to the app will provide users with added control over the app behavior through expanded settings, the ability to receive content from multiple RSS feeds, and the ability to share content via Twitter and Facebook. Users will also have the ability to follow The Endocrine Society on Twitter and Facebook and receive new content alerts from the automatic alert system. Additionally, The Endocrine Society will gain advertising support and receive real time usage statistics via Google Analytics to assist them in identifying and addressing emerging trends.
Sheridan’s Mobile Alert application is the most recent offering in an expanding suite of proprietary technology solutions. Mobile Alerts are customized mobile content delivery mechanisms that can feature article abstract viewing or full-text article access, per the publisher’s request. Sheridan Mobile Alerts are compatible with the predominant mobile platforms, including iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android. All are built on top of a scalable and configurable XML-based Mobile Content Delivery System (MCDS) that handles the content import, conversion, management, and distribution.
Mike Hepp, Senior Technology Strategist at Dartmouth Journal Services commented, “As the proliferation of mobile devices continues to rise, it has become increasingly important for publishers to provide mechanisms for disseminating their content to mobile users. Our established Mobile Alerts offering allowed The Endocrine Society to prepare a comprehensive solution in a short period of time and launch the app before their annual meeting. We continue to be committed to providing publishers, like The Endocrine Society, with technology-based solutions that address the changing needs of the publishing community.”
About The Endocrine Society - Founded in 1916, The Endocrine Society is the world’s oldest, largest, and most active organization devoted to research on hormones and the clinical practice of endocrinology. Today, The Endocrine Society’s membership consists of over 14,000 scientists, physicians, educators, nurses and students in more than 100 countries. Society members represent all basic, applied, and clinical interests in endocrinology. The Endocrine Society is based in Chevy Chase, MD. To learn more about the Society and the field of endocrinology, visit www.endo-society.org.
About Dartmouth Journal Services - Based in Waterbury, VT, Dartmouth Journal Services is a leading journal production specialist supporting the copy editing and composition needs of the scientific, technical and medical journal publishing community. It is one of five Sheridan Group companies providing print, publishing services and technology solutions to the publishing industry. (Hunt Valley, MD). www.sheridan.com.
About The Sheridan Group - Located in Hunt Valley, MD, The Sheridan Group is a leading provider of print, publishing and technology solutions to publishers, associations, university presses, and catalogers. Comprised of The Sheridan Press, Dartmouth Printing Company, Dartmouth Journal Services, The Dingley Press, and Sheridan Books, each company within The Sheridan Group has a market specialty that supports scholarly journals, magazines, catalogs, or books. www.sheridan.com.
August 2, 2011 – Allen Press (www.allenpress.com) announced today the launch of a new blog called MailBlogx, a mailing and distribution resource for scholarly and special interest publishers.
Lawrence, KS – August 2, 2011 Allen Press (www.allenpress.com) announced today the launch of a new blog called MailBlogx, a mailing and distribution resource for scholarly and special interest publishers.
The new blog will be a place for publishers to go who need to find out the latest information regarding postal rates for periodicals, the latest developments in list certification or the latest alerts on expected interruptions in mail service in international hot spots. MailBlogx will also include useful updates on postal regulations, rate increases, announcements, and initiatives, as well as news and information regarding industry trends, technology, terminology, and mailing services for publishers.
Fresh content will be posted every other Friday, with updates in between as news breaks. An RSS feed is available for readers who would like to be alerted when new content has been posted. Material will be archived and searchable.
“While MailBlogx does live in the blogosphere, you won’t find controversial opinions, point-counterpoint, philosophical musings, or running commentary on the state of modern society.” said Tim Cross, who runs the blog and is Allen Press Product Marketing Manager. “The intent of MailBlogx is to help publishers keep up with things like changes in postal regulations and new mailing and distribution processes.”
MailBlogx can be found at http://allenpresspostal.wordpress.com.
Allen Press plays a vital role in the dissemination of knowledge and information by partnering with organizations in the scientific, technical and medical community to promote their interests and achieve their goals. Headquartered in Lawrence, KS, Allen Press provides a comprehensive portfolio of integrated services in the broad areas of print, online, distribution and publishing services. Founded more than 75 years ago, Allen Press is a trusted partner of scholarly societies, professional associations and corporations worldwide.
June 24, 2011 – Dartmouth Printing Company Now 100% Closed-Loop Color Control with Addition of Second Goss Sunday 2000 Press.
Hanover, NH – Dartmouth Printing Company (DPC) has added a second Goss Sunday 2000 Press to its facility, signaling the completion of its objective to achieve automated closed-loop color control throughout the entire plant.
The new press features nine units and produces a four-color signature with the ability to lay an additional PMS color. Operating two such Goss presses not only significantly increases capacity at DPC, but ensures that every job is produced to the highest quality available through up-to-the-minute closed-loop technology. PMS and four-color ink density is electronically scanned and adjusted up to 166 times an hour. The Sunday 2000 presses can also deliver high-clarity stochastic screening with screen rulings up to 175 lines per inch. Larger trim sizes are also accommodated (up to 9” x 11”) on the Sunday Press’ 38” width roll.
In addition to the new Sunday press, DPC installed two new Muller Martini saddle stitch units, featuring in-line mailing capability; bar code signature recognition, stream feeders and an auto make-ready system ? further enhancing DPC’s production efficiency and overall capability for journal and magazine publishers.
DPC’s commitment to harnessing the latest technologies extends beyond the plant floor. As part of an overall initiative throughout The Sheridan Group companies, DPC offers its customer base the most powerful content dissemination technologies available, through product offerings such as digital and mobile editions, mobile applications, and print-to-mobile QR codes. On-site postal expertise and cost-effective co-mail solutions are done in-house, and powerful production tools such as Proteus, The Magazine Manager™, and SendMyAd are also available. Dartmouth’s longevity in the print services arena is underpinned with the deepest levels of customer and consultative service in the industry.
The new Sunday press began producing work in June, to impressive results. “The print quality that we are able to achieve through the Sunday 2000 Press is recognized as the best in our industry. The gapless technology produces a consistent product that is equal to or better than sheetfed printing, at speeds up to 50,000 impressions per hour. The production efficiencies it offers means that we can continue to deliver high quality printing on even faster schedules. We are delighted to have not one - but two - of these state-of-the-art double web presses in house,” said Jack Elliott, Vice President of Operations.
DPC is now uniquely positioned among mid-size print facilities across the country as being one of, if not the most, full-service, leading-edge print and publishing services provider to magazines, special interest publications, and science, technical and medical journals.
About Dartmouth Printing Company - Located in Hanover, NH, Dartmouth Printing Company delivers superior magazine, special interest publication, and long-run journal printing, binding, co-mailing, and distribution services. Dartmouth Printing Company also offers a wide range of technology solutions for magazines and journals, such as Dynamic Editions and a growing suite of mobile content products. It is one of six print and publishing service companies within The Sheridan Group (Hunt Valley, MD). www.sheridan.com
June 6, 2011 – The Nor'easter Press textbook "Shipboard Bridge Resource Management" by Captain Michael R. Adams has been translated into Japanese and published by Seizando Shoten of Tokyo, Japan. C. Curioli, publisher & editor of Nor'easter Press, is a member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
Maritime Textbook Translated into Japanese
Mr. Christopher Curioli, publisher & editor of Nor’easter Press of Eastport, Maine, and member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, announces that the Nor’easter Press textbook Shipboard Bridge Resource Management by Captain Michael R. Adams has been translated into Japanese and published by Seizando-Shoten Publishing Co. of Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese-language edition was translated by Captain Akira Hirosawa and was released in Japan in February 2011. Seizando Shoten is a technical publisher specializing in the topical areas maritime, marine, aviation, railway, and weather.
First published in the United States in September 2006 with a revised printing in September 2010, Shipboard Bridge Resource Management has been adopted for use in bridge resource management (BRM) coursework by maritime academies and training schools and for use in BRM refresher training by fleets. The book has been cited in professional reading lists, published papers, and reports.
On the Web:
Nor’easter Press (www.noreasterpress.com)
Seizando-Shoten Publishing Co. Ltd. (www.seizando.co.jp)
May 16, 2011 – The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) announced their decision to create a vibrant new digital library built and hosted upon the highly acclaimed HighWire Publishing platform.
HighWire Press is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) to create a vibrant new digital library built and hosted upon the highly acclaimed HighWire Publishing platform. SMPTE is the worldwide leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, and entertainment industries.
"The Society is excited about the possibilities of this new partnership, as HighWire seems the natural home for our technical and authoritative new digital library," said Barbara Lange, Executive Director of SMPTE. "HighWire's focus on open collaboration and collegial ties to the ePublishing industry, as well as its shared not-for-profit mission, won us over without hesitation."
The overarching theme of the project is to tie together the various elements of the Society’s products, including the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, SMPTE conference proceedings, and its full suite of Standards, Recommended Practices, and Engineering Guidelines. Taxonomy development and application (for semantic enrichment purposes) are also key parts of the Digital Library initiative.
"SMPTE is a leader in motion-imaging technology, and HighWire is a leader in hosting technology and integration. Together we envision a 'one-stop shop' where SMPTE members will have at their fingertips the means to seamlessly navigate and discover information from content in a variety of formats," said Kristen Fisher Ratan, HighWire’s Associate Director of Strategic Development. "Because HighWire offers an open platform that allows co-development, SMPTE will have flexibility both now and in the future to direct the evolution of their site, their products, and their offerings."
http://highwire.stanford.edu/PR/SMPTE_DigitalLibrary
April 18, 2011 – The Consortium Directory Online (CDO), a collaboration between Frontline GMS and Ringgold has now been launched and is available at www.consortiumdirectory.com.
Towcester, UK; Beaverton, Oregon and Crystal River, Florida, USA – The Consortium Directory Online (CDO), a collaboration between Frontline GMS and Ringgold has now been launched and is available at www.consortiumdirectory.com.
It is the most comprehensive directory of the library consortium market available.
Features include:
- Search for consortia by region, country, name or acronym, subject speciality, membership type and consortium type.
- Search and browse by institution and the products licensed.
- Analysis tools to determine market penetration and targets.
- Ringgold identifiers are used to cross-match institutions and the publishers and vendors licensing information to the consortium.
- Each record includes full contact information, including key contacts for licence negotiation.
- Each record lists members and publishers and vendors licensing to the consortium.
- Export of records into Excel format or PDF.
As well as the above content and features, Gold subscribers can access the following information:
- Electronic content acquisition policy
- Licensing information, including required licensing terms
- The structure of the consortium, its aims and objectives, key activities and financial details
- Links to FTE data, member contacts and products acquired by each institutional member
- Gold subscribers may also integrate the Consortium Directory with the Ringgold database.
Laura Cox, Managing Director of Frontline said: “We are delighted to launch the Directory Online, it will offer publishers and vendors an unrivalled resource to fully understand the complex and constantly changing consortium market. The analytical tools available allow publishers and vendors to see exactly what products the consortia are purchasing and compare vendor to vendor.
Helen Henderson, Ringgold’s VP of Marketing, Research and Development said: “This new consortium resource enhances the Ringgold Identify services for any publisher, and substantially reduces the time taken to analyse the consortium holdings in order to provide accurate quotations for site licenses. For those publishers licensing the complete Identify database, the complete integration of this resource with Ringgold Identifiers will provide a valuable and competitive marketing opportunity. “
For further information, to arrange a live demonstration or for pricing, please contact directory@frontlinegms.com.
About Ringgold - More than 50 publishers currently use Ringgold's database and its related services to organise their customer data, prepare quotations for licenses and deals, and also for market analysis. Ringgold partners with other publisher services companies and consultants, including software and service providers such as DataSalon, Ingenta and Thomson Reuters.
Helen Henderson, Ringgold's VP of Marketing, Research and Development, acts as consultant to the National Standards Information Organization (NISO) I2 Working Group on Institutional Identifiers, which is establishing an identifier standard for applications in e-resource publishing, e-learning, institutional repositories, and library management systems.
About Frontline - Frontline GMS was set up by Laura Cox in 2004 and provides sales and marketing consultancy services to the academic and professional publishing industry. Frontline specialises in advising publishers, vendors and intermediaries in several areas, specifically setting pricing and business models, and using and analysing subscription, customer and usage data, negotiating with library consortia, marketing strategy and PR. Frontline also undertakes major research projects and market researc , and provides PR, consortia negotiation and data analysis.
April 15, 2011 – Sheridan M3 Mobile ePrints: Optimized for Mobile Devices
Hunt Valley, MD – M3 Mobile ePrints, the latest offering in a powerful suite of e-products from Sheridan, are electronic article reprints that have been created specifically for viewing on mobile phones and tablet devices. Sheridan M3 Mobile ePrints can also be viewed on standard desktop and laptop computers, for both PC and Mac platforms. All that is required to launch an M3 Mobile ePrint on these various platforms and systems is a web browser and an Internet connection.
Easily accessible for the end user, M3 Mobile ePrints conform to the viewing device format for a comfortable reading experience. To ensure that publisher sales and licensing arrangements can be maintained, the M3 Mobile ePrint provides security option settings for expiration date, number of users or web hits, and print control.
Developed and produced through the Sheridan Reprints division located at The Sheridan Press, M3 Mobile ePrints represent another innovative content solution built for current and emerging platforms.
“Our reprint customers look to us to anticipate market needs in new and lucrative ways. ePrints have become a powerful and immediate revenue generator for publishers of important and marketable content. Optimized for mobile devices, M3 Mobile ePrints are the most versatile and powerful of our offerings,” said Technology Director, Tim Hurd.
About The Sheridan Press - Located in Hanover, PA, The Sheridan Press is a full-service print and publishing services provider to scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals and special interest publications. The Sheridan Press also offers a wide range of technology solutions from an e-content suite to digital editions and mobile offerings. It is one of six print and publishing service companies within The Sheridan Group (Hunt Valley, MD). www.sheridan.com
About The Sheridan Group - Located in Hunt Valley, MD, The Sheridan Group is comprised of The Sheridan Press, Dartmouth Printing Company, Dartmouth Journal Services, United Litho, The Dingley Press, and Sheridan Books. Each company has a market specialty – scholarly journals, magazines, catalogs, or books. The Sheridan Group is a leading provider of print, publishing and technology solutions to publishers, associations, university presses, and catalogers. www.sheridan.com
April 7, 2011 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced its decision to work with its ePublishing partner, HighWire Press, and TEMIS, leading provider of semantic content enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, to offer a new, integrated, semantically fueled digital publishing program.
Washington DC, New York, Palo Alto, USA – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced its decision to work with its ePublishing partner, HighWire Press, and TEMIS, leading provider of semantic content enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, to offer a new, integrated, semantically fueled digital publishing program.
A global leader in Scientific, Technical and Medical publishing, AAAS is the Washington, DC-based publisher of the renowned journal Science, an international publication with an estimated total readership of one million. The goal of this strategic project is an enhanced online destination incorporating the prestigious content of the Science family of Web sites, plus a number of other digital assets under the AAAS umbrella.
“We wanted a flexible and portable semantics solution that could plug into Science and our other research content on HighWire as well as pull in other elements from our organization, such as breaking news and information on careers in science,” said Deborah Rivera-Wienhold, Director of Business Operations, AAAS. “TEMIS’s impressive suite of tools for analyzing and leveraging content seemed ideal for our requirements to better serve our community by offering a unified and faceted user experience.”
TEMIS provides an enterprise-wide solution in content enrichment that can be extended to a variety of digital assets. “By making online information products more compelling, Luxid® for Content Enrichment Platform helps engage, retain and cross-sell to publishers’ audiences,” said Guillaume Mazieres, TEMIS’s Executive Vice president for North American Operations. “We’re thrilled to work with AAAS to make their highly respected content even more valuable to their broad community of users. HighWire’s open and scalable platform is perfectly poised to leverage our semantic enrichment on behalf of Science and AAAS.”
The AAAS project is part of a larger undertaking touching many areas of AAAS’ business, including the broad rubric of content enrichment. “Our goal is to figure out how to make our content more format-agnostic and self-aware,” said Stewart Wills, Science's Editorial Director for Web and New Media. “We’re focusing on ways to add value for authors through efficient handling of papers and articles, for advertisers through improved business intelligence, and ultimately for users through new serendipity and discovery tools to help them manage today's information glut.”
TEMIS’s solution for Semantic Content Enrichment, Luxid®, will play a pivotal role in AAAS’s plans to better align advertising and marketing activities with its editorial products, improve linkage of a variety of content, enhance search across its daily workflow and archives, and ultimately drive membership and revenues.
Luxid® automates the semantic enrichment of unstructured content, producing metadata that help search engines return more relevant results. It creates “facets” which are used to further explore the search engine’s results. Luxid® also connects content, creating a network of semantic ties between documents. This enables the suggesting of related and similar documents, furthering the process of knowledge recommendation.
HighWire has offered semantically-driven features and services for publishers for over 10 years. HighWire facilitates discoverability both through their long-standing, custom taxonomic and development efforts and through the integration of third party solutions, such as TEMIS.
“We are extending the boundaries of HighWire’s open platform through an integration tool kit, emphasizing connectedness in many forms, including semantics,” said John Sack, HighWire’s Director. “We are enthusiastic about helping publishers collect and connect content across many different repositories and look forward to working with AAAS and TEMIS on this important project.”
About AAAS/Science - The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science (www.sciencemag.org) as well as Science Translational Medicine (www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org) and Science Signaling (www.sciencesignaling.org). AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million. The non-profit AAAS (www.aaas.org) is open to all and fulfills its mission to “advance science and serve society” through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!, www.eurekalert.org, the premier science-news Web site, a service of AAAS. See www.aaas.org.
About TEMIS - TEMIS is the leading provider of Text Analytics-based content enrichment software, turning unstructured data into actionable knowledge, enabling advanced content analysis and strategic information discovery.
Its Content Enrichment solution Luxid® automatically associates value-added metadata to contents. Luxid® addresses the needs of publishers as well as Enterprises, enabling contents connection and information search optimization.
Founded in 2000, TEMIS operates in the United States, Canada, UK, France and Germany, and is represented worldwide through its network of certified partners.
TEMIS' innovative solutions have attracted the business of leading organizations such as AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Agence France-Presse, BASF, Bayer Schering Pharma, BNA (Bureau of National Affairs), CARMA International, Editions Lefebvre-Sarrut, Elsevier, EMC, Europol, French Ministry of Defence, French Ministry of Finance, Ingenuity, Merck Serono, Nature Publishing Group, Novartis, Philip Morris International, Sanofi-aventis, Simon & Schuster, Springer Science+Business Media, The McGraw-Hill Companies, and Thomson Reuters. See www.temis.com and tagline.temis.com
About HighWire Press - At the forefront of strategic scholarly publishing, HighWire Press provides digital content development and hosting solutions to the scholarly publishing community. A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire has partnered with influential societies, university presses, and other publishers since 1995 to produce the definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, books, reference works, and other scholarly content. The distinguished HighWire community shares ideas and innovations in publishing through regular meetings, an active discussion forum, and through the service of its highly qualified staff.
The underlying infrastructure of HighWire's electronic publishing platform is Web-services-oriented, flexible, and permeable, allowing publishers to easily layer new software and services to their sites that will meet the ever-changing needs of today's online readers. highwire.stanford.edu
March 24, 2011 – The Sheridan Press Adds an HP Indigo W7200 Digital Color Press
Hanover, PA – The Sheridan Press has installed a Hewlett-Packard Indigo Press Model W7200 – adding additional color capacity to an already substantial digital manufacturing platform.
Since installing the first digital press in 2003, the company has focused on meeting the growing demand for cost effective production of ultra-short run publications and faster production schedules – while maintaining the print quality standards around which they have built their reputation. Sheridan digitally prints a high volume of “one-off” publications in addition to producing a wide range of traditional digital, sheet fed, and web publications.
“We are excited about this growing market segment and our ability to keep pace with market demand for quality digital print,” said Ed Hartman, Vice President of Operations. “Our customers appreciate the convenience and flexibility we offer with digital, sheet fed, and web production under one roof.”
About The Sheridan Press - Located in Hanover, PA, The Sheridan Press is a full-service print and publishing services provider to scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals and special interest publications. The Sheridan Press also offers a wide range of technology solutions from an e-content suite to digital editions to mobile editions. It is one of six print and publishing service companies within The Sheridan Group (Hunt Valley, MD). www.sheridan.com
March 23, 2011 – Sheridan Digital Select™ Streamlines Digital Print Ordering
Hanover, PA – Sheridan Digital Select™ brings greater convenience to publishers ordering digitally produced perfect-bound publications. This simple to use, online ordering interface represents a significant enhancement to Sheridan’s rapidly expanding state-of-the-art digital print platform. Publisher print-on-demand requirements, from “one-off” publications to hundreds of copies, are now even more easily achieved.
Sheridan Digital Select™ represents a best-in-class response to publisher’s evolving manufacturing requirements. Beyond just the general expanding use of digital printing, growing numbers of publishers are eliminating warehousing costs by adopting a “zero inventory” warehousing model - printing only the exact numbers of copies required at the time of initial printing then fulfilling subsequent print needs digitally. Similarly, subscriber requests for printed versions of “online only” publications are becoming more frequent. The fulfillment of all such requests for digitally printed publications is now accommodated using the Digital Select™ portal.
“We’re delighted to offer this extremely useful tool to our customers”, said Pat Stricker, President and COO of The Sheridan Press. “We continue to invest heavily in our digital print capabilities and associated technologies because we know they fill a critical need in our marketplace to deliver content rapidly and cost effectively.”
About The Sheridan Press - Located in Hanover, PA, The Sheridan Press is a full-service print and publishing services provider to scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals and special interest publications. The Sheridan Press also offers a wide range of technology solutions from an e-content suite to digital editions to mobile editions. It is one of six print and publishing service companies within The Sheridan Group (Hunt Valley, MD). www.sheridan.com
March 22, 2011 – American Academy of Pediatrics Awards Dartmouth Journal Services Editorial and Print Production Services for Pediatrics and Pediatrics in Review
Hunt Valley, MD – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has awarded copyediting, composition, electronic deliverables and print production of Pediatrics and Pediatrics in Review to Dartmouth Journal Services (DJS) and Dartmouth Printing Company (DPC) beginning with the 2012 issues. DJS will also provide content preparation services for NeoReviews and Pediatrics Digital Abstracts edition as part of the 2012 agreement.
Michael Held, Director, Division of Scholarly Journals and Professional Periodicals, commented, “I believe that the resources and expertise that DJS has devoted to technology and to thinking beyond tomorrow have resulted in DJS being at the forefront of the ever-changing STM market in both redactory tools and state-the-art printing equipment. From the top down, it is clear that everyone plays as part of the team and as such, has a role in the future development and success of the organization. Leadership, team spirit, and customer service coupled with a sound understanding of how best to leverage technology and workflows for efficiency led us to the strong conclusion that DJS is the right match for our journals as we move forward.”
Pediatrics has the highest 5-year impact factor among all journals in the field of pediatrics and reaches 91,000 professionals monthly, worldwide. The most cited journal in the field of pediatrics, Pediatrics has been in publication since 1948. Pediatrics in Review is a monthly continuing medical education (CME) journal.
Gary Kittredge, President and COO of Dartmouth Journal Services, said, “We are extremely excited about working with the AAP on this important body of work. We feel privileged to support the mission of these reputable publications as they deliver vital child health and welfare content to the global pediatrics community.”
About American Academy of Pediatrics - The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. www.aap.org.
About Dartmouth Journal Services - Dartmouth Journal Services, a Sheridan Group company based in Waterbury, VT, is a leading provider of technology-based journal publishing solutions for scholarly, technical, and medical publishers, societies, associations, and university presses.
About The Sheridan Group - Located in Hunt Valley, MD, The Sheridan Group is comprised of The Sheridan Press, Dartmouth Printing Company, Dartmouth Journal Services, United Litho, The Dingley Press, and Sheridan Books. Each company has a market specialty – scholarly journals, magazines, catalogs, or books. The Sheridan Group is a leading provider of print, publishing and technology solutions to publishers, associations, university presses, and catalogers. www.sheridan.com.
March 1, 2011 – Allen Press, Inc. (www.allenpress.com) publisher and printing services provider, has introduced the Allen Press Journal Display Program, a new journal marketing service offered to advertisers in the Allen Press Buyer’s Guide to Scientific, Medical, and Scholarly Journals™. The Buyer’s Guide is a subscription catalogue of 200 international journals.
Lawrence, Kansas – March 1, 2011 – Allen Press, Inc. (www.allenpress.com) publisher and printing services provider, has introduced the Allen Press Journal Display Program, a new journal marketing service offered to advertisers in the Allen Press Buyer’s Guide to Scientific, Medical, and Scholarly Journals™. The Buyer’s Guide is a subscription catalogue of 200 international journals.
The Journal Display Program’s purpose is to provide society publishers an opportunity to have their publications and promotional materials represented at core library meetings, both domestic and international, throughout the year at a price far less than individual exposure would cost. The meetings where representation will take place are the most prominent academic and medical library meetings. The U.S. meetings include Association of College and Research Libraries, North American Serials Interest Group, Special Libraries Association, and the Charleston Conference. The international meetings where journals will be marketed are the Frankfurt Book Fair and London Online Information.
“Allen Press wanted to offer Buyer’s Guide advertisers an opportunity to have greater exposure for their journals, so we developed the Journal Display Program,” said Melanie Dolechek, Allen Press’ Director of Marketing. “Promoting a single journal, or even a few journals at these meetings, can be cost prohibitive for a single publisher. By partnering with us and other publishers, individual publishers benefit from a considerable reduction in cost. This cooperative marketing effort complements our own cooperative publishing business model and allows everyone to make the most of their marketing budget.”
The library industry meetings were selected for this program based on the large number of professionals who attend, many of whom have purchasing power for their libraries and institutions. The attendees include academic and medical research librarians, serial and acquisitions librarians, and electronic resources librarians.
About Allen Press, Inc. - Allen Press provides a comprehensive portfolio of integrated services in the broad areas of print, online, distribution and publishing services, partnering with scholarly societies, professional associations, and corporations worldwide.
February 28, 2011 – Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting is delighted to announce that BioScientifica, the commercial arm of the Society of Endocrinology, has joined the Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG). Based in the UK, BioScientifica brings five very prestigious biomedical journals to the ISPG collection:
Journal of Endocrinology publishes molecular, biochemical and physiological studies of the structure and function of endocrine and endocrine-related systems. With more than 70 years of excellence in endocrinology, this monthly journal is the choice for endocrinologists worldwide.
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology publishes works focusing on cellular and molecular endocrinology from an international authorship. Published bimonthly the journal provides understanding of the processes of the endocrine system.
Endocrine-Related Cancer publishes basic, clinical and experimental investigations which concern hormones and cancer, covering hormone-dependent cancers, and cancers of endocrine organs such as breast and prostate. Articles are published online year-round and the print journal is bimonthly.
European Journal of Endocrinology is the official monthly journal of the European Society of Endocrinology, publishing original research, reviews and case reports in clinical and translational endocrinology, as well as invited commentaries.
Reproduction, the monthly journal of the Society for Reproduction and Fertility, publishes original research articles and topical reviews on reproductive biology. Its focus is on the biology of reproduction, developmental processes, assisted reproductive technologies, and reproductive endocrinology, immunology and physiology, as well as newly emerging reproductive topics.
“BioScientifica is pleased to join ISPG so these five journals can get increased access in libraries and hospitals worldwide,” commented Kathryn Spiller, Assistant Director, Publishing Services for BioScientifica. “As an independent coalition of publishers who host their content on the HighWire platform, ISPG provides us with the same high quality of sales and marketing resources enjoyed by the large publishers. It made perfect sense to us to provide our journals with that capability.”
“BioScientifica and its five prestigious journals are a great addition to the consistently growing Independent Scholarly Publishers Group’s collection,” added Tom Taylor, Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting President and ISPG Facilitator. “With these additional journals, ISPG’s coalition of 17 esteemed publishers is now able to offer the global market the high-value content of 41 essential journals as well as its first eBook series.”
BioScientifica is the commercial subsidiary of the Society for Endocrinology. It offers a range of services to biomedical societies and pharmaceutical companies including publishing, event management and membership services. www.bioscientifica.com
Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) is a coalition of independent publishers of high-impact journals and related academic content, hosted on the HighWire platform, which promotes, markets to, and negotiates with library consortia, hospitals and other organizations around the world.
Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting provides the highest-quality sales and marketing services to academic publishing companies, societies and libraries internationally. Utilizing a global network of experienced professionals, Dragonfly directs the market development, launch, and sales of new and existing texts, represents societies and publishers to library consortia, and offers general sales and marketing services as needed. www.dragonflypubservices.com
February 22, 2011 – eBooks and 2D Tags
Lawrence, Kansas – February 22, 2011 – The expectations of readers today, especially those who read scholarly and special-interest publications, are rapidly changing as new technology is introduced to consumers. The advent of e-readers, smartphones, and tablets in the marketplace has ushered in a new era in publishing. Possibilities for the delivery and consumption of content have expanded in ways unimaginable only several years ago, making accessibly even more important. As publishers explore exciting new opportunities in multichannel delivery and seek to respond to the changing needs and preferences of readers, Allen Press (www.allenpress.com) helps them navigate this new terrain with its two newest services.
Using the Allen Press eBook service, publishers can efficiently repurpose their articles, issues, and books for use on mobile and handheld devices, gaining greater visibility for their brand and opening up potential new markets. The creation of this additional deliverable integrates easily into an existing print or online publishing workflow as post pagination content in PDF or XML formats is seamlessly converted to ePub or Mobipocket. ePub is a file format developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). It’s supported on most standard devices such as the iPad, iPhone, Sony Reader, Nook, and Kobo. Mobipocket is the proprietary file format used on the Amazon Kindle.
Gerald Lillian, CEO, sees the eBook service as a natural extension of other core services offered by Allen Press. “We’ve been partnering with societies and organizations for more than 75 years,” Lillian said, “and we’re dedicated to creating services that our customers need in order to adapt to technological change and evolve with their members, authors and readers.”
Mobile tags, also referred to as 2D tags/barcodes, QR codes, and snap tags, are two-dimensional barcode images displayed on a surface such as a poster, flyer, card, store window, or page of a publication. Scanning the tag with the built-in camera and free reader app on a smartphone links the user to websites and online content. These tags have been in use in Japan since 1994, where they were originally designed to track Toyota auto parts. In the past year, mobile tagging has made a significant impact in the world of advertising and promotion and is now beginning to gain traction in the scholarly and special-interest publishing markets.
The Allen Press 2D Tags service offers an innovative new approach for publishers looking to create synergy and add value to their content by integrating the permanence of print with the agility of mobile. “This emerging technology opens up a world of possibilities,” said Tim Cross, a Product Manager at Allen Press. Tags can link from a printed page to a variety of resources, including the society or journal website, preprints, supplementary data, post publication comments, or membership and subscription renewal information. Allen Press assists with the creation, handling, and editing of tags and works with publishers to determine the most effective placement and use in their publication or project. “Some are looking at placing tags in their publications to create a richer and more dynamic reader experience,” added Cross. “Others recognize the benefit of including these in printed marketing pieces and conference materials or embedding them in ads to increase their effectiveness. We’re definitely seeing an interest in adding an interactive component to print.”
For more information on eBooks and 2D Tags go to http://allenpress.com/services/publishing.
About Allen Press, Inc. - Allen Press, Inc., plays a vital role in the dissemination of knowledge and information by partnering with organizations in the scientific, technical, and medical community to promote their interests and achieve their goals. Headquartered in Lawrence, KS, Allen Press provides a comprehensive portfolio of integrated services in the broad areas of print, online, distribution, and publishing services. Founded more than 75 years ago, Allen Press is a trusted partner of scholarly societies, professional associations, and corporations worldwide.
February 15, 2011 – Aptara’s web-based PXE Digital Publishing Platform systematically enables and eases publishers transition to digital, while expediting content delivery to mobile devices, online and print.
Falls Church, Virginia – February 15, 2011 – Aptara, a pioneer in digital publishing solutions, announced today that its PXE™ digital publishing platform has reduced Wiley-Blackwell’s turnaround time by more than 75% for six of its medical, pharmaceutical, and physics journals. Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (JW.A), is the world's foremost publisher for professional and scholarly societies.
Introducing Aptara’s web-based PXE has helped Wiley-Blackwell re-engineer journal workflow and accelerate production. Turnaround times have been reduced from over eight weeks to fifteen days - getting critical peer-reviewed findings to scientific and medical communities faster than ever before. An added value of PXE is that it is enabling Wiley-Blackwell to publish final content online even further in advance of its print editions than before.
“Aptara’s PXE digital publishing platform works like a well-oiled machine,” said Edward Wates, Global Journal Content Management Director, Wiley-Blackwell. “We’re now getting content to our readership much earlier, and it’s delivered in XML, giving us huge flexibility to repurpose the content for any delivery channel – from print to PC’s, tablets, eReaders and smart phones. Aptara’s PXE has opened the door to a better distribution model and new ways to monetize our content - faster.”
“Without a technology such as PXE, publishers are losing out on substantial time-to-market and cost gains -- that can make all the difference today with so much competition for readers’ attention,” said Dev Ganesan, President and CEO of Aptara. “With this initiative, Wiley-Blackwell is driving real innovation in a market that rewards flexible digital publishing capabilities and nimble production resources – both of which the PXE platform provides. The result is that Wiley-Blackwell is benefiting significantly from reduced turnaround times, easier access to eMarkets and substantial cost savings. We are extremely pleased to be helping one of the world’s most distinguished publishers profit from technology innovation.”
A web-based digital publishing platform, PXE provides an end-to-end multi-channel digital workflow for the creation of structured, reusable content with an easy to use, word processor-like interface. The PXE platform:
- supports publishers’ existing workflows, minimizing staff disruption and implementation time
- integrates content creation, editing and formatting into a streamlined workflow
- supports multi-channel publishing with simultaneous outputs for eReaders, Tablets, PCs and print
- eliminates traditional manual-intensive editing environments and processes
- avoids the need to retrofit traditional production processes for new digital products
Aptara will be demonstrating an enhanced version of their digital publishing platform, PXE4, at the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference this week in New York (February 15 and 16), booth #301.
About Aptara - Aptara provides digital publishing solutions that deliver significant gains in cost, quality and time-to-market for content publishers. With comprehensive solutions across all delivery media, Aptara’s expertise includes content technology solutions, eBook creation, app development, publishing services, content conversion, and eLearning. Founded in 1988 around its unique publishing technical expertise, Aptara is a US-based company with over 4,400 professionals deployed globally and serving leaders in Media and Publishing, Information Services, Professional Services, Manufacturing, Technology, Engineering, Hospitality, Healthcare and Government. For more information visit www.aptaracorp.com.
About Wiley-Blackwell - Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has been a valued source of information and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Since 1901, Wiley and its acquired companies have published the works of more than 400 Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology/Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Peace.
Wiley’s core businesses include scientific, technical, medical and scholarly (STMS) journals, encyclopedias, books and online products and services; professional/trade books, subscription products, training materials, online applications and Web sites; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley's global headquarters are located in Hoboken, N.J., with operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada and Australia. The company's Web site can be accessed at www.wiley.com. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb.
Wiley-Blackwell is the international STMS publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, with strengths in every major academic and professional field and partnerships with many of the world’s leading societies. Wiley-Blackwell publishes nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed journals and 1,500+ new books annually in print and online, as well as databases, major reference works and laboratory protocols. For more information, please visit www.wileyblackwell.com or our new online platform, Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), one of the world’s most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources, covering life, health, social and physical sciences, and humanities.
February 9, 2011 – Publishing Technology plc (LSE: PTO), the largest provider of software and services to the Publishing industry, is very pleased to announce the first live installation of the new advance Contract, Rights & Royalties (CR&R) solution.
9 February 2011– Publishing Technology plc (LSE: PTO), the largest provider of software and services to the Publishing industry, is very pleased to announce the first live installation of the new advance Contract, Rights & Royalties (CR&R) solution.
Sterling Publishing, a committed Publishing Technology customer for over twenty years and one of the world’s leading publishers of non-fiction books, is a publishing subsidiary of Barnes and Noble Booksellers, acquired in 2003.
Previously operating on the VISTA-branded Royalties system from Publishing Technology, Sterling provides its parent company with publishing and distribution rights to thousands of titles. Sterling has an active list of owned and distributed titles and annually publishes and distributes new titles. The CR&R system today handles numerous contracts and authors and contributors in support of those products.
The new advance CR&R solution provides for the management and payment of royalties and subsidiary rights and includes electronic interfaces to support the import of title, author/payee, and sales data. The CR&R system, from advance, manages a number of critical functions including royalty contracts, author and contributor data, royalty products and sales, royalty payment calculations, and statement production. And as the system is hosted by Publishing Technology, it allows Sterling and Barnes & Noble staff to concentrate on their core businesses, while Publishing Technology provides and maintains the hardware and software environment. Publishing Technology will continue to support Sterling’s VISTA Fulfilment and Warehouse Management systems.
Neil Glasser, CPA / CFE, Sterling Publishing, observed: “It’s was a pleasure working with Publishing Technology on the implementation of advance. Simply put, these guys “get it”. They understand publishing and they understand systems, which creates a seamless and efficient process. We have many titles with complex author, rights and royalties arrangements. Now we have one single system which works across the board. The advance interface is very intuitive and a significant step forward from our previous systems. It was a challenge integrating Barnes and Noble into the project, particularly dealing with the legacy system providers, but Publishing Technology made it easy. Best of all, they delivered on time and within budget.”
Jay Teitelbaum, COO, Publishing Technology North America, comments: “Sterling presented an excellent opportunity for us to demonstrate the efficiency and flexibility of the advance system when replacing and integrating with legacy systems, across a complex user-base. As the first of our go-lives for advance in North America, it’s hugely rewarding the project has been such a success.”
The advance platform has recently been accredited with Supply Chain Excellence by BIC (Book Industry Communication), the independent organization for promoting standards for electronic commerce and efficiency within the supply chain.
Publishing Technology operates across the trade and academic markets, in books and journals, print and on-line. Working with more than 500 publishers, to date, the company has operated primarily from the UK and the US, but has recently also expanded into Japan, Brazil and Germany.
About Publishing Technology plc - Publishing Technology’s brands include advance, ingentaconnect, VISTA, author2reader, pub2web, ICS and PCG. The Publishing Technology group enables publishers to focus on their core competences by providing a single, trusted partner for both technology requirements and business development services. It is one of the largest providers of software and services for the publishing industry, servicing eight out of ten of the world's largest publishers. The group’s proposition uniquely spans front and back office systems – complemented by a range of business development services – to provide the industry's only end-to-end suite of software specifically designed to support the publishing process. Capabilities cover editorial & production, product information, billing & fulfilment, content conversion & hosting, website development, marketing programs, information commerce, customer relationship management, rights & royalties and business intelligence. All application modules can be configured independently to meet specific publishers' needs and to allow flexible integration with existing systems. Associated sales and marketing services include consultancy and research, sales representation and telemarketing. The company is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and has offices in Europe, North America and Australia. Visit www.publishingtechnology.com, follow on Twitter @publishingtech, or connect on LinkedIn.
About Sterling Publishing - Acquired by Barnes and Noble in 2003 and founded in 1949, Sterling Publishing is one of the world’s leading publishers of non-fiction books, covering a broad range of subject areas including current events, diet and health, parenting, popular culture, reference, history, art and artists, music, and everything in between.
About advance - advance is the next generation of software solutions to manage today’s evolving enterprise. It is the most flexible offering of its kind on the market and intertwines more than 30 years of industry expertise with cutting edge technology. The end-users benefit from customizable dashboards, user-level personalization, an intuitive user interface, extensive workflow management tools, and powerful analytic tools. The IT and Operations areas benefit from lower cost of ownership, accelerated development, automation of processes, and simplified maintenance. advance is accredited by BIC (Book Industry Communication) with the award for Supply Chain Excellence.
February 3, 2011 – The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has selected Access Innovations as its semantics partner to enhance the discoverability of journal content on the HighWire platform as well as across the AACR organization.
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has selected Access Innovations as its semantics partner to enhance the discoverability of journal content on the HighWire platform as well as across the AACR organization. Leveraging Access Innovations’ proven experience and their highly effective semantic tagging and indexing tools, the AACR will enable their readers and members to make connections between and among related information currently residing in disparate websites.
HighWire has actively supported semantic tagging for years using a HighWire-developed taxonomy* and selected classification tools, both within the HighWire Portal and on individual publication sites. “As part of our mission to work collaboratively with our publishing partners, we have organized a Semantic Enrichment Working Group,” noted Kristen Fisher Ratan, Associate Director for Strategic Development at HighWire. “Comprised of HighWire-affiliated publishers, including the AACR, this group gives them a unique opportunity to discuss possible use cases for semantic enrichment and to make independent, informed decisions about the semantic vendor they wish to engage. HighWire will be proactively assisting publishers in implementing their semantics solution of choice on their HighWire sites.”
“We are thrilled to be working with Access Innovations to develop an AACR taxonomy that can be applied to our content, and with HighWire Press to allow us to present related articles across our journals,” said Diane Scott-Lichter, Publisher of the AACR suite of journals. “We expect to expand these efforts to include semantic tagging of other AACR information such as meetings, workshops, conferences, grants, job postings, podcasts, and working groups as a second phase to this project. Making links between related items will drive increased targeted serendipity, providing improved access to the critical information users need.”
“Access Innovations has been growing and fine-tuning its Data Harmony software line since 1997,” noted Marjorie Hlava, President, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc. “We are proud to be working with the AACR and its publications and with HighWire’s world class platform.” The Access Innovations suite of software products is composed of several modules, designed to simplify the management of databases or text collections, with support for editorial processes and to provide significant semantic enrichment. Access Innovations’ products adhere to all NISO, ISO and W3C standards, including XML, and are written in Java, providing platform independence for all users.
*The HighWire taxonomy was developed by subject matter experts over many years. It contains over 50,000 nodes and is particularly well-developed in the medical and life sciences areas. The indexing rules dictate exactly how terms are assigned to content. These rules represent significant intellectual property for HighWire and could be utilized with other classification tools. The semantic enrichment is stored by HighWire and is available for publishers to experiment with or use in whatever way is desired.
(see: http://highwire.stanford.edu/PR/AACR_AccessInnov.pdf - for full version)
About the AACR - The mission of the American Association for Cancer Research is to prevent and cure cancer. Founded in 1907, the AACR is the world’s oldest and largest professional organization dedicated to advancing cancer research. The membership includes 33,000 basic, translational and clinical researchers; health care professionals; and cancer survivors and advocates in the United States and more than 90 other countries. The AACR marshals the full spectrum of expertise from the cancer community to accelerate progress in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer through high-quality scientific and educational programs. It funds innovative, meritorious research grants, research fellowships and career development awards. The AACR Annual Meeting attracts more than 18,000 participants who share the latest discoveries and developments in the field. Special conferences throughout the year present novel data across a wide variety of topics in cancer research, treatment and patient care. Including Cancer Discovery, the AACR publishes seven major peer-reviewed journals: Cancer Research; Clinical Cancer Research; Molecular Cancer Therapeutics; Molecular Cancer Research; Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention; and Cancer Prevention Research. AACR journals represented 20 percent of the market share of total citations in 2009. The AACR also publishes CR, a magazine for cancer survivors and their families, patient advocates, physicians and scientists. www.aacr.org
About Access Innovations - Access Innovations has extensive experience with Internet technology applications, master data management, database creation, thesaurus/taxonomy creation, and semantic integration. The Access Innovations Data Harmony software includes automatic indexing, thesaurus management, an XML Intranet System (XIS), and metadata extraction for content creation developed to meet production environment needs. Data Harmony is used by publishers, governments, and corporate clients throughout the world. www.accessinn.com, www.dataharmony.com, www.taxodiary.com
About HighWire Press - At the forefront of strategic scholarly publishing, HighWire Press provides digital content development and hosting solutions to the scholarly publishing community. A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire has partnered with influential societies, university presses, and other publishers since 1995 to produce the definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, books, reference works, and other scholarly content. The distinguished HighWire community shares ideas and innovations in publishing through regular meetings, an active discussion forum, and through the service of its highly qualified staff.
The underlying infrastructure of HighWire's electronic publishing platform is Web-services-oriented, flexible, and permeable, allowing publishers to easily layer new software and services to their sites that will meet the ever-changing needs of today's online readers. http://highwire.stanford.edu
February 1, 2011 – combining book and journal content for the first time
London, 1 February 2011– Publishing Technology plc (LSE: PTO), the largest provider of software and services to the publishing industry, today announced the latest signing for its pub2web platform, by Dutch academic publisher BRILL.
A long-standing ingentaconnect customer, BRILL will continue its eleven-year partnership with Publishing Technology as it upgrades its online hosting solution to the pub2web platform. The portal - a custom site, designed and built to host and deliver any type of content - will integrate BRILL’s journal and book content within a single resource for the first time.
BRILL anticipates that the new website, which at launch will host approximately 110,000 journal articles and 25,000 book chapters, will become a trusted tool for students, researchers and teachers; a tool that will excel in the discovery and delivery of online content through one central portal.
The state-of-the-art publications platform will benefit from the very latest Semantic Web technologies to enhance the user experience, enrich and add value to content assets, increase discoverability and cross reference and promote related content which may be of interest to readers.
Sam Bruinsma, Director of Business Development, BRILL, commented: “BRILL is proud to extend its partnership with Publishing Technology with our new venture. Publishing Technology is our trusted partner, who we know are the experts in handling journal and book content, and with them we are guaranteed a platform that complies with industry standards and is flexible enough to support our current and future needs. The platform will support a range of business models, including Patron Driven Acquisition, allowing for easy experimentation in what is, increasingly, a changing market. pub2web also offers us increased control over our online presence, workflow efficiencies and close integration with our other systems – all key criteria for a successful online platform.”
Louise Tutton, Chief Operating Officer of Publishing Technology's Online Services Division, comments: “I am very pleased to announce our continued partnership with BRILL. As BRILL has been a most valued customer for over a decade, we are delighted that pub2web has been selected to showcase their impressive collection of book and journal content. With users looking beyond the traditional content wrappers of “journals” and “books”, instead seeking content which is relevant and authoritative within their field regardless of whether it is an article or chapter, BRILL is a prime example of a publisher looking to respond to user demand by tailoring their online platform to the changing needs of their audience. Within the current economic climate, now more than ever being able to easily capitalize on the latest business models for online delivery and experiment with Semantic Web and mobile technologies, to embrace new opportunities for both the publisher and the reader is critical to remaining competitive.“
About Publishing Technology plc - Publishing Technology’s brands include advance, ingentaconnect, VISTA, author2reader, pub2web, ICS and PCG. The Publishing Technology group enables publishers to focus on their core competences by providing a single, trusted partner for both technology requirements and business development services. It is one of the largest providers of software and services for the publishing industry, servicing eight out of ten of the world's largest publishers. The group’s proposition uniquely spans front and back office systems – complemented by a range of business development services – to provide the industry's only end-to-end suite of software specifically designed to support the publishing process. Capabilities cover editorial & production, product information, billing & fulfilment, content conversion & hosting, website development, marketing programs, information commerce, customer relationship management, rights & royalties and business intelligence. All application modules can be configured independently to meet specific publishers' needs and to allow flexible integration with existing systems. Associated sales and marketing services include consultancy and research, sales representation and telemarketing. The company is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and has offices in Europe, North America and Australia.
About pub2web - pub2web™ is a customized, multi-content publications platform—delivering all the functionality needed to support evolving online strategies and to satisfy the user base, however diverse their needs. Customers benefit from proven, regularly-updated technology while also maintaining full control of their brand, their content and their user relationships. It allows customers to help their users to explore all their content – whatever its format – with progressive browsing options driven by pub2web’s award-winning data storage and modelling. Visit www.publishingtechnology.com, follow on Twitter @publishingtech, or connect on LinkedIn.
About BRILL - Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, BRILL is a leading international academic publisher in the fields of Ancient Near East and Egypt; Middle East and Islamic Studies; Asian Studies (incl. Hotei imprint and Global Oriental imprint); Classical Studies; Medieval and Early Modern Studies; contemporary History and History of War studies; Biblical and Religious Studies; Slavic Studies; Language & Linguistics; Biology; Science (VSP imprint); Human Rights and Public International Law (Martinus Nijhoff imprint). With offices in Leiden and Boston (MA), Brill today publishes more than 130 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year. In principle all publications are made available in both print and electronic form. Following the acquisition of IDC Publishers in 2006 a large number of collections and databases with primary sources are marketed in the same academic fields. Key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. BRILL is a publicly traded company and listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please go to www.brill.nl.
February 1, 2011 – The Sheridan Group Unveils the Sheridan Technology Lab
Hunt Valley, MD –The Sheridan Group has announced the formation of The Sheridan Technology Lab, a Hunt Valley-based division committed to developing and introducing technology-based solutions to support the journal, book, magazine, and catalog publishing communities. The Sheridan Technology Lab works collaboratively with the Technology Strategists and technology support teams at each of The Sheridan Group (TSG) companies.
The Technology Lab, backed by an extensive R&D budget, provides research, development, and project management support services to all Sheridan Group companies. Identifying customer needs and customer collaboration are at the core of the technology innovation and development process. A growing staff of Technology Specialists and Project Managers, led by TSG Vice President of Technology Development, Mark Witkowski, and Dave Levis, TSG Director of Project Management, are charged with delivering new products and services to benefit the journal, magazine, book and catalog markets. Implementation, product support and customer service are managed at the individual Sheridan Group company level.
Though recently formalized, the origins of the Technology Lab extend back many years. “Over the years, TSG has evolved with our markets by launching a variety of meaningful technologies and services; we have cultivated a reputation as a solutions provider,” said Mark Witkowski. “With the formation of the Technology Lab, we are strengthening our commitment to innovation. In fact, we believe the future of our industry is ultimately tied to the successful and steady introduction of new technology-based solutions that achieve the goal of increasing customer revenues and/or reducing production costs.”
The Sheridan Technology Lab plans to announce several new technology solutions in the coming months. Noteworthy 2010 Sheridan Group technology launches include digital media content conversion services; digital printing services for ultra-short run print and print-on-demand; Sheridan Dynamic Editions for online and mobile magazines, journals, and catalogs; Electronic Content Services for converting and distributing electronic book content; iPhone apps for journal content; Print-to-Mobile QR codes; and eBill, a web-enabled author billing system.
About The Sheridan Group - Located in Hunt Valley, MD, The Sheridan Group is comprised of The Sheridan Press, Dartmouth Printing Company, Dartmouth Journal Services, United Litho, The Dingley Press, and Sheridan Books. Each company has a market specialty – scholarly journals, magazines, catalogs, or books. The Sheridan Group is a leading provider of print, publishing and technology solutions to publishers, associations, university presses, and catalogers. www.sheridan.com
January 31, 2011 – Sheridan Develops Cell Alerts Mobile App for Cell Press Journals
Hunt Valley, MD – Dartmouth Journal Services, a Sheridan Group company, collaborated with client Cell Press to create a publisher-branded mobile application, launched through the iTunes App® Store on December 3, 2010.
The Cell Press app, titled Cell Alerts, encompasses 14 Cell Press titles. It functions as a robust content discovery application featuring access to article abstracts, including graphical, video, and audio abstracts, as well as content search, user selected “My List” storage, and a conference events calendar. The app is formatted for the iPhone with other platforms planned as future enhancements.
“We are delighted to be able to leverage Dartmouth Journal Services’ technological expertise to provide our readers with a new way to keep up to date with Cell Press content.” said Keith Wollman, Vice President of Web Development and Operations at Cell Press.
Other features of the Sheridan Mobile App offering include:
- Multiple RSS feed support
- Social sharing of in-app content
- Push notification alerts on content updates
- Real-time usage analytics via Google Analytics
- Comprehensive user settings
The latest offering in Sheridan’s ongoing suite of proprietary technology solutions, Sheridan Mobile Apps are customized mobile content delivery mechanisms that can feature article abstract viewing or full-text article access, per the publisher’s request. Sheridan Mobile Apps are compatible with the predominant mobile platforms, including iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android. All are built on top of a scalable and configurable XML-based Mobile Content Delivery System (MCDS) that handles the content import, conversion, management, and distribution.
Mike Hepp, Senior Technology Strategist at Dartmouth Journal Services said, “Dartmouth Journal Services is committed to developing technology-based solutions and services that help publishers keep pace with the changing demands of the publishing industry. As end-user habits for accessing and reading content change, we work closely with our customers to provide content conversion expertise and technology development strength to achieve innovative solutions. Cell Press is a valued and long-time customer. We are excited to have them as our first mobile app customer.”
About Cell Press - Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, is committed to improving scientific communication through the publication of exciting research and reviews. Each of our titles is viewed as a must-read by the scientific community it serves. Cell Press primary research journals include the flagship journal Cell, as well as Neuron, Immunity, Molecular Cell, Developmental Cell, Cancer Cell, Current Biology, Structure, Chemistry & Biology, Cell Metabolism, Cell Host & Microbe, Cell Stem Cell, and, new to Cell Press, Biophysical Journal, and The American Journal of Human Genetics. Cell Press also publishes the Trends family of reviews journals, including Trends in Cell Biology, Trends in Neurosciences, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences. www.cell.com
About Dartmouth Journal Services - Dartmouth Journal Services, a Sheridan Group company based in Waterbury, VT, is a leading provider of technology-based journal publishing solutions for scholarly, technical, and medical publishers, societies, associations, and university presses.
About The Sheridan Group - Located in Hunt Valley, MD, The Sheridan Group is comprised of The Sheridan Press, Dartmouth Printing Company, Dartmouth Journal Services, United Litho, The Dingley Press, and Sheridan Books. Each company has a market specialty – scholarly journals, magazines, catalogs, or books. The Sheridan Group is a leading provider of print, publishing and technology solutions to publishers, associations, university presses, and catalogers. www.sheridan.com
January 27, 2011– AIP Awards Journal Print Production and Mailing ServicesTo The Sheridan Press
Hanover, PA – The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has contracted The Sheridan Press to provide printing and mailing services for their journal program. Beginning with the January 2011 issues, The Sheridan Press will produce the AIP journals on both offset and digital production platforms.
One of the world’s largest publishers of physics journals, the AIP supports ten Member Societies, forges ties between science and industry, supports science education, and promotes science in the public sector through advocacy and outreach.
Lisa McLaughlin, AIP Director of Content Operations, said, “The American Institute of Physics is very pleased to expand our relationship with The Sheridan Press. Sheridan demonstrates a focus on emerging technologies that we feel directly supports both the current and future needs of AIP journal customers.”
Pat Stricker, President and COO of The Sheridan Press, commented on the company’s commitment to the American Institute of Physics, “The Sheridan Press holds a deep respect for AIP and its highly regarded, long-standing role in the global physics community. We are both proud and excited to provide our skills and expertise in support of their mission.”
About AIP - AIP is a federation of 10 physical science societies representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators and is one of the world’s largest publishers of scientific information in physics. Offering full-solution publishing services for scientific societies and for similar organizations in science and engineering, AIP Publishing pursues innovation in electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes 12 journals; two magazines, including its flagship publication Physics Today; and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. Its online publishing platform Scitation hosts nearly two million articles from more than 185 scholarly journals and other publications of 28 learned society publishers. AIP’s professional networking site, UniPHY, a first of its kind networking platform for the physical sciences, includes 300,000 pre-populated profiles of individual scientists in the field.
About The Sheridan Press - Located in Hanover, PA, The Sheridan Press is a full-service print and publishing services provider to scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals and special interest publications. It is one of six print and publishing service companies within The Sheridan Group (Hunt Valley, MD). www.sheridan.com
January 24, 2011 – Sheridan Builds Mobile Edition for ASN Kidney News;Launches through Apple® Store
Hunt Valley, MD – The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) launched a mobile edition of Kidney News through the Apple® Store on December 7, 2010. The society contracted The Sheridan Press, a Sheridan Group company, to create the edition and manage the upload through Apple®.
Kidney News is a monthly news magazine that examines research findings and policy changes, pinpointing emerging trends in industry, medicine, and training that impact practitioners in kidney health and disease. The Mobile Edition of Kidney News is a free download through Apple. Once downloaded, it provides access to all subsequent issues as well.
“The Kidney News mobile edition greatly expands our services to subscribers,” said Dawn McCoy, Managing Editor of ASN Kidney News. “Video, audio, and supplementary files are now easily accessible through the KN Mobile App.”
Sheridan’s Mobile Edition service is available to journal, magazine, book, and catalog publications. Features include:
- active URLs and phone links
- ability to view publications online or download to mobile devices
- page view and article text-only view
- social share capability
- full search capability
- subscription management tools
- automatic “new issue” alerts that appear on mobile device upon issue release
- auto archived past issues
- compatible versioning for both iPhone and iPad
“The Sheridan Group is very pleased to be working with the American Society of Nephrology on their recent publication of Kidney News as a Mobile app. The material and presentation of Kidney News translates well to mobile devices and we are confident that readers will benefit from the new, enhanced Kidney News format. We look forward to working closely with the American Society of Nephrology on future technology-based projects,” said Tim Hurd, Technology Director at The Sheridan Press.
About The American Society of Nephrology - The mission of the American Society of Nephrology, headquartered in Washington, DC, is to lead the fight against kidney disease by educating health professionals, sharing new knowledge, advancing research, and advocating the highest quality care for patients. www.asn-online.org
About The Sheridan Press - Located in Hanover, PA, The Sheridan Press is a full-service print and publishing services provider to scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals and special interest publications. It is one of six print and publishing service companies within The Sheridan Group (Hunt Valley, MD). www.sheridan.com
About The Sheridan Group - Located in Hunt Valley, MD, The Sheridan Group is comprised of six print and publishing service companies based in the United States: The Sheridan Press, Dartmouth Printing Company, Dartmouth Journal Services, United Litho, The Dingley Press, and Sheridan Books. Each company has a market specialty – scholarly journals, magazines, catalogs, or books. The Sheridan Group is a leading provider of a full range of print, publishing and technology solutions to publishers, associations, university presses, and catalogers. www.sheridan.com
January 19, 2011 – Clients Will Now Be Offered Complete Digital Publishing and Fulfillment Packages
Bangalore - MPS Limited, a Macmillan company, and The BookMasters Group, Inc. (BMI) are pleased to announce a strategic partnership that will offer customers the benefits of a combined service across digital publishing, fulfillment, and print and electronic distribution.
The partnership allows BMI to offer its customers cost-effective services for eBooks, enhanced eBooks, and apps. MPS' customers will gain from BMI's Converso service, which distributes eBooks hosted on MPS' ContentStore to Amazon, Apple, Overdrive, Barnes & Noble, Gardners, and 35 other critical eRetail sites. In addition, the partnership will enable the two companies to jointly offer US clients a complete fulfillment and distribution package.
"Through this partnership, MPS can now deliver the best of both worlds to our publisher clients," stated Rajiv K Seth, CEO and Managing Director of MPS. "MPS' tools and technologies help publishers stay ahead of the curve in an industry now defined by change and innovation. In the fulfillment arena, BookMasters' US operations will provide the physical distribution expertise our clients require, while we continue to take care of their entire subscription management workflow."
David B Wurster, CEO of The BookMasters Group, sees the partnership as facilitating the expansion of his company's service offerings in today's quickly evolving digital publishing industry. "BookMasters has been offering composition-related production services since 1984. However with the rapid emergence of different distribution platforms for digital content, I believe that MPS offers the most dynamic breadth of offshore services while bringing critical knowledge and capacity to our US clientele," notes Wurster. "The partnership with MPS will greatly benefit our publishers' eContent initiatives."
About MPS Limited - In today's digital world, content is becoming ever more sophisticated and increasingly inseparable from technology. MPS Limited, a Macmillan company with over 30 years of relevant experience serving major publishers worldwide, is helping the world navigate this new market by creating high-quality solutions designed to transform and enrich content for print, online, and mobile media.
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About The BookMasters Group - The BookMasters Group is a $100-million owner/operated publishing services company established in 1972. Dedicated to providing the highest quality services for publishers at globally competitive prices, the company offers the most comprehensive menu of integrated services available in the publishing industry today.
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