Commercial Digest, a once a week digest of messages containing informational content from commercial bodies (i.e., publishers, vendors, agents, etc.) This week's digest contains four messages: (1) GSE Research and Publishing Technology launch publications and community hub (2) JACS Image Challenge Mobile app now available (3) Toxicology Research from RSC Publishing (4) RSC Publishing Customer Satisfaction Survey 2012 closes on Thursday, Apr. 12 (1)------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:19:37 +0100 From: "Daniel Freeman" <Daniel.Freeman@midaspr.co.uk> Subject: GSE Research and Publishing Technology celebrate launch of leading edge publications and community hub GSE Research and Publishing Technology celebrate launch of leading edge publications and community hub New site founds innovative publishing resource for the governance, sustainability and the environment community Oxford, 29 March 2012 . Publishing Technology, the largest provider of software and services to the industry, and newly established online scholarly publisher GSE Research, announce the launch of GSE Research Online, a resource defining the new age of digital academic publishing. GSE Research.s portal is a bold concept to drive interaction and engagement across the academic audience, policy-makers and the corporate world in an interactive professional network supporting governance, sustainability and the environment. Built on the pub2web platform, the site leverages semantic technology and novel functionality for an enriching, engaging and synergised user experience, which has been refined and honed following extensive user testing and feedback. The site supports a range of author benefits including rapid publication, a choice of open peer review or traditional peer review options, collaboration tools with article metrics to follow. The GSE vision allows the full breadth of stakeholders within this field to join in the conversation, share content, review and comment on papers, find collaborators, locate experts in the field for conference speaking or job opportunities. The site boasts features further transformative, semantic enhancements: * Taxonomy creation - tailored to the GSE community.s specific needs but also mapped to industry standards to ensure optimal interoperability. * Semantically enriched content. supporting new ways of delivery and navigating to content. · Article context . the ability to place scholarly articles within their external context by displaying contextual information from trusted external resources such as news and government data sets, providing a real value add for readers and increasing engagement with the platform. · Taxonomy visualizations - to enable researchers see at a glance via article .fingerprints. what a paper is about and more easily navigate the data based on a particular field of interest. * Faceted navigation . for accessing site content by applying multiple search filters based on taxonomy. * Concept pages . to serve as entry points or .homepages. for topical concepts such as .Air Pollution. or .Greenwash.. · The Research Exchange . a professional social network driven by location, subject specialty and articles published. To facilitate and promote awareness of the GSE vision, Publishing Technology.s internationally recognised sales and marketing consulting firm, Publishers Communication Group, through its offices in Boston, Oxford, Sao Paulo, Beijing, and New Delhi, is also supporting the GSE sales and marketing team in their international activities to institutions. John Peters, Publishing Director at GSE Research Ltd, commented: .It.s with great excitement and anticipation that we launch the website, now available to the global academic publishing community. The new site represents a radical new way for academics to collaborate and explore new content, in real time and really exploits the benefits of semantic enhancements to deliver this. Bringing together academics from around the world, across environment, sustainability and governance, and allow them to share research and discuss topics with each other with greater ease, has always been our ultimate goal, and the pub2web platform has brought our concept to life with highly innovative technology and flourish.. Louise Russell, Chief Operations Officer at Publishing Technology, said: .GSE.s digital strategy and concept for their site is testament to their whole philosophy. The GSE approach benefits from not being restricted by the traditional content .containers. of journals and books and create an online platform that turns the traditional model on its head. Exploring critical and innovative ways of empowering a whole community through online collaboration, the new site launches with semantic enrichment embedded within the workflow from day 1, support for rapid publication, a broader range of author benefits all integrated with a community model that fosters conversation and engagement. GSE have a unique and innovative approach to publishing and we are delighted to have played a part. The pub2web platform is a flexible and interoperable solution that will support GSE.s business every step of the way.. The GSE Research model and approach has already received high praise from some leading names in the academic publishing industry. Professor Baback Yazdani, Dean of Nottingham Business School, commented: "This is an important field, and GSE Research are taking an innovative and welcome approach to scholarly publishing in the digital era," and industry commentator David Worlock, referred to GSE as .a project to watch, but also a trend to be noted.. -ENDS- For more information, please contact: Emily Taylor Gregory, Publishing Technology plc Tel: +44 1865 397873 Email: emily.taylor@publishingtechnology.com Dani Freeman Executive Account Director Midas Public Relations Midas House, 10 Old Court Place, London W8 4PL T: 020 7361 7860 | Direct: 020 7361 7866 E: daniel.freeman@midaspr.co.uk W: www.midaspr.co.uk | http://twitter.com/midaspr (2------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 19:45:11 +0000 From: Sara Rouhi <S_Rouhi@acs.org> Subject: JACS Image Challenge Mobile app now available JACS Image Challenge Mobile app is Now Available in the iTunes Store The Journal of the American Chemical Society is pleased to announce the launch of JACS Image Challenge Mobile, a free mobile app that is now available for all Apple iOS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad). Now featuring over 180 unique challenges, the app is a mobile extension of the popular JACS Image Challenge, hosted on the JACS Beta website since 2008. Building on the success of the feature, a mobile app has been developed to allow researchers to turn the time spent waiting for an experiment, a purification, or even a bus or train ride into a rewarding learning experience. Each challenge is a multiple-choice question about the concepts portrayed in an image from an Article or Communication recently published in JACS. After the user submits his/her response, an explanation of the correct answer is displayed. This free application is updated with a new JACS Image Challenge weekly, and is a great way to interact with the ground-breaking, high-quality research published in JACS. Each challenge provides an interactive, enjoyable experience for all users, and is particularly valuable to advancing the broader scientific understanding of students. The JACS Image Challenge mobile version offers the following features: · Track the challenges taken and how many were answered correctly · Save favorite challenges · View challenges by subject category · Download new challenges automatically We hope you will download the JACS Image Challenge Mobile app at the iTunes store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jacs-image-challenge-mobile/id508804310?mt=8 You can also learn more about the JACS Image Challenge Mobile app and our award-winning mobile applications, ACS Mobile and C&EN Mobile, at http://pubs.acs.org/page/follow.html#tools For those without Apple iOS devices, they can view the full archive of image challenges at http://pubs.acs.org/JACSbeta/challenge/index.html Questions? Email: LibraryRelations@acs.org S. Sara Rouhi Manager, Library Relations | ACS Publications 1155 16th St., NW | Washington | DC 20036 http://pubs.acs.org/4librarians (3)-------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 11:01:18 +0100 From: Louise Peck <peckl@rsc.org> Subject:Toxicology Research from RSC Publishing The first Advance Articles from new RSC journal, Toxicology Research, are now freely available online for those institutions/organisations with registered IP addresses and free RSC Publishing Platform personal accounts, with more articles due to follow shortly GO TO www.rsc.org/toxicology Toxicology Research is published in partnership with the British Toxicology Society and the Chinese Society of Toxicology. The journal is multidisciplinary covering both the fundamental and applied aspects of toxicology, including drug toxicity, food toxicity and their mechanisms, responses and risk/safety evaluation. All 2012 and 2013 Toxicology Research content will be free to access online, giving you, and your scientists, time to fully evaluate the new journal. If RSC Publishing already has your IP address details, your institution/organisation will automatically be given access to the new journal content as well as other free content. Alternatively, you can register for access GO TO www.rsc.org/libraryfreeaccess Kind regards Louise Louise Peck BSc LM DipM MCIM, Library Marketing Specialist Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1223 432669, Fax: +44 (0) 1223 420247 www.rsc.org/publishing peckl@rsc.org (4)------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:25:32 +0100 From: Louise Peck <peckl@rsc.org> Subject: RSC Publishing Customer Satisfaction Survey 2012 closes on Thursday - Last chance - are your details correct? The RSC Publishing Customer Satisfaction Survey 2012 closes on Thursday 12th April 2012. You don't have to be an active customer to complete this survey as we would appreciate responses from all in the librarian community, helping us to achieve best practice and for our future developments and customer service. SUBMIT your feedback to our survey by Thursday 12th April 2012 <https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/listservs> * * * WIN A PRIZE! * * * 1 in every 5 people submitting responses to this survey (selected at random) will win a prize, we will contact you by email to let you know if you have been successful and publish the announcement. Should you have any queries at any time, please email me and I will happily help. 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