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 4 messages: 1) UK Academic Libraries Expand Participation in Portico 2) A customisable current awareness alert service for serials with a super-admin-user (that’s you!) 3) De Gruyter Partners with the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Comprehensive Portfolio of Publications to be Launched in 2013 4) New Reference QuickView from the American Chemical Society places essential information at the fingertips of chemists worldwide --------------- Message #1: Subject: UK Academic Libraries Expand Participation in Portico From: Marita LaMonica <Marita.LaMonica@ithaka.org> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:25:37 -0400 UK Academic Libraries Expand Participation in Portico Portico is pleased to announce the expansion of its digital preservation services to twenty more academic libraries in the United Kingdom, bringing the total number of UK participating institutions to fifty-seven. Among the additional JISC libraries that initiated participation this year are University of Leeds, University of Cambridge, and University of Manchester. The complete list of Portico participating libraries in the UK is available at http://bit.ly/QADW6W "Concerns about continuing access are a barrier to e-only, thus JISC Collections is pleased to have collaborated with Portico to enable more institutions to participate," commented Lorraine Estelle, Chief Executive Officer of JISC Collections. Steve Sharp, Resource Acquisition Team Leader at University of Leeds, added, "As we all expand our digital collections, it is reassuring to know we have secure back-up for our content. The University of Leeds is delighted to be participating in the JISC Collections agreement with Portico." JISC has been providing consultation and guiding adoption of digital preservation solutions by its members. Over the past 18 months, JISC and Portico have collaborated on a series of webinars and workshops about digital preservation for the UK library community. Similarly, JISC Collections was active in negotiating and installing a master agreement between Portico and JISC member libraries. "Digital preservation has become an important issue in the United Kingdom and the global community," commented Kate Wittenberg, Portico Managing Director. "We are thrilled to have the support of both the JISC and these fifty-seven member libraries." About Portico Portico (www.portico.org) is a digital preservation service for e-journals, e-books, and other scholarly e-content. The Portico archive is certified as a "trustworthy digital repository" by the Center for Research Libraries; more than 13,000 e-journals, more than 120,000 e-books, and 48 d-collections have been entrusted to it. For a complete list of Portico-related facts and figures, please visit Portico Archive Facts & Figures. _____________ Marita La Monica Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications ITHAKA Tel: 212-500-2339 marita.lamonica@ithaka.org ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org) is a not-for-profit organization that helps the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. We provide innovative services that benefit higher education, including Ithaka S+R, JSTOR, and Portico. --------------- Message #2: Subject: A customisable current awareness alert service for serials with a super-admin-user (that’s you!) From: Roddy Macleod <macleod.roddy@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:12:11 +0100 If you have an interest in current awareness alerts services and keeping up-to-date, and increasing the usage of your subscribed journals and Open Access journals, then I invite you to read my blog post: "You’ll like this a lot: a customisable current awareness service with a super-admin-user (that’s you!)" http://roddymacleod.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/youll-like-this-a-lot-a-customisable-current-awareness-service-with-a-super-admin-user-thats-you/ This discusses some ofthe issues surrounding current awareness and introduces a new opportunity for creating effective, low-effort, low-cost, customisable current awareness services of scholarly journal articles for researchers, academics and others. Roddy MacLeod --------------- Message #3: Subject: PRESS RELEASE: De Gruyter Partners with the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Comprehensive Portfolio of Publications to be Launched in 2013 From: <Ulrike.Lippe@degruyter.com> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:43:46 +0200 PRESS RELEASE De Gruyter Partners with the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Comprehensive Portfolio of Publications to be Launched in 2013 Berlin, 17 August 2012 – De Gruyter has signed a partnership agreement with the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tokyo. The first joint project is the publication of the Japanese Language and Linguistics handbook series, which will comprise 12 volumes. The handbooks are written and edited by renowned linguists in Japan and across the world, including Masayoshi Shibatani, professor of linguistics at Rice University in Houston, and Taro Kageyama, the director of the NINJAL. In addition to Japanese, the volumes in the series will cover the Ryukyuan languages, Ainu, and Japanese sign language. The handbooks will be offered in print and online versions. "We're extremely pleased by this partnership. The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics is a first-class partner for excellence in linguistics," says Uri Tadmor, the Editorial Director for De Gruyter Mouton. “The international reach of the Mouton imprint, which is one of the world's leading names in linguistics publishing, led NINJAL to select De Gruyter as a publication partner." This partnership means the further strengthening of De Gruyter's publishing engagement in the Asian-Pacific region. Contact Ulrike Lippe Manager Public Relations Phone +49(0)30-260 05 153 ulrike.lippe@degruyter.com De Gruyter: The independent academic publishing house De Gruyter can look back on a history spanning over 260 years. The publishing group with headquarters in Berlin and Boston annually publishes over 800 new titles in the humanities, medicine, science and law and approx. 500 journals and digital media. http://www.degruyter.com/ --------------- Message #4: Subject: New Reference QuickView from the American Chemical Society places essential information at the fingertips of chemists worldwide From: Sara Rouhi <S_Rouhi@acs.org> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:23:53 +0000 ~~Please excuse cross posting~~ New Reference QuickView from the American Chemical Society places essential information at the fingertips of chemists worldwide ACS Publications and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the information divisions of the American Chemical Society (ACS), announced jointly today the introduction of Reference QuickView, a dynamic new feature powered by CAS’ SciFinder® that enables readers of web content to view directly the text of abstracts linked to bibliographic citations within an ACS Publications journal article or book chapter. Reference QuickView enables readers viewing the full-text HTML version of an ACS article to scan abstracts from the broader literature, across millions of citations drawn from a broad array of scientific disciplines covered by CAS. Navigational features facilitate quick review of an article’s references and corresponding abstracts. Links to the Reference QuickView display are placed conveniently in-line within footnotes found in the article text. Abstract content is drawn from across the chemical literature from publications before 1907 to the present, as indexed by scientists at CAS. Reference QuickView is available for research articles and book chapters published since 2010, across the ACS portfolio of 41 high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly journals and ACS Symposium Series books. Researchers using Reference QuickView can dig deeper into the research literature by selecting “View Full Text Options” to access the full text of the cited reference, or they can choose “More from SciFinder®” for a pathway to the corresponding CAS Reference Detail page, where they can discover more about substances, reactions, related structures, patents and other specifics. A video highlighting the key benefits and functionality of Reference QuickView can be found on ACS Publications’ YouTube channel via the following URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyYP_1fCRCo. “This new streamlined browsing experience is a unique benefit of the ACS Web Editions platform. We view this as an important step forward for ACS Publications, and a significant benefit to the millions of researchers that visit ACS Journals each month,” said Jonathan Morgan, director of Digital Strategy & Platform Development. “Providing expanded, immediate access to information that aids scientists in the discovery process, and facilitates their ability to quickly assess the relevance of a paper, is a priority for our web development and IT teams. It’s also another example of the power behind ACS Publications’ partnership with CAS and SciFinder®, and what those collaborative efforts can offer to the broader chemistry enterprise.” Reference QuickView is just one of the many powerful, collaborative features that have been co-developed by ACS Publications and CAS. Other examples in recent years have included article-level substance, reaction and patent links to SciFinder® from ACS articles, CA Section subject tagging for ACS articles, and the appearance of ACS Journal TOC graphics and reaction narratives within SciFinder®. “Chemists and other scientists around the world rely on SciFinder® every day to explore research covered in the CAS databases, the most complete, authoritative collection of disclosed chemistry information. The new Reference QuickView feature is another ACS advancement that helps scientists leverage the unique combination of the prestigious chemistry journals from ACS enhanced with information from SciFinder®,” added Kirk Schwall, director of SciFinder® Product Development. Questions? Email LibraryRelations@acs.org S. 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