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Subject:
Scitation C3, AIP’s Next Generation Hosting, Platform Delivers More
Innovations |
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From:
"Bruce Shriver" <BSHRIVER@aip.org> |
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Date:
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:51:43 -0500 |
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To:
"Bruce Shriver" <BSHRIVER@aip.org> |
[This
message is cross-posted. Please pardon the
duplication.]
Scitation
C3, AIP’s Next Generation Hosting, Platform Delivers More
Innovations
Melville,
NY, December 1, 2009 – In a move intended to strengthen its position as
a leader in the development of innovative technologies for STM
publishing, the American Institute of Physics (AIP) today announced the
release of a series of new features for its evolving, next-generation
hosting platform, Scitation C³ (scitation.org). Users will find the
functionality of Scitation-hosted journal pages greatly enhanced,
enabled by an XML (Extensible Markup Language) infrastructure that can
turn granular markup into meaningful content services, reduce discovery
time, and dynamically connect similar concepts and expose related
content without user interaction.
One
of the many new features available on Scitaton C³ is full-text HTML
rendering, direct from XML. Through inline reference links and the
ability to enlarge tables and figures by clicking on them, the
AIP-coined “SuperArticle” virtually lifts off the page in a highly
interactive presentation that transforms the traditional scholarly
article, helping to speed authoring, reading, and research.
Among
the new features are enhanced search functions, with more options and
better controls to explore returned content with faceted results.
Faceted search helps researchers find information quickly by presenting
them with a set of "filters" to narrow down search results. Also new is
a
real-time institutional mapping interface that reveals institutional
connections to research, providing geo-locational
context to where the author who performed the research is based.
To facilitate discovery, Scitation has upgraded its Tables of Contents service, bringing more information to the forefront and creating functionality that allows users to work with journal data in new ways. These “Smart ToCs” enable the user to harvest citations, preview abstracts with a mouse-click, and hide content that isn't of interest. In this same vein of facilitating discoverability, a new table browser allows subscribers to view all tables and figures in an article directly from the abstract.
“All these new features follow close on the heels of other enhancements we’ve made to our Scitation C³ platform in just the past three months, such as a powerful eBooks capability, mobile editions for our journal homepages, and our new iResearch app, which allows users to save PDFs locally to their iPhone or iPod touch,” said Paul DeCillis, Director, Online Services. “I’m proud of the body of innovative work we’ve turned out in a short period of time, and feel it paints an accurate picture of AIP as an organization that is forward looking and can confidently hang its hat on its technological capabilities.”
AIP's Scitation publishing platform currently hosts more than 2,000,000 articles from more than 200 scholarly publications for 28 learned society publishers, in fields including physics, chemistry, geosciences, engineering, acoustics, and other sciences. Scitation’s evolving, next generation platform, C³, represents today’s best-of-breed technology, with an XML foundation and flexible framework for multi-channel distribution of content and services that enables both publishers and end users to manipulate and deliver content as never before and creates the tools and environment for content producers to position themselves for future publishing opportunities.
For
more information, please contact:
Paul
DeCillis
Director,
Online Publishing
Phone:
(516) 576-2665
Email: pdecilli@aip.org
2. Upcoming classes from LYRASIS
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Subject:
Upcoming classes from LYRASIS |
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From:
Marlee Givens <marlee.givens@lyrasis.org> |
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Date:
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:59:42 -0500 |
Please excuse cross-posting. The following classes will be brought to you soon by LYRASIS, online and around the region. For more information or to register, please visit www.lyrasis.org. Keyword: Classes and Events. Please keep an eye out for our weekly discount codes as part of our educational stimulus program and save when you register for certain classes. These classes are also posted to the Check It Out! Blog (www.libraryblog.net) Creating Measurable Library Objectives 12/08/2009 LYRASIS-New England Office 9:30am-3:30pm EST Demystifying Mold (Live Online) 12/08/2009 - 12/10/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST Preserving Oral Histories (Live Online) 12/08/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST Practical Approaches to Information Literacy (Live Online) 12/08/2009 - 12/10/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST Foundations of Reference Service for Non-librarians (Live Online) 12/08/2009 - 12/09/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST Cataloging: Core and Minimal-Level Records (Live Online) 12/09/2009, 2:00pm-3:00pm EST Time Management for Librarians (Live Online) 12/10/2009 - 12/11/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Directors Forum: Introducing the Strategic Planning Toolkit for Libraries 12/11/2009 LYRASIS- Philadelphia Office 9:00am-4:00pm EST Hidden Treasures: Rare Books in Your Library? (Live Online) 12/15/2009 - 12/16/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST Libraries and Services Going Mobile: Handheld Services for Libraries (Live Online) 12/15/2009 - 12/16/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST Managing Student Assistants in Academic Libraries (Live Online) 12/15/2009 - 12/17/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST 20 Questions: Reference Resources for Kids (Live Online) 12/15/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST OCLC Connexion Client Searching Skills (Live Online) 12/15/2009 - 12/16/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Understanding Digital Photographs (Live Online) 12/15/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Technology Planning for Library Managers (Live Online) 12/16/2009 - 12/17/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST 20 Questions: U.S. Government Information (Live Online) 12/16/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Cataloging for Non-Catalogers (Live Online) 12/16/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Mystery, Western and Adventure Fiction Reader's Advisory (Live Online) 12/17/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST Mass Digitization Collaborative Information Session (Live Online) 12/17/2009, 10:00am-11:00am EST WebJunction: An Introduction (Live Online) 12/17/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST 20 Questions: Successful Strategies for Job Searchers (Live Online) 12/17/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST E-Resource Licensing: Overview and How-to for the Non-Lawyer (Live Online) 12/17/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Basic Surveys for Librarians (Live Online) 12/17/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST LYRASIS also has a selection of On Demand classes which may be purchased for download at any time: http://www.lyrasis.org/Products%20and%20Services/Catalog.aspx?Department=On%20Demand%20Class&Tab=2 Please contact LYRASIS at 1-800-999-8558 if you have any questions. Thanks!3. AIP UniPHY Unveils Sleek New Graphicak Interface and Enhanced Functionality
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Subject:
AIP UniPHY Unveils Sleek New Graphical Interface and Enhanced
Functionality |
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From:
"Bruce Shriver" <BSHRIVER@aip.org> |
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Date:
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:58:00 -0500 |
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To:
"Bruce Shriver" <BSHRIVER@aip.org> |
[This
message is cross-posted. Please pardon the
duplication.]
Melville,
NY, December 1, 2009 – The American Institute of Physics (AIP) today
announced the launch of Release 2 of the AIP UniPHY (aipuniphy.org)
professional networking site for physical scientists. Developed
in partnership with Collexis Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of
semantic technology and knowledge discovery software, this latest
release sports an enhanced design and new, more powerful features to
further assist physical science researchers worldwide to connect and
collaborate.
The
enhancements to AIP UniPHY are far reaching, highlighted by a more
streamlined and user-friendly interface, complete with a new layout and
new graphics. Researchers will find the changes substantive, including
the CV section, where researchers can display their professional
profiles, including education, work histories, and current research
interests. In addition, a blog, managed by AIP, offers helpful
information on how to get maximum use from the site.
“Today’s
generation of scientists entering research in university and corporate
and government facilities has grown up using Web tools, such as instant
messaging, blogging and social networking. We want to give them these
same tools as their desire for them inevitably spills over into their
professional lives,” said John Haynes, AIP’s Vice President,
Publishing. “We launched AIP UniPHY to fill a void we perceived in
professional and scientific networking. The positive feedback we have
received and the 10,000 members that have registered with AIP UniPHY in
the two short months since its launch confirm that there was a real
need for the site.”
To
improve functionality on the AIP UniPHY site, Collexis and AIP have
incorporated additional features, including the ability for users to
upload photos, link to social bookmarking sites like Facebook, Twitter,
and Delicious, and a “People you
might know” feature, which lists researchers that have collaborated
with one’s co-authors.
“We are
very pleased with the new features and enhancements of our
next generation Social Community platform
developed together with AIP UniPHY and feedback from the research
community,” said Mario Diwersy, Chief Technology Officer of Collexis. “New key functionalities and the enhanced visualization
will certainly help the user community to augment
their ability to connect and collaborate with their fellow physicist,
which in turn will indeed push primary research and foster new ideas
and papers.”
AIP
UniPHY continues to enable researchers to explore the networks that
connect them with more than 275,000 colleagues from more than 100
countries. They can discover the research each of these individuals has
conducted and identify each co-author with whom the investigator has
worked. AIP UniPHY reveals with whom each of these co-authors has
collaborated, as well.
The American Institute of Physics 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 the physical sciences.
Offering partnership solutions for scientific societies and for similar
organizations in science and engineering, AIP is a leader in the field
of electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes 12
journals (some of which are the most highly cited in their respective
fields), 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.
About Collexis Holdings, Inc.
Collexis
Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of semantic technology and
knowledge discovery software is headquartered in Columbia, South
Carolina (USA) with operations in Cologne, Germany and Valparaiso,
Chile. Collexis now offers the world’s first pre-populated scientific
social network for life science researchers, www.biomedexperts.com.
Collexis’ proprietary technology builds conceptual profiles of text,
called Fingerprints, from documents, Websites, emails and other
digitized content and matches them with a comprehensive list of
pre-defined “fingerprinted” concepts to make research results more
relevant and efficient. This matching of concepts eliminates the
ambiguity and lack of priority associated with word searches. The
results are often described as “finding needles in many haystacks.”
Through this novel approach, Collexis can build unique applications to
search, index and aggregate information as well as prioritize, trend
and predict data based on sources in multiple industries without the
limitations of language or dialect. Collexis’ current clients in the
public, private and academic sectors include Johns Hopkins University;
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the University of California, San
Francisco; the University of South Carolina; Erasmus University
Library; Lockheed Martin; the World Health Organization; Wellcome
Trust; the National Institutes of Health; and the U.S. Department of
Defense.
For more information, please contact:
Chris Iannicello
American Institute of Physics
2 Huntington Quadrangle
Suite 1NO1
Melville, NY 11747 USA
T: +1 516-576-2289
F: +1 516-576-2327
aipuniphy.org
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Subject:
Tour of Bindery at ALA |
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From:
"Baird, Brian J." <BrianB@BNBindery.com> |
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Date:
Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:08:56 -0500 |
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To:
<padg@ala.org>,
<serialst@list.uvm.edu>,
<nela-l@nelib.org> |
Boston
is hosting the ALA Midwinter Meeting in January, 2010, and Bridgeport
National
Bindery, Inc. would like to extend an invitation to tour our facility
located
in Western Massachusetts. We will provide bus transportation from
Boston
to our location and back. The tentative schedule is to depart
Boston at noon, tour the bindery, and return to Boston by 5:00.
You
will see our library binding, conservation, and digitization services.
You will also tour our innovative print on demand operation.
The
tour will be on Friday, January 15, 2010. We wanted to announce this
event early to enable people to plan their travel accordingly.
Please
RSVP to Brian Baird at brianb@bnbindery.com
so we can get a count of who plans to attend. This will aid us in
scheduling a proper sized bus, and preparing refreshments.
This
is a second reminder of the tour. I have a list of those who have
signed
up already, so you do not need to RSVP again.
Thanks!
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Brian
J. Baird
Vice
President of Library Services
Bridgeport National Bindery, Inc.
662 Silver Street
P.O. Box 289
Agawam, MA 01001
(800) 223-5083
Fax (413) 789-4007
brianb@bnbindery.com
www.bnbindery.com