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News from Serials, Vol 12, no.2, July 1999News from Serials, Vol 12, no.2, July 1999 Please send News items to:
Subscription agents to merge Swets Subscription Service and Blackwell�s Information Services have just announced an agreement of the formal intention to combine the two subscription agency services. Subject to the satisfactory completion of current discussions, arrangements for the creation of the new organisation will be concluded later this year. Integration of services and systems is expected to take about two years. The Head Office of the joint venture will be in The Netherlands. Details: Bart de Gans, Communications Manager Swets & Zeitlinger bv; Tel.: +31-252-435888; Fax: +31-252-415888; E-mail: bdegans@swets.nl; URL: http://www.swets.nl/;
EBSCO Industries acquires Lange & Springer subscription agency EBSCO Industries has acquired the Berlin-based Lange & Springer subscripiton agency and mail order bookseller. Lange & Springer was a subsidiary of the scentific publishing group SpringerBerlin/Heidelberg/New York, part of Bertelsmann Professional Information. EBSCO will integrate the Lange & Springer operations and customer contacts into its existing network of European offices as part of its EBSCO Subscription Services division. Details: Thomas J Mitchell, Corporate Communications. E-mail: tjmitchell@ebsco.com New name for UMI Reflecting its recent change of ownership, UMI�s new name is Bell & Howell Information and Learning. Address change for EBSCO in the UK From 1 June last, EBSCO�s new London address is 4th Floor, Kingmaker House, Station Road, New Barnet EN5 1NZ. The new telephone number is 0181-447-4200, and the new fax number is 0181-440-2205. EDI claims and claims responses Blackwell�s Information Services and Elsevier Science recently implemented the EDIFACT EDI claims standard; initially Blackwell�s Oxford and New Jersey service centres will be covered, while it is planned to extend the implementation to Blackwell�s New York service centre later this year. Details: Michelle Edeney, Blackwell�s Information Services, E-mail: michelle.edeney@blackwell.co.uk; Tim Devenport, Elsevier Science Ltd., E-mail: t.devenport@elsevier.co.uk Blackwell�s appoints technology partner for EJN Blackwell�s Information Services recently announced that ingenta ltd has been appointed its technology partner, with the brief to deliver the software infrastructure for the forthcoming phase of its Electronic Journal Navigator (EJN) service. Details: Marianne Jacques, Blackwell�s Information Services, Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2ET; Tel.: 01865-262560; Fax: 01865-262503; E-mail: press@blackwell.co.uk; Nash Pal, Blackwell�s Information Services, Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2ET; Tel.: 01865-792792; Fax: 01865-262503; E-mail: nash.pal@blackwell.co.uk CLIC Here! Launched CLIC Here! - Co-ordinated Licensing Information Collection - is Blackwell�s Information Services new centralised Web-based information service for e-journals, CD-ROMs and Internet databases. The service, which will be provided free to Blackwell�s customers, is fully searchable by publisher and supplier, and will provide libraries with easy access to information on licensing, pricing models, access and ordering details. Details: Marianne Jacques, Blackwell�s Information Services, Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2ET; Tel.: 01865-262560; Fax: 01865-262503; E-mail: press@blackwell.co.uk; Jane Beddall, Blackwell�s Information Services, Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2ET; Tel.: 01865-792792; Fax: 01865-262503; E-mail: jane.beddall@blackwell.co.uk Blackwell�s acquires Academic Book Center Following Blackwell�s Book Services acquisition of Academic Book Center, Dan Halloran, former president and CEO of ABC, has been appointed president and CEO of Blackwell�s Book Services; he has also become a member of the board of Blackwell Ltd. Details: Anthony Thompson, Blackwell Ltd., Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2ET; Tel.: 01865-262589; Fax: 01865-262588; E-mail: anthony.thompson@blackwell.co.uk; URL: http://www.blackwell.co.uk/; http://www.abc.com/ New guide to electronic journal management Blackwell�s Information Services and TFPL Ltd are to jointly publish a Guide to Electronic Journal Management, intended for those who acquire, contribute to or produce scholarly electronic journals. It will be published in both printed and electronic formats, and will be updated regularly to provide a first-stop resource for anyone seeking advice on electronic journal management. Details: Marianne Jacques, Blackwell�s Information Services, Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2ET; Tel.: 01865-262560; Fax: 01865-262503; E-mail: press@blackwell.co.uk; Peter Kibby, TFPL Ltd., 17-18 Britton Street, London EC1M 5TL; Tel. 0171-251-5522; Fax: 0171-251-8318; E-mail: peter.kibby@tfpl.com Book Data moves to new office Book Data has recently moved to a new address, which is Globe House, 1 Chertsey Road, Twickenham TW1 1LR. Telephone and fax numbers, and the email address remain unchanged: Tel.: 0181-892-2272; Fax: 0181-892-9109; E-mail: sales@bookdata.co.uk One-stop shop for Eurostat products Eurostat has developed an extensive distribution network, the Data Shops, for providing fast and easy access to all the comparable and harmonised statistics contained in Eurostat databases. The address of the Brussels shop is Data Shop Eurostat Brussels, chaussee d�Etterbeck 13, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium; Tel.: +02-299-6666; Fax: +02-295-0125; E-mail: datashop.brussels@eurostat.cec.be; URL: http://europa.eu.int/eurostat.html EBSCO enhances its online services EBSCO has begun the integration of its online services by linking proprietary databases in EBSCOhost to the fulltext of electronic journals available through EBSCO Online. Databases available on EBSCOhost include Academic Search, MEDLINE and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. EBSCO Online includes journals from Oxford University Press, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, the American Physiological Society and Professional Engineering Publishing. Details: URL: http://www.ebsco.com/ New online business intelligence product The Gale Group recently launched InSite2sm, a single Web-based collection of business information including content from more than 3,000 publications. Twenty newswires form COMTEX are included. Details: The Gale Group, Watergate House, 13-15 York Buildings, London WC2N 6JU; Tel.: 0171-930-3933; Fax: 0171-930-9190; E-mail: iacinfo@iacnet.com 15 Irish libraries to migrate to INNOPAC The libraries of the fifteen Institutes of Technology in Ireland are to install INNOPAC Millennium. The Institutes have formed an association to purchase common software systems, including the library system; each library will run its own INNOPAC system. The first two systems are due for installation late in 1999. Details: Stephen Patterson, Dublin Institute of Technology; Tel.: +353-1-402-3428; E-mail: stephen.patterson@dit.ie; Petros Demetriou, Innovative Interfaces; Tel.: 0117-975-1024; E-mail: petros.demetriou@sls.co.uk Online INSPEC The Web/Intranet version of INSPEC Ondisc will soon be available free to all sitewide networking customers; a demonstration system will be available on the IEE Website shortly. Details: URL: http://www.iee.org.uk/publish/inspec/ 1999/2000 INSPEC journal list now available The 1999/2000 INSPEC List of Journals is now available. The main list comprises almost 4,000 entries, of which approximately 1,000 have complete abstracts. Details: INSPEC, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Michael Faraday House, Six Hills Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2AY; Tel.: 01438-313311; Fax: 01438-767297; E-mail: inspec@iee.org.uk; URL: http://www.iee.org.uk/publish/ MCB acquires Pierian Press journals MCB University Press has acquired three international library science journals from Pierian Press: Library Hi Tech, Library Hi Tech News and Reference Services Review Details: Customer Services Department, MCB. Tel.: 01274-777700. E-mail: jkitson@mcb.co.uk New MCB journal Library Consortium Management: an international journalis dedicated to the development, theory and practice concerned with the management of library consortium services. It will focus on the design, creation, development, implementation and evaluation of consortium services. Details: http://www.mcb.co.uk/lcm.htm New grey literature publications A new quarterly journal, the International Journal of Grey Literature (IJGL) will be published next year. IJGL seeks to monitor and secure grey literature�s entry into the mainstream of the information society. It is intended to display advance copies of the first issue at the GL �99 conference in Washington in October. The first edition of Glossary: a vocabulary of terms used in the field of grey literature, is now available (ISBN 90-74854-19-2, price NLG 75); the resource is also available on GreyNet�s Website. The fourth edition of the International Guide to Persons and Organisations in Grey Literature has recently been published (ISBN 90-74854-23-0, price NLG 60); the records are also available in electronic format. Details of all GreyNet publications: E-mail: GreyNet@inter.nl.net; URL: http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet/ Workplace libraries �99 This Library Association initiative is intended to raise the profile of information professionals, and to assist those of them working in narrowly understood services in commerce, government and the public sector to demonstrate their value to their employers. Those interested can join a discussion list by sending the message :- subscribe workplace firstname lastname to listproc@listproc.la-hq.org.uk Details: Karen Bedwell, Library Association; Fax: 0171-436-7218; E-mail: workplacelibraries99@la-hq.org.uk; URL: http://www.la-hq.org.uk/ Stationery Office Website The Stationery Office launched its new Website in March. TSOnline has a new product search engine, as well as features on the latest industry news. Details: URL: http://www.itsofficial.net/ SPARC e-news SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) recently launched its e-news mailing list, and this has proved as popular and useful to non-SPARC members as to members; it includes general SPARC news and information, conference news, and news of electronic publishing developments. Details: Alison Buckholtz, Communications Manager SPARC, 21 Dupont Circle, Washington DC 20036; E-mail: alison@arl.org; URL: http://www.arl.org/sparc/ Increased SwetsNet coverage Swets recently announced that agreements had been reached with CSIRO Publishing, Walter de Gruyter, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the Royal Swedish Academy and Multilingual Matters, to provide access to their electronic journals through SwetsNet. Over 1500 titles are now available through SwetsNet. Details: Bart de Gans, Communications Manager Swets & Zeitlinger bv; Tel.: +31-252-435888; Fax: +31-252-415888; E-mail: bdegans@swets.nl; URL: http://www.swets.nl/ Technology and marketing agreement between Swets and MDL Swets Subscription Service and MDL Information Systems Inc. have announced a marketing and technology agreement which will allow MDL customers to enable LitLink/Standard Server to access SwetsNet. Details: Bart de Gans, Communications Manager Swets & Zeitlinger bv; Tel.: +31-252-435888; Fax: +31-252-415888; E-mail: bdegans@swets.nl; URL: http://www.swets.nl/ Swets acquires OIP/ITD From July 1999 the Wolters Kluwer Belgie NV department, Office International des Periodiques/Internationale Tijdschriftendienst, will be incorporated into Swets Subscription Service. Details: Bart de Gans, Communications Manager Swets & Zeitlinger bv; Tel.: +31-252-435888; Fax: +31-252-415888; E-mail: bdegans@swets.nl; URL: http://www.swets.nl/; Ben Houdmont, Managing Director Wolters Kluwer Belgie NV; Tel: +32-2-723-1185; Fax: +32-2-725-1356. ESPERE Consortium The ESPERE Consortium is a publishers� group investigating the feasibility of setting up a fully electronic version of the current confidential peer review system. The project is lead jointly by the Society for Endocrinology and the University of Nottingham. It began as part of the JISC eLib programme, and is being funding by a group of UK publishers. Details: Dee Wood, ESPERE Project Manager, Holdland House, Old Street, Clevedon, N. Somerset BS21 6BY; Tel/Fax: 01275-870226; E-mail: dwood@salixedu.co.uk; URL: http://www.endocrinology.org/espere/ Elsevier acquires Cell Press Cell Press, independent publisher of Cell, and three other reputable journals, has been bought by Elsevier Science. The news was reported in Nature, 15 April 1999, vol. 398, p.551 Library science journals on ingenta Two library science journals published by Learned Information, The Electronic Library and Online and CD-ROM Review, are now available through the ingentaJournals service. Details: ingenta ltd., Tel.: 01225-826074; E-mail: help@ingenta.com Continued expansion of OCLC�s Print Subscriber Program OCLC introduced its Print subscriber Program in 1998 to help libraries save money on subscriptions to electronic subscriptions. The Program continues to grow, with 24 publishers participating for 1999. Details: Andrew Evans, OCLC Europe, 7th Floor, Tricorn House, 51-53 Hagley road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B16 8TP Subject index to information on electronic resources The June 1999 edition of the Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information is now available at URL http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM The page-specific resource deals with all aspects of electronic publishing, and includes print and non-print materials. Over 900 titles have been identified and indexed, and URLs have been added to the various entries. The resource is continuously updated. Details: Marian Dworaczek, Head Technical Services Division, University of Saskatchewan Libraries; E-mail: dworaczek@sklib.usask.ca; URL: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/ Ovid licenses Lippincott Williams & Wilkins� Primary Care Oline Ovid Technologies Inc have licensed a database, Primary Care Oline, containing the full text of nine best-selling clinical textbooks published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins publishers. The database will be accessible through Ovid this summer, and will also be part of Ovid�s new Web-based clinical information platform, Ovid on Call. The texts include four medical titles, four nursing titles and a concise pharmacy reference designed for clinicians. Details: Steve Hawe, Ovid Technologies; tel: 0181-748-3777; e-mail: shawe@ovid.com New resources for Ovid�s UK users Ovid Technologies Ltd have announced the addition of SPORTDiscus and ClinPSYC bibliographic databases, as well as the new full text Ovid Nursing Collection II: Lippincott premier nursing journals to the UK CHEST/Ovid Biomedical Service, which runs on a server at NISS under Ovid�s interface and is availble to all UK higher education institutions and NHS trusts subject to licensing. The service also comprises MEDLINE, CINAHL, CancerLit, Ovid�s Evidence-based Medicine Review, and six other Ovid full text collections. Details: http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/biomed/contents.html, or Steve Hawe, Ovid Technologies; tel: 0181-748-3777; e-mail: shawe@ovid.com New Internet Hubs for engineering and medical resources Heriot-Watt University, together with the University of Birmingham and Cranfield University, is launching the EMC Hub, which aid access to quality Internet resources in engineering, mathematics and computing. It will be funded by JISC as part of a national initiative to establish a co-ordinated Resource Discovery Network (RDN) across all disciplines. Details: Roddy MacLeod; Tel.: 0131-451-3576; E-mail: R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk; URL: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/emc.html The BIOME Hub will aid access to quality Internet resources in the health, medical and life sciences, and like the EMC Hub will be part of the JISC RDN. The service will be co-ordinated by the University of Nottingham, where OMNI is based. Details: John Kirriemuir; E-mail: jk@omni.ac.uk; URL: http://omni.ac.uk/newsletter/issue26/rdnc/ Details of the Resource Discovery Network: Lorcan Dempsey, E-mail: l.dempsey@ukoln.ac.uk; URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/l.dempsey.html Model NESLI Site licence The Model NESLI Site Licence has been approved for use by the NESLI Managing Agent by JISC�S NESLI Steering Group. It is being used as the basis for the site licence between the HEI and publishers for all deals being negotiated by the NESLI Managing Agent. The Model Licence is available in several formats from the NESLI Website at URL: http://www.nesli.ac.uk/nesli8.html Free electronic journals The Internet Free-Press Library Website includes links to about 300 electronic journals, in a number of different areas, the majority of which are free. Details: URL: http://www.free-press.com/ CatchWord journals now available in PDF CatchWord has recently relaunched its Website and now offers access to all journal articles in PDF as well as RealPage format. Details: URL: http://www.catchword.com/ Library and Information Commission (LIC) call for research proposals LIC has issued a general call for proposals for research projects that will contribute to the successful execution of its Research Plan 1999-2000. The full text of the call, and the Research Plan are available from the LIC Web site. Following from the Review of Digital Library Research, undertaken on its behalf by Professor Peter Brophy of CERLIM, and now nearing completion, the Commission is especially interested in proposals for research in the area of digital library research. Details: Simon Matty, LIC Information Officer, 19-29 Woburn Place, London WC1H 0LU; Tel.: 0171-273-8733; Fax: 0171-273-8701; E-mail: simon.matty@lic.gov.uk; URL: http://www.lic.gov.uk/ ASA news The Association of Subscription Agents has a new set of Guidelines for its members. The Guidelines regulate and inform the conditions of trade between ASA members and their customers, and publishers. They have been updated to cover electronic journals and other electronic products. The ASA will shortly be launching its Website, which will include a links page, at URL: http://www.subscription-agents.org/ Details: Rollo Turner; e-mail: rollo.turner@onet.co.uk Forum Zeitschriften/GeSIG The German-speaking Serials Interest Group (GeSIG): the Serials Initiative for Germany, Austria and Switzerland In the year 1999, more journals will be published than ever before. Digitization opens up new options for the production, the distribution, and the organization of data, in a dimension that had not been available to the market in the print era of journals. All the players of the serials market are called upon to co-operate in the organization of its future workflow and services. The term �market� is used here to cover the entire range of participants involved in the journal process, from the author, producer, distributor, mediator, to the end user. Journal is the collective term to include all serial publications, such as scholarly periodicals, public interest magazines, series, annuals, newspapers and electronic journals. In preparatory discussions with members of these interest groups, the following questions have been identified as a relevant and topical agenda:
The GeSIG considers itself a platform for the discussion of the above agenda and for the development of pertinent solutions. At a first meeting at the 1998 Frankfurt Bookfair, librarians and representatives of scholarly associations, subscription agents, book dealers, and publishers agreed that it is time to analyze all journal related issues by getting the participants of the entire serials market together around one table. In the course of the IuK (Information und Kommunikation) meeting in Regensburg on February 4 and 5 of 1999, a group was established under the name of Forum Zeitschriften / German Serials Interest Group (GeSIG). Invited to act as members of the founding board were: Klaus Bahmann, Springer Verlag; Anne Bein, Swets & Zeitlinger; Werner Stephan, Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart; Dr. Hartmut Walravens, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin. The initial meeting of approximately thirty participants agreed on the following action points:
The forum plans to act as an interest group on all possible levels of social, cultural, scholarly, economic and political significance. Its activities are planned to include project groups, workshops, and information management meetings. First suggestions for a work program and further details can be found at http://www.gesig.ub.uni-konstanz.de/ |
