Publisher News: “Over 600 Springer Nature journals commit to new data sharing policies”

Nature Journal News: “Over 600 Springer Nature journals commit to new data sharing policies””

Full story at: http://www.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/over-600-springer-nature-journals-commit-to-new-data-sharing-policies/11111248

Excerpt from announcement:

London, 6 December 2016

More than 600 journals across Nature Research, Springer, BioMed Central and Palgrave Macmillan have committed to encouraging good practice in the sharing and archiving and citation of research data by adopting new Springer Nature research data policies. The text of the policies has today been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license so that they can be re-used by the wider research community.

These easy-to-understand policies encourage the publication of more open and reproducible research, and aim to increase growth and innovation in research and data sharing. They improve services for authors, editors and peer reviewers by standardising policies and procedures, providing more consistent links between publications and data, guidelines and support. In addition, a dedicated Research Data Support Helpdesk for Springer Nature authors and editors has been created.

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Head of Data Publishing at Springer Nature said: “We want to make data sharing easier and more consistent, enabling our authors to publish better research and enable easier compliance with research funder policies.

Libraries Database News: “IET announces the release of arXiv content in Inspec”

Libraries Database News:

Researchers using arXiv for discovery will soon be able to search arXiv content as part of the Inspec database, and enjoy the sophisticated search functionality offered by the Engineering Village platform. Description of the Inspec database provided at the end of this posting.

Full press release for Inspec – arXiv integration at http://www.theiet.org/policy/media/press-releases/inspec-arxiv.cfm

13 September 2016

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that over 30,000 pre-print articles available in the online repository arXiv will be indexed in Inspec, the leading abstract and indexing database for physics and engineering. The addition of these articles, which will take place by the end of this year, will substantially increase the content held in Inspec, which currently holds over 16 million records, and deliver even greater access to cutting-edge research.

Inspec is the first engineering and physics database to index arXiv records, which include open-access e-prints in a variety of disciplines such as Applied Optics, Physics, Astronomy, Circuits and Computer Science. By including arXiv content in Inspec, researchers will now benefit from Inspec’s highly-curated, world-leading thesaurus, allowing users to query the records in a way they have not been able to before.

Information about Inspec: [From Inspec Fact Sheet ]

Containing almost 16 million records across multidisciplinary and subject specific research including physics, engineering, communications and computing, Inspec is one of the most definitive abstract and indexing databases available. Inspec indexes abstracts to a wide range of formats including journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, reports, patents, dissertations and even video allowing researchers to discover whatever content suits their needs. The platform is also home to a sizeable collection of unique content from all across the world, not found on any other database, representing a great wealth of potentially untapped information.

Inspec includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics.

Funding News for arXiv-NG: arXiv upgrade to be funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Introducing arXiv-NG [arXiv-Next Generation]

Full Story at https://www.library.cornell.edu/about/news/storiesnews/arxiv

Ithaca, N.Y. (Nov. 29, 2016)  – arXiv.org, the influential open access repository for global scientific research, will begin the first phrase of a three-year overhaul and modernization with the help of a $445,000 grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The Sloan Foundation grant will fund the creation of a detailed blueprint for next-generation arXiv – to be known as arXiv-NG – allowing planners to establish new partnerships, identify necessary resources and build a core development team to lead the modernization process.

Royal Society of Chemistry News: “Major society chemistry publishers jointly commit to integration with ORCID”

Scholarly  Publication News News: “Major society chemistry publishers jointly commit to integration with ORCID”.

Full story at: http://www.rsc.org/news-events/articles/2016/nov/major-society-chemistry-publishers-jointly-commit-to-integration-with-orcid/

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, AND WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2016 —
The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) today each became signatories to the ORCID Open Letter, reasserting the commitment of both organizations to enhancing the scholarly publishing experience for researchers worldwide who are involved in chemistry and allied fields.

The commitment by these two global chemistry publishers to undertake new workflow integration with technology infrastructure provided by ORCID, a not-for-profit organization that provides unique identifiers for researchers and scholars, will enable both societies to provide unambiguous designation of author names within chemistry and across the broader sciences. This partnership with ORCID will resolve ambiguity in researcher identification caused by name changes, cultural differences in name presentation, and the inconsistent use of name abbreviations that is too often a source of confusion for those who must rely on the published scientific record.

Scholarly Publication News: “Wiley Becomes First Major Publisher to Require ORCID IDs for Submitting Authors”

Wiley News – November 2016:   Authors submitting manuscripts to Wiley for publication will need to also provide an ORCID ID.

“Hoboken, NJ– November 28, 2016—John Wiley & Sons Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), announced today plans to require ORCID iDs as part of the manuscript submission process for a large number of journals. Beginning in winter 2016, more than 500 Wiley journals using ScholarOne Manuscripts will require the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript.”

Read more at http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-129824.html

Information at Orchid ID’s found at http://orcid.org/

“ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized.”

 

Elsevier signs interesting 5 year journal licensing agreement with UK’s Jisc Collections

Excerpts from full announcement that was published November 7, 2016:

“The UK’s research institutions and the world-leading provider of science, technology and medical information products and services signed today a landmark agreement granting academics access to globally-published, high-quality research at costs lower than the industry average. In addition, Jisc Collections and Elsevier have agreed to cooperate on several Open Science opportunities, leveraging Elsevier’s world class technology and analytics capabilities to help make science in the UK more collaborative, transparent, effective, and efficient.”

“The 5-year contract grants subscription access to around 1,850 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect e-platform.”

Read the full annoucement at: https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/jisc-collections-and-elsevier-sign-landmark-uk-agreement,-securing-access-to-research-publications-and-initiating-open-science-collaboration

FYI:  “Jisc Collections is the negotiation and licensing service that supports the procurement of digital content for higher education and research institutions in the UK.”

 

Research Data Management Seminars, hosted by the UVic Libraries – Fall 2016

The next set of Research Data Management Seminars, hosted by the UVic Libraries, will take place on the following dates in the McPherson Libraries Classroom 130.

  • Thursday, October 20, 2016         2:00pm -3:30pm
  • Tuesday, November 1, 2016        10:00am – 11:30am
  • Tuesday November 15, 2016       10:00am -11:30am

If you are planning on attending, and/or, are sending graduate students, please have everyone register to use the Data Management Planning Tool,  “DMP Assistant”, in advance of the workshop.

  • DMP Assistant: https://portagenetwork.ca/.
  • Select “Sign up” and follow the directions
  • You can theoretically use any email address
  • UVic is now listed as an Organization on the list, so chose UVic [rather than Portage]
  • We will set aside some time in the seminar for signing onto this tool and if you are already signed up it will streamline the timeline.

We hope to see you, and/or, your Grad students, at this Seminar!  The Seminar description is below.

Please forward this email to others in your Department  who may be interested.

Scientific Style and Format/The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers (8th edition, 2014)

New Style Guide added to UVic Libraries:

Scientific Style and Format/The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers (8th edition, 2014)

cse-style-guide-coverOnline edition: http://ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/login?url=http://www.scientificstyleandformat.org/Welcome.html

UVic Libraries Catalogue Record: http://voyager.library.uvic.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=3470712

Print edition: http://voyager.library.uvic.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=3483782
Available at Reference Desk: T11 S386 2014

Table of Contents: Publishing fundamentals — Elements of a scientific publication — Publication policies and practices — The basics of copyright — General style conventions — Alphabets, symbols, and signs — Punctuation and related marks — Spelling, word formation and division, plurals, and possessives — Prose style and word choice — Names and personal designations — Capitalization — Type styles, excerpts, quotations, and ellipses — Abbreviations — Numbers, units, mathematical expressions, and statistics — Time, dates, and age measurements — Geographic designations — Special scientific conventions — The electromagnetic spectrum — Subatomic particles, chemical elements, and related notations — Chemical formulas and names — Chemical kinetics and thermodynamics — Analytical chemistry — Drugs and pharmacokinetics — Genes, chromosomes, and related molecules — Taxonomy and nomenclature — Structure and function — Disease names — The Earth — Astronomical objects and time systems — Technical elements of publications — Journal style and format — Published media — References — Accessories to text: tables, figures, and indexes — Typography and manuscript preparation — Proof correction.

 

Web of Science – New Content Available

UVic’s suite of Web of Science products now includes:

Web of science Core Collection
Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Biosis Citation Index
Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods, instrumentation, and animal studies,

Current Contents Index
Complete tables of contents and bibliographic information from the world’s leading scholarly journals and books

Derwent Innovations Index
Value-added patent information from Derwent World Patent Index® as well as patent citation information from Patents Citation Index®.

Data Citation Index
Access an array of data across subjects and regions, providing a comprehensive picture of research output to understand data in context and maximize research efforts.

Medline
The U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) life sciences database.

SciELO
Get a more complete global picture by discovering new insights from research in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Africa.

Zoological Record
The world’s leading taxonomic reference and oldest continuing database of animal biology.

Coming soon:
Chinese Science Citation Database
Provides bibliographic information and citations to articles in 1200 core science and engineering journals published in the People’s Republic of China.