Today’s news has items about NISO, Google Scholar, Alexander Street Press, the National Archives and Wiley.
NISO Launches Open Discovery Initiative
NISO has recently voted to accept the Open Discovery Initiative as a work group within its structure. Evolving from a meeting at the annual ALA Conference in New Orleans, the Open Discovery Initiative consisted of librarians, publishers, and other stakeholders concerned with the development of index based discovery systems like Summon, Primo Central, EBSCO Discovery Services and OCLC’s WorldCat Local. According to this article, NISO is now seeking to “constitute the membership and establish the leadership of the work group. Individuals interested in participating in the initiative should contact Nettie Lagace (nlagace@niso.org). A mailing list has been established at www.niso.org/lists/opendscovery/.”
Google Scholar Opens Up Its Citations
Google Scholar is now offering a free citation service that Google claims is “a simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and track them over time.” The system uses “the widely used h-index; the i-10 index, which is simply the number of articles with at least ten citations; and, of course, the total number of citations to your articles.”
This article also mentions that Microsoft Academic Search has made some impressive enhancements, a development first noted by Gary Price in INFOdocket.
Alexander Street Press Introduces Academic Video Store
“Alexander Street Press announced the launch of the Academic Video Store, with more than 1,400 individual video titles covering a broad range of subjects… Now, for the first time, they are available in streaming format. The store is expected to grow to more than 7,500 titles by the end of 2012.” Titles can be purchased conveniently using a credit card giving instructors and librarians the ability to purchase a video minutes before needing it for a class – while at the same time purchasing it for use by their entire institution.
National Archives to Release 1940 Census Free Online on April 2, 2012
“The National Archives today announced its selection of Inflection, parent company to family history web site Archives.com, to design and host a free web site for the April 2, 2012, at 9 AM (EST) launch of the 1940 U.S. Census. This is the first time that the National Archives has released a U.S. Census online.”
Wiley-VCH Launches New Journal Advanced Healthcare Materials
“Wiley-VCH today announced the launch of the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials, a new international scientific journal dedicated to publishing all aspects of materials science in medicine and biotechnology.”
According to Dr. José Oliveira, the Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Healthcare Materials, “Our mission is to publish the very best work in the field of materials science aimed at promoting human health.” Dr. Lorna Stimson, Deputy Editor obviously agrees and feels that “The Advanced journals series is the ideal platform for reaching a broad and multidisciplinary readership that expects top quality and relevance from the content we publish.”
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