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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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/

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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. Sara Rouhi
Manager, Library Relations | ACS Publications
1155 16th St., NW | Washington | DC 20036
http://pubs.acs.org/4librarians
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ACS Chemistry for Life

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