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Commercial digest (2 messages) Bob Persing 15 Feb 2013 18:31 UTC

Commercial Digest, a once a week digest of messages containing
informational content from commercial bodies (i.e., publishers, vendors,
agents, etc.)

This week's digest contains 2 messages:
1) Serials Solutions' Summon Service Receives Most Innovative Technology
of the Year Award
2) Creative Commons License to Apply to All Open Access Content
Published by De Gruyter

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Message #1:

Subject: Serials Solutions' Summon Service Receives Most Innovative
Technology of the Year Award
From: "Goetz, Christine" <Christine.Goetz@serialssolutions.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:40:36 -0500

Serials Solutions’ Summon Service Receives Most Innovative Technology of
the Year Award

Serials Solutions’ Summon® discovery service was awarded the Most
Innovative Technology of the Year at the Asia Digital Publishing Summit
and Awards (ADPSA) organized by the Consultancy. The award recognizes
companies who have demonstrated an unparalleled ability to succeed and
have continually set standards of excellence.

Boe Horton, Vice President of Sales Asia Pacific for ProQuest, was at
the event in Beijing, China to accept the award on behalf of Serials
Solutions. “We are very pleased that Summon has been awarded the Most
Innovative Technology of the Year by ADPSA. ProQuest is committed to
serving the Chinese market with a complete and compelling discovery
experience expressly designed to meet the needs and expectations of
today’s users.”

The Summon unified index now includes more than one billion searchable
items. Chinese-language content has contributed to the growth of the
index, including e-books from Apabi, journal content from Hyweb
Technology, and metadata for dissertations and theses from CALIS.

To aid in the discovery of Chinese-language content, the Summon service
offers advanced native language searching capabilities and
language-tuned relevancy for 17 languages including simplified and
traditional Chinese. Recent enhancements to the service include updating
the Chinese name dictionary to improve personal and organizational name
searching and Chinese titles and authors can now be searched with Pinyin
separated with spaces at the character level.

The Summon service is optimized for the discovery of content across the
library’s collection. Ground-breaking achievements in discovery
delivered by the Summon service last year include item-level
discipline-scoped searching and Summon® Suggestions, a suite of features
that provides contextual research assistance to guide users to better
scholarly research and learning outcomes.

About Serials Solutions
Serials Solutions helps libraries work better by providing innovative,
practical Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for discovery and
management, driven by a comprehensive knowledgebase and unparalleled
client support services.

Media Contact: Christine Goetz, Public Relations Manager,
christine.goetz@serialssolutions.com

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Message #2:

Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Creative Commons License to Apply to All Open
Access Content Published by De Gruyter
From: <Ulrike.Lippe@degruyter.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:06:07 +0100

PRESS RELEASE

Creative Commons License to Apply to All Open Access Content Published
by De Gruyter

Berlin, 14 February 2013 – Effective immediately De Gruyter and Versita
will be publishing all Open Access content under the uniform application
of Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. This means that publications
may be copied, disseminated, and otherwise made public by users under
the following conditions:

- The name of the author/copyright owner must be mentioned in the manner
requested by the author/copyright owner.

- The publication and its content may not be used in its Open Access
format for commercial purposes.

- The publication and its content may not be edited, modified, or
otherwise changed.

Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND is already the basis for the
publishing contract concluded just days ago between De Gruyter and the
Max Planck Society for the publication of Open Access books.

"With the use of this publication standard De Gruyter is catering to the
wishes of researchers and scientific institutions. It provides for the
widest possible dissemination of content while also ensuring that the
rights of the copyright owners are protected," says Sven Fund, CEO of De
Gruyter. "The uniform application of the CC-BY license offers authors a
reliable foundation for publishing their works. It also enables them to
apply for grants and subsidies without undue administrative effort."

In 2012 De Gruyter and Versita published over 10,000 Open Access
articles in some 300 journals. Since 2009 a large number of books and
book chapters have also been published under the Open Access standard.
In addition to publication in dedicated Open Access journals, De Gruyter
and Versita offer OA publication in established subscription journals
(so-called Hybrid Open Access).

Contact
Ulrike Lippe
Public Relations Manager
Tel. +49 (0)30-260 05 153
ulrike.lippe@degruyter.com

De Gruyter: The academic publishing house De Gruyter can look back on a
history spanning over 260 years. The Berlin-based group of companies
releases over 850 new titles each year in the fields of medicine, the
humanities, natural sciences, and law, in addition to more than 600
journals and digital media publications. www.degruyter.com

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