Elsevier Panel focuses on access to scientific research in developing countries
Elsevier sponsored a panel discussion recently at Europe’s largest interdisciplinary science conference.
"Bridging the Digital Divide by 2015: partnering to provide the developing world with critical research” was presented July 19 at the 3rd EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF 2008) in Barcelona, Spain. The conference drew over 5,000 scientists, researchers, journalists and decision-makers to discuss the latest trends in science.
Organising this event is one of many ways in which Elsevier has worked to promote the UN programs this past year. At the HINARI-AGORA-OARE General Partners meeting held in Washington, D.C. in July, Director of Corporate Relations Shira Tabachnikoff presented the public relations strategy and strong media coverage the programs have received, including a spot on CNBC World Business News in May. She also launched the Research4Life brand, which will be used to promote the programs to media, funding bodies and potential new partners.
For more on the panel, visit www.esof2008.org September 17, 2008
Article 2.0 Contest gives participants the opportunity to personalize the presentation of an online journal article
What if you were the publisher?
The migration of print to electronic content is presenting new opportunities for creativity. Using Web functionalities, users can create formats that allow them to read articles in different ways and collaborate with one another. With this in mind, Elsevier Labs is featuring a contest incorporating the participatory and interactive themes of today’s Internet, often referred to as Web 2.0.
The Article 2.0 Contest gives participants control over the rendering of online scientific and medical research articles, allowing them to present them in ways that meet their specific needs. Normally, our products assemble an article and deliver it to our customers as a finished product,” said Darin McBeath, Director of Disruptive Technology, based in Cincinnati. “With this contest, we are giving users the parts, or building blocks, of the article and telling them to put it together however they like.”
The initiative ties into Elsevier’s strategy of getting closer to customers and delivering innovative online tools that help them become more productive. “The contest should give us insight into the outcomes customers are trying to achieve,” said Stacy Studzinski, Elsevier Labs Program Management, based in Dayton. “By looking at how users render this material, we can learn how to tailor our products to more directly meet customer needs.” The contest is open to anyone 18 years or older, except Reed Elsevier employees and their immediate family members.
The website provides 3 sample applications to help stimulate interest among possible entrants. For example:
• The Reference 2.0 sample application allows users to swiftly determine the publication years, authors, and journals of an article’s references. The user can view the references from these different vantage points and present the references within the context of the article.
• With the Image 2.0 sample application, users can view all images from an article displayed as thumbnails at the top of the page. When an image is selected, the full size version is displayed, along with each paragraph containing a reference to the.image.
•Tag Cloud 2.0 allows users to view an article’s top 100 adjacent terms (bigrams) in a tag cloud on the right side of the page. When a bigram is clicked on, all paragraphs containing the relevant bigram are displayed.
More than 7,500 articles from 30 journals will be made available to contestants. Participants will be evaluated by a panel of judges selected by Elsevier. Judges will base their decisions on the entries’ creativity, ease-of-use, value-add and quality. The contest opened September 1 and will run until December 31. Around the end of January, a first-, second- and third-place winner will be selected. Winners will receive $4,000, $2,000 and $1,000 (USD).
ScienceDirect has introduced Document Download Manager
ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s online STM platform, today announced that it has partnered with QUOSA to introduce the Document Download Manager, a new feature that enables researchers to download multiple full-text articles simultaneously.
With Document Download Manager researchers can initiate the download of up to 20 PDF versions of full-text research articles from any results list with much fewer clicks. In an example of time-saving, downloading five articles now takes only seven clicks instead of 21. The Download Manager enables researchers to automatically name downloaded full-text articles according to their own naming convention and pre-select a preferred destination for downloads. This helps reduce the irritation factor of lost files, and makes the process much more intuitive.
The Document Download Manager will significantly save time on some of the repetitive and laborious tasks involved in research today. “We are committed to making the research process more efficient and helping researchers’ increase their productivity, and the Download Manager is a feature that significantly reduces time spent on gathering and organizing information” comments Rafael Sidi, Vice President, Product Management, ScienceDirect.
Elsevier at the forefront of Environmental Science publishing
With the addition of several journals to the energy portfolio and the continued publication of key environmental science books, Elsevier stands at the forefront of Environmental Science publishing, producing over 300 environmental publications that are used by researchers, corporations and policymakers.
Mark Gough, Environment and Health & Safety Coordinator for Reed Elsevier in London, said Elsevier’s green publications "are not just being used by academics, but by decision-makers who are formulating policy on climate change...It’s the area of our greatest impact.”
One of the most important new titles is the International Journal of Green House Gas Control, launched last year. It addresses developments in greenhouse gas control in the power, manufacturing and production industries and ties in with the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).
Among book titles, one of the most prominent and bestselling is the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, a five-volume set that addresses the abundance, variety and genetic constitution of native plants and animals. Its target market consists of researchers, nonprofit groups, and industries with an interest in conserving natural resources.
August 8, 2008
The Elsevier Foundation is seeking grant proposals for its Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries and New Scholars programs
Grant proposals for the programs are due by September 15, 2008. The grants will be awarded in December 2008 and provide one, two and three year awards between US$5,000 and US$50,000 per year.
The program for Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries helps libraries enhance the quality of life in developing countries by improving their ability put scientific, technical and medical information to work for those who need it.
The New Scholars program helps the academic and research communities create model programs to help scholars in the early stages of their careers balance childcare and family responsibilities with the demanding academic careers in science, health and technology.
Plagiarism detection software, CrossCheck, to be implemented after successful pilot
Elsevier will implement CrossCheck, the plagiarism detection service offered by CrossRef in collaboration with iParadigms. With plagiarism a growing problem for journal editors, Elsevier has invested in CrossCheck to develop, pilot and implement, a single database of published articles enabling publishers to easily verify the originality of submitted and published work. After a successful six months pilot with eight leading publishers, Elsevier has integrated CrossCheck into its editorial workflows as part of its efforts to support the peer review process and assist the scientific community in all aspects of publishing ethics. Elsevier will contribute nearly nine million journal articles to the CrossCheck database, which is launching with a commitment of over 20 million journal articles from publishers including the Association for Computing Machinery, American Society of Neuroradiology, BMJ Publishing Group, Elsevier, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, International Union of Crystallography, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Sage, Informa UK (Taylor & Francis), and Wiley Blackwell.
Elsevier launches Publishing Connect - a program to support publisher-run workshops at universities
Elsevier recently introduced the Publishing Connect program. The program supports publishers in running workshops on various publishing topics at institutes.
Continued education is important for increasing understanding of the scholarly communication process and therefore publishing staff may use the opportunity of a visit to an university or institute to organise a Publishing Connect Workshop. Currently the following modules are delivered: Introduction to Scholarly Publishing, How to Get Published in Scientific Journals, How to Review a Paper, Measuring Journal and Research Prestige and Author’s Rights and Responsibilities.
May 30, 2008
Reed Elsevier announces the sale of three remaining defence exhibitions
Reed Elsevier has sold three defence exhibitions, DSEi, ITEC and LAAD to Clarion Events. This concludes Reed Elsevier's withdrawal from the defence exhibitions sector announced last year.
Scopus announces launch of the Scopus Journal Analyzer
Scopus has announced the launch of the Scopus Journal Analyzer, a new feature available to all subscribers that enables users to easily evaluate and compare journals using article and citation data. This new feature empowers researchers and librarians by providing them with a quick and transparent overview of the performance of individual journals.
The Lancet launches child-survival report in South Africa
The Lancet launched its special edition on maternal and child mortality last month at a conference of policymakers, elected officials and health experts from around the world.
The Countdown to 2015 took place during the 118th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union April 17 to 19 in Cape Town. The objective of the Countdown conference was to mobilise policymakers to take action that will lead to achieving the Millennium Development Goals on maternal and child health set by the United Nations.
The Lancet’s report, “Countdown to 2015 – an update on maternal and child mortality,” focuses on the 68 countries that have 97% of the world’s maternal and child deaths, and examines interventions that have been proven to improve maternal, newborn and child survival. It concludes that less than a quarter of these nations are on track to reaching the millennium goals for maternal and child mortality. While some countries, notably China, have made significant progress, many more, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, have seen no progress or even reversals of progress. The Lancet concludes that rapid progress in many of these nations is achievable and would get them on track.
At the conference, Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, praised the Countdown process, begun in 2003, as “a model for collaboration, evaluation and action that has valuable lessons for many other domains in public health.” But he described the
progress as “strikingly inadequate.”
“Children and mothers are dying because those who have the power to prevent their deaths choose not to act,” he said. “This indifference — by politicians, policymakers, donors, research funders and civil society — is a betrayal of our collective hope for a stronger and more just society, one that values every life no matter how young or hidden from public view that life might be ... We should not accept this pervasive disrespect for human life. We have a voice, a platform, and a constituency that should be an instrument for radical change.”
Elsevier's contributions help spur scientific activity in developing world
Elsevier collaborates with other scientific publishers and the World Health Organisation to provide free and low-cost health research to developing nations. Research now shows that these U.N.-sponsored programs are having a significant impact on advancing scientific discovery and output in these regions.
The HINARI Access to Research Initiative brings together the world’s leading publishers to enable countries with the fewest resources to build their scientific capabilities and solve key challenges, such as disease control. A recent impact analysis conducted by Elsevier shows that researchers in countries with HINARI have been publishing their findings in international peer-reviewed journals at a rate well over the increase seen in the rest of the world.
“This comparison clearly indicates the massive impact the HINARI has had on the participant countries’ ability to participate in the global scientific community,” said Andrew Plume, Ph.D., Senior Publishing Information Manager for Research and Academic Relations.
As part of our continuous efforts to provide excellent customer service, we have upgraded our online help. Developed with the input of Editors, Authors and Reviewers, our enhanced help site has a more intuitive site layout and an enhanced search functionality, as well as information on a variety of editorial and production topics. Favourite features of the current online help site, such as EES Interactive Tutorials, FAQs and an e-mail link to the Customer Support team, are also available. The upgrade will also see the addition of new features including solution finders (a decision tree tool) and, from April 2008, a live chat option – enabling live and online interaction with our Support team.
The upgraded help site was implemented to a pilot group of journals on Monday March 31st 2008. It can be accessed from the Help and Contact Us links on the journal’s EES site. Roll out to all journals will commence following a 4 week performance assessment for the initial pilot.
The peer review process is a cornerstone of scholarly communication because it subjects authors’ manuscripts to the scrutiny of other experts in the field. It’s behind the publication of research in respected scientific journals, such as those of Elsevier.
In recent years, however, there has been debate concerning its effectiveness. Proponents of peer review point out that much of the discussion has focused on fraud, while some of it has been misinformed or based on opinions rather than facts.
To promote a more balanced, objective discussion, Elsevier, through its participation in the Publishing Research Consortium (PRC), supported a study examining peer review. More than 3,000 researchers, editors and reviewers from a range of disciplines participated in the online survey, competed in November.
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) announces partnership with Elsevier
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) has announced its partnership with Elsevier. More than 2000 journals, the full collection of Health Sciences and Science&Technology journals published by Elsevier have been added to the list of COPE members.
"Our editors face an increasing number of cases of plagiarism and unethical publishing behaviour. As publishing ethics is a major aspect of the peer-review process, we’re delighted to announce the partnership with COPE which can act as a sounding board for all our editors seeking for an external authoritative opinion on difficult cases", said Martin Tanke, Managing Director, Elsevier S&T Journals Publishing.
Editors from Elsevier can benefit from attending the COPE meetings, scheduled every three months, to discuss complex ethical problems which have arisen during the publication process. They will also have access to other editors, their peers, to examine cases of publishing misconduct. In addition, they will be able to use the information and educational services that COPE is developing.
“We are very pleased to have the support of such a major publisher,” said Dr Harvey Marcovitch, chairman of COPE. “It shows that COPE is receiving growing support among publishers – and this in turn will enable us to improve the standards of publications worldwide.”
Grants to foster health & economic advancement in the developing world and help new scholars
The Elsevier Foundation is awarding 13 grants to libraries and academic institutions from around the world in support of their initiatives in science, technology and medicine. Recipients were selected for their innovative proposals and their potential to impact the developing world and the academic workplace. The awards total $594,000 (USD).
Six grants are from the Foundation’s Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program, which helps libraries build their capacity to use STM information to promote health and economic advancement. The awardees are working in Africa, Latin America and Asia to improve access to scientific information and train librarians and researchers to use and deploy information for health care and research, AIDS prevention, disaster preparedness and agricultural development.
One grant will allow an organization in Africa to apply new technology to farming. Martin Roberts, Programmes Director or FARM-Africa, said: “The Elsevier Foundation has been visionary in supporting this programme marrying new technology and grass roots learning to reduce rural poverty for farmers. … We hope that this initial support can help transform resources to assist farmers to improve their food security in the long term.”
Under its New Scholars program, the Foundation has awarded seven grants in support of initiatives that help scholars in science and technology balance childcare and family responsibilities.
“The Elsevier Foundation is always seeking out new ideas and models to advance the role of science, technology and medicine in addressing critical human needs,” said Y.S. Chi, Vice Chairman of Elsevier. “Whether they are working to put essential scientific information to work in the developing world or helping to encourage and support a new generation of scholars, we are fortunate to have the opportunity to help these committed institutions create new solutions to some of the world’s most important challenges.”
New platforms for the sharing of medical knowledge
With WiserWiki and a new Facebook application, Elsevier’s innovators are testing new platforms for the sharing of medical knowledge
Two new Elsevier’s new Internet offerings offer free content to patients and the public: a medical wiki filled with information on all kinds of diseases and disorders, and a Patient Research application on Facebook that lets people view abstracts in Elsevier’s Health Science journals.
Both sites are still in beta mode. They are allowing Elsevier to test a rapidly changing market driven by the growing popularity of Web 2.0, social media and user-generated content.
“No one knows the best answer to publishing and disseminating information under this new medium,” said Scott Virkler, VP of Web Search Strategy. “But we do know it’s critical to learn about these new technologies and test them.”
“For health articles, there’s a much bigger group of non-health professionals who are interested in our content than we thought,” Scott said. “We tend to think that only the doctors and the research professionals care about our stuff, but that’s clearly not the case.”
4 February 2008
ScienceDirect usage for 2007 exceeds expectations
ScienceDirect achieved 386 million downloads in 2007 – 23 million over the projected target and far exceeding the 18 million downloads achieved in 2000, when article downloads were first recorded.
The steady growth was supplemented by a quicker-than-expected roll-out of Elsevier’s articles in Google’s search results.
“We should not forget what usage represents,” said Joep Verheggen, Director of ScienceDirect. “And that’s not just article downloads – it’s researchers getting access to information that is forming the basis for critical developments in all fields.”
The most downloaded item of 2007 (107,077 downloads) was a 2005 Bioresource Technology paper: Application of the ADM1 model to advanced anaerobic digestion. ADM1 was found to be a powerful tool for predicting the behaviour of anaerobic digesters – an important discovery with a positive environmental impact.
“I believe that the success of this paper results from a ‘perfect storm’ of driving forces,” said Wayne Parker, author of the paper. “Anaerobic digestion of organics is of growing interest because of its potential to generate bio-gas as a renewable alternative fuel.”
The usage target for 2008 will be at least 450 million downloads. “It’s more than just a number,” Joep said, “It’s a sign of how many new research breakthroughs Elsevier is helping to disseminate.”
www.sciencedirect.com
January 18, 2008.
New font system for science and math symbols
STIX Fonts, a free system of 8,000+ symbols, is now available.
A group of scientific publishers, including Elsevier, have created a font system that makes it easy to insert math and science symbols into text, representing a major breakthrough in scientific, technical and medical publishing. The Scientific and Technical Information Exchange fonts – known as STIX Fonts – alleviate the need to assemble symbols from a variety of fonts. On websites, characters are properly rendered regardless of the fonts installed on a particular computer.
The project was proposed by Elsevier in 1995. Five publishers worked with Elsevier to design, fund and manage it: the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the American Mathematical Society, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Recently, Elsevier learned of the acute shortage of quality medical books at Iraq’s 20 medical schools. Jack Farrell, head of the Philanthropy Committee for the American Medical Publishers Committee, had sent a letter to medical publishers asking for book donations. Elsevier sent 1,460. At Elsevier, Brian Nairn, CEO, Health Sciences Division, received the letter and set the project in motion. The effort was led by Linda Belfus, Senior Vice President, US Global Medicine; and Glen Campbell, Senior Vice President, US Health Sciences Journals. The Elsevier Foundation shipped the books to the Brother’s Brother Foundation in Pittsburgh, which is shipping them to Iraq.
*New* Reference Linking - seamless click-through access to abstracts
In December we will begin implementing reference linking- seamless click-through access to abstracts of referenced articles.
Hyperlinks to the abstracts of referenced articles will be listed after each reference, enabling reviewers to check the reference directly. The integration is seamless; by clicking on the link you are automatically* be brought to abstract.
This development does not involve any changes to submission process… only improvements! Authors are not required to do anything additional or use particular systems or applications to ensure that the references in their manuscript are linked, as this happens automatically.
Reference linking supports and enhances the process of peer review. The amount of time reviewers spend searching and checking references and citations will be reduced. As reference checks will be more automated, the quality of the reviewers’ reports, the published work and perhaps the peer review process itself will be improved.
We continue to deepen the integration of the editorial process – submission and peer review, reference checking, and the published work - by bringing our tools and systems closer together to support our editors, reviewers and authors.
In 2008, we will expand the integration of EES and Scopus to include ScienceDirect, enabling seamless click through to the full text of the referenced articles. Another step forward in positioning EES as a complete editorial work bench
* Reviewers may be required to activate their 30 day access period. Editors do not need to activate their access period (when logged in and recognised as an editor in EES) and have access for an unlimited time.
The ScienceDirect journal homepages are now appearing on search results in Google, leading to higher page rankings and more exposure for Elsevier content.
21 September, 2007
Part of an ongoing process, this latest development represents the outcome of a project, released in April, to make the ScienceDirect journal homepages crawlable through Google.
Separate from the indexing of the full text of the articles – due to complete in autumn – this development will help drive usage when searches are performed on journal title names and other associated keywords across any search engines that have indexed ScienceDirect.com.
Google ranking depends on several factors including the quality and quantity of third-party linking to pages – the more high-quality links, the higher the ranking in Google. Plans to further optimise ScienceDirect to better leverage Google’s ranking algorithm should help increase ranking for all Elsevier journal homepages over time.
Publisher-author initiative results in lifting of restrictions on authors from Cuba, Iran and Sudan
August 29, 2007.
In response to a lawsuit filed in cooperation with author advocacy group, PEN, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has revised regulations that prohibited Americans from publishing works written by authors in publications from countries considered a threat to national security.
Publishers commit to bringing free access to scientific research to developing world
July 18, 2007
At a ceremony held in Washington, D.C., Elsevier and other publishers extended their commitment to the UN program to provide online access to research for more than 100 of the world’s poorest countries.
In a World Health Organization (WHO) survey conducted in 2000, researchers and academics in developing countries ranked access to subscription journals as one of their most pressing problems.
To address this disparity, more than 100 publishers, including Elsevier, Springer and Blackwell and three UN organizations have renewed their commitment to programs that provide free, or almost free, access to online peer-reviewed journals.
Emphasizing the company’s commitment to the program Vice Chairman, Y.S. Chi comments, “The gap in income and education should not be a reason for the increasing distance between the developed and less developed nations. Science, technology and medicine are areas that can lift a nation out of such situations to sustainable growth and prosperity.”
2006 Citation Reports indicate Elsevier journal quality continues to improve
July 12, 2007
This year over 65% of Elsevier's journals increased in Impact Factor, ahead of major competitors including Wiley-Blackwell, Springer and Taylor & Francis Informa; a tribute to continued efforts to forge stronger relationships with editors and authors.
The Impact Factor — a measure of the citations to science and social science journals — is frequently used as a measure of the importance of a journal to its field. The 2006 Impact Factor of a journal measures the average number of times papers published in 2004 and 2005 were cited in articles published in 2006.
CEO Erik Engstrom said: “The continued increase in Impact Factors across our journals in both Science & Technology and Health Sciences demonstrates progress in building world class content, reflecting the dedicated effort of our publishing staff to establish closer relationships with editors.”
Editor's idea realised: Procedures Consult benefits patients, doctors and medical institutions
July 5, 2007
The first-of-its-kind product, which launched this week, started as an editor’s idea and grew into a year-long collaborative Health Sciences (HS) project involving input from more than 100 educators, residents and medical students.
Doctors looking to maintain their skills and knowledge have a new, easy way to access important reference content. Procedures Consult is an online multimedia reference and training tool that helps medical residents, students and physicians prepare for, perform and test their knowledge of top medical procedures. The product features include 24/7-access to videos of high-risk, high-volume procedures, plus animation, illustrations and step-by-step instructional text.
To learn more about the product, visit the website at www.ProceduresConsult.com.
New social bookmarking site ‘2collab’ goes beta
June 07
New collaboration tool allows researchers and academics to rate and tag bookmarks, which will help stimulate networking in the wider scientific community.
The product is specifically aimed at the professional research community who depend on finding relevant scientific, technical and medical information. Similar social networking tools exist, but none with a focus on encouraging research collaboration.
Unlike storing your “Favorites” in your browser, 2collab allows you to store your bookmarks on a platform that is free and accessible to everyone. “But the real benefit is you can also share these resources on the tool,” says Michiel. “You can set up private or public groups and share your bookmarks with them, encouraging networking, discussion and collaboration.”
A common scenario is that if a researcher is writing an article with co-authors around the globe, he or she can store in 2collab any bookmarks for related articles so his or her colleagues can access them. The bookmarks can be tagged with keywords so they’re easy to find. And, best of all, users can start discussions by commenting on and rating these bookmarks. This makes collaboration more efficient and reduces long email strings that can become too convoluted.
The site is integrated with Scopus and ScienceDirect, so users add information in one-click to 2collab.
This week 2collab was launched as a beta. While anyone can visit and use the tool, our primary focus is the 30 academic and government institutes who are Development Partners of Scopus and ScienceDirect.
Elsevier Foundation announces two new grant programs
June 2007
The grants benefit institutions around the world, with a focus on support for the world’s libraries, and scholars in the early stages of their careers.
The Elsevier Foundation has launched two new programs to support the communities we serve: the Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries Program and the New Scholars Program.
“These programs are part of our commitment to contributing to the health and science communities in meaningful ways,” says David Ruth, Director, Corporate Relations. “Both programs concentrate on an area where we believe we can have an impact by making a focused contribution to an identified need.”
Requests for proposals for the new programs began in some of our journals last week and will continue through 1 October. The grants will be awarded in December.
Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries Program
This program provides grants to enhance developing world libraries’ capacity in the fields of science (including the social sciences), technology and medicine (STM). The Foundation will provide grants to libraries in the developing countries and supporting organizations in the following areas:
• Programs that enhance library infrastructure, technology or information services in ways that significantly enhance their ability to make STM information available.
• Programs that enhance or expand library information resources in the developing world through digitization or preservation of information that advances science, health, the environment, and indigenous knowledge.
• Training and education programs, for library staff, students or researchers, contributing to sustainable improvements in the library’s capacity to provide STM information in the developing world.
• Partnerships between libraries in the developing countries and institutions in the developed countries to provide technical assistance or training.
“We are looking to our colleagues with librarian contacts in the developed world to help us promote this program and identify good candidates for collaboration,” says David.
New Scholars Program
This program gives priority to the efforts of the academic and research community to address the challenge of balancing childcare and family responsibilities with demanding careers in science, technology and health.
The challenge of managing family responsibilities has been identified as a particular obstacle to recruiting, retaining and developing new academics and researchers, particularly women. This program focuses on doctoral candidates and scientists in the first five years of their post-doctoral careers.
“We want to support the efforts of societies, universities and departments in helping scientists with childcare and other family responsibilities when attending the scientific conferences, meetings, workshops and symposia that are critical to establishing a career in science,” says David.
The Foundation provides one–, two– and three–year grants to non-profit academic and research institutions, learned societies, professional associations, and governmental and non-governmental organizations in the following areas:
• Programs that enable scientists to attend conferences, meetings, workshops and symposia that are critical to career development by helping them with childcare and other family responsibilities.
• Programs that, as part of an institutional commitment to advancing women in science, provide support to promising new scientists to attend scientific gatherings.
• Programs that encourage networking and mentorship within the institutions and disciplines in ways that support the challenges of faculty and staff with family responsibilities.
• Research, advocacy, and policy development to advance knowledge, awareness and application of programs to retain, recruit and develop women in science.
To learn more about the challenges of young scholars, read a seminal study, Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, available free online at www.nap.edu/catalog/11741.html#toc.
Leading research libraries and corporations worldwide join eBooks trial
May 2007
The trial that began 9 May provides participants with access to 500 of the 4,000 scientific and technical books to be launched on ScienceDirect in the third quarter.
