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It is a very exciting time to be a part of the global research community.The community is itself rapidly evolving as the research enterprisebecomes more complex than ever before. As librarians andpublishers, we must evolve as well. I strongly believe that in

doing so we will be able to create unique and powerful new waysto help researchers become more productive and more effective.

There are two trends that are particularly challenging for researchers and the globalresearch community. First is the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of research. Theonce rigid lines that divided traditional research disciplines have grown indistinct.Researchers are venturing into new realms of scientific exploration that actively forcethe intersection of traditional disciplines. The result is that every day whole new fieldsof research are emerging that our community must be ready to support and nurture.

The second trend is the increasingly global nature of research. Research outputs arecoming from every corner of the globe, most notably from emerging economies.China, for example, is now the world’s second-largest producer of academic researchoutputs. Other developing countries, including Brazil, India and Iran, have shownmarked increases in research outputs as well. While I am sure that the burgeoningglobalization of research will benefit science in myriad ways, it comes with inevitablegrowing pains. The quantity of research output is not necessarily correlated withquality, and researchers are constantly challenged to find the best, most relevantinformation from an increasingly diverse range of sources and content.

Although changes often bring new hurdles for our community to overcome, we haveevery reason to be optimistic. Changes like these present us with exciting opportunitiesto better serve our community, as long as we are able to think creatively and stepoutside of traditional paradigms.

This issue of Library Connect offers valuable information about the two trends I’veintroduced here. I encourage you to closely follow these trends, which are redefiningthe scholarly community as we know it.

Best regards,YoungSuk “Y.S.” ChiVice Chairman and CEO S&T, Elsevier, New York, NY, USA

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Y.S. Chi

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Welcome

ORCID aims to help identify researchers and their workVarious members of the publishing and research community are collaborating to developan open, independent identification system for scholarly authors which would become theindustry standard. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) aims to create a central

registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers andan open and transparent linking mechanism betweenORCID and other current author ID schemes. Theseidentifiers and the relationships among them can be linked

to researchers’ output and so enhance the scientific discovery process and improvethe efficiency of research funding and collaboration within the research community.

ORCID’s mission is to resolve author-name ambiguity. The collaborators believe suchresolution is essential for the transition to e-science. The disambiguation of authors'names would also allow stakeholders in scholarly communication to build newservices for the research community.

Elsevier is among the close to 80 organizations that have joined the effort. The otherparticipants include the ACM, AIP, British Library, CrossRef, EMBO, MIT Libraries,Nature Publishing Group, PLoS, SAGE Publications, Springer, Thomson Reuters,Wellcome Trust and Wiley-Blackwell. LC

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Theme: International & Interdisciplinary

In this issuefeatures2 International and interdisciplinary:

A trend likely to become more important

3 Interdisciplinary perspective of research performanceis a global competitive advantage

3 What nations have Library Connect Newsletterauthors represented?

4 At our university in China, the library takes a leading rolein enriching students’ international learning experience

5 A possible challenge for international collaboration?Facial expressions may get lost in translation

6 Research without borders: Supporting andfacilitating interdisciplinary research

7 How to generate enthusiasm and fuel advocacy for libraries?Hold a competition to generate messages in theuniversal language of video

on the road8 Toronto seminar connects researchers, librarians

and senior academic management

8 India’s premier institutions walk away with Scopus Awards

9 The Chinese research community honors “rising stars”

9 Humboldt University’s new Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum benefits from Elsevier donation

community connections10 The journey so far: Elsevier Foundation grants and

Research4Life are helping support scientific advancementat Nigeria’s University of Port Harcourt

11 2009 Elsevier Foundation grants distribute$600,000 worldwide

solutions news12 Moving chemical safety information to the workbench:

Hazmat Navigator helps manage and prevent emergency events

13 Engaging nursing and health professions studentswith eBooks: Pageburst bursts upon the scene

staying connected14 Talking with Ove Kähler about Scopus

and local-language content

14 What do you think about this newsletter going e-only?We hope you’ll tell us!

15 TrainingDesk Flash: Does TrainingDesk offer resourcesin languages other than English?

15 Where can you find Elsevier staff, worldwide?

16 Doctors Without Borders physicians benefitfrom free access to MD Consult

16 Upcoming Events 2010

Assessing research performance and value:Research Connect Seminar at Louisiana State Universitycovers a lot of ground

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Over recent years wehave seen a definitetrend toward universityresearch becomingmore international,with researchersworking togetheracross the globe. At the

same time, research has become moreinterdisciplinary, with researchers froma range of backgrounds and disciplinesworking on common projects. A numberof factors have encouraged this change.

As scientific research becomes moresophisticated, traditional discipline-specificstructures inhibit progress. The boundarieson which scientists have organized theirwork evolved historically within universitiesand have been reinforced by funders,but, today, research frequently crossesconventional disciplinary lines.

Taking a look at our university

At Imperial College London, for example,researchers in physics, engineeringand computing saw opportunities forcollaborative work when the medicalfaculty came into the institution in 1998.The result was a rise in the number ofinterdisciplinary research teams andsteady growth in cross-faculty work.Collaborative, interdisciplinary researchnow accounts for around 20% of thecollege’s research volume.

This change came about largely as aresult of academics with different, butrelated, research interests being broughttogether and was driven by academics.After initial hesitation, the opportunitiessoon became obvious.

Alongside this, the college put tools inplace that ensure it is easy for academicsto know what others are doing. Forexample, the college created abilitiesallowing academics to cross-searchpublications, attend seminars, searchfor other academic outputs, and seealliances and external connections.

Imperial now routinely creates (and closeswhen strategies change) interdisciplinary,cross-faculty research institutes tofacilitate this sort of work and to encourageconditions in which it can flourish. Theseare not pseudo departments. Thoughparticipating academics remain attachedto their home departments, their comingtogether in the setting of an institute canencourage research and attract focusedfunding, particularly in meeting the “grandchallenges” of our time. To this end,Imperial has recently established theGrantham Institute for Climate Change, theInstitute for Global Health and the Institutefor Security Science and Technology.

If science itself is one factorthat drives interdisciplinaryand international collaboration,the changing internationalfunding landscape is another.Nor should such integrated, collaborativeways of working be restricted to within auniversity, or kept to the university sector.Imperial works in a similarly integratedway with external organizations, mostobviously in the pharmaceutical industry,and has a high-profile business schoolwhose expertise can add value to scientificwork and its potential for implementation.

Taking a look at the impacts of funding

If science itself is one factor that drivesinterdisciplinary and internationalcollaboration, the changing internationalfunding landscape is another. In the UK,research councils have made a concertedeffort to bring together capabilities fromdifferent disciplines, and have pushedand promoted multi-institution andmulti-faculty bids. The changing fundingpattern has driven the development ofinternational teams. Researchers cometogether not only because they are lookingfor synergies and to share expertise, butbecause having an interdisciplinary or

international element to a projectproposal can unlock funding sources forgroups from both (or several) countries.

Funding will always follow quality.High-caliber academics have alwaysbeen recruited in an internationalmarketplace. Universities recruit staff onthe basis of core strengths and fit withinstitutional strategies. This means lookingfor the best, regardless of where theycome from. Similarly, if establishing andpromoting interdisciplinary institutes isa strategic goal, an institution will recruitthe best leaders who have experiencein that area.

Taking a look at challengesand the future

Inevitably, international and interdisciplinarywork can cause difficulties for universities.As research crosses boundaries,institutional structures do not necessarilymatch, meaning it can become harder tomanage research. With few benchmarksto measure against, assessing theperformance of interdisciplinaryinstitutes can also be difficult. It remainsessential that the academic direction,wherever it leads, is adequatelymanaged and supported.

While it is worth bearing in mind that aninstitution’s reputation is established onthe basis of quality, not the methodologyor kind of research undertaken, the trendtoward international and interdisciplinarywork shows little sign of decline. In theyears to come, it is expected that sciencewill confront and provide solutions tocomplex global problems.

As research moves into new areas inresponse to these pressing demands, itseems equally clear that forward-thinkinginstitutions will not be constrained bytraditional structures but will developinnovative mechanisms to fosterinterdisciplinary, international andcollaborative work. In the future, this islikely to become even more importantthan it is at present. LC

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By John T. Green, Chief Coordinating Officer, Imperial College London, UK

International and interdisciplinary:A trend likely to become more important

John T. Green


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Institutional decision makers in the increasinglycompetitive global research arena are focusingon data to drive their strategies.

In April 2009, Elsevier launched SciVal Spotlight, a customizableWeb-based tool that offers institutions an interdisciplinary perspective ofresearch performance. Using an innovative visualization technique,the tool produces customized maps providing graphical views,focusing on specific topical areas, of an institution’s research outputover time and across scientific fields. This in-depth analysis of theinstitution’s performance can also bemapped against the performanceof competitive institutions and countries to provide an unprecedentedperspective on research performance and how academic leadershipcan drive an institution toward realizing its ambitions.

We’re pleased that SciVal Spotlight is receiving an enthusiasticreception and is being used by institutions all over the globe.Universities that have purchased SciVal Spotlight includethe following:

■ National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)■ St. Petersburg University (Russia)■ Tohoku University (Japan)■ University of Stellenbosch (South Africa)■ University of Vigo (Spain)■ University of Zagreb (Republic of Croatia)■ Universiti Putra Malaysia (Malaysia).

Chain-Shu Hsu, the vice president of National Chiao Tung University,said, “We’ve selected SciVal Spotlight to help us understand ourcompetitive strengths as well as assist us in making the bestpossible investments for our university. We are excited about thetailored insight the tool can offer and its ability to give us a betterunderstanding of our position in the global research landscape.”

In our effort to continuously improve SciVal Spotlight, we’vecollected helpful feedback and ideas from users regardingadditional functions they’d like to see. This input has beenused to make some enhancements becoming available inMay of this year. These enhancements provide new ways ofviewing an institution’s research performance data and showadditional performance indicators.

With these new enhancements, research executives andmanagers using SciVal Spotlight will be able to:

■ Review both high-level and detailed views of their researchperformance data, from the subject levels all the way down tothe authors

■ See an executive-level view of their institutions’ SciVal Spotlightprofiles (see the example on this page)

■ View explanations of how an institution’s strengths are calculated■ View indicators that measure the quality of the journals in which

researchers are publishing■ Search data by subject area■ Export data and graphs that can be used in reports and proposals.

If you’d like to schedule an appointment to see a demo ofSciVal Spotlight with your institution’s own map, please visitwww.info.spotlight.scival.com/trial. LC

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Since 2003, when Elsevier launched the Library ConnectNewsletter, through now:

■ Elsevier has produced 30 issues of the newsletter.■ 303 authors, external to Elsevier, have contributed

articles or interviews or quotes to the newsletter.■ Those authors, at the time they contributed to

the newsletter, were in total located in 49 nations.■ Of the total newsletter content, by external authors,

to date:■ 46% has come from contributors in the Americas■ 30% from contributors in APAC (the Asia-Pacific region)■ 24% from contributors in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa).

Many thanks go to all the information professionals, industry

experts, friends and colleagues who have so kindly contributedto the Library Connect Newsletter.

Offering voices fromwithin andwithout Elsevier, andfrom around theworld as well as representingdiverse domains, has strengthened the newsletter’sability to serve as a channel for fresh perspectives

and critical insights.

For a list of the nations represented by all thenewsletter's external authors, see this article in HTML atwww.elsevier.com/libraryconnect. LC

What nations have Library Connect Newsletter authors represented?

The above chart, an example of SciValSpotlight’s new enhancements, shows thesubject-area distribution of an institution’sarticles which contribute to its competencies. Using Scopusdata, SciVal Spotlight looks at citations and determines aninstitution’s competencies. By identifying the dominant subjectareas of all articles contributing to an institution’s competencies,SciVal Spotlight now creates charts such as this one.

By Neal Katz, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager,Elsevier, New York, NY, USA

Neal Katz

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As China is opening its doors to foreignhigher-education providers, internationaleducational cooperation programs ofvarious levels have been approved bythe Chinese government. The mosthistoric one was the opening of aSino-Foreign cooperative university,the University of Nottingham Ningbo,China, in 2004, which was the first of itskind approved by the Chinese Ministryof Education since the founding of thePeople’s Republic of China in 1949.

Internationalization has always beenat the heart of the development ofthe university. One of the university’skey priorities is to enrich students’international experience. To providestudents with more opportunities tointeract with an international environment,the university offers exchange and studyabroad programs. Of our university’s totalof 4,380 students during this academicyear, over 300 are studying at our UKcampus, our Malaysia campus and otherinternational partnership universities.Also, currently some 200 students arespending their last two study years atthe University of Nottingham UK.Further, the university now has 236international students from all over theworld, 88 of which are from our UK andMalaysia campuses and other partneruniversities. The academic divisionsestablished at our university’s initialstage include International Business,International Communications andInternational Studies, and now includemore science and engineering programs.

Our university’s mission is "AcademicExcellence in the Service of GlobalCitizenship." This means that theUniversity of Nottingham Ningbo, Chinais committed to achieving internationallyranked teaching and research excellencewhile helping meet Chinese needs forinternationalization and globalization.

To help support theuniversity priorityof enriching students’international experience,our library has introducedinnovations in howwe handle collectiondevelopment, ledthe creation of aninternationalized learning

environment for all the university’s studentsand paid attention to cultural differencesduring the delivery of customer service.

We’ve shaped our collectiondevelopment to reflect aninternational program

As we are adopting the British educationsystem, all the instructional programswe provide and all the textbooksstudents use are in English, whichmeans the library must provideadequate English-language resources.For electronic resources, our counterpartsat the home university in the UK, theUniversity of Nottingham, help us buildup the eLibrary Gateway (which isavailable 24/7 worldwide) for our localreaders. For print resources, we buythrough book agencies in China whichare authorized to import foreign books.Also, a certain portion of books weacquire are donated by the University ofNottingham’s UK campus, foundationsand international publishers.

For an international university in China,the acquisition of foreign books is not aseasy as that of domestic books. Throughyears of cooperation with publishersand book agencies, we have reducedto the minimum the amount of timeneeded to acquire a book. And we havedeveloped a book-suggesting systemallowing users to track the availabilityof newly ordered books. Different fromother academic libraries in China, almostall books we acquire have been suggestedby faculties, a strategy which has helpedmaximize the impact of budget.

Almost all books we acquirehave been suggested by faculties,a strategy which has helpedmaximize the impact of budget.

We’ve created virtual and physicallearning environments to supportan international program

WebCT, EndNote and Turnitin are virtuallearning environment and informationtools used by many internationaluniversities. We use these tools, too.With promotion provided by ourlibrary’s e-learning team, our university’susage of these tools is very high, andstudents and staff benefit from usingthese e-learning tools for their teaching,learning and research.

Since western education requires studentsto learn how to cooperate in teams, we’veset up a learning hub to facilitate groupstudy at our library. Within the learninghub, there are large high-definitionscreens, big tables and long sofachairs which all facilitate presentations,discussion and brainstorming.

We pay attention to culturaldifferences as we delivercustomer service

Our staff and students are from variouscountries and cultural backgrounds. It isinteresting when we observe encountersbetween persons from different cultures.For example, I’ve observed that when anew staff person from an English-speakingcountry first comes to the library, he orshe might ask, “May I join the library,please?” However, Chinese customerswould say, “ ”(“Could I make a library card, please?”).From these two ways of asking aboutlibrary membership, we can see thatEnglish speakers view the library as acommunity, while most Chinese viewthe library as a place to borrow books.This example can help remind librariansto be aware of cultural differences whenhelping customers.

By Lin Zongyong, Team Leader, LibraryCirculation Group, Information Services,University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

Lin Zongyong(Tony Lin)

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People from East Asia read facial expressions differently thanpeople from Europe.

That’s according to findings of researchI helped conduct in 2008. Theresearch, published in the Cell Pressjournal Current Biology, indicatesthat human communication ofemotion is more complex thanexperts had believed. Led by RobertoCaldara at the University of Glasgow,our research team found that facialexpressions that had been considereduniversally recognizable cannot beused to reliably convey emotion incross-cultural situations.

We showed that Easterners and Westerners look at differentfacial features to read facial expressions. Westerners look at theeyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favorthe eyes and neglect the mouth. This means Easterners havedifficulty distinguishing facial expressions that look similararound the eye region.

How did our research team study cultural differences in therecognition of facial expressions? We recorded the eyemovements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian peoplewhile they observed pictures of expressive faces and put theminto categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angryor neutral. The pictures of faces were standardized accordingto the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), so each expressiondisplayed a specific combination of facial muscles typicallyassociated with a specific emotion. We then compared howaccurately each cultural group recognized the facial expressions.

Easterners focused greater attention on the eyes and madesignificantly more errors than Westerners did. The culturalspecificity in eye movements likely reflects cultural specificityin facial expressions. The data suggest that while Westernersuse the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use theeyes more and mouth less.

Facial expressions that had been considereduniversally recognizable cannot be used to reliablyconvey emotion in cross-cultural situations.A survey of Eastern versus Western emoticons supports thatidea. As they are the iconic representation of facial expressions,emoticons are used in cyberspace to convey different emotions.Looking at the difference in use of emoticons in the West andthe East, we find that:

■ Western emoticons primarily use the mouth to conveyemotional states, e.g., : ) for happy and : ( for sad.

■ Eastern emoticons use the eyes, e.g., ^.^ for happyand ;_; for sad.

As my fellow researchers and I wrote in our 2009 ScienceDirectarticle, "In sum, our data demonstrate genuine perceptualdifferences between Western Caucasian and East Asian observersand show that FACS-coded facial expressions are not universalsignals of human emotion. From here on, examining how thedifferent facets of cultural ideologies and concepts have diversifiedthese basic social skills will elevate knowledge of human emotionprocessing from a reductionist to a more authentic representation.

“Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions acrosscultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves ‘lostin translation.’” LC

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www.cell.com

Also, when providing customer service,the selection of the language to use isvery important. Some Chinese studentsmay want to practice their English aslong as there is the chance, so weshould speak English to them and thusnot just help them but help support theuniversity’s aim to develop students’

English skills. For those who only wishto speak Chinese, speaking a foreignlanguage to them may not only lowerthe efficiency of problem solving butmay create a mental barrier betweenthese customers and librarians. Also, ifa customer is not fluent in English, ifyou try your best to speak in her or hisnative language, even trying to speak

in her or his home accent, then thecustomer will feel closer to you,which is a good start between youand your customers. LC

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By Rachael E. Jack, Postgraduate, Department of Psychology,University of Glasgow, UK

Western emoticons primarilyuse the mouth to conveyemotional states, whereasEastern emoticons use theeyes. (Image courtesy ofAlison Bert, SeniorWriter/Editor, Elsevier, NY,NY, USA.)

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A possible challenge for international collaboration?Facial expressions may get lost in translation

ReferenceJack, R. E., Blais, C., Scheepers, C., Schyns, P. G., & Caldara,R. (2009, September). Cultural confusions show that facialexpressions are not universal. Current Biology,19 (18):1543–1548.www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09609822doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.051

... remind librarians to be aware of cultural differences when helping customers.


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In recent decades, some borders definingtraditional disciplinary research activitieshave been dissolving. Indeed, the bordersbetween some disciplines have increasinglydissolved. As these boundaries blur ormelt, research libraries have to respondto these changes.

Interdisciplinary research activity posesfinancial, organizational, liaison and trainingchallenges for the contemporary researchlibrary. Interdisciplinary activity in researchinstitutions can be harder to identify thantraditional discipline-based research. It canbe informal (e.g., loose collaborationsbetween researchers within a singleinstitution or in different institutions), or itcan be short- or medium-term (e.g., workon funded research projects).

Where it is more formal and on a permanentbasis (as with interdisciplinary researchgroups or institutes), interdisciplinaryresearch presents new challenges forresearch libraries in the ways that resourcesare selected, funded, managed, madeaccessible and supported. Interdisciplinarysupport is a resource-intensive activity.And it normally also involves collaborationacross geographical borders: Howresearch support librarians tap into theseinterdisciplinary research networks andpromote communications and collaborativework tools is also a challenge.

Academic libraries provideresources, training and toolsResearch libraries start from a sound basis forsupporting interdisciplinary research activity.

Long-standing expertise exists in purchasingappropriate subscription resources. “BigDeals” bring core content to researcherswhile increasing access to additional content.Provision of databases with broad subjectcoverage (such as Scopus or Web ofKnowledge) can help researchers acquireoverviews of subjects and, through the use ofkeywords, vocabularies and search features,identify interdisciplinary links. Provisionof specialized databases (such as BIOSIS,CSA or Illumina) can facilitate “drillingdown” into specialized areas.

Sophisticated discipline-specific searchtools, provided by libraries, help researchersidentify emerging terms and concepts as

new fields crystallizetheir vocabularies. Suchsearch tools encompasscitation-searching andimpact factors; limiters(date, document type, institutional affiliation,subject facet); ranking/relevance tools; andthesauri and structured vocabularies. Allthese discipline-specific search tools assistinterdisciplinary researchers in carrying outeffective searching and research.

Research support librarians enhancereturn on investment in these expensiveresources by preparing guides anddocumentation and offering researcherseither group or one-to-one training on:

■ Database scope, structure and coverage■ Effective search strategies■ Sophisticated search tools■ Alerting and updating features

As the library creates an environmentconducive to systematic, effective andtime-saving literature searching, we alsoprovide interdisciplinary researchers withlinks to fulltext or the discovery of paperformats; saved searches; current awarenessfeatures; and RSS feeds. Not to be forgottenis the institution’s own local online librarycatalog — an indispensable resource toidentifying local print and electronic holdings.

New tools are helping researchersorganize themselvesOrganization of the researcher’s desktop isone of the Holy Grails of research support.Environments such as MetaLib have assistedin organizing subscription and free resources.Also, federated searching and resourcediscovery systems have the potential tobecome front-line tools in systematic

literature searching, as they open up bothan internal and external world of textual,data, graphic, published, unpublished, printand electronic sources.

Personal bibliographic management tools,including commercial ones such as RefWorksand EndNote and free ones such as Zotero,Mendeley and Connotea, facilitate theindexing, storing, sorting, managing andoutput of references in numerousbibliographic formats compatible withpublishing requirements for thousands ofjournals. Collaborative resource or resource-sharing tools include subject and institutionalrepositories and SharePoint. Developmentsby universities to digitize research thesesare also opening up freer access to keyresearch information resources vastlyunderutilized in the traditional analoginterlibrary loan environment.

Free tools also have a role to play in helpingresearchers, including interdisciplinary ones,organize and conduct their work. Somesearch engines facilitate discovery ofresearch materials not necessarily publishedby traditional academic means. Google andScirus help with grey and scientific literature,and Google Scholar can locate academicmaterial not necessarily covered by (orcontained in?) subscription databases.Dedicated wiki-like resources such asSciTopics are more authoritative sourcesthan, for example, Wikipedia, and canprovide useful overviews of unfamiliartopics. General portals such as Intute areuseful entry points and can be followedup in more specialized portals dedicatedto specific disciplines.

By Chris Banks, University Librarian and Director, Library & Historic Collections,University of Aberdeen, UK

Chris Banks

Interdisciplinary researchactivity poses financial,organizational, liaisonand training challengesfor the contemporaryresearch library.

Research without borders:Supporting and facilitating interdisciplinary research

This article reprises a talk Chris Banks gave during Elsevier’s 2009 Scholarly Perspectives series.

The 2010 Scholarly Perspectives series is offering 10 newwebinars, four in a spring series andsix in an autumn series.

The 2010 Scholarly Perspectives webinars, each 55 minutes long, focus on understanding howsearch and discovery techniques and technologies are evolving in scientific, technical andmedical research and teaching.

See dates and register: www.scholarlyperspectives.com

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Recently, the Library Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan) sponsored a video competition to call attention to and help advocate for libraries. Thewinning video “I Love the Library” features a love story and dancing books. For her role as the producer of the winning video, Ms. Erin Liu, a universitystudent in Taiwan, has received a scholarship sponsored by Elsevier and provided through the association. Here, Elsevier Account Development andChannel Marketing Manager Jack Huang speaks with Erin about why and how she produced the video and speaks with Professor Joyce Chao-chenChen, the former president of the Library Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan), regarding the association’s video competition.

Jack Huang: What drew you to get involved in thevideo competition?Ms. Erin Liu: As a communications major at Chaoyang Universityof Technology, I’m always interested in opportunities to createvideos. Creating a video about the importance of librariesattracted me, because today fewer young people understandthat you can find so much in the library. Young people todayseem to feel that using the Internet is all they need to do.Actually, academic libraries are very, very rich in resources.

When you decided to enter the video competition, held by theLibrary Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan), what kindof image of libraries did you want to convey?Erin Liu: The library is like a big treasure. It provides inspiration andcan help create a happymind. I wanted to create a festive atmospherein the video. With song and dance, the video tells the story of thelibrary as a place that’s not boring but that’s lively and relaxed.

What was the actual production process like, as you createdthe video?Erin Liu: The filming lasted over two months and involvednearly 10 groups, formed across 10 university campuses,as well as several professional actors and a choreographyteacher. We did all the stage design and created the songs.About 45 people helped with behind-the-scenes production.All the contributors volunteered their time.

Where exactly did you shoot the library scenes in your video?Erin Liu:We shot footage in the libraries at the Chaoyang Universityof Technology, Taiwan University of Technology and NationalChung Hsing University. But we shot most of the library scenes atthe library at my university, the Chaoyang University of Technology.

What was your reaction to winning?Erin Liu: I was thrilled, when I learned my video had been selectedas the first-place winner and I’d won a USD $6,500 scholarshipsponsored by Elsevier. Everyone is happy that I won the contest,and I’m grateful for the Chaoyang University of TechnologyLibrary’s help with the video and for helping me win this honor.

And now let me turn to Professor Joyce Chao-chen Chen,the former president of the Library Association of the Republicof China (Taiwan) and also a professor and the universitylibrarian at the National Taiwan Normal University. Why didthe association hold the contest?Professor Joyce Chao-chen Chen: We held the contest, called“Video Competition of Library Impression,” because the libraryis changing, but do people feel that the library offers a lot fortheir lives? Today, the library has become our knowledgesupply depot, but does the average person understand

how to draw the library even closer to her or his life? To allowpeople to have a new image of the library, we launched thisinnovative campaign to rewrite the library's image. Wewanted to help people recognize that today’s modern library,and modern librarian, offer excellent services to society.

How did your association publicize the contest?Professor Joyce Chao-chen Chen: We placed an announcementon our society’s website and on YouTube, and we gave thecompetition information to everybody with interest in short films.

What have been the outcomes of the contest?Professor Joyce Chao-chen Chen: We received a good numberof entries from university students. The video competition hasgenerated good ideas and a lot of creativity. It stimulated a lotof collaborative activity.

Do you recommend that other library associations oruniversities stage similar contests?Professor Joyce Chao-chen Chen: Yes. Holding a videocompetition like ours is worthwhile. Such a project helpsbring people together, encourages people to consider otherviewpoints and helps us change our thinking. LC

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Watch the winning videos from Taiwan's“Video Competition of Library Impression” contest

■ First Place: “I Love the Library”:www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0pz21umrTU

■ Second Place: “Qiming”:www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p4FLsoOQZY

■ Third Place: “This Is the Library!”:www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdmOvjLQOrE

■ Fourth Place: “Feel Library Again”:www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRLkzHPbpf8

■ Fifth Place: “Library Rhapsody”:www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGiLPxB3lRg

I Love the Library

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ON THE ROAD

Toronto seminar connects researchers, librariansand senior academic management

Seventy academics from diverse fields put their heads togetherat a Research Connect Seminar at theUniversity of Toronto in December, andpondered the topic of “The ChangingFace of Scientific Research Investment:Connecting Resources to the ResearchMission of the Institution.” Participantsincluded vice provosts, managers ofresearch and planning, research analystsand librarians from 15 institutions.The mixed audience, as well as theagenda featuring speakers representingdifferent aspects of the academic enterprise, made a difference asattendees — including senior management from universities andElsevier — exchanged points of view.

University of Toronto Chief Librarian Carole Moore deliveredopening remarks. Professor and Electronic Services CoordinatorGayle Baker, with the University of Tennessee Libraries, spoke on“University Investment in the Library, Phase II: An InternationalStudy of the Library’s Value to the Grants Process."

Collections Development Department Head Caitlin Tillman, with theUniversity of Toronto, spoke on “Value of the Library to the ResearchMission of the University,” and Foundation & Grants LibrarianKaren Downing, with the University of Michigan, spoke on “TheAcademic Library’s Role in the Art of Grant-Getting on Campus.”

After lunch, Kate Morris, a senior research analyst at YorkUniversity, spoke on “How Scopus and Other Tools are Utilizedby Research Offices.” José Sigouin, a manager of research

information analysis with the Universityof Toronto Research Group, discussed“Insight from the Research Group atUniversity of Toronto: ResearchInformation Analysis.” Alan Darnell,the manager of the Scholars PortalScholarly Information ResourcesProject, discussed “Scholars Portal:The Future Direction of the Platform.”

Elsevier organized the event to fosterthe exchange of information among North American universitiesand promote dialog between librarians, researchers andsenior management from Canadian universities and Elsevier.And, according to participants, the event proved a resoundingsuccess. More than 80% of respondents to a survey followingthe event said they found its information exchange to be useful.

Helen Kula, a senior information specialist with MaRS DiscoveryDistrict/University of Toronto, said, “The seminar was a much-welcomed opportunity to connect what I do on a day-to-day basiswithin the larger context of my employer’s research mission.” LC

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By Colleen Hunter, Account Development Manager, Elsevier, NY, NY, USA

"The seminar was a much-welcomedopportunity to connect what I doon a day-to-day basis within thelarger context of my employer’sresearch mission.”

India’s premier institutions walk away with Scopus Awards

The NASI Scopus YoungScientist Awards 2009resulted in 10 winners.Selected by 48 panelistsfrom among over 250applicants, the winnersrepresent six fields. Elsevierhas staged the ScopusAwards in India since 2006,and in 2009 the NationalAcademy of Sciences, India(NASI) for the first timepartnered with Elsevier asa cosponsor for the awards.

On February 19, 2010,Minister of State for Science& Technology and EarthSciences Mr. PrithvirajChavan, with the Indiannational government, presided over the awards event, whichturned out to be a great success and even was featured on nationalTV in India. Dignitaries present included senior officials fromIndia’s Department of Biotechnology, Department of Science &

Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences, as well as the IndianSpace Research Organisation and leading universities.

Applicants were evaluatedaccording to: 1) the numberof citations and h-indexof their publications, 2)the numbers of theirpublications and patents(calculated per Scopusdata), and 3) the qualityand impact of their research.

The winners are affiliatedwith leading Indianinstitutions, includingthe Indian Institutes ofTechnology, the IndianInstitute of Science, theNational Institute ofImmunology, the National

Brain Research Center and the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. LC

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By Padma Muralidharan, Senior Manager, Account Development,Elsevier, Delhi, India

At the NASI Scopus Young Scientist Awards 2009 event, winners enjoy a moment withcolleagues from Elsevier, NASI and the Indian government. Shown (left to right) areDr. Vinay Nandicoori; Dr. Pratap Ray Chaudhuri; Dr. Siddharth Pandey; Dr. Suresh Babu;Dr. Vijay B. Shenoy; Elsevier Segment Marketing Director, APAC, Ishikawa Goki; ElsevierDirector, Sales & Marketing, APAC, Lim Kok Keng; Minister Shri. Prithviraj Chavan; NASIPresident Asis Datta; NASI Vice President Dr. Avadhesha Surolia; Dr. Kavirayani Prasad;Dr. Tanmay Basak; and Dr. Siddhartha Gadgil.


ON THE ROAD


The Scopus’ Future Stars of ResearchAward ceremony occurred on December15, 2009, in the lecture hall at theNational Science Library at the ChineseAcademy of Sciences in Beijing. Thenearly 300 attendees included the awardwinners, the selection committeemembers, the advisory board members,media representatives and VIP guestsfrom the government, research institutesand universities. Many students studyingin Beijing attended as well.

The award ceremony was a big success,as was the entire Scopus’ Future Starof Research Award initiative whichspanned four months. As the firstevidence-based award targeting youngscientists in China, this initiative waswell received and praised by researchersand scientists. The Chinese magazineScience News Bi-Weekly and ElsevierScience & Technology China cosponsoredthe initiative.

Recognized for their workin biological sciences,environmental sciences,information sciences andnanosciences, the 12 youngresearcher winners are fromthe Chinese Academy ofSciences, Tsinghua University,Zhejiang University, NanjingUniversity and SichuanUniversity. Also recognizedwere China’s institutionswhich are doing the bestjob of fostering youngresearchers. In the fields ofnanosciences, informationsciences, environmentalsciences and biologicalsciences, Central China NormalUniversity, the Harbin Instituteof Technology, the Institute ofGeochemistry of CAS (Guiyang) andSichuan University rank first respectively.

The awards event program featured aYoung Scientist Development forum. Itbrought together the award-winningyoung researchers, leading scientists,

institutional administrators and Elseviercolleagues, who talked about how tocreate a good environment for youngscientists to grow. LC

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http://star.science-weekly.cn

The Chinese research community honors “rising stars”By Xiaoling Kang, Account DevelopmentManager, Elsevier, Beijing, China

During the Scopus’ Future Stars of Research Award event inBeijing, (left to right) Elsevier’s Director, Sales & MarketingEMEA-APAC-Latin America, Phile Govaert; winners in thenanosciences category Yuguo Guo, Lei Lu and Yongsheng Zhao;selection committee member Yadong Li; and Science NewsBi-Weekly colleague Hepeng Jia pose for the camera.

You may have heard about the recentlyunveiled Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, the newcentral library atHumboldt Universityin Berlin. Namedafter two famousGerman linguistsand collectors offairytales, the newlibrary combines 12humanities, cultural,social and economicslibraries as well as acomputer and mediaservice center underone roof. Theremarkable newbuilding, designedby Swiss architect Max Dudler, offers acollection including 2.5 million booksand 2,400 serials in print.

As a sponsor of Humboldt University’s newlibrary, Elsevier produced a special high-

quality publicationdocumenting thelibrary’s inaugurationin fall 2009 and thelibrary’s uniquecharacter. Elsevieralso made a generousdonation towards thecosts of constructingthe new library. Thedonation has gonetowards making thelibrary’s reading areamore enjoyable andgiving readers betteraccess to journalsand magazines.

Collaboration involving HumboldtUniversity libraries and Elsevier datesback more than 10 years. The Grimm-

Zentrum subscribes to over 2,000 journals(the Freedom Collection) published byElsevier. Also, a successful test phase ofElsevier’s new SciVal Spotlight solutionlast fall at a few German universitiesincluded the Humboldt University ofBerlin. Today, Elsevier anticipates thatGerman institutions will soon startlicensing SciVal Spotlight.

Called a “temple of reading and research”by Gala Conrad in a recent FachbuchJournal article (November/December2009), the Grimm-Zentrum is, accordingto the library’s director Dr. Milan Bulaty,a place of inspiration. Among treasuresheld by the library, visitors can findthe private library of the GrimmBrothers, after whom the Grimm-Zentrumis named. LC

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Humboldt University’s new Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrumbenefits from Elsevier donationBy Agata Jablonka, Account Development Manager, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Library Director Dr. Milan Bulaty (left) and ElsevierAccount Manager, Germany North, ThomasEdelmann, on the occasion of the opening of thenew Grimm-Zentrum at Humboldt University in Berlin


The journey so far: Elsevier Foundation grants and Research4Life arehelping support scientific advancement at Nigeria’s University of Port Harcourt

Ylann Schemm: Please, can you tell us about theUniversity of Port Harcourt, where you work?Henrietta Otokunefor: Yes. At the University of Port Harcourt,thousands of students get their education. This university,along with three others, is located in Port Harcourt, a big city(with over 1.5 million people) in southern Nigeria.

Which Elsevier Foundation grants have benefited theUniversity of Port Harcourt library?Otokunefor: In 2007, we received a USD $25,000 grant to establisha permanent Elsevier E-Library Training Room at the University ofPort Harcourt. That grant also enabled us to deliver to each of fourmajor universities, all in the densely populated Niger delta regionof Nigeria, training on how to use Research4Life resources —including not just HINARI but also OARE and AGORA.

Another Elsevier Foundation grantwhich has had a positive impacton Port Harcourt University was

awarded to the Medical Library Association’s LibrariansWithout Borders program. Working with the South Africa-based Information Training Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA),MLA’s Librarians Without Borders delivers an E-LibraryTraining Initiative course for librarians, researchers, cliniciansand government officials. We were able to set up just such atraining workshop at Port Harcourt this past October.

What sorts of challenges have you faced, while getting theElsevier E-Library Training Room set up at the University ofPort Harcourt?Otokunefor: Well, as I and my team have led the constructionof the training room at our university, we’ve dealt withuniversity strikes, a long-delayed opening of our new library,which houses the Elsevier E-Library Training Room, andfrozen grant funds. However, now I’m happy to report thatthe room is completed and open for business. It’s locatedon the second floor of Wing B of our new, ultra-modernUniversity of Port Harcourt Library complex.

You deserve congratulations for your perseverance, patienceand leadership! What does the Elsevier E-Library TrainingRoom offer?Otokunefor: The training room houses 24 computers andprovides a space where we instruct librarians, lecturers andstudents in the use of electronic resources. With the training,students and lecturers are becoming aware of availableelectronic resources and their usage is going up.

Are you providing any specialtraining to familiarize universitylibrarians and users withHINARI, the Health Accessto Research Initiative, whichprovides access to peer-reviewedjournals covering medicine,nursing and related health andsocial sciences?Otokunefor: Absolutely, becausehelping make the most of our

university’s access to HINARI is very important to us librarians.In October 2009, we used some of the money from our ElsevierFoundation grant and staged a “Train the Trainer” HINARIworkshop at the University of Port Harcourt. In fact, we heldthe workshop in the Elsevier E-Library Training Room. The twofoundation grants and Research4Life equipped us well; theyprovided the equipment and facilities, the teaching material,and free access to the journals themselves.

What did the workshop cover?Otokunefor: The course contentwas based on material developedby the E-Library Training Initiative.The workshop covered how to access HINARI, how to use itsbasic and advanced search options, and how to use specializedfeatures of its interface — in short, how to make efficient useof the platform and get to needed content more quickly.

Watch the “Elsevier Foundation GrantTrains Scholars in Nigeria” video:www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ASnp1mh-tY

Elsevier is one of the founding publishers and the largest contributor to HINARI, a program providing free or low-cost access to journal articles in thedeveloping world. But free content is sometimes not enough. People have to know how to access the content and use it effectively. That’s whyElsevier has been giving librarians in Nigeria the resources to teach search and research skills to students and professionals. Here AutomationLibrarian Henrietta Otokunefor, who works at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria, talks about the impacts of two recent Elsevier Foundationgrants and support from Research4Life, the organization encompassing HINARI. The two Elsevier Foundation grants benefiting librarians in Nigeriaare part of the foundation’s Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program, which helps libraries in developing countries improve theirability to make scientific, technical and medical information accessible for those who need it.— Ylann Schemm, Corporate Relations Manager, Corporate Relations, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


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Research4LifeA partnership of United Nations agencies, leading universities andpublishers, Research4Life encompasses three programs— HINARI,AGORA and OARE—making journal articles available for free or atvery low cost to institutions in developing countries. In 2009, therewas a total of 2.6 million Elsevier articles downloaded for all threeprograms, a figure demonstrating a 27% increase over 2008.

HINARI■ 3,475 institutions in 109 countries are now receiving free

or low-cost access to HINARI’s 7,000 online journals from160 publishers. With 1,601 journals, Elsevier contributesapproximately 25% of HINARI’s journals and is theprogram’s largest contributor.

■ At the end of 2009, Scopus became available via theResearch4Life programs HINARI, AGORA and OARE. Sincethen, the number of Scopus searches and sessions byResearch4Life users has doubled within a three-month period,with OARE users leading the pack.

■ The Lancet ranks as the most downloaded Elsevier journal.

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The Elsevier Foundation’s 2009 grantawards commit a total of $600,000 to 12institutions around the world to supportthe work of libraries and scholars inscience, technology and medicine. Fromamong the 250 applicants, the 2009 grantrecipients emerged as notable for theirinnovation and potential for impact in thedeveloping world, academic workplaceand nursing community.

Six new grants have been awardedunder the Innovative Libraries inDeveloping Countries program. Theaward recipients include institutionsacross Africa and Asia, and demonstratehow information resources can be used toaddress a variety of development issues,including emergency management, theenvironment, boosting authorship and

research skills, and the distribution ofclinical care information.

Within the New Scholars program, theElsevier Foundation has awarded fournew grants to international institutionspioneering new approaches to childcare,mentoring, networking and policy advocacyand so supporting scholars during theearly stages of their demanding careersin science and technology.

An additional Elsevier Foundation granthas been awarded to the InternationalCouncil on Nurses (ICN) and the HonorSociety of Nursing, Sigma Theta TauInternational (STTI) to hold “TheInternational Summit on Nurse FacultyMigration,” a three-day 2010 policysummit on the economic and healthramifications that nurse faculty migrationhas had on both developing and developed

countries. The summit will host 30internationally recognized global nurseleaders who will commit to using theoutcomes from the summit to advancethe issue at the global level, consult withlocal entities on implementation, andcoordinate and disseminate the resultsof local initiatives.

Said David Benton, the chief executiveofficer of the International Council ofNurses, “Learning from past lessons, weknow that nurse faculty migration may posea high risk problem for many countries. ICNand STTI welcome Elsevier’s contributionto ensuring sound understanding of facultymigration so as to proactively manage thelooming crisis and improve healthcaredelivery by preparing sufficient numbers ofnurses to meet the needs of the future.” LC

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www.nursingsociety.org

By David Ruth, Executive Director,Elsevier Foundation, New York, NY, USA

2010 call for proposalsEstablished in 2002, the Elsevier Foundation currently iswelcoming proposals for the 2010 Innovative Libraries inDeveloping Countries and New Scholars programs.

Proposal deadline: August 1, 2010

Awards announcement: December 2010

2009 Innovative Libraries inDeveloping Countries grants■ Book Aid International, UK:

Increasing Access to Relevant Health Information for PrimaryHealthcare Providers Through Kenyan Public Libraries

■ International Center for Integrated MountainDevelopment (ICIMOD), Nepal:Transformation of ICIMOD’s Traditional Libraryinto a Mountain Learning and Information Center

■ Jinan University, China:Developing a Service-Oriented Database of Casesof Emergency Management

■ Makerere University, Uganda:Enhancing Access to Current Literature by Health Workers inRural Uganda and Community Health Problem Solving

■ Medical Library Association, USA:Librarians Without Borders E-Library Training Initiative Grant

■ Thai Nguyen University, Vietnam:Supporting Research Communities in Writing, Publishing andSharing their Works in Thai Nguyen University

2009 New Scholars grants■ Third World Organization for

Women in Science (TWOWS), Italy:Women Scientists in Developing Countries Awards

■ UCLA Los Angeles, USA:Enhancing the Academic Climate for STEM Women ScholarsThrough Family-Friendly Policies

■ University of Groningen, The Netherlands:Special Childcare Program

■ University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA:STEM Family Travel Program

2009 Elsevier Foundation grants distribute $600,000 worldwide

How did the workshop go?Otokunefor: It was an exciting day forus. We trained librarians who went backat the end of the day to train thousandsof students and lecturers in the use ofHINARI’s electronic resources.

What has Research4Life, includingHINARI, contributed to the University ofPort Harcourt?

Otokunefor: Since we’ve had access toResearch4Life resources, the researchersat the University of Port Harcourt,including especially the clinicians at ourCollege of Medicine, have been able toengage more with the global sciencecommunity. I've seen a growth in publishedresearch from our students as well.

Increased scientific developments canlead to improved health and economics,

and, in the end, a better quality of life.So, it’s great to see Nigeria makingprogress in publication output andscientific engagement. LC

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As chemistry librarians and librarianssupporting chemistry faculty, students andstaff likely know, Bretherick’s Handbook ofReactive Chemical Hazards is regarded asa, if not the, leading reference in the areaof reactive hazards information. Publishedunder the Academic Press imprint byElsevier, Bretherick’s has been availablein print and as a PDF eBook.

During the past several years, customershave requested an online version ofBretherick’s that is searchable in multipleways, including via structure searching. Also,Elsevier has identified the need to supportmore fully our customers, including benchscientists, working in the chemistry field ormanaging institutional health and safety.

The upshot? Elsevier has created a newonline solution, Hazmat Navigator, to helpresearch chemists and safety personnelaccess hazards information for chemicalsmost frequently involved in accidents.

This article gives you the back story onHazmat Navigator.

Dealing with chemicals can behazardous to your health

As bench scientists know, preparing forunfortunate chemical accidents and eventscan mean the difference between life anddeath. Accurate and timely search resultsare needed to help prevent accidents. And,the ability to rapidly and effectively respondto events when they occur is a criticalcomponent of a safe and fully functioningchemical work environment.

Those who work in a laboratory settingneed to be well informed of the dangersand volatility that can occur with chemicalreactions and accidental spills. Each day,19 toxic chemical accidents are reported inthe US. When you factor in the 6% fatalityrate accompanying these and other typesof chemical-related events, it’s imperativethat chemists and first responders have themost up-to-date and comprehensive toolsto assist in surveying and determining

appropriate levels of safetyfor any given situation. Untilnow, chemists and firstresponders have relied oncumbersome referenceguides and multiple onlinesources that are difficult to

navigate and, in many cases, inconsistentfrom reference to reference.

Bench scientists and safety officershave let us know that their painpoints include:

■ Finding time to peruse the diverse,multiple sources and researchnew compounds

■ Feeling anxiety when relying onsources that are outdated orappear nonauthoritative

■ Finding a lack of comprehensivetoxicity information

To help customers overcome thosepain points, and to help promoteefficient chemical research and safeworkplaces, Elsevier has created a solutionsignificantly shortening chemical researchtime and bringing to users exactly theinformation they need.

Chemists and health and safety officerscan now turn to one online source

Hazmat Navigator, Elsevier’s latestonline Navigator tool, provides acomprehensive chemical cross-referencingguide that can be accessed anytime,anywhere. The interface providesup-to-the-minute information fromsome of the most respected publicationsin the scientific community.

Laboratories and chemical handlers nolonger have to spend time confirming anddouble checking information from outdatedmaterial safety data sheets (MSDS)! HazmatNavigator brings together the most reliableinformation in one simple online tool.

Expert guidance and trustworthycontent add up to a reliablenew solution

With over two years in its design anddevelopment, Hazmat Navigator isbased on the opinions and suggestionsof experienced safety professionals,including its top-notch editorial board.

With content drawn from renownedpublications, Hazmat Navigator facilitatescritical analysis by providing informationthat can be accessed and cross-referencedquickly and easily during emergencyevents. In addition to Bretherick’sHandbook, information from otherrenowned publications, including

Sittig’s Handbook of Toxic andHazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens,Sittig's Handbook of Pesticides andAgricultural Chemicals, NFPA’s FireProtection Guide to Hazardous Materialsand Encyclopedia of Toxicology, formsthe backbone of information availablein this tool. In fact, this new use of thesewell-regarded resources has many peoplereferring to Hazmat Navigator as the“online Bretherick’s” or “online Sittig’s.”

Finding answers easily is keyto assessing emergencies andpromoting safe workplaces

Thanks to Hazmat Navigator’s simplenavigation allowing users to search itscontent, any emergency situation can bequickly assessed. Users can search bychemical substructure and similarity,chemical name and molecular formula,or by CAS registry numbers. By bringingtogether trusted information in one integratedresource, Hazmat Navigator negates theneed to spend time looking in multiplelocations. And, this new tool’s easy-to-printand -read reports deliver critical informationto users, thus helping promote safeworkplace environments. LC

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By Carol Roden, Senior Marketing ManagerOnline Solutions, Elsevier, San Diego, CA, USA


SOLUTIONS NEWS

The embeddedMarvin sketch tool allows users to draw chemicalstructures to help in comprehensive searches on Hazmat Navigator.

Carol Roden

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Collaboration facilitatesinterdisciplinary researchIn terms of collaboration, myExperimentmakes it easy to find, use and sharescientific workflows and other researchobjects, and build communities, as dospecialized social networks like NatureNetwork, 2Collab, Academic.edu andSciLink. At the broader level is LinkedIn.

Although blogs and wikis are out there,these are still seeing limited take up.Finally, there’s space, that physical space(yes, the library!) that still complementsthe virtual space in which our researchersare working and that can facilitate andencourage collaboration.

Whichever predominates, the virtual orphysical world, the role of the research

library will continue to be to procure,organize and promote content and servicesto our users, in ways which utilize ourexpertise, streamline access and help ourresearchers maximize their time and effort,no matter how many disciplines they tackleat once. LC

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The conversations taking place around the promise of eBooksin higher education have changed from if to when, signalinga shift in the dialog and presenting an opportunity, certainlyin higher education, for content providers to drive users fromprint to electronic resources. However, what seems to bemissing from the dialog is why drive students from print toelectronic textbooks.

In preparing to build a completelynew eBook platform for nursingand health professions students,Elsevier’s Evolve eBooks product

team started with a research project aimed at understandinghow eBooks may serve as a workflow solution for studentsand faculty and perhaps deliver on some of the promise oftechnology in higher education. The principle question for theteam was, “What’s preventing mass adoption of eBooks inhigher education, and in health sciences in particular?”

Our research, which included surveyingcustomers, identified a lack of awarenessof the availability of eBooks and the lackof functionality and usability of eBooks atthat point in time.

Also, our survey revealed, among other findings:■ Users’ desire to customize their eBook content and platform■ Users’ desire to access multimedia baked into books to

facilitate understanding and activate learning■ Users’ requirement that content be portable and accessible

on multiple devices■ Users’ desire to build community around content, so users

can communicate and collaborate inside their textbooks■ The need for eBooks to offer built-in assessments for

quick knowledge checks and formative assessment■ The need for eBook content to synthesize concepts across

topics and disciplines and offer robust searching capabilities.

With this data to inform product development, the EvolveeBooks team worked with many of the same customerssurveyed and created Pageburst, Elsevier’s new eLearningplatform which now hosts over 600 textbooks for students innursing and health professions.

Pageburst, featuring integrated multimedia, text-to-speech andsocial networking tools, is designed specifically for nursingand health professions students in North America who requireanytime/anywhere access to course material and utilize textsas reference guides throughout their careers.

“With Pageburst, we can unlock higher levels of performanceby engaging students with interactive and immersive coursematerials in a variety of formats,” said John King, EdD, thesenior vice president and chief academic officer at LincolnEducational Services. “Students can now spend class andexam prep time more efficiently and easily organize coursematerials to match their programs’ curricula with integratedsearchable content from a robust collection of the mostcurrent Elsevier titles.” LC

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By Daniel Behan, Former Director, Evolve eBooks, and Current Director,Product Communication, Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Daniel Behan

This image illustrates how Pageburst activates learning with the use of multimedia,shared community notes and formative assessment — all within a digital textbook.The content shown here focuses on anatomy and is discussing the functions of partsof the brain.

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Ingrid van de Stadt: What percent of Scopuscontent is in a language other than English?Ove Kähler: About 21% of the journalsindexed in Scopus publish at least partlyin a language other than English.

How many languages does Scopus cover?About 35 languages. See the graph.

How does local-language content get added to Scopus?Exactly in the sameway that English-language content gets added.That is, after we receive a request or recommendation to addspecific content to Scopus, then the Content Selection AdvisoryBoard (CSAB) reviews the content and makes a determination.Since October 2009, candidate journals have been evaluatedaccording to a well-chosen set of 16 criteria. The samecriteria are used for all candidate titles, whether they’re inEnglish or another language.

If none of the CSAB members knows the language that a title isin and feels in a position to review the title, we find an expertreviewer, beyond the CSAB, who understands the language ofthe publication. As long as English abstracts can be provided,the CSAB is glad to consider adding anon-English title to Scopus.

What do users have to say about Scopus’ local-language content?Hiroyuki Tomizawa, the principal administrator in the EconomicAnalysis and Statistics Division of the Directorate for Science,Technology and Industry at the Organisation for EconomicCo-operation and Development (OECD), has commented,“We selected Scopus for its breadth of coverage includingjournal titles from over 100 nations as well as its advancedfeatures.” Other customers have also provided favorablefeedback regarding the local-language content on Scopus.

How much more local-language content is coming ontoScopus in the near future?Scopus will continue to add regional content of high quality. LC

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What languagesdoes Scopus cover?

As of 2010, Scopus content covers 34 languages andcomes from 108 nations.

Talking with Ove Kähler about Scopus and local-language content


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Since the launch of Scopus in 2004, Elsevier has sought to ensure that the abstract and citation database — now the world’s largest ofpeer-reviewed content — features content in “local languages,” meaning in languages besides English. Here, Senior Product Manager ScopusOve Kähler, with Elsevier in Amsterdam, gives an update about what’s going on with Scopus and local-language content.— Ingrid van de Stadt, Regional Customer Development Manager, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ove Kähler

"We selected Scopus for its breadthof coverage including journal titlesfrom over 100 nations."

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See Japanese-language training materials, explaining how to use Scopus,on TrainingDesk at http://trainingdesk.elsevier.com/videos.

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AAAA :::: Yes. Already, you can find on TrainingDesk resources inJapanese, and soon you’ll find on TrainingDesk resources in additional languages.

The first local-language resourcesfeatured on TrainingDesk come from Japan and provideshort segments on effective ways to use Scopus for writingresearch papers.

How are we developing local-language resources to offer on TrainingDesk? We’re partnering with Elsevier account development managers whoserve as training experts in theirregions, whether Latin America,Europe, the Middle East, Africa,Asia or the Pacific Region.

Working with these regional experts allowsus to distribute further materials they havecreated in their local languages, and helps us add to TrainingDeskresources relevant to customers’ local needs and interests.

Keep an eye on TrainingDesk as we continue to build our local-language resources. And, if you have any local-languagetraining materials, addressinghow to use Elsevier products,which you’d like to see featuredon TrainingDesk, please let me know. LC

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Susannah Megow, with Elsevier's TrainingDesk, highlights learning resources offering practical assistance

Susannah Megow

QQQQ :::: Does TrainingDesk offer resources in languages other than English?

Where can you find Elsevier staff, worldwide?

Statistics courtesy of Elsevier’s human resources department

www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/ataglance

www.elsevier.com/librarians/contacts

As of 2010:

Elsevier employs close to6,800 staff members.

Most of these colleagues work in Elsevier offices located in 23 countries. The rest of these colleagues work from theirhomes located in additionalnations around the world.

Languages spoken by Elseviercolleagues include Arabic,Bengali, Chinese, Danish, Dutch,English, Finnish, French, German,Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian,Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian,Polish, Portuguese, Russian,Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

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6 2nd Research Staff Conference, Liverpool, UK

21–26 Medical Library Association, Hilton Washington,Washington, DC, USA

25–27 INFORUM – Conference on ProfessionalInformation Resources, Prague, Czech Republic

2–5 Canadian Library Association, Shaw ConferenceCentre, Edmonton, Canada

6–12 ACURIL XL Annual Conference, Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic

13–16 Special Libraries Association, Ernest N. MorialConvention Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

24–29 American Library Association, WashingtonConvention Center, Washington, DC, USA

10–15 International Federation of Library Associations –World Library and Information Congress,Gothenburg, Sweden

31 Library Connect Seminar, Cape Town, South Africa

2 Library Connect Seminar, Pretoria, South Africa

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Doctors Without Borders physicians benefit from freeaccess to MD ConsultDuring late 2009, Elsevier staged the “AllYou Need to Make a Difference” campaign,which donated a free MD Consult subscription to Doctors WithoutBorders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)for each annual individual MD Consult subscription purchased. MD Consult isElsevier’s premier electronic clinical decision support (CDS) tool.

That campaignbrought goodresults: 351

physicians serving as Doctors WithoutBorders volunteers received one year of free access to MD Consult. Elsevierestimates that the 351 donated subscriptionsare worth USD $122,499. Alongside thedonation of MD Consult subscriptions,Elsevier also donated $5,000 to MSF.

“We are extremely grateful to Elsevier forcontributing MD Consult subscriptions andfinancial support to MSF,” said MSF-USADirector of Development Jennifer Tierney.“Elsevier’s generosity is helping provide

essential emergency medical care to people caught in medical crisis at possiblythe most vulnerable moment of their lives.Whether treating children for malnutrition,vaccinating against diseases or providingaid to people suffering from a natural

disaster, Elsevier’s contribution is making a substantial difference to our programsaround the world.” LC

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