Member News & Announcements, November IO 2024
Infrastructure & Platforms
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Library joins OCLC's WorldShare Management Services community
OCLC, Voting Member, Press Release, October 8, 2024
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Library (Fermilab) has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as its library services platform to enhance its services and better serve its users.
Fermilab Library, located in Illinois, is a renowned research institution specializing in high-energy physics supporting a worldwide community. As a vital resource for scientists, engineers, and researchers, the library plays a crucial role in supporting the pursuit of knowledge and innovation in the field.
Emerging Technologies
Elsevier Health announces the commercial launch of Sherpath AI, the most advanced AI solution in nursing and healthcare education
Elsevier, Voting Member, Press Release, October 14, 2024
Sherpath AI, developed in collaboration with nursing faculty from across the US, addresses the critical needs of the nursing education community by improving student engagement with course materials and helping to increase capacity and effectiveness in the face of faculty resource constraints.
Sherpath AI has been tested by more than 1,000 educators and tens of thousands of nursing students from across the US, and is being leveraged by institutions across the country, including development partner institutions Arizona State University, Chamberlain University and Miami-Dade College.
Wolters Kluwer celebrates a decade of bringing virtual nursing education and innovation to students
Wolters Kluewer, Voting Member, News Announcement, October 9, 2024
Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that vSim® for Nursing, a leader in virtual simulation for nursing education, celebrates its tenth anniversary of transforming the nursing education landscape. More than a decade ago, leaders from Wolters Kluwer, Laerdal Medical and the National League for Nursing came together, as they recognized they could help transform nursing education by empowering educators to deliver clinically based experiences to nursing students. This approach addressed the lack of clinical sites, one of the biggest barriers to increasing the number of new nurses in the workforce. Over two million students have progressed on their nursing journeys with vSim for Nursing.
"The use and adoption of virtual simulation in nursing education has come a long way in the past ten years. Not only has this technology become a mainstay in nursing education, but it is also acknowledged and approved for replacing clinical hours, addressing a real need for nursing educators and students. Building these tools alongside the National League for Nursing and Laerdal Medical underscores Wolters Kluwer's commitment to innovation. We are honored to be part of this change and will continue to champion the use of simulation for nursing education."
– Julie Stegman, Vice President, Wolters Kluwer Health Learning & Practice
Elsevier Health expands access to ClinicalKey AI to individual medical residents and physicians
Elsevier, Voting Member, Press Release, October 8, 2024
ClinicalKey AI is a leading clinical decision support solution that offers the latest evidence-based clinical information at the point of care. The AI-powered solution answers clinical questions – from simple to complex - enabling reliable and secure access to some of the world’s most trusted medical content in most locations or settings
Elsevier Health opens in new tab/window, a global leader in medical information and data analytics, today announced the expansion of ClinicalKey AI to individual medical residents and physicians across the US to better support clinical decision-making at the point of care.
Industry Leadership
Sage Appoints Khal Rudin as Chief Commercial Officer
SAGE Publishing, Voting Member, Press Release, November 1, 2024
Khal Rudin will be appointed to the newly created Chief Commercial Officer role at Sage, accelerating the independent academic publisher’s customer-centered approach to business operations and further aligning the business amongst global customers and end-users. Rudin was formerly managing director at the Sage subsidiary AM and is currently a senior vice president at Sage. He will begin his new role in January 2025.
“I am thrilled to be taking on this new role and see it as an opportunity to dig deeper into the needs of customers across the globe and align and improve their experience with Sage, our products, and our tech,” said Rudin. “I find it incredibly disheartening when quality research and teaching materials created by the world’s top thinkers are not accessed and not used by students and researchers. In this new role, I’m looking forward to working with customers to find economically viable ways to increase their access.”
Collaborations
Kriyadocs Announces Strategic Collaboration with CCC to Enhance Publishing Workflows
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), Voting Member, Press Release, October 16, 2024
Kriyadocs is excited to announce a new strategic collaboration with CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, that features an integration of CCC’s Ringgold Identify Database, of organization persistent identifiers (PIDs) and metadata, into the Kriyadocs Unified Publishing Ecosystem. This partnership will support publishers in significantly enhancing data accuracy and streamlining the publishing process.
"We are thrilled to collaborate with CCC and integrate its industry-leading identifier database into our platform," said Ravi Venkataramani, CEO of Kriyadocs. "This partnership aligns with our commitment to enhancing the publishing experience for our clients, ensuring that their data is accurate, reliable, and easily manageable."
Open Access, Open Science
ORCID’s Self-Assessment of the POSI Principles
ORCID, Inc., Voting Member, Blog Post, October 15, 2024
In 2015, a blog post was published articulating a new set of principles “by which open Infrastructures to support the research community could be run and sustained.” The authors espoused that the principles they set forth, called the Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI), “could support the creation of successful shared infrastructures” by ensuring community governance, sustainability of funding and preservation of community ownership.
In the blog post, the authors noted that conversation and these principles had their genesis in the community concerns and discussions that led to ORCID’s creation, and noted that ORCID’s Founding Principles, established by ORCID’s inaugural Board in 2010, “represented the first attempt to address the issue of community trust which have developed in our conversations since to include additional issues.”
Accessibility Standards and Compliance
European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Nuances Before Time Runs Out
Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. (DCL), Voting Member, Blog Post, October 14, 2024
The [following] video excerpts come from a recent conversation between publishing industry accessibility expert Bill Kasdorf and DCL president Mark Gross. The EAA strongly impacts publishers. Delving into the details now is crucial for understanding what your organization must do to reach compliance.
Libraries, Collections, & Archives
The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations from UBL
Internet Archive, L.S.A. Member, News Announcement, October 8, 2024
Last month, the UBL announced that it will deselect an extensive collection of foreign dissertations. We are happy to report now that The Internet Archive will be taking over this collection.
The dissertations were originally part of an exchange programme between (mostly European) universities until the year 2004 but were never catalogued on arrival. As Leiden University Libraries has limited space for growth in its stacks, it decided to deselect these dissertations, so that 3.2 km could be freed up for new acquisitions. The universities where these dissertations originally were defended informed UBL that they still have the dissertations and were not interested in receiving back the Leiden copy. The Internet Archive will now take over this collection from the UBL, and will take care of its future preservation and access. The UBL is pleased that The Internet Archive is able to give this collection of foreign dissertations a second life.