ANZ Library Newsletter

January - February 2021

Welcome 2021!

Happy New Year to all our valued customers! We hope you enjoyed a well-deserved break after the challenging year of 2020. With the new year comes the new resolution to get back on our feet and move forward. To kickstart 2021, we have exciting things lined for you in this newsletter edition.

Announcements Product Updates Webinars Highlights

Open Access Press Releases Other News Resources

General Announcement

Elsevier is joining ALIA virtually this year! The ALIA Information Online Conference will be held on Monday, 8th February 2021 (more information here). Visit our "virtual booth" to say hi and join our ScienceDirect quiz challenge to get an Elsevier goodie bag at your doorstep. We look forward to seeing you! As Suzanne Hall, our Solution Sales Manager for books, is taking a new global role with Elsevier, she will no longer be covering the SSM role this year. Until her replacement is announced, enquiries for books will now be handled by your Account Manager and Angela McGuire (Consumer Consultant).

Product updates

ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect has made the following enhancements: ScienceDirect added an additional filtering option on your search results page. You can now restrict your search results based on the subject area of the articles returned. When browsing publications on ScienceDirect, you can now limit the publication types displayed to include (or exclude) Textbooks. You can also limit the access type to Open Access publications.

Journal Portfolio Update

The Lancet Rheumatology is now indexed in , Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Web of Science. Newly launched journals are rarely chosen for indexation as it normally takes a few years. This suggests the high quality of its publications.

Blood on behalf of the American Society of Hematology, Endocrine Practice on behalf of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and Journal of Pain is still available for 2021 subscription. Blood - Established in 1946, this journal from the American Society of Hematology is the top cited journal in Hematology and is published weekly. Impact Factor: 17.543 Endocrine Practice - A peer-reviewed monthly journal from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE). Impact Factor: 3.805 Journal of Pain - This is an official journal of the US Association for the Study of Pain, publishing original articles related to all aspects of pain. Impact Factor: 4.62 For more information, please contact JLS inside sales manager Mingjun Shan ([email protected]) who works alongside your account managers for ANZ market.

Scopus Roadmap

Enhanced Author Profiles pages A simpler, cleaner design enables you to quickly scan an author’s profile to get an overview of their areas of expertise (via their top Topics), their productivity and publications and their research impact. The updated Author Profiles makes it easier to search for collaborators or assess researchers for tenure and promotion. Identify Open Access content by OA type Within the search results filters, there is currently one OA marker which covers full OA journals, hybrid journals, and open archive. We are looking to apply filters which will denote whether articles are: Gold, Hybrid Gold, Green, and Bronze. Pre-prints on author pages We will introduce 600K recent pre-prints on Author Profiles giving users a view into an author’s pre-prints from the last three years and providing earlier and more comprehensive insights into their work and focus areas. With an average peer-review process of a little more than a year, users can get a head start into assessing an author’s work and potential collaboration opportunities. Article Scopus view counts Users will now be able to see how many times an article has been viewed in Scopus from the results screen. The traditional citation metric indicates the value/use of an article and is therefore a lagging metric, whereas Scopus view counts are a leading indicator of quality. The views are a proxy for interest in an article, within the researcher community, and can provide users with an entry point to an area of research. Improving integration between SciVal and Scopus Users will be able to evaluate institutions in Scopus and SciVal more consistently due to further alignment, based on a revamp of 17,000+ institution profiles, and their respective analytical metrics Ongoing user interface, experience, & data improvements

The Scopus team is continuously analyzing usage and behavior while conducting researcher interviews to validate user flows and ensure an optimal path and user experience. These improvements include: Improving the home page experience by making it more personalized for users Assigning awarded grants to Author Profiles Ability to analyse the SDG search queries in Scopus Advancing analytical capabilities on profile pages Expert Lookup integration helping you to find similar or relevant researchers Sub-category filtering with more granular Topic areas Continuous Institutional Profile data clean-up by mapping subsidiaries with parent AF-IDs. Redesigned abstract pages to improve ease-of-use Improved full-text download capability: 1-click cross-publisher access to 69M full text articles New CiteScore methodology: Introducing a more robust, fair and faster indicator of research impact. Fairer comparisons between peer-reviewed journals: Only peer-reviewed publication types (articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters and data papers) are be included in the calculation, making the comparison between journals more robust. This now excludes non- peer reviewed article types: editorials, news items, letters, and notes. Cleaner assessment: Citations are now counted cumulatively from the year of publication through the calculation window (4 years) vs only the previous year. This means that all citations received by publications in this period are counted towards CiteScore values, and journals receive a CiteScore value 1 year earlier than an Impact Factor. Earlier impact indication: CiteScore is now calculated for journals with just a single year of publication, providing an earlier view into new journals’ – including many Open Access journals’ – citation impact. Easier identification & tracking of experts Save all authors to lists: Users can now create and save ‘author lists’ for later reference. In addition, users can also save all authors from an Institution to a list from the institution profile. Save authors from results: Users can now save all authors to a list from “View Potential Author Matches” in search results Author List analytics: This new feature allows users to see analytics and metrics of a list of authors saved in their dashboard. Clicking on it will display the aggregated metrics of all the authors saved in that list. More information on the Scopus 2020 - 2021 Roadmap

SciVal Roadmap

Based on our 2020 Roadmap, below are our plans for SciVal in early 2021. Find potential collaborators via Topics you have in common Improved user on-boarding experience, with additional help and guidance Open Access analysis More in-depth analyses for the UN Sustainable Development Goals Support for University Systems: Improved profile setup of University Systems and see the collaboration of a System with other Institutions Outside-in perspective on funding, for research policy-making Enjoy a growing catalogue of institutional profiles for your analysis

Pure Roadmap

We continue to invest in tooling to support research administrators and librarians in ensuring high quality data in the following areas: Addition of new data sources such as DBLP for the computer science field, and an integration with the Elsevier offering for finding and importing awarded grants data into Pure. Expansion of ability to record and use metrics on content level, including expansion of the metrics stored, top percentage cited articles and fractional counting of articles. Towards our commitment and support of open access we will also be expanding the support for APC and license data on research output and looking at adding a data source such as Unpaywall and/or COAR. Expanded workflow capability to facilitate clients in modeling and running processes that connects systems and related processes to give the Administrator an operational hub – allowing them to fulfill the institutional needs of optimizing ability to get funds, to manage research process and to engage researchers. View the full Pure Roadmap 2020 here

For more information on the latest release, listen to the webinar on Pure Academy BrightTALK Channel

Engineering Village

New Standards Partner

Standards are vital to the work of engineers and used extensively within academic and corporate markets. The value of having standards records within EV is that users can search and discover standards records in context with all other research materials. As of November 2020, there are now standards from 11 standards development organizations (SDOs) indexed in Compendex including IEEE, SMPTE, ASTM, ASCE, SAE, AIAA, BSI, TAPPI, AWS, ACI and AWWA. A complete set of each SDO’s standards are indexed, both active and inactive versions. Inclusion of technical standards content from major ocused SDOs is ongoing and represents a long-term content enhancement program for Ei Compendex. Inspec Analytics

Inspec Analytics is available on Engineering Village (EV) further cementing EV as the first choice for serious engineering research. Combined with the Engineering Research Profile on Compendex, EV adds unmatched analytics to comprehensive content. Users now have the capability to: Monitor the research output of your institution and benchmark against your competitors Identify emerging trends to explore new fields and plan the focus of future research investments Find & monitor collaboration opportunities within academia, and with industry and government

Knovel

Steam Calculator - Tool based on IAPWS IF-97, is a new feature on Knovel that helps engineers calculate water and steam's thermodynamics properties as a function of temperature, pressure, saturation, and quality. Learn more about Steam Calculator here.

Reaxys

Access to even more experimental data Since June 2019, data from 2.99 million documents has been covering: 1.4 million substances 2.79 million reactions 1.85 million bioactivities The new commercial substances database facilitates smoother experiment planning Large increase in patent content in 2020 and 2021 Visit the Elsevier website for more information

Reaxys Predictive Retrosynthesis: Redesigning the approach to synthetic chemistry

Reaxys Predictive Retrosynthesis is faster, broader, more flexible and smarter than any existing tool. Its novel approach auto-designs synthetic routes for known and novel substances. This new decision-support solution delivers multiple benefits for researchers and companies: Drive innovation: Find innovative routes to synthetize novel compounds and find novel, optimized routes for existing chemical compounds Support decision making: Make informed decision about which chemical compounds to make and how to make them Save time: Predicts route 30 times faster and for twice as many molecules compared to other computer-aided route design solutions Customizable: Flexibility to integrate users own custom building block libraries and proprietary chemistry reaction data More information on Reaxys Predictive Retrosynthesis

Webinars

Australia-New Zealand

Professor Ren Yi on FlashSci Talks

In one of Elsevier's FlashSci Talks: Insights from Research Leaders video series, Professor Ren Yi, the Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Southern Queensland, talks with Dr Anders Karlsson, Elsevier’s VP of Academic Relations for Japan/APAC, about how COVID provides an opportunity for collaboration on global issues, new learning platforms to engage international students and new technology solutions for teaching.

Watch Professor Ren Yi's interview

ANZ Scival & Scopus webinars

From April to September 2020, Elsevier has held fortnightly webinars on SciVal and Scopus – covering relevant topics for librarians, researchers and academics and providing in-depth insight through a QnA segment in each session.

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Asia-Pacific & Global

ScienceDirect eBook Forum 2020

Session 1 COVID-19 and the Future of Libraries – Accepting the Challenge and Recognizing the Opportunities

Led by Professor David Baker and Dr Lucy Ellis, this session discusses how libraries have managed to deliver service during the COVID-19 crisis and focus on the innovative ways of collection, development, service provision and use of library buildings in the post-COVID-19 world.

Session 2 COVID-19: The Future of Digital Information for Libraries –Partnership, Supply and Demand

This webinar follows on from the first session of this forum, exploring further into the future of online information provision and the changing roles within the supply chain.

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Asia-Pacific SciVal User Group – Rankings, Collaboration, Emerging Themes and Beyond

This is the first Asia Pacific wide SciVal user group meeting. The aim of this year's Asia-Pacific SciVal User Group is to be forward- thinking in nature and to explore and share how institutions across different countries use SciVal to achieve success in reporting for rankings, collaboration and identifying emerging research trends for their institution. This meeting will include a number of case studies presented by our speakers from various institutions in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and India.

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Engineering Webinars

Incorporating Knovel into the Digital Learning Environment

In this webinar we will focus on ways to incorporate Knovel into the Engineering classroom, with a special focus on digital coursework given the challenges due to Covid. From use as a primary source for lab reports, experimental design, or research papers to including interactive equations with homework assignments Knovel has various possible applications to make the transition and use of online resources easier for you and your students & engineers.

Presented by Chris Cogswell, PhD, Customer Consultant Engineering

Access recording here

Interactivity Boosts Student Engagement in Engineering Courses

Whether online, remote, hybrid, or in person, all classroom activities can be designed to create student engagement and measure student learning. Today’s digital tools are creating big data that can help students and faculty improve learning outcomes. Even prior to classroom instruction, interactive textbooks can create an incentive for students to put time into learning the basic definitions and relationships. During class, applying and analysing engineering problems can be completed using a range of active learning techniques. When teaching remotely, techniques like polling can provide valuable real-time feedback to the instructor.

Presented by Dr. Matthew W. Liberatore (Professor in the Department of at the University of Toledo & 2018 Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand)

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Applying Principles of Effective Teaching to Online Instruction in Engineering

This webinar will present an overview of some ways to address key aspects of online instruction as learned through our own personal experiences and supported by the literature. Based on the assertion that effective teaching online follows the same fundamental principles associated with effective teaching in general, we will present tested approaches for both lecture and laboratory classes that are designed to support active engagement, community building, and achievement of course outcomes.

Presented by Dr. David Silverstein and Dr. Sarah Wilson; University of Kentucky

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Education Week 2020 Webinars

Best Practices for Publishing in Highly Selective Journals with Dr. Robert Eagling, Editor-in- Chief, Chem. Learn how to prepare your manuscripts for publication in the best journal for your research. Best Practices in Reporting & Submitting Clinical Research to High Impact Journals with Heather Van Epps, Editor-in-Chief, Rheumatology to learn the best practices in reporting and submitting clinical research for high-impact journals. How to Prepare Your Manuscripts for Publication in Top Journals with Kavitha Scranton, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Editor, of Immunity ( Press journal). Learn how to develop a strong narrative for your research paper. How to Publish with The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery -Learn techniques and strategies to publish in premium journals like the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (JTCVS) with Richard D. Weisel, Editor, JTCVS, Y. Joseph Woo, Associate Editor, MD, Adult and Thomas A. D’Amico, MD, Thoracic. Must Know Tips for Publishing in Premium Journals with Dr. Philip Earis, Editor-in-Chief, Joule. Learn techniques and strategies to publish in high impact journals with Philip. Authoring in The Lancet: Learn from the Editors with John McConnell, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Learn all about the techniques and strategies for authoring in high-impact journals. New Trends and Future Directions in Catalysis - This webinar will feature talks about four areas of sustainable catalysis from leaders in their respective fields, highlighting state-of-the- art approaches and providing guidance for future developments in these areas of research. Clinical Cases & Social Media: Tips & Techniques - Learn how to prepare your clinical case for successful submission and get tips on how to ensure visibility of your findings for the benefit of wider public using social media with Dr. Julia Grapsa, Editor-in-Chief, JACC: Case Reports and Dr. Mary Norine Walsh, President, American College of Cardiology. How to publish in groundbreaking Journals with Steve W. Cranford, Editor-in-Chief, Matter. Learn tips on how to publish your paper in a transformative ground-breaking journal. Techniques for Publishing in Transformative Ground-Breaking Journals - Learn techniques and strategies for developing your papers for ground-breaking publications with Dr. Lewis Collins, Editor-in-Chief, One Earth.

Highlights

Advancing responsible research assessment By Andrew Plume, PhD - 16/12/2020

To support the responsible use of metrics and indicators in the assessment of research, Elsevier has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). The signing took place on the anniversary of the declaration.

"I am very pleased that Elsevier has committed itself to DORA and agreed to open up its citation data," said Chair of DORA, Professor Stephen Curry, "To me, this is a powerful indicator of the rising importance worldwide of responsible research assessment. I very much look forward to seeing the positive impact of this decision both within Elsevier and the community that they serve."

Following this announcement, reference lists for all articles published in Elsevier journals will be openly available via Crossref so they can be available for reuse. This means other important initiatives like I4OC can draw on this metadata.

Read the full article here

For maximum impact, universities must play to their strengths Times Higher Education (THE) 30/11/2020

The ‘Tasmania Model’ of addressing social need offers lessons for the wider sector, say Rufus Black, Vice-chancellor of the University of Tasmania, and Nick Fowler, Chief academic officer at Elsevier.

"The first step in what we call the Tasmania Model is to look outwards and identify and prioritise specific societal issues to address," wrote Black and Fowler. To identify the most critical issues, they analysed six areas of Tasmanian society – educational attainment, health, economy, social inclusion, cultural activities, and environmental sustainability.

"For instance, by aggregating public health data we found that Tasmania has a disproportionate prevalence of mental health conditions, arthritis, hypertension, asthma, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Where evidence was lacking, we built new datasets. For example, we commissioned Ipsos to survey more than 500 Tasmanians so our prioritisation would be informed by public opinion".

To read the entire cover, click on the link and sign up for a free subscription at Times Higher Education.

Open Access News

Elsevier expands Open Access options for Journals from January 2021 London, 18/12/20

Elsevier, announced that the Cell Press port folio of journals will be expanding open access publishing options for authors from January 1, 2021. As one of the fastest-growing open access publishers in the world, nearly all of Elsevier's 2,600 journals now enable open access publishing, including 500 fully open access journals.

From January 2021, all authors will have the option to publish open access across the entire range of the highly regarded and influential Cell Press family of journals. This publishing route means all Cell Press authors can choose to make their research article available for everyone to read immediately following publication.

"Our commitment to openness, inclusion and collaboration in research means Elsevier will support every author in publishing open access in any one of our journals, across all disciplines of research, including in our highly selective journals," said Managing Director of Journals at Elsevier, Philippe Terheggen.

"We are pleased to expand open access publishing options for Cell Press journals for authors whilst maintaining the highest standards of quality and editorial rigour that our journals represent."

In enabling more open access, Elsevier's principle is to always offer substantial value to the scientific community relative to the quality and rigour of the editorial and publishing services provided. As a result, for titles that do not currently offer an open access publishing option, new article publishing charges (APCs) of £7,000 / €7,600 / $8,900 for the majority of journals, and £7,800 / €8,500 / $9,900 for the flagship title, Cell will apply. Existing Cell Press APCs for hybrid journals will be aligned with these new publishing charges.

These journals will also continue to offer authors the option to publish through the subscription model. Since 2004, all subscription articles published in Cell Press research journals are free for everyone to read from 12 months after publication in Open Archive.

The APCs will remain unchanged for most existing gold open access journals, including the growing Cell Reports family, iScience and Heliyon. Overall, the Cell Press journals will offer open access publishing at APCs starting from £1,400 / €1,500 / $1,750.

To support researchers from low- and middle-income countries to participate and access research, open access APCs will be waived for all 69 Group A countries in the Research4Life program and reduced by 50 percent for the remaining 57 Group B countries.

Read the full article here

Elsevier reaches open access agreement in Japan Times Higher Education (THE) 01/12/20

As a measure to support Japan's open access (OA) goals, Elsevier and the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (Justice) have agreed to a three-year proposal for subscription publishing.

“This is the first Elsevier agreement in Asia-Pacific in which we’ve included OA options for our customers – in this instance for Justice,” said an Elsevier spokesperson.

Under this agreement, institutions can choose between a purely subscription model or a subscription model with options for gold open access, green open access or a combination of both.

With the gold open access, researchers or funders pay article processing charges, enabling other researchers and the public to access the work immediately for free.

Green open access allows researchers to share their work in a repository after an embargo period of one or two years. Under this model, authors who cannot afford the cost of gold APCs can make their research open access, although the full-text version would still be accessible only to journal subscribers.

The spokesperson said each of its arrangements is “tailored to the specific needs of our partners”.

Elsevier said the proposal “aims to reduce the financial burden of authors wishing to publish OA while continuing to provide access to Science Direct”, which includes 16 million publications from more than 2,500 journals.

Elsevier has been making moves towards open access. Earlier this year, an open access deal was reached with the Netherlands which made 95 per cent of Dutch articles open access.

To read the entire cover, click on the link and sign up for a free subscription at Times Higher Education.

National Research Council of Science & Technology and Elsevier sign agreement in support of South Korea’s Open Access goals Seoul, 18/12/2020

South Korea’s National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST) and Elsevier announced a new three-year agreement that will provide South Korean researchers access to global academic research and offer them Open Access (OA) publishing options from January 1, 2021.

The agreement provides 25 government-funded research institutes (GRIs) across South Korea under the administration of NST access to ScienceDirect. It also enables South Korean researchers to publish their research open access.

"The first OA transformative agreement with Elsevier marks a progressive step towards unrestricted access to South Korean academic research outputs to be read and re-used by the global academic community," said Sun-Hwa Hahn, Acting Chairperson of NST, “This opportunity will encourage our researchers to proliferate their scientific output around the world. In line with the global trend of Open Science and the sharing of research data, NST will endeavour to accelerate the transition to open access.”

This agreement that supports NST’s OA goals is another example of the many tailored pilot or transformative agreements Elsevier has similarly established with other universities and consortia around the world, supporting OA. These agreements are tailored to the specific needs of partners, ranging from reading and publishing services, to broader areas such as reproducibility, transparency and collaboration in research.

Read the full article here

Scopus adds 5.5 million Open Access records

Elsevier's abstract and citation database, Scopus has new Open Access filters collecting an additional 5.5 million articles. The articles are being sourced from Unpaywall which harvests Open Access content from publishers and repositories.

Scopus users can now see Open Access Gold, Hybrid-Gold, Green or Bronze status per document. Furthermore, the Scopus advanced search page has been updated to allow users to build custom queries to include these new Open Access statuses. If users have a need to split out “Green Open Access” into “Green accepted” or “Green final” they will be able to do so on the Advanced search page and via the Scopus APIs.

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Elsevier's Press Releases

Early-career researchers share thoughts 7 challenges to overcome for a more on life under coronavirus inclusive research ecosystem Winners of EuroScience European Young Every year, leading scientists, strategists and Researchers’ Award gather for a zoom call to policymakers from around the world gather at discuss the challenges - and opportunities - the Falling Walls conference in Berlin to the pandemic has posed in their research. discuss the crucial question: “Which are the They touched on topics such as collaboration, next walls to fall in science and society?” For work-life balance and virtual awards. panelists in the 2020 conference, they hope to bring down racial inequity barriers in "Working online, having virtual meetings, research. that’s all cool. We used to do that all the time, because we had collaborators in Australia "As a data and analytics company, we’re (and) all around the US," said Dr Maria working on measurement and data-led Bosetta, "But when you need to fly to Arizona insights, which are key to both transparency to go to a particular lab to do a particular and progress," said Elsevier CEO Kumsal experiment, what can you do? It puts a 6- Bayazit, "We've made good progress with month delay in my work because I can’t join a gender data and are now focusing on race lab." and ethnicity – which is a challenging data gathering exercise, but what you can't measure you can't progress."

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Other News

Panning for gold: searching for new materials in the age of sustainability R&D World 17/12/20

Graphene, dubbed as 'Wonder Material', has increasingly shown potential that may solve the sustainability issue of existing materials. Many researches on Engineering Village show that graphene has wide-ranging possibilities with its potential uses, including: eliminating rust, creating ‘greener’ concrete and even offering targeted drug delivery.

Interest in another ‘wonder material’, borophene, has also intensified. Much like graphene, borophene’s uses are extremely varied, with its potential as a superconductor making it a likely component in the next generation of wearables, biomolecular sensors and quantum computers.

The discoveries of graphene and borophene have also opened new routes for , generating new interest in two- dimensional materials and providing a timely reminder that materials innovation is possible.

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Best Chemistry Predictive Analytics Specialists 2020 GHP - International Life Sciences Awards 2020

Information is a powerful thing, but only if it can be interpreted in a way that is useful. The Reaxys team at Elsevier has built a strong reputation for their work in extraction, curation and analysis of chemistry data. This year they have taken their chemistry information software, Reaxys, to the next level by developing an AI solution for drug discovery- the best-in-class Predictive Retrosynthesis software that combines reaction data with deep learning algorithm to support innovation in synthetic and medicinal chemistry.

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ANZ Newsletter January - February 2021