ELSEVIER ANZ Library Newsletter
November - December 2020
Welcome back to our newsletter
In this newsletter issue, we have included recent and upcoming webinars that might interest you. Additional resources that may be useful to you are also available at the end of this newsletter. As always, we are thankful for your support and greatly appreciate your feedback!
General Announcement
The holidays are quickly approaching! During the Christmas and New Years period, our Sydney office will be closed from Thursday, 24 December at 1.00pm to Friday, 1st January 2021. We will reopen and be back in business on Monday, 4th January 2021.
Product updates
ScienceDirect
Educational Book Content on ScienceDirect
With the current focus on supporting academics and course delivery, we would like to highlight educational resources available on ScienceDirect.
The pandemic has accelerated the need for academic programs to find ways to serve students through online content. This can include online textbooks and reading assignments. Our educational content is one way we can support your institution’s lecturers and their students.
We hope the following information helps support you and your lecturers as they prepare for Semester 1, 2021 and beyond.
What educational content is available on ScienceDirect?
We have three types: eTextbooks, Text/Ref Hybrids, and Textbooks in Subject Collections on ScienceDirect: eTextbooks – Traditional textbook content, acquired and focused on education. These were the titles we made freely available until August 31, 2020 and as part of our EBS offering with CAUL: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/sciencedirect/content/etextbooks Text/Ref Hybrids – Monograph-type content included eBook collections, but has use cases in both education and reference/research. Please contact [email protected] for this list. Textbooks in Subject Collections – Traditional textbook content, acquired and focused on education but sold in eBook collections; focused on education use case. Please contact Suzanne Hall ([email protected]) for this list.
JLS Portfolio Update
We’re excited to announce that Elsevier will publish the journals Blood on behalf of the American Society of Hematology and Endocrine Practice on behalf of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists from the beginning of 2021. In addition, the Journal of Pain which was earlier a part of the Freedom Collection on ScienceDirect and also sold on individual institutional subscription is relaunched as stand-alone journal. 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
Scopus LibGuide is now available online via the Springshare platform! Highlighting key Scopus content, LibGuide enables librarians to copy the full guide, or parts of it, and incorporate it in their own system - ensuring accurate and up-to-date information.
To view the Scopus LibGuide, click here
Webinars (past & upcoming)
Australia-New Zealand
ScienceDirect eBook webinar series
This webinar series began on 4th August 2020, discussing a range of various topics on eBooks. To date, two webinar sessions have been held. Click on the links below to watch the recordings.
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More sessions are coming soon. Visit our website for more information.
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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PlumX Metrics: What's Your Use Case
In this webinar, Dr. Gali Halevi shared many ways PlumX Metrics are used by the faculty, students, and staff at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Segment two of the session covered a power-packed integration which gives users enhanced insight into research (Digital Commons + PlumX Metrics).
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Funding Research: Keys to Finding More Research Income
In this session, our international guest speakers explored several case studies which demonstrated how Funding Institutional helps to meet research strategy goals and funding needs – offering perspectives shaped by their own work in their respective university research offices.
For more details, visit the Funding Institutional Webinars website
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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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Pure International Conference 2020 (virtual)
The Pure International Conference began back in 2015 as a forum to connect our global user community with their peers and the Pure team, to share knowledge and discuss issues of importance to them. The now annual event attracts registrants from an ever-growing user community of 250 organizations, representing more than 40 countries.
The conference is intended for the international community of Pure users - research administrators, research technology professionals, and librarians, who are involved in performing RIM functions at their University or research Institution. The conference is also open to those interested in exploring Pure as a RIM system within your organization.
Date (Asia/Oceania): 3 - 5 November 2020
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Open science tools for discovering, promoting and sharing research
Librarians are powerful advocates for informing and engaging their researchers in the open science landscape. In this webinar, Elsevier product managers will present collaborative tools that enable your researchers to discover data, share scholarly insights, and improve their research outcomes.
Topics:
Open data sets that support research collaboration across disciplines Enhancing user experience for open access across research products Driving the future of open science through partnerships Building global visibility and impact with Diamond OA journals and OERs Open access options for sharing early stage research and preprints
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It’s not about the technology: Librarians and CIOs discuss access to digital resources and services
Providing secure access on campus to a variety of resources was already complex; fully online teaching and research has created new challenges around security and privacy.
In this online mini-symposium, Librarians, Chief Information Officers and Chief Information Security Officers discuss concerns, issues and solutions to the adoption and use of secure access of licensed content in a digital environment.
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Other webinars
Learning and Education
Setting students up for success with science literacy Librarian best practices ensure uninterrupted access to research and education Interactivity Boosts Student Engagement in Engineering Courses Applying Principles of Effective Teaching to Online Instruction in Engineering Research Services
Saving the cancelled conference: Supporting conferences and events with your IR Solution Accessibility
Options to provide remote access to Elsevier platforms and tools: CET Research and Publishing
Strategies for securing early career research funding Publishing best practices that set your researchers up for success
Highlights
University Guide Ranking
University rankings are diverse, imperfect — and influential. Your university has a unique mission and works hard to attract the best students, talent, and funding to support that mission. On the flip side, potential students, researchers, faculty members, (and, in some countries, even policymakers and funding agencies) look for help to in deciding why your university best fits their interests. Enter the world of University Rankings.
Why it matters In the past 18 years, international university rankings have grown in visibility and prominence and, in some countries, can influence:
How governments measure research excellence for your Learn more institution The criteria used by undergraduate students, parents and graduate students when choosing a university Click here if the link does not work Why a company selects you as a partner A funding body’s decision to invest in research at your university
Research Intelligence
For more information on Research Intelligence Solutions (SciVal, Scopus, Funding Institutional, Pure, Analytical Services, Expert Lookup, Mendeley Data, Digital Commons), please contact Cassandra Sims ([email protected]).
Elsevier's Press Releases
Elsevier and Pending.AI collaborate Reinventing research – Part One: on AI-driven chemistry future scenarios and moving away retrosynthesis tool from the publish or perish mantra
Elsevier is collaborating with Pending.AI, a Adrian Mulligan (Research Director for start-up focused on developing artificial Customer Insights at Elsevier) and Prof. Brian intelligence solutions for drug discovery, to Nosek (Department of Philosophy, University of develop the predictive retrosyntheis tool. Virginia and Director of the Center for Open Science) features in an interview with ABC This new AI leverages high quality, Australia – focusing on issues within the experimental reactions featured in Reaxys’ scientific rewards system, Open Science and chemistry database which will allow chemists to the Future of Research. increase the success rate of synthetic chemistry. Mulligan explains that in a “Tech Titans” science View full article environment, increased funding from private organizations would enable Science as a Service and an increased use of AI applications – while in the “Eastern Ascendance” scenario, there would be more fragmentation and less cooperation, especially in certain nations, with China as the powerhouse of research.
These scenarios are helpful for research organizations to plan ahead and think about new strategies in a changing environment.
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Other resources
Research Expertise and Collaboration Powered by Scopus Identify potential research experts or collaborators in areas related to the coronavirus epidemic across basic science, translational research, or clinical practice.
Learning and Education Research Services Solution Resources
Teaching Commons Research Impact Remote Access Guide
Open education resources Quick reference to research How to ensure uninterrupted from colleges & universities metrics access to products
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