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August 20, 2009 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Science Magazine and JoVE Announce Scientific Video Partnership
Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS; www.aaas.org), and JoVE (www.jove.com), the scientific video journal, announced that they have entered into a partnership for joint production and publication of scientific videos online. The purpose of the partnership is to enhance scientific articles published in Science through video demonstrations of experimental techniques. The Science/JoVE pilot project received support from the William T. Golden Endowment Fund for Program Innovation at AAAS. Under the partnership, which is currently in its pilot phase, Science will select papers suitable for the video enhancement and will identify author groups willing to help shape the video demonstrations. JoVE will then work with the authors to create the actual demonstrations using the company's platform for geographically distributed video-production. According to Stewart Wills, online editor at Science, direct, in-article video demonstrations should increase the value of Science research to its main audience, working scientists and students. The first video in the program documents an innovative method for visualizing and mapping the success or failure of immune control in viral infections, work published by Qingsheng Li, Pamela J. Skinner, et al. in Science's March 27, 2009 issue. The paper and associated video can be found at www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/323/5922/1726; access is free of charge for users who register with the site. The video and detailed protocol notes are also available at the JoVE site, at www.jove.com/index/Details.stp?ID=1561. Source: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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