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Thursday, October 18, 2012
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And the (Nobel Prize) Winner Is …
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by Barbara Brynko
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Every autumn, David Pendlebury looks forward to hearing who has won the year's Nobel Prizes. Pendlebury isn't hoping to queue up for an award himself, but he still has a big stake in the results. As citation analyst at Thomson Reuters, he spends months digging into data dating from as far as 3 decades ago in search of what he calls scientists and researchers of "Nobel class" who were pioneers in their respective fields. These are the men and women responsible for laying the very foundations of today's discoveries. Last year, each of Pendlebury's "predictions" came true; he predicted all four prizes and all nine new laureates. This set an all-time record since the Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates prediction process was officially launched in 2002. To date, Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates, part of the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, has accurately predicted 27 Nobel Prize winners.
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HarperCollins, Publishing Technology to Build Global Product Manager
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HarperCollins Publishers, a subsidiary of News Corp., announced that it will roll out a new global publishing system, one of the largest undertakings of its kind to be implemented by a trade publisher. Global Product Manager, developed in partnership with Publishing Technology, LLC, will enable HarperCollins to unify editorial, marketing, and business data around the world, widening the reach of its print and digital publications in its core target markets.
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Summon Adds Content From Elsevier Scopus, International Sources
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Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, will index content in Scopus, an abstract and citation database from Elsevier, and expose its citation counts in the Summon discovery service. Serials Solutions' pioneering approach to displaying citation counts in Summon search results—along with pop-ups including links to citing articles within the discovery environment—enables users to interact with this valuable information without interrupting the research workflow.
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New FOIAonline Platform Launched
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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Department of Commerce have partnered to develop an online system aimed at expanding public access to information requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). FOIAonline, formerly known as the FOIA Module, is available to offer the public one place to submit FOIA requests, track their progress, communicate with the processing agency, search other requests, access previously released responsive documents, and file appeals with participating agencies.
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Pew Research Center Provides Research and Data on Campaign 2012
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by Paula J. Hane
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As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney prepared for their first debate on Oct. 3, 2012, the issues at the top of the voters' agenda have changed little since 2008, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Conducted Sept. 12-16 among 3,019 adults, including 2,424 registered voters, the results show that 87% of registered voters say that the economy will be very important to their vote, while 83% say jobs will be very important to their vote.
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