NEWS

Welcome to the 10th issue of Librarian Insider, our quarterly newsletter dedicated to you. If you or your colleagues would like to be notified about future issues, please e-mail emma.bartovsky@iop.org

Our electronic gracingperiod for 2006subscriptions has now cometo an end. This means thatcustomers who have not yetrenewed their subscriptionsto IOP titles will have lostaccess. You can review thestatus of all your IOPsubscriptions at

librarian.iop.org. To process your 2007 renewals andreinstate electronic access, please e-mail our CustomerServices Department at subqueries@iop.org (UK andRest-Of-World) or info@ioppubusa.com (North andSouth America).

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Physica ScriptaPhysica Scripta’s Topical Issues program will becontinuing in 2007. As a result of your requests andfeedback we will no longer be delivering them in CD-ROM format. Topical Issues will now be available online.This will allow more readers at subscribing institutionsto access the papers via journals.iop.org rather thanhaving to wait for delivery.

NanotechnologyBeginning in January 2007, Nanotechnology startedbeing published weekly. In addition it has beenreorganized into subject sections in order to make iteasier for users to navigate its content. We hope this willhelp take readers directly to articles of special interest,while serving the needs of the broader community.

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Journal news in brief

Beginning in January,2007, IOP Publishing(IOP) and EDP Scienceshave jointly takenresponsibility forsubscription fulfilmentof Europhysics Letters(EPL). EPL is nowavailable in several ofIOP’s discountedpackages. Contact your RegionalRepresentative for details

(www.iop.org/EJ/enquiries). EDP Sciences continuesto invoice and fulfil subscriptions for customers whochoose to subscribe outside of IOP’s packages. Take alook at the new journal website at www.epljournal.orgfor more information on the changes taking place in 2007.

We are pleased to remind you about some importantchanges in the way you request your Electronic Journalsusage statistics, which will make COUNTER-compliantusage reports available back to January 2006 on asecure website. The reports will be updated on the 20thof each month. The IOP COUNTER reports service ishosted by our partner, MPS Technologies, incollaboration with Coremetrics. If you are a site contactor statistics contact for our Electronic Journals service,we will be e-mailing you shortly to provide you withyour login details. In the meantime, if you have anyquestions, you can contact us at custserv@iop.org.More information about COUNTER can be found atwww.projectcounter.org.

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Electronic access gracing period ends

EPL joins IOP catalogue Changes to ElectronicJournals usage statistics

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EVENTS

The beautiful city of Seattle,WA, hosted the ALA MidwinterMeeting this past January. Thenew and unique glass-enclosed Central Library was amust-see for all!

Among the highlights at theIOP Publishing booth was the

‘60 Seconds With…’ interview on our website featuringUniversity of Washington’s very own Mel DeSart. Mel is ahighly-respected and popular librarian and it was ourpleasure to spend a few moments getting to know him alittle better. It definitely brought a smile to many faces asthey read his Q&A session. If you missed Mel’s interview,you can still read it in the archives athttp://journals.iop.org/sixty/101.

IOP Publishing welcomed familiar, as well as some new,faces to our booth this year. Many of our visitors werehoping to pick the key that would open the treasure chestholding this year’s very special giveaway – A Year’s Worth

of Chocolate! It wasn’t very long into the afternoon on dayone that Betty Galbraith from Washington State Universitychose the winning key and, needless to say, she was quitesurprised and excited! The second prizes of homemadechocolates were won by two STS members; Beth Blankleyof Nova Southeastern University, and Erin O’Toole ofUniversity of North Texas.

On Sunday evening, IOP Publishing proudly sponsoredthe annual STS-Members Dinner. Everyone seemed toenjoy the buffet and all certainly appreciated the hardwork that Beth Thomsett-Scott of University of NorthTexas put into organizing the event. We gave a special‘goody bag’ to attendees which included an umbrellacustom-made especially for STS members (handy forSeattle’s weather!)

We would like to thank all of the STS members who tookthe time to stop by our booth to express their gratitude forthe continued support IOP gives to STS. It has been andcontinues to be our pleasure!

Leipzig Information and Library Congress March 19-21, Leipzig, Germany(IOP Booth 31 )

Annual Conference of the Deutsche PhysikalischeGesellschaft: Condensed Matter DivisionMarch 27-29, Regensburg, Germany(IOP Booth 50)

Association of College and Research Libraries 13thNational ConferenceMarch 29-April 1, Balitmore, MD, USA(IOP Booth 154)We will be hosting a reception on Saturday, March 31.For more information please contactcollins@ioppubusa.com.

Thirteenth Annual Gulf SLA Conference April 3-5, Bahrain(IOP Booth 15)

United Kingdom Serials Group Annual Conference April 16-18, Warwick, UK(IOP Booth 6)We are pleased to be sponsoring this event.

Special Libraries Association 2007 Annual ConferenceJune 3-5, Denver, CO, USA(IOP Booth 719) Watch for details of the PAM Suite Daily Retreat and IOP-sponsored Open House.

ANKOS General Meeting June 7-9, Ankara, Turkey

We’ve got a busy three months of conferences planned, and we hope to see you at one of the following upcoming events:

We are giving away Europhysics Letters (EPL) posters to mark itsaddition to the IOP catalogue. Also available are our IOP Archiveposters, which proved extremely popular when they were featuredin a previous issue. To receive your free copies, simply e-mailemma.bartovsky@iop.org. This offer is available while supplies last.

Free Collectible Posters

ALA Midwinter: Success in Seattle

As a learned societypublisher, givingback to thecommunity is morethan an aspiration, itis our mission. Thus,it is with great pridethat we announceour efforts indevelopingcommunity websitesdesigned with usersfrom all disciplinesin mind.

Community websites provide a meeting point forindustry professionals to exchange ideas andinformation with their academic counterparts, and assuch, they are designed to promote communicationand networking among scientific communities.

The websites themselves are completely free to use,and the content is current, relevant, and informative.While there is some peer-reviewed content availableonly by subscription, the majority of the content is free.This includes editorial, industry news, and analysis.

Current community websites from IOP include: compoundsemiconductor.netenvironmentalresearchweb.orgmedicalphysicsweb.orgnanotechweb.orgoptics.orgphysicsweb.org

For a snapshot of all IOP’s community websites, please see:www.iop.org/communitywebsites

These sites are not intended to take the place ofjournals’ content, but they do offer an alternative toend-users. As such, they provide librarians with aresource to offer to users who need more informationabout a specific subject area, but don’t necessarilyneed a journal subscription to fulfil those needs.

In the current environment of budget cuts and priceincreases, community websites offer an importantalternative to librarians, helping to provideinformation to users. They also help us to fulfil our common objective: disseminating information to awider audience, and building links with ourcommunities.

DID YOU KNOW?Reaching out to the community

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Ann Kaste at the University of Nebraska Medical Centerrecently wrote to ask:

“I’m the account administrator and I'd like to view our IPaddresses at www.iop.org/EJ/ips. Can you help?”

Since this is a question we are often asked, we take theopportunity to address it here.

The facility to view a list of IP addresses registered foraccess for your site can be found in our Librarian’s Channel at librarian.iop.org or by clicking on the linkwww.iop.org/EJ/ips.

You will be required to enter your personal username andpassword and you can then choose to view the list ofregistered IP addresses on screen or have them sent toyour own mailbox.

For security, access to the list is username and passwordprotected. Only the registered contact for your site ispermitted to view this information. If you are the registeredsite contact and would like to be able to use this facility,please email custserv@iop.org. We can provide you withyour personal username and password to view the IPaddresses registered for your site.

If you would like to update your IP addresses at any time,please send an email to custserv@iop.org and include yoursite key in the text of the email. Your site key can be foundon the ‘Journal Subscriptions at your site’ page(librarian.iop.org) under ‘Institutional Information’.

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Do you have a question for us that you would like answered? E-mail us at custserv@iop.org with ‘Ask LI’ in the subject line.

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The Centre of Scientific andTechnical Information located inthe Slovak Republic is a publicscientific library, specializing intechnical subject fields as well asselected fields of natural,economic, and humanitiessciences. The library's numerousservices are used by scientists,researchers, small and mediumentrepreneurs from the area, aswell as students and tutors fromthe Slovak Technical University.

The Centre recently designed and developed theirwebsite in January 2006 (www.cvtisr.sk). After muchhard work and determination the site now serves as aplace where the Centre can disseminate informationabout their resources, as well as communicate withtheir patrons. It is accessed by over 13,000 users eachmonth.

Edita Tarovska, who heads the Periodicals AcquisitionsDepartment, highlighted the areas that seem to be ofmost interest to users.

E-Resources (E-Zdroje) provides a list of all electronicresources administered by the Centre. It also providesSciTech Navigator; a tool for effective usage of freeInternet resources.

News (Aktuality) is apermanent feature onthe homepage. Thissection providesusers with updatedinformation about theCentre, including anynew resources thatthey may want toutilize.

SciTech Informer(SciTech informátor) is a monthly newsletter circulatedby the Department of Information Services. Thepublication focuses on new happenings, new entries inSciTech Navigator, and also contains information onnew products and e-books. The newsletter waslaunched last July and has proved extremely popular,having over 450 subscribers.

Ask Us (Opytajte sa) provides a forum for opencommunication with current and potential users. Thisallows patrons to openly discuss questions, concerns,and problems directly with a library staff member.

We thank Edita for walking us through the Centre'swebsite and wish her much luck in the future!

We are delighted to be able to support the newly formedKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), formed by themerger of University of Karlsruhe and the NationalKarlsruhe Research Centre, as it becomes a Germanresearch university of excellence (www.kit.edu).

KIT is one of three universities in Germany to be given‘elite status’ as part of the German Government’sexcellence initiative.

IOP is the first publisher to have signed an agreementwith the new KIT, to provide electronic access to IOPcontent, for all users at the merged institutions.

We were pleased to be able to respond so quickly toKIT’s request for widened access to IOP content and to

offer support during their transitional phase. Since 1999, we have concluded 74 Consortia

Agreements with over 1,350 institutions in 57countries. Our agreements enable all members of aconsortium to obtain access to our content at asubstantial discount. Experience shows that significantuse is made of journals that were not previouslysubscribed to, so that the benefit of access to a largerbody of content lowers the unit cost of content for all.

Should you wish to discuss a possible agreementwith us, please contact Desmond Reaney, Head ofBusiness Development, at desmond.reaney@iop.org.

MARKETING YOUR LIBRARY

Edita Tarovska, SlovakCentre of Scientific andTechnical Information,Bratislava, Slovakia

German University of Excellence signs agreement with IOP

If you would like marketing materials from IOP to help you promote your library resources, please contact info@ioppubusa.com (North & South America) oremma.bartovsky@iop.org (UK & ROW). If you have an idea that you want to share with other librarians, we would love to hear about it.

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