The TOP 100 most innovative companies

named by Reuters-Thomson, based on a series of patent-related metrics (from DWPI).

Only 2 pure Pharma:

•  Bayer, Germany
• BMS, USA

Read further on:

http://www.top100innovators.com/

“The book will never die”

Good marketing by Springer, announcing the Frankfurt Book Fair:

http://www.springer.com/bookfair2011/Invitation.html

 

 

See also:

Putting the book back into the Library,

by Thomson-Reuters about the new Book Citation Index in the WoS

http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/webofscience/

 

Coming soon: the Book Impact Factor!

[News originally diffused by Pablo Iriarte]

Thomson-Reuters announces:

“The Book Citation Index in Web of Science connects a library’s book collection to powerful new discovery tools, giving researchers the ability to quickly and easily identify and access the most relevant books.

 Bringing together scholarly book, journal and conference proceedings literature within Web of Science, optimizes the powerful features of citation navigation.[…]

Completeing the Research Picture with Book Citation Index: Coverage of over 30,000 editorially selected books, starting with publication year 2005, with 10,000 new books added each year.[…]

Expose Your Collections: Link directly to your library catalogs and eBooks to increase the visibility of your valuable collections and subscriptions. […]

Textbooks, Encyclopedias, Reference Books not included. Full indexing of Books and individually-authored Book Chapters. Capture of all fundamental bibliographic information as well as author cited references”

http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/bookcitationindex/

STM Publishers: The economic crisis is away now

The world’s largest pub-lishers have begun growing again after weathering the global recession over the past three years, with -Pearson once again emerging as top dog. (…)

Pearson leads the pack as the world’s largest book publisher..
The London-based group is hotly pursued on the list by professional and STM publishers Reed Elsevier, ThomsonReuters, and Wolters Kluwer, each of whom now has sales well above their 2008 levels. (…)

Among the 10 largest groups, professional and STM publishing is the largest sector, with 43% of the total revenues…

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/global-publishing-back-front-foot.html

Thomson: the new WOK is launched

The new Web of Knowledge offers:

• a new design with a more intuitive interface
• more search options
• more analytical functions
• etc.

See the video: http://thenewwok.com/preview

PS: it is strange to see that Thomson used pictures which are close to those that Elsevier took some years ago with its “Never underestimate the importance of a librarian” campaign, means some scientists working on the field: ocean, ice, archeology, etc.

Thomson Research in View: a new tool for academia performance’s evaluation

Thomson Reuters has launched a research management system called Research In View to provide universities with a comprehensive view of institutional performance

 The solution aggregates and standardises data from disparate sources to provide a unified database and analytic interface for managing, searching and reporting on university activities and performance.

Developed by the company’s research analytics business in consultation with university administrators worldwide, it aims to enable universities anywhere in the world to track and associate people with projects, strategic goals and with traditional measures such as classes taught or published journal articles.

http://researchanalytics.thomsonreuters.com/researchinview/

My opinion: to compare with Elsevier SciVal?

See also: Information World Review, 28/02/2011
http://www.iwr.co.uk/academic-and-humanites/3010772/Thomson-Reuters-launches-%E2%80%98Research-in-View-for-universities

CERN has chosen Thomson WoK

WoK here stands for Web of Knowledge and is not a cooking device from China!

The prestigious swiss institution has chosen the Thomson product  after a bidding process as the main point of access to scientific literature for the researchers.

According, Information World Review: 04/02/11
http://www.iwr.co.uk/stm-and-legal/3010714/CERN-to-use-Thomson-Reuters-research-platform

What is the Knowledge effect?

It is the new Thomson’s (please use Thomson-Reuters now) communication campaign… that reminds a little the “Never underestimate a librarian” campaign by Elsevier some years ago.

As the Butterfly Effect, Thomson believes that “The right information in the right hands leads to amazing things“… Info-pros do as well…

“With intelligent information, we’re helping the businesses and professionals we partner with impact the world in extraordinary ways. (…)

. Even save lives. It’s a ripple effect set in motion by the most advanced information tools and services.

Real-time analysis allows healthcare professionals to help their organizations save money and lives. (…)

From a trader in Sydney to a hospital worker in Illinois to a scientist in Beijing to over 20 million other professionals around the world, the knowledge we provide helps spark ideas and actions that positively affect millions more.

 In business. In government. In the world. That’s the Knowledge Effect

http://ke.thomsonreuters.com/knowledgeeffect.html

Drug pipelines: the dream of a meta-search

Tara Breton, a librarian for a healthcare consulting company, explains how it would be great if InfoDesk would succeed to build an unbrella platform to search drug profiles trough the Big 5 (Thomson Pharma, Prous Integrity, Pharmaprojects, ADIS R&D Insight, IMS R&D Focus).

“A single umbrella search system with a single output product that combines all those pipeline databases into one simplistic program? Really?  This is what InfoDesk has decided to undertake.

The company purchased a drug pipeline integration platform from Elsevier that it is currently redeveloping for release early next year. (..)

what exactly will the output resemble? Routine users of the Big 5 databases will understand the inference here. No one system outputs the same data fields and the same number.

I myself would love to have a single umbrella search system for my organization.

It would mean training users on just one simplified platform, one manner of searching, and provide better desktop access in a standardized language where the output will be systematic. The time savings would easily argue paying extra for such a product.”

Breton. Tara. The promise of integrated drug pripelines from InfoDesk: wil multisearch work?. Information Today, Posted On September 13, 2010.
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/The-Promise-of-Inte…

Bibliometrics are “big business”

Thomson and Elsevier’s marketing speeches are aligned on pressure which exists on Universities to be more or more performant…

For this blogger from OCLC organization, the expression “Research performance measurement” (RPM) sounds weird…

Dempsey, Lorcan. Research analytics. Posted on May 15, 2010.
http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002089.html