subject areas across multidisc. journals and publisher platforms

i've done some prelim work on seeing what scientific areas are covered and specified by some of the leading journals and publisher platforms. here are the findings in a not-too-easy-to-read listing...

nature publishing group's subject areas...
[over-journal]

chemistry
- chemistry
- drug discovery
- biotechnology
- materials
- methods & protocols
clinical practice & research
- cancer
- cardiovascular medicine
- dentistry
- endocrinology
- gastroenterology & hepatology
- methods & protocols
- pathology & pathobiology
- urology
earth & environment
- earth sciences
- evolution & ecology
life sciences
- biotechnology
- cancer
- development
- drug discovery
- evolution & ecology
- genetics
- immunology
- medical research
- methods & protocols
- microbiology
- molecular cell biology
- neuroscience
- pharmacology
- systems biology
physical sciences
- physics
- materials

science magazine's subject areas...
[cross-journal]

life sciences
- anatomy/morphology/biomechanics
- anthropology
- biochemistry
- botany
- cell biology
- development
- ecology
- epidemiology
- evolution
- genetics
- immunology
- medicine/diseases
- microbiology
- molecular biology
- neuroscience
- pharmacology/toxicology
- physiology
- psychology
- virology
physical sciences
- astronomy
- atmospheric science
- chemistry
- computers/mathematics
- engineering
- geochemistry/geophysics
- materials science
- oceanography
- paleontology
- physics
- physics, applied
- planetary science
other subjects
- economics
- education
- history/philosophy of science
- science and business
- science and policy
- sociology

blackwell-synergy's subject areas...
[over journal]

life and physical sciences
- astronomy and astrophysics
- biogeography
- cell and molecular biology
- chemistry
- crystallography
- developmental biology
- earth science and physical geography
- ecology
- food science and technology
- genetics and evolution
- human anatomy and physiology
- materials science
- microbiology
- microscopy
- neuroscience & neurology
- plant science
- zoology
mathematics and statistics
- mathematics
- statistics

wiley-interscience's subject areas...
[over journal]

chemistry
- analytical chemistry
- biochemistry
- chemical engineering
- chemistry (general)
- computational chemistry and molecular modeling
- environmental chemistry
- food science technology
- industrial chemistry
- inorganic chemistry
- organic chemistry
- pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry
- physical chemistry
- spectroscopy
- toxicology
earth and environmental science
- agriculture
- climatology and meteorology
- earth and environmental science (general)
- ecology
- environmental science
- geography
- geology
life sciences
- anatomy and physiology
- biological anthropology
- biology
- biotechnology
- genetics
- life sciences (general)
- microbiology and virology
- molecular cell biology
- neuroscience
mathematics and statistics
- applied mathematics
- applied probability and statistics
- data analysis and management
- mathematics (general)
- numerical methods
- statistics (general)
physics and astronomy
- astronomy
- atomic, molecular and optical physics
- physics and astronomy (general)
- quantum physics and field theory
- solid state physics
- thermal physics and statistical mechanics
polymers and materials science
- electronic materials
- general materials science
- nanotechnology and nanomaterials
- polymer science and technology

sciencedirect's subject areas...
[over journal]

physical sciences and engineering
- chemical engineering
- chemistry
- computer science
- earth and planetary sciences
- energy
- engineering
- materials science
- mathematics
- physics and astronomy
life sciences
- agricultural and biological sciences
- biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology
- environmental science
- immunology and microbiology
- neuroscience
health sciences
- medicine and dentistry
- nursing and health professions
- pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutical science
- veterinary science and veterinary medicine

common craft show

this is a great way to explain RSS to the uninitiated...



check out their other videos too...

Wikis in Plain English

Social Networking in Plain English

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

plus the ones on light bulbs and zombies (brand new for Halloween) are good fun...

linkouts

Adobe's Mars Project..
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/mars/

Librarian's discussion on author names…
http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2007/09/name-authority-control-aka-name.html

Nascent post - Aggregating scientific activity
http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2007/10/activity_aggregation.html

how google works...

to continue the thread from yesterday, this is a nice flash representation of how google does searching...
http://www.portfolio.com/images/site/editorial/Flash/google/google.swf

Michael Wesch's new video: Information R/evolution

linkouts

an interesting article from Times Online about Google and the future...

Google. Who's looking at you?
It wants to know everything about you. It wants to be your best friend — or your Big Brother. Are your secrets safe with Google?

... it ends early, but the guardian sorts that out, and poo-poo's it here. And you can see James Fallows moderate a discussion with Google co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page at Zeitgeist '07 here.

the new version of Inspec...

Inspec Direct - http://inspecdirect.theiet.org/
New web-based version of the Inspec Database to debut in January 2008

web assets

this is a post worth reading, from Scott Karp at Publish2:
Forget Platforms And Applications, Data Is The Real Asset On the Web

... and it kind of connects to the last link in the linkouts post of Oct 16 - which pitched data against documents.

this is a big thing to get my head round, but i guess a lot of it is common sense. and as a publisher, we should act to move in this direction... certainly in relation to the first post. the post above is talking in a more technical frame. however, we do have valuable data that we could benefit from allowing others to use - sensibly, of course.

for a small publisher this is an extreme challenge. as you have to fulfill pretty much every step along the way within a small group. this is certainly true for us. but as for most other advancements, the element of planning here is key. the almost impossible task of getting hold of good data is already taken care of.

Royal Society movers and shakers

well, as far as we're concerned, there's the release of the Hooke Folio by the library (didn't involve us here in publishing, i'm sad to say...), there's the fact that the Royal Society Digital Journal Archive is free again (and has been since september 1) until the end of november and the launch of the new RS corporate identity - from www.royalsoc.ac.uk to royalsociety.org, which means our two sites will move over to publishing.royalsociety.org and journals.royalsociety.org.

citation and data availability

this is old hat, but i thought i'd post on it...

Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB (2007) Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate. PLoS ONE 2(3): e308

background
Sharing research data provides benefit to the general scientific community, but the benefit is less obvious for the investigator who makes his or her data available.

principal findings
We examined the citation history of 85 cancer microarray clinical trial publications with respect to the availability of their data. The 48% of trials with publicly available microarray data received 85% of the aggregate citations. Publicly available data was significantly (p = 0.006) associated with a 69% increase in citations, independently of journal impact factor, date of publication, and author country of origin using linear regression.

significance
This correlation between publicly available data and increased literature impact may further motivate investigators to share their detailed research data.

linkouts

so here's a few things i've spotted today...

three posts on the CrossTech blog:
NLM Blog Citation Guidelines
an interesting few issues raised here, and the link to WebCite, something we should seriously consider.
I Want My XMP
this is something i feel we should to monitor, but we'll need another bigger publisher or adobe themselves to do the hard work on to make it workable for us...
Metadata - For the Record
more on XMP and adobe's line...

and a link that i got from the lost boy feed that i'm listening to / watching right now and seems pretty interesting stuff...
From the Web of Documents to the Web of Data

history of nature

this is a really nice project - especially good is the timeline... all worth a view...

Royal Society releases Hooke Folio

this is a pretty cool app - taken from BL technology...

we'll be looking to link through or host this stuff on our own 'journals' site soon...

links from a previous (september) internal e-update

papers - a scientist's appl. for organizing on a Mac
http://mekentosj.com/papers/

IOPP paper size changes
http://www.iop.org/EJ/news/-topic=1247/

PubMed as a Search Engine [from PubMed New and Noteworthy]
PubMed is now available as a search engine add-on on the search bar in the upper-right corner of Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0.
From a PubMed Web page, click the search box drop down arrow next to the default search engine Google, and then select Add PubMed search.

Rapleaf - online reputation look-up
http://www.rapleaf.com/

links from a previous (august) internal e-update

Microsoft and STM Publishers Meet to Discuss DOCX / Word 2007
http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2007/08/microsoft_and_stm_publishers_m.html

Context Aware Image Re-Sizing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-SSu3tJ3ns

Article and interview with Nature's Timo Hannay (Head of Web Publishing)
http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/articles/2007/08/web-20-in-science/
http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2007/07/interview-with-timo-hannay-head-of-web.html

PDF/A conformance center
http://pdfa.org

Tafiti -- Microsoft redefines the search interface with Silverlight
http://www.tafiti.com/

Amazon: A New Kind of Publisher
http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2007/08/amazon_a_new_kind_of_publisher_1.html

DIGG THE BEEB: BBC Adds Buttons for Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon
http://mashable.com/2007/08/16/bbc-bookmarking/

STIX Fonts Project Update - Almost Finished!
http://www.stixfonts.org/

nanoHub - online simulation and more
http://www.nanohub.org/

booktwo

you might be interested to see this project, which connects print with the web… it got a v good reception at a recent O'Reilly conference…

http://www.booktwo.org/notebook/the-bluebook/

interview with designer…
http://printisdeadblog.com/2007/07/09/blink-tank-a-conversation-with-manolis-kelaidis/
[interestingly, this interview was conducted by Jeff Gomez, Director of Internet Marketing at Holtzbrinck (Nature's ultimate parent company)]

prepress supplier merger

S R NOVA announces strategic merger with TECHSET

Bangalore, India, September 2007 - S R Nova and Techset, two major e-publishing Services Companies and specialists in the STM segment, today announced the strategic merger of the operations.