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You have probablyheard about thedevelopment ofScitopia. You mightnot be aware howeverof all the benefits thisnew free service canoffer to researchers atyour institution. Alan

Henry (www.appscout.com) commented that ‘Scitopiais a great resource to add to your list of bookmarks ifyou’re doing any kind of academic research. Thesearch is speedy and the results are accurate anduseful, something I can’t always say about a Googlesearch for a scientific term’.

Scitopia offers researchers a highly effective freeportal that searches over 3.5 million scientificdocuments and 300 journals from more than 20leading society publishers including IOP Publishing,IEEE and the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Usingthe Scitopia search allows you to quickly find the most

cited research in scholarlywork spanning 350 years.

Scitopia has beendesigned to be simple, user

friendly and fast. As you would expect, you can accessthe abstracts free of charge and go straight through tothe full text if you have subscriber access to therespective journal. Naveen Maddali, Online ServicesProduct Manager at IEEE, responsible for Scitopia,says ‘Working on scitopia.org has been very excitingfor me and the team. We’ve spent the past year and ahalf developing the site to make it as quick and easy aspossible to find high quality research. We are contentwith our success thus far and plan to build upon it in2009’.

IOP Publishing is proud to be involved in thedevelopment of this service.

For more information on scitopia.org contact JudithBarnsby, Head of e-Development atjudith.barnsby@iop.org

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scitopia.org – the free federated search portal

IOP Publishing contact changesMarie Moment has taken the role of Consortia BusinessDevelopment Manager covering all regions outside ofNorth and South America, following Desmond Reaney’sretirement. For all enquiries relating to consortia inthis territory contact Marie (tel +44(0)117 930 1125 ore-mail marie.moment@iop.org). Questions regardingconsortia in the Americas should continue to bedirected to Bret Tobias (tel 215-627-0880 or e-mailtobias@ioppubusa.com).

Lukas Piasecki is now Regional Manager for EasternEurope. For all subscription enquires in Eastern Europecontact Lukas (tel +44(0)117 930 5037 or e-mail lukas.piasecki@iop.org).

Information on all IOP regional contacts can be found at www.iop.org/EJ/enquiries

IOPscience recognized in ‘best website’ categoryIOPscience, the online platform for IOP Publishing’s journal content, was awarded an‘honorable mention’ in the ‘Best Website or Platform’ category at the PROSE Awards inFebruary 2009. The awards, decided by a panel of publishing professionals, librarians andacademics, annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing.

IOPscience provides electronic access to scientific, technical and medical content, andincorporates innovative technologies to enhance the user experience.

To find out more, visit iopscience.org and take the online tour.

Welcome to the 18th issue of Librarian Insider, our quarterly newsletter dedicated to you. If you or yourcolleagues would like to be notified about future issues, please e-mail sheleen.woodey@iop.org

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EVENTSAmerican Library Association’s 2009Midwinter meetingThe ALA’s 2009 Midwinter meeting was held in January in Denver, CO.We were pleased to partner with the SciTech Section (STS) of the ACRLdivision. To support this active group of librarians, IOP sponsoredtheir member dinner which was held at the historic ‘BuckhornExchange’ restaurant. Guests dined on such exotic delicacies as RockyMountain Oysters, quail, and buffalo prime rib. Over 60 STS librariansbraved the snow to join us for this unique dining experience, wherefriendly conversation carried on for several hours.

We’d like to express our thanks to STS Chair Virginia Baldwin(University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Joe Kraus (University of Denver)and Denise Bennett (University of Florida) for all of their help inmaking this event a success.

We look forward to hosting a similar event next year. If you attendedthis year’s dinner, be sure to pack your STS/IOP scarf for Boston!

Our electronic gracing period for 2008 subscriptionshas come to an end, which means that customers whohave not yet renewed their subscriptions to IOP titleswill have lost access rights.

You can review the status of all your IOPsubscriptions at librarian.iop.org

To renew your outstanding titles, please e-mail ourCustomer Services Department at custserv@iop.org(UK and ROW) or info@ioppubusa.com (North and SouthAmerica.)

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

We hope to see you at one of these upcoming events:

Electronic access gracing period now over

Top: STS librarians enjoying dinnerBottom: Carol Robinson, MIT, Virginia Baldwin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, JuliaGelfand, University of California-Irvine

IMPORTANT NOTICE

APS March Meeting 2009 March 16-20, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA, Booth #705. We will be hosting our Annual Journals Reception onWednesday, March 18 from 6:00pm-7:30pm. E-mailleckner@ioppubusa.com for details.

UKSGMarch 30-April 1, UK

Gulf SLAApril 7-9, Kuwait City

eIFL/SANLiC Workshop on e resourcesApril 21-23, South Africa

APS April Meeting 2009 May 2-5, 2009, Denver, COAnnual Journals Reception (Details pending). E-mail leckner@ioppubusa.com for updates.

Info 2009May 4-6, Tel Aviv, Israel

EBSCO Open DayJune, Paris

IATUL June 1-4, Belgium

Deutsche BibliothekartegJune 2-5, Germany

SLA Annual 2009 June 14-17, 2009, Washington, DC Booth #913. We will be hosting the PAM Suite Daily Retreat. WatchPAMNET for details or e-mail collins@ioppubusa.com

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New COUNTER statistics interface

As more libraries convert to electronic-onlysubscriptions there is a growing need to ensure thelong-term survival of digital publications. IOP isinvolved in a number of archiving initiatives to ensurethat our online journal articles are preserved for thefuture.

Porticowww.portico.orgPortico is a not-for profit electronic archiving serviceinitiated by JSTOR in 2002. Portico creates and storesarchival versions of publications from the content filessupplied to them by publishers such IOP Publishing,Oxford University Press and Elsevier.

CLOCKSS www.clockss.orgThe CLOCKSS Initiative is a partnership of publishersand libraries formed in 2005. Multiple copies of digitalcontent are collected in a distributed archive housedat sites across the globe.

Both of these services are dark archives designed tooffer access to electronic journals only after a ‘triggerevent’ such as:

• a publisher ceases operation• a journal ceases publication and is no longer

accessible online

For more information on these archiving initiatives,contact Judith Barnsby, Head of e-Development atjudith.barnsby@iop.org

IOP and dark archives – preserving digital content for thefuture

In August 2008COUNTER publishedRelease 3 of theCOUNTER Code ofPractice for Journalsand Databases. Incollaboration withour partner, MPS

Technologies, IOP Publishing has been working on anew user interface, MPS Insight. MPS Insight haspassed an independent COUNTER audit and alreadyprovides the new reports and functionality required byCOUNTER Release 3.

In addition, COUNTER-compliant reports for IOPscienceare now available from January 2009.

IOP Publishing customers can view their COUNTERstatistics by logging in at stats.iop.org/counter

The functionality of the new service is much more user-friendly, with over 96% of the librarians testing theservice rating it as ‘easy’ or ‘very easy’ to use. Otherbenefits of using MPS Insight are:

• More timely reports – MPS Insight provides IOPPublishing with the opportunity to report significantlyearlier in the month than is required by COUNTER.

• SUSHI – available as a method of delivery ofreports, in addition to the familiar CSVspreadsheets. This enables libraries with SUSHIenabled-ERM-systems to automate reportcollection.

• Easy Administration – allowing libraries to makereal-time changes to accounts and passwords.

• Additional Users – facility for librarians to requestadditional user accounts to access stats, forexample allowing faculty staff to access reports.

• Easy to Use – attractive interface designed withinput from librarians to be easy to navigate andaccess reports.

• Consortia Administration – access consolidatedconsortia stats and individual member sites’ statsfrom a single login.

• Alert Notifications – optional email alerts whenreports are updated.

IOP customers can use their existing COUNTER loginand password to access the new interface. If yourequire a login, or have forgotten your login orpassword, e-mail custserv@iop.org

We welcome your feedback so if you have anyquestions or comments, please contact us atcustserv@iop.org. More information about COUNTERcan be found at www.projectcounter.org

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60 SECONDS WITH...Sylvie Moine, Negotiator forthe Couperin Consortium,Head of Sciences andTechnologies CollectionsDevelopment and ofElectronic Resources Service,University Library Lille 1,France

How long have you worked in your current job?Since 1998. Formerly Head of Science and TechnologyDepartment, I have been responsible for Science andTechnology collection development and manager forserials and electronic resources for two years.

Which fictional character would you most like to be?Thea Kronborg in Willa Cather’s novel ‘The Song of theLark’, moving from rural and bitter beginnings inColorado to Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera Houseand becoming a famous Wagnerian soprano.

What are you most afraid of?Of a world which loses its memory and encroaches onthe human mind too much, depriving it of freedom andpreventing it from thinking.

Name one place that you would like to go back to?The Peloponnese, particularly the area of Argolida(Tyrins, Mycenea, Epidaurus) and the area of Mani (its

tower houses and its small Byzantine churches), thebeauty of the scenery and the hospitality of itsinhabitants.

What is the last film you watched?The Dead, John Huston’s last movie, brilliantlydirected: very little happens, just the usual flow of lifebut every detail contributes to a feeling of nostalgiaand, with the final epiphany, to an intense poignancy.

How do you like to relax after work?Every time the weather is fine, I cycle along the narrowroutes in the countryside around my place and, duringthe week-ends, in west Belgian Flanders.

Can you highlight three qualities of your institution?A valued partner in study, teaching and research of theuniversity, which supports the building of our newlibrary, a Learning Center. A participant of the Frenchconsortium Couperin and an active center forexpanding digital resources, A lively place forcollaborative efforts of innovative ways.

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Our collectible posters continue to be popular withreaders. If you would like us to send you the newJournal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physicsposter send your request to anna.coombs@iop.org

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Librarian2LibrarianWroclaw University of Technology is hosting The Second Meeting of Polonia Librarians on June 18-19 2009. Theevent is open to all Polish librarians working abroad to discuss issues and share experiences. For more informationvisit www.bg.pwr.wroc.pl/wsbp/

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