U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced plans to strengthen Science and Technology collaboration with Muslim communities internationally. Dr. Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief of Science, Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Chief Scientific Adviser of AAAS's new journal Science Translational Medicine, and Dr. Ahmed Zewail were named to serve as the country's first science envoys as part of President Obama's U.S. Science Envoy Program. Secretary Clinton emphasizes, "We want to help Muslim majority communities develop the capacity to meet economic, social, and ecological challenges through science, technology, and innovation." Read more here.

Thirteen public libraries have received small grants through the AAAS Skin Deep Project aimed at funding public awareness events related to skin health. Public libraries are excellent partners, says Suzanne Thurston, senior program associate in AAAS Education and Human Resources. They often have established relationships with not only their community, but also with local experts and specialists who can help develop a public outreach event. To learn more, please go here.

With growing interest in research that jumps from the lab to practical medical uses, the new journal from AAAS/Science will help speed basic advances into clinics and hospitals. Click here for more information.

Washington, DC June 2009: Science ranks 28.103 for research papers published during 2008. The five-year factor is 30.268.

The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) has partnered with AAAS, publisher of Science, in a national licensing agreement to provide nonprofit institutes with sitewide access to Science Classic for science and technology researchers throughout Germany. Click here to read more.

The attached video describes Science Translational Medicine, the newest journal from Science. The video features interviews with Katrina Kelner, Editor; Elias Zerhouni, Chief Scientific Adviser; Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief of Science; and Alan Leshner, AAAS CEO and Executive Publisher, Science.

Ichiro Arai, Ph. D.
Manager
Tsumura & Co.
Tsumura Drug Information Library

WINNING ESSAY: How to translate the wisdom of traditional medicines from the non-English-speaking world to the other world

Elias Zerhouni, M.D., Former Director of the National Institutes of Health, has been named Chief Scientific Adviser for Science Translational Medicine. Click here for more information

Official Rules - English: Click Here
Official Rules - Japanese: Click Here

AAAS/Science Announces Sponsorship to the 2009 MLA Conference
Honolulu, Hawaii USA
Essay Contest on "Translational Medicine" for Japanese Librarians
Essays may be submitted between Wednesday, April 1 and Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Winner announced Monday, April 27, 2009

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS, and the publisher of Science, Science Signaling, Science Classic, and soon-to-be released Science Translational Medicine announces an essay contest for librarians in Japan. The prize includes roundtrip airfare, hotel accommodations for five nights and six days at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel, $50 per diem for six days, transportation between hotel and Honolulu Airport, and Package A – Super Inclusive registration to attend the American Medical Library Association’s annual conference and exhibition, in Honolulu, Hawaii from May 15 – May 20, 2009. Total prize valued at $3,615.

The prize winner of the essay contest will be a guest of honor at the AAAS/Science "Hawaii-style" event at the world-renowned Halekulani Hotel on Waikiki beach to be held on Monday, May 18, 2009.

The contest involves writing a 500-word essay in English, or 1,500 characters in Japanese, about translational medicine, which is a relatively new scientific field where human health is promoted by facilitating communication among those dedicated to basic and clinical research and its application. The essay would need to focus on the particular librarian’s institution, nonprofit (academic, research, government, hospital) or corporate institute and how the institution is approaching the field of translational medicine in teaching, research, and library support. The essay should discuss how the institution’s library is collection building for online and print materials in this field. The discussion could also speak about the challenges and opportunities to build a research collection to support the field of translational medicine.

Essays should be submitted no later than Tuesday, April 21, 2009, to:
sciencemedicine{at}aaas.org

Winner of the contest will be announced on Monday, April 27, 2009.

For a copy of the official rules in English Click Here
For a copy of the official rules in Japanese Click Here

Science Translational Medicine
A new journal from AAAS/Science
Integrating Medicine and Science
Available 4th Quarter 2009!
sciencemedicine{at}aaas.org
www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org

December 2008, Washington DC: AAAS announces their participation in the CrossRef CrossCheck program to index Science and its online companion sites.

What is CrossRef CrossCheck?

CrossCheck is an initiative started by CrossRef to help its members actively engage in efforts to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism. Although there are several plagiarism detection tools already available, they are not well-suited to filtering academic content simply because they haven't had access to the relevant full-text literature to screen against. CrossCheck changes this by creating and continuously growing a database of current and archival scholarly literature.

This database is one of two parts that make up the CrossCheck service. The second part is a tool to compare authored work against the content in the database and highlight matching or similar text for further editorial review.

Announcing the newest addition to the AAAS family, Science Translational Medicine, coming in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Three-Year Institutional Sitewide Subscription Pricing and Agreement

The publisher of Science Translational Medicine, AAAS/Science, understands the challenges that many libraries are facing in this current economic climate. In recognition of those challenges and in order to help offset tightening budgets, AAAS/Science is pleased to offer a significant discount for those customers who subscribe to the new e-resource, Science Translational Medicine, before December 18, 2009. For orders placed before December 18, 2009, the price of a 2010 sitewide subscription will be reduced significantly off the list price. Furthermore, if you commit now for three years, AAAS will also substantially discount your second and third subscription years, 2011 and 2012. Please ask your representative for details or email sciencemedicine{at}aaas.org.

Terms and Agreement
Science Translational Medicine
Three-Year Institutional Sitewide Subscription Agreement
Year-1: 2010
Year-2: 2011
Year-3: 2012

To qualify for this special three-year offer Licensee must:
1. Elect to participate in the offer by confirming and accepting the 2010 Science Translational Medicine price quote via email or in writing. This offer is valid until September 30, 2010.
2. Pay in full the subscription fee for the initial term/Year-1 within 60 days of the invoice issue date.
3. Have, at each renewal period during the three-year offer, an active Science Translational Medicine site license subscription in good standing that is fully paid for the prior period/term.
4. To be eligible for the special three-year rates, Licensee must subscribe during 2010, 2011, and 2012 without cancellation.

Participation in this special offer program does not require advance payment for Year-2 or Year-3 of the three-year offer.

Payment is due for year-1, 60 days of issuance of an invoice, and for each subsequent year at each renewal date.

Fall 2008: Science Signaling embraces what was formerly Science's STKE and is now extending that venue with a heavy dose of peer-reviewed research articles. Since the study of cell signaling inherently combines multidisciplinary fields, Science Signaling bridges these fields not often covered together.

Science Signaling is a weekly electronic resource, published every Tuesday, which now has a monthly print compilation sold exclusively to subscribers of the online edition.

ISSN
     Print: 1945-0877
     Online: 1937-9145

For more information click here

Fall 2008: AAAS provides COUNTER compliant usage reports for its family of e-resources. Additional detailed reports are also available in a COUNTER-style format that tracks the number of times your patrons have attempted to access articles from one of the e-resources not currently available in your collection. These reports may be viewed online with your site administrator's username and password:

•    Science Classic Unsuccessful Request Report
•    Science Signaling Unsuccessful Request Report

To view your COUNTER reports, click here. You will need your administrator username and password.

For more information about Usage Reports, click here.

Fall 2008: An amendment has been made to the Science Online Publications Institutional Sitewide Subscription Agreement, click here.

Downloading portions of the Online Journals for the purpose of creating systematic and persistent local copies (not including transient, dynamic caches of individually requested material) for redistribution is prohibited.

Fall 2007: AAAS is now Open URL compliant as both a "Source" and "Target." Librarians may now add your institute's Resolver-Based URL and Text-Link to all references appearing on the pages of Science, Science Express, Science Classic, Science Signaling, and Science Translational Medicine.

To add your institute's Resolver-Based URL, click here.

For step-by-step instructions on how to add your institute’s Resolver-Based URL, click here.

As a result of The New York Times February 10, 2008, article entitled "U.S. Universities Rush to Set Up Outposts Abroad," AAAS wanted to take the opportunity to reinforce the association's policy on foreign campuses. Many of these campuses operate independently from a parent institution and therefore may be required to have its own sitewide subscription. The current Site License Agreement states, "If the Licensee has locations in more than one country, a separate site license may be required for each country location."

For further information regarding our Foreign Campus Policy, please contact the AAAS Site Licensing Department at info{at}scienceonline.org or by calling toll free at 866-265-4152. For international customers, please call +1-202-326-6730.

To view the current click-through agreement, click here.

SRU (search/retrieve via URL) is a standards-based search protocol for Internet search queries using CQL (common query language). With SRU, end users can now search for articles appearing on the pages of Science, Science Now, Science Express, Science Classic, Science Signaling, and Science Translational Medicine all published by AAAS, and receive their results in XML.

For more information on SRU click here.

On January 8, 2008 Science Signaling, formerly Science's STKE, published its first issue in the dynamic field of cell signaling. All the distinctive features of Science's STKE, the Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment, will remain, such as Perspectives, Reviews, Protocols, the Database of Cell Signaling, and the Virtual Journal of signaling articles provided by participating publishers.

This Fall Science Signaling will add a new component of peer-reviewed, ground-breaking original research reflective of the high-impact articles published in its parent publication - Science. A monthly print subscription will also be made available.

For more information and cataloging details please visit our Fact Sheet.

We are pleased to announce that the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and JSTOR have reached an agreement at the end of 2007 under which Science will continue to provide its content to JSTOR with a 5-year moving wall and new participating organizations will receive Science legacy content as part of the Health & General Sciences collection.

Science is the leading peer-reviewed journal among its competition for the second year in a row, as published by "Thomson ISI Journal Citation Reports" in June 2007. Science is No. 1 with an impact factor of 30, ahead of "Nature" (27) and "PNAS" (10). These numbers are based on papers published in Science during 2006.

ISSN 0036-8075:
     Science Magazine (print)

ISSN 1095-9203*:
     Science Online (Current online file 1997-Present)
     Science Classic (digital back file 1880-1996)
     Science Express (pre-publication service)
*Science Classic and Science Express are both part of Science Online. Therefore, the same ISSN 1095-9203 is used.

ISSN 1937-9145:
     Science Signaling (formerly called Science's STKE)

ISSN 1945-0877:
     Science Signaling (print)

ISSN 1946-6242:
     Science Translational Medicine (online)

ISSN 1946-6234:
     Science Translational Medicine (print) New journal coming fourth quarter 2009

ISSN 1525-8882:
     Science's STKE (name changed to Science Signaling 1 January 2008)

ISSN 1539-6150:
     Science's SAGE KE Publication discontinued 1 January 2007.
     Past content is made available to all Science Online site license subscribers

ScienceNOW our daily news service does not require an ISSN number.

A small number of issues from 1996 formerly included in a current Science Online subscription are now in the Science Classic archives. These issues cover the last quarter of 1996, Volume 274, 4 October - 20 December 1996.

Where to find the tools for managing your subscription, making inquiries to Science, reviewing site usage statistics, and more.