From: Daniel Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:16:57 +0100


GSE Research and Publishing Technology
celebrate launch of leading edge publications and community hub

New site founds innovative publishing resource for the governance,
sustainability and the environment community


Oxford, 29 March 2012 – Publishing Technology, the largest provider of
software and services to the industry, and newly established online
scholarly publisher GSE Research, announce the launch of GSE Research
Online, a resource defining the new age of digital academic
publishing.

GSE Research’s portal is a bold concept to drive interaction and
engagement across the academic audience, policy-makers and the
corporate world in an interactive professional network supporting
governance, sustainability and the environment.

Built on the pub2web platform, the site leverages semantic technology
and novel functionality for an enriching, engaging and synergised user
experience, which has been refined and honed following extensive user
testing and feedback. The site supports a range of author benefits
including rapid publication, a choice of open peer review or
traditional peer review options, collaboration tools with article
metrics to follow. The GSE vision allows the full breadth of
stakeholders within this field to join in the conversation, share
content, review and comment on papers, find collaborators, locate
experts in the field for conference speaking or job opportunities.

The site boasts features further transformative, semantic enhancements:



Taxonomy creation - tailored to the GSE community’s specific needs but
also mapped to industry standards to ensure optimal interoperability.
Semantically enriched content– supporting new ways of delivery and
navigating to content.

·         Article context – the ability to place scholarly articles
within their external context by displaying contextual information
from trusted external resources such as news and government data sets,
providing a real value add for readers and increasing engagement with
the platform.

·         Taxonomy visualizations - to enable researchers see at a
glance via article “fingerprints” what a paper is about and more
easily navigate the data based on a particular field of interest.

Faceted navigation – for accessing site content by applying multiple
search filters based on taxonomy.
Concept pages – to serve as entry points or “homepages” for topical
concepts such as “Air Pollution” or “Greenwash”.

·         The Research Exchange – a professional social network driven
by location, subject specialty and articles published.



To facilitate and promote awareness of the GSE vision, Publishing
Technology’s internationally recognised sales and marketing consulting
firm, Publishers Communication Group, through its offices in Boston,
Oxford, Sao Paulo, Beijing, and New Delhi, is also supporting the GSE
sales and marketing team in their international activities to
institutions.



www.gseresearch.com

John Peters, Publishing Director at GSE Research Ltd, commented:

“It’s with great excitement and anticipation that we launch the
website, now available to the global academic publishing community.
The new site represents a radical new way for academics to collaborate
and explore new content, in real time and really exploits the benefits
of semantic enhancements to deliver this. Bringing together academics
from around the world, across environment, sustainability and
governance, and allow them to share research and discuss topics with
each other with greater ease, has always been our ultimate goal, and
the pub2web platform has brought our concept to life with highly
innovative technology and flourish.”

Louise Russell, Chief Operations Officer at Publishing Technology, said:

“GSE’s digital strategy and concept for their site is testament to
their whole philosophy. The GSE approach benefits from not being
restricted by the traditional content ‘containers’ of journals and
books and create an online platform that turns the traditional model
on its head. Exploring critical and innovative ways of empowering a
whole community through online collaboration, the new site launches
with semantic enrichment embedded within the workflow from day 1,
support for rapid publication, a broader range of author benefits all
integrated with a community model that fosters conversation and
engagement. GSE have a unique and innovative approach to publishing
and we are delighted to have played a part. The pub2web platform is a
flexible and interoperable solution that will support GSE’s business
every step of the way.”

The GSE Research model and approach has already received high praise
from some leading names in the academic publishing industry. Professor
Baback Yazdani, Dean of Nottingham Business School, commented: "This
is an important field, and GSE Research are taking an innovative and
welcome approach to scholarly publishing in the digital era," and
industry commentator David Worlock, referred to GSE as “a project to
watch, but also a trend to be noted.”

-ENDS-

For more information, please contact:

Emily Taylor Gregory, Publishing Technology plc

Tel: +44 1865 397873

Email: [log in to unmask]

Publishing Technology plc:

Publishing Technology’s products and services include advance,
ingentaconnect, VISTA, author2reader, pub2web, ICS and PCG. The
Publishing Technology group enables publishers to focus on their core
competences by providing a single, trusted partner for both technology
requirements and business development services. It is one of the
largest providers of software and services for the publishing
industry, servicing eight out of ten of the world's largest
publishers. The group’s proposition uniquely spans front and back
office systems – complemented by a range of business development
services – to provide the industry's only end-to-end suite of software
specifically designed to support the publishing process. Capabilities
cover editorial & production, product information, billing &
fulfilment, content conversion & hosting, website development,
marketing programs, information commerce, customer relationship
management, rights & royalties and business intelligence. All
application modules can be configured independently to meet specific
publishers' needs and to allow flexible integration with existing
systems. Associated sales and marketing services include consultancy
and research, sales representation and telemarketing. The company is
listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and has offices
in the UK, US, Brazil, India, China and Australia.

Visit www.publishingtechnology.com, follow on Twitter @publishingtech,
or connect on LinkedIn.

About GSE Research

GSE Research Limited is a newly established online scholarly publisher
in the globally important areas of Governance, Sustainability and
Environment. It publishes a variety of materials including working
papers, presentations, student studies, and practitioner-derived
research papers, as well as traditional scholarly research papers. GSE
addresses an important need. Every large organization in the world –
private and public – is under pressure to ‘do something’ about
sustainability and impact on the environment. This pressure comes from
governments, consumers and consumer groups, employees and students,
and indeed shareholders. GSE Research aims to collect, organizes
disseminate, support and provoke research to change the world for the
better by providing a valuable bridge between scholarly research and
practice in its target fields through its innovative approach to
funding, reviewing, community building and pricing.

About pub2web

pub2web™ is a customized, multi-content publications
platform—delivering all the functionality needed to support evolving
online strategies and to satisfy the user base, however diverse their
needs. Customers benefit from proven, regularly-updated technology
while also maintaining full control of their brand, their content and
their user relationships. It allows customers to help their users to
explore all their content – whatever its format – with progressive
browsing options driven by pub2web’s award-winning data storage and
modelling.



Dani Freeman

Executive Account Director

Midas Public Relations



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