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Blackwell Synergy is merging into Wiley InterScience from 30 June 2008

1. All journal content on Blackwell Synergyis merging into Wiley InterScience.
   From June 30th 2008 the journal content currently available on Blackwell Synergy will be delivered through Wiley InterScience due to the merger of Wiley-Blackwell's online journal systems.

This is a first step in the development of a next generation online publishing platform, arriving early 2009, which will deliver Wiley-Blackwell journals, online books, reference works, databases, protocols and other electronic resources through one integrated service.

• The benefits will begin immediately after June 30th:

One-stop access to a dramatically expanded range of relevant material:

• approximately 3 million articles
• 1400 journals
• 5000 online books, reference works and databases

Information for Registered Users of Blackwell Synergy

No action is necessary — all active accounts will be migrated automatically. If you already have a Wiley InterScience account your information will be combined. You may be requested to accept new terms and conditions the first time you log in after June 30th.
Blackwell Synergy will close at the end of June 27th. During the transition weekend of June 28th and 29th Wiley InterScience will be unavailable for a period. Look out for notes on this website nearer the time for more details.
Journal content pages will look slightly different but you can still find them if you have bookmarked the page. You will be redirected to the equivalent page where it exists on Wiley InterScience or to the journal issues page. Once in Wiley InterScience we would suggest you re-save your bookmarks for your favourite journals.

Access to articles and most functions will continue uninterrupted, although you will notice small differences in design and terminology. For a short period between 13 June - 1 July it will not be possible to register for new table of contents email alerts or save searches.

The changes ...

• Journal content pages — will look slightly different but still be accessible at their current URL.
• Table of contents email alerts — for your selected journals will continue. The sender will appear as "Wiley InterScience" instead of the journal title.
• My Synergy — your personalized settings such as favorite journals, table of contents email alerts will now be stored in My Profile. Access to My Profile will be using your existing username and password.Search alerts and saved searches — these can not be moved to your new Wiley InterScience My Profile area but if you re-run your searches on Wiley InterScience from 30th June you will get results not from 1400 journals but also over 5000 online books and reference works.
• Online early articles — papers published online in advance of the print version will be available in the Early View section of the journal content page.Searching — searches in Wiley InterScience will be across title, abstract and keywords. Full text searching will be temporarily unavailable until the launch of Wiley-Blackwell's new platform in early 2009.A glossary of changes to terminology (PDF) is available for you to download.

Emerging Technologies impacting on YOUR classroom

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education.

The report tracks the emerging technologies and their impact over a 5 year span. So, expect more of the following in your classrooms in the next ...

year:

• Grassroot Videos - Custom branding has allowed institutions to even have their own special presence within these networks, and will fuel rapid growth among learning-focused organizations who want their content to be where the viewers are.
• Collaboration Web - The newest tools for collaborative work are small, flexible, and free, and require no installation. Colleagues simply open their web browsers and they are able to edit group documents, hold online meetings, swap information and data, and collaborate in any number of ways without ever leaving their desks

2-3 years:

• Mobile Broadband -New displays and interfaces make it possible to use mobiles to access almost any Internet content—content that can be delivered over either a broadband cellular network or a local wireless network.
• Digital Mashups - custom applications where combinations of data from different sources are “mashed up” into a single tool— offer new ways to look at and interact with datasets that will transform the way we understand and represent information.

These are evident in organizations at the leading edge of technology adoption, and are beginning to appear at many institutions.

4-5 years:

• Collective Intelligence - In the coming years, we will see educational applications for both explicit collective intelligence—evidenced in projects like the Wikipedia and in community tagging—and implicit collective intelligence, or data gathered from the repeated activities of numbers of people, including search patterns, cell phone locations over time, geocoded digital photographs, and other data that are passively obtained.
• Social Operating Systems - The essential ingredient of next generation social networking, social operating systems, is that they will base the organization of the network around people, rather than around content. This simple conceptual shift promises profound implications for the academy, and for the ways in which we think about knowledge and learning.

To paraphrase the movies ... Horizon Reports has seen the future, and the future is now.

New edition of SA Journal of Business Management available

The March 2008 edition of SAJBM is available via SAePublications:

1.Chinese business negotiations : South African firm experiences and perspectives Authors: Horwitz, F.; Hemmant, R.; Rademeyer, C.; Published: 2008From: South African Journal of Business Management, Vol 39, Issue 1, Mar, Pages: 1-13
2.Is responsible investing ethical? Authors: Viviers, S.; Bosch, J.K.; Smit, E.v.d.M.; Buijs, A.; Published: 2008From: South African Journal of Business Management, Vol 39, Issue 1, Mar, Pages: 15-25
3. Securitisation in South Africa : 2000-2007 Authors: Moyo, Z.; Firer, C.; Published: 2008From: South African Journal of Business Management, Vol 39, Issue 1, Mar, Pages: 27-34
4.The drivers influencing the relationship between sales representatives and customers and the impact this relationship has on sales volume within Coca-Cola's Western Cape region Authors: Herbst, F.J.; Forrest, C.L.; Published: 2008From: South African Journal of Business Management, Vol 39, Issue 1, Mar, Pages: 35-43
5. Towards the development of a knowledge management practices survey for application in knowledge intensive organisations Authors: Steyn, C.; Kahn, M.; Published: 2008From: South African Journal of Business Management, Vol 39, Issue 1, Mar, Pages: 45-53

Top 25 Hottest articles in ScienceDirect

Every 3 months ScienceDirect distributes a list of the Top 25 Hottest articles published with in a specific subject area.

Here is the newest list available for Business, Management & Accounting for the time period: Jan - March 2008

1. Responsive supply chain: A competitive strategy in a networked economy • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 549-564Gunasekaran, A.; Lai, K.-h.; Edwin Cheng, T.C.
2. A strategy for third-party logistics systems: A case analysis using the blue ocean strategy • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 522-534Kim, C.; Yang, K.H.; Kim, J.
3. Issues in Supply Chain Management - Don't Automate, Obliterate • ArticleIndustrial Marketing Management, Volume 29, Issue 1, 1 January 2000, Pages 65-83Lambert, D.M.; Cooper, M.C.Cited by Scopus (187)
4. The use of information systems for logistics and supply chain management in South East Europe: Current status and future direction • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 592-599Ketikidis, P.H.; Koh, S.C.L.; Dimitriadis, N.; Gunasekaran, A.; Kehajova, M.
5. Network design for reverse logistics • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 535-548Srivastava, S.K.
6. Market efficiency, long-term returns, and behavioral finance • ArticleJournal of Financial Economics, Volume 49, Issue 3, 1 September 1998, Pages 283-306Fama, E.F.
7. Investor protection and corporate governance • ArticleJournal of Financial Economics, Volume 58, Issue 1-2, 1 January 2000, Pages 3-27La Porta, R.; Lopez-de-Silanes, F.; Shleifer, A.; Vishny, R.
8. Liquidity and market efficiency • ArticleJournal of Financial EconomicsChordia, T.; Roll, R.; Subrahmanyam, A.
9. Supply chain management in the US and Taiwan: An empirical study • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 5, 1 October 2008, Pages 665-679Chow, W.S.; Madu, C.N.; Kuei, C.-H.; Lu, M.H.; Lin, C.; Tseng, H.
10. The theory and practice of corporate finance: evidence from the field • ArticleJournal of Financial Economics, Volume 60, Issue 2-3, 1 May 2001, Pages 187-243Graham, J.R.; Harvey, C.R.
11. The financing decisions of innovative firms • ArticleResearch in International Business and FinanceCasson, P.D.; Martin, R.; Nisar, T.M.
12. Information asymmetry, corporate disclosure, and the capital markets: A review of the empirical disclosure literature • ArticleJournal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 31, Issue 1-3, 1 September 2001, Pages 405-440Healy, P.M.; Palepu, K.G.
13. Event tourism: Definition, evolution, and research • ArticleTourism Management, Volume 29, Issue 3, 1 June 2008, Pages 403-428Getz, D.
14. A grounded theory research approach to building and testing TQM theory in operations management • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 5, 1 October 2008, Pages 825-837McAdam, R.; Leonard, D.; Henderson, J.; Hazlett, S.A.
15. Trust in leadership: A multi-level review and integration • ArticleLeadership Quarterly, The, Volume 18, Issue 6, 1 December 2007, Pages 606-632Burke, C.S.; Sims, D.E.; Lazzara, E.H.; Salas, E.
16. Effects of knowledge management strategy on organizational performance: A complementarity theory-based approach • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 2, 1 April 2008, Pages 235-251Choi, B.; Poon, S.K.; Davis, J.G.
17. Corporate governance and pay-for-performance: The impact of earnings management • ArticleJournal of Financial EconomicsCornett, M.M.; Marcus, A.J.; Tehranian, H.
18. Project management information systems: An empirical study of their impact on project managers and project success • ArticleInternational Journal of Project Management, Volume 26, Issue 2, 1 February 2008, Pages 213-220Raymond, L.; Bergeron, F.
19. Tourism strategy making: Insights to the events tourism domain • ArticleTourism Management, Volume 29, Issue 2, 1 April 2008, Pages 252-262Stokes, R.
20. Marketing the competitive destination of the future - Growth strategies for accommodation establishments in alpine regions • ArticleTourism Management, Volume 21, Issue 1, 1 February 2000, Pages 97-116Buhalis, D.Cited by Scopus (65)
21. Customer relationship management: Finding value drivers • ArticleIndustrial Marketing ManagementRichards, K.A.; Jones, E.
22. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in financial services • ArticleEuropean Management Journal, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 June 2000, Pages 312-327Peppard, J.Cited by Scopus (50)
23. Trust in management and knowledge sharing: The mediating effects of fear and knowledge documentation • ArticleOmega, Volume 36, Issue 2, 1 April 2008, Pages 206-220Renzl, B.
24. Customer satisfaction and loyalty in service: Two concepts, four constructs, several relationships • ArticleJournal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Volume 15, Issue 3, 1 May 2008, Pages 156-162Bodet, G.
25. The effects of brand credibility on customer loyalty • ArticleJournal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Volume 15, Issue 3, 1 May 2008, Pages 179-193Sweeney, J.; Swait, J.

New journal additions in ProQuest

ProQuest has recently added new journals to their ABI/Inform Global collection, they are:

1) The Tax Lawyer (full text coverage from Spring 2007)
The Tax Lawyer, the USA’s premier, peer-reviewed tax law journal, is published quarterly as a service to its members by the American Bar Association Section of Taxation.The Tax Lawyer endeavors to provide scholarly articles by notable tax attorneys and professors, key reports by Section of Taxation committees and task forces, and student notes and comments on timely topics that the editorial board believes to be of professional interest to members of the Section and the tax profession.

2) Global Outlook Online (full text coverage from January 2008) published by The Bank of Nova Scotia. This journal covers the economic growth, conditions and statistics of Canada.

3) ICIS Chemical Business (full text coverage from October 2007) published by Reed Business Information, UK and covers the chemical industry news.

4) Telecommunications (full text coverage from July 2007) published by Horizon House, goes beyond superficial news headlines and plunges deeply into the business operations of service providers, the technologies they rely on and the applications they deploy to create competitive advantage.

Launch of new CPI

On 1 July 2008 Statistics South Africa will release the new weights for the Consumer Price Index. The new weights will be released on their website and at an information session in Johannesburg, with a second information session in Cape Town.

In addition to an explanation of the new weights, Stats SA will also provide details on some methodological changes planned for the CPI. Both the new weights and the methodological changes only become effective with the January 2009 CPI release. The sessions are open to the media and other users of the CPI.

Gauteng
Date: 1 July 2008
Time: 09h30 – 13h00
Venue: Indaba Hotel, Fourways
Cost: Free

Please RSVP with STATSSA before Wednesday 25 June 2008 by emailling rsvp@statssa.gov.za, indicating which meeting (Cape Town or Gauteng) you would like to attend. (Venue details will be forwarded once your RSVP has been received.)