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Cornell and Duke University Press partner to provide enhanced services for Project Euclid - 16 Apr 2008 Academic research library Cornell University Library, US, and Duke University Press (Duke) have announced a joint venture to expand and enhance the services of Project Euclid, an online information community for mathematics and statistics resources from independent publishers. The joint venture was undertaken in cooperation with the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). Leadership for Project Euclid will be assumed by management at both Cornell and Duke.
Effective July 2008, Duke will provide publishing expertise in marketing, sales, and order fulfillment to Project Euclid's participating publishers and institutional subscribers. The Press will work to broaden and deepen Project Euclid's subscriber base, resulting in greater global exposure for 54 journals and a growing number of monographs and conference proceedings. Cornell will continue to provide and support the vital IT infrastructure for the Project. It will also assume responsibility for archiving and preservation activities, ensuring robust and reliable access to the content deposited with Project Euclid for future scholars, researchers, and students.
Launched in 2003, Project Euclid seeks to assure that the mathematics and statistics communities continue to benefit from a healthy balance of commercial enterprises, scholarly societies, and independent publishers. Euclid and its partner publishers will benefit from Duke's commitment to the project's mission as well as from the Press's publishing proficiency, reputation for quality consciousness, and university-based value system.
Elsevier enhances STM platform ScienceDirect with new features - 16 Apr 2008 STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that new intuitive reference and navigational features have been added to its online STM platform, ScienceDirect. The new features, which were developed in cooperation with researchers, are seen to deliver clearer results with fewer clicks.
Additionally, researcher comments and ratings from 2collab, Elsevier's free web-based collaborative platform, will be integrated with the articles in ScienceDirect. With this upgrade researchers are projected to experience a boost in productivity and a faster and more seamless research process.
Researchers typically want to evaluate the relevance of an article without reading through it, and they do so by using the article abstract, figures/graphs and references. To speed up this process, ScienceDirect now offers preview tabs on the results page or table of contents page. These facilitate one-click access to components, without the page reloading, enabling a seamless and simple research process. An article toolbox also improves navigation by bringing together all of the article-related functionality including 'Cited By' and 'E-mail Article' into one easy-to-find location. The toolbox will save time and help customers easily find the tools they need.
Researchers can now view reference information when their cursor moves over a reference marker in the body of an article. The information shown includes links to the referenced articles (if available). Researchers will be able to view or download the referenced paper immediately if they wish. Previously, reference information was only available at the foot of the article page.
ebrary introduces new e-book packages - 16 Apr 2008 E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced the availability of new tools and products that highlight premium, purchase-only titles in 20 high-use subject areas. It is projected to make it easier and more affordable for libraries and other organisations to select and purchase e-books.
Starter Packs are fixed collections of 25 to 50 essential e-books with discounts available when purchased in their entirety. Subject Guides are more comprehensive, frequently updated listings of 150 to 190 current titles that librarians and other information professionals may use as selection tools to pick and choose individual e-books.
Additionally, libraries and other organisations may complement the Starter Packs and Subject Guides with individual e-books from ebrary's growing selection of over 62,900 titles available for purchase. In the past month, it added over 2,200 new titles to its purchase offering from publishers such as Oxford University Press, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Blackwell Publishing and Taylor & Francis.
Starter Packs and Subject Guides are projected to offer sophisticated research utilities including multiple search options, personal bookshelves, highlighting, annotating and automatic citations. They also facilitate seamless integration with other ebrary databases and online resources in the library and on the web through ebrary InfoTools.
VISTA, IPG pilot scheme to enable publishers and distributors grow revenues - 16 Apr 2008 VISTA, a division of Publishing Technology plc, and the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG), which supports and connects independent information providers, have launched a pilot scheme to enable selected IPG members to explore the benefits and evaluate the revenue generation potential of digital publishing initiatives such as virtual catalogues and online book samples. The project covers a cross-section of IPG members, enabling VISTA and IPG to assess the different ways in which publishers, distributors and others in the supply chain can incorporate such technologies into their strategies, and the effectiveness of respective applications.
Participating members were randomly selected during the recent IPG conference in March. Three publishers - Cicerone Press, Galore Park, and How To Books - will trial catalogue digitisation, which will replicate their print editions with an easy-to-use online facsimile designed to increase visibility and facilitate browsing of the publishers' products. A further five IPG members - Anova Books, Brahma Kumaris, Eurospan Group, Ovolo Books and Yale University Press - were given the opportunity to select up to 10 books for 'view inside' book sampling, which digitises small excerpts and allows them to be embedded into online marketing materials. Potential customers are therefore better able to assess the book's content prior to making a purchase.
VISTA and IPG will report back on progress of the pilot throughout 2008, and will follow up with case studies to advise other publishers on successful techniques for incorporating technology into sales and marketing strategies.
Journal of Women's Health to be the official journal of AMWA - 16 Apr 2008 The American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) has named the Journal of Women's Health as its official journal. AMWA is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of women in medicine and the improvement of women's health.
Published by medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc the Journal of Women's Health is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or are more prevalent among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women. The journal covers the latest advances and clinical applications of new diagnostic procedures and therapeutic protocols for the prevention and management of women's healthcare issues.
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., is a fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in several areas of science and biomedical research. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is claimed to be the industry's most widely read publication worldwide.
MPS Technologies adds new features to BookStore platform - 16 Apr 2008 As Web 2.0 revolutionises the way publishers market books to their readers, MPS Technologies, the technology arm of Macmillan India, has upgraded its BookStore platform with features that address the latest challenges faced by the book industry.
BookStore is the digital content platform that stores, displays and sells eBook content on behalf of publishers. It allows publishers to make their content available online and provides them with a number of different business models to choose from. New features on the platform now include the MPS Technologies Widget - the viral marketing tool that enables readers and authors to place book content on social networking sites globally. The platform is now fully integrated with social bookmarking sites. Clients are also able to update their readers on new titles via RSS feeds and email alerts.
The upgraded BookStore is projected to enhance publishers' experience of managing the platform. Publishers will now be able to search and manage live titles, QA downloadable files and access information about live titles at one time.
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