Content solutions provider Publishing Technology and John Benjamins Publishing Company have announced the launch of a new online home for the independent Dutch company's diverse range of academic publications.
The new jbe-platform.com site, built on the pub2web platform, brings together John Benjamins' multiple content formats in one single digital resource for the first time. Users now have seamless access to over 2,500 books and 65 journals.
All of John Benjamins' titles are now discoverable through the site's specialised search, browse, faceting and filtering options. The enhanced jbe-platform.com portal, featuring agile and responsive pub2web functionality, also enables John Benjamins to repackage its content and create and sell e-collections. Current collections include back volume sets per subject or series, and front list collections per year.
Features designed for end users include self-service tools for librarians to control access rights, branding and retrieve COUNTER usage statistics; flexible licensing models, including trials, open access, gracing and consortia; compliance with key industry standards and partners, including CrossRef, OpenURL, Library discovery services, COUNTER, Athens, Shibboleth and Google; and personalisation settings, such as email and RSS alerting, as well as saved and keyword search.
Key site features that allow John Benjamins to capture information about its users and explore innovative ways to support them include self-serve toolkits, including content management and website editing, license administration and user management tools; comprehensive discovery options, such as semantic enrichment, search optimisation with faceted and federated search; state-of-the-art ecommerce and granular product management tools allowing John Benjamins to sell their content in a number of unique ways; statistical data to support sales analysis and strategies; and standards compliance and industry integration, allowing metadata to be exported to subscription agents, abstracting & indexing databases and citation managers.
John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent, family-owned academic publisher headquartered in Amsterdam. Founded over 40 years ago the company publishes extensively in the fields of Linguistics and Translation Studies, as well as Cognitive Science, Psychology, Information Design, Terminology, Philosophy, Literary Studies, and Art History. In 2013 JB published over 150 new book titles and 60 journals by and for academic researchers and trainers, with a backlist of over 3,000 titles.
