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This week's digest contains 5 messages:

1)  New Publication:  The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Print & Electronic Collections of Scholarly Journals
2)  Pharmaceutical Press empowers users with MedicinesComplete
3)  Adis Launches New Tiered Pricing Model
4)  Informahealthcare.com to offer Athens and Shibboleth
5)  University of Illinois Press signs agreement with JSTOR

1)  New Publication:  The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Print & Electronic Collections of Scholarly Journals

Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: 
Use of Print & Electronic Library Collections of Scholarly Journals, ISBN 1-
57440-134-3.    The data is based on a representative survey of 550 higher 
education faculty in the USA and Canada. Faculty present their opinions on 
preferences for print or paper journal formats, degree of problems with archival 
access, use of url-catalog links to journals, extent to which their college 
library journal collection satisfies their scholarly needs, and frequency of 
database access and library visits. Data is broken out by 12 criteria including 
age, academic field or specialty, type of college, size of college, frequency of 
library use, and many other factors. 

Just a few findings of the report are:

	Canadian faculty were more likely than American faculty to think of 
the paper copies as a waste of time – nearly 45% thought so. 
	In general, age was highly inversely correlated with the tendency to 
think of paper copies as wasteful and redundant when online versions were 
available.  
	Only 13.86% of faculty at research universities prefer paper to online 
journal formats.
	Only a third of community college faculty express support for 
increased spending on academic journals while about 64.3% of faculty in 
MA/PhD. granting colleges expressed such support.

For further information, view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.
2)  Pharmaceutical Press empowers users with MedicinesComplete

Apologies for cross-posting.

Dear colleagues,

I thought you might be interested to learn that Pharmaceutical Press has announced a major new release of its online drug and healthcare resource MedicinesComplete.

The new release of MedicinesComplete demonstrates notable improvements to its usability, including a new, more streamlined interface, OpenURL linking and improved search options. These improvements are designed to better support the information habits of MedicinesComplete readers.

With the new version, users of MedicinesComplete can now search a wider range of trusted pharmaceutical resources – such as Martindale: the Complete Drug Reference and most recently Stockley’s Herbal Medicines Interactions – the results bringing together information on prescribing, dispensing and administering drugs and medicines in one place.

Please do not hesitate to contact Pharmaceutical Press’s Celina Edwards should you require any further information: celina.edwards@rpsgb.org. Free trials of MedicinesComplete are available by contacting sales@medicinescomplete.com

Best regards,

Suzanna Marsh
Market Analyst
TBI Communications Limited • 62A Church Road • Wheatley • Oxford • OX33 1LZ
Tel: +44 (0)1865 875896 • Fax: +44 (0)1865 876346 • suzanna.marsh@tbicommunications.com


3)  Adis Launches New Tiered Pricing Model
-----Original Message-----
From: Tracy Gardner [mailto:tracy@tgm.ox14.com] 
Sent: 04 November 2009 19:56
To: 'liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu'
Subject: Adis Launches New Tiered Pricing Model


**Apologies for cross posting**

Adis Launches New Tiered Pricing Model 

Adis, a Wolters Kluwer business, would like to announce a new tiered pricing
model designed to make its publications more affordable for customers
worldwide.  

The new model offers 3 tiers of pricing and will deliver significantly lower
prices for small and mid-sized organisations, and a price freeze for the
largest organisations.    The model is based on the number of FTEs within
pharmaceutical companies, the number of staffed beds in hospitals and the
number of relevant FTEs across the health faculties within academic
institutions.

Adis worked closely with industry partners and carried out extensive market
research to ensure the new pricing model was appropriate and fair for
existing and prospective customers.

If you have any questions about the new model, or are interested in finding
out more about Adis journals, please contact  Gillian Brailsford at
gillian.brailsford@wolterskluwer.com   or visit:
http://adisonline.com/home/documents/pricelist2010.pdf  

About Adis journals
Adis journals are a unique, resource for anyone with an interest in
independent reviews and original research to support better therapeutic
decisions. The portfolio features many leading titles on drug development,
therapy and pharmacoevaluation including Drugs, PharmacoEconomics and Drug
Safety.

Regards,
Tracy

Tracy Gardner
TGM / Renew Training
Tel: +44 (0) 7884 438007
Email: tracy@tgm.ox14.com
Web: www.renewtraining.com

4)  Informahealthcare.com to offer Athens and Shibboleth

Subject:
Informahealthcare.com to offer Athens and Shibboleth
From:
Andrew White <andrew.white@INFORMAUSA.COM>
Date:
Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:47:33 -0500
To:
SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
CC:
Andrew White <andrew.white@INFORMAUSA.COM>		 

Hello,

**Apologies for cross posting**

Informa Healthcare will now offer Athens and Shibboleth authentication 
on the new informahealthcare.com platform. 

The new platform hosts more than 170 journals covering key areas 
within pharmaceutical science, medicine and healthcare. Any Informa 
Healthcare journal formerly listed on informapharmascience.com or 
informaworld.com will now be accessible on informahealthcare.com. 
There is currently a dual-hosting period set up with the InformaWorld 
platform through 2009 allowing for a gradual migration. Customers that 
use informapharmascience.com to access their subscription will 
automatically be transferred to the new site.

For more information on the new platform or about the migration, 
please visit the help pages at http://informahealthcare.com/faq. 

Best regards,
Andrew White
Informa Healthcare
5)  University of Illinois Press signs agreement with JSTOR

Subject:
University of Illinois Press signs agreement with JSTOR
From:
"David Fritsch" <David.Fritsch@ithaka.org>
Date:
Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:55:32 -0400
To:
<serialst@list.uvm.edu>

PRESS RELEASE

 MEDIA CONTACTS

 JSTOR:
Heidi McGregor
VP, Marketing & Communications
ITHAKA
heidi.mcgregor@ithaka.org
212-358-6406

 The University of Illinois Press:
Clydette Wantland
Journals Manager
University of Illinois Press
cwantlan@uillinois.edu
217-244-6496

 The University of Illinois Press signs agreement with JSTOR, joining a new effort to improve access to current scholarship for faculty, students, and librarians. 

October 27, 2009 – Champaign, IL and New York, NY – The University of Illinois Press, the not-for-profit publishing division of the University of Illinois, and JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform that is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA, announced an agreement today to make leading journals from the Press available worldwide as part of the Current Scholarship Program. 

The Current Scholarship Program is a new collaboration initiated by University of California Press and JSTOR and first announced on August 13, 2009.  Together, participants in this Program aim to create an improved online work environment for faculty and students by bringing complete journal runs from multiple publishers together in one place, to ease the burden on librarians of negotiating separate license agreements with a multitude of publishers and independent titles, and to promote a more cost-effective publishing environment for the scholarly community.

"For the last several years the University of Illinois Press and JSTOR have worked together through the History Cooperative, building strong ties of respect and trust,” said Willis G. Regier, Director of the University of Illinois Press.  “We take this step with the blessings of our colleagues in the University of Illinois Library and with high anticipation for our journals."

Current and historical content from at least ten University of Illinois Press-published journals will be available on a re-designed JSTOR in 2011.  This will offer faculty and students around the world access to current issues alongside back issues and a growing set of primary source materials from libraries easily and seamlessly.  JSTOR’s nearly 6,000 library participants worldwide will be able to license the Press’s current journals, either individually or as part of current issue collections, together with JSTOR back issue collections in a single transaction.  University of Illinois Press-published journals available as part of the Program will include American Journal of Psychology, American Music, Journal of Aesthetic Education, and Journal of American Ethnic History among others.  The journals will also be preserved in Portico, the digital preservation service that is also part of ITHAKA.

“The University of Illinois Press has been a leader in promoting digital scholarship, innovation, and new publishing collaborations in the humanities,” said Michael Spinella, JSTOR Managing Director. “The Press not only shares our aim to deliver excellent scholarship at good value to libraries, faculty, and students, but brings a spirit of cooperation and a strong desire to support new forms of scholarship using digital technology.  We are thrilled to be working with them to advance scholarship through the Program.”

With the addition of the University of Illinois Press, the current issues of at least forty journals will be available from JSTOR for the 2011 subscription year.  Other organizations are being encouraged to join the Program.

Rebecca Simon, Associate Director of University of California Press and Director of Journals + Digital Publishing added, “It is terrific that the University of Illinois Press is joining this effort and bringing their fine portfolio of titles to the Program.  The more like-minded participants we have, the greater the benefits we are able to deliver to libraries and to users.”

For more information, see http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/programs/currentScholarship.jsp

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JSTOR
JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a preservation archive and research platform for the academic community.  Through JSTOR, faculty, researchers, and students are able to discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over 1,000 academic journals, as well as conference proceedings, monographs, and other scholarly content. Nearly 6,000 libraries and cultural heritage institutions and hundreds of the world's leading publishers of scholarly literature participate in and support JSTOR.  JSTOR is part of ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org), a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to advance scholarship and teaching in sustainable ways. ITHAKA also includes two additional services – Ithaka S+R and Portico.

University of Illinois Press
Founded in 1918, the University of Illinois Press (www.press.uillinois.edu) ranks as one of the country's larger and most distinguished university presses. The Press publishes more than 120 new books and 36 scholarly journals each year in an array of subjects including American history, labor history, sports history, folklore, food, film, American music, American religion, African American studies, women’s studies, and Abraham Lincoln. The Press is a founding member of the Association of American University Presses as well as the History Cooperative, an online collection of more than 20 history journals.