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Subject:	Emerald's new online portal on display at ALA Midwinter
From:	"Janet Fisher" <jfisher@pcgplus.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:22:20 -0500

Emerald's new online portal on show at ALA Midwinter 2010, Boston, MA - Booth #1866
 
Join the QR Code Treasure Hunt to win a Barnes and Noble Nook and an Apple iPod Touch
 
Boston, MA, January 2010 - Emerald Group Publishing Inc, the world's leading publisher of management research, is exhibiting at this year's ALA Midwinter Conference, held in Boston, MA, January 15-18, 2010. 
 
During the conference, Emerald will introduce the improved interface, and search and browse functionality of its website. Visitors at Booth #1866 are also invited to discover the company's extensive range of books as well as Emerald Management Plus, its new flagship collection of 212 scholarly journals from a range of 22 management disciplines.  
 
On January 18, from 11:20-11:50 am, Theatre 1, Paul Coyne, Principal Consultant and VP of Innovation at Emerald, will talk about QR (quick response) codes in publishing. The presentation will explore QR codes as a user-friendly and versatile breakthrough in technology and their future influence on the publishing industry. 
 
Further to the presentation, all delegates are invited to join the QR Code Treasure Hunt Competition for a chance to win the world's most advanced eBook reader, the Barnes and Noble Nook, and an Apple iPod Touch.  For more information, visit Booth #1866. 
 
 
For further information about Emerald's products and services, or to book an appointment, contact Jim De Wolf, Vice President of Operations, Emerald Inc., at jdewolf@emeraldinsight.com 
 
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Subject:	Annual Reviews Announces New Titles For Economists
From:	Suzanna Marsh <suzanna.marsh@tbicommunications.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:38:44 +0000

Dear colleagues,
 
I thought list members might be interested to know about a new economics collection from Annual Reviews, the nonprofit publisher that synthesizes critical research literature. Three new journals have been launched – the first time that Annual Reviews has applied its objective overview model to economics. The new titles are:
* Annual Review of Economics, edited by Nobel prize winner Kenneth Arrow and Stanford colleague Timothy Bresnahan
* Annual Review of Financial Economics, edited by Andrew Lo (MIT) and Nobel prize winner Robert Merton (Harvard Business School)
* Annual Review of Resource Economics, edited by Gordon Rausser (UC Berkeley)
 
A full press release is included below; for more information, please contact Marketing Manager Jenni Rankin (news@annualreviews.org; 650-843-6634).
 
Regards,
 
Suzanna Marsh
TBI Communications
 
*ANNUAL REVIEWS ANNOUNCES NEW TITLES FOR ECONOMISTS*
 
Palo Alto, CA January 13th, 2010. Annual Reviews, the nonprofit publisher that intelligently synthesizes critical research literature, is pleased to announce its new collection of economics journals. The three new titles are edited by leading economists Tim Bresnahan (Stanford), Andrew Lo (MIT), and Gordon Rausser (UC Berkeley), and Nobel prize winners Kenneth Arrow (Stanford) and Robert Merton (Harvard Business School). The new journals, Annual Review of Economics, Annual Review of Financial Economics and Annual Review of Resource Economics summarize developments in their respective fields and reflect the advancement of economics as a critical scientific discipline. Annual Reviews has brought together 150 renowned scholars to address an interdisciplinary audience, from economics specialists to those with primary interests including public policy, business, social and natural sciences.
 
Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews since 1932. Its highly-cited journals help readers and librarians to evaluate and select from the increasing wealth of primary literature. Applying this model to economics provides readers with an authoritative assessment of the research, as the available material proliferates and awareness of economics is at its height. Particularly groundbreaking is the focus on the transdisciplinary field of resource economics, incorporating timely coverage of topics in agricultural economics, environmental economics, renewable resources, and exhaustible resources.
 
Annual Reviews titles are key to any library’s collection, explains Suzanne Cohen, Collection Development Librarian at the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School at Cornell University. They help scholars to gain the initial understanding of significant studies and contemporary advances that informs ongoing research and progress in the field. Our economists appreciate these new additions to the canon of economics literature.
 
I welcome this new collection of economics journals from Annual Reviews, comments Gordon Rausser, Editor and Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley. Our ultimate objective is to establish a forum in which emerging and leading scholars advance and explain the most important contemporary developments in economics, financial economics and resource economics.
It is surely a coming of age for financial economics that the field is now covered by Annual Reviews,” says Andrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts. “These 3 new journals give economists the ability to explore the origins of their field, examine where it stands today, and consider what the future might hold.
 
 
Contact:       Jenni Rankin
               Marketing Manager
               news@annualreviews.org
               650-843-6634

 
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Subject:	Taylor & Francis Group and Atypon Systems, Inc. to partner on next generation informaworld platform
From:	Jennifer McMillan <jennifer.mcmillan@TANDF.CO.UK>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:46:03 -0500
Content-Type:	text/plain

~with apologies for cross-posting~
 
Taylor & Francis Group, including the imprints of Routledge, Taylor & Francis 
and Psychology Press, announced today that it will partner with Atypon 
Systems, Inc. to launch a next generation informaworld platform. The updated 
platform will eventually provide access to content from Taylor & Francis 
Group’s list of 1,500 journals, as well as providing access to encyclopaedias 
and abstracting and indexing databases.
 
The upgraded platform will benefit Taylor & Francis’ readers, authors, library 
and society partners with improved site speed, layout, accessibility and 
navigation. The upgraded site responds to user needs identified in extensive 
researcher and librarian focus groups held over the past 18 months. It will be 
developed with the input of customers from each of these groups to ensure it 
reflects their needs today, with the flexibility to continue to meet these needs 
into the future. 
 
"Partnering with Atypon is a positive step forward in providing a robust online 
delivery system across our portfolio, built with the needs of the research 
community in mind," said Christoph Chesher, Group Sales Director at Taylor & 
Francis for both Books and Journals.  "We are confident that the new 
informaworld platform, coupled with sustainable pricing models currently under 
development with our global customers, will ensure we continue to provide 
high quality content and service in future years."
 
Taylor & Francis will ensure that customers are updated with further 
information during the development of the site to allow a seamless transition.  
 
 
For more information please contact:
Jennifer McMillan, Library Marketing Manager, Taylor & Francis Group Journals
Tel:  +44 (0) 207 017 6000
e-mail: Library@tandf.co.uk
 
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Subject:	Oxford University Press launches new librarian newsletter
From:	"SHANNON-LITTLE, Lizzie" <lizzie.shannonlittle@oup.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:38:37 +0000

Oxford University Press launches new librarian newsletter

Oxford University Press has launched Illuminea, a new quarterly newsletter for academic librarians and information professionals. This publication will keep readers up-to-date with the latest developments at OUP and across the publishing world.

‘Richard Gedye, Research Director for Journals at OUP, and member of the Editorial Team said: ‘After careful and thorough discussion with the library community we have developed a strong and broad source of information for those interested in the entire range of resources we publish, as well as topical issues affecting librarians. We hope that Illuminea will become an integral part of our wider strategy of constant dialogue and engagement with the library community.'

Innovation is the underlying theme of the launch issue. The lead article looks at Oxford Bibliographies Online, a revolutionary resource tool, designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information by directing them towards useful books, chapters, journals, websites or databases. Its aim is to combine the best features of a research level encyclopaedia and the traditional bibliography.

Another article covers the ARROW project, a pioneering venture which will support the development of Europeana, a pan-European digital library, by establishing a single framework to manage rights information.

Also featured is the Oxford Language Web, a new facility of the Oxford Languages Dictionary Online allows word searches across multiple languages simultaneously, providing easy access to key vocabulary.

We assess an exciting initiative to place OUP content on mobile phones and new journal acquisitions for 2010. Each issue will also feature an ‘Industry Focus’ article, profiling an individual or product from the world of scholarly information or publishing.

For more information, please contact:

Lizzie Shannon-Little

+44 (0)1865 353043

Communications Executive

Academic and Journals Divisions

Oxford University Press

Visit the Illuminea homepage here: http://www.oup.com/illuminea/.

Follow Oxford Journals on Twitter: http://twitter.com/OxfordJournals

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***Apologies for cross posting***

Important information regarding the Association for Psychological Science (APS) journals now published by SAGE

The journals of the Association for Psychological Science, including the highly ranked Psychological Science are now published by SAGE.  The full title list is:

• Psychological Science - one of the most prestigious and highly cited journals in the field

• Current Directions in Psychological Science

• Psychological Science in the Public Interest

• Perspectives on Psychological Science

Access to these journals is provided as a package and the Psychological Science Package is part of the SAGE Premier 2010 package.

If your library has a subscription or is planning to upgrade to the Premier 2010 package you will receive access to these journals. If your library will not have access to the Premier 2010 package, you can continue to maintain your access to these important journals by either upgrading now to Premier 2010; or renewing your subscription to these journals via your preferred subscription agent or directly with SAGE.

If your library has access to the Psychological Science Package through your participation in a consortial network with the previous publisher Wiley-Blackwell, please contact us at your earliest convenience so that we can ensure your access is uninterrupted. We will let you know once your online access has been activated and will contact you to discuss your subscription/access options now that these journals are published by SAGE.

Please click on the link below to complete the registration process for access.https://secured.sagepub.com/APSconsortia.html

Questions from Customers in North America contact:

journaltransfers@sagepub.com

Questions from Customers in Rest of World contact:

journaltransfers@sagepub.co.uk

Sincerely,

Sheenagh McCarthy

Senior Marketing Manager

Library Group

SAGE Publications Inc

2455 Teller Road

Thousand Oaks, CA 91320

USA

sheenagh.mccarthy@sagepub.com