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AIP and Edanz Work to Support Authors in China and Japan |
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From:
Bruce Shriver <bshriver@aip.org> |
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Date:
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:37:26 +0000 |
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To:
Bruce Shriver <bshriver@aip.org> |
[This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication.]
AIP and Edanz Work to Support Authors
Local support to researchers in China and Japan to benefit scientific community worldwide
Melville, NY, March 21, 2011 - The American Institute of Physics (AIP) (www.aip.org) and Edanz Group Ltd. (http://edanzediting.com/aip1) today signed an understanding to make it easier and more cost-effective for AIP authors to use Edanz's English language editing services, providing local support for authors in China and Japan.
"AIP is firmly committed to providing meaningful assistance to our authors," said Mark Cassar, Publisher for AIP Journals. "To do this, we must be able to offer them exceptional services in their own language and in their own time zone. Edanz's team of professionals will help our authors enhance the written quality and presentation of their manuscripts, which will benefit all parties in the publication chain."
Edanz offers the services of experienced native English-speaking editors with expertise in the diverse scientific fields that are included in AIP's publishing portfolio. Edanz will edit manuscripts for those authors who request help in preparing their papers for submission to AIP journals. In addition, Edanz can also provide assistance to authors for related activities such as writing cover letters and responding to peer review comments. Edanz will offer a 10% discount to AIP authors.
"The opening of AIP's Beijing office in 2010 clearly showed AIP's recognition of the important scientific research taking place in Asia today," said Kerry Greer, President of Edanz Group Ltd. "As the only international English-language scientific editing service fully localized in China, Edanz is well placed to support AIP's authors in this important and growing market." AIP and Edanz will also coordinate joint training programs on effective communication of scientific research.
About AIP
The American Institute of Physics is an organization of 10 physical sciences societies representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators and is one of the largest publishers of scientific information in physics. AIP also delivers valuable resources and expertise in education and student services, science communication, government relations, career services for science and engineering professionals, statistical research, industrial outreach, and the history of physics and other sciences. Offering publishing solutions for scientific societies and organizations in science and engineering, AIP pursues innovation in electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes 13 journals (journals.aip.org), 2 magazines-including its flagship publication, Physics Today and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. Scitation, AIP's online publishing platform, hosts 1.6 million articles from 190 scholarly journals, proceedings, and eBooks of learned society publishers.
AIP also provides the international physical science community with UniPHY, the first literature-based social and professional networking site; it features pre-populated profiles of more than 300,000 scientists and enables collaboration among researchers worldwide.
About Edanz Editing
Edanz Group Ltd., established in Japan in 1995 and China in 2006, provides English language editing and related services for scientific manuscripts. Edanz helps authors worldwide reach their publication goals by raising the quality of manuscripts to the international standard needed for acceptance. The Edanz team of native English-speaking editors includes experts covering all the scientific areas served by the AIP catalog of journals. The only international editing service localized in China and Japan, Edanz understands the challenges faced by scientists whose first language is not English in achieving publication success.
For more information, please contact:
Lori Carlin
Director, Fulfillment & Marketing
American Institute of Physics
Email: lscarlin@aip.org
Phone: +1
516-576-2279
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Subject:
Journal of Laser Applications Incorporates Robust
Functionality of AIP's Scitation Platform |
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From:
Bruce Shriver <bshriver@aip.org> |
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Date:
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:00:22 +0000 |
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To:
Bruce Shriver <bshriver@aip.org> |
[This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication.]
Journal of Laser Applications Incorporates Robust Functionality of AIP's Scitation Platform
Laser Institute of America's flagship journal offers new suite of features
Melville, NY, March 21, 2011 - AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) (www.aip.org), today announced the re-launch of the Laser Institute of America's Journal of Laser Applications (JLA) (jla.aip.org) on AIP's innovative Scitation hosting platform. As part of a new strategic partnership agreement between the Laser Institute of America (LIA) and AIP, LIA designated AIP to publish their flagship journal on behalf of the society.
"AIP's powerful Scitation platform enables us to better serve our readers, raise the profile of our organization, and reinforce our commitment to disseminate the knowledge of laser applications and laser safety worldwide," said LIA Executive Director, Peter Baker. "Making our content available to more users and making it more useable can only serve to enhance the strong reputation that JLA has built over the years."
Scitation has infused JLA with a broad range of interactive features, helping users find the content they need more quickly. Researchers will discover redesigned abstract pages, including related articles, article outlines, and an article objects tab, which provides direct access to tables and figures. New table of contents pages offer expandable abstracts and keywords. JLA users will also benefit from enhanced search functions, including faceted results and intuitive search suggestions, which filter results and help them find relevant information more quickly.
In addition, JLA now features dynamic full-text HTML, including a slide-out navigation bar, inline links to references, and inline search, which reveals lists of popular related articles. JLA now also offers a streamlined mobile version of its website.
"We believe that LIA's Journal of Laser Applications will grow from strength to strength backed by the power of enhanced discoverability and innovative engineering found in AIP's Scitation hosting platform," said Robert Harington, Publisher, AIP Partnerships.
First published in 1988, Journal of Laser Applications has long been a major forum for the exchange of ideas and information on the diverse applications of photonic technology, including materials processing, laser safety, and sensing and measurement.
About American Institute of Physics
The American Institute of Physics is an organization of 10 physical sciences societies representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators and is one of the largest publishers of scientific information in physics. AIP also delivers valuable resources and expertise in education and student services, science communication, government relations, career services for science and engineering professionals, statistical research, industrial outreach, and the history of physics and other sciences. Offering publishing solutions for scientific societies and organizations in science and engineering, AIP pursues innovation in electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes 13 journals (journals.aip.org), 2 magazines-including its flagship publication, Physics Today-and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. Scitation, AIP's online publishing platform, hosts 1.6 million articles from 190 scholarly journals, proceedings, and eBooks of learned society publishers. AIP also provides the international physical science community with UniPHY, the first literature-based social and professional networking site; it features pre-populated profiles of more than 300,000 scientists and enables collaboration among researchers worldwide.
About Laser Institute of America
Laser Institute of America (LIA), founded in 1968, is the professional society for laser applications and safety. It is comprised of laser researchers, manufacturers, integrators, and end users working together to increase the use and safe application of laser technologies. Fulfilling its mission of fostering lasers, laser applications, and laser safety worldwide, LIA is the secretariat and publisher of the American National Standards Institute Z136 series of laser safety standards. The Journal of Laser Applications is the official journal of the Laser Institute of America and serves as the major international forum for exchanging ideas and information in disciplines that apply laser technology.
For more information, please contact:
Lori Carlin
Director, Fulfillment & Marketing
American Institute of Physics
Email: lscarlin@aip.org
Phone: +1 516-576-2279
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Subject:
Gale Commits Three More Collections to the Portico Archive |
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From:
David Fritsch <David.Fritsch@ithaka.org> |
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Date:
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:43:52 -0400 |
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To:
"'SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU'"
<SERIALST@list.uvm.edu> |
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Gale Commits Three More Collections to the Portico Archive
Follows Portico's Successful Preservation of 80 Million Files from Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Making of Modern Law and Eight Other Gale Collections
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Farmington Hills, Mich. and Princeton, NJ, March 23, 2011 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and Portico, part of the not-for-profit organization ITHAKA, today announced Gale will be preserving three additional digital historical collections with Portico. This follows the completed ingest of 10 Gale Digital Collections—including 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, The Making of Modern Law: Primary Resources and Eighteenth Century Collections Online—and represents over 80 million files (75 million pages of content), which doubled the size of the Portico archive in just one year.
“We are excited to expand our agreement with Portico,” said Frank Menchaca, executive vice president and publisher, Gale. “With more and more content moving online and being produced in digital-only format, we realize the importance of ensuring our unparalleled content and collections will remain accessible to our customers even in the unlikely event of a service disruption.”
The three additional Gale collections being committed to the Portico archive comprise over one million files, and include Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something About the Author Online and Literature Criticism Online. With the addition of these collections, the total number of files being preserved from Gale in the Portico archive will reach over 82 million, representing an achievement of scale for Portico. Collections preserved in 2010 include:
· Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and ECCO Part II, New Editions
· The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises
· The Making of Modern Law: Trials
· The Making of Modern Law: Supreme Court Records and Briefs
· Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature
· Sabin Americana
· 19th Century British Library Newspapers
· 17th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
· 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
· 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
“Portico’s successful ingest of the first 10 collections, totaling over 11 terabytes, is a great accomplishment in our history,” said Eileen Fenton, Portico managing director. “It represents the progress we have made in the scalability of our workflow. We are delighted to continue this work with Gale to ensure the long term preservation and permanent access of this vital content for its customers.”
In accordance with Portico’s D-Collections Service model, Portico will make the content available to Gale’s customers under specifically defined circumstances called “trigger events.” Should the content no longer be made available through the Gale system or from other sources, or if Gale were to experience an extended service interruption, Portico would make the content preserved in the archive available to Gale’s customers. There is no charge from Gale to its customers for this service.
About Cengage Learning and Gale
Cengage Learning is a leading provider of innovative teaching, learning and research solutions for the academic, professional and library markets worldwide. Gale, part of Cengage Learning, serves the world's information and education needs through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet. It is best known for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of information needs—from homework help to health questions to business profiles—in a variety of formats. For more information, visit www.cengage.com or www.gale.com.
About Portico
Portico is a not-for-profit community-driven digital preservation service for e-books, e-journals, and other scholarly e-content. To date, more than 12,000 e-journals, nearly 70,000 e-books, and 39 d-collections have been committed to the archive. Portico is supported by more than 700 libraries worldwide and over 120 publishers representing more than 2000 scholarly societies and associations. Portico is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. For more information, visit www.portico.org or www.ithaka.org.
Media Contact:
Kristina Massari
Public Relations Manager
Cengage Learning
(203) 965-8694
Marita La Monica
Senior Manager, Marketing Communications
ITHAKA
David R. Fritsch
Assistant Director, Outreach and Participation Services
JSTOR | Portico
Voice: (609) 986-2286
Fax: (212) 358-6499
JSTOR (www.jstor.org), an accessible archive of more than 1,000 scholarly journals and other content, and Portico (www.portico.org), a service that preserves content published in electronic form for future generations, are part of ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org). ITHAKA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.