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The Journal of Social History joins Oxford University Press |
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From:
"MEDDINGS, Colin" <Colin.Meddings@oup.com> |
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Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:03:20 +0000 |
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To:
"SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU"
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** with apologies for cross-posting** The Journal of Social History: Societies & Cultures has joined Oxford University Press (OUP), beginning with the September 2011 issue. This well-known quarterly journal was founded in 1967 by Peter Stearns, who continues to edit the journal out of George Mason University. As a top-ranked journal in the field of social history, it is widely recognized for its high-quality and innovative scholarship and has from its beginnings served as a catalyst for many of the most important developments in the history profession as a whole. The founder and editor, Peter Stearns, commented, 'Joining up with OUP is an important and logical step for the journal and can only heighten its international profile and widen its availability to new readers. At a time when the publishing landscape is shifting quickly, I am delighted to have found a publishing sponsor with the sense of engaged interest, experience, and innovative drive that has been in evidence at Oxford since we began these conversations. I look forward to continuing to edit the journal in this new publishing partnership.' Niko Pfund, Acting Interim President and Publisher of the Academic Division of Oxford University Press in New York, expressed similar enthusiasm, 'Peter is a legendary figure in academic history circles and we've all been astonished at how much he and his colleagues, most especially Carol Sturz, have accomplished with the journal. It's a privilege to have been chosen to steward the JSH toward its bright future, and we look forward to drawing on the entrepreneurial spirit with which Peter has imbued it.' Individual and institutional subscribers will receive renewal notices from OUP for subscriptions expiring at the end of June 2011 or later. All online or combined subscriptions will include electronic access to issues back to 1996. The journal will continue to be available online via Project Muse with print-only subscriptions available from OUP. The journal will also be included in the Oxford Journals Digital Archive from 2012, making all issues back to volume 1, issue 1 available to Archive customers. Any queries can be directed to your local customer services office: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/contact_us.html Colin Meddings Senior Library Marketing Manager Oxford Journals | Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street Oxford, OX2 6DP www.oxfordjournals.org2) AIP Advances Publishes First Papers
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AIP Advances Publishes First Papers |
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From:
Bruce Shriver <bshriver@aip.org> |
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Date:
Tue, 1 Mar 2011 21:16:24 +0000 |
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To:
Bruce Shriver <bshriver@aip.org> |
[This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication.]
AIP Advances Publishes First Papers
New open access journal to benefit the physical sciences community
Melville, NY, March 1, 2011 –– AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), today announced that the first articles in the debut issue of its new journal, AIP Advances (aipadvances.aip.org), are now published online. AIP Advances is a fast-track, community-led open access journal focusing on applied research in the physical sciences, and represents a major innovation in physical science publishing. All articles are published under a Creative Commons license—authors retain copyright.
“AIP Advances combines a streamlined review process with post-publication commenting tools to strike an excellent balance between expert peer review and the need for rapid dissemination of information and comment from the community,” said John Haynes, Vice President, Publishing. “AIP Advances will allow articles to rise to prominence on their own merits, putting these articles at the heart of conversations taking place in science today.”
An impressive group of executive editors oversees AIP Advances. Among them are a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Packard and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. This distinguished, international group includes:
• Robert H. Austin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
• Vincent H. Crespi, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
• A. T. Charlie Johnson, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
• Masaaki Tanaka, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• Enge G. Wang, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China
Among AIP Advances’ first papers is “A midsize tokamak as a fast track to burning plasmas” by Ernesto Mazzucato, Principal Research Physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
“With the mission to disseminate and advance physics research, AIP is eager to continually communicate research in new ways and forge new connections between authors and readers,” said Mark Cassar, Publisher, Journals and Technical Publications. “AIP Advances is one such avenue to enhance the free flow of information.”
About AIP
The American Institute of Physics is a federation of 10 physical science societies representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators and is one of the world's largest publishers of scientific information in physics. Offering full-solution publishing services for scientific societies and for similar organizations in science and engineering, AIP pursues innovation in electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes 13 journals; two magazines, including its flagship Physics Today; and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. Its online publishing platform Scitation hosts nearly two million articles from more than 185 scholarly journals and other publications of 28 learned society publishers. AIP also hosts UniPHY, the world's first literature-based professional and scientific networking site for physical scientists. UniPHY facilities collaboration between researchers worldwide and is pre-populated with profiles for more than 300,000 individual scientists.
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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Project MUSE Editions and the University Press e-book
Consortium (UPeC) Announce Merger |
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From:
Melanie Schaffner <melanie@muse.jhu.edu> |
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Date:
Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:38:33 -0500 |
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To:
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TWO MAJOR UNIVERSITY PRESS E-BOOK INITIATIVES ANNOUNCE MERGER For Immediate Release March 10, 2011 For more information, contact: Dean J. Smith, Director Project MUSE djs@press.jhu.edu 410-516-6981 Two major university press e-book initiatives --Project MUSE Editions (PME) and the University Press e-book Consortium (UPeC) -- have joined forces. The result of this merger -- the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) -- will launch January 1, 2012. "This is a great moment," said Kathleen Keane, director of the Johns Hopkins University Press, home of Project MUSE. "By bringing these two initiatives together, we have taken a major step forward to ensure the ongoing viability of university presses." The partnership allows e-books from an anticipated 60-70 university presses and non-profit scholarly presses -- representing as many as 30,000 frontlist and backlist titles -- to be discovered and searched in an integrated environment with content from nearly 500 journals currently on MUSE. "Our user community will benefit greatly from the integrated research opportunities presented by putting university press book content alongside journal collections," said Dean Smith, director of Project MUSE. "Publishers and authors will see their books exposed to MUSE's installed base of several million scholars, researchers, and students across the globe." "The University Press Content Consortium will be the online destination for peer-reviewed university press scholarship," said Steve Maikowski, director of the New York University Press and one of the press directors spearheading UPeC. "The efficiencies and cost savings resulting from this collaboration will bring far more revenue to participating presses than current third-party models," he said. "Because both initiatives are university-press based, there is a strong mission alliance." The merger is part of a multimillion-dollar commitment to the ongoing growth and expansion of Project MUSE, according to director Dean Smith. "By leveraging the MUSE brand and investing in technology that ensures the program's future performance, we can grow at a rapid pace while continuing our 15-year tradition of providing quality scholarly content at a fair price." Representatives of UPeC and PME worked closely with librarians over the past two years to develop a scholarly e-book model that benefits both libraries and presses. Incorporating extensive research and feasibility analysis from both groups, the UPCC Collections will be sold by MUSE in comprehensive and subject-based collections, with minimal digital rights management. "Members of the academic library community appreciate that these two groups sought our input before developing their product offerings," said Charles B. Lowry, executive director of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). "We have been saying for some time that we would prefer to see university press e-book content not proliferated across multiple platforms creating undue complexity and duplicative cost. I feel sure that librarians nationwide will be excited about this convergence, which is a huge step in the right direction." "ARL has expressed to our community the desire of academic librarians for better collaboration in the distribution of university press e-book collections," said Richard Brown, director of Georgetown University Press and current president of the Association of American University Presses. "I am delighted that these two groups took the concerns of the library community so seriously." Research on the feasibility of a university press-based scholarly e-book initiative was commissioned by the UPeC directors in 2009 with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Working from the outset with two groups of highly experienced consultants-Informed Strategies, which surveyed the needs of the library community, along with Chain Bridge Group, which developed and tested the business model-UPeC began its search for a business partner three months ago. While a number of potential partners offered exciting opportunities, JHUP's success in balancing the interests of publishers and librarians informed UPeC's selection of MUSE, according to Maikowski. Content integration, collaboration, and sustainability have emerged as watchwords from this new alliance. "The creation of UPCC signals a new era of inter-university press collaboration," said Alex Holzman, director of Temple University Press and one of the founding directors of UPeC. "In these challenging times, presses need to acknowledge one of their key strengths -- excellent scholarship -- and work together to be able to disseminate this scholarship as widely as possible." Keane agrees. "This is a significant and transformative moment in the world of scholarly publishing," she said. "It bodes well for the future of university presses." About the University Press e-book Consortium (UPeC) The University Press e-book Consortium (UPeC) emerged in 2009 to explore the feasibility of a university press-based e-book initiative. Five press directors serve as UPeC principals: Steve Maikowski, New York University Press; Alex Holzman, Temple University Press; Marlie Wasserman, Rutgers University Press; Eric Halpern, University of Pennsylvania Press; and Donna Shear, University of Nebraska Press. UPeC planning and development was supported by two grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. About Project MUSE Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science periodical content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE is the sole source of complete, full-text versions of journal titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 100 publishers currently participating.