Commercial Digest, a once-a-week digest of messages containing informational content from commercial bodies (i.e., publishers, vendors, agents, etc.)

This week's digest contains 3 messages:
1.  Announcing Arts & Sciences XII
2.  Press release from Bloomsbury
3.  RSC at UKSG Conference

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Date:       Thursday, March 21, 2013 4:35 PM  
From:      Shawn Herman <Shawn.Herman@ithaka.org>
Subject:   Announcing Arts & Sciences XII

Announcing Arts & Sciences XII

JSTOR is pleased to announce the Arts & Sciences XII Archive Collection, which will launch in April and feature a minimum of 125 titles at completion. This collection expands JSTOR’s coverage in the social sciences, focusing on disciplines with high usage and broad appeal across all levels of higher education institutions. Three disciplines—education, law, and political science—will anchor the collection, with supporting clusters in sociology, criminology, social work, psychology, and Asian studies.

Arts & Sciences XII will include journals from the American Bar Association, Brill, Lynne Reinner, and Springer. Notable titles will include: ABA Journal; Sociologie du travail, from Elsevier Masson SAS; Journal of Comparative Family Studies; Journal of Quantitative Criminology; Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka and Foro italiano, with content dating to the 1800s; and Educational Psychology Review.

Since launching our first archive collection in 1997, we have worked to lower fees consistently. We have also heard from a number of institutions regarding the challenge of managing expenditure on recurring fees. In response to this feedback, Arts & Sciences XII will have a lower Annual Access Fee (AAF) than those of our previous Arts & Sciences collections. 

We also provide flexible payment options to help institutions license collections in ways that best suit their budgets:

·     Institutions may choose to spread the one-time Archive Capital Fee (ACF) over a period of up to 10 years, with no interest charged. This option is available for all Arts & Sciences collections and the Life Sciences collection.

·     Reserve accounts are available for institutions who would like to set aside funds for archive collections. Please contact us for details.

Thank you for your ongoing support of JSTOR. For more information on Arts & Sciences XII or other archive collections, please contact us today.

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Date:       Thursday, March 21, 2013, 12:29 PM
From:     Katharine Nelson <Katharine.Nelson@bloomsbury.com>
Subject:   Press release from Bloomsbury

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ("Bloomsbury") Bloomsbury announces change to its recent acquisition

 Rebranding of AVA Publishing to Fairchild Books

 In July 2012, Bloomsbury acquired Applied Visual Arts Publishing ("AVA"), creative publishers for the applied visual arts. AVA has now been successfully integrated into Bloomsbury's London operation. Until this point AVA has been kept as an independent imprint, but to better serve our customers and authors, this is now changing.

 From 1st April 2013 all new AVA titles will be published under the Fairchild Books name.

 This change will result in increased profile for all titles, through a coherent brand that is recognized for its excellence in global markets. It gives focus to our publishing strategy, allowing us to maximize exposure for our publications and profile for our authors. In particular, it greatly increases reach in the US market through the Fairchild Books name.

Fairchild Books was acquired by Bloomsbury in April 2012.

 Synergies between the AVA and Fairchild Books lists are significant. Their textbooks have been widely adopted at higher education institutions around the world and are used and recommended by many thousands of academics, students and practitioners. The new combined Fairchild Books will publish around 50 new titles a year and have a backlist of 450 titles in fashion, interior design, graphic arts, moving image and photography and architecture.

 Bloomsbury is now the largest global publisher of academic materials for the visual arts, which now constitutes roughly half our Academic business.

The combined business will provide significant opportunities for developing innovative digital initiatives.

                    Launching new digital initiatives

 The forthcoming Fashion Photography Archive will join Bloomsbury's existing portfolio of successful digital products, which includes the award-winning Berg Fashion Library, the Churchill Archive and Drama Online, launching this spring.

 The recent launch of the academic area of the new Bloomsbury website, http://bloomsburynews.com/go.asp?/bBLM001/qUYWDE2F/xQG5ME2F, brings together books, eBooks, journals and digital product information for the first time, all grouped by subject area. Including all AVA and Fairchild Books titles, it features enhanced academic functionality such as online previews, digital inspection copies, textbook companion sites and online resources, and emphasizes Bloomsbury's dedication to academic and professional publishing and investment in new formats and technologies.

Enquiries:

Jonathan Glasspool, Managing Director, Academic & Professional Division:
mailto:Jonathan.Glasspool@bloomsbury.com

 Jennifer Howell, Head of UK Academic Marketing:
mailto:Jennifer.Howell@bloomsbury.com

 Kara Zavada, Head of US Academic, Professional, & Specialist Marketing:
mailto:Kara.Zavada@bloomsbury.com

 

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Date:       Thursday, March 21, 2013, 12:11 PM
From:      Max Espley <EspleyM@rsc.org>
Subject:   RSC at UKSG Conference

You are invited to visit stand #55/56 from Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th April.

·         View a copy of The Merck Index* and see a demo of The Merck Index* Online – Bubbly and nibbles will accompany our official launch on Tuesday at 14.00

·         Find out more about how we support Open Access, including our innovative initiative, Gold for Gold – Drinks and nibbles will accompany our presentation on Monday at 13.00 (http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/librarians/GoldforGold.asp)  

·         Win a kindle fire – you’ll need steady hands to tackle our Buzzwire game – fastest time gets the prize

·         See what else is new for 2013 including our new journals Biomaterials Science and Toxicology Research

·         Above all have any of your questions answered by one of our team – if you would like to arrange a sales meeting contact Dan Dyer, Head of Sales (dyerd@rsc.org)   

 
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the 2013 UKSG Conference in Bournemouth.

Max Espley
Campaigns Manager - Librarians

Royal Society of Chemistry
Thomas Graham House, Science Park,
Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 432498, Fax: +44 (0) 1223 420247
www.rsc.org/publishing
espleym@rsc.org

 *The name THE MERCK INDEX is owned by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, N.J., U.S.A., and is licensed to The Royal Society of Chemistry for use in the U.S.A. and Canada.

 



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