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This week's digest contains 3 messages:

1)  2014 JOURNAL PRICES AVAILABLE FROM BLOOMSBURY JOURNALS (FORMERLY BERG)
2)  PORTLAND PRESS LIMITED ANNOUNCES JOURNAL PRICES FOR 2014
3)  BOOKS AT JSTOR WELCOMES NEW PRESSES AND EXCEEDS 20,000 TITLES


1)  2014 JOURNAL PRICES AVAILABLE FROM BLOOMSBURY JOURNALS (FORMERLY BERG)

Subject:
2014 JOURNAL PRICES AVAILABLE FROM BLOOMSBURY JOURNALS (FORMERLY BERG)
From:
Eleanor Graves <Eleanor.Graves@bloomsbury.com>
Date:
9/4/2013 7:47 AM
To:
"SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU" <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU>

2014 JOURNAL PRICES AVAILABLE FROM BLOOMSBURY JOURNALS (FORMERLY BERG)

 

We are pleased to inform you that the 2014 journal prices are now available for all our journals, including 3 exciting new titles. From 2014 Bloomsbury will offer a selection of 20 publications, with a strong focus on visual arts. Visit the website www.bloomsbury.com/journals for more information.

 

The 2014 journal price list can be found at:

www.bloomsbury.com/journals

 

IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT OUR JOURNALS PROGRAMME FOR 2014:

  

***NEW JOURNALS***

*   Design Philosophy Papers – A refereed journal dedicated to advanced, critical thinking on design. It seeks to develop a profound understanding of design by engaging thinkers from a variety of disciplines, especially philosophy, while encouraging design academics to engage with deeper, philosophical issues about their practice and research. (2 issues per year)

 

*   LuxuryThe first truly interdisciplinary, academic journal devoted to luxury. It will consider luxury in broad socio-cultural contexts, exploring and interrogating both our historical and contemporary understanding of the term. (1 Issue per year)

 

*   Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (formerly Aesthetic Pathways) - Encourages and promotes research in aesthetics that draws inspiration from the phenomenological tradition as broadly understood. It welcomes analyses of aesthetic phenomena by researchers working on phenomenology within analytic philosophy.  (2 issues per year)

 

INCREASES IN FREQUENCY

*   Architecture and Culture will increase from 1 to 3 issues per year

*   Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice will increase from 1 to 2 issues per year

  

INCREASES IN PAGE EXTENT

The following journals have increased in page extent:

*   The Design Journal

*   Fashion Practice

*   Fashion Theory

*   Material Religion

*   Textile

ARCHIVE CONTENT:
Libraries will have full access to all available digitised backfiles and current issues they subscribe to with each subscription (except Anthrozoos: Archive content included in the subscription runs from volume 20 – present. The Archive for volumes 1-19 is available to purchase separately).

FORMATS

All journals are available online only or in combination with a print subscription except the following, which are only available electronically:

*   Art in Translation

*   Design Philosophy Papers         

VAT CHARGES

VAT will be charged against 40% on the online part of combined institutional subscriptions if applicable. The full VAT charge will be added to online only subscriptions.

 

ONLINE ACCESS

Online access is provided at IngentaConnect. Registration and online activation requests need to be placed at Ingenta. Further details and instructions can be found at:

http://media.bloomsbury.com/rep/files/bloomsbury-publishing-activation-instructions.pdf (PDF)

 

FREE TRIALS
Institutional free trials are available for 30 days. To sign up, please visit www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bloomsbury  

 

LICENCE

Bloomsbury Publishing supports the NISO/SERU initiative (Shared Electronic Resource Understanding, sponsored by NISO http://www.niso.org/committees/SERU/) .

Libraries wishing to subscribe to Bloomsbury journals will be given the option to forego a traditional licensing agreement and operate under SERU Recommended Practices.

 

CONSORTIA

Bloomsbury Publishing welcomes enquiries from library consortia. The collection offers exceptional value to institutions and consortia interested in signing up to several or all of our journals. 

Please contact journals@bloomsbury.com for sales models and discounts.
 

ORDERS

All 2014 subscription renewals and new subscription orders should be sent to your agent or directly to Turpin-Distribution.

Email: custserv@turpin-distribution.com

Tel: +44 1767 604951,

Fax: + 44 1767 601640. 

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

 

Kind regards,

Ellie Graves

Senior Marketing Executive
Bloomsbury Plc
50 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3DP


2)  PORTLAND PRESS LIMITED ANNOUNCES JOURNAL PRICES FOR 2014

Subject:
Portland Press Limited Announces Journal Prices for 2014
From:
Stephen Dollin <Stephen.Dollin@portlandpress.com>
Date:
9/5/2013 7:16 AM
CC:
Stephen Dollin <Stephen.Dollin@portlandpress.com>

Dear Colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce that the 2014 institutional subscription pricelist for the journals handled by Portland Customer Services is now available in HTML format at:

http://www.portlandpress.com/pcs/journals/pricelist.cfm

Our portfolio of products for 2014 is now available online and presents the most recent information on our journals and e-resources.

http://www.eesimail.com/web_links/20130212_PPL_ES2014_Newsletter.htm

Portland Press Limited for the 2014 subscription period is now please to be able to offer::

 

*   JUSP-The Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP) provides a "one-stop shop" for libraries to view, download and analyse their usage reports. For more information, please visit the JUSP website (http://jusp.mimas.ac.uk/).

*   CLOCKSS, LOCKSS & Portico partners

 

Portland Press Legacy Package

The Biochemical Society and Portland Press Limited are pleased to announce their new archive product "PPL Legacy Package". Containing almost a century's worth of papers, the back archives of our three highly respected journals, Clinical Science, Bioscience Reports and Biochemical Society Transactions, can now be yours to own and make available to your life sciences faculty in perpetuity. Contact stephen.dollin@portlandpress.com for more information

First Themed Collection "Microbiological Research" goes live on Biochemical Journal website

Portland Press Limited and the Biochemical Journal are delighted to present our Themed Collections. The first is on microbiological research and is free for all readers for the next 3 months!

3% Price Cap for 2014 Online-Only Journal Subscriptions

Owing to the adverse economic climate Portland Press Limited have decided to cap the yearly price increase on the online-only subscription option for our journals at 3%.

 

About Portland Press Limited

Portland Press Limited (PPL), the wholly-owned trading subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, is a leading innovative publisher of journals, books and electronic resources.  It prides itself on leading the way in content innovation, open access publishing and the delivery of high quality molecular and cellular biosciences research. PPL aims to serve both the scientific community and the aims of the Society in its pursuit of excellence and scientific progression.  Profits from the trading activities of PPL are covenanted to the Biochemical Society and returned to the scientific community via its activities.

About the Biochemical Society

The Biochemical Society exists for the advancement of the molecular and cellular biosciences, both as an academic discipline and to promote its impact on areas of science including biotechnology, agriculture, and medicine. Biochemistry helps to play a key role in tackling global issues such as improving lifelong health, treatment of disease, biotechnology and food security. We achieve our mission though our publications and journals, scientific meetings, educational activities, policy work, awards and grants to scientists and students.  The Biochemical Society is the largest discipline-based learned society in the biosciences with 6500 members. 

About Portland Customer Services

Portland Customer Services is a division of PPL which provides journal subscriptions management, membership fulfilment, association management, conference and event planning, web and journal hosting services to external clients.

Stephen Dollin

Sales & Licensing Manager | Portland Press Limited

The Biochemical Society

Stephen.Dollin@portlandpress.com


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Registered Office: Charles Darwin House, 12 Roger Street, Third Floor, London, WC1N 2JU.

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3)  BOOKS AT JSTOR WELCOMES NEW PRESSES AND EXCEEDS 20,000 TITLES

Subject:
Books at JSTOR Welcomes New Presses and Exceeds 20,000 Titles
From:
Sarah Glasser <Sarah.Glasser@ithaka.org>
Date:
9/6/2013 3:27 PM
To:
"'SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU'" <SERIALST@list.uvm.edu>

With apologies for cross-posting…

JSTOR is pleased to announce the addition of a number of new publishers to the Books at JSTOR program.  To date, 43 publishers have joined Books at JSTOR.  We’re pleased to welcome the following participating presses:

·         American School of Oriental Research

·         Amsterdam University Press

·         Georgetown University Press

·         Hebrew Union College Press

·         Liverpool University Press

·         MIT Press

·         Rutgers University Press

·         University of Georgia Press

·         University of Illinois Press

·         University of Massachusetts Press

·         University of Pennsylvania Press

·         University Press of Colorado

 

The complete list of participating publishers is available at http://about.jstor.org/content/about-books

There are more than 20,000 titles now available through Books at JSTOR – with more than 60% of books available in a multi-user model. This model, which works similarly to journal articles on JSTOR, allows for unlimited simultaneous online viewing, and chapters may be downloaded as DRM-free PDFs with no limits on downloading and printing. 

For more information, please contact participation@jstor.org.

Kind regards,

Sarah Glasser

_____________
Sarah Glasser
Director, Global Product Marketing
ITHAKA
Tel: 212-358-6419
sarah.glasser@ithaka.org


ITHAKA (
www.ithaka.org) is a not-for-profit organization that helps the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. We provide innovative services that benefit higher education, including Ithaka S+R, JSTOR, and Portico.






  


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