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This week's digest contains 3 messages:

1.  AIP announces institutional subscription pricing and other changes for 2011
2.  Portico Archive reaches milestone in digital preservation
3.  IOP Publishing achieves impact factor success for the sixth year running

1.  AIP announces institutional subscription pricing and other changes for 2011

Subject: AIP announces institutional subscription pricing and other changes for 2011
From: "Bruce Shriver" <bshriver@aip.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:26:08 -0400 

[Please excuse cross-posting.]

Dear Colleagues:

The American Institute of Physics is pleased to announce 2011 institutional
subscription rates. As a prestigious learned society publisher, AIP has always
provided the physics community with world-class content, and one of the
hallmarks of the AIP Journal brand is outstanding value. For many years, we have
worked with the library community to maintain low prices and low annual price
increases. Our pricing this year reflects a small average price increase of less
than 3% and, as a result, AIP’s price-to-content value remains among the very
best in STM publishing. At the same time, AIP journals continue to be
increasingly popular with authors and readers worldwide as measured by the total
number of articles submitted and published each year, and the millions of
article downloads we report yearly.

Developments for 2011

Rolling backfile replaced with online access back to 1999

Beginning January 2011, AIP will extend backfile access to 1999 for regular
subscriptions to its eight archival journals.  All current subscriptions will
include access back to 1999, the year AIP first offered e-only subscriptions.
(We currently provide a five-year backfile with each subscription.)  And all
subscribers will continue to have the option to subscribe to the complete
pre-1999 archive of any title back to Volume 1, No. 1.

Subscribers will continue to have online access to any previously subscribed
material from 1999 forward.  Continued online access to previously subscribed
material will be free of charge to any customer who maintains a current, active
subscription to any AIP journal.

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy: Launched in 2009; Remains Free in
2011

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy is a multi-disciplinary e-only
journal drawing from a diverse range of fields such as geothermal energy,
bioenergy, solar and wind power, energy storage, and transportation.
Peer-reviewed articles cover the science, rather than the policy, behind these
emerging energy sources. Access to JRSE remains free in 2011.

Biomicrofluidics Remains Free in 2011

Biomicrofluidics, which originally launched as an open-access journal in 2007,
rapidly disseminates novel microfluidic techniques with diagnostic, medical,
biological, pharmaceutical, environmental, and chemical applications. With the
elimination of open access fees, access to Biomicrofluidics will now be
completely free in 2011.

APL: Organic Electronics and Photonics Remains Free in 2011

APL: Organic Electronics and Photonics, an AIP spotlight journal, includes the
subset of articles from Applied Physics Letters that directly deal with organic
electronics and photonics. Content is published online daily, and collected into
monthly e-only issues. APL:OEP remains free in 2011.

AIP Maintains Tier Assignments for 2011

In 2011, we will hold AIP tier assignments steady, once again allowing
libraries to maintain their current tier assignment. If you have questions
regarding your institution’s AIP tier, please contact us.

To view 2011 prices for the following AIP publications, go to:
http://journals.aip.org/aip_2011_prices.pdf.

Applied Physics Letters
APL: Organic Electronics and Photonics
Applied Physics Reviews
Chaos
Computing in Science & Engineering (co-published with IEEE Computer Society)
Journal of Applied Physics
The Journal of Chemical Physics
JCP: BioChemical Physics
Journal of Physical & Chemical Reference Data (co-published with NIST)
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Low Temperature Physics
Physics of Fluids
Physics of Plasmas
Physics Today
Review of Scientific Instruments
AIP Conference Proceedings

If you have a question regarding these new options, or about the prices posted,
please contact subs@aip.org or call 1-800-344-6902 or +1-516-576-2270.

We look forward to serving you in the new subscription year.

Best regards,

Bruce Shriver
Senior Marketing Manager
American Institute of Physics
Melville NY 11747 USA
Tel: +1 516-576-2623
Email: bshriver@aip.org

2.  Portico Archive reaches milestone in digital preservation

Subject:
Portico Archive Reaches Milestone in Digital Preservation
From:
David Fritsch <David.Fritsch@ithaka.org>
Date:
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:25:15 -0400
To:
<serialst@list.uvm.edu>

Portico (www.portico.org/digital-preservation/) is pleased to announce that 110 publishers, representing more than 2,000 professional and scholarly societies, are now participating in the Portico archive.  Furthermore, nearly 15 million articles are now safely preserved in the Portico archive. “These are significant milestones for Portico and this substantial growth in a short period of time underscores the importance of digital preservation, and the commitment of the hundreds of Portico’s participating libraries and publishers to ensuring long-term access to scholarly content,” said Eileen Fenton, Portico’s Managing Director.

 

The 110 publishers who have entrusted their content to the Portico archive and signed formal agreements with Portico represent e-books, e-journals, and d-collections. Additionally, all publishers participating in JSTOR’s Current Scholarship Program (http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/programs/currentScholarship.jsp) will now have their current content preserved in Portico.

 

Since 2005, the number of titles and types of content preserved in Portico has grown significantly. To date, over 11,000 e-journals and 33,000 e-books have been entrusted to the Portico archive.  For a complete list of Portico-related facts and figures, please visit Portico’s Archive Facts & Figures (http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/the-archive-content-access/archive-facts-figures). The complete list of titles and participating publishers is available at www.portico.org/digital-preservation/who-participates-in-portico/

 

To learn more about Portico, the considerable growth of the archive, and Portico’s services for libraries and publishers, please visit us at Booth #3393 at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Meeting, or attend the JSTOR|Portico Participants’ Meeting. More information is available at www.portico.org/digital-preservation/news-events/events/american-library-association-ala-annual/

 

 

David R. Fritsch

Assistant Director, Outreach and Participation Services

JSTOR | Portico

 

Voice: (609) 986-2286

Fax: (212) 358-6445

david.fritsch@ithaka.org

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.

 


3.  IOP Publishing achieves impact factor success for sixth year running

Subject:
IOP Publishing achieves Impact Factor success for the sixth year running
From:
Collins@ioppubusa.com
Date:
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:49:17 -0400
To:
SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU


***A version of this message has been cross-posted***

Dear readers,

The 2009 Impact Factors, just released by Thomson Reuters, show significant growth for many journals published by IOP Publishing (IOP) for the sixth year running.

This year, 25 of the titles published by IOP have seen an increase in citations from last year. Additionally, 17 titles have had an increase of over 10% and over 40% have Impact Factors above 2.000.

This success reflects the quality and visibility of IOP journals, and shows that researchers who publish with us are in the right place to be cited by their peers.

Some of the best-performing IOP journals this year are:

*        Environmental Research Letters  http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/ increased its Impact Factor to 3.342.

*        Science and Technology of Advanced Materials  http://iopscience.iop.org/1468-6996/ increased by 105% to achieve 2.599. The journal is published in partnership with the National Institute for Materials Science.

*        Biomedical Materials  http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-605X/  increased by 59%.

Jerry Cowhig, Managing Director of IOP Publishing said: "Impact Factors continue to be an important measure of a journal’s reputation and a focus of attention for authors and funding bodies. I'd like to thank our authors, referees, editorial boards and staff for their hard work that has contributed to the Impact Factors and all the other advancing attributes of IOP journals. We look forward to continuing to work with the scientific community to build on our journals' success in the future."

A selection of the most-cited papers for the above best-performing IOP journals have been made free to read online. Papers can be accessed through the journal homepages on iopscience.org  http://iopscience.iop.org/journals.

Please don't hesitate to contact me off the list with any questions or comments.

With best wishes,
Sharice

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Sharice P. Collins
Vice President, Marketing
IOP Publishing
150 South Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA  19106
(215) 627-0880
collins@ioppubusa.com