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This week's digest contains 2 messages:

1)  De Gruyter Appoints Renowned Academics to the New Editorial Board of the AKL Dictionary of Artists
2)  OSA Launches Innovative Products and Services for Digital Library Users


1)  De Gruyter Appoints Renowned Academics to the New Editorial Board of the AKL Dictionary of Artists

Subject:
PRESS RELEASE: De Gruyter Appoints Renowned Academics to the New Editorial Board of the AKL Dictionary of Artists
From:
<Ulrike.Lippe@degruyter.com>
Date:
5/7/2012 9:21 AM
To:
<serialst@list.uvm.edu>

PRESS RELEASE

De Gruyter Appoints Renowned Academics to the New Editorial Board of the AKL Dictionary of Artists

Berlin, 3 May 2012 – The Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon (AKL) is an indispensable reference work in the field of art history. De Gruyter is proud to announce the appointment of several internationally renowned academics to the publication's new editorial board: Prof. Andreas Beyer, director of the German Forum for Art History in Paris; Prof. Wolf Tegethoff, director of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich; and Prof. Bénédicte Savoy of the Technical University of Berlin.

"We're pleased to have the opportunity to actively shape the future direction of this publication, which is an extremely important reference work in the field of art history, in accordance with the requirements of the field," Prof. Savoy said. "And we look forward to working with De Gruyter, a publishing house with an extremely rich tradition."

The new editorial board has been appointed as part of the publication's reorganization, which began last year. Alongside the continuation of the print edition in its traditional high quality, De Gruyter is working to expand the dictionary's online version, which spotlights current issues and trends in the field of art history. 

“We have sought out the very best editors in order to fulfill our quality expectations for the dictionary: namely, to address all time periods, cultures, and genres as they pertain to the visual arts, as well as to more specifically serve the needs of users," said Dr. Alexander Grossmann, Vice President of Publishing at De Gruyter. "The AKL will be a dynamic component of De Gruyter’s publication portfolio in the fields of art and architecture," Grossmann added.

"A key element of the new editorial approach is to open up the editorial process to an international circle of experts who will be invited to actively contribute," Prof. Beyer said during the first meeting of the editorial board in Berlin.

 

Author contact

Katja Richter
Editor

Telephone: +49 (0)30- 789 51 968
katja.richter@degruyter.com

Press contact

Ulrike Lippe
Manager of Public Relations
Telephone: +49 (0)30-260 05 153
ulrike.lippe@degruyter.com

 

De Gruyter: The independent academic publishing house De Gruyter can look back on a history spanning over 260 years. The publishing group with headquarters in Berlin and Boston annually publishes over 800 new titles in the humanities, medicine, science and law and more than 230 journals and digital media. http://www.degruyter.com/

 

2)  OSA Launches Innovative Products and Services for Digital Library Users

Subject:
OSA Launches Innovative Products and Services for Digital Library Users
From:
"Greenwood, Daphne" <dgreen@osa.org>
Date:
5/9/2012 3:14 PM
To:
"serialst@list.uvm.edu" <serialst@list.uvm.edu>

[Please excuse any duplication with the cross posting of this message]

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OSA Launches Innovative Products and Services for Digital Library Users

Enhanced HTML article interface and broad-based Optics ImageBank allow for greater discoverability, accessibility, and interoperability of content on Optics InfoBase

The Optical Society (OSA) http://www.osa.org today announces the launch of several enhancements to its Digital Library, Optics InfoBase, http://www.opticsinfobase.org

Central to the new services that have launched is the reinvention of its journal article interface. With this new interface, users can more easily access and browse each article's full-text, article-level metrics, interactive and embedded equations, and more than 200,000 images via a new Optics ImageBank http://imagebank.osa.org

Additionally, this initial launch of enhancements allows OSA the opportunity to make functional adjustments to all of these innovative offerings based on user feedback. The goal is to refine each new offering over the next six months.

"Our contemporary article interface and dynamic ImageBank product  are key examples of OSA's continued  focus on better meeting the needs of our user community by developing new publishing tools that enhance the discoverability, accessibility and interoperability of our journal content," said OSA's Chief Publishing Officer Elizabeth Nolan. "These innovative enhancements exemplify OSA's commitment to increasing the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the global optics and photonics community in the most effective and interactive ways possible."

All articles in OSA's core journals from 2006 to present currently appear in the enhanced HTML article format. Over the next 24 months, OSA will be making all content from 1917 onward available as well.

Specific article enhancements include:

* Crisp article-level navigation in easy-to-use tabs

* Information-rich display of content in multiple, interactive XML-based layers

* Access to article figures and related images via OSA's comprehensive ImageBank (described below)

* Interactive MathML equations (powered by MathJax) that can be copied and pasted into calculation software or other documents

* Individual article-level metrics showing authors and their peers the number of abstract and article downloads over time

* Significantly enhanced display of citing article information

* Dynamic article reference listing with convenient sorts by year, author, and journal 

Also launching today is OSA's innovative Optics ImageBank http://imagebank.osa.org ---offering a new interactive way to browse and search more than 200,000 images in Optics InfoBase. The Optics ImageBank not only allows images to be downloaded easily from within each article, it also provides users with the capability to search across related images appearing in other OSA journal articles from 2006 to today and enables users to quickly and easily import images and the associated citations into PowerPoint slides for use in the classroom, industry meetings, or other types of knowledge-sharing events.

Learn more information about OSA's new article interface, by browsing sample article at http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract_preview.cfm?uri=oe-19-4-3258 or read more about the article interface on the Optics InfoBase website at http://www.opticsinfobase.org/fulltext/

About OSA

Uniting more than 130,000 professionals from more than 175 countries, the Optical Society (OSA) brings together the global optics and photonics community through programs and initiatives. Since 1916, OSA has worked to advance the common interests of the field providing educational resources to the scientists, engineers and business leaders who work in the field by promoting the science of light and the advanced technologies made possible by optics and photonics. OSA publications, events, technical groups and programs foster optics knowledge and scientific collaboration among all those with an interest in optics and photonics. For more information visit www.osa.org.

 

The Optical Society
2010 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036 USA
Tel: +1 202.223.8130
Fax:+1 202.223.1096
Email: elec@osa.org
www.osa.org

 


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