Subject:

Project MUSE to Offer Single Title Sales of UPCC Books through YBP Partnership

From:

"Melanie Schaffner" <melanie@muse.jhu.edu>

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mbs@press.jhu.edu

Date:

Tue, 6 Nov 2012 11:32:19 -0500 (EST)

Subject:

How readers discover content in scholarly journals, Simon Inger and Tracy Gardner

From:

"Tracy Gardner" <tracy@tgm.ox14.com>

Date:

Wed, 7 Nov 2012 15:07:05 -0000

Apologies for cross posting.

We thought readers would be interested in this latest news from Simon Inger and I regarding a large scale research project we have recently undertaken. Over 19,000 survey responses were received from academics, lecturers, students, corporate researchers, practitioners and medics from all over the world, working in a variety of subject areas and sectors. The purpose of the research was to understand how readers in different regions and disciplines discover content in scholarly journals and what impact that has on publisher and library web site design and function. The full press release can be found below and a free summary report can be found at http://www.renewtraining.com/publications.htm

PRESS RELEASE: 7th November 2012

Simon Inger and Tracy Gardner publish results of largest ever study into How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Journals

The report, which is the culmination of a 6-month research project and has the backing of leading publishers within STM, Humanities and Social Science, compares the changing reader behaviour between 2005 and 2012 and as a result looks at the impact on publisher and library web site design and function.

Simon Inger and Tracy Gardner announced today the publication of a detailed report into discoverability of online content.

Simon Inger, commenting on the reasoning behind the research said “There have been many studies using web logs that calculate where users of scholarly resources were referred from, but this approach doesn’t indicate where those users started their research, merely the details of the last “hop” before hitting a content website. Discovery of academic content is complex with a plethora of discovery resources to choose from and many different routes to take. In order to expose content to the maximum number of potential readers, publishers and libraries need to understand these different routes and that is where this report can help them”.

This report is the output of a large-scale survey focussing on journal content discovery conducted during May, June and July of 2012. Over 19,000 responses were received from all over the world from readers in many different sectors, job roles and subject areas.

The research repeats two earlier studies performed in 2005 by Scholarly Information Strategies (for whom the authors were consultants) and in 2008 by the authors. The shifts in reader preferences over time provide a valuable insight into reader navigation, the features that readers find useful in publisher web sites, and the role and effectiveness of library technologies. The 2012 survey was also updated to include questions about search engine preference and app use.

Given such a large number of responses were received, this report goes much further than the previous two and is able to provide an insight into how readers in different sectors, regions, subject areas, and job roles behave.

So, for example, answers to all the following questions can be found in the report:

• In which subject areas, regions, job roles and sectors do readers make the most use of aggregated databases when searching for online articles?

• Is Baidu, Google or Google Scholar the most popular search engine amongst students in China?

• Which features do students, lecturers and academic researchers find most useful on Publisher web sites?

• Which sectors make the most use of journal homepages and ToC Alerts?

Tracy Gardner said “This report informs publishers, libraries, intermediaries and academics which resources the world’s consumers prefer to use to discover scholarly content. It’s an invaluable piece of research and we would like to wholeheartedly thank those organisations who supported us”.

The survey was supported by BMJ Group, CABI, Cambridge University Press, IOP Publishing, Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Publishing Technology, RSC Publishing and SAGE.

A summary report is available for free and the full report is available for £250 for organisations, £100 for academic libraries, and approximately £7 (or equivalent in other currencies) for individual use on Kindle (or Kindle viewers for PC, Mac, iPad). The full data set and the analytical tool are also available for purchase. See http://www.renewtraining.com/publications.htm for more details.

Tracy Gardner

TGM / Renew Training

Tel: +44 (0) 7884 438007

Email: tracy@tgm.ox14.com

Web: www.renewtraining.com

NEW: How Readers Discover Content in Scholarly Journals - the results of a large scale reader survey - is now available for download at www.renewtraining.com/publications.htm

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Date: 8 November 2012 

Location: Cambridge, UK 

**With apologies for cross posting** 

Cambridge University Press is delighted to announce that it will publish 

Hegel Bulletin from 2013, on behalf of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. 

Formerly known as the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, this 

move marks a significant moment in the journal's development. In 

recognition of its wider circulation, broader scope, and availability 

online for the first time, the journal is being relaunched as Hegel 

Bulletin. For more information about these bibliographic changes, please 

visit journals.cambridge.org/hegel/2013. 

Hegel Bulletin is a leading English language journal for anyone interested 

in Hegel’s thought, its context, legacy and contemporary relevance. The aim 

of the Bulletin is to promote high quality contributions in the field of 

Hegel studies. This field is broadly construed to include all aspects of 

Hegel’s thought, and its relation and relevance to the history of 

philosophy; Hegelian contributions to all aspects of current philosophical 

enquiry, including the modern European and analytic philosophical 

traditions; German Idealism, British Idealism, Marx and Marxism, Critical 

Theory, American Pragmatism; studies in the reception history of Hegel and 

German Idealism. 

This addition to an already distinguished philosophy journals list confirms 

Cambridge’s place at the forefront of scholarship on Kant, Hegel and German 

Idealism. 

The Editor of Hegel Bulletin, Dr. Katerina Deligiorgi, comments: "The 

Bulletin is a journal with an important history but also with an ambitious 

programme for expansion, so we are very excited to be joining Cambridge 

University Press, which has an unparalleled record of publications in Hegel 

and German Idealism and shares our vision about the future of the field." 

Professor Robert Stern, a former Editor of the Bulletin who currently sits 

on the Council of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, also welcomes the 

move: "I am delighted to see the journal come under the wing of Cambridge 

University Press. The journal has always had a strong reputation amongst 

researchers on Hegel and German Idealism more generally, and this move will 

help it provide an even 

more significant forum for debate and scholarship." 

"We are extremely pleased that Cambridge will be publishing Hegel Bulletin 

from 2013," says Ella Colvin, Publishing Director of Cambridge Humanities 

and Social Science Journals. "We can extend to them the best in platform 

technology to ensure they reach many more scholars and readers worldwide." 

Hegel Bulletin will be available in print and electronic formats, and 

digitised as part of the Cambridge Journals Digital Archive. Access via 

Cambridge’s industry-leading platform, Cambridge Journals Online, will 

improve the journal’s usability and functionality. 

For more information, please visit the journal homepage at 

http://journals.cambridge.org/hgl. 

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About the Hegel Society of Great Britain 

The Hegel Society of Great Britain (HSGB) is a forum for those interested 

in the work of the German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), his 

predecessors and contemporaries, his followers and his critics. The HSGB 

was founded in 1979, and now counts over 200 members. As well as publishing 

the Bulletin, the HSGB holds an annual conference and actively co-operates 

with other Hegel societies, particularly those in Germany and the USA. 

Find out more at http://hegel-society.org.uk 

About Cambridge Journals 

Cambridge publishes over 300 peer-reviewed academic journals across a wide 

range of subject areas, in print and online. Many of these journals are the 

leading academic publications in their fields and together they form one of 

the most valuable and comprehensive bodies of research available today. 

For more information, visit http://journals.cambridge.org 

About Cambridge University Press 

Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of 

Cambridge. Dedicated to excellence, its purpose is to further the 

University's objective of advancing knowledge, education, learning, and 

research. 

Its extensive peer-reviewed publishing lists comprise over 45,000 titles 

covering academic research, professional development, over 300 research 

journals, school-level education, English language teaching and bible 

publishing. 

Playing a leading role in today's international market place, Cambridge 

University Press has over 50 offices around the globe, and it distributes 

its products to nearly every country in the world. 

For further information, visit http://www.cambridge.org 

Publicity Contacts 

Sally Hoffmann, Commissioning Editor – Journals, shoffmann@cambridge.org 

Claire Gilmore, Marketing Executive – Journals, cgilmore@cambridge.org 

© Cambridge University Press. 2012.