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 4 messages:
1.  Canadian Periodical for Community Studies, Hikari Ltd, and PAGEPress Join Portico
2.  AVA Publishing brand change and new website
3.  ACS launches ACS ChemWorx; a free, total research management and storage system
4.  Project MUSE News: Single Title Book Purchasing on MUSE Now Available Through YBP

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Date:       Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:07 PM  
From:     Marita LaMonica <Marita.LaMonica@ithaka.org>
Subject:  Canadian Periodical for Community Studies, Hikari Ltd, and PAGEPress Join Portico

Canadian Periodical for Community Studies, Hikari Ltd, and PAGEPress Join Portico


Portico is pleased to announce the following publishers are now preserving their e-journals with Portico:

  • Canadian Periodical for Community Studies

    "We are happy to be partnering with Portico," commented John Sylvestre, senior editor, Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health. "It is essential that electronic-only journals like ours have permanent means of preservation. Portico provides a reliable and cost-effective way for us to ensure that our journal remains accessible for years to come. " Read more here.
     
  • Hikari Ltd

    "Hikari Ltd is pleased to have its journals archived in Portico," stated Emil Minchev, president of Hikari Ltd. "Archiving in Portico is a key-factor of the highest standards of scientific publishing." Read more here.
     

·        PAGEPress

Michele Moscato, managing director of the PAGEPress publishing house said, "Digital preservation is an important factor in making sure journal content remains available. We are confident that our partnership with Portico will ensure our authors enjoy reliable, long-term visibility for their work, helping us to maintain our commitment to serve the scientific community and safeguard the spreading of knowledge." Read more here.

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Date:       Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 11:08 AM
From:      Carly Bareham <Carly.Bareham@bloomsbury.com>
Subject:   AVA Publishing brand change and new website

AVA NOW PUBLISHED UNDER FAIRCHILD BOOKS

You may be aware that in July 2012, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc acquired AVA Publishing. Until this point AVA has been kept as an independent imprint, but, to better serve our authors and customers, this is now changing. With effect from 1st April 2013, all new AVA titles will be published under the Fairchild Books imprint.

Fairchild Books has a long history of excellence in textbook publishing in the visual arts. 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 began to build its world-class academic division in 2008. It now has a particularly large presence in the visual arts, the humanities and the social sciences. With the acquisitions of Berg Publishers in 2008, Fairchild Books in April 2012 and now AVA Publishing, Bloomsbury has become the largest publisher of academic materials for visual arts in the world.

NEW WEBSITE

After the recent launch of the new academic part of the Bloomsbury website, you can now find our books, e-books and digital product information on one site, all grouped by subject area. Bloomsbury Journals (formerly Berg Journals) also joined the site at the end of February and have their own section within the Academic menu. There is a specific area for librarians; please see http://www.bloomsbury.com/librarians/ for further information.

For more information about reference, academic collections, research and teaching books, journals and digital products, please visit http://www.bloomsbury.com/academic. Following the global success of the Berg Fashion Library, we have a number of other exciting digital products in development which will serve research and teaching needs across our larger visual arts programme. This includes the forthcoming Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive (see http://bergfashionlibrary.com/page/103/bloomsbury-fashion-photography-archive for more information)

If you have any questions about these developments, please do get in touch and we would be happy to help.

Yours faithfully,

Carly Bareham
On behalf of Katharine Nelson
Marketing Executive, Bloomsbury
Katharine.nelson@bloomsbury.com

Bloomsbury
http://www.bloomsbury.com/

 

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Date:       Thursday, March 28, 2013, 3:52 PM
From:      Sara Rouhi <S_Rouhi@acs.org>
Subject:   ACS launches ACS ChemWorx; a free, total research management and storage system

ACS launches ACS ChemWorx™ -- the first integrated research management environment serving scientists worldwide. 

What is ACS ChemWorx™?

ACS ChemWorx is a free, total research management and storage system that combines reference discovery and management, professional networking, group and task management and manuscript preparation in a single interface accessible from anywhere. For full details on the features and development of ACS ChemWorx, the press release is here: http://tinyurl.com/cyab2wj

What does it do?

ACS ChemWorx enables researchers to: - Organize their research for online publication
- Quickly create online profiles with comprehensive messaging and social communication features 
- Organize workgroups and maintain private discussion areas
- Import, manage and share their research libraries
- Manage calendars and group task lists 
- Obtain free access to the ACS Style Guide Online

How can I get it?

It's free to any ACS ID-registered user and to faculty and students based at any of the Society's institutional customers at acschemworx.org. ACS ID registration is offered at no charge and does not require any affiliation with ACS either as a member or institutional subscriber. Register here for an ACS ID: http://tinyurl.com/yg24fsr

Where can I learn more about ACS ChemWorx?

Full details on the features and development of ACS ChemWorx can be found in the press release here: http://tinyurl.com/cyab2wj and at the ACS ChemWorx homepage: acschemworx.org

You can join the ACS ChemWorx community at acschemworx.org.

If you are attending the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans (April 7-11), ACS ChemWorx product manager Dr. Judy Chen will be presenting research analysis showing how scientists carry out their daily tasks. She will also discuss how ACS ChemWorx was created to address common research functions and share the experiences of early adopters of this technology. Her session info is below and takes place on Monday 4/8 at 2:05 pm.

>From inception to collaboration to publication: A complete integrated research management platform for researchers
CINF Symposium on Scholarly Communication
Monday, April 8, 2:05 p.m.
Morial Convention Center, Room 352

Send us your feedback at LibraryRelations@acs.org or support@services.acs.org.

Best wishes,
Sara Rouhi

S. Sara Rouhi
Manager, Library Relations and ACS on Campus International  
ACS Publications
1155 16th St., NW  Washington  DC 20036
T 202-872-6386 | Skype sararouhiacs | FaceTime: 703-627-3553
http://pubs.acs.org/4librarians 
@ACSonC
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ACS Chemistry for Life


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Date:       Thursday, March 28, 2013, 4:19 PM
From:      "Melanie Schaffner" <melanie@muse.jhu.edu>
Subject:   Project MUSE News: Single Title Book Purchasing on MUSE Now Available Through YBP

Single Title Purchasing of UPCC Books on MUSE Now Available Through YBP


Single-title purchasing of selected digital books from the University
Press Content Consortium (UPCC) on the Project MUSE platform is now
available through MUSE’s partnership with YBP Library Services. Over
14,000 UPCC titles in the humanities, social sciences, and natural
sciences may be discovered and ordered via GOBI3 (Global Online
Bibliographic Information), YBP’s acquisition and collection management
interface.

UPCC books on MUSE offer DRM-free content with unlimited simultaneous
usage, downloading, and printing; mobile accessibility on any
PDF-compatible device; perpetual access rights; and full integration with
MUSE’s extensive journal content for searching, browsing, and discovery.

Through GOBI3, YBP’s library customers may discover all the UPCC titles
offered for individual purchase, and may elect to receive new title
notification or have titles automatically delivered by the MUSE platform
through YBP’s eApproval program.

Participating publishers select the books they wish to make available via
the single title purchasing program facilitated by YBP, and set the prices
for their titles. Sixty-seven (67) university press and related scholarly
publishers are offering books for individual purchase on MUSE, from among
the 84 presses contributing to the UPCC program.

Project MUSE now provides access to well over 20,000 books from the many
distinguished academic presses participating in UPCC. Books are offered
for purchase in collections organized by subject and/or publication date,
via two subscription options (one for current titles and one featuring
backlist books), and now for single-title ordering through YBP. With this
variety of flexible acquisition options, libraries may develop a strategy
for the UPCC content that best meets local needs and budget situations.

For purchasing and program information, interested libraries should
contact sales@ybp.com or visit www.ybp.com. For more information about
UPCC/MUSE, including a list of publishers with books available for
single-title purchasing, visit
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/book_purchase.html or contact
muse@press.jhu.edu.


Melanie Schaffner
Director, Sales and Marketing
Project MUSE
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 N Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
P 410-516-3846
F 410-516-3846
mbs@press.jhu.edu
http://muse.jhu.edu
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