This week's digest contains 2 messages:
1.
Unrestricted Backlist Access – De Gruyter
2. SAGE supports library travel grant for ALPSP
International Conference 2013
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:49:08 +0200
From:
<Ulrike.Lippe@degruyter.com>
Subject: Unrestricted Backlist Access – De Gruyter
PRESS RELEASE
Unrestricted Backlist Access – De
Gruyter Presents its New Open Access Model for E-dition Titles
Berlin, 15 April 2013 – With De Gruyter's
new Open Access model, some 45,000 e-dition titles
from the publishing house's backlist can be made
freely accessible. For €1,500 or $2,100 customers can
purchase an e-book in the same standard as a work
produced normally through De Gruyter's e-dition
program. The book is then made freely accessible at De
Gruyter Online under Creative Commons license CC
BY-NC-ND.
This new Open Access offering is directed
first and foremost at libraries and research
institutes, and a discount is offered when multiple
titles are purchased simultaneously. Yet individuals
can also take advantage of this offer. Authors, for
example, can choose to make their previously published
works available as Open Access. The new Open Access
model is available for all publications released in
2004 or earlier and which are not available in any
"Best Of" packages.
"Providing an Open Access option for
e-dition titles expands De Gruyter's existing Open
Access offerings," says Katrin Siems, Vice President
of Marketing & Sales at De Gruyter. "Library
customers and authors can not only make new
publications and current journal articles available as
Open Access – now, they can also make archive titles
freely accessible in digital format."
At the beginning of April De Gruyter
began offering 100 selected titles from its e-dition
program at the crowdfunding platform www.unglue.it,
so that they can be made accessible worldwide as Open
Access books.
Contact
Ulrike Lippe
Public Relations Manager
Tel. +49 (0)30-260 05 153
ulrike.lippe@degruyter.com
De Gruyter: The academic publishing house De Gruyter
can look back on a history spanning over 260 years. The
Berlin-based group of companies releases over 1,250 new
titles each year in the fields of medicine, the
humanities, natural sciences, and law, in addition to
more than 650 journals and digital media publications.
The De Gruyter Group includes the publishing houses
Versita, Birkhäuser, Oldenbourg Wissenschaft, and
Akademie. www.degruyter.com
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:48:22 +0000
From: "Lucraft, Mithu"
<mithu.lucraft@sagepub.co.uk>
Subject: SAGE supports library travel grant
for ALPSP International Conference 2013
Los
Angeles, CA (19 April 2013) –
SAGE has announced it will be sponsoring a librarian
place again at this year's Association of Learned and
Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) International
conference. The annual event takes place this year from
Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 September 2013 in Birmingham,
United Kingdom.
As
a world-leading independent academic and professional
publisher, SAGE has supported the ALPSP conference as a
sponsor since its launch in 2008. This is the third year
SAGE has supported a librarian travel grant at the
event, which provides a free place at the conference
for a librarian or information professional, including
entry to the ALPSP awards dinner, travel within the UK,
and accommodation for one person.
“We are delighted that
SAGE is once again running their librarian travel grant
competition, to encourage librarians to attend and
importantly, to meet new friends and start new
conversations with the publishing community. Previous
winners have commented on how useful they found the
conference and we look forward to welcoming this year’s
winner,” Said Audrey McCulloch, Chief Executive of
ALPSP.
To
enter the competition to win a sponsored place
librarians must answer the following question in 140
characters or less either via email or via Twitter to
@SAGELibraryNews:
Question – What would be
your top tip to give students about conducting
research?
The
winner of the 2012 travel grant, Stephen Buck,
EResources and Periodicals Librarian at Dublin City
University Librarysaid,
"I was a delighted to be given the ALPSP award last
year. It was a great opportunity to broaden my exposure
to, and awareness of, the issues affecting publishers
and their relationships with libraries and to provide an
enhanced perspective on relevant themes that have helped
facilitate the generation of ideas and building of
expertise moving forwards.”
“In an environment where
both the education and research landscapes are rapidly
evolving, it is increasingly important that both
librarians and publishers work together to support the
dissemination of knowledge,” said Clive Parry, Global
Marketing Director, SAGE. “The ALPSP Conference has
become a pivotal conference for understanding these
changes, and provides an engaging environment for open
dialogue between publishers and librarians. We are
delighted to once again be supporting ALPSP in
facilitating this conversation.”
Completed
answers should be sent to @SAGElibraryNews tagged with
#ALPSP or by email to
events@sagepub.co.uk.
The closing date is Friday 24th May.
See here
for further details. For more information about the
conference please visit
www.alpspconference.org.
SAGE is a leading
international publisher of journals, books, and
electronic media for academic, educational, and
professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform
and educate a global community of scholars,
practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide
range of subject areas including business, humanities,
social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.
An independent company, SAGE has principal offices in
Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington
DC.
www.sagepublications.com
ALPSP was formed in 1972 and is the
international organization for non-profit publishers.
It has a broad and diverse membership of over 320
organizations in 37 countries who collectively publish
over half of the world's total active journals as well
as books, databases and other products. ALPSP provides
information, professional development, guidance,
support, representation, networking opportunities and
an international conference.
www.alpsp.org
Mithu Lucraft (Mrs)
PR Manager
SAGE Publications Ltd
1 Oliver’s Yard, 55 City Road
London, EC1Y 1SP
UK
T: +44 (0)20 7324 2223
Twitter: @mithulucraft
www.sagepub.co.uk