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Subject:
Project MUSE News: Eight Additional Publishers to Join UPCC
in 2014 |
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From:
Melanie Schaffner <melanie@muse.jhu.edu> |
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Date:
6/18/2013 3:47 PM |
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To:
<SERIALST@list.uvm.edu> |
Project MUSE Announces Eight New Publishers to Join UPCC in 2014 Baltimore, MD - June 18, 2013 - Eight distinguished scholarly presses, including the recently-revived University of Missouri Press and the Chinese University Press, are confirmed to join the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) and make their books available digitally on the Project MUSE platform in 2014. Cornell University Press, Northern Illinois University Press, Ohio State University Press, School for Advanced Research (SAR) Press, Texas Tech University Press, and University of South Carolina Press constitute the remainder of the new participants in UPCC Books on MUSE. The new participating publishers bring a variety of program strengths in MUSE's core humanities and social science disciplines, including political science and policy studies, cultural studies, anthropology, literary theory and criticism, religion, Asian studies, United States regional studies, and Indigenous studies. Their books will join the more than 23,000 scholarly titles expected to be available on the MUSE platform by the end of 2013, and will bring the total number of UPCC presses to 91. A complete list of UPCC publishers is available at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/UPCC.html. All of the new presses are expected to make their books available in both the UPCC Collections on MUSE and the recently launched Single Title Sales program, a partnership initiative with YPB Library Services facilitated through YBP's GOBI3 acquisition interface. Details on 2014 collections and titles will be released in October. Books on MUSE are now available for unlimited DRM-free usage, downloading and printing by scholars and students at over 150 institutions in nearly 20 countries. Acquisition of MUSE book collections has generated well over half a million in unit book sales for the participating not-for-profit publishers since the launch of UPCC on MUSE in January 2012. About the new UPCC participating presses: - Founded in 1977 as the publishing house of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chinese University Press specializes in Chinese studies in literature, history, philosophy, languages, and the arts. The Press' journal The China Review is also now available in Project MUSE. - Established in 1869, Cornell University Press publishes 120 new titles a year across many disciplines, including anthropology, art history, Asian studies, classics, cultural studies, history, literary criticism and theory, medieval studies, New York City and State, philosophy, politics and international relations, security studies, Slavic and Eurasian studies, sociology, and urban studies. - Northern Illinois University Press publishes major works in its series on Slavic and East European studies and its Orthodox Christian Studies series; the Press also has informal series in religion and philosophy, drugs and alcohol, and Southeast Asian studies. Additionally, it promotes understanding of the Midwest through books on regional history and culture, and publishes literary novels with Midwestern settings and themes under its Switchgrass Book imprint. - The Ohio State University Press specializes in literary studies, including narrative theory, Victorian studies, medieval studies, and classics. It also offers books in linguistics, foreign language pedagogical material, and publishes the annual winners of its short fiction and poetry prizes. Its books will join its three journals currently available in MUSE: Journal of Higher Education, American Periodicals and Narrative. - The publication arm of a non-profit organization established in 1907 as a center for the study of the archaeology and ethnology of the American Southwest, School for Advanced Research (SAR) Press produces books in anthropology and archaeology, the arts and aesthetics of Indigenous peoples, and the peoples and cultures of the American Southwest, past and present. - Texas Tech University Press publishes approximately 30 titles per year across the areas of American liberty and justice; costume and textile studies; history and culture of Texas and the West, the Great Plains, and modern Southeast Asia during and after the Vietnam War; Jewish studies and literature; Latin American and Latino fiction; natural history and natural science; sport in the American West; and the annual winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Competition in Poetry, and literary fiction of Texas and the West. The Press also has four journals in literary studies available in MUSE. - The University of Missouri Press endeavors to share original scholarly research, outstanding writing, as well as uniquely focused studies by, for, and about Missourians. The specific areas in which the Press publishes include American and world history; military history; intellectual history; biography; African American studies; women's studies; American, British, and Latin American literary criticism; journalism; political science; regional studies; and creative nonfiction. - One of the oldest publishing houses in the South and the largest publisher in its state, the University of South Carolina Press publishes many internationally recognized scholarly book series, including Understanding Contemporary American Literature, Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature, Studies in Personalities of the Old Testament, Studies in Personalities of the New Testament, Studies in Comparative Religion, Studies in Rhetoric/Communication, Chief Justices of the United States Supreme Court, and Studies in Maritime History. The Press also produces titles in African American studies, social work, military history, and a number of Southern regional book series. *** The University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) grew from the partnership of Project MUSE and the University Press e-book Consortium (UPeC), formed in 2009 to explore the feasibility of a university press-based e-book initiative. With planning and development supported by grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, UPeC surveyed the needs of the library community and developed and tested a business model. In Spring 2011, Project MUSE was selected to implement UPeC's plan for a transformative and sustainable product offering digital versions of book-length scholarship from many distinguished scholarly presses. UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE launched in January 2012. Project MUSE is a trusted provider of authoritative humanities and social science books and journals from more than 200 of the world's most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. Since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE, launched in 2012, offer over 20,000 peer-reviewed digital books, in an integrated environment with content from more than 550 scholarly journals currently on MUSE. For more information, 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 Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ProjectMUSE Follow us on Twitter: @ProjectMUSE
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Subject:
IOP Publishing journals achieve Impact Factor growth for the
ninth year running |
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From:
<Collins@ioppubusa.com> |
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Date:
6/20/2013 7:33 AM |
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Subject:
OSA Continues to Lead in Key Rankings in Thomson Reuters
2012 Journal Citation Reports |
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From:
"Greenwood, Daphne" <dgreen@osa.org> |
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Date:
6/20/2013 12:54 PM |
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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
Continues to Lead in Key Rankings in Thomson Reuters 2012
Journal Citation Reports
OSA’s open access publications all rank
within the top 10 journals
WASHINGTON, June 20, 2013—The Optical Society (OSA) is pleased to announce
impressive results for its portfolio of journals according to the
2012 Journal Citation Reports(r) (JCR) (Thomson Reuters, 2013),
which were released yesterday. OSA’s open access journals—Biomedical
Optics Express, Optical Materials Express and the
pioneering Optics Express— comprise the largest
open-access program from a single publisher in the physical
sciences and are all ranked within the top 10 out of 79 total
journals in the JCR’s Optics category. Overall, the entire
collection of OSA journals accounts for 41 percent of total
citations received in 2012 and 37 percent of all articles
published in optics—more than any other publisher on the JCR list.
Some performance highlights of OSA’s journal
portfolio include:
· The Impact
Factor of Biomedical Optics Express, now in its second
year in the JCR, has risen to 3.176, representing a 36 percent
jump over last year and placing it as the No. 1 biomedical optics
journal in the field.
· Optical
Materials Express, OSA’s newest open access title, received
an initial Impact Factor of 2.616, ranking it as the No. 10
journal by Impact Factor in the Optics category.
· Optics
Express, which is one of the most cited journals in optics
and the 11th largest journal overall in the science
edition of the JCR (out of a total 8,411 journals indexed),
increased its total citations by 16 percent over last year (to
62,765) and its ranking by Impact Factor from fifth to fourth
(3.546). Optics Express is also ranked No. 1 in the
Optics category by Eigenfactor®, another JCR indicator
that measures a journal’s total importance to the scientific
community over a five-year period.
· OSA’s other
top journal, Optics Letters, improved its ranking by
Impact Factor from sixth to fifth (3.385) and maintained its
position as the third most cited journal in the Optics category.
· Applied
Optics, OSA’s top applications-centered journal, was the
fourth most highly cited journal in optics, with a total of more
than 34,000 citations.
“OSA’s leadership in the Optics category, and
especially in open access publishing in the field, is evident in
this year’s citation, Impact Factor and Eigenfactor
rankings ,” said Elizabeth Nolan, OSA’s deputy executive director
and chief publishing officer. “Collectively, the JCR rankings
highlight OSA’s commitment to excellence and high-quality
publishing. We thank the excellent authors and reviewers who made
these outstanding results possible.”
For
more information on OSA’s journals visit OSA’s digital library, Optics
InfoBase.
More
information on the annual JCR process is available on the Thomson
Reuters website.
About
OSA
Uniting more than 180,000 professionals from 175 countries, the
Optical Society (OSA) brings together the global optics
community through its 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.
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Daphne Greenwood
Director of Marketing, Publishing
OSA- The Optical Society
2010 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington DC 20036
Email: dgreen@osa.org