ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL DIGEST SERIALST Commercial Digest pilot project: Since June 2008, the SERIALST moderators have been experimenting with compiling and distributing a Commercial Digest once a week, on Friday afternoons, with messages containing informational content from commercial bodies (i.e., publishers, vendors, agents, etc.). The moderators review submitted messages for informational content that may interest our subscribers. We reserve the right to reject messages that are purely for advertising or product/service solicitation, with little or no informational content beyond the solicitation, as well as other content that are not within the scope and purpose guidelines of SERIALST (see: http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html) If you have thoughts or feedback about the Commercial digest, or other aspects of SERIALST, please let us hear from you. Contact information for the SERIALST moderators is at: http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html#contacts This week's digest contains 4 messages: 1. Annual Reviews Announces Pricing Freeze for 2010 2. Taylor & Francis Launches 1-2-3 Deal 3. Royal Society Journals Launched on Highwire 4. CORRECTION: Data Movement and Management Webinar is on March 18 1. Annual Reviews Announces Pricing Freeze for 2010 Annual Reviews (www.annualreviews.org) will freeze institutional and site license pricing for 2010. Consistent with our nonprofit status, our prices, which are among the lowest in all scientific literature, are set at a level sufficient to recover costs and make appropriate investments in technology. In order to hold prices constant next year we have taken interim steps to lower costs while maintaining the quality of our publications online and in print. Institutions renewing their existing Annual Reviews site license or subscription for 2010 will pay exactly what they paid in 2009. If an institution chooses to include additional Annual Reviews titles, their price increase will only reflect the additional content. If you have questions regarding our pricing policy for 2010, or for more information, please email sitelicense@annualreviews.org or contact the Annual Reviews Institutional Sales Department: Steven Castro Director of Sales and Marketing scastro@annualreviews.org 650-843-6620 Andrea Lopez Consortia Manager alopez@annualreviews.org 650-843-6647 Nick Niemeyer 2. Taylor & Francis Launches 1-2-3 Deal Dear Serialst, ~With apologies for cross-posting~ Secure your online access to Taylor & Francis Group journal content until 2012! Taylor & Francis recognises the pressures that library customers are facing in the current economic climate. We understand that libraries want to provide dynamic, current and rigorously peer-reviewed journal content, at prices that are both predictable and sustainable. To help our customers manage their institution's budget and access needs, until 6th April 2009 we are offering the opportunity to libraries in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to sign up to the Taylor & Francis Library via our 1-2-3 Deal. The 1-2-3 Deal offers your library the chance to subscribe to the 1,160-plus journals included in the Taylor & Francis Library until 2012 and guarantees significantly reduced price caps on both your access fee and core institutional subscriptions in 2010, 2011 and 2012 of 1, 2 and 3% respectively. For customers signing up to this deal we will add acquired journal content to the T&F Library of up to 25 titles per year; meaning that you can continue to benefit from our efforts to enrich our list. Christoph Chesher, Taylor & Francis Group's Sales Director says of this deal, "The help and support of our library customers is essential to our goal of enabling scientific communication. Therefore I am particularly pleased that we are in a position to offer the 1-2-3 Deal to libraries in response to concerns over future funding. By working together now, libraries and publishers alike can continue to deliver the very best of academic output to readers and researchers." Sign up to the 1-2-3 Deal in three easy steps: Step 1: Register your interest by emailing library@tandf.co.uk Step 2: Receive a quotation Step 3: Place your order by 6th April 2009 With kind regards, Jennifer McMillan library@tandf.co.uk Library Marketing Manager Taylor & Francis Group Journals Site License Sales Manger nniemeyer@annualreviews.org 650-843-6652 3. Royal Society Journals Launched on Highwire ***Apologies for cross posting*** London, February 18, 2009: The Royal Society of London is pleased to announce the launch of its new online journal delivery platform hosted by HighWire Press and a new domain http://royalsocietypublishing.org, replacing the site on MetaPress. The platform delivers the Royal Society's internationally-renowned science journals, including the longest scientific journal archive, back to 1665. It provides dramatically enhanced Web 2.0 functionality and library-friendly features. Title-level redirects are now in place until the end of April on the old MetaPress site to take your users automatically to the relevant journal homepage on HighWire where all our journal content, 1665 to the present day, is now loaded. To give libraries enough time to check their e-access accounts and make necessary changes all content is open to all visitors until March 31. No one will be denied access before then. After that date only subscribers will be able to access current content for Royal Society journals. We are writing to all subscribers with guidance on how to manage your account or to view and change your access account details. Existing access account details, including IP addresses, were transferred from MetaPress and set-up on HighWire's familiar and trusted subscription management and reporting system. If you have any questions about our move to HighWire or your online access with us, or you have some feedback about the new site, please contact Jill Ponsford in Royal Society Customer Services at access@royalsociety.org. MetaPress Usage Statistics for the period up to the re-direction of users on February 18 are available to download from http://www.metapress.com until April 30, 2009. You will need your Administrative Login to access institutional usage statistics. After that date you will be unable to run these reports yourself. All fulfilment data continues to be maintained at Portland Customer Services and HighWire will authenticate everyone against Portland's customer records to ensure continuous access to subscribed content, now and in the future (also known as 'perpetual access'). For general subscription and pricing enquiries please contact Portland Customer Services at sales@portland-services.com. The URLs of the new journal homepages: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 24 issues, ISSN: 1364-503X, E-ISSN:1471-2962 http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 24 issues, ISSN: 0962-8436, E-ISSN: 1471-2970 http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 12 issues, ISSN: 1364-5021, E-ISSN: 1471-2946 http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 24 issues, ISSN: 0962-8452; E-ISSN: 1471-2954 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 12 issues, ISSN: 1742-5689, E-ISSN: 1742-5662 http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters, 6 issues, ISSN: 1744-9561, E-ISSN: 1744-957X http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org Notes & Records of the Royal Society, 4 issues, ISSN: 0035-9149, E-ISSN:1743-0178 http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, annual, ISSN: 0080-4606, E-ISSN: 1748-8494 http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org "As the publishing arm of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom Academy of Science, we are delighted to launch this impressive new publishing platform ahead of the Society's upcoming 350-year anniversary in 2010," said Dr Stuart Taylor, Head of Publishing. "The Society has been publishing international, peer-reviewed journals since 1665, and we see this partnership with HighWire Press, using their ground-breaking H2O architecture, as the best way to achieve our vision for the future. We are very excited that we are now able, with this XML-based environment and Web 2.0 applications, to offer our readers and authors far greater opportunities for discovery and collaboration, keeping the Royal Society at the forefront of scholarly communications." About the Royal Society (http://royalsociety.org) The Royal Society, the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth, is at the cutting edge of scientific progress. Founded in 1660, the Royal Society is dedicated to promoting excellence in science. The Society plays an influential role in national and international science policy and supports developments in science, engineering, and technology in a wide range of ways. The Royal Society publishes seven peer-reviewed journals and one annual: Biology Letters (short, high-quality letters from across the biological sciences), Journal of the Royal Society Interface (cross-disciplinary journal highlighting research at the interface between the physical and life sciences), Notes and Records (articles in the history of science), Philosophical Transactions A (key topics across the physical sciences, dating back to 1665), Philosophical Transactions B (key topics across the life sciences, dating back to 1665), Proceedings A (research in the physical sciences), Proceedings B (research in the life sciences). Biographical Memoirs, published annually, features memoirs of important names in science. About HighWire Press (http://highwire.stanford.edu) HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, provides online site development and hosting solutions to the scholarly publishing community. HighWire produces the definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content in many disciplines. Since 1995, HighWire has partnered with influential societies, university presses and other publishers to create a vast database of the finest, fully searchable research, medical and social science literature available on the Internet. The HighWire community shares ideas and innovations in publishing through regular meetings, discussion forum and through the service of its unique blend of highly qualified staff. HighWire's new electronic publishing platform, H2O, debuted in March 2008. The underlying infrastructure is web-services-oriented, flexible and permeable, allowing publishers to easily layer new software and services to their sites that will meet the ever-changing needs of today's online readers. As a fully XML-based environment, in addition to just handling XML input and output, HighWire's H2O incorporates standards like Atom Publishing Protocol (backed by Google & Microsoft), and powerful tools such as the MarkLogic Server. Charles Lusty, Royal Society Publishing, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG United Kingdom Registered Charity No 207043 The Royal Society - excellence in science ************************************************************************* This email is sent on behalf of The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, United Kingdom. You should carry out your own virus check before opening any attachment. The Royal Society accepts no liability for any loss or damage which may be caused by software viruses or interception or interruption of this email. The contents of this email and any attachments are intended for the confidential use of the named recipient(s) only. They may be legally privileged and should not be communicated to or relied upon by any person without our express written consent. If you are not an addressee (or you have received this mail in error) please notify us immediately by email to: ithelpdesk@royalsociety.org Registered charity no. 207043 4. CORRECTION: Data Movement and Management Webinar is on March 18 This is a correction to the previous email I sent on the NISO Data Movement and Management webinar. The correct date is MARCH 18. It was shifted a week so as not to conflict with the ACRL meeting. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused. The complete corrected notice is below: NISO will be holding a webinar on Data Movement and Management on March 18, 2009 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) About the Webinar Modern libraries consist of a variety of complicated data systems, many containing a portion of the data needed to address any specific question. Often data needs to be extracted from one system and moved to or compared with information in another. Frequently, these systems don't communicate well. This webinar will explore a number of ongoing data transfer and transformation consensus projects. Whether it is collections or holdings information distributed via ONIX, pricing data via CORE, or usage data via SUSHI, the community is working on strategies and structures to easily transfer data from one system to another. Each of these initiatives will contribute to saving librarians time and eventually money in managing their operations. Speakers and topics for the program are: -- "The Landscape of Data Movement and Management in Libraries" by Tim Jewell (Director, Information Resources and Scholarly Communication, University of Washington Libraries) -- "The Extensible Catalog – Reusing Library Metadata" by Jennifer Bowen (Director of Metadata Management, River Campus Libraries) -- "CORE: Cost of Resource Exchange: Combining Cost and Use Data in Libraries" by Jeff Aipperspach (Senior Product Manager, Serials Solutions) -- "The OAI-ORE Project – What It Is and How People Can Apply It" by Michael L. Nelson (Dept of Computer Science, Old Dominion University) Registration is $79 for NISO and NASIG members in the U.S. and Canada and $99 for non-members. There is a separate international rate and a discounted student rate. Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the online recorded archive of the webinar. For more information and to register, visit the event website: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/datawebinar09. Cynthia Hodgson NISO Technical Editor Consultant National Information Standards Organization Email: chodgson@niso.org <mailto:chodgson@niso.org> Phone: 301-654-2512
