ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL DIGEST Since June 2008, the SERIALST moderators have been 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 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 5 messages: 1) IOP Publishing Announces 2010 Prices 2) AAA Freezes 2010 Journal Prices 3) APS and AIP Launch Virtual Journal of Atomic Quantum Fluids 4) The University of Chicago Press Announces 2010 Journal Subscription Rates 5) Upcoming classes from Lyrasis ------------ Message #1: Subject: IOP Publishing Announces 2010 Prices From: Collins@ioppubusa.com Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:17:29 -0400 **This message has been cross-posted** Journal subscription prices frozen for 2010 e-only access IOP Publishing (IOP) is pleased to introduce e-only subscriptions for 2010. The new e-only option will allow customers to renew 2009 subscriptions to all IOP Publishing-owned titles in 2010 with no price increase. E-only versions of IOP journal packages will also be available for the first time. A full list of 2010 prices, including all our partner journal prices, is available now at librarians.iop.org. For specific details about your institution's subscriptions, please contact your regional representative, subscription agent or e-mail info@ioppubusa.com (customers in the Americas) or moreinfo@iop.org (customers in all other countries). More Open Access publications IOP proudly continues to invest in providing open access options to the physical sciences community. We now offer six free-to-read titles including: Environmental Research Letters; IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science; Journal of Physics: Conference Series; New Journal of Physics; Science and Technology of Advanced Materials; and IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. For more information on any of these publications, visit http://www.iop.org/EJ/. Improving online services IOP continues to look at how we can improve the online delivery of journal subscriptions and enhance the researcher's experience. In 2009/2010 IOP will be investing in updating our existing electronic journals' service to include the latest in emerging technologies. We will be making further announcements later this year to keep you informed of how you will benefit from the planned improvements. We look forward to working with you in 2010. - - - Sharice P. Collins Vice President, Marketing IOP Publishing 150 South Independence Mall West Philadelphia, PA 19106 (215) 627-0880 collins@ioppubusa.com ------------ Message #2: Subject: AAA Freezes 2010 Journal Prices From: Sharon Stein <sstein@aaanet.org> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:49:10 -0400 American Anthropological Association Freezes Journal Subscription Dues Group Responds to Financial Pressure on Library Subscribers The American Anthropological Association (AAA) announced that its Executive Board voted to freeze 2010 subscription rates for all of its journals in an effort to respond to the concerns of their primary subscribers. At a time where librarians are worried about the current economic recession and are tightening their budgets, the AAA took swift action to respond to the need of their primary constituents. Today’s action also includes the freezing of rates for AnthroSource, the AAA supported premier online portal providing access to over 100 years of anthropological knowledge. “AAA is committed to listening to our resource partners, and this step by the Executive Board proves that,” AAA Executive Director Bill Davis said in a statement released today. “We take very seriously our responsibility to make anthropological knowledge as accessible as possible, and will do everything in our power to ensure that researchers, students and others continue to explore the depths of this wonderful discipline.” Academic librarians nationwide are expressing concern about their given the current economic crisis and the reduction in federal, state and local funding for their operations, AAA is committed to ensuring that as many libraries as possible continue to have access to anthropological research published in its 22 publications, including the American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Although the association is freezing prices, AAA and its publishing partner, Wiley-Blackwell, continue to make investments in the aforementioned journals and AnthroSource.. Wiley-Blackwell has invested in a massive retrodigitization project, which will consolidate all AAA content on a single platform and add more than 900 articles to AnthroSource as well as four decades of Anthropology News. New content now appears in full-text, full-searchable HTML as well as PDF format, and editors have the option to publish figures in color online. Plans are also underway for new online features including supporting materials (e.g. datasets, translations), online discussions linked to content, and podcasts. To help ensure underresourced communities can access the content, the AAA and Wiley-Blackwell also continue to make our content available for free or at a reduced cost in the developing world via philanthropic programs such as HINARI, OARE, INASP and AGORA, and offer free access to AnthroSource to U.S. Tribal Colleges, U.S. Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Canadian Arctic Colleges and Canadian First Nation Colleges. For more information, please contact Oona Schmid, AAA Director of Publishing at (703) 528-1902 x 1174 , or via electronic mail at oschmid@aaanet.org. Regards, Sharon Stein Assistant to the Director of Publishing American Anthropological Association 2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 600 Arlington, VA 22201 Tel: 571-483-1175 Fax: 703-528-3546 sstein@aaanet.org ------------ Message #3: Subject: APS and AIP Launch Virtual Journal of Atomic Quantum Fluids From: "Bruce Shriver" <bshriver@aip.org> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:20:50 -0400 [This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication.] APS and AIP Launch Virtual Journal of Atomic Quantum Fluids MELVILLE, NEW YORK, July 15, 2009 - The American Physical Society (APS) and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) today announced the launch of the Virtual Journal of Atomic Quantum Fluids (VJAQF). Edited by MIT's Wolfgang Ketterle, co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with Markus Greiner of Harvard University and Peter Zoller of the University of Innsbruck, the new Virtual Journal (VJ) is now available online at www.vjaqf.org. VJAQF covers new developments in the study of novel quantum fluids and many-body systems using ultracold atoms. These include Bose-Einstein condensates, degenerate Fermi gases, and ultracold atoms in optical lattices. Several specific aspects of atomic quantum fluids are covered in dedicated sections: multi-component systems, topological excitations, collisional properties and few-body physics, and atom optics. The VJ also covers aspects of non-degenerate many-body physics. "The field of atomic quantum fluids is a rapidly advancing frontier area of physics and combines experimental and theoretical studies in different subfields" observed VJAQF Editor Wolfgang Ketterle. "Providing researchers with a single, convenient site containing papers from a broad range of leading physics-related journals will greatly help them keep current with the latest developments." VJAQF will feature critical research articles, updated monthly, along with postings of news items and conferences of interest to the community. Articles are selected from recent issues of nearly 90 participating source journals from AIP, APS, and a dozen other publishers. Readers can sign up for tables of contents alerts via e-mail and subscribe to RSS feeds. VJQAF offers free searching, browsable tables of contents, and freely available abstracts, with links to full-text articles in the source journals. Subscribers to the source journal can seamlessly access the full-text articles, while non-subscribers have the option to purchase articles for immediate online delivery. "The Virtual Journal series has become a highly valuable cross-publisher research tool, alerting practitioners in several fields to the breadth of research dispersed in the literature," said Gene Sprouse, APS Editor-in-Chief. He added, "The inclusion of topflight research in atomic quantum fluids brings a large influx of vital new research to the Virtual Journals series. It will be a great benefit to the scientists and engineers worldwide, who will now find an even broader collection of research in this rich resource." Five additional Virtual Journals are also accessible online. Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Virtual Journal of Quantum Information, Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science, and Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity can be found at virtualjournals.org. AIP Executive Director and CEO Fred Dylla noted, "I expect that VJAQF will become a valuable resource for individuals and smaller institutions with specialized interests who do not need, or cannot afford, subscriptions to the complete range of journals from which Virtual Journal articles are chosen. Now they can keep up with this ever-growing field and, as needed, purchase complete articles online from journals of prestigious scientific societies-instantly-and at very low rates." American Physical Society is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. APS represents more than 47,000 physicists worldwide and is a leader in the creation of e-journals. It publishes leading international physics journals, including Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, Physical Review A-E, Physical Review Special Topics, and Physics - a new, free, online publication spotlighting exceptional research. APS also organizes major scientific meetings and provides strong outreach programs, including education and both international and public affairs. American Institute of Physics is a federation of 10 physical science societies representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators and is one of the world's largest publishers of scientific information in physics. Offering full-solution publishing services for scientific societies and for similar organizations in science and engineering, AIP pursues innovation in electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes 12 journals (some of which are the most highly cited in their respective fields); two magazines, including its flagship publication Physics Today; and the AIP Conference Proceedings. Its online publishing platform Scitation hosts nearly two million articles from more than 185 scholarly journals and other publications of 28 learned society publishers. For additional information see virtualjournals.org or contact: Mark Cassar Publisher, Journals and Technical Publications American Institute of Physics Phone: +1 516-576-2406 Email: jrnlpub@aip.org ------------ Message #4: Subject: The University of Chicago Press Announces 2010 Journal Subscription Rates From: Kevin Stacey <kstacey@uchicago.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:40:44 -0500 **With Apologies for Cross-Posting** The University of Chicago Press has released journal subscription rates for 2010. Subscription information and a complete list of titles are available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu. 2010 institutional rates are available for download at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/r/2010_Chicago_Journals_inst_rates.xls. Important information for 2010: * The University of Chicago Press offers three subscription options--Print + Electronic, Print Only and Electronic Only–-and two levels of electronic access (Basic and Unlimited). Please refer to the 2010 institutional rate sheet to see the subscription options for each journal. Electronic journal subscriptions include access to both current and back issues of the journal. * Reduced pricing is also available to institutions subscribing to our full collection of journal titles with the Complete Chicago Package (CCP). This Unlimited Access subscription option provides affordable access to the comprehensive collection of the University of Chicago Press’s distinguished portfolio of journals. The package includes access to over 40 titles in a wide range of disciplines. CCP subscribers also have the option to include institution-wide access to the Chicago Manual of Style Online – the indispensible online reference for all who work with words. * New for 2010: We are pleased to announce that the National Bureau of Economics Research annual journal titles-—NBER Macroeconomics Annual, NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, Innovation Policy and the Economy, and Tax Policy and the Economy-—will be available electronically on a subscription basis. For 2010, access to the electronic editions of the NBER titles is available free in the Complete Chicago Package. For full details on institutional subscription options and rates, visit the University of Chicago Press website, http://www.journals.uchicago.edu; e-mail subscriptions@press.uchicago.edu; or call toll-free (877) 705-1878 (U.S. and Canada), or (773) 753-3347 (International). ------------ Message #5: Subject: Upcoming classes from Lyrasis From: Marlee Givens <marlee.givens@lyrasis.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:56:53 -0400 Please excuse cross-posting. The following classes will be brought to you soon by Lyrasis, online and around the region. For more information or to register, please visit www.lyrasis.org. Keyword: Classes and Events. Interactive Information Literacy Teaching Methods (Live Online) 07/28/2009 - 07/29/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST two consecutive days MARC Tag Basics (Live Online) 07/28/2009 - 07/30/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST three consecutive days Status Discarded: The Who,What, When, Where and How of Weeding 07/28/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Mass Digitization Collaborative Information Session (FREE Live Online) 07/28/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Fundamentals of Book Repair 07/30/2009 - 07/31/2009 9:00am-4:00pm EST Hosted at University of Virginia E-Resource Licensing: Overview and How-to for the Non-Lawyer (Live Online) 07/30/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST Evergreen Circulation Module (Live Online) 07/30/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Successful Searching in OCLC Connexion: Basic Searching for Catalogers (Live Online) 08/04/2009 - 08/06/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST three consecutive days Emerging Technologies for Library Managers (Live Online) 08/04/2009 - 08/05/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST two consecutive days Managing Student Assistants in Academic Libraries (Live Online) 08/04/2009 - 08/06/2009 2:00pm-4:00pm EST three consecutive days SAVE $25 when you register. Enter discount code: MSA090804 NEW CLASS! Romance and Women’s Fiction Reader’s Advisory: More than Love Stories & Chick (Live Online) 08/05/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST CatExpress (Live Online) 08/05/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Hurricane Preparedness (Live Online) 08/05/2009, 8/26 and 09/16/2009 2:00pm-4:00pm EST. Three classes total. Cataloging for Non-Catalogers (Live Online) 08/06/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST Management 101: Leadership (Live Online) 08/06/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Cataloging: Core and Minimal-Level Records (Live Online) 08/06/2009, 2:00pm-3:00pm EST OCLC Connexion Client Copy Cataloging Skills (Live Online) 08/11/2009 - 08/12/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST SAVE $25 when you register. Enter discount code CCCC090811 E-Resource Wrangling: An Introduction to ERMS (Live Online) 08/11/200910:00am-12:00pm EST Mass Digitization Collaborative Information Session (FREE Live Online) 08/11/2009, 11:00am-12:00pm EST Using Batch Processing, Labels, Books Straps & Stickers in OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing (Live Online) 08/11/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Management 101: Project Management (Live Online) 08/11/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST SAVE $25 when you register. Enter discount code: 101PM090811 Serving Seniors with Panache (Live Online) 08/12/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST NEW CLASS! Historical and Inspirational Fiction Reader’s Advisory: More than Wagon Trains 08/12/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST Audiovisual Reader’s Advisory: More than Dull Commutes and “Free” Rentals 08/12/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Preparing for Digitization Projects (Live Online) 08/12/2009 - 08/13/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST two consecutive days SAVE $25 when you register. Enter discount code: PDP090812 Before You Begin: Becoming a Public Library Director (Live Online) 08/13/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST Developing a Disaster Plan (Live Online) 08/13/2009, 8/20/2009 and 08/27/2009 2:00pm-4:00pm. Three classes total. Promoting Your Library by Creating a YouTube Library Video (Live Online) 08/13/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST All Live Online classes are recorded and available for playback at any time. For more details about any of the classes listed above or in our catalog please contact Lyrasis at 800-999-8558. Thanks! MARLEE GIVENS Manager of Preservation and Digital Services Lyrasis marlee.givens@lyrasis.org 404.892.0943 x3980 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 800.999.8558 Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org PALINET and SOLINET are now Lyrasis - Advancing Libraries Together
