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: 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) Springer After Sales Survey 2) OSA Announces 2010 Pricing: No increase for Optics InfoBase 3) Upcoming classes from Lyrasis 4) now publishers announces no price increases for 2010 -------------- Message #1: Subject: Springer After Sales Survey From: "Scotti, George, Springer US" <George.Scotti@springer.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:01:34 -0400 Springer is interested in partnering with customers to ensure successful implementation and usage of our eProducts. We would like to know what services you might be interested in partnering with us on. Please take this short survey and as a reward we will enter you into a survey for a Kindle 2. http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB22896G5BMZS Best, George --- George Scotti Springer Director Channel Marketing --- 233 Spring Street | New York, NY 10013 | USA Tel: +1-781-363-0386 Fax: +1-917-591-1510 George.Scotti@springer.com www.springer.com -------------- Message #2: Subject: OSA Announces 2010 Pricing: No increase for Optics InfoBase From: "Orr, Christine" <corr@osa.org> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:30:51 -0400 Please excuse cross-posting. Dear Colleagues: OSA is pleased to announce our institutional subscription pricing for 2010 at www.osa.org/librarians. We are mindful of the economic challenges our institutional library partners are facing, and we are eager to work with you to ensure your patrons and researchers have access to the top-quality optics content they require. Please read on for details of the following: * 2010 PRICE FREEZE FOR OPTICS INFOBASE * OSA JOURNALS IMPROVE IMPACT FACTORS; ACCOUNT FOR 49.6% OF ALL CITATIONS IN ISI OPTICS CATEGORY TOP 20 * DEVELOPMENTS FOR 2010 SUBSCRIPTIONS 2010 PRICE FREEZE FOR OPTICS INFOBASE Our flagship collection, Optics InfoBase, will see no increase for 2010. This all-electronic full-text database contains more than 168,000 articles from 14 publications, and represents the largest peer-reviewed optics and photonics collection. See www.opticsinfobase.org for details. ADDITIONAL PRICING FOR 2010 All stand-alone journals and our print + online combination packages will be subject to a modest 3% increase. Complete rates for the following titles may be found at www.osa.org/librarians : * Advances in Optics and Photonics * Applied Optics * Journal of the Optical Society of America A * Journal of the Optical Society of America B * Optics Express * Optics Letters * Optics & Photonics News * OSA Conference Papers * Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics In addition to our publications above, OSA is also proud to present a selection of journals which are offered in cooperation with other scholarly societies: * Chinese Optics Letters (published by Science Press, China) * Journal of Display Technology (jointly published by OSA and IEEE) * Journal of Lightwave Technology (jointly published by OSA and IEEE) * Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (jointly published by OSA and IEEE) * Journal of Optical Technology (published by S.I. State Optical Institute and D.S. Rozhdestvensky Optical Society, Russia) * Applied Spectroscopy (published by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy) OSA JOURNALS ACHIEVE HIGHER IMPACT FACTORS IN 2008 Optics Letters, Optics Express, Applied Optics, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, and the Journal of Lightwave Technology all reported higher impact factors compared to 2007. Together, these six journals also accounted for 49.6% of all citations among the top 20 journals in the ISI optics category. Further, OSA journals claimed six of the top 12 spots in the optics category when ranked by Eigenfactor. Please see http://www.osa.org/journals/news for complete data. DEVELOPMENTS FOR 2010 Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN) JOCN merges OSA’s Journal of Optical Networking with IEEE ComSoc's Supplement on Optical Networking and Communications, which is published with the Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. JOCN will be included in Optics InfoBase, and in OSA’s Combination Package 2; it may also be subscribed to as a stand-alone title. Subscribers will continue to have access to the complete JON backfiles. JOCN ISSN: 1943-0620 www.opticsinfobase.org/jocn Advances in Optics and Photonics (AOP) Launched in 2009, Advances in Optics and Photonics will go under access control in January 2010. Libraries subscribing to Optics InfoBase or Combination Packages 1, 2, or 3 will now have access to AOP as part of those packages. AOP may also be subscribed to as a stand-alone title. AOP ISSN 1943-8206 www.opticsinfobase.org/aop Should you wish to modify your OSA subscriptions, or if you need additional information, please contact us at elec@osa.org or +1-202-416-1901. You may also contact me personally at the coordinates below; I’d be glad to hear from you. From all of us at OSA, we look forward to working with you in the new subscription year. Kind regards, Christine Orr Director, Publication Sales Optical Society of America 2010 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington DC 20036 USA Tel: +1 202-416-1409 Email: corr@osa.org www.opticsinfobase.org www.osa.org/librarians -------------- Message #3: Subject: Upcoming classes from Lyrasis From: Marlee Givens <marlee.givens@lyrasis.org> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:22:02 -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. Map Cataloging 08/18/2009, 9:00am-4:00pm CMT Hosted at University Of Alabama - Birmingham Using Batch Processing in Connexion Client (Live Online) 08/18/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST Classroom Management for Librarians (Live Online) 08/18/2009 - 08/19/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST two consecutive days Advocacy: What is it? (Live Online) 08/18/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Acquiring & Understanding E-Resources Usage Statistics (Live Online) 08/18/2009 - 08/19/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST, two consecutive days Fundamentals of Book Repair 08/19/2009 - 08/20/2009, 9:00am-4:00pm EST, two consecutive days Hosted at Lyrasis- Philadelphia Office Evergreen Cataloging Module (Live Online) 08/19/2009 - 08/20/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Online Cataloging Resources and Tools (Live Online) 08/19/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST SAVE $25 when you register. Enter discount code OCRT090819 *This class is recommended for staff new to cataloging. Disaster Recovery for Museum Collections 08/20/2009, 9:00am-4:00pm EST Hosted at Lyrasis- Atlanta Office Status Discarded: The Who,What, When, Where and How of Weeding 08/20/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST Using Technology in Information Literacy Programs (Live Online) 08/20/2009 - 08/21/2009, 10:00am-12:00pm EST two consecutive days 20 Questions: Art Resources (Live Online) 08/20/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST Management 101: Human Resources (Live Online) 08/20/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST RDA Overview and Update (Live Online) 08/20/2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm EST SAVE $25 when you register. Enter discount code RDA090820 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 -------------- Message #4: Subject: now publishers announces no price increases for 2010 From: Zac Rolnik <zac.rolnik@nowpublishers.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:08:38 -0400 For Immediate Release Boston MA, July 24, 2009 Contact: Zac Rolnik, zac.rolnik@nowpublishers.com Tel: +1-781-871-0245 2010 Prices and New Journal Announced now publishers announces its new prices for 2010 and there will be no price increase for 2010. This follows no price increases in 2005 and 2006. now publishers is committed to offering high-usage content at reasonable prices with fair licensing practices. This commitment includes customer friendly policies such as unlimited concurrent usage, unlimited downloads for course packs, perpetual access, and third-party archiving. Continuing to build its Foundations and Trends reference journal program, now publishers is announcing one new journal for 2010 -- Foundations and Trends in Robotics edited by Henrik Christensen @ Georgia Tech and Roland Siegwart @ ETH. Complete price information and licensing conditions can be found at www.nowpublishers.com/pricelist. To renew your subscriptions, please contact your subscription agent or contact sales@nowpublishers.com. About now publishers now publishers is a privately owned company providing the research and library community with a partnership for publishing. The company brings a new approach to scholarly publishing, which values editors and authors, deploys a liberal and fair copyright policy, and provides librarians with value for money. now is committed to working with authors, editors, readers and librarians to publish insightful, in-depth reviews in as timely and efficient a manner as possible. Find out more by visiting www.nowpublishers.com
