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Contact information for the SERIALST moderators is at: http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html#contacts This week's digest contains 2 messages: 1) JSTOR and University of California Collaboration 2) AIP/APS Virtual Journal Series Expands Coverage --------------- Message #1: Subject: JSTOR and University of California Collaboration From: "David Fritsch" <David.Fritsch@portico.org> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:25:51 -0400 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS JSTOR: Heidi McGregor VP, Marketing & Communications ITHAKA heidi.mcgregor@ithaka.org 212-358-6406 University of California Press: Rebekah Darksmith Sales & Marketing Director rebekah.darksmith@ucpress.edu 510-643-0952 A new collaboration emerges to improve access to scholarship for faculty, students, and librarians. University of California Press and JSTOR today announced a new effort to invest in a shared online platform and outreach services that promise to create a more seamless, rich online work environment for faculty and students, ease the burden on librarians of negotiating separate license agreements with a multitude of publishers and independent titles, and promote a more cost-effective publishing environment. August 12, 2009 – Berkeley, CA and New York, NY – University of California Press, the not-for-profit publishing arm of the University of California, and JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform that is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA, will work in partnership —and encourage others to join them—to make current and historical scholarly content available on a single, integrated platform, to provide a single point of purchase and access for librarians and end users around the world, and to ensure its long-term preservation. Beginning in 2011, current content from all University of California Press published journals, including those from scholarly societies, will be hosted on a re-designed JSTOR platform. Faculty and students around the world will be able to access all licensed content on JSTOR – current issues, back issues, and a growing set of primary source materials from libraries – easily and seamlessly. JSTOR’s nearly 6,000 library participants worldwide will be able to license the Press’s current journals, either individually or as part of current issue collections, together with JSTOR back issue collections in a single transaction. The journals will also continue to be preserved in Portico, the digital preservation service that is also part of ITHAKA. “We hear from many publishers about the challenges they face in managing technology and achieving the scale needed to build visibility and a widespread subscription base for their journals.“ said Michael Spinella, JSTOR Managing Director, “At the same time libraries and users often find it difficult to license and use high-quality publications scattered among hundreds of different publishers and sites. This new effort is aimed at providing users seamless access to a wide range of current and historical content, while enabling libraries to support their access in more cost-effective ways.” “This should really help publishers, libraries, and the community,” added Rebecca Simon, Associate Director of University of California Press and Director of the Journals + Digital Publishing Division. “UC Press and our society clients will host our publications on a platform where we benefit from rich functionality and wider exposure to libraries than we have today, where JSTOR’s millions of users will be able to access the full breadth of our content in a place they visit regularly, and where libraries will be able to add our publications to their holdings with the ease of a single license agreement and invoice from JSTOR, while also being assured of their preservation over time.” The Current Scholarship Program – as the effort will be known – grew out of a long-standing relationship and dialogue between UC Press and JSTOR who share an understanding of the problems facing scholarly communications and a deep desire to work together to craft a sustainable publishing model that embodies academic values. The effort was also informed by research conducted by Ithaka S+R, the strategy and research arm of ITHAKA, over the past several years and the group’s ongoing work to understand and develop sustainable business models and support innovation in the development and dissemination of digital scholarship. Driving the partnership is an articulated set of principles, among them: supporting the broad dissemination of quality scholarship through affordable and sustainable means, promoting fair and transparent pricing, facilitating seamless access to authoritative content of all kinds, and ensuring reliable, long-term preservation and access to scholarship. Organizations interested in joining the Program in the future – whether commercial or non-commercial – will be encouraged to embrace these fundamentals as well. “Now is the time for new approaches that will enable the academic community to thrive in the future and to do so in ways and with organizations that understand and support scholarly values,” said Lynne Withey, Director of University of California Press. “The Press’s purposes and interests are well aligned with our colleagues at ITHAKA and with those of other scholarly organizations and universities and colleges around the world. We know what we are after, and we are eager to have a greater, lasting impact by working together in ways that neither organization, nor our colleagues in other organizations and institutions, could alone.” In addition to easing access to scholarly content, the redesigned JSTOR platform will also offer enhanced functionality to support the publication of new digital scholarship. Working with Atypon Systems, whose Literatum technology is underlying both JSTOR and UC Press’s current platforms, the new platform will provide for the delivery of multimedia content, increased personalization features, and new navigation and visualization features. This development will help authors and their publishers take better advantage of technology in the creation, explication, and impact of their work. For more information about the Current Scholarship Program, see http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/programs/currentScholarship.jsp --END-- JSTOR JSTOR is a preservation archive and research platform for the academic community. Through JSTOR, faculty, researchers, and students are able to discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over 1,000 academic journals, as well as conference proceedings, monographs, and other scholarly content. Nearly 6,000 libraries and cultural heritage institutions and hundreds of the world's leading publishers of scholarly literature participate in and support JSTOR. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to advance scholarship and teaching in sustainable ways. ITHAKA also includes two additional services – Ithaka S+R and Portico. www.jstor.org www.ithaka.org University of California Press Founded in 1893, University of California Press is one of the largest and most distinguished of American university presses, publishing books and journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The Press publishes nearly 200 new books and 40 journals each year, representing a broad spectrum of acclaimed works from innovative first works by young academics to in-depth articles presenting the results of the research and creative thinking of many of the world's foremost scholars. A major publisher of scholarly journals, the Journals + Digital Publishing Division has extensive experience providing traditional and digital publishing services for more than 20 client scholarly societies and associations. www.ucpressjournals.com www.ucpress.edu David R. Fritsch Assistant Director, Outreach and Participation Services JSTOR | Portico 1295 King George Boulevard Ann Arbor, MI 48108 Voice: (609) 986-2286 Fax: (212) 358-6445 Email: david.fritsch@jstor.org --------------- Message #2: Subject: AIP/APS Virtual Journal Series Expands Coverage From: "Bruce Shriver" <BSHRIVER@aip.org> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:08:21 -0400 [This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication.] MELVILLE, NY, August 12, 2009 - The AIP- and APS-sponsored Virtual Journals in Science and Technology series (virtualjounals.org) now include the papers from two more scholarly journals, both available through IOP Publishing. These publications are EPL, formerly Europhysics Letters, published by the EPL Association (which includes IOP as a publishing partner), and Physics-Uspekhi, co-published by Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk and Turpion Ltd. IOP also provides content from Physica Scripta and New Journal of Physics to the Virtual Journal series. Each Virtual Journal (VJ) compiles a list of relevant papers from a broad range of physical science publications, each dedicated to a single field. The present series of five journals offers researchers quick, convenient access to the latest papers in nanoscale science, biological physics, quantum information, superconductivity, and ultrafast science. “Thanks to the Virtual Journals, researchers have free access to a number of discipline-specific resources that give them an instant snapshot of the important work being done in their field,” said Gene Sprouse, APS’s Editor-in-Chief. “We strive to make this service as valuable as possible to researchers worldwide, which includes enhanced content and topical coverage. This summer, in fact, we released the sixth publication in the series, Virtual Journal of Atomic Quantum Fluids.” Abstracts from the journals of 19 scholarly publishers are accessible from links in the tables of contents of each Virtual Journal without access restrictions. To view full-text articles, VJ users can follow the links to the articles in the source journal. Subscribers to any journal will find quick links to the journal's full-text articles; nonsubscribers can purchase the articles online. “We’re very pleased that the Virtual Journals have expanded the number of publications covered through that addition of two more titles provided by IOP. Gathering together topically related content from a broad swath of publications makes it much easier for specialists in the fields covered by the series to stay abreast with the current topflight research,” said Fred Dylla, AIP’s Executive Director & CEO. “With science and technology developments becoming more and more interdisciplinary, the Virtual Journals series has become a highly valuable cross-publisher research tool.” 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 physics scientific societies and for similar organizations in science and engineering, AIP pursues innovation in electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes 12 journals; two magazines, including its flagship publication Physics Today; and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. Its online publishing platform, Scitation, hosts nearly two million articles from more than 185 scholarly journals and other publications of 28 learned society publishers. 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. IOP Publishing is a leading scientific publisher that specializes in physics and related subjects. It is an integral part of the Institute of Physics (IOP), an international learned society and professional body, whose mission is to promote the advancement of physics worldwide. Beyond a traditional journals program, IOP Publishing makes high-value scientific information easily accessible through a portfolio of community websites, conference proceedings and a multitude of electronic services. As its publishing arm, IOP Publishing directly contributes to the funding of IOP’s important charitable and educational activities. EPL Association (EPLA) is a not-for-profit consortium of 17 learned European physics societies. EPLA’s publishing partners are the European Physical Society (EPS), the UK Institute of Physics (IOP), the Société Française de Physique (SFP)/EDP Sciences and the Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF). EPLA publishes original, high-quality letters in all areas of physics, from condensed matter and interdisciplinary research to astrophysics and plasma science, including those with application potential. More information on EPLA and its shareholders can be found at http://www.epljournal.org. 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: mcassar@aip.org
