ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL DIGEST SERIALST Commercial Digest pilot project: Since June 2008, the SERIALST moderators have been compiling and distributing a Commercial Digest once a week, usually 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 2 messages: 1. Indiana University Press Joins Current Scholarship Program 2. Initial Beta Test Results for EBSCO's ERM Essentials (1)------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:52:57 -0500 From: David Fritsch <David.Fritsch@ithaka.org> Subject: Indiana University Press Joins Current Scholarship Program JANUARY 6, 2010 Indiana University Press Joins Current Scholarship Program Indiana University Press, founded in 1950 and one of the leading university presses in the country, and JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform that is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA, announced an agreement today to make leading journals from the Press available worldwide as part of the Current Scholarship Program, a new collaborative initiative announced on August 13, 2009. By joining the Program, current and historical content from 28 Indiana University Press-published journals will be made available on a re-designed JSTOR in 2011. This will offer faculty and students around the world access to current issues alongside back issues easily and seamlessly. JSTOR's nearly 6,000 library participants worldwide will be able to license the Press's journals, either individually or as part of current issue collections, together with JSTOR back issue collections in a single transaction. IU Press serials in the Program will include Africa Today, Jewish Social Studies, the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, the Journal of Folklore Research, and the Journal of Modern Literature, among others. The journals will be preserved in Portico, the digital preservation service that is also part of ITHAKA. According to Kathryn Caras, Director of Electronic and Serials Publishing at IU Press, "The addition of current scholarship to the already-rich JSTOR archive of content is the mother lode. Once the project launches in early 2011, researchers and scholars, through subscribing institutions, will have access to the complete runs of some of the most important journals from some of the finest university presses in the country. It will be an invaluable research tool, and I'm very pleased IU Press Journals is part of it." Indiana University Press joins University of California Press and the University of Illinois Press in the Program. The current issues of at least 70 journals from these publishers will be available from JSTOR for the 2011 subscription year. Other organizations are being encouraged to join. "Indiana University Press publishes excellent journals that are essential to research in the humanities," said Mary Rose Muccie, JSTOR Current Journals Director. "We look forward to working with the Press to provide librarians and users with a great and efficient experience - access to the latest Press-published research and full archives, on a platform they know and use every day." Together, participants in this Program aim to create an improved online work environment for faculty and students by bringing complete journal runs from multiple publishers together in one place, to ease the burden on librarians of negotiating separate license agreements with a multitude of publishers and independent titles, and to promote a more cost-effective publishing environment for the scholarly community. For more information, see http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/programs/currentScholarship.jsp. David R. Fritsch Assistant Director, Outreach and Participation Services JSTOR | Portico Voice: (609) 986-2286 Fax: (212) 358-6445 david.fritsch@ithaka.org JSTOR (www.jstor.org), an accessible archive of more than 1,000 scholarly journals and other content, and Portico (www.portico.org), a service that preserves content published in electronic form for future generations, are part of ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org). ITHAKA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. (2)------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:50:38 -0600 From: Heather Klusendorf <Hklusendorf@ebsco.com> Subject: Initial Beta Test Results for EBSCO's ERM Essentials Initial Beta Test Results of EBSCO's New ERM Essentials[tm] Signal Birmingham, Ala.,-January 6- Following successful beta testing by 25 library customers in 2009, EBSCO (www.ebsco.com) is planning for the launch at ALA midwinter of EBSCONET ERM Essentials, which offers key features that librarians need to simplify management of their e-resources. Feedback from beta testers has been positive as they discovered a new way to manage their e-resources, eliminating the challenge of maintaining multiple email chains, paper files, spreadsheets, and other decentralized information spread across multiple departments and staff. ERM Essentials is pre-populated for orders of e-journals and e-packages purchased through EBSCO with daily updates to ensure accuracy. According to Chris Spencer, Library Procurement & Systems Development Manager, Bournemouth University, UK, integration across EBSCO platforms, such as EBSCO A-to-Z®, saves time because "you only have to enter the data into one place to populate other applications." Spencer adds that "we don't want to edit information more than once; the pre-population is really useful." ERM Essentials offers unique integration with other EBSCO tools that librarians already know and use. Dana Taylor, Department Head, Collection Management at Louisiana State University, says that "all the functionality is there. I can click and go straight to A-to-Z and EBSCONET and then go back to another-all products are in one place." ERM Essentials provides librarians with a user-friendly system, intuitive design and a central location to manage all their e-resources. The often cumbersome job that most librarians face when trying to manage large groups of e-resources, such as e-journal collections, becomes easier with ERM Essentials, the first full-featured electronic resource management tool that automatically populates and maintains more than 100 data fields for e-journals and e-packages purchased through EBSCO. About EBSCO EBSCO is the world's premier full-service provider of information, offering a portfolio of services that spans the realm of print and electronic subscription access and management, research databases and more. The company's e-resource renewal and management tools help librarians accomplish in hours what once took weeks. For more information, please visit www.ebsco.com. For more information, please contact: Heather Klusendorf EBSCO Media Relations 205.995.1539 hklusendorf@ebsco.com
