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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 3 messages: 1) University of Chicago Press Joins Current Scholarship Program 2) AIP Journals Officially Launch on Scitation C3 3) Society of Architectural Historians Launches Bold Electronic Initiative in Partnership with University of California Press and JSTOR --------------- Message #1: Subject: University of Chicago Press Joins Current Scholarship Program From: Kevin Stacey <kstacey@uchicago.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:17:51 -0600 *With apologies for cross posting* For Immediate Release: March 12, 2010 University of Chicago Press Joins Current Scholarship Program The University of Chicago Press and JSTOR announced today that they will join forces in the Current Scholarship Program. Scheduled to launch early next year, the program will bring scholarly content from leading not-for-profit publishers to a single integrated platform, making its use more innovative, efficient, and affordable for faculty, students, librarians and publishers. The University of Chicago Press, one of the world's oldest and largest university presses, brings 51 renowned titles to the program, including many of the most influential publications in the world such as The American Historical Review, The American Naturalist, the American Journal of Sociology and the Journal of Political Economy. Both current and back issues will be accessible on the platform. First announced last August, the Current Scholarship Program addresses some of the biggest challenges and inefficiencies in scholarly communications today. For scholars and educators, the program offers an improved online work environment that combines new content with complete journal backfiles. For librarians, the collaboration brings leading journals from multiple publishers together under one roof, allowing direct licensing through JSTOR. "While there have been great advances in ease of use and access to scholarly content in the last decade, researchers and librarians are now faced with a multitude of online platforms and interfaces. Navigating among these silos of content and identifying the authoritative material requires climbing not one, but many, learning curves. It is still not as efficient as it should be," said Michael Spinella, JSTOR Managing Director. "Meanwhile, scholarly publishers are challenged with managing fast-paced changes in technology and reaching new audiences. We know we can address some of these issues by working collaboratively and with a shared sense of purpose." There are now eleven publishers working together as part of the program, and that number is rapidly increasing. With the addition of Chicago, the current issues for at least 150 journals will be available on JSTOR by 2011. This content will be seamlessly integrated with and accessible alongside the more than 1,100 journals with back issues on JSTOR today as well as a growing set of primary source materials from libraries and museums. More than 6,000 JSTOR library participants worldwide will be able to license the 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, along with JSTOR, is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA. "The University of Chicago Press and JSTOR share a significant mission: to disseminate scholarship of the highest standard", said Garrett Kiely, Director of the University of Chicago Press. "The Current Scholarship Program is the next step in our long-standing relationship and brings both organizations closer to realizing our goals of improved access to many of the world's most important publications. We at Chicago are very excited to be a part of this and will work closely with JSTOR to continuously improve our offerings to the world's libraries." The relationship between JSTOR and the University of Chicago Press dates back to 1996 when the Press became one of the first publishers to store journal backfiles in the JSTOR digital archive. "Years ago we worked with The University of Chicago Press to make the nascent idea of a large-scale archive of digitized historical journals supported by the scholarly community a reality," commented Spinella. "It is tremendously exciting to be working together again toward a vision that we hope will have similar impact and benefit for the academic community." For more information about the Current Scholarship Program, see http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/programs/currentScholarship.jsp Contacts: JSTOR: Heidi McGregor VP, Marketing & Communications ITHAKA heidi.mcgregor@ithaka.org 212-358-6406 www.jstor.org University of Chicago Press: Kevin Stacey Publicity Manager kstacey@press.uchicago.edu 773-834-0386 www.journals.uchicago.edu --------------- Message #2: Subject: AIP Journals Officially Launch on Scitation C3 From: "Bruce Shriver" <BSHRIVER@aip.org> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:07:38 -0400 [This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication.] AIP Journals Officially Launch on Scitation C3 Hosting platform delivers superior functionality to online publications Melville, NY, March 15, 2010 - The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced today the migration of its 12 archival journals to its Scitation C3 next-generation hosting platform. All Scitation publications will migrate to the C3 platform in the coming months. Central to the implementation is an agile development environment utilizing a new Mark Logic content server and Polopoly web content management system. With these systems in place, AIP has infused its journals with an XML-enabled functionality that few other STM publishers can match. "This is a significant milestone for us, as it marks the culmination of many, many months of work to re-imagine the Scitation platform from the ground up," said Paul DeCillis, Director of Online Publishing. "We recognize that today's researchers have less time to spend per article. In designing the new AIP journal pages, we broke free from traditional print-based, linear design. The new websites have significantly reduced discovery and reading time by exposing content components in the XML." Key to the new design is a new object browser, allowing subscribers to view all tables and figures in an article directly from the abstract view, where the majority of researchers begin their interaction with the article. Other objects from within the full-article XML, such as the article's acknowledgment section and an article outline based on the article's section structure, surface on the page providing quick access to the article's content. Scitation C3 also features a new, interactive full-article HTML rendering, including greatly improved visual presentation of inline math. In-context links to actionable references, figures, and tables save researchers from wasting time navigating around the document. Other interactive features include the ability to highlight any term within an article to produce a list of related content. To further facilitate fast discoverability, AIP journals now allow one to create "Smart ToCs," enabling the user to tailor the listing to his/her interests, harvest citations, preview abstracts with a mouse click, and hide content that isn't relevant. AIP has also added greater utility to the search functions of its journal pages, with more options and better controls to explore returned content with faceted results, based on article type, topic, author, keyword, PACS, journal, and publication year. Faceted search helps researchers find information quickly by presenting them with a set of "filters" to refine search results. AIP has also added greater utility to the search functions of its journal pages, with more options and better controls to explore returned content with faceted results based on article type, topic, author, keyword, PACS, journal, and publication year. Faceted search helps to refine search results and therefore find information more quickly. AIP's Scitation publishing platform hosts 2,000,000 articles from more than 200 scholarly publications for 28 learned society publishers, in fields including physics, chemistry, geosciences, engineering, acoustics, and other sciences. Scitation's evolving, next generation platform, C3, represents today's best-of-breed technology, with an XML foundation and flexible framework for multi-channel distribution of content and services that enables both publishers and end users to manipulate and deliver content as never before and creates the tools and environment for content producers to position themselves for future publishing opportunities. For more information, contact: Paul DeCillis Director, Online Publishing Phone: (516) 576-2665 Email: pdecilli@aip.org --------------- Message #3: Subject: Press Release: Society of Architectural Historians Launches Bold Electronic Initiative in Partnership with University of California Press and JSTOR From: Rachel Lee (rlee@ucpress.edu) Date: 3/16/2010 3:58 PM MEDIA CONTACT: Rebekah Darksmith Sales & Marketing Director University of California Press, Journals + Digital Publishing rebekah.darksmith@ucpress.edu 510-643-0952 Society of Architectural Historians Launches Bold Electronic Initiative in Partnership with University of California Press and JSTOR Chicago, IL – March 16, 2010 The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) is proud to announce the launch of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Online (JSAH Online). Developed in partnership with University of California Press and JSTOR, and using software from Atypon Systems, JSAH Online offers access to JSAH from the first volume published in 1941 through the present. The current issues provide leading research articles and reviews about the built environment accompanied by extensive multimedia content including images, videos, and GIS-driven visualizations. JSAH Online is the first online journal devoted to the arts and humanities that incorporates cutting-edge multimedia features and heralds the launch of the next generation of scholarly communication. Such features in the inaugural issue include recreated music from an ancient Roman funeral, a zoomable image of a 37-foot-long Panorama of Constantinople from 1559, and a 3D model of the Roman Forum and environs overlaid on a Google Earth map. “JSAH Online is an incredibly significant communications initiative – not only for SAH but broadly for scholarly publishing in the arts and humanities,” says Pauline Saliga, SAH Executive Director. “The features and functionality in JSAH Online allow scholars and the public more immediate and deeper understanding of leading-edge work being produced in architectural history.” Rebecca Simon, Associate Director, University of California Press and Director of the Journals + Digital Publishing Division, echoes this sentiment: "This launch realizes a bold and exciting vision for integrating multimedia features to enhance the study and understanding of the built environment. We are honored to partner with the Society in this endeavor and excited about the opportunities the new digital environment creates not only for JSAH but for other disciplines as well." JSAH Online is the culmination of several years of collaborative work among its partners. Funded by an initial planning grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and followed by an additional Mellon foundation grant, JSAH Online was conceived from the outset to take full advantage of the latest developments in online publishing. Professor Hilary Ballon of New York University, who conceived of and spearheaded the project as Editor of JSAH, collaborated with scholars at SAH and computer programmers at ARTstor, the New York-based online digital library, to develop an initial prototype for JSAH Online. “We knew that our vision had incredible potential for the wider scholarly community,” said Professor Ballon. “We also knew that to fully realize that potential, we needed to align ourselves with partners best positioned to help bring JSAH Online into being.” JSAH Online’s inaugural issue, which was released on March 1, 2010, was developed by current JSAH Editor David Brownlee, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. Articles in the first issue were subjected to the rigorous peer review process, and in addition were particularly groomed to utilize the innovative multimedia platform. “The integration of multimedia elements in these pieces dramatically increases the depth and breadth of the communication between authors and readers,” says Professor Brownlee. “Victor Hugo judged that the publication revolution of the Renaissance (moveable type printing) had annihilated the art of Gothic architecture. Happily, we can report that the digital publication revolution of our time is marvelously supportive of the study, appreciation, and creation of the built environment.” SAH selected University of California Press as its partner in publishing JSAH in early 2009. That decision was followed quickly by announcement of a new effort called the Current Scholarship Program, initiated by University of California Press and JSTOR. JSAH Online is the first journal to be launched online as part of the Current Scholarship Program. “The Current Scholarship Program has come to life with JSAH Online,” commented Michael Spinella, JSTOR Managing Director. “From the beginning, we have shared a vision with University of California Press and SAH for this effort to be a catalyst to help many publishers create new opportunities for their authors to publish media-rich scholarly works and for their readers to engage their arguments in novel and compelling ways. We are on our way.” JSAH Online will be available exclusively to SAH members during 2010. Beginning in 2011, all JSAH content, features, and functionality will be incorporated into a new JSTOR platform where it will be available to SAH members as well as to non-member faculty, researchers, and students working at subscribing institutions around the world. For more information about JSAH Online and to view a freely available multimedia article, see http://jsah.ucpress.jstor.org/. Media interested in full site access should request access through the SAH office at membership@sah.org. Please include your name, publication name, mailing address, telephone and email address. Your user name and password will be emailed to you. --END— Society of Architectural Historians The Society of Architectural Historians is the leading international learned society that promotes the study, interpretation and preservation of the built environment worldwide. With seventy years of service to the field of architectural history and its related disciplines, the Society’s membership of approximately 2,500 individuals includes professors of architectural and art history, architects and other design professionals, preservationists, museum curators, students, and others united in their passionate interest in architectural history. Institutional members include other learned societies, university libraries, art and historical museums, and preservation organizations around the world. www.sah.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 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. More than 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
