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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) Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics Selects AIP, Publishing partnership to begin in 2012 2) Project MUSE News: Over Fifty Publishers Contracted for UPCC eBook Collections --------------- Message #1: Subject: Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics Selects AIP, Publishing partnership to begin in 2012 From: Bruce Shriver <bshriver@aip.org> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:10:50 +0000 [This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication.] Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics Selects AIP Publishing partnership to begin in 2012 Melville, NY, April 19, 2011 – AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) (aip.org), is pleased to announce that it has signed a new partnership agreement with Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics (CJCP). Beginning in 2012, AIP will manage hosting, sales, marketing, and distribution of CJCP for all international markets outside China. CJCP will maintain editorial control of the journal and distribution in China. AIP will begin hosting CJCP on its Scitation platform in January 2012. AIP sees CJCP as an ideal complement to its own highly cited publication, The Journal of Chemical Physics. “We are very pleased to collaborate with the American Institute of Physics, a pioneer in online publishing, which drives innovation through continuing investment in emerging technologies and R&D,” said Prof. Xueming Yang, Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics. “AIP's involvement will help our publication to enjoy a higher degree of discoverability and to improve our journal’s quality and prestige.” Launched in 1988, and supported by both the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, CJCP reports on new and original experimental and theoretical research, bridging atomic- and molecular-level investigations in material science, chemistry, physics, the life sciences, and related fields. The journal comprises letters, articles and reviews. CJCP is one of 24 journals published by the Chinese Physical Society and is indexed in Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Index Expanded, as well as in other major indexes. “There’s so much excellent research being published in the Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics right now, and our goal is to greatly increase the visibility of this work and to disseminate it as rapidly and as widely as possible,” says Robert Harington, Publisher, AIP Partnerships. “We are confident that by leveraging the great functionality of our Scitation platform, we’ll be able to accomplish these goals.” About American Institute of Physics The American Institute of Physics is an organization of 10 physical sciences societies representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators and is one of the largest publishers of scientific information in physics. AIP also delivers valuable resources and expertise in education and student services, science communication, government relations, career services for science and engineering professionals, statistical research, industrial outreach, and the history of physics and other sciences. Offering publishing solutions for scientific societies and organizations in science and engineering, AIP pursues innovation in electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes 13 journals (journals.aip.org), two magazines—including its flagship publication, Physics Today—and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. Scitation, AIP’s online publishing platform, hosts 1.6 million articles from 190 scholarly journals, proceedings, and eBooks of learned society publishers. AIP also provides the international physical science community with UniPHY, the first literature-based social and professional networking site; it features pre-populated profiles of more than 300,000 scientists and enables collaboration among researchers worldwide. About Chinese Physical Society The Chinese Physical Society, established in 1932, is a nongovernmental organization created to promote and popularize the field of physics. CPS has branches throughout the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, as well as 28 subdivisions and specialized committees. The Society has more than 32,000 individual members and seven group members. For more information, please contact: Lori Carlin Director, Fulfillment & Marketing American Institute of Physics Email: lscarlin@aip.org Phone: +1 516-576-2279 This press release is available on our website at http://www.aip.org/press_release/cjcp_selects_aip.html. Bruce Shriver Senior Marketing Manager American Institute of Physics 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Suite 1NO1 Melville, NY 11747 AIP|Publishing Global Sales & Marketing Tel: +1-516-576-2623 Cell: +1-917-623-8975 Fax: +1 516-349-9704 Email: bshriver@aip.org Web: www.aip.org --------------- Message #2: Subject: Project MUSE News: Over Fifty Publishers Contracted for UPCC eBook Collections From: "Melanie Schaffner" <melanie@muse.jhu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:54:07 -0400 (EDT) Over Fifty Publishers Contracted to Participate in UPCC eBook Collections on Project MUSE Project MUSE is pleased to announce that 51 distinguished scholarly publishers have signed contracts to participate in the forthcoming UPCC eBook Collections, to be offered on the MUSE platform beginning January 1, 2012. UPCC (University Press Content Consortium) collections will offer top quality book-length scholarship, fully integrated with MUSE’s full-text scholarly journal content, with library-friendly access and usage terms and affordable tiered pricing. Among the new publishers joining the initiative are Pennsylvania State University Press, Georgetown University Press, Northwestern University Press, Cork University Press, Hong Kong University Press, University of Texas Press, Vanderbilt University Press, University of Arizona Press, Southern Illinois University Press, and Wilfrid Laurier University Press. The newly confirmed participants bring strengths in indigenous studies, comparative literature, Latin American studies, theater, Irish studies, and Jewish studies, among others, and will supplement anticipated content depth in areas such as literary criticism, policy studies, religion, gender studies, bioethics, and history of medicine and technology. UPCC eBook Collections will be offered for purchase, with perpetual access rights and unlimited usage, downloading, and printing. Book content will be in PDF format, searchable and retrievable to the chapter level. By late summer 2011, MUSE will unveil a beta version of a new search interface encompassing both journal and book content, with sophisticated post-search filtering options, running on a parallel platform featuring free sample book content for libraries and users to explore. Pricing and purchase details for the book collections to be released in January will be available no later than October 1. "Watching the list of participating presses expand, and fielding the enthusiastic inquiries from our library customers, provide confirmation that the MUSE/UPCC model effectively balances the needs of publishers and libraries for sustainable institutional access to scholarly e-books," said Dean Smith, Director, Project MUSE. "With over fifty publishers confirmed, and more than ten others in the final stages of the contract process, we expect to offer the most comprehensive and diverse collection of books spanning the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences." The complete list of publishers now contracted to participate in UPCC eBook Collections on Project MUSE follows. Presses new to the list are marked with an asterisk. Baylor University Press Brookings Institution Press Cork University Press* Duke University Press Duquesne University Press* ELT Press Fordham University Press Gallaudet University Press Georgetown University Press* Hong Kong University Press* Indiana University Press Jewish Publication Society* Johns Hopkins University Press Kent State University Press Michigan State University Press Minnesota Historical Society Press* Northwestern University Press* New York University Press Ohio University Press* Oregon State University Press* Pennsylvania State University Press* Purdue University Press* Rutgers University Press Slavica Publishers* Southern Illinois University Press* SUNY Press* Syracuse University Press Temple University Press Texas A&M University Press* University of Alabama Press* University of Arizona Press* University of Arkansas Press University of Hawaii Press University of Michigan Press University of Nebraska Press University of Nevada Press* University of New Mexico Press* University of Pennsylvania Press University of Pittsburgh Press University of Texas Press* University of Washington Press University of Wisconsin Press University Press of Colorado* University Press of Mississippi* University Press of New England Utah State University Press* Vanderbilt University Press * Wayne State University Press* Wesleyan University Press* West Virginia University Press Wilfrid Laurier University Press* More information on the collaboration between Project MUSE and the UPCC (University Press Content Consortium) on eBooks Collections may be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/new/ebook_collections.html. An initial set of questions and answers about digital books on MUSE is at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/muse/faq_books.html. Questions about UPCC eBooks Collections on MUSE may be directed to muse@press.jhu.edu. Melanie Schaffner Marketing and Sales Manager, Project MUSE The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 N Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218 USA P 410-516-3846 F 410-516-3846 mbs@press.jhu.edu