Commercial digest (2 messages) Bob Persing 22 Apr 2011 17:23 UTC

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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

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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

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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