Commercial Digest, a once a week digest of messages containing informational content from commercial bodies (i.e., publishers, vendors, agents, etc.) This week's digest contains 4 messages: 1) Project MUSE News: Integrated Books + Journals beta site released 2) Share with your patrons! Episodes 2 and 3 of Publishing Your Research 101 Video Series now online 3) AIP Creates New App for Authors and Reviewers 4) 2012 Journal Title and Pricing information now available - Portland Customer Services --------------- Message #1: Subject: Project MUSE News: Integrated Books + Journals beta site released From: "Melanie Schaffner" <melanie@muse.jhu.edu> Reply-To: melanie@muse.jhu.edu Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:46:42 -0400 (EDT) Project MUSE Beta Site offers preview of integrated book and journal content Project MUSE has released a beta web site previewing its combined digital book and journal content. The beta site, http://beta.muse.jhu.edu, will be available through the end of this year, allowing scholars, librarians, and students to become familiar with the newly enhanced platform before the changeover to accommodate MUSE's forthcoming eBook Collections on January 1, 2012. The beta site showcases Project MUSE's sophisticated new cross-content, faceted search functionality, and allows browsing of books and journals side-by-side. A powerful new hierarchical subject structure permits users to drill down to the most relevant content, and encourages discovery. Over 300 digital books, from 27 publishers, are available for free sample access on the site during the beta period. The MUSE collections launching in January will encompass over 12,000 book titles from the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC), a collaborative of more than 65 major university presses and related scholarly publishers. The beta site is still in active development, with many additional features planned for inclusion prior to January. Project MUSE's beta site also includes the complete content from the nearly 500 distinguished scholarly journals now available on the current MUSE site. Visitors to the beta site will have access to the same content for which they have rights on the current site, via their institutional affiliation and associated subscriptions. New easy-to-follow icons clearly distinguish content which is available in full text to the user, a free sample or open access, or restricted. The new search functionality on the beta site provides a search box on every page, with an option for the user to search both books and journals or choose just one content type. Once search results are returned, facets allow for further filtering the results by research area, author, language, and content type, and to only material for which the user has full text access. Search results may include journal articles or book chapters, with multiple results from a single book title rolled up into a single cumulative entry. Efforts are ongoing to optimize the search function to return the most relevant results with the best possible speed. Browsing of book and journal content is available by title, publisher, and research area. MUSE is implementing a new hierarchical structure of academic research areas, promoting discovery of pertinent content while moving from a broad survey through to specific sub-disciplines. With over 12,000 books anticipated for inclusion in MUSE's initial ebook collections, the new structure will provide a powerfully efficient path to the most needed material. At the individual book level, users can browse chapter-level snippets and view pertinent details about each title. A "Search Inside This Book" feature allows for discovery within the book content without leaving the title's main page. Breadcrumbs leading back to the hierarchical research areas provide paths to related books and journals. Many features are still in development on Project MUSE's new site and will be released over the next few months. The following will be available by the formal site launch on January 1, 2012, for both books and journal articles: enhanced Related Content links; improved saving, viewing, and exporting of citations; content-integrated "More by this Author" links; and emailing, bookmarking, and sharing capabilities. Support for OpenURL functionality and Shibboleth authentication will also be in place by January 1. Project MUSE eBook Collections will provide libraries, researchers, and students access to a wealth of high quality book-length scholarship, fully integrated with MUSE's essential electronic journal collections in a user-friendly environment with rich discovery features. MUSE books will be released electronically simultaneous with print publication, in PDF format, searchable and retrievable to the chapter level. Frontlist, backlist, interdisciplinary, and subject-specific collections will be available for purchase, with perpetual access rights, unlimited simultaneous usage of book content, no DRM and no restrictions on printing or downloading. COUNTER-compliant usage statistics, as well as free MARC records, will be available for books on MUSE. Details on available collections, purchase options, and prices will be announced no later than October 1, 2011. The new, integrated Project MUSE web site, including book collections, will be live on January 1, 2012. More details are available at http://muse.jhu.edu/ebooks. Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. 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 http://muse.jhu.edu Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ProjectMUSE Follow us on Twitter: @ProjectMUSE --------------- Message #2: Subject: Share with your patrons! Episodes 2 and 3 of Publishing Your Research 101 Video Series now online From: Sara Rouhi <s_rouhi@acs.org> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:05:28 -0400 [Please excuse cross posting.] New episodes of Publishing Your Research 101 are now available (http://pubs.acs.org/r/publishing101) ACS Publications has recently released Episodes 2 and 3 in the free Publishing Your Research 101 web video series, which guides authors and reviewers through the peer-reviewed research publication process. The latest videos feature interviews with Inorganic Chemistry Editor-in-Chief Richard Eisenberg, Macromolecules Editor Timothy P. Lodge, and ACS Nano Associate Editors Paula T. Hammond and Jason H. Hafner. The two videos discuss the writing of the cover letter that accompanies a submitted manuscript with episode 3 focused on how to select peers to suggest as reviewers. To view the videos as well as lists of supplementary materials, please visit http://pubs.acs.org/r/publishing101 Questions? Email LibraryRelations@acs.org Best, Sara S. Sara Rouhi Associate Manager, Library Relations | ACS Publications http://pubs.acs.org/4librarians --------------- Message #3: Subject: AIP Creates New App for Authors and Reviewers From: Mary Griffin <mgriffin@aip.org> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:01:53 +0000 [This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication.] AIP Creates New App for Authors and Reviewers iPeerReview provides mobile access to submitted papers Melville, NY, August 03, 2011 - AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) (www.aip.org), announces the release of its new app, iPeerReview. The new app allows authors and reviewers to use their iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices to access a broad range of information on papers submitted to any of AIP's journals in Peer X-Press, AIP's manuscript submission and review system. "iPeerReview is an integral part of our comprehensive strategy to make all AIP content - both live and in production - more accessible to our users," said Evan Owens, AIP's chief information officer, publishing. "We recognize that our authors and reviewers need fast, convenient access to their papers during the review process, and now we've created an app with a clean, streamlined design, which can deliver these papers - anytime and anywhere they need them." Once logged in, users can perform a number of activities related to their papers. They can access a list of all active and completed papers, view the status history of a paper, view and save a paper in PDF format, email a paper, and link to a paper on AIP's Scitation platform if it is in production or to Peer X-Press if it is under review. When users access iPeerReview, they can either log in or access papers that they have previously saved to their device. The app will determine if they are an author, a reviewer, or both. In the event that they are both an author and a reviewer, iPeerReview will allow them to access both sets of papers under separate tabs. To download the app, search for iPeerReview in the iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ipeerreview/id385565904?mt=8# or visit AIP Labs http://labs.aip.org/. About AIP The American Institute of Physics is an organization 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. AIP pursues innovation in electronic publishing of scholarly journals and offers full-solution publishing services for its Member Societies. AIP publishes 13 journals; two magazines, including its flagship publication Physics Today; and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. 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. For more information, please contact: Lori Carlin Director, Fulfillment & Marketing American Institute of Physics Email: lscarlin@aip.org Phone: +1 516-576-2279 --------------- Message #4: Subject: FW: 2012 Journal Title and Pricing information now available - Portland Customer Services From: "PPL Sales" <Sales@portlandpress.com> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 16:08:46 +0100 With apologies for cross-posting Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the 2012 institutional subscription pricelist for the journals handled by Portland Customer Services is now available in HTML format at: http://www.portlandpress.com/pcs/journals/pricelist.cfm 2012 prices for journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry are available online at: www.rsc.org/Publishing/librarians/ourproducts.asp Read our What's New and Notes section for information about new publications from existing clients, terms of business and payment methods at the following link: http://www.portlandpress.com/pcs/journals/whatsnew.htm. 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