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: MUSE Book Collection Details Now Available 2) Physics Nobel: Free Journal Articles and Resources from AIP 3) Duke University Press to publish Tikkun 4) Chemistry Nobel: Free Journal Articles and Resources from AIP --------------- Message #1: Subject: Project MUSE News: MUSE Book Collection Details Now Available From: "Melanie Schaffner" <melanie@muse.jhu.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) For Immediate Release October 3, 2011 Project MUSE Releases Details on New Book Collections Details on the highly anticipated Project MUSE Book Collections are now available. Going live on January 1, 2012, the collections will feature over 14,000 electronic titles from 66 respected university press and scholarly publishers. The collections will provide libraries, researchers, and students access to a wealth of high quality book-length scholarship, including both new and classic titles, fully integrated with the over 500 journal titles in MUSE's electronic journal collections, in a user-friendly environment with rich discovery features. Project MUSE books will be offered in PDF format, searchable and retrievable to the chapter level, with unlimited simultaneous usage, no DRM, and no restrictions on printing or downloading. COUNTER-compliant usage statistics, as well as free MARC records, will be available. In early 2011, Project MUSE began cooperating on its ebook initiative with the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC), an assembly of major university presses and related scholarly publishers that grew out of extensive research into a viable model for a collaborative electronic book offering. This cooperation will now make thousands of peer-reviewed scholarly books available digitally, many for the first time, via the 26 book collections Project MUSE will initially offer for perpetual access purchase. Information on available Project MUSE Book Collections, along with detailed title lists, is accessible on the MUSE web site at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/book_collections.html. Libraries may request pricing for book collections by using the form at http://muse.jhu.edu/order/quote. Several flexible purchase and payment options are offered, with special pricing incentives for select purchases of multiple book collections. Orders may be placed at any time, with access to content beginning on January 1, 2012. Current Collections for Purchase The launch of books on MUSE will allow libraries and other institutions to purchase Current Collections comprised of content published or scheduled to publish in 2010, 2011, and 2012, available as single-year collections or with special discounts for the purchase of multiple years. Current Complete Collections include all books available across all disciplines for the applicable calendar year, while Current Subject Collections offer books in selected disciplines by calendar year. Subject collections available include Archeology and Anthropology; Film, Theater and Performing Arts; Global Cultural Studies; Higher Education; History; Literature; Philosophy and Religion; Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction; Political Science and Policy Studies; and United States Regional Studies. The content in the book collections available for purchase on MUSE is stable, and the titles included for collections from 2011 and earlier will not change. No additional titles will be added to these collections, and titles will not be removed unless a legal or copyright issue requires such action. Complete lists of the titles included in these collections are available for download from the MUSE web site at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/book_title_lists.html. For the forthcoming 2012 book collections, new titles will publish simultaneously in electronic and print formats. A preliminary, partial list of titles expected to be included in the 2012 collections is available at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/book_title_lists.html. Prices for the 2012 collections are based upon a guaranteed minimum number of titles to be delivered, derived from estimates provided by the participating publishers for the titles they intend to submit to MUSE. The list of expected 2012 titles will be updated frequently as specific title information becomes available from the publishers. Archival Collections for Purchase and Subscription MUSE is also offering archival Foundation Collections, consisting of thousands of titles published prior to 2010, allowing libraries to procure access to a critical mass of significant content from numerous university presses, across many disciplines, at very affordable prices. A Complete Foundation Collection with over 11,000 titles is available, along with several Subject Foundation Collections. The subjects include all those offered for the Current Collections (listed above), with the addition of Classical Studies and Language and Linguistics. Complete title lists for the Foundation Collections are also available at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/book_title_lists.html. In future years, Supplemental Archive Collections will be offered to build upon the Foundation Collections, with content from additional publishers joining the MUSE digital books program and from currently participating publishers digitizing and contributing more backlist books. MUSE will also offer an access-only subscription option, providing access to all books categorized by MUSE as archival during the period of the subscription. This collection will grow from year to year as more backlist titles are added to MUSE, and as current titles move into archive status. No ownership rights are provided with this option, and the subscription must be renewed annually to retain access to the content. Sample MUSE Books on Beta Site Over 300 free sample digital books from 27 publishers are currently available for browsing and searching at http://beta.muse.jhu.edu. The beta site, a sneak preview of the enhanced MUSE platform coming January 1, 2012, utilizes a 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. The beta site also includes the complete content from the over 500 distinguished scholarly journals now available on the current MUSE site. Visitors to the beta site have access to the same content for which they have rights on the current site, via their institutional affiliation and associated subscriptions. More information about the beta and MUSE's new interface is available at http://bit.ly/qtppNg. For more information, please contact MUSE Customer Support at muse@press.jhu.edu. 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: Physics Nobel: Free Journal Articles and Resources from AIP From: Lori Carlin <lscarlin@aip.org> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:10:34 +0000 This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication. Dear Colleagues, The American Institute of Physics congratulates this year's Nobel Laureates in Physics “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.” Sharing half the prize is Saul Perlmutter from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley. Sharing the other half jointly are Brian P. Schmidt from the Australian National University, and Adam G. Riess from Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute. AIP is pleased to make available free of charge a selection of research papers these Nobel Laureates have published in our journals, Conference Proceedings, and Physics Today magazine. To view any of these materials go to http://journals.aip.org/Nobel2011.html. We will build on this material throughout the day to bring you a host of additional resources, including an overview of the work done by these three scientists, plus related links, photos and interviews. Regards, Lori S. Carlin Director, Fulfillment and Marketing American Institute of Physics 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Suite 1NO1 Melville, NY 11747 AIP Publishing Marketing & Sales Tel: +1-516-576-2279 Fax: +1 516-349-9704 Email: lscarlin@aip.org Web: www.aip.org Follow us on Twitter: @AIP_Publishing --------------- Message #3: Subject: Duke University Press to publish Tikkun From: Emma Boyer <eboyer@dukeupress.edu> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:01:06 -0400 For immediate release October 5, 2011 For more information, contact Emma Boyer, Journals Publicity Coordinator eboyer@dukeupress.edu Duke University Press is pleased to announce the addition of the magazine Tikkun to its list of titles. Edited by Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun provides provocative analyses of American politics, culture, and social theory, and serves as a unique source of discourse about Israel and Palestine. Tikkun offers fresh ideas for those seeking to assist in the magazine’s goal: to heal and transform the world. “Tikkun is a welcome addition to our publishing program,” says Duke University Press director Steve Cohn. “For the past twenty-five years, the magazine has been known as a powerful intellectual voice for the spiritual left and for taking on important and at times controversial topics.” While continuing to be the preeminent voice of liberal and progressive Jews, Tikkun has evolved into a major interfaith magazine and seeks to build bridges between religious and secular progressives. Tikkun’s editorial direction and mission will remain the same after the transition in publisher. Duke University Press will begin publishing the quarterly magazine in 2012 with volume 27. About the transition, Rabbi Lerner says, “the new partnership with Duke University Press will bring Tikkun additional publishing and sales expertise as well as a shared commitment to publishing risk-taking and innovative intellectual work.” Subscriptions for individuals, as well as reduced-price subscriptions for members of Tikkun’s Network of Spiritual Progressives, will be handled by the Tikkun editorial office at www.tikkun.org. The title will be included at no cost in the 2012 e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collections and will also be available through Project Muse. Institutions can subscribe by contacting Duke University Press at subscriptions@dukeupress.edu or by calling 888-651-1022 (toll-free in the US and Canada) or 919-688-5134. -- Emma S. Boyer Academic Exhibits & Publicity Coordinator Journals Marketing Department Duke University Press Box 90660 Durham, NC 27708-0660 Phone: 919.687.3636 Fax: 919.680.6078 eboyer@dukeupress.edu --------------- Message #4: Subject: Chemistry Nobel: Free Journal Articles and Resources from AIP From: Lori Carlin <lscarlin@aip.org> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:29:34 +0000 This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication. Dear Colleagues, The American Institute of Physics congratulates this year's Nobel Laureate in Chemistry “for the discovery of quasicrystals.” The prize was awarded to Daniel Shechtman, a distinguished professor at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Contrary to the previous belief that all crystals had a well-defined symmetry with repeatable patterns, Shechtman showed that the atoms in a crystal could be packed in a pattern that never repeated, yet maintained a well-defined symmetry. We are pleased to make available, free of charge, a selection of research papers Daniel Shechtman has published in AIP journals. To view any of these articles go to http://journals.aip.org/NobelChemistry2011.html. Regards, Lori Carlin ___________________________________________ Lori S. Carlin Director, Fulfillment and Marketing American Institute of Physics 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Suite 1NO1 Melville, NY 11747 AIP Publishing Sales and Marketing Tel: +1-516-576-2279 Fax: +1 516-349-9704 Email: lscarlin@aip.org Web: www.aip.org
