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 3 messages: 1) Taylor & Francis Opens Access with new OA Program 2) Project MUSE News:Tutorials Available for New MUSE Platform Coming January 1 3) RSC free access content updates --------------- Message #1: Subject: Taylor & Francis Opens Access with new OA Program! From: "McMillan, Jennifer " <Jennifer.McMillan@tandf.co.uk> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:46:09 -0000 Taylor & Francis Opens Access with new OA Program! Oxford, 16th December 2011 The New Year sees the launch of an exciting range of Open Access options from Taylor & Francis via the Taylor & Francis Open program. This new initiative is designed to give authors and their sponsors flexibility and variety when they choose to publish research with Taylor & Francis. The Taylor & Francis Open program is a suite of fully Open Access journals consisting of brand new titles, dynamic titles from T&F's existing portfolio which are converting to OA, and titles published on behalf of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa. Many of the titles in this program will collaborate with leading journals within T&F's existing portfolio, providing input and support from learned societies and internationally-acclaimed editors to ensure their calibre. Taylor & Francis Open journals will have affordable article publication fees, with discounts or fee waivers for emergent countries. Authors will benefit from rapid online publication, rigorous peer review and the high levels of customer care Taylor & Francis provides to all authors. Their finished article will be showcased on Taylor & Francis Online, helping them to gain recognition and esteem for their contribution to their field. Taylor & Francis can confirm the following titles will be included in Taylor & Francis Open, with more to join in the New Year: Complex Metals Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials Journal of Biological Dynamics Journal of Organic Semiconductors Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online - published on behalf of the Royal Society of New Zealand Nanoscience Methods SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS - published on behalf of the Human Sciences Research Council Systems Science & Control Engineering Dr David Green, Global Journals Publishing Director, sums up Taylor & Francis' new approaches to Open Access, "Taylor & Francis is committed to producing high-calibre journals that showcase quality global research. We believe that this content should be widely disseminated and are now exploring various Open Access models to enable universal access in ways that are sustainable and meet the needs of the academic and research communities. Over the past three years society journals have been partnering with Taylor & Francis Group at the rate of more than one per week, and, if required, we are now able to offer a potential partner a range of Open Access models". Taylor & Francis will also continue to offer Taylor & Francis Open Select, which is a hybrid program giving authors the choice to publish on an Open Access basis in over 500 titles from across Taylor & Francis Group's extensive portfolio. ******************************* About Taylor & Francis Group Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. As one of the world's leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Technology. From our network of offices in Oxford, Philadelphia, Melbourne, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, Stockholm, New Delhi and Johannesburg, Taylor & Francis staff provide local expertise and support to our editors, societies and authors and tailored, efficient customer service to our library colleagues. For more information please contact: Jennifer McMillan, Head of Library Marketing & Communication, Taylor & Francis Group Journals email: newsroom@tandf.co.uk --------------- Message #2: Subject: Project MUSE News:Tutorials Available for New MUSE Platform Coming January 1 From: "Melanie Schaffner" <melanie@muse.jhu.edu> Reply-To: mbs@press.jhu.edu Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:48:05 -0500 (EST) New Project MUSE Platform Goes Live January 1, 2012 Tutorials Now Available Project MUSE's redesigned platform, incorporating both books and journals in an integrated interface, goes live on January 1, 2012. A preview of the new platform is available on our beta site at http://beta.muse.jhu.edu. Over 300 free sample books remain accessible on the beta site through the end of 2011. Two video tutorials for searching and browsing within the new interface are now available. Additional instructional materials will be provided shortly after the platform launch. View and share the new tutorials here: Search Books and Journals on Project MUSE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhldo-sLktk&feature=youtube_gdata Browse Books and Journals on Project MUSE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrR9wM-R2dM&feature=youtube_gdata The new platform will provide digital access to over 14,000 books from 66 university presses and related scholarly publishers, alongside MUSE's over 500 electronic journals. A search box on every page of the site offers users the option of searching both books and journals, or filtering by content type prior to running the search. At the search results level, users may again filter to just books or just journals. At launch on January 1, all of the books in MUSE's new UPCC Book Collections will be visible in search results and when browsing on the platform. Users at libraries which have purchased or subscribed to book collections on MUSE will have full-text access to content from those collections. MUSE will provide a one-month preview period during January 2012 to allow librarians and scholars to discover the significant breadth and depth of both book and journal content available on Project MUSE. At the end of the preview period, January 31, 2012, search results will default to only content to which the searcher has full-text access. At this point, users will have the option to toggle the search to show all available books and journals relevant to a search, if desired. Further highlights of the new Project MUSE platform include: - Faceted searching, with options to filter search results by subject area, author, and language of publication - Enhanced browsing by subject area, title, or publisher, across books and journals or filtered by content type - Powerful new hierarchical subject structure, allowing users to drill down to the most relevant content - Search box on each page of the site, with predictive search terms - New access icons to help users clearly identify content to which they have paid access, free sample content, and open access content - Discovery and research tools at both the book and journal article level, including More by This Author and Related Content links, citation downloading/exporting, and social sharing - "Search Inside..." feature for both books and journals - DOIs at title and chapter level for books, article level for journals The beta site and the current site will continue to operate in parallel until December 31, 2011, with the new platform going live January 1, 2012. The Project MUSE URL remains http://muse.jhu.edu. Links to scholarly content in MUSE (journal articles and issues) will not be affected by the platform change, but libraries and users which have bookmarked informational pages within the site may need to update these bookmarks after the January 1 transition. To reiterate, for the one-month preview period of January 2012, searches on the new platform will default to displaying all relevant book and journal results, unless the user selects to filter to only books or only journals at the time of searching. After January 31, 2012, search results will default to only that journal and/or book content to which a user has full-text access. Questions about the platform transition, UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE, or related issues may be directed to Project MUSE Customer Support at muse@press.jhu.edu. Melanie Schaffner Director, Sales and Marketing 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 #3: Subject: RSC free access content updates From: Louise Peck <peckl@rsc.org> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:31:32 +0000 * * * Apologies for cross-posting * * * RSC Publishing would like to announce updates to our free access content model for RSC scientific journal articles and eBooks, for more information please GO TO http://blogs.rsc.org/rscpublishing/2011/12/19/freeaccessupdates/ For technical queries about accessing this content, please EMAIL technicalsupport@rsc.org I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I look forward to working with you in 2012. Kind regards Louise Louise Peck BSc LM DipM MCIM, Library Marketing Specialist Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1223 432669, Fax: +44 (0) 1223 420247 www.rsc.org/publishing peckl@rsc.org
