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 6 messages: 1) Important Brand Changes affecting Continuum, Berg and Bristol Classical Press 2) Project MUSE News: Join us for ALA Midwinter User Group! 3) ACCUCOMS launches user interaction program for Elsevier 4) Edward Elgar to preserve e-journals and e-books with Portico 5) Content Announcement: Canadian Healthcare Journals to Be Indexed in Serials Solutions Summon Service 6) Duke University Press e-Books Will Move to HighWire --------------- Message #1: Subject: Important Brand Changes affecting Continuum, Berg and Bristol Classical Press From: Jennifer Howell <Jennifer.Howell@bloomsbury.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:55:43 +0000 Dear colleague, In 2008, Bloomsbury began to build a world-class academic division. Our portfolio now includes many lists: Continuum, T&T Clark, Berg Publishers, Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare, Bristol Classical Press, Fairchild Books, AVA, and our home-grown Bloomsbury Academic list. We publish close to 1,100 high-quality books each year, with a particularly large presence in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Visual Arts. We are pleased to announce that in order to better serve our authors and customers, we are bringing many of our lists under the global Bloomsbury brand. As part of our well-known brand, these wide-ranging lists will gain a global presence, close association with a range of best-selling and highly-respected books and online platforms, and increased visibility in the marketplace. At the same time, many of our acquisitions have long, revered histories. So we will continue to publish Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare and T&T Clark as imprints under the Bloomsbury umbrella. The changes are as follows: From 1st September 2012: - Continuum is rebranded as Bloomsbury (under Bloomsbury Academic imprint) - T&T Clark is co-branded under Bloomsbury (under Bloomsbury T&T Clark imprint) From 1st January 2013: - Berg Publishers, including journals, is rebranded as Bloomsbury (under Bloomsbury Academic imprint) - Bristol Classical Press is rebranded as Bloomsbury (under Bloomsbury Academic imprint) - Arden Shakespeare is co-branded under Bloomsbury (under Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare imprint) - Methuen Drama is co-branded under Bloomsbury (under Bloomsbury Methuen Drama imprint) What implications does this have for series and standing orders? Certain series names will change in line with the above. For example Continuum Discourse will become Bloomsbury Discourse. Where this happens, books published after 1st September 2012 will be in the Bloomsbury Discourse series, while books published up to 31st August 2012 will stay in the Continuum Discourse series, though we will move them over as and when the books are reprinted. Any standing orders will carry across to the 'new' series. What happens to my journals subscription? You will continue to receive print/online subscriptions and renewals in the same way as at present. You do not have to do anything. What other changes are there? In November we launched the academic part of the new Bloomsbury website. This enables you to see our books, ebooks and digital product information from one central website, grouped by subject area. It has a specific area for librarians to learn more about, for example, major reference works and collections. Note that journals will not join the company site until early 2013, and will remain on the www.bergjournals.com site until that point. For more information see www.bloomsbury.com/academic. Yours faithfully, Jennifer Howell, Head of UK Academic Marketing Kara Zavada, Head of US Academic, Professional, & Specialist Marketing Jennifer Howell Head of UK Academic Marketing Bloomsbury 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP Reception: +44 (0)207 631 5600 Direct: +44 (0)207 631 5824 Email: jennifer.howell@bloomsbury.com www.bloomsbury.com --------------- Message #2: Subject: Project MUSE News: Join us for ALA Midwinter User Group! From: "Melanie Schaffner" <melanie@muse.jhu.edu> Reply-To: mbs@press.jhu.edu Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:44:19 -0500 (EST) New UPCC Books Acquisition Options; More Journal Content - Join MUSE at ALA Midwinter to Learn More Seats are still available for the Project MUSE User Group breakfast on Saturday, January 26, at the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Enjoy a light breakfast with colleagues while we review what's new at MUSE for 2013: - New book collections, including Ecology & Evolution, and seven new Area Studies collection - Subscription options for new and backlist books - Single-title book purchasing, forthcoming through our partnership with YBP - Over 30 new journals joining MUSE this year, and more journals with complete coverage from volume one/issue one Details of the User Group Meeting: Saturday, January 26 8:00 am - 9:00 am Grand Hyatt Seattle Leonesa I To assist us with our planning, please RSVP for the meeting to muse@press.jhu.edu. Libraries are welcome to send more than one representative. Please note the number of representatives you expect to have attending from your institution. Both prospective and current library customers are welcome to attend. If you cannot attend the User Group meeting please stop by the Project MUSE booth, #609, in the Exhibit Hall. We look forward to meeting you and answering your questions. Thank you for your continued support of Project MUSE. See you in Seattle. 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: ACCUCOMS launches user interaction program for Elsevier From: "Rian van Spaandonk" <rian@accucoms.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:38:23 +0100 ACCUCOMS Launches User Interaction Program for Elsevier 16 January 2013 | Leiden, Netherlands - From 2013, ACCUCOMS will train Elsevier users in Turkey as part of a newly launched user interaction program. The user interaction program trains researchers and librarians in the use of Elsevier's scholarly tools and solutions, such as ScienceDirect and Scopus. In 2013, ACCUCOMS will organize user training sessions on behalf of Elsevier at more than a hundred libraries and universities in Turkey as a continuation of Elsevier's training support for universities over the past years. Training sessions will show researchers how Elsevier's various tools and solutions can benefit them and their research or studies. "Since we believe that training existing customers will increase loyalty and advocacy for our products, face-to-face trainings for our end-users take precedence over other services," said Gamze Keskin, Customer Development Manager at Elsevier. "We are very happy to be cooperating with ACCUCOMS to create further awareness about Elsevier products and services within the research and library community, train end-users and stimulate usage. Our main ambition is to maintain the most efficient and effective user experience to ensure that the contribution of our solutions is beyond expectation and creates value for research workflows." "The need for effective user training sessions became apparent to us through our sales and marketing activities for publishers," said Pinar Erzin, Managing Director at ACCUCOMS. "Trainings will be conducted by dedicated trainers for the scientific community, who will also be trained by Elsevier specialists. They will follow the original business workflows in order to achieve the most efficient results. We are very excited about this first user interaction program for Elsevier." ABOUT ELSEVIER Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include ScienceDirect, Scopus, Reaxys and SciVal. www.elsevier.com ABOUT ACCUCOMS ACCUCOMS is an independent provider of services to academic and professional publishers around the world. Established in 2004, ACCUCOMS now operates from the Netherlands, Turkey, Costa Rica, the USA, MENA and India. ACCUCOMS' multilingual teams offer efficient and intelligent representation, telemarketing and business intelligence services as well as user interaction programs to clients that range from large publishing houses to specialist society publishers. www.accucoms.com CONTACT Rian van Spaandonk Publisher Sales & Marketing Executive ACCUCOMS T +31 88 4100 418 E rian@accucoms.com W www.accucoms.com --------------- Message #4: Subject: Edward Elgar to preserve e-journals and e-books with Portico From: Marita LaMonica <Marita.LaMonica@ithaka.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:21:05 -0500 Edward Elgar to preserve e-journals and e-books with Portico Portico is pleased to announce that Edward Elgar will preserve its entire collection of e-journals and e-books with Portico. "We are delighted to be partnering with Portico," said Tim Williams, managing director, Edward Elgar Publishing. "We consulted widely with librarians before developing Elgaronline, our new electronic book and journal platform, to ensure we created a product that met library requirements and was an easy acquisition decision. Digital preservation is clearly an important component of the additional value that libraries get when using publisher platforms and many of our largest customers work closely with Portico." Founded in 1986, Edward Elgar (http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/) is an international family-run publisher in economics, finance, business and management, law and public policy. Elgaronline will launch with more than 2,000 monograph and reference book titles and a growing list of journals. Elgar publishes more than 300 e-book titles each year. Portico will act as a perpetual access mechanism for both Edward Elgar’s e-journals and e-books. ABOUT The Portico archive is certified as a "trustworthy digital repository" by the Center for Research Libraries; more than 15,000 e-journals, more than 170,000 e-books, and 72 d-collections have been entrusted to it. For a complete list of Portico-related facts and figures, please visit Portico Archive Facts & Figures. _____________ Marita La Monica Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications ITHAKA Tel: 212-358-6400 marita.lamonica@ithaka.org ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org) is a not-for-profit organization that helps the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. We provide innovative services that benefit higher education, including Ithaka S+R, JSTOR, and Portico. --------------- Message #5: Subject: Content Announcement: Canadian Healthcare Journals to Be Indexed in Serials Solutions Summon Service From: "Ahron, Brianna" <Brianna.Ahron@serialssolutions.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:22:49 -0500 Canadian Healthcare Journals to Be Indexed in Serials Solutions Summon Service January 17, 2013 Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, is working with Longwoods Publishing to index its healthcare journals in the Summon® discovery service. Most of the content is devoted to Canadian medical practice, but some journals have an international focus. All of the publications are a combination of free-access content such as columns and editorials, and paid-access research articles. Titles to be indexed in the Summon service include: Healthcare Quarterly documents and disseminates leading practices in health-service delivery and policy development. Healthcare Papers reviews new models in healthcare, bridging the gap between academia and the world of healthcare management and policy. Healthcare Policy publicizes research relating to health policy development and decision making, in spheres ranging from governance, organization and service delivery to funding and resource allocation. Electronic Healthcare explores best practices, policy and innovations in e-models, e-practices and e-products for e-health, for improving health-service delivery and policy development. Nursing Leadership covers politics, policy, theory and innovations that contribute to leadership in nursing administration, practice, teaching and research. World Health & Population publishes contributions by researchers, policy makers and practitioners in developing countries and communities to enable excellence in healthcare worldwide. These resources are widely subscribed to by libraries. The addition of the Longwoods journals in the Summon service is another mark of the company’s commitment to delivering a better research experience. Used by more than 500 libraries in more than 40 countries, the Summon service is the first and only discovery service based on a unified index of content. Proven to increase usage of library resources, the Summon service consistently meets user expectations by delivering innovative new features for enhancing discovery. About Serials Solutions Serials Solutions helps libraries work better by providing innovative, practical Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for discovery and management, driven by a comprehensive knowledgebase and unparalleled client support services. Media Contact: Christine Goetz, Public Relations Manager, christine.goetz@serialssolutions.com. --------------- Message #6: Subject: Duke University Press e-Books Will Move to HighWire From: "Kim Steinle" <ksteinle@dukeupress.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:00:54 -0500 For immediate release January 17, 2013 For more information, please contact Leslie Eager, Exhibits and Direct Marketing leslie.eager@dukeupress.edu DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS E-BOOKS WILL MOVE TO HIGHWIRE Expanded Partnership Will Provide a New Home for the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection for a Seamless Research Experience across Books and Journals Duke University Press and HighWire Press are pleased to announce a major expansion of their partnership to include the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection. Beginning with the 2014 collection, e-Duke Books, an annual collection of at least 100 new electronic books published by Duke University Press as well as more than 1,500 backlist titles, will move to HighWire’s Open Platform and the newly developed Folio e-book solution. With the launch of the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection on HighWire, Duke University Press’s readers and library subscribers will benefit from HighWire’s long record of innovation and reliability. The integrated platform will connect users with content more effectively by incorporating searching across all of Duke’s publications—not only e-books but their highly ranked journals as well. “HighWire has been a fabulous partner for us, ever since we moved our electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences, including the e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collections, to their platform in 2005,” said Steve Cohn, Director of Duke University Press. “Above all, we are very much looking forward to having our books and our journals on a single platform, where we can provide a seamless research experience to users and offer a variety of collections to libraries that include both book and journal content together. We think that’s the way the world of scholarly publishing needs to be moving, and we think HighWire will be the ideal collaborator for helping us move in that direction with integrity and creativity.” Key features of the e-Duke Books collection on Folio will include a device-friendly reading experience, viewable in PDF and mobile-optimized e-reader formats; toll-free inter-content linked access to cited content also hosted by HighWire, including journal articles from Duke, Oxford University Press, and SAGE Publications; and increased content granularity for better discovery, sharing, and navigating. “The HighWire Open Platform provides Duke University Press with flexible options to deliver reader experiences that are appropriate for their content,” said Tom Rump, Managing Director at HighWire. “Our e-book solutions enhance the versatility of the platform, offering Duke and others the opportunity to integrate their multiple content types – books, journals, figures, data, etc. – in one highly discoverable service.” All e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection content will be available on the new platform in December 2013. The current 2013 collection will be unaffected by this change and will continue to be hosted by ebrary through the end of this year. Throughout 2013, e-Duke Books customers will receive frequent communications to ensure a smooth and timely transition. Additional library transition resources, including a growing list of FAQs, are now available at dukeupress.edu/e-duke-books-platform-transition-resources. For more information about the platform transition, please contact Duke University Press Customer Service at edukebooks@dukeupress.edu. ### About Duke University Press The Press publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences and has a growing collection in mathematics. It is an internationally recognized publisher known for its willingness to take chances with nontraditional and multidisciplinary publications. Duke University Press supports the academic mission of Duke University by disseminating knowledge through the publication of approximately 120 books annually and 46 journals, as well as by offering five electronic collections. dukeupress.edu About HighWire At the forefront of strategic scholarly publishing, HighWire Press provides the latest in digital content development and hosting solutions to the scholarly community through its ground-breaking HighWire Open Platform. A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire partners with influential societies, university presses, and other independent publishers, sharing ideas and innovations in publishing, and producing definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, books, reference works, and other scholarly content. Since its inception in 1995, HighWire has embodied a commitment to helping publishers disseminate their content to the widest possible audience, facilitating the research communication process to meet the ever-changing needs of today’s online and mobile readers. highwire.stanford.edu Twitter: @highwirepress *********************************************** * You are subscribed to the SERIALST listserv (Serials in Libraries discussion forum) * For additional information, see the SERIALST Scope, Purpose and Usage Guidelines <http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html> ***********************************************
