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 2 messages:
1) Project MUSE User Group Meeting at ALA Midwinter
2) Project Euclid Launches Site Redesign
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Message #1:
Subject: Project MUSE User Group Meeting at ALA Midwinter
From: "Melanie Schaffner" <melanie@muse.jhu.edu>
Reply-To: mbs@press.jhu.edu
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:41:56 -0500 (EST)
Please join Project MUSE for our User Group session on Saturday, January
25, at the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting in
Philadelphia, PA.
Enjoy a light breakfast with colleagues while we review what's new at
MUSE for 2014 including new publishers adding books to MUSE, new book
collections available, an update to our pricing model taking effect in
2015, the journals joining MUSE this year, and more.
Details of the User Group Meeting:
Saturday, January 25
8:00am - 9:00am
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
1201 Market Street
Franklin 01 room
To assist us with our planning, please RSVP for the meeting to
muse@press.jhu.edu. Please note the number of representatives you expect
to have attending from your institution. Both prospective and current
customers are welcome to attend.
If you cannot attend the User Group meeting please stop by the Project
MUSE booth, #1739, in the Exhibit Hall. Representatives will be on hand
to answer questions about MUSE Journal Collections and UPCC Books on MUSE.
Project MUSE is a trusted provider of authoritative humanities and
social science content for the scholarly community. The University Press
Content
Consortium (UPCC) brings together nearly 30,000 books from more than 100
distinguished university presses and related scholarly publishers,
available on the same platform with MUSE’s more than 600 respected
scholarly journals.
We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia.
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
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Message #2:
Subject: Project Euclid Launches Site Redesign
From: "Kim Steinle" <ksteinle@dukeupress.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:12:27 -0500
For immediate release
January 15, 2013
For more information, please contact
Katie Smart
Publicist, Journals and e-Collections
katie.smart@dukeupress.edu
PROJECT EUCLID LAUNCHES SITE REDESIGN
Project Euclid is pleased to announce the launch of a fully redesigned
platform at projecteuclid.org. A joint partnership of Cornell University
Library and Duke University Press, Project Euclid is an online platform
that hosts high-quality mathematics and statistics content.
Its new website is uniquely designed to meet the research needs of
mathematicians and statisticians, and it combines rich functionality
with a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. New features include improved
searching, citation exports, publisher landing pages, mobile
optimization, print-on-demand purchasing, customized e-mail alerts, and
access indicators for all content.
“We wanted to create a more engaging and robust user experience without
losing the clean aesthetic and straightforward usability Project Euclid
is known for,” says Steve Cohn, director of Duke University Press. “We
are absolutely delighted by the results and pleased at how well Cornell
University Library and Duke University Press worked together to redesign
and further improve Project Euclid.”
The new site implements a powerful new faceted search tool that allows
users to navigate over 1.7 million pages of scholarship more
efficiently. By applying filters to search results, users can
progressively refine their searches, focusing on the content most
related to their subject areas. Additionally, users can sign up to
receive e-mail alerts when new scholarship is published in their areas
of interest.
“It has been especially rewarding to see how recent library research
into the search and discovery experience has contributed to the new
Project Euclid website,” says Anne R. Kenney, Cornell’s Carl A. Kroch
University Librarian. “The new platform is a wonderful example of
libraries and publishers leveraging their respective strengths to build
effective tools for scholars.”
The Project Euclid redesign meets the changing needs of researchers, who
now confront an overload of content on multiple devices. The new site
makes it easier to find and access high-quality, curated scholarship,
and its responsive design optimizes the site for working and reading on
mobile devices. Symbols and formulas are rendered beautifully with the
MathJax display engine, and users can quickly and easily export or
download citations to e-mail or reference management systems.
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About Project Euclid
Project Euclid is an exemplary collaboration between a university
library and a university press. A mission-driven organization led by a
community of librarians, publishers, and researchers, Project Euclid
provides sustainable publishing services for independent, society, and
open-access publications.
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