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) Duke University Press Launches New Platform for e-Books 2) Dictionary of American Regional English Debuts Online 3) Taylor & Francis events schedule at ALA MW 4) Taylor & Francis extend green Open access zero embargo pilot scheme for Library & Information science authors until end 2014 --------------- Message #1: Subject: Duke University Press Launches New Platform for e-Books From: "Kim Steinle" <ksteinle@dukeupress.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:19:04 -0500 For immediate release January 21, 2014 For more information, contact Katie Smart Publicist, Journals and e-Collections katie.smart@dukeupress.edu DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS LAUNCHES NEW PLATFORM FOR E-BOOKS Duke University Press and HighWire Press are pleased to announce the launch of a new site for reading, searching, and sharing Duke University Press's books: http://read.dukeupress.edu. Offering more than 1,600 titles and powered by the Folio eBooks solution, the site is the new home for the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection, available to libraries for purchase. Features of the new Drupal-based site developed by HighWire include responsive design, tailoring the attractive and functional interface to any device; DRM-free content; individual chapter downloads; and such tools as advanced search filters, social sharing, and reading recommendations, all of which deliver a rich, user-friendly reading and research experience. "HighWire designed the Folio eBooks product to make it easy to find connections between scholarly content, regardless of whether the relevant information is published in journal articles or in book chapters," states Tara Robenalt, HighWire's director of product management. The new site is open to all users and dramatically enhances the discoverability of Duke University Press's content. It provides free access to the introductory chapters of every book in the collection and allows integrated searching and linking across book and journal content. "We at Duke University Press are very pleased that we have been able to start our long-planned and eagerly awaited move towards integrating our book and journal content with such a successful first step," says Steve Cohn, director of Duke University Press. The 2014 e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection will debut on http://read.dukeupress.edu, and older e-books purchased through the collection must be accessed there as well. Access via ebrary, the previous host for this content, will be discontinued in February. ### About Duke University Press Duke University Press publishes primarily in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. It is an internationally recognized publisher known for its willingness to take chances on nontraditional and multidisciplinary publications. The Press supports the academic mission of Duke University by disseminating knowledge through the publication of approximately 120 books annually and 48 journals, as well as through its five electronic collections. http://dukeupress.edu Twitter: @DUKEpress About HighWire Press Stanford University's HighWire Press provides technology solutions for the scholarly community through its innovative HighWire Open Platform. Since its inception, HighWire offers digital content development and hosting services, a customizable peer-review manuscript submission system, cross-publisher librarian tools, and strategic consultation for organizations which produce high-impact journals, books, and other scholarly publications. http://highwire.stanford.edu Twitter: @highwirepress --------------- Message #2: Subject: Dictionary of American Regional English Debuts Online From: Kosman, Phoebe (phoebe_kosman@harvard.edu) Date: Wed, Jan 22, 2014 10:55 AM Dictionary of American Regional English Debuts Online At daredictionary.com, search, explore 50 years of unparalleled linguistic research Cambridge, Mass. The Dictionary of American Regional English, the authoritative record of American speech, is now available online, Harvard University Press has announced. Combining tens of thousands of entries and maps drawn from DARE’s six print volumes with such previously inaccessible data as survey results and audio recordings, daredictionary.com offers users a variety of powerful tools to explore the wealth and complexity of American English. Joan Houston Hall, DARE chief editor, noted that the site expands the information available to readers while enabling them to interact with DARE in vital new ways. “While the print volumes offer thousands of cross-references to related entries, the digital version allows users to see all the answers to the fieldwork questions and instantaneously make a map for each one. To see the regional distributions of all the words for a given item is to get a remarkable glimpse of American cultural history,” Hall said. At daredictionary.com, users can search and browse DARE’s 60,000 entries; listen to clips from more than 5,000 audio recordings gathered by fieldworkers; and view nearly 3,000 maps showing the regional distribution of words—or examine the comprehensive set of responses to the 1,600-question DARE survey administered between 1965 and 1970. Users can also browse the bibliography of the more than 12,000 published sources, dating from the 17th through the 21st century, cited by dictionary entries; share content via e-mail or social media; or use My DARE to organize and save entries, survey questions, and custom searches. Meanwhile, a Word Wheel feature encourages scrolling through a list of entries, replicating the serendipity that has marked readers’ engagement with the print volumes of DARE published between 1985 and 2013. “Daredictionary.com marks a major new chapter in the history of DARE. We’ve heard from many readers and librarians who eagerly anticipate this project, and we especially look forward to presenting it at the American Library Association’s midwinter meeting in January,” said Director of Harvard University Press William P. Sisler. For more information, please contact DARE_sales@harvard.edu. About HUP Founded in 1913, Harvard University Press is the publisher of such classic works as John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, E. O. Wilson’s On Human Nature, and Helen Vendler’s Dickinson, and continues to be a leading publisher of convergent works in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. HUP’s publication program, which includes important new digital projects and platforms, is driven by the belief that books from academic publishers—on paper or on screen, in your hand or in the cloud—are more essential than ever before for understanding critical issues facing the world today. --------------- Message #3: Subject: Taylor & Francis events schedule at ALA MW From: "Oosman, Aalia" <Aalia.Oosman@tandf.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:54:48 +0000 Taylor & Francis will be hosting a suite of informative presentations in Booth #1007 during the ALA Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia. During these interactive sessions, librarians will learn more about updates to product functionality, content models and offerings, and further understand how we are responding to the needs of librarians to offer a sustainable publishing model for our Library and Information Science journals. Library professionals who are able to attend will receive a complimentary library-themed shirt (*limited quantities available) featuring the slogan, “Silence is Golden.” Please see our presentation schedule below: Taylor & Francis Library Packages Saturday, January 25, & Sunday, January 26: 10:00 am Monday, January 27: 9:30 am This presentation will provide a comprehensive overview of the range of content offerings which Taylor & Francis offers for academic and special libraries. Find out what’s new for 2014 across the Social Science & Humanities Library and the Science & Technology Library. English Historical Documents Online Saturday, January 25, & Sunday, January 26: 11:30 am Attend this session to learn more about English Historical Documents Online, a digital collection of more than 5,500 indexed and fully searchable primary source documents in British history, from 500-1914, and U.S. history to 1776. CRCnetBASES and netBASE Select Saturday, January 25, & Sunday, January 26: 1 pm Attendees will receive an overview of the depth and breadth of information and subject areas available in the 12,000+ eBook titles and collections within the many CRCnetBASEs.U South Asia Archive Saturday, January 25, & Sunday, January 26: 2 pm Monday, January 27: 10:30 am Explore and learn more about the South Asia Archive, a comprehensive digital Archive which contains more than 5 million pages of rare primary and secondary sources spanning the Indian sub-continent. Taylor & Francis Open Access Friday, January 24: 6 pm Saturday, January 25, & Sunday, January 26: 3 pm Monday, January 27: 11:30 am This presentation will take a look at Open Access incorporating: LIS author rights pilot initiative and Taylor & Francis OA membership options. Taylor & Francis Online Mobile Saturday, January 25 & Sunday, January 26: 4 pm Monday, January 27: 12:30 pm Taylor & Francis Online (TFO) Mobile facilitates knowledge on the move for academics, professors, and researchers alike. Find out how you can benefit from new features and functionality of TFO Mobile. We hope you will be able to join us. Kind regards, Taylor & Francis Group Library Marketing team Elyse Profera – Library Communications Manager, Americas region Taylor & Francis Group 325 Chestnut Street, 8th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19106 Tel: 215 606 4203 Fax: 215 625 2940 Web: www.tandfonline.com email: elyse.profera@taylorandfrancis.com Taylor & Francis is a trading name of Informa UK Limited, registered in England under no. 1072954 --------------- Message #4: Subject: Taylor & Francis extend green Open access zero embargo pilot scheme for Library & Information science authors until end 2014 From: "Oosman, Aalia" <Aalia.Oosman@tandf.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:51:58 +0000 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, has been running a Library & Information Science Author Rights pilot scheme that allows authors to post their peer-reviewed Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) to an institutional repository immediately after publication. The two year pilot scheme, first introduced in 2011, has now been extended for at least a further year to enable Routledge to consider alternative approaches to copyright and to find sustainable ways of extending author rights. As part of the pilot, a survey was conducted by Routledge to canvas opinions on the Library & Information Science Author Rights initiative and also investigated author and researcher behaviour and views on author rights policies, embargos and posting work to repositories. The survey, eliciting over 500 responses, offers a fascinating insight into the current thinking of authors & researchers globally across the discipline of Library & Information Science. Having the option to upload their work to a repository directly after publication is very important to these authors: more than 2/3 of respondents rated the ability to upload their work to repositories at 8, 9, or 10 out of 10, with the vast majority saying they feel strongly that authors should have this right. The implementation of the author rights pilot saw the number of respondents who would recommend Routledge as a publishing outlet increase by 34% while the average willingness to publish with Routledge on a scale of 1 to 10 increased from 6.6 to 8.3. The shift in response from Library and Information Science professionals towards Routledge’s publishing program before and after the launch of this initiative practically demonstrates the enthusiasm for immediate upload of non-embargoed content within the library community. Routledge is dedicated to developing publishing models that suit the needs of the Library & Information Science community. Tracy Roberts, Editorial Director comments “It is clear that the ability to upload articles to a repository directly after publication is a key concern for LIS authors. We are delighted to announce that we have now extended this pilot to the end of 2014 supporting research within this discipline, as well as affording us additional time to monitor the effects of this pilot study.” For further details on the pilot program, visit: http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/lisrights.asp For more information, please contact: Stacy Sieck, Associate Editor, Taylor & Francis Group email: stacy.sieck@taylorandfrancisgroup.com *********************************************** * You are subscribed to the SERIALST listserv (Serials in Libraries discussion forum) * To post a message to the list address: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU * For additional information, see the SERIALST Scope, Purpose and Usage Guidelines <http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html> ***********************************************
