Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2011 Edition, ISBN 157440-161-0. The 225-page report looks closely at how 60+ academic and special libraries and other select institutions in the United States, the UK, continental Europe, Canada, China, India, Australia and other countries or regions are funding, managing, cataloging, marketing and developing their institutional digital repositories. The report provides detailed data on budget and spending, sources of revenue and support, man hours deployed, range of materials maintained, number and source of visitors and downloads, and other key facts about institutional digital repositories. The report also looks closely at the degree of faculty cooperation, methods of procuring and measuring this cooperation, plans to develop repositories as publishers in their own right, impact on the online presence of the college and on citation rates in journals, among other issues. Data is broken out by size, geographic region, Carnegie class, years in operation and type of library or other institution (such as scientific institutes). Just a few of the study’s many findings are that: • The repositories in the sample received a mean number of 375,919 unique visitors in the past year with a median of 33,210. • 52.4% of the survey participants housed books written by faculty or staff in their digital repositories. This was most common in Europe (nearly 77%) and least common in the developing world (12.5%). • Nearly 58% archived digital images, a practice most common in the USA, especially among research universities. • For the sample as a whole, 4.45% of repository downloads come from Canada. • Close to 33% of the survey takers have an interface that allows authors and other some other contributors to track their downloads. • A mean of 32.3% of visitors to the repositories are from the repository’s own institution; the median figure was 12.75%. • 39% of survey participants had a brochure for their digital repository; half of all European repositories had a brochure. • 15.79% of repositories have an E-publishing program through which they publish monographs or books in either a print or digital format that might not have been initially published elsewhere For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com. 2) AIP Launches a New Letters Journal in Mechanics

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AIP Launches a New Letters Journal in Mechanics

Melville, NY, February 4, 2010 — The American Institute of Physics (AIP) (aip.org) is pleased to announce the launch of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters (taml.aip.org). Co-published with the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the new journal will be an essential source of groundbreaking research from scientists worldwide.

“As science becomes increasingly a global enterprise, we believe that collaborative publishing ventures such as TAML will significantly enhance and expand communication and dissemination of research,” said Robert Harington, Publisher, AIP Partnerships.

The access model AIP will initially follow calls for granting free trial access upon request. TAML will be published bimonthly, and will contain short, original articles in all areas of theoretical and applied mechanics, as well as in engineering-related fields, including:

• Aerospace and aeronautical engineering

• Coastal and ocean engineering

• Environment and energy engineering

• Biomedical engineering

• Mechanical and transportation engineering

• Civil and hydraulic engineering

Two of the most respected scientists in the field of mechanics serve as co-editors: Prof. Jiachun Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University. Teaming these high-profile researchers with AIP’s extensive STM publishing experience and leading-edge hosting technology ensures rapid communication of the highest quality research to scientists worldwide.

About AIP

The American Institute of Physics is a federation of 10 physical science societies representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators and is one of the world's largest publishers of scientific information in physics. Offering full-solution publishing services for scientific societies and for similar organizations in science and engineering, AIP pursues innovation in electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes 13 journals; two magazines, including its flagship publication Physics Today; and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. Its online publishing platform Scitation hosts nearly two million articles from more than 185 scholarly journals and other publications of 28 learned society publishers. AIP also hosts UniPHY, the world's first literature-based professional and social networking site for physical scientists.

About CSTAM

The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics is a non-governmental organization affiliated to the China Association of Science and Technology and is made up of 42 member institutions with a total of more than 20,000 members. CSTAM is the publisher of 17 periodicals, in addition to magazines, conference proceedings, and monographs; the association organizes more than 50 national and international conferences annually. Over the last 50 years, CSTAM has made significant contributions to the mechanics community, providing scientists with forums for discussion of major issues related to mechanics, promoting non-official academic cooperation, and publishing learned journals.

For more information, please contact:

Lori Carlin

Director, Fulfillment & Marketing

American Institute of Physics

Email: lscarlin@aip.org

Phone: +1 516-576-2279

`Subject:`	`New Publication: The Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2011 Edition`
`From:`	`James Moses <primarydat@AOL.COM>`
`Date:`	`Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:53:52 -0500`