Commercial Digest, a once a week digest of messages containing informational content from commercial bodies (i.e., publishers, publishers, vendors, agents, etc.)

This digest contains  2  messages:

1)  Books at JSTOR : Launching in November.  Initial Title List Now Available.
2)  Four new publishers to preserve e-journals with Portico


1)  Books at JSTOR : Launching in November.  Initial Title List Now Available.

Subject:
Books at JSTOR: Launching in November. Initial Title List Now Available.
From:
Sarah Glasser <Sarah.Glasser@ithaka.org>
Date:
6/19/2012 11:13 AM
To:
"'SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU'" <SERIALST@list.uvm.edu>

With apologies for cross-posting…

JSTOR is pleased to announce that Books at JSTOR will be live in November 2012. Books at JSTOR will feature over 14,000 scholarly monographs from leading academic presses, which will be fully integrated with the more than 1,600 current and archival journals on JSTOR, including links to and from book reviews. 

An initial title list, as well as more information on the program, is available at http://books.jstor.org. 

Books at JSTOR will feature front- and backlist books, available for purchase as individual titles. All books will be available in a single concurrent user model, and many will be in an unlimited user model. The program will feature:

·         Flexible purchase options, including demand-driven acquisition

·         High-quality metadata, including chapter-level DOIs and free MARC records

·         Perpetual access rights, with books preserved in Portico (http://www.portico.org)

·         COUNTER-compliant usage statistics

 

The following publishers are participating in Books at JSTOR; we anticipate adding additional publishers prior to launch:

Boydell and Brewer
Brookings Institution
Central European University Press
Columbia University Press
Cornell University Press
Edinburgh University Press
Harvard University Press
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Penn State University Press
Princeton University Press
RAND Publications
Russell Sage Foundation
University of California Press
The University of Illinois Press
The University of Michigan Press
The University of Minnesota Press
The University of North Carolina Press
The University of Texas Press
The University of Toronto Press
University Press of Mississippi
Yale University Press

For an initial title list and more information, please visit http://books.jstor.org. More titles will be added to the list each month; we encourage you to sign up for e-alerts to be notified when the latest title list is available. 

To learn more about Books at JSTOR and other new initiatives, visit us at ALA at booth #2324. Stop by to learn about:

JSTOR representatives will be hosting information sessions at booth #1290 at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m on Saturday, June 23 and Sunday, June 24.

For more information, please contact us at participation@jstor.org.

_____________
Sarah Glasser
Associate Director, Marketing & Communications
ITHAKA
Tel: 212-358-6419
sarah.glasser@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.

 

2)  Four new publishers to preserve e-journals with Portico

Subject:
Four new publishers to preserve e-journals with Portico
From:
Marita LaMonica <Marita.LaMonica@ithaka.org>
Date:
6/20/2012 3:59 PM
To:
"'SERIALST@LiST.UVM.EDU'" <SERIALST@list.uvm.edu>

Portico Welcomes Four New Publishers
Portico is pleased to announce the following publishers are now preserving their e-journals with Portico:

Portico (www.portico.org) is a digital preservation service for e-journals, e-books, and other scholarly e-content. The Portico archive is certified as a “trustworthy digital repository” by the Center for Research Libraries; more than 13,000 e-journals, more than 120,000 e-books, and 48 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

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.

 





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