ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL DIGEST SERIALST Commercial Digest pilot project: Since June 2008, the SERIALST moderators have been experimenting with compiling and distributing a Commercial Digest once a week, on Friday afternoons, with messages containing informational content from commercial bodies (i.e., publishers, vendors, agents, etc.). The moderators review submitted messages for informational content that may interest our subscribers. We reserve the right to reject messages that are purely for advertising or product/service solicitation, with little or no informational content beyond the solicitation, as well as other content that are not within the scope and purpose guidelines of SERIALST (see: http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html) If you have thoughts or feedback about the Commercial digest, or other aspects of SERIALST, please let us hear from you. Contact information for the SERIALST moderators is at: http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/serialst.html#contacts This week's digest contains 2 messages: 1. Cambridge University Press to publish Journal of Anglican Studies from 2009 2. Duke University Press to Archive e-Books with Portico 1. Cambridge University Press to publish Journal of Anglican Studies from 2009 **With apologies for cross-posting** For immediate release 20th January 2009, Cambridge, UK & New York, USA Cambridge University Press is delighted to announce that, as of 2009, it will be publishing Journal of Anglican Studies (JAS). At a time when contemporary Anglicanism is so much in the public eye, the journal provides an important home for serious scholarly conversation on all aspects of Anglicanism, a view endorsed by Archbishop Rowan Williams, who said of the journal: “I am delighted to commend the Journal of Anglican Studies as an important initiative in building conversation and understanding throughout the Communion." Bruce Kaye, former General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Australia and the journal’s editor explained: “Around the world Anglicans work out their faith in vastly different circumstances which necessarily creates significant plurality of expression of the faith. As a consequence Anglicanism contains a good deal of variety and, in the present generation, significant differences and conflicts. The JAS seeks to address this situation by providing for engaged conversation among Anglican scholars around the world.” JAS publishes two issues a year and the 2009 Volume (Volume 7) will features two particularly pertinent themed issues; an issue with papers from the recent Lambeth Conference and an issue on post colonialism. To view a sample issue, please visit: http://www.journals.cambridge.org/astsample The journal was established by the Journal of Anglican Studies Trust just over six years ago. In moving to Cambridge University Press, Journal of Anglican Studies is joining a world-leading Religious Studies publishing programme, encompassing journals and books. This year Cambridge University Press celebrates 425 years of continuous publishing, and the Press has been publishing the Bible since 1591. For further information please visit: http://www.journals.cambridge.org/ast Or contact: Martine Walsh at mwalsh@cambridge.org Susan Soule Journals Marketing Manager Cambridge University Press, Americas ----- ssoule@cambridge.org Tel: 212-337-5019 Cell: 646-468-4942 Fax: 212-337-5959 2. Duke University Press to Archive e-Books with Portico For immediate release January 22, 2009 For more information, contact Kimberly Steinle, Library Relations Manager libraryrelations@dukeupress.edu Michael McCullough, Sales Manager mmccullough@dukeupress.edu dukeupress.edu/library Duke University Press to Archive e-Books with Portico Duke University Press will be archiving electronic books from the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection with Portico in a long-term strategy to preserve electronic scholarly content. Duke University Press will be the second publisher, after Elsevier, to archive its entire collection of e-books with Portico. "Libraries increasingly expect publishers to have established reliable preservation arrangements for e-books in much the same way that they have for e-journals," comments Eileen Fenton, Portico's executive director. "We are pleased to work with our colleagues at Duke University Press to respond to this need." Steve Cohn, director of Duke University Press, adds, "With the shift to electronic publishing, the preservation of scholarly work has legitimately been of increasing concern to libraries. Portico enables us to allay those concerns by providing dependable solutions that assure continuous and perpetual access to archived electronic content. We are very pleased to partner with Portico for the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection." The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection was launched in 2008 and provides online access to scholarly books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences. The collection is hosted on the ebrary(r) platform, which allows an unlimited number of simultaneous users at a subscribing institution to access content and use ebrary's searching, navigating, archiving, and other research tools. About Portico Portico was launched in 2005 with support from JSTOR, Ithaka, the Library of Congress, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Portico's mission is to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that it remains accessible to future generations of scholars, researchers, and students. In pursuit of this mission, Portico operates a secure, permanent archive of electronic scholarly journals and books. About Duke University Press Duke University Press publishes approximately 120 books annually and more than 35 periodicals in a wide range of disciplines within the humanities and sciences. For more information about the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection and the Press's other electronic collections, please visit dukeupress.edu/library. ### -- Kimberly Steinle Library Relations Manager Duke University Press 905 W. Main St., Suite 18B Durham, NC 27701 Phone (919) 687-3655 Fax (919) 680-6078 ksteinle@dukeupress.edu www.dukeupress.edu/library
