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Commercial digest (4 messages) Bob Persing 07 Oct 2011 18:38 UTC

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) Project MUSE News: MUSE Book Collection Details Now Available
2) Physics Nobel: Free Journal Articles and Resources from AIP
3) Duke University Press to publish Tikkun
4) Chemistry Nobel: Free Journal Articles and Resources from AIP

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Message #1:

Subject: Project MUSE News: MUSE Book Collection Details Now Available
From: "Melanie Schaffner" <melanie@muse.jhu.edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)

For Immediate Release
October 3, 2011

Project MUSE Releases Details on New Book Collections

Details on the highly anticipated Project MUSE Book Collections are now
available. Going live on January 1, 2012, the collections will feature
over 14,000 electronic titles from 66 respected university press and
scholarly publishers. The collections will provide libraries, researchers,
and students access to a wealth of high quality book-length scholarship,
including both new and classic titles, fully integrated with the over 500
journal titles in MUSE's electronic journal collections, in a
user-friendly environment with rich discovery features.

Project MUSE books will be offered in PDF format, searchable and
retrievable to the chapter level, with unlimited simultaneous usage, no
DRM, and no restrictions on printing or downloading. COUNTER-compliant
usage statistics, as well as free MARC records, will be available.

In early 2011, Project MUSE began cooperating on its ebook initiative with
the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC), an assembly of major
university presses and related scholarly publishers that grew out of
extensive research into a viable model for a collaborative electronic book
offering. This cooperation will now make thousands of peer-reviewed
scholarly books available digitally, many for the first time, via the 26
book collections Project MUSE will initially offer for perpetual access
purchase.

Information on available Project MUSE Book Collections, along with
detailed title lists, is accessible on the MUSE web site at
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/book_collections.html. Libraries may
request pricing for book collections by using the form at
http://muse.jhu.edu/order/quote. Several
flexible purchase and payment options are offered, with special pricing
incentives for select purchases of multiple book collections. Orders may
be placed at any time, with access to content beginning on January 1,
2012.

Current Collections for Purchase

The launch of books on MUSE will allow libraries and other institutions to
purchase Current Collections comprised of content published or scheduled
to publish in 2010, 2011, and 2012, available as single-year collections
or with special discounts for the purchase of multiple years. Current
Complete Collections include all books available across all disciplines
for the applicable calendar year, while Current Subject Collections offer
books in selected disciplines by calendar year. Subject collections
available include Archeology and Anthropology; Film, Theater and
Performing Arts; Global Cultural Studies; Higher Education; History;
Literature; Philosophy and Religion; Poetry, Fiction and Creative
Non-Fiction; Political Science and Policy Studies; and United States
Regional Studies.

The content in the book collections available for purchase on MUSE is
stable, and the titles included for collections from 2011 and earlier will
not change. No additional titles will be added to these collections, and
titles will not be removed unless a legal or copyright issue requires such
action. Complete lists of the titles included in these collections are
available for download from the MUSE web site at
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/book_title_lists.html.

For the forthcoming 2012 book collections, new titles will publish
simultaneously in electronic and print formats. A preliminary, partial
list of titles expected to be included in the 2012 collections is
available at
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/book_title_lists.html. Prices for the 2012
collections are based upon a guaranteed minimum number of titles to be
delivered, derived from estimates provided by the participating publishers
for the titles they intend to submit to MUSE. The list of expected 2012
titles will be updated frequently as specific title information becomes
available from the publishers.

Archival Collections for Purchase and Subscription

MUSE is also offering archival Foundation Collections, consisting of
thousands of titles published prior to 2010, allowing libraries to procure
access to a critical mass of significant content from numerous university
presses, across many disciplines, at very affordable prices. A Complete
Foundation Collection with over 11,000 titles is available, along with
several Subject Foundation Collections. The subjects include all those
offered for the Current Collections (listed above), with the addition of
Classical Studies and Language and Linguistics. Complete title lists
for the Foundation Collections are also available at
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/book_title_lists.html. In future years,
Supplemental Archive Collections will be offered to build upon the
Foundation Collections, with content from additional publishers joining
the MUSE digital books program and from currently participating publishers
digitizing and contributing more backlist books.

MUSE will also offer an access-only subscription option, providing access
to all books categorized by MUSE as archival during the period of the
subscription. This collection will grow from year to year as more backlist
titles are added to MUSE, and as current titles move into archive status.
No ownership rights are provided with this option, and the subscription
must be renewed annually to retain access to the content.

Sample MUSE Books on Beta Site

Over 300 free sample digital books from 27 publishers are currently
available for browsing and searching at http://beta.muse.jhu.edu. The beta
site, a sneak preview of the enhanced MUSE platform coming January 1,
2012, utilizes a sophisticated new cross-content, faceted search
functionality, and allows browsing of books and journals side-by-side. A
powerful new hierarchical subject structure permits users to drill down to
the most relevant content, and encourages discovery. The beta site also
includes the complete content from the over 500 distinguished scholarly
journals now available on the current MUSE site. Visitors to the beta site
have access to the same content for which they have rights on the current
site, via their institutional affiliation and associated subscriptions.
More information about the beta and MUSE's new interface is available at
http://bit.ly/qtppNg.

For more information, please contact MUSE Customer Support at
muse@press.jhu.edu.

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social
science content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have
supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and
school libraries worldwide.

Melanie Schaffner
Marketing and Sales Manager, 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: Physics Nobel: Free Journal Articles and Resources from AIP
From: Lori Carlin <lscarlin@aip.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:10:34 +0000

This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication.

Dear Colleagues,

The American Institute of Physics congratulates this year's Nobel
Laureates in Physics “for the discovery of

the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of
distant supernovae.” Sharing half the prize

is Saul Perlmutter from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and
University of California, Berkeley. Sharing

the other half jointly are Brian P. Schmidt from the Australian National
University, and Adam G. Riess from

Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute.

AIP is pleased to make available free of charge a selection of research
papers these Nobel Laureates have

published in our journals, Conference Proceedings, and Physics Today
magazine. To view any of these materials

go to http://journals.aip.org/Nobel2011.html.

We will build on this material throughout the day to bring you a host of
additional resources, including an

overview of the work done by these three scientists, plus related links,
photos and interviews.

Regards,

Lori S. Carlin

Director, Fulfillment and Marketing

American Institute of Physics

2 Huntington Quadrangle, Suite 1NO1

Melville, NY 11747

AIP Publishing

Marketing & Sales

Tel: +1-516-576-2279

Fax: +1 516-349-9704

Email: lscarlin@aip.org

Web: www.aip.org

Follow us on Twitter: @AIP_Publishing

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Message #3:

Subject: Duke University Press to publish Tikkun
From: Emma Boyer <eboyer@dukeupress.edu>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:01:06 -0400

For immediate release
October 5, 2011
For more information, contact
Emma Boyer, Journals Publicity Coordinator
eboyer@dukeupress.edu

Duke University Press is pleased to announce the addition of the
magazine Tikkun to its list of titles. Edited

by Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun provides provocative analyses of
American politics, culture, and social theory,

and serves as a unique source of discourse about Israel and Palestine.
Tikkun offers fresh ideas for those

seeking to assist in the magazine’s goal: to heal and transform the world.

“Tikkun is a welcome addition to our publishing program,” says Duke
University Press director Steve Cohn. “For

the past twenty-five years, the magazine has been known as a powerful
intellectual voice for the spiritual left

and for taking on important and at times controversial topics.”

While continuing to be the preeminent voice of liberal and progressive
Jews, Tikkun has evolved into a major

interfaith magazine and seeks to build bridges between religious and
secular progressives. Tikkun’s editorial

direction and mission will remain the same after the transition in
publisher. Duke University Press will begin

publishing the quarterly magazine in 2012 with volume 27.

About the transition, Rabbi Lerner says, “the new partnership with Duke
University Press will bring Tikkun

additional publishing and sales expertise as well as a shared commitment
to publishing risk-taking and

innovative intellectual work.”

Subscriptions for individuals, as well as reduced-price subscriptions
for members of Tikkun’s Network of

Spiritual Progressives, will be handled by the Tikkun editorial office
at www.tikkun.org. The title will be

included at no cost in the 2012 e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collections
and will also be available through

Project Muse. Institutions can subscribe by contacting Duke University
Press at subscriptions@dukeupress.edu or

by calling 888-651-1022 (toll-free in the US and Canada) or 919-688-5134.

--
Emma S. Boyer
Academic Exhibits & Publicity Coordinator
Journals Marketing Department
Duke University Press
Box 90660
Durham, NC 27708-0660
Phone: 919.687.3636
Fax: 919.680.6078
eboyer@dukeupress.edu

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Message #4:

Subject: Chemistry Nobel: Free Journal Articles and Resources from AIP
From: Lori Carlin <lscarlin@aip.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:29:34 +0000

This message is cross-posted. Please pardon the duplication.

Dear Colleagues,

The American Institute of Physics congratulates this year's Nobel
Laureate in Chemistry “for the discovery of

quasicrystals.” The prize was awarded to Daniel Shechtman, a
distinguished professor at the Israel Institute of

Technology in Haifa. Contrary to the previous belief that all crystals
had a well-defined symmetry with

repeatable patterns, Shechtman showed that the atoms in a crystal could
be packed in a pattern that never

repeated, yet maintained a well-defined symmetry.

We are pleased to make available, free of charge, a selection of
research papers Daniel Shechtman has published

in AIP journals. To view any of these articles go to
http://journals.aip.org/NobelChemistry2011.html.

Regards,

Lori Carlin

___________________________________________

Lori S. Carlin

Director, Fulfillment and Marketing

American Institute of Physics

2 Huntington Quadrangle, Suite 1NO1

Melville, NY 11747

AIP Publishing

Sales and Marketing

Tel: +1-516-576-2279

Fax: +1 516-349-9704

Email: lscarlin@aip.org

Web: www.aip.org