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This week's digest contains 2 messages:

1. Indiana University Press Joins Current Scholarship Program
2. Initial Beta Test Results for EBSCO's ERM Essentials

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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:52:57 -0500
From: David Fritsch <David.Fritsch@ithaka.org>
Subject: Indiana University Press Joins Current Scholarship Program

JANUARY 6, 2010

   Indiana University Press Joins Current Scholarship Program

Indiana University Press, founded in 1950 and one of the leading
university presses in the country, and JSTOR, the preservation archive and
research platform that is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA, announced an
agreement today to make leading journals from the Press available
worldwide as part of the Current Scholarship Program, a new collaborative
initiative announced  on August 13, 2009.

By joining the Program, current and historical content from 28 Indiana
University Press-published journals will be made available on a
re-designed JSTOR in 2011. This will offer faculty and students around the
world access to current issues alongside back issues easily and
seamlessly. JSTOR's nearly 6,000 library participants worldwide will be
able to license the Press's journals, either individually or as part of
current issue collections, together with JSTOR back issue collections in a
single transaction.

  IU Press serials in the Program will include Africa Today, Jewish Social
Studies, the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, the Journal of
Folklore Research, and the Journal of Modern Literature, among others. 
The journals will be preserved in Portico, the digital preservation
service that is also part of ITHAKA.

According to Kathryn Caras, Director of Electronic and Serials Publishing
at IU Press, "The addition of current scholarship to the already-rich
JSTOR archive of content is the mother lode.  Once the project launches in
early 2011, researchers and scholars, through subscribing institutions,
will have access to the complete runs of some of the most important
journals from some of the finest university presses in the country.  It
will be an invaluable research tool, and I'm very pleased IU Press
Journals is part of it."

Indiana University Press joins University of California Press and the
University of Illinois Press in the Program. The current issues of at
least 70 journals from these publishers will be available from JSTOR for
the 2011 subscription year. Other organizations are being encouraged to
join.

"Indiana University Press publishes excellent journals that are essential
to research in the humanities," said Mary Rose Muccie, JSTOR Current
Journals Director. "We look forward to working with the Press to provide
librarians and users with a great and efficient experience - access to the
latest Press-published research and full archives, on a platform they know
and use every day."

Together, participants in this Program aim to create an improved online
work environment for faculty and students by bringing complete journal
runs from multiple publishers together in one place, to ease the burden on
librarians of negotiating separate license agreements with a multitude of
publishers and independent titles, and to promote a more cost-effective
publishing environment for the scholarly community. For more information,
see http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/programs/currentScholarship.jsp.

David R. Fritsch
Assistant Director, Outreach and Participation Services
JSTOR | Portico
Voice: (609) 986-2286
Fax: (212) 358-6445
david.fritsch@ithaka.org

JSTOR (www.jstor.org), an accessible archive of more than 1,000 scholarly
journals and other content, and Portico (www.portico.org), a service that
preserves content published in electronic form for future generations, are
part of ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org). ITHAKA is a not-for-profit organization
dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technologies to
preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in
sustainable ways.

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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:50:38 -0600
From: Heather Klusendorf <Hklusendorf@ebsco.com>
Subject: Initial Beta Test Results for EBSCO's ERM Essentials

Initial Beta Test Results of EBSCO's New ERM Essentials[tm] Signal

Birmingham, Ala.,-January 6- Following successful beta testing by 25
library customers in 2009, EBSCO (www.ebsco.com) is planning for the
launch at ALA midwinter of EBSCONET ERM Essentials, which offers key
features that librarians need to simplify management of their e-resources.
Feedback from beta testers has been positive as they discovered a new way
to manage their e-resources, eliminating the challenge of maintaining
multiple email chains, paper files, spreadsheets, and other decentralized
information spread across multiple departments and staff.

ERM Essentials is pre-populated for orders of e-journals and e-packages
purchased through EBSCO with daily updates to ensure accuracy. According
to Chris Spencer, Library Procurement & Systems Development Manager,
Bournemouth University, UK, integration across EBSCO platforms, such as
EBSCO A-to-Z®, saves time because "you only have to enter the data into
one place to populate other applications." Spencer adds that "we don't
want to edit information more than once; the pre-population is really
useful."

ERM Essentials offers unique integration with other EBSCO tools that
librarians already know and use. Dana Taylor, Department Head, Collection
Management at Louisiana State University, says that "all the functionality
is there. I can click and go straight to A-to-Z and EBSCONET and then go
back to another-all products are in one place."  

ERM Essentials provides librarians with a user-friendly system, intuitive
design and a central location to manage all their e-resources. The often
cumbersome job that most librarians face when trying to manage large
groups of e-resources, such as e-journal collections, becomes easier with
ERM Essentials, the first full-featured electronic resource management
tool that automatically populates and maintains more than 100 data fields
for e-journals and e-packages purchased through EBSCO.

About EBSCO

EBSCO is the world's premier full-service provider of information,
offering a portfolio of services that spans the realm of print and
electronic subscription access and management, research databases and
more. The company's e-resource renewal and management tools help
librarians accomplish in hours what once took weeks. For more information,
please visit www.ebsco.com.

For more information, please contact:

Heather Klusendorf
EBSCO Media Relations
205.995.1539
hklusendorf@ebsco.com