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Commercial digest Bob Persing 23 Dec 2011 19:01 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 3 messages:
1) Taylor & Francis Opens Access with new OA Program
2) Project MUSE News:Tutorials Available for New MUSE Platform Coming
January 1
3) RSC free access content updates

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Message #1:

Subject: Taylor & Francis Opens Access with new OA Program!
From: "McMillan, Jennifer " <Jennifer.McMillan@tandf.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:46:09 -0000

Taylor & Francis Opens Access with new OA Program!

Oxford, 16th December 2011

The New Year sees the launch of an exciting range of Open Access options
from Taylor & Francis via the Taylor & Francis Open program. This new
initiative is designed to give authors and their sponsors flexibility
and variety when they choose to publish research with Taylor & Francis.

The Taylor & Francis Open program is a suite of fully Open Access
journals consisting of brand new titles, dynamic titles from T&F's
existing portfolio which are converting to OA, and titles published on
behalf of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Human Sciences
Research Council, South Africa.  Many of the titles in this program will
collaborate with leading journals within T&F's existing portfolio,
providing input and support from learned societies and
internationally-acclaimed editors to ensure their calibre.

Taylor & Francis Open journals will have affordable article publication
fees, with discounts or fee waivers for emergent countries. Authors will
benefit from rapid online publication, rigorous peer review and the high
levels of customer care Taylor & Francis provides to all authors.  Their
finished article will be showcased on Taylor & Francis Online, helping
them to gain recognition and esteem for their contribution to their
field.

Taylor & Francis can confirm the following titles will be included in
Taylor & Francis Open, with more to join in the New Year:
Complex Metals
Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews
International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials
Journal of Biological Dynamics
Journal of Organic Semiconductors
Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online - published on
behalf of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Nanoscience Methods
SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS - published on behalf of
the Human Sciences Research Council
Systems Science & Control Engineering

Dr David Green, Global Journals Publishing Director, sums up Taylor &
Francis' new approaches to Open Access, "Taylor & Francis is committed
to producing high-calibre journals that showcase quality global
research. We believe that this content should be widely disseminated and
are now exploring various Open Access models to enable universal access
in ways that are sustainable and meet the needs of the academic and
research communities.  Over the past three years society journals have
been partnering with Taylor & Francis Group at the rate of more than one
per week, and, if required, we are now able to offer a potential partner
a range of Open Access models".

Taylor & Francis will also continue to offer Taylor & Francis Open
Select, which is a hybrid program giving authors the choice to publish
on an Open Access basis in over 500 titles from across Taylor & Francis
Group's extensive portfolio.

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About Taylor & Francis Group

Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies,
universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. As one
of the world's leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks
and reference works our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social
Sciences, Science and Technology.

 From our network of offices in Oxford, Philadelphia, Melbourne,
Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, Stockholm, New Delhi and Johannesburg, Taylor
& Francis staff provide local expertise and support to our editors,
societies and authors  and tailored, efficient customer service to our
library colleagues.

For more information please contact:

Jennifer McMillan, Head of Library Marketing & Communication, Taylor &
Francis Group Journals

email: newsroom@tandf.co.uk

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Message #2:

Subject: Project MUSE News:Tutorials Available for New MUSE Platform
Coming January 1
From: "Melanie Schaffner" <melanie@muse.jhu.edu>
Reply-To: mbs@press.jhu.edu
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:48:05 -0500 (EST)

New Project MUSE Platform Goes Live January 1, 2012
Tutorials Now Available

Project MUSE's redesigned platform, incorporating both books and journals
in an integrated interface, goes live on January 1, 2012. A preview of the
new platform is available on our beta site at http://beta.muse.jhu.edu.
Over 300 free sample books remain accessible on the beta site through the
end of 2011.

Two video tutorials for searching and browsing within the new interface
are now available. Additional instructional materials will be provided
shortly after the platform launch. View and share the new tutorials here:

Search Books and Journals on Project MUSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhldo-sLktk&feature=youtube_gdata
Browse Books and Journals on Project MUSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrR9wM-R2dM&feature=youtube_gdata

The new platform will provide digital access to over 14,000 books from 66
university presses and related scholarly publishers, alongside MUSE's over
500 electronic journals. A search box on every page of the site offers
users the option of searching both books and journals, or filtering by
content type prior to running the search. At the search results level,
users may again filter to just books or just journals.

At launch on January 1, all of the books in MUSE's new UPCC Book
Collections will be visible in search results and when browsing on the
platform. Users at libraries which have purchased or subscribed to book
collections on MUSE will have full-text access to content from those
collections.

MUSE will provide a one-month preview period during January 2012 to allow
librarians and scholars to discover the significant breadth and depth of
both book and journal content available on Project MUSE.  At the end of
the preview period, January 31, 2012, search results will default to only
content to which the searcher has full-text access. At this point, users
will have the option to toggle the search to show all available books and
journals relevant to a search, if desired.

Further highlights of the new Project MUSE platform include:
- Faceted searching, with options to filter search results by subject
area, author, and language of publication
- Enhanced browsing by subject area, title, or publisher, across books and
journals or filtered by content type
- Powerful new hierarchical subject structure, allowing users to drill
down to the most relevant content
- Search box on each page of the site, with predictive search terms
- New access icons to help users clearly identify content to which they
have paid access, free sample content, and open access content
- Discovery and research tools at both the book and journal article level,
including More by This Author and Related Content links, citation
downloading/exporting, and social sharing
- "Search Inside..." feature for both books and journals
- DOIs at title and chapter level for books, article level for journals

The beta site and the current site will continue to operate in parallel
until December 31, 2011, with the new platform going live January 1, 2012.
The Project MUSE URL remains http://muse.jhu.edu. Links to scholarly
content in MUSE (journal articles and issues) will not be affected by the
platform change, but libraries and users which have bookmarked
informational pages within the site may need to update these bookmarks
after the January 1 transition.

To reiterate, for the one-month preview period of January 2012, searches
on the new platform will default to displaying all relevant book and
journal results, unless the user selects to filter to only books or only
journals at the time of searching. After January 31, 2012, search results
will default to only that journal and/or book content to which a user has
full-text access.

Questions about the platform transition, UPCC Book Collections on Project
MUSE, or related issues may be directed to Project MUSE Customer Support
at muse@press.jhu.edu.

Melanie Schaffner
Director, Sales and Marketing
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 #3:

Subject: RSC free access content updates
From: Louise Peck <peckl@rsc.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:31:32 +0000

* * * Apologies for cross-posting * * *

RSC Publishing would like to announce updates to our free access content
model for RSC scientific journal articles and eBooks, for more
information please
GO TO http://blogs.rsc.org/rscpublishing/2011/12/19/freeaccessupdates/

For technical queries about accessing this content, please
EMAIL technicalsupport@rsc.org

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a merry Christmas
and a happy new year. I look forward to working with you in 2012.

Kind regards

Louise
Louise Peck BSc LM DipM MCIM, Library Marketing Specialist
Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House,
Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 432669, Fax: +44 (0) 1223 420247
www.rsc.org/publishing
peckl@rsc.org