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This week's digest contains 2 messages:
1) The Max Planck Society and De Gruyter Sign Agreement for Open Access
Publishing
2) New thesaurus created for the astronomy community

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Message #1:

Subject: The Max Planck Society and De Gruyter Sign Agreement for Open
Access Publishing
From: <Ulrike.Lippe@degruyter.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:27:18 +0100

PRESS RELEASE

The Max Planck Society and De Gruyter Sign Agreement for Open Access
Publishing

Berlin/Munich, 24 January 2013 – The Max Planck Society and the academic
publishing house De Gruyter have signed a groundbreaking agreement to
cooperate in the publication of Open Access books. The agreement covers
texts intended for publication by scholars at the more than 80
individual Max Planck institutes working around the world today. It
encompass the full range of disciplines in which the Max Planck Society
is active, including the natural sciences, social sciences, and
humanities, and applies to both monographs and anthologies.

“Our collaboration with De Gruyter will enable us to offer our scholars
a unified platform – both from a legal and an organizational perspective
– for publishing books in Open Access,” explains Ralf Schimmer, Director
of the Department of Scientific Information Provision at the Max Planck
Digital Library. “In this way, we’re responding to an increasing number
of requests from the Max Planck institutes, and are extending the
support we give for Open Access publishing from journal articles to the
arena of books.”

De Gruyter is providing the Max Planck Society an attractive opportunity
to disseminate its content to the broadest possible audience. Alongside
free, global access to content at De Gruyter Online (www.degruyter.com),
print versions will also be released.

“Our agreement with the Max Planck Society underscores that De Gruyter’s
Open Access model is a groundbreaking form of academic publishing,” says
Anke Beck, Vice President of Publishing at De Gruyter. “Publications
from the internationally renowned institutes of the Max Planck Society
will enrich our program with the highest quality content across all
fields of research.”

Already in the past several years De Gruyter has successfully published
a number of Open Access books in collaboration with a variety of ongoing
research projects, including with the Berlin College of Antiquities’
Cluster of Excellence project The Formation and Transformation of Space
and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations (TOPOI) and with the Munich
Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for
Social Law and Social Policy.

Contact
Ulrike Lippe
Public Relations Manager
Tel. +49 (0)30-260 05 153
ulrike.lippe@degruyter.com

Tina Planck
Max Planck Digital Library
Tel. +49 (0)89-38602249
planck@mpdl.mpg.de

De Gruyter: The academic publishing house De Gruyter can look back on a
history spanning over 260 years. The Berlin-based group of companies
releases over 850 new titles each year in the fields of medicine, the
humanities, natural sciences, and law, in addition to more than 600
journals and digital media publications. www.degruyter.com

The Max Planck Society: The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of
Science is an independent, non-profit research organization. It
primarily funds research at its own institutions, which conduct basic
research in the natural, biological, and social sciences, as well as in
the humanities. http://www.mpg.de

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Message #2:

Subject: New thesaurus created for the astronomy community
From: Collins@ioppubusa.com
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:53:25 -0500

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have
jointly announced the gift of a new astronomy thesaurus called the
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) to the American Astronomical Society
(AAS) that will help improve future information discovery for researchers.

The AAS will make the UAT freely available for development and use
within the astronomy community, while ensuring the thesaurus remains
relevant and useful. Further development of the UAT will be undertaken
by the John G. Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics in collaboration with the Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) to enhance and
extend the thesaurus to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of
the astronomy community.

Adoption of the thesaurus within the ADS will result in better linking
with the majority of astronomy research journal articles through a
common vocabulary, thereby greatly improving the accuracy of information
discovery.

The work to combine the thesauri has been carried out by Access
Innovations, Inc., a privately held company that specializes in
information management and database creation products and services.
For details on this endeavor, please view the press release.

Sincerely,
Sharice
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Sharice P. Collins
Vice President, Marketing
IOP Publishing, Inc.
150 South Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA 19106
ioppublishing.org
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