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May 31, 2006
University of Conneticut Opens Institutional Respository
May 30, 2006
Press Release:
The University has begun full-scale operation of an electronic institutional repository.
Following the successful completion of a year-long pilot program, the University Libraries has opened its digital collection of the University's scholarly products to all faculty, staff, and graduate students at UConn, including the regional campuses, the Health Center, and the Law School.
The website is: http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 11:12 PM
May 10, 2006
University of Michigan's Institutional Repository
U-M Library launches Deep Blue: More access to U-M scholarship
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--The University of Michigan Library has launched its new Deep Blue service that provides public online access to more than 24,000 items of research, a database that will grow as U-M researchers continue to add their work.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 11:00 PM
July 12, 2005
Duke University Press Launches e-Duke Scholarly Collection
For immediate release
July 1, 2005
For more information, contact:
Kim Steinle, Library Relations Manager
libraryrelations@dukeupress.edu
http://www.dukeupress.edu/edukecollection
Duke University Press is pleased to announce the official launch of its
new e-Duke Scholarly Collection, hosted by HighWire Press at Stanford
University. The new e-Duke Scholarly Collection will replace the interim
electronic journals package that was offered in the summer of 2004 to the
libraries that had formerly accessed Duke's humanities and social sciences
journals via Project Muse.
"We are proud to have partnered with HighWire Press, an influential leader
in electronic publishing in its development and provision of premier
electronic hosting technology, and also an invaluable resource and friend
to the scientific and academic communities," commented Duke University
Press Director Steve Cohn. "Our partnership with HighWire, whose mission
statement so closely mirrors our own as a university press-that is, a
shared commitment to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute
significantly to the international community of scholarship-will
undoubtedly benefit our subscribers and the larger academic and research
communities that we serve."
A division of Stanford University Libraries, HighWire earned the 2003
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers Award for
"Service to Not-for-Profit Publishing." With this new partnership,
subscribers to the e-Duke Scholarly Collection will reap the many benefits
of HighWire's impressive list of features-including toll-free access
across cited journals within HighWire's collection-and its commitment to
preservation, as Duke University Press will now become a participant in
the Stanford-based LOCKSS program (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe).
The e-Duke Scholarly Collection includes online access to twenty-nine Duke
University Press humanities and social science journals (see list below),
including a newly acquired title for 2006, /New German Critique/. Pricing
for the collection is based on the regular subscription rate of twenty
titles; the nine journals that remain available on Project Muse are
included in the e-Duke Scholarly Collection for no additional cost. Access
to all twenty-nine journals in the collection includes not only the 2006
issues as they are published, but also all available issues from the
2000-2005 volumes.
Derived from the model originally created by Project Muse, the e-Duke
Scholarly Collection pricing model will combine a tier system, based on
Carnegie classifications, with usage statistics to create price
categories. As no reliable usage statistics are currently available, the
2006 and 2007 e-Duke Scholarly Collection prices for all libraries will be
based on median usage. Based on this calculation, all institutions that
subscribe for 2006 and/or 2007 will receive discounts of 33-84% off the
full value of the collection. Once Duke University Press has reliable 2006
usage statistics from HighWire Press, usage quartiles will be implemented
in combination with the current tiered pricing to determine e-Duke
Scholarly Collection rates in 2008.
Finally, in combination with the electronic collection, Duke University
Press is also pleased to introduce a tiered, substantially discounted
pricing model for print subscriptions as add-ons to the e-Duke Scholarly
Collection, with e-Duke subscribers receiving discounts of 60-80% off the
normal print prices.
For more information on the e-Duke Scholarly Collection, including further
details regarding the new pricing model, please visit
http://www.dukeupress.edu/edukecollection.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 09:38 AM
