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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:32:42 -0400
From: Kimberly Steinle <ksteinle_at_dukeupress.edu>
Subject: Cornell University Library and Duke University Press Announce
Partnership
Apologies for cross postings.
For immediate release
April 11, 2008
For more information, contact
Terry Ehling
Director, Project Euclid
Director, Center for Innovative Publishing, Cornell University Library
607-255-4490
ehling_at_cornell.edu
Erich Staib
Journals Acquisitions Editor, Duke University Press
919-687-3664
erich.staib_at_dukeupress.edu
Cornell University Library and Duke University Press Announce Partnership;
Duke to Provide Enhanced Services for Project Euclid
ITHACA, NY and DURHAM, NC, USA (April 11, 2008) – In a publishing
agreement that reaches across boundaries by bringing together a leading
U.S.
academic research library and one of the nation’s outstanding university
presses,
Cornell University Library (Cornell) and Duke University Press (Duke) today
announced that they have established a joint venture to expand and enhance
the services of Project Euclid, the premier online information community
for
mathematics and statistics resources from independent publishers.
Effective July 2008, Duke will provide publishing expertise in
marketing, sales,
and order fulfillment to Project Euclid’s participating publishers and
institutional subscribers. Duke will work to broaden and deepen Project
Euclid’s subscriber base, resulting in greater global exposure for 54
journals
and a growing number of monographs and conference proceedings. Cornell
will continue to provide and support the vital IT infrastructure for
Project
Euclid and assume responsibility for archiving and preservation activities,
ensuring robust and reliable access to the content deposited with Project
Euclid for future scholars, researchers, and students.
Now home to 93,000 journal articles (75% of which are open access),
along with 60 monographs and conference proceedings, Project Euclid
and its partner publishers will benefit from Duke’s commitment to Project
Euclid’s mission and from the Press’s publishing proficiency, reputation
for quality consciousness, and university-based value system. Duke’s
recent initiative to expand its journals publishing program into science,
technology and medicine further ensures that together the Cornell Library
and Duke University Press will achieve Project Euclid’s goal to become
a primary “destination site” for mathematicians and statisticians.
“A collaboration that pairs the complementary strengths of a leading
research library and a university press from different universities is an
extraordinary move. The result is nothing less than securing the future
of alternative publishing options for independent presses in the fields
of mathematics and statistics,” said Anne Kenney, Carl A. Kroch
University Librarian, Cornell University Library.
“I am delighted that our long relationship with the Cornell University
Library has resulted in an agreement that will be of great benefit to
both parties, as well as to the partner journals in Project Euclid and
to the many users of Project Euclid in the mathematics and statistics
communities,” said Steve Cohn, Director of Duke University Press.
This joint venture was undertaken in cooperation with the Scholarly
Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an alliance
of universities, research libraries, and organizations, created by the
Association of Research Libraries.
Leadership for Project Euclid will be assumed by management at
both Cornell and Duke.
About Cornell University Library
The Cornell University Library is one of the ten largest research
libraries in North America. Its holdings exceed 7.5 million volumes
and over 395,000 networked electronic resources. The Library has
a distinguished record in the area of scholarly communication for the
physical sciences and mathematics. In addition to Project Euclid,
the Library operates the physics e-print server, arXiv, the first and
still the most important example of open access to current scientific
research. The Library’s early digitization of 576 mathematics
monographs (1991) served as the basis of their participation in a
collaborative NSF-supported project involving the University of
Michigan Library and the Göttingen State and University Library to
develop an interoperable digital collection. For more information,
please visit http://www.library.cornell.edu/
About Duke University Press
Duke University Press publishes approximately 120 books annually
and more than 30 journals, including the prestigious Duke
Mathematical Journal, which the Press has published since the
journal’s inception in 1935. Duke University Press is known as
a publisher willing to take chances with nontraditional and
interdisciplinary
publications, both books and journals. Like the University as a whole,
the Press seeks to pursue its objectives with vision and integrity. In
the case of Duke University Press, that means a commitment to the
highest standards of both critical scholarly review and professional
publishing judgment. For more information, please visit
http://dukeupress.edu/
About Project Euclid
Since its launch in 2003, Project Euclid has been recognized worldwide
as a distinctive online environment for the distribution of serial
literature
in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Established in
2000 with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
Euclid’s mission is to assure that the mathematics and statistics
communities continue to benefit from a healthy balance of commercial
enterprises, scholarly societies, and independent publishers. For
more information, please visit http://projecteuclid.org/
--
Kimberly Steinle
Library Relations Manager
Duke University Press
905 West Main Street, Suite 18-B
Durham, NC 27701
919-687-3655 (ph) 919-688-3524 (fax)
ksteinle_at_dukeupress.edu
www.dukeupress.edu
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