now publishers Press Release: Foundations and Trends™

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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:52:34 -0500
From: Zac Rolnik <zac.rolnik@nowpublishers.com>
Subject: Press Release: Foundations and Trends^Ù 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Boston MA, 27th October 2003

Contact: Zac Rolnik zac.rolnik@nowpublishers.com, Tel: +1-781-985-4510

Web-based Foundations and Trends(tm)
Puts Published Research Into Context

now publishers today announced a series of on-line products for the
scientific and scholarly research community. Foundations and Trends(tm)
act as a gateway to a library's primary literature and combines the
peer-review of journals, the high usage of reference works, and the
pedagogy of textbooks.  Furthermore, a unique updating procedure will
ensure the information remains current and keeps track with research
developments.

Each Foundations and Trends(tm) covers a major branch of a scientific
discipline and offer current, state-of-the-art review articles by
opinion/research leaders in their field.  Authors are allowed 50-100 pages
for a complete review of the subject and identify how the efforts of many
researchers fit together providing a "big picture" that puts published
work into context.  Articles are published upon acceptance in electronic
form and include a complete bibliography linked to the original source
identifying the most important work in the field. This builds quickly into
a digital gateway providing a trusted starting point to a subject for
students and researchers.

now publishers adheres to the principles of partnership with the academic
and library communities.  For the researcher community now publishers
allows copyright retention and self-archiving by the author.  The library
community benefits from a simple site license agreement with choice of
purchasing options including campus-wide access for all students and
faculty, and unlimited course pack use at subscribing institutions.

Mike Casey, publisher at now said, “The introduction of the web-based
Foundations and Trends(tm) herald a new era in academic publishing. The
integration of specially commissioned, high-quality review articles with
user-friendly technology provides a powerful research tool to librarians,
students and researchers alike. Furthermore, the modern principles used to
distribute the information, put into practice for the first time, a truly
viable alternative to the traditional journal publishing model.”

The following titles are new and available for 2004.

Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory
Edited by Sergio Verdú, Princeton University  URL:
http://www.nowpublishers.com/pages/5/index.htm

Foundations and Trends in Computer Vision and Graphics
Edited by Brian Curless, Univ of Washington, Luc Van Gool, KU Leuven and
Richard Szeliski, Microsoft Research URL:
http://www.nowpublishers.com/pages/8/index.htm

Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management
Edited by Uday Karmarkar, UCLA URL:
http://www.nowpublishers.com/pages/7/index.htm

About now

now was started by two experienced publishers to provide the research and
library community with a partnership for publishing.  The company intends
to bring a new approach to scholarly publishing, which values editors and
authors, deploys a liberal and fair copyright policy, and provides
librarians with value for money.  now is committed to working with
authors, editors, readers and librarians to publish insightful, in-depth
reviews in as timely and efficient a manner as possible.  Find out more by
visiting www.nowpublishers.com

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