Important information for Taylor & Francis' subscribers - beta launch of informaworld

["Bell, Ashleigh" <Ashleigh.Bell@tandf.co.uk>]

For Immediate Release
News from Taylor & Francis

New Electronic Publishing Platform Offers Enhanced Search 
Capabilities and Improved Access to Online Content - 
www.informaworld.com

Taylor and Francis Group, one of the world's leading scholarly 
publishers, is delighted to announce the beta launch of its new 
electronic publishing platform. informaworld will deliver 
enhanced search capabilities for its extensive current collection 
of over 550,000 electronic journal articles, databases, 13,000 
eBooks and over 3000 volumes from its online archives, spanning 
back to volume 1, by subject.

Offering online cross-searching on a grand scale, informaworld 
will incorporate some of the most advanced features that 
web-based technology has to offer.

informaworld will provide librarians, researchers, and students 
access to over 950 journals from Taylor & Francis, Routledge and 
Psychology Press, as well as over 180 Informa Healthcare 
journals, selected encyclopedias, 185,000 A&I records from all 
Taylor & Francis abstract databases, and a growing collection of 
260,000 eBook chapters from Taylor & Francis, Routledge and 
Informa Healthcare.

Taylor and Francis and its related companies publish more than 
1,100 journals and have pioneered the development of electronic 
and web-based journal subscriptions.  With an ever expanding 
portfolio of electronic content, Taylor and Francis' informaworld 
platform presents customers with the flexibility to search across 
a broad spectrum of scholarly information, be it in a journal, 
eBook or reference work.

Librarians will find that informaworld makes it easier to manage their
subscriptions.  Features include:

* Automatic enabling of subscriptions with email confirmation to 
ease administration.

* Improved control over online access to subscriptions -- 
whatever the library's access policy - via IP, proxy server, and 
Athens authentication (Shibboleth to follow).

* COUNTER2-compliant usage statistics to assist with collection 
management.

* Subscription lists, available to view and download -- helping 
to populate the library catalogue, link server, or monitor 
collections

* Alerting services and RSS Feeds including citation and subject 
alerts -- providing current awareness tools for both librarians 
and end-users

* Marked lists that can be shared with students -- providing new 
ways to create course resources

* Link resolver registration -- enabling the integration of 
informaworld with the library catalogue

* Branding of the website -- by incorporating the library's logo.

Researchers and students will find that the new platform provides 
enhanced searching capabilities over a broader range of 
resources. Extensive reference linking and forward citations 
provide the tools needed to find additional sources of 
top-quality information, and marked lists enable users to save 
articles, journals, books, and chapters to retrieve and read in 
future visits.

For journal editors and authors, informaworld will offer alerting 
services including table of contents and subject and citation 
alerts, which help bring readers back to a particular journal or 
electronic resource. Enhanced presentation of illustrations, 
supplementary data, and multimedia files will be possible through 
electronic portal.  Taylor and Francis will also introduce a 
range of new features attractive to society-sponsored journals.

Taylor and Francis' informaworld will run in parallel with T&F's 
existing platforms whilst customers are invited to try out the 
beta site and provide feedback.  All current subscriptions and 
recent usage information will be maintained and transferred to 
the informaworld platform.  It will not be necessary for 
subscribers to re-register institutional accounts or sign new 
license agreements.  Information on updating URLs and IP and 
ranges can be obtained at www.informaworld.com.

Users of other gateways are encouraged to ensure they are also 
registered on informaworld by contacting 
support@informaworld.com.

When we have responded to feedback, access will be transferred to 
informaworld to ensure a smooth transition and minimal disruption 
to all.

Usernames and passwords are now in the process of being issued to 
registered administrators, and librarians with questions about 
the transition to informaworld can contact the Online Customer 
Service Helpdesk at support@informaworld.com or +44 (0) 207 017 
7720 for more information.

Alternatively, for more information, contact us using the 
feedback form at the following address: 
www.informaworld.com/contactus_submit

Taylor & Francis Group, 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, 
Oxfordshire, OX14 4RN, UK.

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