Duke University Press announces participation in SERU

[Kimberly Steinle <ksteinle@dukeupress.edu>]

Apologies for cross-postings.

For immediate release
August 23, 2007

For more information, contact
Kimberly Steinle, Library Relations Manager
libraryrelations@dukeupress.edu
http://www.dukeupress.edu/library

Duke University Press announces participation in SERU

Duke University Press is pleased to announce its participation in the
Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (SERU) project. Sponsored by
the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), SERU offers an
innovative alternative to the increasingly costly and cumbersome
practice of customer-by-customer site license negotiations between a
library and a publisher. Libraries wishing to acquire access to Duke
University Press participating journals can forgo a traditional site
license agreement, relying instead on the shared expectations set forth
in the SERU statements of shared understanding.

"As a university press, we trust our institutional customers 
implicitly, making it a natural decision to participate in SERU's 
streamlined solution to difficult and costly traditional site 
license negotiations," states Library Relations Manager Kimberly 
Steinle. "It is our hope that our participation in SERU will help 
to alleviate some of the burden on stretched library staff and 
budgets, while also allowing us to continue to offer affordable 
pricing for our content."

Most Duke University Press journal titles - excluding the Duke 
Mathematical Journal and two electronic collections, the e-Duke 
Scholarly Collection and DMJ 100 - will now be available to 
libraries for use with SERU. This includes thirty-one journals 
currently hosted by HighWire Press, as well as the Notre Dame 
Journal of Formal Logic, hosted by Project Euclid.

For more information about the origins of SERU and how to 
participate, or to download "SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource 
Understanding," which sets forth SERU's framework of shared 
understanding, defines appropriate and inappropriate usage, and 
sets archival and perpetual access standards, please visit 
http://www.niso.org/committees/SERU. For more information on Duke 
University Press's participation in SERU, please visit the 
Library Resource Center at http://www.dukeupress.edu/library.

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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@dukeupress.edu
www.dukeupress.edu