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Palgrave Macmillan and Nature Publishing Group will launch a new eBook platform
Press Release
12 November 2008
For immediate release
Palgrave Macmillan and Nature Publishing Group collaborate to
launch new eBook platform
In response to the growing demand for digital resources Palgrave
Macmillan will launch the eBook platform, Palgrave Connect, in
January 2009.
Developed in association with Palgrave Macmillan's sister
company, Nature Publishing Group (NPG), Palgrave Connect offers
libraries a flexible approach to building an eBook collection in
the Humanities, Business and Social Sciences. Over 4000 e-books
will be available in January 2009. The collections are organized
and sold by year of publication and discipline. 2009 collections
will receive quarterly updates with newly published titles. Both
the backlist and the 2009 collections are available via a
"one-time perpetual access" purchase model.
Palgrave Connect is powered by NPG's award winning online
platform nature.com alongside the Palgrave journals content.
The choice of NPG as partner also means that librarians can
control their institution's subscriptions to journal and eBook
products from both publishers via one administration system and
with a single point of contact for customer service.
www.palgraveconnect.com incorporates NPG's full range of library
services, including institutional usage reports and promotional
tools. MARC records will be included with all collections at the
time of purchase. We are now closer to hosting both eBooks and
journals on the same platform soon, as an important first step
towards offering completely integrated content collections in the
future.
'Access to books online is rapidly becoming as important for
academics and professionals as traditional print models - in some
cases even more important, since eBooks bring powerful benefits
such as searchability, remote access and multiple concurrency.
Palgrave Macmillan's new e-book platform, Palgrave Connect,
brings together our rich backlist in each subject area together
with new titles publishing around the same time as the print
version, to offer libraries an exceptional range and quality of
research in digital format.' - Alison Jones, Director of Digital
Development, Palgrave Macmillan
Preview Palgrave Connect at ALA 2009
Palgrave Macmillan will offer exclusive previews of Palgrave
Connect at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting
<http://www.ala.org/midwinter> in Denver, CO. Visit Palgrave
booth # 1113 this January 23-26, 2009 to request a brief
demonstration or to register for a free trial.
About Palgrave Connect
Palgrave Connect will allow unlimited simultaneous access to
eBooks for subscribing members of the library community. All
eBooks are fully searchable and can be downloaded and printed.
In addition, once a library purchases Palgrave eBook collections,
they own the book content for use in perpetuity. Libraries can
choose complete eBook collections or any combination of
collections in the following eight subject areas:
* Business & Management
* Economics & Finance
* History
* Language & Linguistics
* Literature & Performing Arts
* Political & International Studies
* Religion & Philosophy
* Social & Cultural Studies
Palgrave Connect will be sold by the Palgrave Macmillan Online
Sales Team headed by Michael Schluter in the USA and Becky
Hartnup in the UK. Librarians seeking a trial or more information
should email: onlinesales@palgrave-usa.com.
About Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is a global publisher, serving learning and
scholarship in higher education and the professional world. We
have an established and distinguished track record in
international academic publishing with considerable strengths in
the Humanities, Social Sciences and Business. Our academic
publishing program includes textbooks, journals, monographs,
professional and reference works in print and online. We also
publish a highly acclaimed non-fiction trade list representing
the best thinking and research in the core areas of Politics,
Business, History and Current Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan
represents an unbroken tradition of 150 years of independent
publishing, continually reinventing itself for the future. For
more information, please visit www.palgrave.com
<http://www.palgrave.com/>.
About Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
Nature Publishing Group is a division of Macmillan Publishers
Ltd, dedicated to serving the academic and professional
scientific and medical communities. NPG's flagship title, Nature,
was first published in 1869. Other publications include Nature
research journals, Nature Reviews, Nature Clinical Practice and a
range of prestigious academic journals including society-owned
publications. NPG also provides news content through Nature News.
Scientific career information and free job postings are offered
on Naturejobs. NPG is a global company with headquarters in
London and offices in New York, San Francisco, Washington DC,
Boston, Tokyo, Paris, Munich, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Delhi, Mexico
City, Madrid and Basingstoke. For more information, please visit
www.nature.com <http://www.nature.com/> .
For further information or to arrange a preview of Palgrave Connect at
the American Library Association- 2009 Midwinter Meeting in Denver, CO
contact:
Denise De La Rosa
Senior Marketing Manager
Palgrave Macmillan
Denise.delarosa@palgrave-usa.com
www.palgraveconnect.com