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Springer “MyCopy” books

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Since Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity sub­scribes to dig­i­tal sub­ject col­lec­tions of Springer books, indi­vid­u­als are enti­tled to pur­chase print copies for ~$25. The most pop­u­lar title pur­chased accord­ing to a recent report is “Galaxy For­ma­tion”.  These copies are black & white only.  At the upper right, click on:

  • Buy a Print Copy (USD 24.95)
    • Because your library offers access to Springer eBooks, you can have a printed copy of this book deliv­ered to you from Springer­Link for just EUR 24.95 (free shipping)

100 Open Access science journals to be launched by Versita in 2012

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Ver­sita Launches Open Access Jour­nal Program

By Theresa Cramer 

From ResourceShelf Newslet­ter No. 558, May 31, 2012 

From the press release:

Aca­d­e­mic pub­lisher Ver­sita announced today the launch of a new pro­gram of Open Access jour­nals. 100 Emerg­ing Sci­ence Jour­nals are being launched in 2012. The program’s focus is on young and rapidly devel­op­ing fields of sci­ence, which have not yet been cov­ered by a des­ig­nated jour­nal. The emerg­ing top­ics have been iden­ti­fied in Life Sci­ences, Chem­istry, Med­i­cine, Physics and Math­e­mat­ics.
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One of the main rea­sons of this out­stand­ing sup­port is the Open Access pub­lish­ing model, which pro­vides free and unlim­ited access to the jour­nal arti­cles for all inter­ested read­ers. In view of Aca­d­e­mic Spring – and with Open Access gain­ing a momen­tum across scholar com­mu­ni­ties world­wide — Ver­sita is not plan­ning any pub­li­ca­tion fees for the first two years.

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Springer offers personal copies of their e-books for ~$25

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“More than 15,000 books included at $24.95/24,95 euros each

The MyCopy offer is cur­rently valid on more than 15,000 elec­tronic Springer books pub­lished since 2005. The new soft cover edi­tion is branded as a MyCopy book with a color cover and black and white book content.
 
 

All books will be sold at the same price, $24.95 for cus­tomers in the US and Canada or 24,95 euros in Europe. Each price includes ship­ping and han­dling. Local VAT will be added.

 
 

MyCopy books can only be ordered by reg­is­tered patrons of aca­d­e­mic libraries that have pur­chased the cor­re­spond­ing eBook Col­lec­tion. The entire order­ing and ship­ping process will be han­dled by Springer in coop­er­a­tion with a print-on-demand (POD) provider.”

Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity sub­scribes to most of Springer’s ebook packages.

Source: a Springeralerts email, June

Landolt-Bornstein Database demonstration Oct. 23rd at 10:10

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Jane Holmquist, the Astro­physics Librar­ian, will be demon­strat­ing the Landolt-Bornstein Data­base,  tomorrow, Friday morn­ing, in Grand Cen­tral — as part of a trial that the Uni­ver­sity has from Springer­Ma­te­ri­als.  She will answer any ques­tions you may have in this sec­ond ses­sion of “Tool Time”, a series fea­tur­ing Library resources in astro­physics.  (Group VI of L.B. is Astron­omy and Astrophysics.)
 
 

Springer’s series: Methods in Molecular Biology

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“Springer is pleased to announce the pub­li­ca­tion of the 500th vol­ume in the best-selling series, Meth­ods in Mol­e­c­u­lar Biol­ogy. To com­mem­o­rate this mile­stone, we have made some pro­to­cols from this 500th vol­ume — Sys­tems Biol­ogy, edited by Ivan Maly — avail­able for free online at SpringerProtocols.com. As this new vol­ume demon­strates, Springer con­tin­ues to pub­lish pro­to­cols at the cutting-edge of research.”
From an email ad from the pub­lisher, 4/23/09.

PUL has an ongo­ing sub­scrip­tion to this Springer series.  We’ve not yet received vol­ume 500 — but we have received #528. (They often come out of sequence.)  You may want to fol­low their link.  They have ways to store your own pro­to­cols, and videos of some, and links to the newest with RSS feeds…similar to Wiley’s offerings.

 

AuthorMapper.com — free online analytical tool — Springer

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German Springer launches free ana­lyt­i­cal online tool, AuthorMapper.com — 04 Feb 2009

STM pub­lisher Springer Science+Business Media, Ger­many, has launched AuthorMapper.com, a free ana­lyt­i­cal online tool for dis­cern­ing trends, pat­terns and sub­ject experts within sci­en­tific research.

The por­tal cur­rently searches over three mil­lion jour­nal arti­cles to deliver a vari­ety of use­ful infor­ma­tion. The cur­rent search­able con­tent is from all Springer jour­nals. Meta­data from other STM pub­lish­ers will be included in the near future. The tool can pro­vide a vari­ety of analy­ses, such as key­word tag clouds and “Top 5″ bar charts for var­i­ous impor­tant met­rics, and includes an inter­ac­tive world map of the results.

AuthorMapper.com’s advanced search func­tion also allows com­plex queries using key­word, dis­ci­pline, insti­tu­tion, jour­nal and author. The results can iden­tify new and his­toric sci­en­tific trends through time­line graphs and bar charts of top sta­tis­tics, allow­ing for iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of trends in the lit­er­a­ture, dis­cov­ery of wider sci­en­tific rela­tion­ships, and locat­ing other experts in a field of study.

The trend time­line graph, for instance, allows authors to see whether their area of exper­tise is grow­ing or has already peaked. Users that are only inter­ested in open access con­tent can restrict their searches accord­ingly, and all search results pro­vide link-outs to con­tent on Springer­Link. For grad­u­ates, post-docs and emerg­ing researchers, AuthorMapper.com shows which insti­tu­tions are the most pro­lific in spe­cific research areas and allows for their comparison.

AuthorMapper.com’s can even be use­ful for mem­bers of the gen­eral pub­lic seek­ing to iden­tify experts, for exam­ple, med­ical spe­cial­ists, work­ing close to where they are located.

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Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter (2/4/09)

Biophysical Reviews — new Springer journal

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 Springer set to launch new jour­nal — Bio­phys­i­cal Reviews — 16 Jan 2009

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter.

STM pub­lisher Springer, Ger­many, and the Inter­na­tional Union for Pure and Applied Bio­physics (IUPAB) have announced the spring 2009 launch of the jour­nal Bio­phys­i­cal Reviews. The jour­nal will be the new offi­cial pub­li­ca­tion of the IUPAB. The entire IUPAB Coun­cil will form the edi­to­r­ial board of the new jour­nal in order to demon­strate the close affil­i­a­tion between the Springer jour­nal and the IUPAB. Pro­fes­sor Jean Gar­nier of the Insti­tut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) — Unité Math­é­ma­tique Infor­ma­tique et Génome (France) will serve as the editor-in-chief. He will work closely with the expert inter­na­tional edi­to­r­ial board.

A quar­terly pub­li­ca­tion Bio­phys­i­cal Reviews will pub­lish short and crit­i­cal reviews from key sci­en­tists active in the field. The jour­nal will cover the entire field of bio­physics, gen­er­ally defined as the sci­ence of describ­ing bio­log­i­cal phe­nom­ena and resolv­ing their under­ly­ing prin­ci­ples using the con­cepts and tech­niques of physics. This includes areas such as bioin­for­mat­ics, bio­phys­i­cal meth­ods and instru­men­ta­tion, med­ical bio­physics, biosys­tems and cell biophysics.

Springer will pub­lish Bio­phys­i­cal Reviews in both print and elec­tronic for­mats. It will be avail­able via Springer’s online infor­ma­tion plat­form, www.springerlink.com. The jour­nal will include fast, elec­tronic pub­li­ca­tion in Online First, as well as Cross Ref­er­ence Link­ing and Table of Con­tent Alerts. All poten­tial authors have the option, via the Springer Open Choice pro­gramme, of pub­lish­ing their arti­cles using the open access pub­lish­ing model.

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Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity does not seem to sub­scribe yet.