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 [log in to unmask]
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 [log in to unmask] 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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