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For immediate release
April 11, 2008
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Terry Ehling
Director, Project Euclid
Director, Center for Innovative Publishing, Cornell University Library
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Erich Staib
Journals Acquisitions Editor, Duke University Press
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Cornell University Library and Duke University Press Announce Partnership;
Duke to Provide Enhanced Services for Project Euclid
ITHACA, NY and DURHAM, NC, USA (April 11, 2008) – In a publishing
agreement that reaches across boundaries by bringing together a leading
U.S. academic research library and one of the nation’s outstanding
university presses, Cornell University Library (Cornell) and Duke
University Press (Duke) today announced that they have established a
joint venture to expand and enhance the services of Project Euclid, the
premier online information community for mathematics and statistics
resources from independent publishers.
Effective July 2008, Duke will provide publishing expertise in
marketing, sales, and order fulfillment to Project Euclid’s
participating publishers and institutional subscribers. Duke will work
to broaden and deepen Project Euclid’s subscriber base, resulting in
greater global exposure for 54 journals and a growing number of
monographs and conference proceedings. Cornell will continue to provide
and support the vital IT infrastructure for Project Euclid and assume
responsibility for archiving and preservation activities, ensuring
robust and reliable access to the content deposited with Project Euclid
for future scholars, researchers, and students.
Now home to 93,000 journal articles (75% of which are open access),
along with 60 monographs and conference proceedings, Project Euclid and
its partner publishers will benefit from Duke’s commitment to Project
Euclid’s mission and from the Press’s publishing proficiency, reputation
for quality consciousness, and university-based value system. Duke’s
recent initiative to expand its journals publishing program into
science, technology and medicine further ensures that together the
Cornell Library and Duke University Press will achieve Project Euclid’s
goal to become a primary “destination site” for mathematicians and
statisticians.
“A collaboration that pairs the complementary strengths of a leading
research library and a university press from different universities is
an extraordinary move. The result is nothing less than securing the
future of alternative publishing options for independent presses in the
fields of mathematics and statistics,” said Anne Kenney, Carl A. Kroch
University Librarian, Cornell University Library.
“I am delighted that our long relationship with the Cornell University
Library has resulted in an agreement that will be of great benefit to
both parties, as well as to the partner journals in Project Euclid and
to the many users of Project Euclid in the mathematics and statistics
communities,” said Steve Cohn, Director of Duke University Press.
This joint venture was undertaken in cooperation with the Scholarly
Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an alliance of
universities, research libraries, and organizations, created by the
Association of Research Libraries.
Leadership for Project Euclid will be assumed by management at both
Cornell and Duke.
About Cornell University Library
The Cornell University Library is one of the ten largest research
libraries in North America. Its holdings exceed 7.5 million volumes and
over 395,000 networked electronic resources. The Library has a
distinguished record in the area of scholarly communication for the
physical sciences and mathematics. In addition to Project Euclid, the
Library operates the physics e-print server, arXiv, the first and still
the most important example of open access to current scientific
research. The Library’s early digitization of 576 mathematics monographs
(1991) served as the basis of their participation in a collaborative
NSF-supported project involving the University of Michigan Library and
the Göttingen State and University Library to develop an interoperable
digital collection. For more information, please visit
http://www.library.cornell.edu/
About Duke University Press
Duke University Press publishes approximately 120 books annually and
more than 30 journals, including the prestigious Duke Mathematical
Journal, which the Press has published since the journal’s inception in
1935. Duke University Press is known as a publisher willing to take
chances with nontraditional and interdisciplinary publications, both
books and journals. Like the University as a whole, the Press seeks to
pursue its objectives with vision and integrity. In the case of Duke
University Press, that means a commitment to the highest standards of
both critical scholarly review and professional publishing judgment. For
more information, please visit http://dukeupress.edu/
About Project Euclid
Since its launch in 2003, Project Euclid has been recognized worldwide
as a distinctive online environment for the distribution of serial
literature in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics.
Established in 2000 with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, Euclid’s mission is to assure that the mathematics and
statistics communities continue to benefit from a healthy balance of
commercial enterprises, scholarly societies, and independent publishers.
For more information, please visit http://projecteuclid.org/
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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)
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