[Web4lib] Palgrave Macmillan and Nature Publishing Group will launch a new eBook platform

[Denise De LaRosa]

				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 at 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 at palgrave-usa.com
646-307-5707
www.palgraveconnect.com