Brill, the international scholarly publisher, is proud to announce that from January 2012 it will be the publisher of two additional society journals: the Journal of Crustacean Biology (JCB) and the Tijdschrift voor Entomologie (TvE). They will become available both in print and on Brill’s online platform.

With its strong list of Biology journals, Brill is well-positioned to publish these two journals. They will be published next to well-established titles such as Behaviour, Nematology, Crustaceana, Amphibia-Reptilia, and Insect Systematics & Evolution.

About the journals
The Journal of Crustacean Biology (JCB) is a peer-reviewed, quarterly, scientific publication that contains papers of broad interest dealing with any aspect of crustacean biology. It is published on behalf of The Crustacean Society (USA) and will be with Brill as of volume 32.

The Tijdschrift voor Entomologie (TvE) is the journal for systematic and evolutionary entomology. The journal is founded in the year 1857 by the Netherlands Entomological Society. It will be with Brill as of volume 155.

Brill will publish the two journals from January 2012, both in print and online. For ordering 2012 subscriptions, please contact Brill at brill@turpin-distribution.com. For questions about subscriptions and renewals please contact sales@brill.nl, or for the Americas, cs@brillusa.com.

Brill
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, BRILL is a leading international academic publisher in the fields of Ancient Near East and Egypt; Middle East and Islamic Studies; Asian Studies (incl. Hotei imprint and Global Oriental imprint); Classical Studies; Medieval and Early Modern Studies; contemporary History and History of War studies; Biblical and Religious Studies; Slavic Studies; Language & Linguistics; Biology; Science (VSP imprint); Human Rights and International Law (Martinus Nijhoff imprint). With offices in Leiden and Boston (MA), BRILL today publishes more than 150 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year. In principle all publications are made available in both print and electronic form. Under the imprint of IDC Publishers a large number of research collections are marketed in the academic fields named above. Key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. BRILL is a publicly traded company and listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please visit www.brill.nl.

More information on The Crustacean Society: http://www.thecrustaceansociety.org/.

More information on the Netherlands Entomological Society: http://www.nev.nl/.

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Blind Latina Author’s Inspiring Story Reaches #1 on Amazon.com

VALLEY FORGE, PA - August 25, 2011

Not just a bad day, or a tough season, but a pitiful life. No matter what category you’re in, Janet Perez Eckles, in her Amazon #1 inspirational book, Simply Salsa: Dancing Without Fear at God’s Fiesta, reveals 10 secrets to overcome and triumph over the darkest times.

With sass and passion, she details the steps she herself followed to overcome complete blindness, financial devastation, infidelity, and the murder of her youngest son and the acquittal of the man responsible. By the grace of God, Janet Perez Eckles now dances to the joy of victory and success to inspire thousands.

Simply Salsa: Dancing Without Fear at God’s Fiesta (Judson Press)

On Tuesday, August 9, 2011, Simply Salsa hit the top of the Amazon rankings. It reached #274 in books overall and ranked first in the Spirituality > Religious Warfare category and fourth in Biographies & Memoirs > Family & Childhood.

In Simply Salsa, Janet shares her personal story as well as those of others in order to expose the lies and misconceptions that imprison women with unfounded insecurities and feelings of inadequacy. No matter the degree of adversity or pain, Janet has discovered an alternative to gloom in the comfort of God’s embrace.

Janet’s story has been shared in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, Hispanic Times, The St. Louis Post Dispatch, El Nuevo Dia, and The Orlando Sentinel. She has written for Guideposts Magazine and numerous titles in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. In March 2011, Janet received the “Latina Women Who Make a Difference Award” from La Prensa newspaper, the largest Spanish newspaper in Central Florida. More about her media appearances can be found on her website at www.janetperezeckles.com.

Founded in 1824, Judson Press—a publishing ministry of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies, American Baptist Churches USA—produces Christ-centered leadership resources for the transformation of persons, congregations, communities and cultures.

For more information:
Kim Shimer, Marketing Director
Judson Press
800-222-3872 x2458
kshimer@abhms.org

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (ISSN 2162-3309) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, open-access publication for original articles, reviews and case studies that analyze or describe the strategies, partnerships and impact of library-led digital projects, online publishing and scholarly communication initiatives.

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication provides a focused forum for library practitioners to share ideas, strategies, research and pragmatic explorations of library-led initiatives related to such areas as institutional repository and digital collection management, library publishing/hosting services and authors’ rights advocacy efforts. As technology, scholarly communication, the economics of publishing, and the roles of libraries all continue to evolve, the work shared in JLSC informs practices that strengthen librarianship. The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication provides a shared intellectual space for scholarly communication librarians, institutional repository managers, digital archivists, digital data managers and related professionals.

The journal welcomes original research and practitioner experience papers, as well as submissions in alternative formats (e.g. video).

Inaugural Issue: Defining Scholarly Communication

The inaugural issue of JLSC will focus on the theme of “Defining Scholarly Communication.”

Librarians and related professionals in the area of scholarly communication are engaged in a diverse array of initiatives and it is often challenging to present a cogent description of what defines “scholarly communication” as a field of study and practice. As such, the editors are seeking papers that expertly discuss and represent these core dimensions of scholarly communication: author rights advocacy, repository management, traditional and non-traditional publishing models, citation metrics, copyright management, digital collection development, and the impact of any of the above on the system of scholarly exchange and reward (e.g. tenure and promotion). Submissions that describe or critique the ways in which libraries are engaging with these activities - and the ways in which these individual topics contribute to the broader field of “scholarly communication” - are encouraged.

Contributions may be submitted to any of the following categories:
• Commentary
• Research Articles
• Practice Articles
• Theory Articles
• P 2 (Post-Peer) Review
• Reviews of Books and Products

(For full descriptions of these categories, see http://jlsc-pub.org/jlsc/authors.html)

Grey literature (e.g. conference papers, presentations, white papers, etc.) may be revised and submitted for review and publication in JLSC if all copyrights still reside with the submitting author(s). Submissions that are substantially similar to material already available to the public (through a peer-reviewed or non-peer-reviewed venue) will not be accepted, but may be proposed as the focus of a P 2 review.

Submissions received by November 14, 2011 will receive priority consideration for the inaugural issue.

For more information about JLSC, please visit http://jlsc-pub.org/.

~ Metadata and Searchable Full Text for Primary Source Collections and Works from Around the World Accessible to EBSCO Discovery Service™ Users ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — September 1, 2011 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and the Adam Matthew Group have come to an agreement allowing metadata from the Adam Matthew Group’s primary source collections and works to be added to the Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). The resources from the Adam Matthew Group are designed to offer powerful research and dynamic teaching for universities, colleges and libraries. Users of EBSCO Discovery Service will also have the ability to search the full text of these collections and works.

The Adam Matthew Group resources are well-crafted and thought-out collections designed to appeal at an undergraduate level through to scholarly research. Due to unique relationships with scholars, libraries and archives around the world, the collections and works ensure academically robust products that offer access to untapped primary sources.

The detailed indexing available to EBSCO Discovery Service users provide collections spanning from medieval times to the 21st century, including Mass Observation Online, Eighteenth Century Journals and Victorian Popular Culture. Subject matter within the collections and works also represent an expansive range of subject areas such as:

• Literature
• History
• Sociology
• International Affairs
• Gender
• Slavery
• Trade
• Empire/Colonial

The Adam Matthew Group is part of a growing list of publishers and other content partners that are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content. Partners include the world’s largest scholarly journal & book publishers including Elsevier, Wiley Blackwell, Springer Science & Business Media, Taylor & Francis Informa, Sage Publications and thousands of others. Partners also include content providers, such as LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), JSTOR, ARTstor, Credo Reference, World Book, ABC-CLIO, and many others.

The EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers (and growing) in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers, representing far more content providers and publishers than any other discovery service.

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box—searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.

EBSCO Discovery Service is quickly becoming the discovery selection for many libraries (www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-news), and an obvious partner for content providers. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost® platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC—which is not typical in the discovery space. Further still, in the many universities and other libraries where EBSCOhost is the most-used platform for premium research, users are not asked to change their pathways or habits for searching. There’s simply more to discover on the familiar EBSCOhost platform, and the same can be said for library administrators who can leverage their previous work with EBSCOadmin™.

About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the producer of EBSCOhost®, the world’s premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives, and eBooks. The company provides more than 350 databases and nearly 300,000 eBooks. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Director
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

Beijing (CH) / Leiden (NL) – 1 September 2011

Today, at the Beijing International Book Fair a Journal Co-publication Agreement has been signed between Higher Education Press (Beijing) and Brill (Leiden). As of 2012 Brill will be responsible for the international print and online distribution of six scholarly journals in the Frontiers of China series, while Higher Education Press will be responsible for the Chinese market.

The Frontiers of China series was founded by Higher Education Press and presents the best of Chinese scholarship to the world. The list of journals contracted with Brill includes the following titles:
- Frontiers of Business Research in China
- Frontiers of Economics in China
- Frontiers of Education in China
- Frontiers of History in China
- Frontiers of Literary Studies in China
- Frontiers of Philosophy in China
These titles were previously distributed by Springer.

Weiping Zha (Deputy Editor-in-Chief at HEP) said:” Brill has always been dedicated to the dissemination of China’s academic achievement. The alliance between Brill and HEP will surely deepen the collaboration in areas such as resource sharing, business development, marketing, service platform building, and so on. We believe that our cooperation will surely lay a solid foundation for a promising and fruitful future.”

Sam Bruinsma (Vice President Business Development at Brill) added: “Brill is delighted with this partnership between our two publishing houses. It’s a tribute to the growing importance of Chinese scholarship, not only in sciences, but in the humanities and social sciences as well. We are grateful for this opportunity to cooperate in the publication and distribution of these six outstanding journals. They are a highly valuable contribution to our package of now 175 scholarly journals.”

For ordering 2012 subscriptions for these six journals, please contact Brill at brill@turpin-distribution.com. For questions about subscriptions please contact sales@brill.nl or for the Americas cs@brillusa.com.

Higher Education Press
Founded in 1954, Higher Education Press (HEP), a core member of China Education, is a comprehensive publisher providing a wide range of educational resources and services for higher education, vocational education, adult education, and lifelong education. Devoted to promoting the educational, academic and cultural development, HEP offers high quality books, audio-visual publications, digital and online resources, etc, among which over 1,000 titles were granted national awards, and HEP was awarded with the titles of National Outstanding Publisher, Top 100 Publishers in China, etc. At the beginning of the new century, based on educational publishing, HEP’s business has expanded to academic publishing, digital publishing, teacher training, etc. A brand new HEP is ready for the future opportunities and challenges. Please visit www.hep.com.cn.

BRILL
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, BRILL is a leading international academic publisher in the fields of Ancient Near East and Egypt; Middle East and Islamic Studies; Asian Studies (incl. Hotei imprint and Global Oriental imprint); Classical Studies; Medieval and Early Modern Studies; contemporary History and History of War studies; Biblical and Religious Studies; Slavic Studies; Language & Linguistics; Biology; Science (VSP imprint); Human Rights and International Law (Martinus Nijhoff imprint). With offices in Leiden and Boston (MA), Brill today publishes more than 150 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year. In principle all publications are made available in both print and electronic form. Under the imprint of IDC Publishers a large number of research collections are marketed in the academic fields named above. Key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. BRILL is a publicly traded company and listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please visit www.brill.nl.