Apologies for cross-postings.
For immediate release
August 23, 2007
For more information, contact
Kimberly Steinle, Library Relations Manager
libraryrelations dukeupress.edu
http://www.dukeupre
ss.edu/library
Duke University Press announces participation in SERU
Duke University Press is pleased to announce its
participation in the
Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (SERU) project.
Sponsored by
the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), SERU
offers an
innovative alternative to the increasingly costly and
cumbersome
practice of customer-by-customer site license negotiations
between a
library and a publisher. Libraries wishing to acquire access
to Duke
University Press participating journals can forgo a
traditional site
license agreement, relying instead on the shared
expectations set forth
in the SERU statements of shared understanding.
"As a university press, we trust our institutional
customers
implicitly, making it a natural decision to participate in
SERU's
streamlined solution to difficult and costly traditional
site
license negotiations," states Library Relations Manager
Kimberly
Steinle. "It is our hope that our participation in SERU
will help
to alleviate some of the burden on stretched library staff
and
budgets, while also allowing us to continue to offer
affordable
pricing for our content."
Most Duke University Press journal titles - excluding the
Duke
Mathematical Journal and two electronic collections, the
e-Duke
Scholarly Collection and DMJ 100 - will now be available to
libraries for use with SERU. This includes thirty-one
journals
currently hosted by HighWire Press, as well as the Notre
Dame
Journal of Formal Logic, hosted by Project Euclid.
For more information about the origins of SERU and how to
participate, or to download "SERU: A Shared Electronic
Resource
Understanding," which sets forth SERU's framework of
shared
understanding, defines appropriate and inappropriate usage,
and
sets archival and perpetual access standards, please visit
http://www.niso.
org/committees/SERU. For more information on Duke
University Press's participation in SERU, please visit the
Library Resource Center at http://www.dukeupr
ess.edu/library.
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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)
ksteinledukeupress.edu
www.dukeupress.edu
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