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University of Alberta Press

Atlas of Alberta Railways
The Atlas of Alberta Railways website is a graphic approach to the railroading history of Alberta. The Atlas' 224 detailed maps are accompanied by short articles, illustrations, historic photographs, charts, graphs and interesting trivia that provide a comprehensive overview of the railways in the province of Alberta.

Amsterdam University Press

Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries
An Open Access (OA) journal implementing a system to enhance articles, by presenting research data within the articles and providing direct access to research data stored in a repository.

OAPEN
Developing and implementing an OA model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Partners include six university presses and the European Community.

Performative Literary Culture
PLC is a 'collaboratory' for an international research network, serving as an online platform for collaborative research and authoring of a publication.

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University of California Press

Collaborative Project: ACLS Humanities E-Book

Caliber
Caliber is the online journals hosting service of University of California Press. Designed to meet the research needs of scholars, researchers, and students, Caliber holds the content for most journals published by UC Press and enables readers to search for relevant articles, read abstracts for free, print the full-text of subscribed to articles, download citations, and make connections to other relevant research through reference linking.

Current Scholarship Program
This is a partnership between University of California Press and JSTOR. From 2011 onwards an enhanced JSTOR platform will carry all current and archival content for the complete run of all UC Press journals. Libraries may purchase custom current content collections based on their specific preferences and may also seamlessly link and search across their JSTOR archival subscriptions. Other benefits include a single point of ordering and invoicing and access point for library patrons.

E-Books
UC Press has been a leader in working with wholesale and retail e-booksellers to make its catalog of e-book titles widely available on a variety of different platforms. Customers can also buy e-books directly off of ucpress.edu.

Mark Twain Project Online
Mark Twain Project Online applies innovative technology to more than four decades' worth of archival research by expert editors at the Mark Twain Project. It offers unfettered, intuitive access to reliable texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents. Its ultimate purpose is to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote. MTPO is a collaboration between the Mark Twain Papers and Project of the Bancroft Library, the California Digital Library, and the University of California Press.

UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
A joint project of UC Press and the CDL’s Publishing Group, UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004, includes nearly 2,000 UC Press-published scholarly books on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Access to the digital books is free for all UC faculty, staff, and students; more than 750 titles are also freely available to the public. Print versions of many of the books can be purchased directly from UC Press. The CDL employs an XML and Java-based infrastructure to support the publication of these digital books. Readers benefit from format flexibility, full-text searching and internal links to footnote and index references.

UC Publishing Services
UC Publishing Services (UCPubS) provides a suite of open access digital and print publishing tools to UC centers, institutes, and departments that produce scholarly books. UCPubS is part of the University of California's broader effort to ensure a sustainable scholarly publishing system that supports the University's research and teaching enterprise. By coordinating the publishing efforts of UC Press, California Digital Library, and publishing partners throughout the UC system, UC PubS extends the University's capacity to disseminate its scholarship to the world. Campus Publishing Partner are responsible for selection of content, peer review, editing, design, and composition. The California Digital Library provides open-access digital publishing on its eScholarship publishing platform, peer review and manuscript management tools, and preservation. University of California Press provides sales, distribution, and fulfillment of print and ebooks, online marketing, and print-on-demand.

Cambridge University Press

Collaborative Project: ACLS Humanities E-Book

Cambridge Books Online
Cambridge Books Online offers access to eBooks from our world-renowned publishing programme, covering subjects from all disciplines across science, technology and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences. Building on our outstanding print programme and on our extensive portfolio of high quality, dynamic and innovative online resources, Cambridge Books Online offers all levels of user a new dimension of access and usability to our extensive scholarly content, supporting and enhancing all aspects of research.

Cambridge Companions Online
The Companions is an online resource for the humanities. The collection enhances and complements the book series by offering students unrivalled access and functionality. Includes more than 220 titles and over 2,000 essays, fully searchable by author, title, topic, or keyword.

University of Chicago Press

Collaborative Project: ACLS Humanities E-Book

The Chicago Digital Distribution Center and BiblioVault
BibiloVault offers a variety of services to not-for-profit publishers including storage of electronic book files, delivery of files to printers, conversion to formats used by e-book distributors, and the sale or free distribution of protected and unprotected e-books. The Chicago Digital Distribution Center is a short-run digital printing facility.

Chicago Digital Editions
The University of Chicago Press publishes most new books and hundreds of older books in electronic editions that can be downloaded from our website to a PC, Mac, or other e-reader platforms.

The Founders' Constitution
Originally published in five volumes totaling more than 3,200 pages by The University of Chicago Press, The Founders' Constitution is an essential resource for understanding the principles that guided the framers of the American republic. The Founders' Constitution consists of extracts from the leading works of political theory, history, law, and constitutional argument on which the framers and their contemporaries drew and which they themselves produced. The documents included range from the early 17th century to the 1830s, from the reflections of philosophers to popular pamphlets, from public debates in ratifying conventions to the private correspondence of the leading political actors of the day. The Web edition contains all the text of the print edition and makes it searchable for easy use.

The Chicago Manual of Style Online
The University of Chicago Press's bible of the publishing and research community is now available on your desktop. The Chicago Manual of Style Online is completely searchable and easy to use, providing quick answers to your style and editing questions. Bookmarking, annotating, and stylesheet tools are included. The Chicago Manual of Style Online incorporates the popular Chicago Style Q&A, a resource that thousands have found as entertaining as it is informative. Additional functionality and features are planned for the future. Individual, group, and institutional annual subscriptions are available.

Columbia University Press

Collaborative Project: ACLS Humanities E-Book

DART: Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching, Columbia University/EPIC
Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching aims to explore the potential of digital resources for the teaching of undergraduate anthropology. The project will also investigate digital-library technologies that will allow for the flexible delivery and customized use of these resources. Drawing on the collective skills and existing infrastructures of institutions and organizations, DART seeks to initiate a meaningful and sustainable transformation of undergraduate education and professional practice in the field of anthropology.

Earthscape
Columbia Earthscape is an interdisciplinary, online archive that connects the social, political, and economic dimensions of the Earth sciences with classroom needs. Columbia Earthscape makes a broad base of resources more widely available, including journals and abstracts, international conference literature and working papers, environmental legislation, full-text monographs, selected chapters, and news, alongside basic textbooks, lectures, image banks, multimedia exercises, and labs. A Columbia University Press/EPIC project.

The Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
Based on the 1998 three-volume Columbia Gazetteer of the World from Columbia University Press, the Gazetteer Online launched in 2001 and provides comprehensive search capabilities and articles on over 165,000 places in the world and cross-referenced place-names. With information on geography, politics, economics, and natural resources, the Gazetteer provides a wealth of data on places in the world, and is updated on an on-going basis using a Web-based content management system that allows full-time access to the editorial system by all of the work's contributors.

The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online
Based on the venerable Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry, this Web-based resource from Columbia University Press contains the complete Granger's database encompassing many past editions of the print version as well as on-going new additions of indexed anthologies and the full-text of over 30,000 poems.

The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing
Columbia University Press's newest online product, launched in January 2003 and published simultaneously in print, the Guide is a comprehensive reference to all aspects of the digital processes of creating, managing, designing, securing, producing, and delivering content, whether in print or electronically. It covers established and emerging technology as well as electronic marketing, e-Books, copyright in the electronic age, accessibility issues, archiving, digital rights management, and many other topics, with many links to other resources. This product, too, is editorially managed and updated on an on-going basis with a custom-designed, Web-based content management system.

Gutenberg-e
A project of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press/EPIC, and supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Gutenberg-e selected six prize-winning history manuscripts per year. The scholars were given grants to turn these monographs into multi-media e-publications. The project explored innovative ways of publishing new, creative scholarship, while maintaining the highest standards of peer-review. The Gutenberg-e publications are now available in OA and through the ACLS Humanities E-Book collection.

CIAO
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule.

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Duke University Press

Collaborative Project: ACLS Humanities E-Book

The Carlyle Letters Online: A Victorian Cultural Reference
Produced by Duke University Press, in partnership with HighWire Press of Stanford University, The Carlyle Letters Online: A Victorian Cultural Reference allows users to browse thousands of letters easily by date, volume, recipient, and subject, making it one of the finest and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century. Correspondents include Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Charles Dickens. The features of the Carlyle Letters Online include over 10,000 letters to over 600 recipients, an internal web of hyperlinks connecting all letters in the collection, and the latest advances in digital scholarship with the full textual and scholarly authority of traditional university press editions. This resource is available free of charge.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection
The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection provides online access to at least 100 new scholarly books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences throughout a calendar year. The e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection will be hosted on the ebrary® platform, from which an unlimited number of simultaneous users at a subscribing institution will be able to access content. In years in which they purchase the collection, libraries will also receive access to over 900 backlist titles. Additionally, Duke University Press has partnered with Duke University’s Perkins Library to provide enhanced MARC cataloging records, including chapter-level metadata. ebrary® is the registered trademark of ebrary.

e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collection
Hosted by Stanford University Libraries’ HighWire Press, the e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collection includes online access to twenty-nine Duke University Press humanities and social science journals. Subscription to the collection provides a tiered discounting structure, access to available issues from 2000 to the present, and print subscriptions at discounted rates. Subscribers to the e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collection can take advantage of many other features as well, including enhanced search abilities and reference linking, COUNTER 3–compliant usage statistics (scheduled for 2009), table-of-contents alerting, toll-free access across cited journals within HighWire’s collection (1,156 journals), access to complete retrodigitized content for eight titles, and RSS feeds (for select Duke University Press journals).

Project Euclid
Duke University Press and Cornell University Library have established a joint venture to expand and enhance the services provided by Project Euclid. Since its launch in 2003, Project Euclid has been recognized worldwide as a premiere online environment for the distribution of high-impact, peer-reviewed literature in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid features searchable PDF article files, COUNTER 2– and SUSHI-compliant usage statistics, interoperability through the Open Archives Initiative, and full-text searches across the entire collection.

Duke University Press Journals Online
Launched in December 2005, Duke University Press journal content is now available through HighWire Press. Known for setting the bar for online functionality and usability as well as for the stability and robustness of its site, HighWire’s impressive array of features— including Table of Contents alerting, toll-free access across cited journals within HighWire’s collection, RSS feeds (available for select Duke University Press journals), and enhanced search features and reference linking— are now available to Duke University Press journal subscribers with online access.

DMJ 100
The first 100 volumes of Duke Mathematical Journal, one of the world’s leading mathematical journals, is now available in a fully searchable electronic format. Spanning 4,830 articles published in the Duke Mathematical Journal between 1935 and 1999, DMJ 100's features include page-level TIFF images at 600 DPI, fully searchable PDF and DjVu article files, OCR files with minimal tagging for further development, and issue level metadata (including links from each article to MathSciNet and Zentralblatt, as well as Mathematics Subject Classifications for each article back to 1978).

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