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United Nations ebook collection added to IU Press Online

We're pleased to announce the addition of The United Nations Intellectual History Project Collection to IU Press Online. This collection makes available, in digital format, a 15-book series that offers a future-oriented intellectual history of the United Nations in the world economy—development ideas and concepts in action. Series editors are Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss. The series is sponsored by the Ralph Bunch Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Titles include:

• Ahead of the Curve?
• Development without Destruction
• Global Governance and the UN 
• Human Rights at the UN
• Human Security and the UN
• Preventive Diplomacy at the UN 
• Quantifying the World
• The UN and Development
• The UN and Global Political Economy
• The UN and Transnational Corporations
• UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice
• UN Ideas That Changed the World
• UN Voices
• Unity and Diversity in Development Ideas
• Women, Development, and the UN

IU Press Online (IUPO) features some of IU Press’s best books and themed journal issues, organized into subject area collections for easy browsing and searching. Books and journal issues are available for purchase as full-text single titles or by subscription to one or more subject areas. For further information, such as purchasing options, visit IU Press Online at http://iupressonline.iupress.org.

IU Press Online adds reference collection

 

Indiana University Press is pleased to announce that it is adding an important reference collection to IU Press Online. Four comprehensive encyclopedias will enhance our expanding online library, which currently includes collections in African Studies; African American and Diaspora Studies; Jewish and Holocaust Studies; Music; Philosophy; Religion; and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, winner of the American Historical Association’s 2006 Waldo G. Leland Prize and a 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, is the result of an ambitious five-year project led by Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether and funded by the Lilly Endowment and the Henry Luce Foundation. Marshalling the talents of more than 150 scholars, it presents the most complete and up-to-date description and analysis of women and religion in North America. The encyclopedia features more than 145 substantial essays that enable major themes to be developed more fully than short entries would allow. The articles focus on institutions, movements, and ideas, while biographical sketches with a more personal and humanizing quality, recognize the women responsible for the gains made over the centuries.

Latinas in the United States, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez-Korrol, is an exhaustive gathering of scholarship on Latinas and serves as an essential reference work. In more than 580 entries, the historical and cultural narratives of Latinas come to life. From mestizo settlement, pioneer life, and diasporic communities, the encyclopedia details the contributions of women as settlers, comadres, and landowners, as organizers and nuns. Scholars explore the experiences of Latinas during and after EuroAmerican colonization and conquest; the early-19th-century migration of Puerto Ricans and Cubans; 20th-century issues of migration, cultural tradition, labor, gender roles, community organization, and politics; and much more.

 
The American Midwest, edited by Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton, the first-ever encyclopedia of the region, seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, giving it a voice and helping to define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the Midwest as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays followed by shorter entries filling in the details. There are portraits of the region’s 12 states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The volume offers a wealth of information about the area’s surprising ethnic diversity—a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs—plus well-informed essays on the Midwest’s history, culture and values, and conflicts.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume I, a 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, is the first volume of a projected monumental 7-volume encyclopedia, the result of years of work by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. With Geoffrey P. Megargee as general editor, the encyclopedia will describe the universe of camps and ghettos—some 20,000 in all—that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia. For the first time, a single reference provides detailed information on each individual site. Volume I covers three groups of camps: the early camps that the Nazis established in the first year of Hitler's rule, the major SS concentration camps with their constellations of subcamps, and the special camps for Polish and German children and adolescents. Overview essays provide context for each category, while each camp entry provides basic information about the site's purpose; the prisoners, guards, working and living conditions; and key events in the camp's history. Material from personal testimonies helps convey the character of the site, while source citations provide a path to additional information.

IU Press Online (IUPO) features some of IU Press’s best books and themed journal issues, organized into subject area collections for easy browsing and searching. Books and journal issues are available for purchase as full-text single titles or by subscription to one or more subject areas. For more information on IU Press Online, visit our website or contact Kathryn Caras at kcaras@indiana.edu.

 

Indiana University Press is pleased to announce that it is adding an important reference collection to IU Press Online. Four comprehensive encyclopedias will enhance our expanding online library, which currently includes collections in African Studies; African American and Diaspora Studies; Jewish and Holocaust Studies; Music; Philosophy; Religion; and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, winner of the American Historical Association’s 2006 Waldo G. Leland Prize and a 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, is the result of an ambitious five-year project led by Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether and funded by the Lilly Endowment and the Henry Luce Foundation. Marshalling the talents of more than 150 scholars, it presents the most complete and up-to-date description and analysis of women and religion in North America. The encyclopedia features more than 145 substantial essays that enable major themes to be developed more fully than short entries would allow. The articles focus on institutions, movements, and ideas, while biographical sketches with a more personal and humanizing quality, recognize the women responsible for the gains made over the centuries.

Latinas in the United States, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez-Korrol, is an exhaustive gathering of scholarship on Latinas and serves as an essential reference work. In more than 580 entries, the historical and cultural narratives of Latinas come to life. From mestizo settlement, pioneer life, and diasporic communities, the encyclopedia details the contributions of women as settlers, comadres, and landowners, as organizers and nuns. Scholars explore the experiences of Latinas during and after EuroAmerican colonization and conquest; the early-19th-century migration of Puerto Ricans and Cubans; 20th-century issues of migration, cultural tradition, labor, gender roles, community organization, and politics; and much more.

 
The American Midwest, edited by Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton, the first-ever encyclopedia of the region, seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, giving it a voice and helping to define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the Midwest as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays followed by shorter entries filling in the details. There are portraits of the region’s 12 states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The volume offers a wealth of information about the area’s surprising ethnic diversity—a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs—plus well-informed essays on the Midwest’s history, culture and values, and conflicts.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume I, a 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, is the first volume of a projected monumental 7-volume encyclopedia, the result of years of work by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. With Geoffrey P. Megargee as general editor, the encyclopedia will describe the universe of camps and ghettos—some 20,000 in all—that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia. For the first time, a single reference provides detailed information on each individual site. Volume I covers three groups of camps: the early camps that the Nazis established in the first year of Hitler's rule, the major SS concentration camps with their constellations of subcamps, and the special camps for Polish and German children and adolescents. Overview essays provide context for each category, while each camp entry provides basic information about the site's purpose; the prisoners, guards, working and living conditions; and key events in the camp's history. Material from personal testimonies helps convey the character of the site, while source citations provide a path to additional information.

IU Press Online (IUPO) features some of IU Press’s best books and themed journal issues, organized into subject area collections for easy browsing and searching. Books and journal issues are available for purchase as full-text single titles or by subscription to one or more subject areas. For more information on IU Press Online, visit our website or contact Kathryn Caras at kcaras@indiana.edu.

IU Press launches electronic content initiative

We are pleased to announce the launch of IU Press Online, a robust electronic collection of more than 200 of some of our best books and 75 themed journal issues.

IU Press Online offers subscriptions and the option to purchase individual titles in five subject areas collections: African Studies, African American and Diaspora Studies; Jewish and Holocaust Studies; Philosophy; and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Books and journal issues will be added to these collections regularly, and during the course of the summer, we plan to add electronic content for our award-winning music and religious studies titles.

Features of IU Press online include:

• Fast downloads
• Page-specific URLs for easy book-marking, citing, and sharing on social bookmarking sites
• Accessibility from any web browser, and on handheld devices such as the iPhone
• Fully searchable documents
• A variety of online viewing options
• Built-in subscription-based RSS feeds for automatic updates when content is added

Janet Rabinowitch, Director of IU Press, emphasizes that IU Press Online broadens our connection to global scholarship. "By giving scholars, libraries, and the general reading public the opportunity to access and read IU Press books and journals online, IU Press Online takes an important step in advancing the Press's mission of extending the intellectual reach of Indiana University throughout the world."

Visit IU Press online at: http://iupressonline.iupress.org

New electronic content initiative launches this summer

Indiana University Press will launch IU Press Online in summer 2009. Hosted by Tizra Publisher, a web-based software service, and structured around subject area collections, IU Press Online will initially include a robust electronic collection of more than 200 back-, mid-, and front-list books and more than 75 themed journals issues in African Studies; African American and Diaspora Studies; Jewish and Holocaust Studies; Philosophy; and Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies. Journals featured at launch will be Africa Today, Ethics & the Environment, Israel Studies, Jewish Social Studies, JMEWS (Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies), Meridians, Nashim, Prooftexts, Research in African Literatures, and Transition. More books and journal issues will be added to these online collections on a regular basis. The next subject collection to be introduced is a selection of the Press's award-winning music titles.

Users can access full-text single titles at discounted prices through IU Press Online or can subscribe to individual collections, any combination of collections, or to the entire database of titles. Also available for purchase will be individual chapters/articles and virtual collections of content across book and journal titles.

Features of IU Press Online will include:

• Fast downloads regardless of the size of the document
• Page-specific URLs for easy bookmarking, citing, and sharing, including on such social bookmarking services as Delicious and Digg
• Usability in any browser, including web-enabled handhelds such as the iPhone
• Fully searchable documents with relevancy-ranked search results
• Search capability across the whole site or by collection, title, or within specific metadata fields
• Search hits that link directly to a specific page and not just to the document
• Variety of online viewing options, including full screen zoom to support different user preferences and browsers
• Built-in subscription-based RSS feeds for automatic updates when content is added

For more information on IU Press Online, visit the website.

Demise of the printed book?

According to a recent Library Journal article, 40 percent of publishing industry professionals surveyed at the Frankfort Book Fair think that digital content will overtake print sales by 2018. But 33 percent of the respondents believe that digital sales will never surpass print sales. Publishers are divided, but what do the consumers of our content think about the future of the printed book? Please take our survey (located on the right hand side of the blog), and let us know your thoughts! 

Indiana Online launches today

We are pleased to announce the launch of Indiana Online, our new e-book platform! The first phase of this project is the Music E-Book Library, which includes some of our most important music reference works. Future plans for Indiana Online include expanding the content in the Music Library and branching into other subject areas. For a limited time, we are offering free access to the titles currently available in our Music Library, so sign up for an account today!

If you have any suggestions about the kinds of content you'd like to see on Indiana Online, please leave your comments below. Thanks for your input!