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.