Cornell University Library and Duke University Press Announce

[Kimberly Steinle <ksteinle@dukeupress.edu>]

Apologies for cross postings.

For immediate release
April 11, 2008

For more information, contact
Terry Ehling
Director, Project Euclid
Director, Center for Innovative Publishing, Cornell University Library
607-255-4490
ehling@cornell.edu

Erich Staib
Journals Acquisitions Editor, Duke University Press
919-687-3664
erich.staib@dukeupress.edu

Cornell University Library and Duke University Press Announce
Partnership; Duke to Provide Enhanced Services for Project Euclid

ITHACA, NY and DURHAM, NC, USA (April 11, 2008) - In a publishing
agreement that reaches across boundaries by bringing together a
leading U.S. academic research library and one of the nation's
outstanding university presses, Cornell University Library
(Cornell) and Duke University Press (Duke) today announced that
they have established a joint venture to expand and enhance the
services of Project Euclid, the premier online information
community for mathematics and statistics resources from
independent publishers.

Effective July 2008, Duke will provide publishing expertise in
marketing, sales, and order fulfillment to Project Euclid's
participating publishers and institutional subscribers. Duke will
work to broaden and deepen Project Euclid's subscriber base,
resulting in greater global exposure for 54 journals and a
growing number of monographs and conference proceedings. Cornell
will continue to provide and support the vital IT infrastructure
for Project Euclid and assume responsibility for archiving and
preservation activities, ensuring robust and reliable access to
the content deposited with Project Euclid for future scholars,
researchers, and students.

Now home to 93,000 journal articles (75% of which are open
access), along with 60 monographs and conference proceedings,
Project Euclid and its partner publishers will benefit from
Duke's commitment to Project Euclid's mission and from the
Press's publishing proficiency, reputation for quality
consciousness, and university-based value system. Duke's recent
initiative to expand its journals publishing program into
science, technology and medicine further ensures that together
the Cornell Library and Duke University Press will achieve
Project Euclid's goal to become a primary 'destination site' for
mathematicians and statisticians.

"A collaboration that pairs the complementary strengths of a
leading research library and a university press from different
universities is an extraordinary move. The result is nothing less
than securing the future of alternative publishing options for
independent presses in the fields of mathematics and statistics,"
said Anne Kenney, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, Cornell
University Library.

"I am delighted that our long relationship with the Cornell
University Library has resulted in an agreement that will be of
great benefit to both parties, as well as to the partner journals
in Project Euclid and to the many users of Project Euclid in the
mathematics and statistics communities," said Steve Cohn,
Director of Duke University Press.

This joint venture was undertaken in cooperation with the
Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an
alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations,=
created by the Association of Research Libraries.

Leadership for Project Euclid will be assumed by management at
both Cornell and Duke.

About Cornell University Library

The Cornell University Library is one of the ten largest research
libraries in North America. Its holdings exceed 7.5 million
volumes and over 395,000 networked electronic resources. The
Library has a distinguished record in the area of scholarly
communication for the physical sciences and mathematics. In
addition to Project Euclid, the Library operates the physics
e-print server, arXiv, the first and still the most important
example of open access to current scientific research. The
Library=92s early digitization of 576 mathematics monographs (1991)
served as the basis of their participation in a collaborative
NSF-supported project involving the University of Michigan
Library and the Gottingen State and University Library to develop
an interoperable digital collection. For more information, please
visit http://www.library.cornell.edu/

About Duke University Press

Duke University Press publishes approximately 120 books annually
and more than 30 journals, including the prestigious Duke
Mathematical Journal, which the Press has published since the
journals' inception in 1935. Duke University Press is known as a
publisher willing to take chances with nontraditional and
interdisciplinary publications, both books and journals. Like the
University as a whole, the Press seeks to pursue its objectives
with vision and integrity. In the case of Duke University Press,
that means a commitment to the highest standards of both critical
scholarly review and professional publishing judgment. For more=
information, please visit http://dukeupress.edu/

About Project Euclid

Since its launch in 2003, Project Euclid has been recognized
worldwide as a distinctive online environment for the
distribution of serial literature in theoretical and applied
mathematics and statistics. Established in 2000 with generous
support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Euclid's mission is
to assure that the mathematics and statistics communities
continue to benefit from a healthy balance of commercial=
enterprises, scholarly societies, and independent publishers. For
more information, please visit http://projecteuclid.org/

--
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)
ksteinle@dukeupress.edu
www.dukeupress.edu