Project Euclid Appoints Mira Waller as Project Manager

[Kimberly Steinle <ksteinle@dukeupress.edu>]

**Apologies for cross postings**

For immediate release
June 16, 2008

For more information, contact

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

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


Project Euclid Appoints Mira Waller as Project Manager

DURHAM, NC, USA--Project Euclid, the premier online information
community for mathematics and statistics resources from
independent and society publishers, is delighted to announce the
appointment of Mira Waller as Project Euclid Manager.

Ms. Waller possesses an MLS and comes to Project Euclid from the
Duke University Medical Center Library and Archives, where she
was Assistant Director of Archives. In her new role as Project
Euclid Manager, she will act as an advocate for both Project
Euclid's partner publishers and the larger library community to
ensure that clear communication is maintained, and excellent
customer service is extended, and that the different needs of
both these audiences are represented with regard to future
developments of the Project Euclid platform. Additionally, she
will be instrumental in growing the number of partner publishers=
that participate in Project Euclid and in expanding Project
Euclid's subscriber base to increase global exposure for the
growing number of journals, monographs, and conference
proceedings.

"I am excited by Project Euclid's capacity for advancing
scholarly communications in a sustainable, user-centered, and
affordable model," commented Ms. Waller about joining the Project
Euclid team. "I look forward to working with Project Euclid's
publishers, libraries, and users to further enhance and develop
Project Euclid to ensure that it continues to meet their needs in
this rapidly evolving landscape of scholarly communications and=
digital content."

This is a newly created position based at Duke University Press,
resulting from the recently announced Joint Venture Agreement
between Cornell University Library and Duke University Press.
Terry Ehling, Director of the Center for Innovative Publishing,
Cornell University Library, will continue to be responsible for
program oversight, acquisitions, and coordination of Cornell's
role in the venture.


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

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's 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 Goettingen 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
journal's 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/

--
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
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