Introducing Taylor & Francis Online

["McMillan, Jennifer " <Jennifer.McMillan@tandf.co.uk>]

We are pleased to introduce Taylor & Francis Online - the new 
online platform for Taylor & Francis journals and reference 
works.

In collaboration with librarians, researchers and scholars we 
have designed Taylor & Francis Online to meet the varied needs of 
our user communities. Our new platform will bring knowledge to 
life with:

- A clean, intuitive user interface

- Enhanced discoverability for journals and reference works

- Flexibility on how and when you access content -take knowledge 
on the move with our Blackberry, iPhone and Android Applications

- A wealth of features to allow librarians to manage 
authentication, usage statistics and linking

Our new platform will be launched in the coming months and will 
replace access to the 1,600 journals and reference works 
currently on informaworld. Initially our A&I and bibliographic 
databases will remain on informaworld, before being transferred 
to Taylor & Francis Online at a later stage.

Why we are changing our platform from informaworld to Taylor & 
Francis Online

In short - we are changing because we listened to our customers. 
We talked to various customer groups, including librarians, 
editors, authors and society partners to get feedback on what 
they felt about the informaworld name. The consensus was that a 
name that more closely relates to Taylor & Francis Group and our 
imprints would be preferable to informaworld, and when 
alternatives were put to customer vote, the favourite was Taylor 
& Francis Online

Although there may be some initial work for our library customers 
as they embed the new name in library catalogues, we are working 
to minimize the impact this will have, and have created an FAQ 
document which is available to view at 
http://resources.tandfonline.com/documents/library-faqs.pdf to 
help address any of our library customers' queries.  Many of the 
features on Taylor & Francis Online will feel very familiar to 
our users but with added benefits.  Quality, reliability and 
accessibility will remain at the core of our online platform 
provision when we migrate to Taylor & Francis Online.

Getting started

To ensure the transition to Taylor & Francis Online is as smooth 
as possible, we will be keeping our customers updated with 
developments between now and go-live. Our plan is to minimize the 
impact of the transition, leaving our customers with very little 
to do but enjoy our new platform. We have created a transition 
site at www.tandfonline.com where we have posted FAQs, and will 
update this with canned demos and details of training sessions.

Follow developments on Twitter at @TandFOnline.

With best wishes,

Jennifer McMillan
Head of Library Marketing & Communication
Taylor & Francis Group Journals