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News
Palgrave Macmillan announces Palgrave Pivot
Palgrave Macmillan is delighted to announce a new imprint: Palgrave Pivot. Launching globally in Autumn 2012 and publishing across the Humanities and Social Sciences, Palgrave Pivot liberates scholarship from the straitjacket of traditional formats and business models. It offers authors the flexibility of publishing at lengths between the journal article and the conventional monograph. The new imprint will be available as digital collections for libraries, including via Palgrave Connect, individual ebooks for personal use, and as digitally-produced print editions.
Palgrave Pivot will emphasize speed of delivery as well as innovation. The imprint undertakes to publish within 3 months of acceptance after full peer review.
Samantha Burridge, Executive Director at Palgrave Macmillan, says, “As scholarly publishing evolves in the digital world, Palgrave Pivot allows us to deliver quality new research rapidly. Palgrave Pivot is a market-changing initiative for the Humanities and Social Sciences and presents our communities with an alternative publishing model. We are proud to be at the forefront of development in the digital space.”
Titles for Palgrave Pivot are:
- focused on new important research, or are a review of an area with broad appeal
- shorter than a typical scholarly monograph, at an average of 100 pages (or 35 thousand words), meaning that they are faster to write, concise and more digestible for readers
- published exceptionally fast to make new or timely research available more quickly
- rigorously peer-reviewed
- published in print and ebook formats
Please visit the Palgrave Pivot homepage for more information, or get in touch with us directly at librarians@palgrave.com.
 4,760 Palgrave Macmillan titles included in Thomson Reuters Book Citation Index at launch
Last month Thomson Reuters announced the launch of the Web of Science Book Citation Index, a new resource covering 25,000 books in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Palgrave Macmillan is delighted to report that 4,760 of its scholarly books have been included at launch.
A full list of the Palgrave Macmillan titles included can be viewed by searching for ‘Palgrave’ at http://wokinfo.com/mbl/.
 More Palgrave titles accepted into the Thomson Reuters Citation Index®
We are delighted to announce that three more Palgrave Macmillan Journals have been accepted in the Social Sciences Citation Index® and will receive their first impact factor in 2012:
New for 2012 from Palgrave Journals
 Interest Groups and Advocacy
This will engage broadly with the politics of interests. It will record and analyze how advocacy by groups, movements and lobbying professionals shapes policy, and it will address important debates about how such interests are mobilized and maintained. It will cast a wide net across politics and society to identify the forces, strategies, and tactics that determine policy change. Open to diverse methodologies, it welcomes studies that address theoretical issues, reports rigorous empirical work, and delivers insight on the range of change agents, and their behaviour and impact.
www.palgrave-journals.com/iga/
 Health Systems
The journal connects methodologies, insights, and perspectives to advance health system knowledge in research and practice. Health Systems is automatically included in all institutional rate subscriptions to the related European Journal of Information Systems and is also available as a stand alone subscription journal.
www.palgrave-journals.com/hs/
Journals, Online Resources and Reference catalogue for 2012 now available online
View a fully searchable PDF of our new Journals, Online Resources and Reference catalogue.
Email librarians@palgrave.com if you would like a print version of the catalogue.
Journals Price List for 2012 now available online
The Palgrave Macmillan journals price list for the forthcoming year has been produced, and is now available to view online.
 Palgrave Macmillan launch open access initiative for the Social Sciences
Palgrave Open offers authors of accepted primary research papers the option to publish their articles with immediate Open Access upon publication.
Working in collaboration with scholarly institutions and learned society partners, Palgrave Macmillan has selected eighteen journals including the Journal of International Business Studies and BioSocieties to offer Open Access at launch.
Visit the Palgrave Open homepage for more information and a full list of titles included in the programme.
Palgrave Connect now offers access to over 7,500 scholarly ebooks in 11 subject collections across the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business publishing in print from 1997-2011. Featuring seminal and award winning titles by many of the world’s foremost academic writers, the collections offer libraries access to quality scholarship in digital format.
Subject Collections:
- Economics & Finance
- Business & Management
- Language & Linguistics
- Political & International Studies
- Literature
- Theatre & Performance
- Education
- History
- Religion & Philosophy
- Media & Culture
- Social Science
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics is an unparalleled resource for economists and researchers in social science. It seeks to define and explain all aspects of the field with over 1,500 high-profile contributors and more than 2,000 articles on theoretical and empirical aspects of economics.
The online Dictionary is a dynamic resource which:
- Is updated quarterly with new, topical articles
- Allows remote access to members of subscribing institutions
- Offers excellent search and browse facilities, both
full text and advanced
- Contains hyperlinked cross-references within articles as well as offering Open URL linking personalised to your institution’s link resolver
- Features carefully selected and maintained links to related sites, sources of further information and bibliographical citations
- Enables users to bookmark searches and articles, along with their own notes, in My Dictionary, or add links to articles on social bookmarking sites
- Features entries by Nobel Prize-winning authors
A fully interactive e-learning platform, which will help your students develop the confidence and skills they need for successful study.
Featuring content adapted from Stella Cottrell’s best-selling The Study Skills Handbook, skills4studycampus provides high-quality material, in a package that will stimulate users and support a wide range of learning needs.
skills4studycampus can be integrated into existing learning environments, used flexibly for self-study or as part of a taught course, and customised to feature your institution’s branding and content. Reports tracking student progress enable you to see where individuals or classes are struggling and respond to their needs - guaranteeing a positive student experience.
skills4studycampus is available for institutional subscription. To arrange a free trial, or request price information for a site licence, please ask your librarian or learning resources manager to contact onlinesales@palgrave.com or phone +44 (0)207 014 4225.
Palgrave Connect “highly recommended” by Choice
Palgrave Macmillan’s ebook platform, Palgrave Connect, has received a glowing review in Choice, the US reviews publication for librarians. The reviewer, L. Lord, at the University of Kansas, USA, stated that “The excellent interface, developed in conjunction with the Nature Publishing Group, is smooth, well designed, and welcoming” and concluded that “Access to Palgrave Connect will be very valuable for all academic libraries, with a nudge toward the graduate level.”
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Further Librarian Support from Nature Publishing Group
Site licenses for Palgrave Macmillan are sold by our sister company Nature Publishing Group (NPG). More information about NPG, site licenses and access to Palgrave Macmillan Journals can be found on their Librarian Gateway.
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