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4,760 Palgrave Macmillan titles included in Thomson Reuters Book Citation Index at launch

In October 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 were included at launch.

A full list of the Palgrave Macmillan titles included can be viewed by searching for ‘Palgrave’ at http://wokinfo.com/mbl/

For more information on the Book Citation Index, please visit
http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/bookcitationindex/

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

skills4studycampus

skills4studycampus is a unique e-learning resource, developed with Stella Cottrell, author of the best selling The Study Skills Handbook. It focuses on all the core study skills needed for success at university or college.

If your institution subscribes, your students can be given free access to this engaging and interactive online resource. It can be integrated into your systems, customised by your institution and used flexibly for self study or as part of a taught course.

skills4studycampus offers core modules on:

• Getting ready for academic study
• Writing Skills
• Reading and note-making
• Referencing and plagiarism
• Critical thinking skills

Further modules on Exam skills and Groupwork and presentations can be purchased alongside a core subscription.

Click here to take our guided tour and find out more about this new resource.

www.skills4studycampus.com

Palgrave Macmillan Journals

Palgrave Macmillan publishes a growing list of high profile, peer-reviewed, scholarly journals for a worldwide audience, maintaining the company tradition of excellence in professional, humanities and social science publishing.

Palgrave Macmillan journals are available to institutional customers as print only subscriptions and online access is available as a site license via sister company Nature Publishing Group (NPG).

A full list of titles can be found on the Palgrave Macmillan Journals site.

Palgrave Connect

A flexible approach to building your library’s digital collection

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 worlds foremost academic writers, the collections offer libraries access to quality scholarship in digital form.

Click here to view our online demonstration, which highlights the key features of Palgrave Connect.

www.palgraveconnect.com

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online

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.

• 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

NEW: Subscribers can also access the Dictionary of Economics Online Archive which includes all 1,919 articles from the classic 1987 edition offering the opportunity to see how the field has changed.

The Statesman’s Yearbook Online

The Statesman's Yearbook online resource provides accurate and regularly updated information on almost every country in the world. In September 2009, the complete archive of The Statesmans yearbook was added to the site, enabling users to view 140 years of the changing political, economic and social landscape within an historical context.

Now updated monthly to include more facts and figures than ever before, The The Statesman’s Yearbook Online includes:

• Detailed maps
• Detailed maps of 193 countries
• Biographic profiles of all current leaders
• Economic overviews for every country
• Over 1,700 links to key national websites
• The complete archive from 1864 to 2010 – a snapshot of the changing world
• NEW: Timeline of natural disasters
• NEW: Top 50 Think Tanks
• NEW: Focus presents an extract from one of our monograph titles with an analysis of the content
• NEW: Spotlight focuses on a pivotal event in history and discusses its impact on the world at the time and its relevance today.

‘One of the top 50 reference sources of the millennium’ - Library Journal

www.statesmansyearbook.com

View the Statesman's Yearbook 2012 leaflet (PDF ~ 1.29 MB).

The World Higher Education Database Online

The world of higher education at your fingertips

The World Higher Education Database Online is the most authoritive, comprehensive and up-to-date collection of information on higher education institutions and systems world wide. It provides a fully cross referenced and searchable database featuring information on over 14,000 institutions in more than 180 countries. Detailed information on the higher education system of every country is also included.

www.whed-online provides:

• Consistent information for almost all countries and institutions so comparisons can be made with ease
• Consistent information for almost all countries and institutions so comparisons can be made with ease
• Ability to filter search results using the following criteria: level of education, fields of study, region and country in the advanced search
• One-stop resource for focused information of everything a user needs to know about higher education in every country: structure, history, contact information, admissions, qualifications, staff, student statistics and fees
• Direct links to websites and emails for each institution
• Data supplied by authoritive sources
• Ability to export up to 250 institution addresses

www.whed-online.com

Team Photo Site License Access Now Available
Why not see for yourself how valuable Palgrave Macmillan’s online resources are and request a walkthrough with your Palgrave Macmillan Online Sales Representative today? Our Online Sales Team can also provide you with more information and a quote for your site license access.

Contact our online sales team:
onlinesales@palgrave-usa.com (in the North and South America)
palgraveonline@macmillan.com.au (in Australasia)
onlinesales@palgrave.com (in the rest of the world)