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Electronic Catalogue Information

PDF catalogues are also available here

1. Flexible Data Provision
2. Complete Catalogue
3. Subject Catalogues
4. New Books Catalogue
5. Mini Catalogue
6. Advance Notices
7. Website Catalogue
8. Electronic Jackets and Sample Chapters
9. Booksellers Area on website

If you would like to discuss your electronic information requirements in further detail please contact your Palgrave Macmillan Sales Representative.

1. Flexible Data Provision

This allows us to provide bibliographic information in a standard computer format enabling booksellers to import and use the data as you wish in your own database systems (or spreadsheets like Excel and Access). The new delimited file facility enables us for the first time to provide you with tailored feeds either as a 'one off' supply or as regular feeds.

2. Complete Catalogue

a) Monthly complete data via FTP. This catalogue contains full information on both new and backlist titles in print and is supplied in a flat file with multi-line structured records that require processing.

b) An updated replica of the hardcopy Complete Catalogue is held on the FTP site. The catalogue includes bibliographic details and an index of all titles in print, in both a tagged text and word 97 format.

3. Subject Catalogues

Any (or all) of our annual catalogues (Economics, History, English Studies, Social Work & Social Policy, Nursing & Health, Sociology, Politics & International Studies, Business, Management & Finance). These catalogues include new books and backlist bestsellers - academic, texts, professional and reference.

a) Catalogues held at our printer
Subject catalogues supplied from our printer in straight ASCII text. Data provided is a true representation of the relevant catalogue but does not include the designed layout. Both tagged and untagged files are available (see note below). PDF files are also available.

b) Catalogues supplied from Sequel
Subject catalogues re-run direct from our in-house database in Word. The data is completely up-to-date but may not include some of the refinements made when originally compiling the catalogue.

c) Supply/Access Methods
- Floppy Disk
- FTP site - If you have FTP you can access our catalogues via ftp.macmillan.co.uk. Please contact your sales representative to obtain a username and password then click on the Outbound folder and select the catalogue files you require.

d) Web
You can also access our catalogues via our ftp site on the Internet. Please contact your sales representative to obtain the URL then click on the Outbound folder and select the catalogue files you require.

4. New Books Catalogue

Our six-monthly New Books catalogue.

We are able to supply in the same formats as the subject catalogues listed above.

5. Mini Catalogue

This is a word template accessible by our sales team. It enables downloads of multiple title entries from our catalogue database into one Word document.

6. Advance Notices

There are currently two options for the supply of electronic advance notices:

a) Weekly new advance notices via email supplied in a flat file with multi-line structured records that require processing. This information does not include the following information: Selling Points, Markets, Related Titles.

b) Monthly new advance notices on disk supplied direct from our in-house database but in a Word template format. Each advance notice is held in a separate file and is a true representation of the hard copy advance notice and includes Selling Points, Markets, Related Titles.

7. Website Catalogue

The Palgrave Macmillan website incorporates a fully searchable catalogue of over 10,000 titles. Searches can be made for any Palgrave Macmillan title currently in print by Author, Title, ISBN, Keyword, Series, Publication Year, ICS and Available on Demand. Customers can also create a link on their own website, if they have one, to the Palgrave Macmillan site, URL , which gives access to our entire catalogue database.

For those of you who do not want to store any of our bibliographic information:

Booksellers can link to individual title pages within our website catalogue using the URL e.g. /products/title.aspx?is=1403904006 (10 figure ISBN). This provides access to blurbs, jackets, sample chapters, book websites, TOCs and reviews all in one place.

8. Electronic Jacket and Sample Chapters

a) EJackets
All new front covers for Palgrave Macmillan, BFW and Sinauer books are stored as electronic image files. Three file types are available: High resolution TIFF, Medium resolution JPEG, Screen resolution GIF.

Booksellers who do not want to store our ejackets can link to URLs instead e.g. /jackets/0333946014.gif (10 figure ISBN). A list of these URLs, identified by ISBN and updated monthly, is available from your local sales representative.

b) Sample Chapters
Electronic sample chapters are available in PDF on the website.

Customers who do not want to store our sample chapters can link to URLs instead e.g. /pdfs/0333946014.pdf (10 figure ISBN). A list of these URLs, identified by ISBN and updated monthly, is available from your local sales representative.

9. Booksellers Area on Website

Don't forget our dedicated Booksellers area on our website at /booksellers. This provides you with information about us and what we offer you with sections on:

Please also remember that information on all Palgrave Macmillan titles is available from both Bookdata and Whitakers.

If you would like to discuss any of the above information in further detail please contact your Palgrave Macmillan Sales Representative.