December 2014 | Issue 12
Worcester College, Oxford University
Library Lantern
The librarians’ newsletter from Taylor & Francis
Dear Librarian,
Table of Contents
Season’s Greetings and welcome to the
December issue of the Library Lantern!
How Important is Social Media to Libraries?.......2
A lot has happened at Taylor & Francis over the
last couple of months – we’ve released the
white paper, ‘Use of social media by the library’,
attended the Charleston Conference and hosted
workshops and events across the globe. In this
issue we share all this exciting news with you,
as well as bring you an interview with the editor
of Psychology Revivals, uncover the history of
NetBASE and let you know where you can find
us in early 2015.
An Enriching Visit to Taylor & Francis
on Halloween........................................................3
Everybody Loves Charleston!.......................... 4-5
‘South Asia: Developing and Furthering Research’
Workshop at the University of Lisbon....................6
Jisc Collections and Taylor & Francis Agreement
Extends Access to Journal Content.....................6
Meet... Focal Press...............................................7
Discover the History of NetBASE.........................8
Taylor & Francis Celebrates the 2014
International Open Access Week at the
University of Central Florida.................................9
We hope you enjoy the Library Lantern’s final
issue of 2014 and we look forward to catching
up with you in the New Year!
Psychology Revivals: Bringing Out-of-Print
Books Back to Life....................................... 10-11
Best wishes,
Library Marketing Team, Taylor & Francis Group
Where to Find Us...............................................12
Informa Healthcare Journals to Move to
Taylor & Francis Group.......................................11
Get in Contact with Us.......................................13
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How Important
is Social Media
to Libraries?
Social media is forming an increasingly central part of
how we all communicate. Its online communities carry
a strong and influential voice, and there is much to be
gained from engaging directly with customers through
these channels.
It’s against this backdrop that Taylor & Francis decided
to research and compile a white paper focused on how
libraries are currently using social media, looking at
how libraries are applying social media channels, to
what extent it is embedded in library communications,
and how it may affect library roles in the future.
The research we undertook was on a truly global scale
– over 600 librarians worldwide contributed their
thoughts, suggestions and experiences through focus
groups, telephone interviews, an online survey and a
Twitter party. We heard some fascinating case studies
through the focus groups, such as how librarians are
managing to balance time and resource against
providing an active social media channel (librarians in
the India focus group described how they shared the
workload in order to provide a timely response to
queries), and some inspiring promotional ideas, such
as the library “shelfie” used to promote Nottingham
University Library’s collection! We also made some
very interesting discoveries through the online survey,
including:
• 61% of libraries have been using social media for
3 years or more
• 30% post to social media daily
• Facebook is the most popular channel, with 58%
of librarians using it regularly
• 75% of libraries schedule posts ad hoc, with no
social media policy or plan in place
The white paper can be accessed online for free,
along with accompanying top level data, infographic
visualisations of key findings, video presentations
and more.
See www.tandf.co.uk/libsite/whitePapers/socialMedia
for more details.
We’ve been spreading the word about the white paper
through webinars, emails, a press release, conference
presentations, two launch events in Oxford and
Singapore (see the guest article on the next page),
and of course, via social media.
We see the research as being just the start of the
discussion. We plan to add to a web-based resource
over coming months focusing further on specific
themes to be raised by the white paper, such as
measuring impact, using social media as a customer
service tool, and how it is used regionally, e.g. in Asia
and Africa. If you would like to help contribute to this
further research, comment on the white paper, or share
your experience of using social media in your library,
get in touch with us at [email protected].
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An Enriching Visit to
Taylor & Francis on Halloween
Article contributed by Mingshanwang,
Executive Officer (Music), NAFA Library
As we make our way up the steps to the office of
Taylor & Francis, one wonders what experience can
be gleaned from a short visit to this anchor publication
company. To our surprise, we were greeted by two
ladies in black gowns offering tricks-or-treats in a
Jack-o’-lantern basket, complete with sweets and
centipedes (mock ones of course!). We were further
treated to a surprise appearance of Doctor Plague!
This Doctor Plague was in fact none other than the
Managing Director of Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific,
Mr. Barry Clarke. The witty ‘Doctor Plague’,
accompanied by Marketing Director, Ms. Brenda Foo,
introduced the brief history and background of Taylor
& Francis from the inception of Philosophical Magazine,
dating back to 1798, to its global presence today.
One of the main focuses of this visit, organised by the
LAS Programmes & Social Committee, was to attend
the white paper presentation on ‘Use of social media
by the library’ by Journals Sales Director, Mr. Don Low.
Don shared recent research findings that social media
is undergoing a profound transformation in its role in
academic libraries in recent years. Mr. Low unveiled the
overview of academic libraries’ current practices in the
use of social media, its objectives, and effectiveness
based on the research facilitated by Taylor & Francis.
Taylor & Francis, and celebrated with Halloween-themed
goodies, such as eyeball puffs and coffin cookies.
The last item on the day’s agenda was a short
excursion to the Taylor & Francis warehouse, led by
‘Doctor Plague’, Mr. Clarke. A ‘fresh’ and familiar smell
of enormous new books in the warehouse, a few blocks
away from the office at Siemens Centre, fascinated the
attendees. In the warehouse, Mr. Clarke conveyed the
processes behind-the-scenes on how books were
collected and delivered.
All the fun had to come to a close at 4.30pm, leaving
members with an enriched perspective on the promises
of social media in their libraries and its potential to
enhance readership.
Photos by
Cheng Eng Aun,
Librarian, NUS Libraries
This afternoon visit coincided with the Halloween
celebration on Friday 31st October 2014. The 39 LAS
members cast their vote on the best workspace décor at
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At Purdue we’re a little unique
because we see our repository as a
publishing platform as well. We
publish 22 open access journals,
conference proceedings, books,
pseudo books, and journal projects.
We partner with our university press.
With that in mind, we think this is a
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I held a lively lunch with colleagues
from Clemson and College of
Charleston. The three of us are
editing a book about making
repositories work and about the
practical implications of creating a
repository, running a repository, and
This is my third consecutive year at
this conference. I like to attend
Charleston for a couple of different
reasons. Ever since I’ve been
coming, it seems that this is a
conference that is developing beyond
just acquisitions and those vendors
and publishers that are involved in
that aspect of the business. It seems
that in the past five to ten years, it’s
developed into content in the
peripheral around those relationships.
It’s been involving open access and
those libraries and publishers that
focus on open access.
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I spoke at one of the pre-conference
workshops about open access. It was
a workshop with speakers who were
both librarians and journal publishers.
We had institutions with open access
policies, like MIT and Rutgers, and
then people like myself from
institutions that have resolutions that
are working towards policy. We had
journal publishers on our panel
talking about these joint issues about
open access and open access
policies – what institutions are doing
to create policies, why they’re
creating policies, and how that plays
into working with publishers or
compliance with policies.
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gathering content. Most importantly,
once you have done that, how do
you deliver on the impact of the
repository? How do you relay that
impact to administrators, to potential
content providers, and also looking at
what the future is for the repository?
The book will be released next year
for the 2015 [Charleston] Conference.
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David Scherer,
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Maybe it’s the weather, the innovative sessions, the plethora of Southern
comfort foods or all of the above, but year after year we hear librarians,
vendors, publishers and students alike gushing about the Charleston
Conference. The meeting is more informal than other annual meetings,
and personally, we at T&F love the collaborative atmosphere. We know why
we love the Charleston Conference, so we took to the streets of Charleston
to find out why other attendees love it too.
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really great conference to attend.
It’s one where you get rid of this
dichotomy relationship of ‘us vs.
them’. You can be in a session that’s
co-led by publishers and librarians,
discussing topics in very fruitful and
meaningful ways that really are trying
to find the best solution for both sides.
What has been your favorite session
and why?
There was a conversation between
the Association of American
Universities (AAU) and the
Association of Research Libraries
(ARL) where they were talking about
the future of monograph publishing
and open access. They were talking
about how we can keep monograph
open access publishing sustainable.
If you aren’t getting profit margins,
how can you relay impact? But when
you look at usage data and seeing
this content that is either being
provided at a freemium model where
there is a free open access copy but
then a premium model on top of that,
or some other sustainable business
model that’s in place, I think that
there is still a business model that
you can relay the value and return
on investment of open access. The
presses that are seeing this are
beginning to see the fruitful nature
of it.
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I was able to come here as part of
a class [at the time], which was in
2004. There were a lot of publishers
and librarians, and I love the
combination of the two sides of the
picture. I came another year helping
a professor who brings students here
for special collections classes, and
this year I came because I’m working
on a paper on eBooks.
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What has been your favorite part of
the show this year?
A conversation with
Carol Price, a doctorate
student at the University
of South Carolina
Why do you attend the Charleston
Conference?
This is my third time [attending the
conference]. When I moved to South
Carolina, I did my Master’s of Library
Science online after working in the
corporate world for a number of
years. I got into a lot of things with
eBooks and also corporate libraries.
All of the sessions on all of the
different topics. I think it’s the only
conference I’ve ever been to where
you can’t get into a session. The best
thing to do is the pre-conferences.
There weren’t professional speakers
but everybody had something to say.
It was great.
Was there a favorite session or event
you attended this year?
The session I really liked was the one
on eBooks, and the reason I liked it
was because [people from] University
of North Carolina at Charlotte did
most of the presentation and actually
they’re pretty close to us. They had a
nice story—they had gotten money
and they spent all of it buying all
these subscriptions and things. It’s so
nice hearing about a school having a
budget for [materials]. They bought
all sorts of fascinating materials. They
got the money in June, and they
spent it by August. It was a lively
session. They had seven or eight
people so you got a lot of different
perspectives. This was at the half-day
pre-conference. Everybody at that
group would chime in. That was a
success story and that’s good to hear
from a library’s perspective.
How has attending the meeting helped
you in your professional goals?
This is the first year I remember
getting a list of attendees; that is a
handy thing to have. Plus, all of the
descriptions of the sessions are
helpful, so you know which sessions
would be best for you. You also get a
subscription to Against the Grain,
which I like a lot.
#TandFLovesPets!
The T&F Library Marketing Team is always
on the lookout for fun and interactive ways
to enhance our presence at library
conferences around the world, and the
34th Annual Charleston Conference in
November was no exception. This year, we
invited our @LibraryLantern Twitter followers,
T&F staff from around the globe, and
Charleston Conference attendees to join us in
celebrating two of our biggest passions – the
written word and animals! – by participating
in the #TandFLovesPets celebration.
In the weeks leading up to the conference,
we tweeted photos of famous authors and
their beloved furry friends, as well as links
to free pet-related journal articles on
Taylor & Francis Online. We also designed
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a special Taylor & Francis pet collar (in our
signature royal blue shade, of course), and
invited animal lovers in our offices and at
Charleston to photograph their pets wearing
the collar. Throughout the day, a chorus of
‘Awww’s’ could be heard coming from the
direction of the Taylor & Francis booth, and
dozens of happy pet owners walked away
with a special collar to take home.
Even though the conference has ended, it’s
not too late to catch up on the fun – search
#TandFLovesPets on Twitter to browse
through all the photos and free pet-themed
articles that we shared. Needless to say, this
was our most adorable Twitter campaign yet!
Our feline and canine models
show off their new collars!
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‘South Asia: Developing and
Furthering Research’ Workshop
at the University of Lisbon
On 22nd October, Taylor & Francis Group visited the
University of Lisbon to run a workshop on the South
Asia Archive. The South Asia Archive is a specialist,
fully searchable digital platform launched by Routledge
in 2013. It contains 4.5 million digitized pages of
research material covering the Indian subcontinent,
dating from 1700 through to 1953.
The event, ‘South Asia: Developing and Furthering
Research’, was run by Laura Horton, Global Library
Communications Manager and Hailey Broadbent,
Journals Area Sales Executive. The key note address,
delivered by Professor Teresa Malafaia, Associate
Professor of the English Studies Department and
Researcher of the University of Lisbon Centre for
English Studies, focused on the future of South Asia
research in a digital age.
Roundtable
discussions
from the panel
Laura Horton
then introduced
attendees to the content
and functionality that a digital product can offer
researchers, using the South Asia Archive as a working
example and sharing the results from the Routledge
South Asia Advisory Board. The Advisory Board
provides members with an opportunity to advise on
how content from the South Asia Archive could be used
to further develop research and to discuss benefits of
digitization for teaching and the library. The workshop
led to roundtable discussions and views from the
librarian attendees at the University of Lisbon.
If you’d like to host a similar workshop at your
university, please contact Laura Horton at
[email protected].
Jisc Collections and Taylor & Francis
Agreement Extends Access to Journal Content
Taylor & Francis Group and Jisc Collections – which
supports the procurement of digital content for
education and research in the UK – have reached
agreement to provide UK libraries with extended access
to content published in Taylor & Francis journals.
Following extensive discussions between Taylor &
Francis, Jisc Collections and RLUK, and in
consultation with the wider UK library community, for
the first time the deal includes an offsetting agreement
for articles published on an open access basis in
hybrid journals. For articles published under Taylor &
Francis’ hybrid open access publishing model, Open
Select, the offsetting agreement offers discounted
Article Publishing Charges via a voucher system
determined by expenditure. This decision recognises
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the continuing growth in open access research, and
Taylor & Francis wishes to participate in pilots which
explore the potential for transitioning business models.
The other main features of the agreement are
as follows:
• Three-year agreement
• Post-termination access to core-subscribed titles
• A substitutions allowance
• Improved subscriptions reinstatement conditions
for new entrants
• Access fees now entirely Jisc-banded
• A reduced annual price increase if an institution
places its order by 15th December
More information from Jisc.
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Meet… Focal Press
Students preparing for creative careers are entering
some of the most competitive fields in the world.
Focal Press can help take your library patrons from
the classroom to the studio or the stage, equipping
them with all the skills they need to succeed in these
fast-paced industries.
For over 75 years, Focal Press has published
exceptional, engaging books that teach practical,
hands-on knowledge. Now an imprint of Taylor &
Francis Group, we are the leading publisher in the
field of media technology, providing expert answers
on photography and digital imaging, filmmaking and
postproduction, audio and music technology, animation
and gaming, media art and journalism, theatre, web,
and interactive design.
A range of resources
We offer over 1,000 titles, in both eBook and print
formats. Over 430 of these are available within our
Creative & Media Arts Subject eCollection, with smaller
subsets also available in Filmmaking & Postproduction,
Gaming & Animation, and Photography, allowing you to
build your collection of Focal titles quickly and easily, or
pick and mix to find the best resources for your patrons.
Students can also explore a range of free blogs with
helpful tips and tricks, such as Mastering Photo,
Audio Undone, and Pencils, Pixels and the Pursuit of
Awesomeness. These blogs will help your patrons put
the theory and skills they’ve learned from our books
into practice.
Give your students guidance from the best
Our authors have won Oscars, Emmys, and ANNIEs
(the highest award in animation), worked on
Grammy-winning records, and been inducted into the
Adobe Photoshop Hall of Fame. True experts, they
authoritatively and clearly convey their passion with just
the right amount of inspiration, simultaneously helping
students get to grips with complex technical matters.
See what Focal Press
can offer your library today
To learn more about the
full range of Focal Press publishing,
please get in touch:
Alfred Lea
[email protected]
(UK and Rest of World)
Toni Couvell
[email protected]
(US and Latin America)
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Discover the History
of NetBASE
CRC Press has a long history of
responding to its customers’
needs; providing resources to
the scientific, medical, and
technology (STM) community
for more than 100 years. In 1998,
CRC Press recognized the need
to provide libraries with research
materials in a more flexible,
digital format.
The use of ENGnetBASE increased
and demand for additional eBook
collections came pouring in.
ENVIROnetBASE, a collection of
environmental handbooks and
resources in the same vein as
ENGnetBASE, became the second
online product from CRC Press.
CRC Press identified the need to
expand the subject collections.
The first CRCnetBASE,
ENGnetBASE, began as a
CD-ROM product and although
the technological format was not
ideal, it quickly evolved. In 1999,
CRC Press created the first
web-based eBook collection
making authoritative references
readily available to libraries and
their patrons. This iteration of
ENGnetBASE was a virtual
collection of engineering books
provided in PDF format with no
digital right management (DRM)
applied. CRC Press became the
first STM publisher to launch an
eCollection for libraries. The
downloadable PDF format
allowed for citations that reflect
the printed version and allowed
the books to be used by more
than one researcher at a time.
In 2010, the CRCnetBASES moved
to the Atypon platform, relaunching
the separate collections as one
large collection controlled by
subscription rights. The Atypon
platform allowed for faster
downloads and chapter purchase
options. The shift to a single
platform was very successful.
CRCnetBASE won awards for the
platform as well as the collections.
• 2010: CHOICE Award for
Outstanding Academic Resource
• 2010: The Association of
Learned and Professional
Society of Publishers (ALPSP)
Award for Best eBook Publisher/
Platform
• 2011: Library Journal Award for
Best Reference Platform
CRCnetBASEs were the first to
supply printed content in a
digital format from a wide range
of authoritative experts. The
caliber of the information and
the flexible subscription options
set CRCnetBASEs apart from
others. No one else in STM
publishing provides access to
such a broad range of information
to specialized libraries.
CRCnetBASE provides one of the
largest subject collection platforms
designed for research in all areas
of science, medicine, and
technology, and reacts to the
market needs, making subscription
options available that provide not
only flexibility of content but for
access and budget.
What originally seemed so simple
– a digital collection of books that
mirrored the physical collection –
has grown into a groundbreaking
resource for researchers and
students. CRCnetBASE currently
has over 12,000 titles covering more
than 350 subject areas in more than
40 eBook collection netBASES. New
titles are being added each month!
Visit our website at www.crcnetbase.com and take a tour.
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Taylor & Francis Celebrates the
2014 International Open Access Week
at the University of Central Florida
Members of the academic and
publishing communities gathered
together in Howards Phillips Hall at
the University of Central Florida’s
(UCF) campus in Orlando, Florida,
on Monday 20th October to kick off
the University’s 2014 Open Access
Week activities with a variety of
presentations and discussions on
all things open access.
Other presentations included a
session on OA and losing data in
the information age by Dr. Barry
Mauer, Associate Professor of
English at UCF; and Dr. Nancy
Stanlick, an Associate Professor in
the UCF Philosophy Department,
talked about her experiences
editing the open access journal,
the Florida Philosophical Review.
The day-long event included
presentations from a number of
UCF faculty, with sessions on topics
like the use of OA tools in the
emerging field of digital public
history to the importance of open
data in disseminating scholarship
in Africa, to name a few.
Representatives from several
publishers were also invited to the
event to discuss their experiences
with OA, including T&F’s own Stacy
Sieck, Library Communications
Manager for the Americas region,
and Elyse Profera, Regional Sales
Manager for the Central U.S.
Dr. Peter Suber, Director for the
Office of Scholarly Communication
at Harvard, was the key-note
speaker for the day. Although he
could not attend the meeting
in person, he joined via Skype and
led a lively open access question
and answer session. Among other
issues, he talked about the
importance of the quality of
research being published and
consumed, noting that crucial
research is still being published in
subscription-based journals and
universities can’t afford to ignore
this research. But with that in mind,
the open access model isn’t going
anywhere either, he added.
Stacy and Elyse gave a detailed
overview of Taylor & Francis’ open
access policies (including our
Gold and Green OA programs and
the Library & Information Science
Author Rights Pilot), along with an
update on open access mandates
and regulations in the U.S.
IEEE, Springer, and Gale were
in attendance to talk about their
OA programs as well, and the
publisher OA information sessions
were followed by a Q&A panel
discussion, which was moderated
by the Head of Research and
Information Services at UCF,
Barbara Tierney. The Q&A session
allowed the audience time to ask
the publishers questions about
their respective OA products and
policies, as well as their views on
the changing OA landscape.
Those in attendance didn’t hesitate
to ask panelists the hard-hitting
questions about open access
funding models or how publishers
plan to evolve and support libraries
and researchers alike through their
OA products, but the atmosphere
of the event was certainly one of
collaboration.
The day ended with several more
sessions from faculty, including a
discussion on the migration of the
journal The Tapestry to an open
access publishing model by
Dr. Joyce Nutta and Dr. Florin Mihai,
Professors in the School of
Teaching, Learning and Leadership
at UCF. And finally, Dr. Kimberly Voss
finished the day with an upbeat
presentation on building buzz and
citations to academic research
through blogging and Twitter.
Stacy Sieck, Library Communications Manager,
Taylor & Francis Group
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So, what are Psychology Revivals?
They are reissues of previously
out-of-print Psychology or Mental
Health titles from our backlist – books
previously published by Routledge,
or by one of the many imprints that
Routledge has acquired over the
years. The reissued titles date back to
the early 1900s, and up to the 1990s.
The Routledge Revivals programme
in the Humanities and Social
Sciences has been running for five
years. The Psychology Revivals
programme is a relatively new spinoff – the first Psychology Revivals
were published in 2013.
It’s worth mentioning that the Revivals
and Library Editions are almost all
available as eBooks.
How do you decide which books to
bring back to life?
We search our backlist for books on
interesting topics and by interesting
people. The Psychology Revivals
programme includes early books by
authors who have gone on to great
things. For instance we have an early
book from 1985, Living with the
Bomb: Can We Live Without
Enemies?, by the world-renowned
psychologist and writer Dorothy
Rowe. Plus the programme reissues
works by eminent writers from the
past whose work is still studied today,
such as Jean Piaget.
And how do the Library Edition sets
come to be?
Sometimes our backlist lends itself to
the production of a set. Sometimes
we have a number of books by one
author – for example, we have an
upcoming 6-volume Collected Works
by Charles Baudouin, a French
psychoanalyst and contemporary of
Freud, Jung, and Adler, whose work
warrants fresh attention. Sometimes
we produce a set when we have a
number of interesting backlist titles
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by different authors on a theme,
such as Jung; Memory; or Emotion.
The sets vary in terms of the number
of volumes included. Some have five
or six volumes; on the other hand we
have a 30-volume set in Social
Psychology coming in 2015!
Some of the Library Editions were
published as sets originally, such as
the 6-volume Handbook of Learning
and Cognitive Processes, edited by
W.K. Estes. At least one of our
Library Editions was envisaged as a
set though originally published as
individual volumes: in June 2014 we
published The Uttal Tetralogy of
Cognitive Neuroscience. The four
books were published separately
during the 1970s and 80s, but
William Uttal had always conceived
of them as a set. Upon publication
of the Library Edition, he wrote to me
to say that he had never until then
experienced the whole that the
books represent – only the parts.
The set was what he had hoped to
see from the beginning of the two
decade-long project, and he told me
he felt a sense of completion.
Why should a library invest in these
reissues?
We are used to seeing a subject area
now, at this point in time: with the
Revivals, the reader can re-trace the
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paths that led here, including the
bumps in the road and the detours
that often prove an interesting part of
the journey.
To give you an example, some of the
Revivals I’ve worked on recently that
I’ve found particularly fascinating are
three books by Bernard Hollander
from the early twentieth century, on
abnormal children, nervous disorders
of women, and nervous disorders of
men. There’s much in them to
astonish the modern reader, and they
are fascinating just in terms of social
history. But it’s also really interesting
to see how the subject area that
Hollander refers to as ‘medical
psychology’ has developed over the
last century into a myriad of different
areas and approaches. This process
in psychology and mental health is
still continuing, with new areas of
specialization springing up, and
established ones being questioned.
Can you tell us about the specific
challenges of your job?
Once I have identified a book I would
like to reissue, I then need to trace
the author or author’s relatives, as
even if the original contract is in our
archive, it almost certainly won’t cover
eBooks. So there is a fair bit of
detective work involved in my job in
terms of tracking people down! There
have been times I’ve nearly given up
hope, only to get a response out of
the blue to an enquiry I made months
before. When I do make contact with
the author or their relatives, they are
usually really pleased about having
the book reissued and brought to a
whole new audience.
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And what brought you to this role?
I worked at Psychology Press as a
Production Editorial Manager on new
psychology and mental health books
since 1999. In 2012, the opportunity
came up to take on the Revivals and
Library Editions job. I had experience
within the subject area, with the
processes, and with some of the
authors. For me, it has been an
opportunity to develop new skills,
and I’m also enjoying being part of a
bigger team – the Routledge Revivals
and Library Editions team.
Informa Healthcare Journals
to move to Taylor & Francis Group
Informa Healthcare’s portfolio of 180 journals will be managed by Taylor & Francis
Group, as of January 2015.
The move follows the transition of Informa Healthcare’s books publishing business
to CRC Press, a constituent part of Taylor & Francis Group, in 2012.
In order to ensure consistency for customers, key staff from Informa Healthcare will
join Taylor & Francis’ existing structure.
The journals will transition to the Taylor & Francis Online platform during 2015.
Pricing and policies will remain as is for 2015.
Taylor & Francis’ extensive journals publishing arm provides the optimal home
for the titles included in the move to continue to grow and flourish.
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