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FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS JOINS MAJOR NEW ONLINE PLATFORM FOR CROSS-UNIVERSITY PRESS MONOGRAPH CONTENT

5th October 2011

New York, NY—Fordham University Press (FUP) is excited to announce that it is participating in Oxford University Press’s (OUP) groundbreaking online platform for university press monograph content. Having redeveloped the award-winning Oxford Scholarship Online, OUP is launching University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) and inviting the University Press community to take advantage of a fully enabled XML environment with the cutting edge search and discovery functionality that has marked the on-going success of Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO).

“University Press Scholarship Online represents a convenient, dynamic step forward for ensuring that scholarly content from many venerable presses across the globe is conveniently searchable and accessible via one platform to the academic community worldwide,” notes Tim Barton, Managing Director of Global Academic Publishing for Oxford University Press.

Responding to increased demand for online scholarly content, UPSO streamlines the research process by making disparately published monographs easily accessible, highly discoverable and fully cross-searchable via one online platform. Research that previously would have required users to jump between a variety of books, and disconnected websites can now be concentrated through a single search engine.

First phase of content from participating partner presses include Fordham University Press (Fordham Scholarship Online/FSO); The American University in Cairo Press (Cairo Scholarship Online/CSO); The University Press of Kentucky (Kentucky Scholarship Online/KSO); University Press of Florida (Florida Scholarship Online/FLASO); Hong Kong University Press (Hong Kong Scholarship Online/HKSO); Additional presses are signing up to participate and OUP expects to add their content to UPSO in March 2012. Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh Scholarship Online/ESO) and Policy Press (Policy Press Scholarship Online/PPSO) are just two additional presses slated for the March 2012 update.

UPSO’s mission is to create an individually-branded home for monographs from each participating university press just as it has done for Oxford Scholarship Online while allowing highly intuitive tools to deep search across all the content in the program. As such, UPSO will be the premier online research tool—for scholars, teachers, graduate and undergraduate students—and an essential resource for all academic libraries.

Oxford Scholarship Online was launched in 2003 and immediately hailed as “A superior e-book implementation” by Booklist, and “For ease of use, user-friendly design, and quality texts, Oxford Scholarship Online is among the best I have ever used” by Library Journal.

Benefits of UPSO for academics, libraries, and partner presses:

• Provides the highest quality scholarly content across 24 subject areas

• Includes a vast and growing number of titles 5,485 titles will be available at launch, 652 of which are new titles, with abstracts and keywords at both the book and chapter level for each title

• All UPSO content is available in XML, which provides deep tagging and better search results. Content can also be saved downloaded to PDF

• Is fully cross-referenced and cross-searchable, with clickable citations from bibliographies and footnotes, including OpenURL and DOI-linking support

• Allows users to streamline research through a single online platform

• Can be easily integrated into library systems and updated frequently with new content

• Offers full customer support services as well as flexibility and choice in purchasing models

• Mobile functionality will be available later this year

• Increase discoverability and usage of university press scholarly materials

• Offers university presses unique opportunity to create an XML digital workflow and join a highly successful online scholarship platform, reaching the global academic market at low distribution costs

“OUP has developed this innovative and highly successful service specifically to address digital monographs. We’re the only publisher with a decade of this digital experience under our belt with more than 60% of research libraries now offering their users access to Oxford Scholarship Online,” said Casper Grathwohl, VP, Digital Publisher at Oxford University Press. “The UPSO program builds on this experience by opening the environment to the university press community—a welcome expansion for librarians and users who understand the growing power provided by a post-PDF research solution.”

“I think the timing is right for the UPSO model—over the past year the university press community has delved more deeply into strategic conversations about how to address their digital monograph publishing and we hope that the UPSO program will offer them a solution with a proven track record in an environment that is more flexible than most other offerings that are becoming available. UPSO is ultimately about unlocking the power of the academic monograph, and that singular focus makes it incredibly compelling,” concluded Grathwohl.

“Fordham University Press is delighted to be able to offer libraries electronic access to its books through Oxford’s UPSO service. We are fortunate to be associated with such a well-respected and proven platform that offers our content in XML as part of a dynamic search database. It clearly meets the needs and anticipates future needs of libraries and patrons,” states Fredric Nachbaur, Director of Fordham University Press

About OSO
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) launched in the Fall of 2003. By every measure (usage, critical acclaim, availability), OSO has been a success. Long established and comfortably ensconced with hundreds of participating universities, Oxford Scholarship Online has continued to grow in terms of both content and users. The further development to Oxford Scholarship Online in 2011 has been developed in direct response to user demands and feedback. This ensures that it remains at the cutting edge of scholarship and sits perfectly within the platform of UPSO. The new improvements, arriving with the launch of UPSO, include a brand new look and feel based on user feedback, personalization features and improved search and browse options.

For more information regarding FSO, please contact
Kate O’Brien-Nicholson, Marketing Director,
at [email protected]
or 718.817.4782

What participating partner presses are saying about UPSO:

The unprecedented speed of change in the electronic publishing environment presents both challenges and significant opportunities for publishers. We are delighted to be working with Oxford University Press and specifically with University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO). They have a great deal of experience of working with a global network of academic institutions, libraries and scholars. This presence will enable Edinburgh to continue to innovate in how we sell our books and journals using a single online platform whilst maintaining our individual branding.
-Timothy E Wright, Chief Executive, Edinburgh University Press Ltd.

University Press of Florida is delighted to be among the first presses to join University Press Scholarship Online. In today’s constantly changing environment, we know how important it is to work hand-in-glove with academic libraries to make the most up-to-date and rigorously vetted content available to as wide an audience as possible. Through UPSO and its enhanced searchability functions, we anticipate both an increased readership—especially of portions of books—and a resulting improvement in future scholarship.
– Dennis Lloyd, Associate Director/Director of Sales and Marketing, University Press of Florida

The University Press of Kentucky is thrilled about its inclusion as part of the University Press Scholarship Online program. As one of the leaders in the academic community, Oxford is known for being one of the top providers of electronic and print content. With XML tagging and dynamic searchable information, UPSO is clearly a paragon of the digital publishing age.
– John P. Hussey, Director of Marketing & Sales, University Press of Kentucky

For access to UPSO and more information re partner presses, pricing, functionality and additional updates regarding this project please contact Purdy, Director of Publicity, at [email protected] or 212.726.6032