Date: 1 Aug 2006 09:44:32 -0000 From: Manish Amte <amtes@rediffmail.com> Recent news and developments at Cambridge University Press . Cambridge University Press sees rise in journal Impact Factors According to the Thomson ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR), the entire Cambridge Journals list shows an average increase in Impact Factor of 15.1% from 2004 to 2005. To place this in context, the equivalent changes in the aggregated Impact Factors of all the journals in the subject categories in which Cambridge journals sit, amounted to an average increase of only 6.9%. http://journals.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press acquires CABI Journals: Cambridge University Press and CABI are pleased to announce the acquisition by Cambridge University Press of the CABI primary journals list, consisting of 15 titles either owned or published by CABI on behalf of various Learned Societies. http://journals.cambridge.org Journal of Fluid Mechanics Digital Archive Cambridge University Press is delighted to announce the digitisation of the complete archive of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics from 1956 to 1996. Every article is now available online, right back to Volume 1, Issue 1. The Journal of Fluid Mechanics is an internationally acclaimed twice monthly journal and the leading publication in its field. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JFM Cambridge Companions Online The Cambridge Companions series is one of the most widely known and successful series in the Cambridge University Press Humanities list. We have digitised almost the complete collection amounting to over 200 titles and made them available online for the first time. Their main areas are Literature, Philosophy, Religion and Classics and include more than 2000 specially commissioned essays by the leading international scholars in each field.http://www.cco.cambridge.org) Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS) Cambridge University Press is delighted to announce the complete digitisation of the 5 volumes of the Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS). Popularly known as "Hussuss," this huge body of information is fully searchable and users can download their chosen data and configure tables and graphs for use in their research. This is a new edition of a 5 volume print reference work last published by the U.S. Census bureau in 1975. The revision reflects 30 years of new scholarship that has added material on American Indians, slavery, poverty, race and ethnicity. http://hsus.cambridge.org/ Orlando :New Research Database on Women's writing 'Orlando' is the first scholarly history of British Women's writing and is unique in its approach and coverage. It grew out of a project based at University of Alberta and took over 10 years and about 100 people to build, and in the process developed a specialised tagging base system. It is a comprehensive electronic database of information relating to women's writing in the British Isles, from earliest times to today, and offers a wealth of biographical and critical information on more than 800 British women writers (including over 20,000 bibliographical listings), together with helpful entries on literary and historical events, male writers and non-British women writers. For more details on this please visit http://www.cambridge.org and http://journals.cambridge.org Thanks Manish Amte Marketing Manager-Journals Cambridge University Press C-22 , Brigade MM , KR Road Jayanagar Bangalore-560 070 Tel: +91 80 56693388, 26764817 , 26762764 Fax: +91 80 26761322