IU Press to offer book, journal content online

IU Press will now provide content of certain books and journals online.

IU Press has announced the official launch of IU Press Online, a collection of more than 200 of the press’ best books and 75 themed journal issues in five subject areas: African Studies; African American and Diaspora Studies; Jewish and Holocaust Studies; Philosophy; and Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.

Books and journal issues will be added to these libraries on a regular basis, and during the course of the summer, the press plans to add music and religious-studies titles, according to a news release.

IU Press Online’s first-rate features include fast downloads regardless of the size of the document; page-specific URLs for easy bookmarking, citing and sharing, including social bookmarking services such as Delicious and Digg; usability in any browser including Web-enabled handhelds such as the iPhone; fully searchable documents with relevancy-ranked search results; search capability across the entire site or by collection, title or within specific metadata fields; search hits that link directly to a specific page and not just to the document; a variety of online viewing options such as full-screen zoom to support different user preferences and browsers; and built-in subscription-based RSS feeds for automatic updates when content is added.

“By giving scholars, libraries and the general reading public the opportunity to access and read IU Press books and journals online, IU Press Online takes an important step in advancing the Press’ mission of extending the intellectual reach of Indiana University throughout the world,” said Janet Rabinowitch, director of IU Press, in a press release.