'...builds on and enhances the straight dictionary format with substantial options for research...' - Refer (CILIP)

Why is Partridge Slang better than ever?

An indispensable resource for your English Language and Literature collections.  Partridge is the authority on post-WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries from across the English-speaking world, Partridge includes published sources for each entry, dating information for each headword, and hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, making it the definitive resource for slang scholars and fans alike.

Why Partridge Slang Online?

No more waiting! Partridge Slang Online allows multiple users to search at once, bringing the Partridge tradition into the digital age. Key features include:

• highly discoverable content through Quick, Advanced, and Faceted search
• search refinement through adding and removing search filters and search within results
• explore content by Subject, Type, Place of Origin, Part of Speech and Date, or browse by A-Z
• contextual discovery of content through automated suggestions of related entries
• additional access to SEVEN!!! of Eric Partridge's major works in ebook form, including collections of slang dating back to the 1600s.

'This eminently browsable work would be essential for libraries with substantial language collections and would complement the OED online.' - Refer (CILIP)

To learn more or sign up for your free trial, visit www.partridgeslangonline.com today!

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Order both Partridge Slang Online combined with the new two-volume hardback edition and save!

Praise for the previous edition of The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English :

'Maintaining the integrity of the former editions and adding new words representative of the 20th and 21st centuries, this dictionary will be useful to a wide range of readers … Recommended.' – Choice

'A veritable Madame Tussaud’s of the vulgar language. It is a really epoch-making, monumental piece of work, carried out with astonishing industry and learning.' – New Statesman

An exciting new collection of specialist eBooks that is growing all the time

Do you offer courses in Sports Coaching, Excercise Science or Sports Studies? If so, the Taylor & Francis eCollection in Sport, Exercise & Leisure could be the perfect resource for your students.

Over the last ten years, our list of sport, exercise and leisure books has grown into one of the deepest and broadest of any major publisher. This new eCollection features all our backlist titles, plus all new frontlist eBooks as they are published.

You will find eBooks at all levels, from market-leading undergraduate textbooks, including Research Methods for Sports Studies and Physical Activity and Health: The Evidence Explaied, to Handbooks, monographs and reference books.

Which eBooks will I find in this eCollection?

You will find eBooks in some of the most popular areas of study, each of which is available as a mini eCollection. You can invest in these mini eCollections, or Pick & Mix individual titles, if you find the main eCollection somewhat daunting or out of your price range. We have mini eCollections available in:

• Sports Coaching & Physical Education
• Sport & Exercise Science
• Sport & Leisure Management
• Sport & Leisure Studies.

Interested?
Please contact our lovely sales teams about T&F eBooks. You can request a FREE TRIAL here. Whether your institution wants to invest in the Sport, Exercise & Leisure eCollection or just get a clearer picture of how our eBooks can be accessed, please drop us a line:

online.sales@tandf.co.uk (UK and Rest of World)

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The results are in! Our Open Access survey receives nearly 15,000 responses

We are delighted to publish the findings of our record-breaking Open Access survey, run by our brothers and sisters in Taylor & Francis Journals. This survey, circulated in the final weeks of 2012 leading into early 2013, was the largest single survey conducted by our Research & Businesses Intelligence Department to date, receiving over 14,700 responses. We asked the Taylor & Francis author community, which includes authors of Routledge Journals, for their views on Open Access publishing and their level of involvement with it.

Why did we carry out this survey?

Our motivation was a genuine curiosity about the views of our authors towards Open Access, and many related topics, such as peer review, licensing, re-use and metrics.

The Open Access environment has been developing at an extraordinary rate, and we wanted to ensure we had an up-to-date understanding of our authors’ views and needs in response to these changes, in order to adapt our services and policies accordingly. We have long-standing experience of sending out surveys on a number of topics to authors, editors and society partners and believe that this is a very effective way of receiving rapid feedback from those communities.

Overwhelming response

The response to the survey was overwhelming, with nearly 15,000 authors emailing back, answering most, if not all, of the 24 questions. As you can see from the adjacent world map image, the global spread of respondents was pretty good. The responses produced some very interesting findings. Click on the link below to access the report.

We wanted to make the results of the survey available for all to read and so have produced a PDF document providing charts showing the raw results from all the questions in the survey along with details about the survey population and resulting sample. This is provided under a creative commons attribution license.

Read the full report here: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/open-access-survey-march2013.pdf

‘A veritable Madame Tussaud’s of the vulgar language. It is a really epoch-making monumental piece of work, carried out with astonishing industry and learning.’ – New Statesman

This expanded second edition contains a new preface noting slang trends of the last five years, over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia and new terms from the language of social networking, giving readers unprecedented access to the rich world of slang.

Containing over 60,000 entries, the world's most authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge’s own work.

Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include:

• unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean
• emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English
• published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print
• hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords
• dating and origin information for each headword
• in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning.

Partridge Slang Online is the first interactive slang dictionary available via the web, giving users new ways to discover the rich and rude world of slang. Combining Eric Partridge’s legacy of academic rigor and research with the latest technologies in search and discoverability, Partridge is ushered into the digital age.

• over 60,000 unique entries with full citations
• highly discoverable content through Quick, Advanced and Faceted search
• search refinement through adding and removing search filters and search within results
• explore content by Subject, Type, Place of Origin, Part of Speech and Date, or browse by A-Z
• contextual discovery of content through automated suggestions of related entries
• personalized login for individual user: bookmark entries, and save and manage searches
• fully searchable Bibliographic Library
• print, share and cite entry tools
• multiple authentication options including Athens and Shibboleth
• institutional account management functionality
• contact the editors directly via email
• additional content of Eric Partridge’s major works and collections of slang dating back to the 1600s.

For more information on how to purchase, or sign up for a free 30 day trial, visit www.partridgeslangonline.com today

eBooks from Taylor & Francis - Helping you to choose the right eBooks for your Library

As we enter 2013, we are seeing more and more institutions and libraries investing in electronic information products and resources. There is increasingly less space for physical books, and students are now accessing more information remotely.

A 2012 IFLA report rightly makes the point that 'eResources present a number of challenges not encountered with the selection and acquisition of traditional analogue materials'. For this reason, at Taylor & Francis we endeavour to offer you as much support as possible to help you integrate our eProducts into your library as easily as possible. And with our eBooks, we have made things super simple.

At first glance, the sheer scale of our eBook backlist and frontlist can be quite daunting. We have over 30,000 eBooks across the Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences and Law, from leading imprints, including Routledge, Focal Press and Psychology Press.

With eBooks covering everything from Language & Linguistics and Philosophy of Film to Commercial Law and Development Economics, there is a lot to choose from. For that reason, we have made our purchase options nice and flexible; subject eCollections, interdisciplinary eFocus packages, Pick n' Mix and more ...

Give our new video a watch and get a snapshot of what T&F eBooks could do for your library:

Twitter has been a popular form of communication at Routledge for several years now, and has proven to be a very immediate, personal and fun way of communicating with librarians, academics and students. It also looks like Twitter is a growing communication channel within academic institutions, between students and lecturers, and between the students themselves. A recent study conducted at Michigan State University has confirmed the growing use and importance of Twitter as a learning tool. Read on for a full low down.

"The students get more engaged because they feel it is connected to something real"

Assistant Professor of Education at Michigan State University, Christine Greenhow, conducted a study entitled “Twitteracy: Tweeting is a New Literary Practice”, the results of which were published in the Taylor & Francis journal The Educational Forum. In it, she found that college students who tweet as part of their instruction are more engaged with the course content, the teacher, other students, and they have higher grades.

“Tweeting can be thought of as a new literary practice,” said Greenhow, who also studies the growing use of social media among high-schoolers. “It’s changing the way we experience what we read and what we write.” “The students get more engaged because they feel it is connected to something real, that it’s not just learning for the sake of learning,” Greenhow said. “It feels authentic to them.”

“One of the ways we judge whether something is a new literary form or a new form of communication is whether it makes new social acts possible that weren’t possible before,” Greenhow said. “Has Twitter changed social practices and the way we communicate? I would say it has.”

Professor Greenhow also noted that Twitter usage among U.S. teens has doubled in less than two years. She states that there are now more than 200 million active users … posting more than 175 million tweets a day.

Read that again. 175 million tweets a day.

And you thought your Twitter stream was crowded?!

Greenhow’s research comes on the heels of another MSU study about changing communication practices among college students. That study, led by Jeff Grabill, found that first-year college students value texting more than any other writing style. Read about the MSU study here

Stay in touch with Routledge Reference. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TandFRef

Routledge Music Online is the place to go if you are looking for musical facts and figures. You will find some of our finest reference works in music here, from Encyclopedias and Dictionaries to our most popular Handbooks and Companions.

Please visit www.routledgeonline.com/music to learn more

October has been a busy month for us. We have added a selection of quality new content to the site, including:

• Richard Wagner: a Research and Information Guide, Second Edition
• Olivier Messiaen: a Research and Information Guide
• Performance Practice: a Dictionary-guide For Musicians.

Could Routledge Music Online benefit your library or institution? It is a very useful resource for music and performance studies departments, and is regularly updated with new titles, enabling your subscription to grow. If you would like more information, please get in touch. FREE TRIALS are available for qualifying institutions.

Why not take a quick look at our snazzy new postcard? Just click on the thumbnail image below:

Sarah Fancher of St. Louis University Libraries describes Europa World as 'a quality, easy-to-use reference source, suitable for business and global studies students and a general audience'.

Europa World is the online, constantly-updated version of the longstanding Europa World Year Book. Whether your users want to source the latest data on copper output in Chile, assess industrial development in China, or predict the impact of the economic downturn in Europe, this digital resource could prove hugely beneficial.

Want to learn more? Why not take a quick online tour? Just click here and explore this month's 'Featured Country' on the right-hand side of the page.

Recent events of note that have been reflected in Europa World content include:

• the killing of US ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, in an attack on US consulate
• a major cabinet reorganization following the resignation of the government in Colombia
• the replacement of Baroness Warsi as the Conservative Party co-chair in the UK
• Hugo Chávez's victory in the October presidential elections in Venezuela, securing another six-year term.

If you would like to read Sarah's full review of Europa World, you can do so here.

Any questions? Please get in touch. We are happy to help! You can contact us as follows:

UK and Rest of World Customers - online.sales@tandf.co.uk

North and South America - e-reference@taylorandfrancis.com

Over 2,700 articles on everything from Aesthetics and Existentialism to Metaethics and Phenomenology! With its easy, intuitive user environment and special resources for users at all levels, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REP) Online is a living, regularly-updated online resource suitable for academics, students and general readers worldwide. All new articles and revisions to existing articles are produced by leading academics from a variety of backgrounds.

In June 2012, Paul Gahan, the Information & Local Studies Librarian at Swindon Libraries in the United Kingdom, kindly reviewed REP on behalf of Refer, the Journal of the Information Services Group at CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. Paul is himself a philosophy graduate and so was in a good position to offer a well-informed judgement on the resource. We would like to thank Paul for taking the time to offer us his comments.

He writes:

'As a philosophy undergraduate in the mid ‘80s, far more focused on playing rugby & socialising than on my studies, I recall leaning heavily on the multi-volume Encyclopedia of Philosophy in the quick reference section of the university library far more than I should have done. That was the Macmillan version, published originally in 1967, so I was interested to see how the online version of the Routledge equivalent, published In hard-copy & on CD-ROM in 1998 & originally launched online in 2001, would compare. I must confess my impressions are almost entirely favourable.'

You can read the rest of Paul's review here. To find out more about Refer, please do so here.

Any questions you have about REP, please visit the website or drop us a line at reference@routledge.com. We are happy to help!

“E-book borrowers are book lovers,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet project. “They were the heaviest book-reading cohort of the ones we measured. They are more into books than even e-book readers, the larger group they fall into.”

E-book borrowers represent about 12% of e-book readers, according to the study. Among e-book readers, about 21% of the population per a Pew study from earlier in the year, the buy rate is a slightly higher, at 55%. For Rainie, the takeaway is that e-book borrowers are slightly more likely to borrow an e-book than e-book readers, but are still heavy book buyers.

“E-book borrowers being buyers is a phenomenon that’s true in the print world as well,” said Molly Raphael, president of the American Library Association. “We know this anecdotally and this data that shows it is an important finding for us.” Raphael said that e-book borrowers will discover a book they want to borrow and then see that they have to wait for it to become available and will get impatient and buy it. E-book borrowers also sometimes sample e-books by borrowing them and then buy them.

Read the full article here

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is the world's leading authority on political-military conflicts. Updated by the IISS Transnational Threats and Political Risk Programme, the ACD is the organization's flagship online resource.

Students of Military/Strategic Studies and International Relations, in particular, will benefit from this objective and user-friendly source of information on more than seventy global armed conflicts, including terrorist activities.

How will students and researchers benefit from the ACD?

The answer is simple. No other online resource can boast authoritative and easily-accessed content direct from the IISS. Some of the key features of the ACD include:

• maps, statistics and reports that are updated on a regular basis by area specialists
• fast access to conflict summaries and other data, broken down by country and region
• the ability to create bar graphs and charts of specific data on conflicts dating back to 1997
• an interactive service through which subscribers can get access to ACD experts on various conflict issues.

Want to learn more?

Your first port of call can be the brand new IISS widget for the ACD. This little demo gives you a bit of an idea of the kind of content available on the resource. For further information, to request a free trial for your institution, or to enquire about pricing, please contact us:

online.sales@tandf.co.uk for UK/ROW

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martin.jack@tandf.com.sg for East/Southeast Asia

journalsales@tandfindia.com for India

eFocus on China is a collection of more than a hundred eBooks which brings together our leading texts on Chinese culture, philosophy, history, law, politics and much more. The collection is constantly growing; new texts are regularly added, hand-picked by our experienced editorial team. You will find some of our most popular titles here, including:

• China-Europe Relations: Perceptions, Policies and Prospects
• Gender and Chinese Development: Towards an Equitable Society
• The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, present lives
• Chinese Politics: State, Society and the Market

Tell me more!
eFocus on China is available to purchase outright or your library can subscribe to the collection for a year. If you purchase outright, you can top up the collection each year with new titles. If you subscribe, you will automatically have access to new titles as they are added! You can browse the full content of the collection here. And if you have questions at all about this or any other of our eBook collections, please get in touch with one of our friendly sales teams.

We want to help you to choose the right eBooks for your library. In the Taylor & Francis eBook family you will find thousands of titles from several different imprints, including Routledge, Psychology Press, Focal Press and Earthscan. Where to start? The first step is to take a quick look at our concise (yet colourful) T&F eBooks brochure.

Here you will find clear descriptions of which subject areas we publish in, key texts within these subject areas, which different purchase options are available and how you can go about setting up a free trial for your institution. It couldn't be easier.

There are THREE brand new eCollections for 2012
Take a look inside the brochure for information about our new eCollections in Education, Psychology & Mental Health, and Sport, Exercise & Leisure. These are available for purchase or subscription. You can download full lists of titles on our eBook site: www.tandfebooks.com

To view and download the brochure, please click here or on the thumbnail image below: