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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Librarian,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In February 2021, Duke University Press</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">
</span><a href="https://dukeupress.edu/About/News/Duke-University-Press-now-offering-journal-publish"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">announced</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
the Scholarly Publishing Collective (the Collective), a collaboration with several nonprofit scholarly journal publishers and societies to provide journal services including subscription management, fulfillment, hosting, and institutional marketing and sales.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Collective will host journals and fulfill digital access on behalf of
<b>Michigan State University Press, Penn State University Press, </b>the<b> Society of Biblical Literature,
</b>and the<b> University of Illinois Press</b>. Electronic content for publications under this partnership will migrate from JSTOR to the Collective’s platform. This new platform, to be launched in 2022, will be managed by Duke UP and powered by Silverchair.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If your institution is a current or former subscriber to
</span><a href="https://dukeupress.edu/Assets/Downloads/LR/CollectiveTitleList042821.xlsx"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">a journal from these partner publishers</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">,
please see the </span><a href="https://dukeupress.edu/Information-For/Librarians/Account-Administration/Scholarly-Publishing-Collective-For-Librarians-and"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Scholarly Publishing Collective
migration landing page</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> for transition resources to stay up-to-date on this migration. More information is forthcoming, and we will communicate regularly with librarians throughout
this transition and the launch of the Collective’s platform. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Apologies for cross-posting. Please sign up for our
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our future emails about the migration, and let us know if you have any questions about this exciting collaboration.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Evan Watson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Evan Watson</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> | Library Marketing and Outreach Manager</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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