Changes at Independence
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Changes at Independence

Welcome Back

Independence is glad to welcome back on board our Issues series editor, Lisa Firth, from a four-month sabbatical. We look forward to many more years producing high-quality educational titles together.

New Home

2008 sees some changes at Independence, as after 10 years in one place we relocate to a new building. Our new contact details are as follows:

Independence Publishers,
The Studio,
High Green,
Great Shelford,
Cambridge
CB22 5EG

Tel: +44 (0)1223 550801
Fax: +44 (0)1223 5508061

If you wish to contact us in our new home with any queries or feedback, please do not hesitate to do so.

Price Changes

This month we must announce a small price increase to the Issues series. From April 2008, the price of individual titles will be £7.45 (an increase of 50p per book). The cost of an Issues subscription invoiced annually (including annual index) will rise by £10.50 to £154.05. In September 2008, we will also be producing an extended version of the ever-popular Issues annual index at a cost of £6.45. After five years offering our customers a fixed price regardless of inflation, we feel the increase is very reasonable and the books still offer excellent value for money.

Special Offer

This term, we are pleased to introduce a new special offer available for a limited time only: a full set of all Issues titles currently in print, including the 2007 Annual Index, can now be purchased at a special price of only £395. That is a total of 65 titles - an excellent and cost-effective way of ensuring your library is fully stocked with comprehensive information on a range of contemporary social issues. If you are interested, please contact us on 01223 550801 for more details.

Curriculum Online

We are pleased to announce that Independence is now an approved Curriculum Online content provider and that eLearning Credits may be used to subscribe to Issues Online. Subscribe to Issues Online, using your eLearning Credits, and you also receive six titles in the Issues series each term free. As an introductory offer, you also receive an additional six titles of your choice from the Issues series absolutely free! Please go to Curriculum Online Orders on the Orders page for price and ordering details.

If you have any queries about this offer, please phone us (01223 550801) or e-mail us: issues@independence.co.uk

Issues Online - Now Free!

Alternatively, subscribe to our six new Issues titles each term (January, April and September) on a firm sale basis and you qualify for free online access to information from more than 60 of the latest titles in the Issues series. And each term we will continue to add information from the latest six Issues titles to the web site. On receipt of your firm order, we will send you your User Name and Password plus details of your user licence. Of course you may cancel your subscription to Issues at any time under no obligation, but this would also cancel your free online subscription. For further details, please go to Subscriptions.

Issues Online Update

Improved access: You can now choose how you want to access Issues Online: Username / Password, IP address, Athens Log In or Public Library bar code.

Improved navigation: The past term has seen a major overhaul in the look and feel of Issues Online. As well as better navigation, the text reading area has been significantly enlarged and visitors can now scroll down through each article.

Issues Index: You can now download a PDF version of the latest version of the Issues Index (January 2008 edition). You can then print multiple reference copies for library reference or place the PDF file on your intranet. Please note that the Issues Index is for use with the book version of Issues, not Issues Online.

Topics: Additional topics have been added in the past term. There are now more than sixty topics, with more than one thousand articles.

Search: A faster key word search facility has now been included to search the thousand plus articles on the web site.

Teachers: New topic-based project ideas, key facts and numerous statistics are now available.

Students: A wealth of excellent new key facts, statistics and links to websites has been added to assist students in their topic-based coursework.

Librarians: Firm Order subscribers to Issues can now download a PDF version of the latest edition of the Issues Index January 2008 edition). You can print multiple reference copies for library reference or place the PDF file on your intranet. To access the PDF, please go to Issues Online, enter your user name and password then click on the Librarians navigation button.

Lobby Groups: Many more links have been added to the hundreds of links to relevant lobby groups and charitable organisations.

School and College Libraries

By subscribing to Issues, you will receive six new Issues titles three times a year (January, April and September) on a firm sale basis. You can also take up our introductory offer of 6 titles from those currently available absolutely free (volume 60-145). Plus you qualify for a free 40-user licence to access Issues Online.

Please go to Subscriptions to view the various subscription options. If you have any queries about this offer, please phone us (01223 566 130) or e-mail us: issues@independence.co.uk

Public Libraries

We are delighted that so many public libraries have taken out a new subscription to Issues in the past year and thus taken advantage of the free Issues Online service.

For further information regarding public libraries subscriptions to Issues, please go to Subscriptions.

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Independence Educational Publishers
The Studio
High Green
Great Shelford
Cambridge
CB22 5EG

Tel. 01223 550801
Fax. 01223 550806
issues@independence.co.uk