Greenwood Launching Praeger Security International

-- Library Journal, 01/23/2006

Greenwood Publishing in March is launching a new imprint dubbed Praeger Security International (PSI), which combines a healthy book publishing series with an active web component. The publisher said that PSI builds upon Praeger's "extensive backlist of defense affairs and military history titles and Greenwood's reference works on terrorism and international relations." Heather Ruland Staines, PSI's editorial director, said that, along with the electronic editions of books, the web component also boasts unique features: "We have numerous value-adds for the homepage. At the beginning, we're going to make the homepage accessible to the general public, and we have a monthly commentary on a topic of international security in the news written by both our authors and experts we're in contact with."

There also will be a regional focus that changes monthly, either one country within its strategic context, or one region within a global context. PSI also has commissioned bibliographic essays under subtopics that give users information on materials that are not Greenwood/Praeger content. "Additionally we have a number of primary documents we're making available. Those are public domain materials but we are commissioning head notes for them to give users more info," Staines said. PSI also has created an advisory board of security experts and used a team of librarians to build the subject browse index.