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[Tsinghua University Library Partnership|http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/CULChinaCollab.html]:a collaborative relationship with the [Tsinghua University Library|http://www.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn/english/] aimed at enhancing scholarship and learning at Cornell&nbsp;. A formal partnership agreement was signed on October 29, 2009.&nbsp; Tsinghua purchased duplicate titles from Uris Library and the proceeds from that sale have been used to set up an endowment netting $40,000 per year that is supporting the acquisition of books in the humanities.&nbsp; Tsinghua has been instrumental in introducing&nbsp; [Euclid|http://projecteuclid.org/] to Chinese research libraries by assisting in the preparation of <span style="color: #1f497d">introductory</span> materials and by hosting a Chinese Euclid trial. <span style="color: #000000">We anticipate subscription negotiations will begin with interested Chinese subscribers in fall 2010 and we hope to attract Chinese publishers to&nbsp;be participants</span><span style="color: #1f497d">.</span>&nbsp;
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_[Sustaining the Specialized Monograph: A University Publishing Partnership for Scholarship in German Studies|http://news.library.cornell.edu/news/signale-launch].  [_Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought_|http://signale.cornell.edu/]_: A, a new book series co-published by CUL and Cornell University Press in electronic and print-on-demand formats in collaboration with Professor Peter Hohendahl(German Studies and Comparative Literature) that aims to arrive at a sustainable business model for monograph publishing in the humanities thereby addressing the university's commitment to excellence in the humanities during a period of critical and difficult transition in publishing. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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[DataStaR|http://datastar.mannlib.cornell.edu/]: A data staging repository and services to promote the publication of data and high quality metadata to both discipline‐specific data centers and Cornell's own institutional repository (eCommons), developed with funding from the National Science Foundation. CUL's data librarians are fielding inquiries from Cornell researchers who are required to include data management and/or sharing plans in grant proposals. In the past year, librarians have contributed text for four grant proposals to the National Science Foundation, and one to the US Environmental Protection Agency. All of these requests specified use of the DataStaR platform as a part of the data management/sharing plan. Cornell researchers are also planning to use DataStaR as a collaboration space, examples of such user groups include Barbara Lust's Virtual Center for Language Acquistion, to share a library of audio recordings among colleagues, and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, which plans to use DataStaR as a temporary workspace for volunteers entering data from decades' worth of nest box data cards. The DataStaR team continues to assist researchers with the publication of data sets to discipline-specific repositories, as well as Cornell's digital repository (eCommons). With the NSF's new requirement all for Data Management plans for all submitted proposals, we expect that the demand for these services will increase dramatically.
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