Press Release: ALPSP appoints Swets Blackwell and Extenza as business partners ERCELAA@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU 21 Apr 2003 13:37 UTC
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 05:17:29 -0400 From: "L-Soft list server at UVM (1.8e)" <LISTSERV@LIST.UVM.EDU> Subject: SERIALST: approval required (E55D677F) ALPSP appoints Swets Blackwell and Extenza as business partners for consortia and multi-site sales The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) = has appointed Swets Blackwell and Extenza, divisions of Royal Swets & = Zeitlinger, as its business partners for a ground-breaking initiative in = the area of consortia and multi-site sales. Under this arrangement, participating ALPSP publisher members will = collaborate by making their journals and other content available in the = ALPSP Learned Journals Collection and in three discipline-specific = subsets in the areas of medicine and life science, science and = technology, and the arts, humanities and business. This will represent = the most collaborative, cross-publisher venture to date in the world of = consortia and multi-site licensing of electronic content. The collaborative aspect of this initiative is further enhanced by the = appointment of Swets Blackwell and Extenza as business partners to = ALPSP. Swets Blackwell will be the global sales and marketing channel = for the ALPSP Learned Journals Collection, as well as providing access = for subscribing organisations through SwetsWise. Swets Blackwell will = also be providing its traditional back-office customer service and = administrative support both to libraries and to participating = publishers. In addition, Extenza will be offering a complete journal = hosting service for those participating publishers who require it. Sally Morris, Secretary-General of ALPSP, said: "It is very difficult = for smaller publishers with just a few journals, however high quality = these are, to break into the consortia market. We believe that by = working together through the ALPSP Learned Journals Collection, our = members can overcome this problem and reach additional customers. We are = extremely pleased to be working with Swets Blackwell on this major = initiative." Steven Hartman, Executive Board member of Royal Swets & Zeitlinger, = said: "We are delighted to be partnering with ALPSP in this exciting = initiative. Both parties have much to offer the global consortia and = multi-site market and under this arrangement the respective strengths of = both parties will be used to the full to widen access to key scholarly = content." About ALPSP: ALPSP is the international trade association for the community of = not-for-profit publishers and those who work with them to disseminate = academic and professional information; it was founded in 1972, and = currently has 240 members in 21 countries. ALPSP carries out research = and other projects, monitors national and international issues and = represents members' interests to the wider world. It offers an extensive = programme of courses and seminars, an informative website = (www.alpsp.org), a quarterly journal, Learned Publishing, and a monthly = electronic newsletter, ALPSP Alert. About Swets Blackwell: Swets Blackwell (www.swetsblackwell.com) is the world's largest = subscription agent, with offices in 22 countries on 6 continents. It = provides a wide range of subscription management solutions for academic, = scientific, technical, medical, corporate and government libraries and = information centres worldwide. Founded in 1901, Swets Blackwell counts = among its 60,000 customers many of the world's major research libraries = and over 30% of the Fortune 500 companies. In recognition of the = superior service it provides, Swets Blackwell has been granted ISO = 9001:2000 accreditation. About Extenza: Extenza e-Publishing Services provides publishers with a comprehensive = end-to-end conversion and hosting service for e-journals with minimal = operational or technical inconvenience. Services include the conversion = of electronic print files into internet-deliverable content, hosting = titles on a global network of servers, authentication and access control = to publications, PDF and HTML delivery, linking and web-based search = capabilities across abstracts and titles. Find out more by visiting = www.extenza-eps.com. For more information contact: Sarah Kellman Tel: + 31 (0)252 435 584 Email: press@nl.swetsblackwell.com or Sally Morris, Secretary-General Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Phone: 01903 871686 Fax: 01903 871457 E-mail: sec-gen@alpsp.org ALPSP Website http://www.alpsp.org