ALPSP Learned Journals Collection

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Of great interest to readers of this list; kudos to ACLP and Sally Morris 
for this achievement.

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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 09:38:37 +0100
From: Sally Morris <sec-gen@alpsp.org>
To: Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>,
Subject: ALPSP Learned Journals Collection
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For immediate release

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

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