ALPSP Learned Journals Collection Opens its Doors with a Whopping 247 Titles

[Ann Okerson <aokerson@pantheon.yale.edu>]

Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:03:39 +0200 
From: Ylann Schemm <yschemm@nl.swetsblackwell.com>
Subject: ALPSP Learned Journals Collection Opens its Doors with a Whopping 
247 Titles

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Lisse, the Netherlands
September 4, 2003

ALPSP Learned Journals Collection Opens its Doors With a Whopping 247 Titles

The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection (ALJC) is open for business today,
launching its unique collection of 247 journals from 25 diverse
publishers. The ALJC (www.alpsp-collection.org
<http://www.alpsp-collection.org/>) enables small and medium-sized
publishers to package their journals with a single umbrella license,
pricing model and delivery platform. The new online collection is the
result of a unique collaboration between the Association of Learned and
Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), Swets Blackwell and Extenza.
Swets Blackwell has orchestrated ALJC's complex licensing and legal
structure and also serves as its worldwide sales, marketing and access
channel.

The ALJC spares customers the hassle of negotiating e-licenses and pricing
with diverse publishers, allowing them to access high quality e-journals
directly via SwetsWise online content. The 247 ALJC titles are available
both in the full Collection and in three discipline-specific packages in
the areas of medicine & life science (85 titles), science & technology (57
titles), and the arts, humanities & social sciences (129 titles). Pricing
is based on a percentage of the ALJC's current collective print value and
is guaranteed for 3 years.  Both print-plus-electronic and electronic-only
options are available - customers may migrate from one to the other during
the 3-year license agreement period.  Special consortial arrangements are
available. Detailed pricing and license information is available on the
ALJC website.

Sally Morris, Secretary-General of ALPSP, said: "The ALPSP Learned
Journals Collection represents a win-win solution both for smaller
publishers and for libraries.  We are delighted by the scale of publisher
support in its very first year, and - if early reactions from libraries
are anything to go by - all the participants will be seeing increased
sales in 2004."

Steven Hartman, Swets Blackwell's Commercial Director, said: "An exciting
new era for global consortia and multi-site purchasing has arrived. The
ALJC project allows key scholarly content to be easily maintained and
used, while the ALJC partnership has created an excellent precedent for
future initiatives."

The ALJC is accessible via SwetsWise and currently contains 247 titles
from the following 25 publishers: ALPSP, American Institute of Biological
Sciences, Australian Academic Press, Beech Tree Publishing, British
Psychological Society, Carden Jennings Publishing Co. Ltd., Chartered
Institute of Building, Hindawi Publishing, Imaginative Minds, Institute of
Psychoanalysis, Institution of Chemical Engineers, IOS Press, Kingston
Press, Makerere, Multilingual Matters / Channel View Publications, OECD,
Questions Publishing, The Royal Society, Royal Society of Medicine Press,
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, School of Social Work, Society for
Personality Research, Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, Vathek, and Walter de
Gruyter.

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 272 members in 27 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 program of
courses, seminars, and training as well as an informative website
(www.alpsp.org), a quarterly journal, Learned Publishing, and a monthly
electronic newsletter, ALPSP Alert.

About Swets Blackwell

Swets Blackwell is the world's leading subscription agent, with offices in
23 countries on 6 continents. It provides a wide range of subscription
management solutions for academic, scientific, technical, medical,
corporate and government libraries and information centers worldwide.
Founded in 1901, Swets Blackwell (www.swetsblackwell.com) counts among its
60,000 customers many of the world's major research libraries and over 30%
of the Fortune 500 companies. Swets Blackwell's ongoing search for
excellence in both process and service is reflected in its ISO 9001:2000
certification. Please note: Swets Blackwell will change its name to Swets
Information Services as of December 2nd 2003.

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