ALPSP and SWETS announce exciting additions to the ALJC for 2006

[Damian Leslie <dleslie@nl.swets.com>]

A Press Release was sent out from Swets Information Services in the
Netherlands this morning and I thought that some of the information
contained within may be of interest to some Liblicense members. I have
pasted the relevant information below.

Yours,

Damian
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PRESS RELEASE

Lisse, The Netherlands
July 27th, 2005


ALPSP and SWETS announce exciting additions to the ALJC for 2006

In the third year of the partnership between Swets Information Services
and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
(ALPSP), further improvements to the ALPSP Learned Journals Collection
(ALJC) - which was voted 'Best STM Information Product' at last year's
International Information Industry Awards - have been announced for 2006.

* The collection will increase to include 558 journals from 47 highly
respected scholarly publishers - up from 433 last year.

* 5 new publishers have joined the collection:
 Brill Academic Publishers - www.brill.nl
 Gunther Eysenbach - www.jmir.org
 Edinburgh University Press - www.eup.ed.ac.uk
 The Policy Press - www.policypress.org.uk
 Whiting and Birch - www.whitingbirch.co.uk

* A new fourth subject-specific package on Law will join the Medicine &
Life Science, Science & Technology and Arts, Humanities & Social Science
packages that are currently available, enabling libraries world-wide to
select the journals most likely to suit their specific needs.

The ALJC enables small and medium-sized scholarly publishers, many with
journals that have high ISI ratings, to sell their titles effectively to
consortia and other library customers by packaging them as a single
collection, one which operates under a single umbrella license, pricing
model and delivery platform. The full catalogue and pricing details for
the 2006 ALJC will be announced shortly.

Since its launch in 2003, Swets Information Services have coordinated the
ALJC's complex licensing and legal structure and serviced its worldwide
sales, marketing and online content access channels. Rather than dealing
individually with a large number of publishers, library customers can
access all of the high quality, full-text E-Journals simply and directly
via SwetsWise Online Content.

Sally Morris, Chief Executive of ALPSP, said today, "The inclusion of
journals from these important new publishers in the collection shows
clearly how valuable publishers find the ALJC. The new content and the
introduction of the new Law package will make the collection even more
useful and attractive to libraries."

Arie Jongejan, CEO of Swets Information Services, added, "Following its
award-winning year, we are more than pleased with this continued success
for Swets' partnership with ALPSP and their Learned Journals Collection.
It shows a clear demonstration of our ability and capacity, as a
subscription agent, to provide dynamic and unique initiatives that can
help to simplify the complications that publishers and our customers
encounter within the E-Journals market."

Media Contact
Damian Leslie
Swets Information Services B.V.
P.O. Box 830
2160 SZ Lisse, The Netherlands
T: +31 (0)252 435 189   
F: +31 (0)252 415 888
E: press@nl.swets.com
www.swets.com