Now Publishers Offers Discounted Packages of Foundations and Trends

["Zac Rolnik" <zac.rolnik@nowpublishers.com>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Boston MA, September 30, 2005
Contact: Zachary Rolnik, zac.rolnik@nowpublishers.com, tel: +1-781-871-0245

Now Publishers Offers Discounted Packages of Content on its Series of
Foundations and Trends Reference Journals

Now Publishers announced today that customers will be able to purchase
discounted subscriptions to the Foundations and Trends (FnT) reference
journals by buying one of a range of journal packages. These packages have
been tailored to meet the needs of all institutional subscribers from
small departmental libraries through to large consortia.
 
The journals have been grouped along subject lines, and each has an ISSN
assigned to make ordering easy. They vary in size from focused
discipline-specific packages of up to 5 journals, through broader
subject-based packages of up to 9 journals to the whole suite of 17
journals. The discount varies from 5% for the discipline specific packages
rising up to 15% for the complete collection.

For 2006 these packages are:
- Foundations and Trends in Business (BUS) ISSN: 1558-4011(E) 1558-4003 (P)
  including FnT Accounting, FnT Entrepreneurship, FnT Finance, FnT 
  Marketing, and FnT Technology, Information and Operations Management.
- Foundations and Trends in Economics (ECO) ISSN: 1558-3953 (E) 1558-3945
  (P) including FnT Econometrics, FnT Economic Theory, FnT 
  Entrepreneurship, and FnT Microeconomics
- Foundations and Trends in Engineering (ENG) ISSN: 1558-3937 (E) 1558-3929
  (P) including FnT Communications and Information Theory, FnT Computer
  Graphics and Vision, FnT Electronic Design Automation, FnT Networking, 
  FnT Stochastic Systems
- Foundations and Trends in Computer Science (CS) ISSN: 1558-397X (E)
  1558-3961 (P) including FnT Computer Graphics and Vision, FnT 
  Human-Computer Interaction, FnT Information Retrieval, FnT Theoretical 
  Computer Science, FnT Web Science
- Foundations and Trends in Business and Economics  ISSN: 1558-3996 (E)
  1558-3988 (P) includes BUS and ECO
- Foundations and Trends in Technology ISSN:  1558-4038 (E) 1558-402X (P)
  includes ENG and CS
- Foundations and Trends -- the entire suite of 17 journals.

"We believe we are the first journal publishing company to implement
multi-level pricing across all its journals and the range of purchasing
options for Foundations and Trends is now complete. Our business model is
fully developed and we are able to offer our customers not only a choice
in format, but also a choice in price. Customers can purchase all our
journals now as single issues, as a single-title subscription or as part
of a small or large collection of journals - a first in scholarly
publishing." Said Mike Casey, Publisher with responsibility for Sales and
Marketing at now publishers.

All terms and conditions remain unchanged. This gives all researchers and
students at subscribing institutions campus-wide access, unlimited use in
course packs, and perpetual access to the content including updates.
Today's announcement is in line with now Publishers commitment to
maintaining a fair and equitable relationship with librarians and authors.
Authors retain copyright and are allowed to self-archive their articles.

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