Taylor & Francis Group and Atypon Systems, Inc. to partner on next generation informaworld platform

["McMillan, Jennifer " <Jennifer.McMillan@tandf.co.uk>]

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Taylor & Francis Group, including the imprints of Routledge, 
Taylor & Francis and Psychology Press, announced today that it 
will partner with Atypon Systems, Inc. to launch a next 
generation informaworld platform. The updated platform will 
eventually provide access to content from Taylor & Francis 
Group's list of 1,500 journals, as well as providing access to 
encyclopaedias and abstracting and indexing databases.

The upgraded platform will benefit Taylor & Francis' readers, 
authors, library and society partners with improved site speed, 
layout, accessibility and navigation. The upgraded site responds 
to user needs identified in extensive researcher and librarian 
focus groups held over the past 18 months. It will be developed 
with the input of customers from each of these groups to ensure 
it reflects their needs today, with the flexibility to continue 
to meet these needs into the future.

"Partnering with Atypon is a positive step forward in providing a 
robust online delivery system across our portfolio, built with 
the needs of the research community in mind," said Christoph 
Chesher, Group Sales Director at Taylor & Francis for both Books 
and Journals.  "We are confident that the new informaworld 
platform, coupled with sustainable pricing models currently under 
development with our global customers, will ensure we continue to 
provide high quality content and service in future years."

Taylor & Francis will ensure that customers are updated with 
further information during the development of the site to allow a 
seamless transition.

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About Taylor & Francis Group

Taylor & Francis Group is part of Informa, one of the world's 
leading publishers of academic journals. We are dedicated to the 
dissemination of scholarly information, drawing on expertise 
developed since first publishing learned journals in 1798. Taylor 
& Francis now publishes 1,562 scholarly journals in association 
with over 460 learned societies and scholarly institutions. We 
operate from a network of 20 global offices, including 
Philadelphia, Oxford, Melbourne, Stockholm, Beijing, New Delhi, 
Johannesburg and Singapore.

For more information please contact:
Jennifer McMillan, Library Marketing Manager, Taylor & Francis Group
Journals
Tel:  +44 (0) 207 017 6000
e-mail: Library@tandf.co.uk