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Press Releases
Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Pilot project gets underway: January 2006
JSCEI Pilot: Initial findings now published:
Beaverton (USA), Lisse (The Netherlands), London (UK)27 September 2006
About the participants in the pilot:
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About The British Library
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The British Library is the national Library of the United Kingdom. It provides world class information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers unparalleled access to the world's largest and most comprehensive research collection. Further information is available on the Library's website at www.bl.uk
HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, is a not-for-profit electronic journal developing and hosting service, producing the definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. In its 10 years of operation, HighWire has partnered with a community of influential societies, university presses and other scholarly publishers to create a vast database of the some of the finest, fully searchable research, medical and social science literature available on the Internet. Visit HighWire Press at www.highwire.org.
Ringgold provides support for suppliers and publishers, helping them define products and services, fitted to the working environments of potential buyers. It was formed in 2005 from the merger of Information Power Ltd based in Oxford, UK OpenRFP based in Portland, USA and Biblio Tech based in Bristol, UK. Ringgold has been working with academic publishers for over 3 years to create a database of customers with standard metadata including demographics for marketing purposes. This database of 40,000 institutions has been researched by experts around the world and will be used as the basis for the pilot data.
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Swets Information Services
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Swets is the world's leading subscription services company, connecting the supply and demand chain that exists between publishers and institutions, libraries and information centres. The company provides services for customers from academic, government, corporate and medical institutions. Swets has been operating successfully for over 100 years. The company has offices in over 20 countries, servicing clients and publishers from over 160 nations. Those offices manage more than 1.8 million subscriptions, with half of those related to electronic subscriptions, between some 65,000 publishers and over 60,000 clients, including one in three Fortune 500 companies. Swets is the only subscription agent to be ISO 9001:2000 certified on a global basis, which serves as a significant endorsement of its ability to provide clients and publishers with the kind of speedy, reliable and efficient service methods they expect to receive from an intermediary.
Media Contacts
Don Chvatal
President, Ringgold Inc
PO Box 368
Beaverton, OR 97075-0368
USA
T +1 (503) 977 1313
F +1 (503) 690-6642
E don@ringgold.com
www.ringgold.com
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Swets Information Services
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Corporate Headquarters
Damian Leslie
Heereweg 347 B
2161 CA Lisse
The Netherlands
T +31 (0) 252 435 189
F +31 (0) 252 415 888
E dleslie@nl.swets.com
www.swets.com
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