To liblicense-l
In the age of large aggregated collections of journals and
the
all encompassing big-deal, I hope that the initiative
outlined in
the press release below will be of interest to the readers
of the
list.
The original can be found at:
http:/
/www.burgundyservices.com/LatestNews.htm
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Burgundy campaigns to support small & medium sized
publishers at
forthcoming UKSG Exhibition
Oxford, UK, 10th March 2008
Burgundy Information Services Ltd is a new style of
intermediary
that promotes the product portfolios of small and medium
sized
publishers. At the forthcoming UKSG Conference and
Exhibition:
April 6-9, Torquay UK, Burgundy has invited seven of its
publisher clients and contacts to exhibit their products at
its
booth. Speaking of the collaboration Sales Director Paul
Calow
commented "In a climate of shrinking library budgets
and the
larger publishers' big-deals it is often hard for smaller,
independent publishers to compete for a librarian's
attention. At
this year's UKSG Burgundy is offering a unique opportunity
for
smaller publishers to gain an affordable presence at one of
the
most important conferences in the library calendar".
The Burgundy team will spend the weeks leading up to the
conference urging librarians to support smaller publishers,
through email invitations to arrange publisher meetings,
trials
and online product demonstrations at the booth. The Burgundy
booth will be made of three stands (101-103) on the
Mezzanine
level of the exhibition hall. The following publishers will
be
available for meetings:
Keesing's World News Archive: A web-based database
comprising
more than 95,000 articles, from 1931 to the present. With
the
help of Burgundy, Keesing's has recently been approved by
the
JISC and has adopted the standard NESLI pricing and License
model.
Morgan & Claypool Publishers: An innovative new company
formed by
experienced publishing professionals to serve the global
research
and development communities in science and technology.
Through
Burgundy's representation Morgan & Claypool has recently
been
endorsed by JISC and now adopts the NESLI license and
pricing
model.
Reviews.com: Founded in 1999, Computing Reviews is a
collaboration between Reviews.com and the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM), and is the leading online review
service for books and articles across all areas of computer
science.
RMIT Publishing: Australia's leading scholarly e-press,
delivering the largest collection of Australasian scholarly
research materials via their Informit online service to
students
and researchers worldwide.
Science: The world's leading journal of original scientific
research, global news, and commentary.
SPIE Digital Library: The most extensive resource available
on
optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more
than
230,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference
Proceedings from 1990 to the present. Through partnership
with
Burgundy, this resource has recently been accepted into the
JISC
portfolio and from 2008 supports the NESLI License and
pricing
model.
Thomas Telford (ICE): The knowledge business of the
Institution
of Civil Engineers, creating specialist products and
services for
the civil engineering and construction markets.
Burgundy Information Services are also organizing meetings
for
the Future Science Group whom it represents in UK, Ireland,
Europe, Turkey and Africa. Their stand is situated at Stand
28.
Contact Details
Nancy Buckley
Burgundy Information Services
Nancy burgundyservices.com
www.burgundyservices
About Burgundy
Burgundy Information Services Ltd is an independent company
providing outsourced sales resources to small and medium
publishers. Based in Oxfordshire UK, Burgundy contributes to
publishers' sales policy, price strategy, license
negotiation and
sales for online content across European markets.
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