BioOne, US, a web-based aggregator of research in biological, ecological and environmental sciences, has announced a new agreement with printer and publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc., US. The deal will continue the organisations' seven-year partnership and provide for a superior new online platform through a strategic alliance with Atypon Systems, Inc.
Under the agreement, Allen Press will continue to provide comprehensive customer service and support for BioOne, with the new platform build, content migration, and ongoing technological development managed by strategic partner Atypon Systems. Allen Press recently signed an agreement with Atypon Systems for online platform hosting services and technological tools to offer BioOne's service.
Now entering its eighth year of operation, BioOne includes three full-text collections (two subscribed and one open access) representing 143 publications from 102 not-for-profit society and institutional publishers. In order to better serve this growing community of publishers, libraries, and end users, the BioOne leadership had issued an RFP for online hosting services to leading industry providers in mid-2007.
BioOne, Allen Press and Atypon Systems will begin development of the new BioOne platform in early 2008, with a public launch date of the new interface in early January 2009. The new BioOne website will focus on enhanced administrative capabilities for both publishers and subscribing libraries, as well as a superior user experience for scholars and researchers.
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