Reprints Desk, Inc., the creator of the Article Galaxy software service for document delivery, medical reprints and literature management, has announced that Research Solutions, Inc. has agreed to transition its entire base of customers to Reprints Desk. Research Solutions co-founders Chris Atwood and Shane Hunt will join Reprints Desk in strategic customer-facing roles, where they will remain actively engaged with customers. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Document delivery services are commonly used by corporations, academic institutions, and government organisations, in order to retrieve full-text papers from scholarly peer-reviewed journals that they may not yet subscribe to. Document delivery is considered to be a top deliverable and "an integral part of content delivery that is crucial to satisfying a client need" for librarians and information professionals, according to a 2008 information industry briefing entitled 'Document Delivery - Best Practices and Vendor Scorecard,' by information industry analyst and advisory firm Outsell, Inc.
Reprints Desk's Article Galaxy system improves scientific, technical, and medical (STM) literature spending and processes, from monitoring and acquisition to management, re-use, and medical writing. The company earned the top ranking in the most recent ‘Document Delivery – Best Practices and Vendor Scorecard’ report from Outsell. It also won the ‘Best Online Science or Technology Service’ 2012 CODiE award from the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) for its all-in-one literature management system, Bibliogo. Reprints Desk was founded by Peter Derycz, a pioneer in the document delivery business since 1987 when he originally founded Infotrieve, Inc.
