The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced the launch of the 2010 ALPSP Learned Journals Collection (ALJC). With a total of 824 titles making up the full set — of which 88 titles are new to the collection — and the availability of nine subject-specific collections, the 2010 ALJC seeks to offer high quality electronic content in an affordable and flexible manner.
Initiated by ALPSP in 2003, the ALJC is a unique cooperation that enables smaller and medium-sized publishers to sell their titles effectively to consortia and other library customers. Content from the ALJC is supplied to customers through a single umbrella license, pricing model and delivery platform. Four new publishers have agreed to make their titles available in the 2010 Collection. These include IM Publications, iMedPub, Lawrence & Wishart and The Way. This brings the total number of participating publishers to 48.
The complex licensing and legal structure of this cross-publisher initiative is coordinated by Swets, who also service the worldwide sales, marketing and online content access channels for the Collection. Rather than dealing individually with a large number of publishers, library customers can access all of the high quality, full-text E-Journals simply and directly via SwetsWise Online Content or through the ALJC’s own web portal.
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