MetaPress, a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc., has announced that six additional publishers recently launched their electronic content distribution services via the MetaPress 2.0 platform. MetaPress, a primary host of scientific, technical and medical content, serves publishers worldwide by hosting their e-content and making it accessible to an extensive audience.
The publishers are: American Society on Aging; diaRNet; History of Earth Sciences Society; Society of American Archivists; UCLA American Indian Studies Center; and Wageningen Academic Publishers.
Launched in August 2006, the MetaPress 2.0 platform is claimed to be the industry's first content management system with dimensional navigation across a variety of content types. A primary source online hosting platform for 28,663 scholarly publications across the globe, MetaPress seeks to provide a comprehensive solution to web publishing needs. It offers an established way to publish titles electronically, regardless of existing content format. Currently, MetaPress provides services and support to 169 publishers.
