Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology, UK, has announced that Thomas Telford, publishing subsidiary of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), has chosen the former's pub2web publications platform. The pub2web publishing system will enable ICE to realise its long-term objectives of uniting its diverse range of publications within a single e-content site and of achieving greater international penetration.
Pub2web will bring together Thomas Telford and ICE's journals, books, manuals and hybrid content, and its previously separate membership and subscriber access records, into consolidated databases. This will help in enabling greater cohesion of content and licensing management. The company will be able to better serve its customers with library branding, whereby institutional administrators will be able to apply their organisation's colour palette, logos and links to its websites to reinforce their role in content acquisition, and full compliance with preservation initiatives.
End users will benefit from multiple delivery formats for full-text content, integration with social bookmarking applications and presentation of supporting research data and materials alongside published articles. Future developments to the site will take advantage of pub2web's semantic web capabilities, which build upon the platform's data storage and modelling to help users discover new content and to recognise and build on new research connections.
The agreement accentuates the value inherent in Publishing Technology's broad publishing proposition, which ranges from technologies to support back-office publishing processes through a range of online delivery systems to sales and marketing consultancy. The company's PCG division already works closely with Thomas Telford to provide North American sales representation, and has been able to draw on its detailed understanding of ICE's specific needs to tailor its successful proposal.
In a similar move, the BMJ Group recently selected Publishing Technology to implement its Information Commerce Software (ICS). The software is seen to support more flexible content licensing and better control over access and authentication.
