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Brill and Publishing Technology celebrate launch of Brill Online - Longstanding partnership yields strategic new e-resource of aggregated content, 17th May
For the first time, all of Brill's content from 20 subject specialities across three imprints (BRILL, Global Oriental and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) is integrated within a single resource. At launch, the site includes 175 journals and 2,400 e-books, equating to over 150,000 distinct articles and chapters. The new platform is designed with a semantic architecture providing students, researchers and teachers with an enhanced user experience through enriched content and increased discoverability.
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Publishing Technology and CNPIEC launch largest digital gateway in China, 17th April
Publishing Technology and CNPIEC, the China National Publications Import
and Export Corporation, are unveiling the Digital Gateway, the most significant digital publishing
platform ever launched for Chinese libraries, in a special ceremony at the London Book Fair today.
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Publishing Technology and CNPIEC cordially invite you to celebrate the launch of The Digital Gateway to the World, London Book Fair, 17th April
Join us for this very special occasion to witness and celebrate the inauguration of the Digital Gateway;
access to nearly 40,000 academic and public libraries around the world, including 15,000 libraries across China.
The most significant company fully licensed by the Chinese government to import publications and a key partner of
Publishing Technology, China National Publications Import and Export Corporation is launching the largest academic
platform spanning scholarly and public libraries in the world. This event promises to be an exciting opportunity for
publishers to experience the Gateway, discover new distribution channels and get to know the people behind the project.
Join George Lossius, CEO, Yue Tan, the President of China Publishing Group, Wei Wu, the Deputy President of CNPIEC and other key officials from China General Administration of Press and Publication to celebrate this landmark event and learn more about this exciting and ambitious venture.
We hope to see you there!
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GSE Research and Publishing Technology celebrate launch of leading edge publications and community hub - New site founds innovative publishing resource for the governance, sustainability and the environment community - March 26, 2012
Publishing Technology and newly established online scholarly publisher GSE Research, announce the launch of GSE Research Online, a resource defining the new age of digital academic publishing.
The site leverages semantic technology and novel functionality for an enriching, engaging and synergised user experience, whilst supporting a range of author benefits including rapid publication, a choice of open peer review or traditional peer review options and collaboration tools.
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Publishers Communication Group partners with Ringgold to extend new Targeted Institutional Sales Program to publishers - March 22, 2012
Publishers Communication Group and information supply chain consultancy Ringgold, Inc. announce a new
partnership to leverage their respective strengths in creating a high-impact sales service for publishers. The two
firms are combining their unique expertise to offer the Targeted Institutional Sales Program, providing
authoritative data and proven sales tactics for publishers seeking new inroads to library markets around the
world.
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Bloomsbury Publishing selects Publishers Communication Group to represent Churchill Archive and Drama Online
- PCG to provide global sales, marketing and customer service for new digital collections
– February 27, 2012
By leveraging local networks in Europe, North America, Latin America, India and China, PCG will execute sales and multi-channel marketing programs, as well as manage all library-facing customer service and fulfillment duties for these two digital collections, to launch during 2012 under the Bloomsbury Academic imprint of the London-based literary and reference publisher.
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Engineering institution selects pub2web to develop its Digital Library
– January 24, 2012
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced a partnership with Publishing Technology to redevelop and extend its Digital Library, the central access point for the organization's full text content online. The new website will be home to IET journal, eBook, magazine and conference content dating as far back as 1872 and integrating more than 185,000 articles.
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Publishing Technology celebrates banner year
– December 20, 2011
Publishing Technology is finishing the year on a positive note by announcing its most successful year to date, having signed contracts with over 50 publishers. “We are delighted with the way the company has performed across every level of the business this year. We have grown our customer base considerably, particularly in the online arena, and as a result now have an increasingly impressive array of publishers on our roster,” commented George Lossius, CEO.
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Publishing Technology to build new digital platform for the American Society for Microbiology
– December 14, 2011
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and Publishing Technology today announced a partnership to create a next-generation digital platform to host all of the organization’s published authoritative content online. The new custom-built site, which will be developed on Publishing Technology’s pub2web platform, will house the largest single collection of microbiology research available, including ASM’s journal titles dating back to 1916, its news magazine Microbe, a rapidly expanding image library, 240 book titles and a range of individual reports, articles and videos - all in one single aggregated site.
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American Institute of Physics partners with Publishing Technology on next generation Scitation
– November 30, 2011
Publishing Technology and AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP),
announce a partnership to build the next generation of AIP's Scitation, scheduled for launch in the fourth quarter of 2012. The new custom platform will be developed using Publishing Technology's pub2web hosting solution, enabling AIP and its Member Societies to house an impressive portfolio of journals and conference proceedings as well as Physics Today magazine and historical documents from AIP's Physics Resources Center.
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Publishing Technology signs landmark China deal - Content delivery platform to be built for Chinese library market
– November 29, 2011
Following the launch of Publishing Technology in China last August, the largest provider of software and services to the publishing industry is delighted to announce it is partnering with the China National Publications Import and Export Corporation (CNPIEC) to deliver the first ever digital publishing platform to supply content to Chinese libraries.
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Peter Blok joins Publishing Technology as EVP of Global Professional Services
– November 21, 2011
"We are delighted to welcome Peter to the team in this new position. His experience in this field will prove invaluable in delivering effectively to our customers as we implement our advance offering at publishers across the continents. In periods of challenging economic conditions and transformational pressures, we see it as even more essential that important projects are delivered effectively." commented George Lossius, CEO.
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United Nations chooses Publishing Technology's digital publishing platform for its eCollection
– October 11, 2011
Publishing Technology announced today the latest signing for its pub2web platform to build the United Nations eCollection. The United Nations eCollection will be built on a custom interface that will allow cross searching, discovery and sales via pay-per-view or by subscription for over 1,500 publications produced by the international organization, and all new and forthcoming titles, including e-books, reports, periodicals and selected grey literature.
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Frankfurt Book Fair at your fingertips - The official 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair App launches
– October 4, 2011
Navigating around the Frankfurt Book Fair was made that little bit easier today as the fair's new official app, Frankfurt Book Fair App – Book Fair to Go, was launched courtesy of Publishing Technology. The app is now available for free download on Apple iPhone® and Google Android™ devices.
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Publishing Technology chosen to build
pioneering academic publishing site for GSE Research
– September 14, 2011
Publishing Technology has announced that it has been selected to build an academic publishing platform for GSE Research. The new online platform for research into governance, sustainability and the environment
will be built using Publishing Technology's innovative semantic web based publishing software, pub2web.
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Publishing Technology China launches
at the Beijing International Book Fair
– August 31, 2011
Publishing Technology has announced its expansion into the prospering Chinese market by delivering local online hosting platforms and domestic sales representation. Based in Beijing and managed by digital publishing expert Helen Sun, Publishing Technology China will directly target Chinese publishers, offering a complete publishing solution through ingentaconnect, the
largest single platform for research publishers.
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Publishers Communication Group to partner with the Adam Matthew Group in India and Latin America
– August 9, 2011
Publishers Communication Group (PCG) will be the Adam Matthew Group's exclusive sales agent in India and Latin America, served by PCG’s established local sales and marketing teams in New Delhi and São Paulo. Both will implement specialized, locally-focused sales and marketing programs targeting key institutions and consortia to promote Adam Matthew's high-quality nich research and teaching collections.
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Publishing Technology appoints Jon White, as Business Development Director for Australia and New Zealand
– July 26, 2011
Publishing Technology is delighted to announce the appointment of Jon White, former Digital Publishing Director at Macmillan Education, as the company's Business Development Director for Australia and New Zealand.
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Publishing Technology wins John Benjamins' digital platform deal
– July 12, 2011
"John Benjamins, an independent Dutch academic publisher, has chosen pub2web to host its publications in one place for the first time. Publishing Technology will work with John Benjamins to upgrade its online hosting solution to the pub2web platform to provide access to nearly 3,000 books and 50 journals, as well as bibliographic databases and online handbooks.
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PCG and Publishing Technology expand into India
– May 26, 2011
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Publishers Communication Group (PCG), today opened an office in New Delhi, India. Initially representing BioOne, the American Society for Microbiology, and Adam Matthew Digital, the New Delhi office will allow PCG to build stronger relationships with over 500 academic universities and over 3,000 technical education institutes in India for the publishers it represents.
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SAGE awards major technology deal to Publishing Technology
– April 19, 2011
"Publishing Technology today announced an agreement for major implementation project of its journal fulfilment software by leading international publisher SAGE."
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PCG to partner with
The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group
in Europe
– March 29, 2011
"We are very proud of this partnership with such an interesting initiative as the Independent Scholarly Publishers Group in Europe," said Emilie Delquié, Vice President of PCG. " This is an exciting opportunity for PCG to be part of making these vital resources widely available to European researchers and to apply our innovative, yet methodical approach to customize a strategic sales plan for ISPG members.".
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UK trade publishers predict 2012 will be revenue tipping point for e-books
– March 23, 2011
A third of UK trade publishers surveyed predict that over 10% of their total book revenue will come from e-books by 2012, according to new research released by Publishing Technology at BML’s annual Books & Consumers Conference .
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Publishing Technology commissions new research into digital future
– March 4, 2011
In new research, commissioned by Publishing Technology, BML (Book Marketing Limited) will carry complete a digital health check among publishers to predict what comes next in e-publishing.
The research will assess what impact e-publishing is having on the industry using a select group of senior publishers from trade, academic, specialist, schools and journal publishers in the UK and US.
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Publishing Technology opens French office
– February 14, 2011
"We feel that it is very important that Publishing Technology should establish an office in France, as French-language publishing is a large and important part of the global literary, scholarly, educational and trade publishing landscape. Our unique combination of Management systems, Online systems and Market Consultancy means that we feel there are tremendous opportunities in France, as well as potential to help French publishers reach broader international markets. I am delighted to be announcing this new expansion in Publishing Technology's international business." said George Lossius, CEO.
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Publishing Technology and Sterling Publishing emphasize long-term partnership
with first live installation of advance Contract, Rights & Royalties solution
– February 8, 2011
Sterling Publishing, a committed Publishing Technology customer for over twenty years and one of the world's leading publishers of non-fiction books,
champions first live installation of advance Contract, Rights & Royalties solution.
Neil Glasser, CPA / CFE, Sterling Publishing enthused, "It's was a pleasure working with Publishing Technology on the implementation of advance. Simply put, these guys "get it". They understand publishing and they understand systems, which creates a seamless and efficient process.
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BRILL extends partnership with new pub2web site
combining book and journal content for the first time
– January 25, 2011
BRILL anticipates that the new website, which at launch will host approximately 110,000 journal articles
and 25,000 book chapters, will become a trusted tool for students, researchers and teachers; a tool that
will excel in the discovery and delivery of online content through one central portal.
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pub2web gets global appeal as trio launch internationally – October 26, 2010
Announcing the launch of three new pub2web websites: PierOnline, World Bank eLibrary, and the OECD iLibrary
Louise Tutton, Chief Operating Officer of Publishing Technology's Scholarly Division, comments: “This trio of launches carries significant strategic importance for pub2web and represents the vast range of content types and functionality supported via the platform. With technology evolving at a rapid rate and new business models, such as Patron Driven Acquisition, emerging the pub2web platform combines a proven, industry standard base with sophisticated information commerce and semantic web technology, allowing publishers to experiment within a low risk environment at a pace that suits them“.
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New author2reader publisher distribution system for Argosy – October 22 , 2010
Argosy extends author2reader systems as business expands
Publishing Technology is delighted to announce that Argosy Books, Ireland, is now extending the use of its author2reader application for their new book distribution service.
Argosy has been successfully using Publishing Technology's VISTA-branded author2reader software for their wholesale business and has now also implemented the application to support the expansion of Argosy's business into providing publisher distribution services at their warehouse in Dublin.
Publishing Technology provides software for Online Solutions, Market Communications and Enterprise Applications in the areas of: Advertising, Customer Care, Customer Self Service, Distribution & Warehousing, Financial Analysis, Fulfillment, Membership, Product Information Management, Production Management, Publishing Intelligence, Royalties and Subscription Management.
For more information about this and other Publishing Technology products and services, including the latest integrated and evolutionary new platform, advance, please view our Products and Services
Introducing the new look ingentaconnect – September 6 , 2010
The Home of Scholarly Research receives a facelift
An established and essential online resource for the academic, professional and research communities, ingentconnect now has a distinct and vibrantly re-energised look and feel. The new design is the second phase of the platform’s regeneration, with further releases to follow delivering additional improvements and upgrades. Phase one of the enhancements included a release in March this year which featured early compliance with Shibboleth 2, as well as RightsConnect integration and improved Open Access support, amongst many other improvements to enhance its user experience.
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Inderscience appoints PCG for Sales and Marketing Representation in Europe and North America – August 31 , 2010
Inderscience will benefit from PCG’s unparalleled network of library prospects and its proven business development record in the library and academic markets. Under the partnership, PCG will drive strategic marketing planning and regional analysis in these territories as well as undertaking upsell and renewal campaigns, sales visits and consortia negotiations on behalf of the publisher. The program will target key European and North American regions in the academic, government and corporate markets.
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Publishing Technology Speaks on Semantic Technology – July 1 , 2010
Semantic web experts speak about Breathing Space at the "Ready for Web 3.0?" ALPSP seminar in London.
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) hosted a seminar on the implications of Web 3.0 attended by key members of the scholarly and society publishing community in London on 1 July 2010. Publishing Technology was invited to present "Breathing Space" the unique Semantic Web collaboration between two scholarly societies, the European Respiratory Society and the American Thoracic Society, supported by Publishing Technology's pub2web content hosting platform, and TBI Communications.
Priya Parvatikar, the project's Technical Architect and Rose Robinson, the pub2web Product Manager, showed the audience how Semantic Web techniques and technologies, including text mining, data harvesting, concept highlighting, faceted searching and tag clouds can help scholarly and society publishers increase readership and improve the user experience.
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The presentation is available on the ALPSP website.
PCG and LexisNexis partner in Brazil – June 25 , 2010
PCG and LexisNexis join forces in a unique partnership
that enables customers in Brazil to access more than
23,000 international sources.
Publishers Communication Group (PCG), the internationally
recognized sales and marketing consultancy , and LexisNexis, announce a major new collaboration where PCG will provide sales, marketing,
and customer support for LexisNexis database products to the Brazilian academic, corporate,
government and law markets.
From its Latin American base in São Paulo, Brazil, PCG will manage the program with
a team dedicated to focus on growing and supporting this important market.
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Publishing Technology appoints Mark Carden as Global Head of Sales– June 21 , 2010
Publishing Technology is pleased to announce the
appointment of Mark Carden as Executive Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing. Mark will be
responsible for business development activities worldwide, leading the team
that informs potential and current customers about the company's product and service offerings,
including advance, ingentaconnect™ and pub2web.
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Publishing Technology announces first go-live
of advance™ Product Manager solution
in North America– June 10 , 2010
In a significant primary move in a long-term systems strategy, NFPA made the successful migration
from their former author2reader™ Product Information Manager solution to the new advance™ Product
Manager platform. The Product Manager solution has been integrated with NFPA’s existing Publishing
Technology Fulfilment and Distribution solutions, and additional advance™ based projects have been
scheduled to bring NFPA up to speed with the most recent publishing solutions on the market
including Relationship Manager and Order to Cash applications.
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Congratulations to Publisher of the Year Award winner Little, Brown Book Group– May 18 , 2010
Publishing Technology congratulates Little, Brown Book Group on winning the Publisher of the Year Award at last night’s Bookseller Industry Awards, held at the Royal Courts of Justice, London.
George Lossius, Publishing Technology CEO, remarked “Little, Brown's achievements last year are highly commendable. They recorded a growth in sales and profits across the board in a tough economic climate, of which we cannot solely attribute to one best selling title. Strong business acumen and a real market knowledge have delivered their success, which we hope will continue for many more years to come. On behalf of Publishing Technology, I congratulate them on winning this prestigious award.”
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iPhone and iPad App for ingentaconnect™ – April 20 , 2010
Publishing Technology announced its forthcoming iPhone and iPad App for its
flagship collection of e-publications, ingentaconnect™. To coincide with ingentaconnect™’s iPhone and iPad Application, Publishing Technology has partnered with Mobile Interactive Group (MIG), in development of a Mobile Web version of the platform; functions will include a full-text search, bookmarking via My ingentaconnect™ or social bookmarking through 14 of the largest and
most popular social bookmarking sites it supports, as well as managing subject based alerting via
RSS and email and article by article publishing for "ahead of print" content.
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PCG publishes findings on 2005-2010 Journals Subscriptions Renewals Trends – April 2010
Trends in journal subscriptions renewal and cancellation - a look back over the last five years.
PCG is proud to publish analyzed date from over 200 renewal campaigns conducted since July 2005 and examined the main issues that have an inpact on library acquisition and collections trends.
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Publishing Technology advances into Australia – April 15 , 2010
The decision has been made in light of the significant North American and European sales of
Publishing Technology’s advance – the 21st century version of the well known VISTA systems – that
offers next generation software for the Publishing industry. The move takes advantage of the existing infrastructure and resources already present at PT’s
Australian agent, VISTA Computer Services; currently operating out of Sydney and servicing the
existing VISTA community.
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Publishing Technology re-launches BBC Monitoring Website – April 12 , 2010
The new service offers improved functionality through a number of complex data systems that will benefit an array of customers. The site provides subscribed users with an unrivalled platform to research and track international affairs on a worldwide scale, allowing them to avoid restrictions in the flow of information, particularly in countries where the media is tightly controlled.
PCG celebrates 20th Anniversary serving the scholarly and professional publishing community – April 9 , 2010
Since it was founded in 1990, PCG has grown to become the market-leader offering consultative sales, marketing and research support to some of the largest and high-profile publishers in the industry. From representing prestigious publishers such as CABI and ASM in North America, Nature in Latin America, and most-recently BioOne globally, PCG anticipates even greater achievements in the years to come.
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Publishing Technology announces sponsorship of Publisher of the Year Award at The Bookseller Industry Awards – April 8 , 2010
The Publisher of the Year Award is presented to a company who demonstrates consistently high quality publishing, outstanding commercial success and excellence across all disciplines taking place at the Royal Courts of Justice, London.
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Publishing Technology plc announces preliminary results for 2009 – March 22, 2010
In last year's very difficult economic and business environment Publishing Technology records a profitable 2009.
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PCG, a divison of Publishing technology releases report on E-books in the academic library market – March 18, 2010
Following their 2008 study on American librarians’ views of e-books, PCG a division of Publishing Technology, conducted a new survey in 2009 in order to probe for additional information and gain a deeper understanding of their opinions. The new study was broader and introduced new questions which aimed to not only capture librarians’ attitudes towards e-books but also to gain some perspective on the end-users’ experience.
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ingentaconnect™ gets ahead of the game with Shibboleth 2 compliant release – March 10, 2010
Publishing Technology, the largest provider of software and services for the publishing industry, today announced the latest release of ingentaconnect™, its flagship collection of e-publications. This release of ingentaconnect™ includes Shibboleth 2 integration in anticipation of the forthcoming industry-compliant deadline of June 30th. Compliance with Shibboleth 2, a standards based, open source software package for user authentication, is the latest in several advances made to ensure the platform remains future-proof for its publishers and its users. In an ever-evolving digital landscape, ingentaconnect™ enables both its partners and users to be secure in the knowledge that their content and delivery technology is safe-guarded for the future.
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New World Order at Publishing Technology As Changes to Management Roles Position International Market Leader for Growth – February 1, 2010
Publishing Technology, the global provider of software and services to the publishing industry, and the largest player in the market, announces some significant changes of responsibilities within its management team. Based in the UK, USA and Brazil, Publishing Technology operates across the trade publishing, academic and scholarly markets and is announcing some significant changes to management responsibilities following a review of its business throughout 2009.
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Publishing Technology moves headquarters to prestigious new office in Oxford Business Park – February 1, 2010
Publishing Technology, the largest provider of software and services for the publishing industry, announced today that it has completed the move from its former offices into a larger, prestigious and contemporary facility in the Oxford Business Park, in order to accommodate the growing organisation.
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Latest release strengthens ingentaconnect™’s position as The Home of Scholarly Research – November 24, 2009
Publishing Technology, the largest provider of software and services for the publishing industry, is pleased to announce the latest release of its flagship research platform, ingentaconnect™. The release integrates a number of site enhancements to improve user experience and offer greater discoverability of its content.
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Publishing Technology and TBI Communications support groundbreaking Society collaboration – November 2, 2009
Publishing Technology, the largest provider of software and services for the publishing industry, has been selected as the development partner for a pilot project being coordinated by TBI Communications, the strategic marketing consultancy for scholarly publishers. Breathing Space is the first semantic web collaboration between scholarly societies and aims to explore the value to researchers of compiling and mining a critical mass of data within a discipline; the project collates content from the European Respiratory Society and American Thoracic Society, who together account for 30% of citations within the field of respiratory medicine.
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Publishing Technology invests and expands Client Management Group with two key appointments – October 28, 2009
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Publishing Technology partners with SunMedia to launch Japan's leading online publishing platform – October 8, 2009
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Publishing Technology and the Institution of Civil Engineers build the world’s largest online civil engineering resource – October 7, 2009
ICE Virtual Library offers joined-up information service for engineers
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Canongate Wins Publisher of the Year Award Sponsored by Publishing Technology – June 2, 2009
Publishing Technology congratulates the independent publisher on their Nibbie win.
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Publishing Technology Releases Next Generation of Software Solutions – May 28, 2009
Publishing Technology releases its new technology platform. It is the most flexible offering of its kind on the market.
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Publishing Technology Helps Customers Maximize Investment in Online Content with Copyright Clearance Center's Rightsconnect – May 28, 2009
Copyright Clearance Center and Publishing Technology will integrate Rightsconnect licensing functionality with the scholarly hosting platform, ingentaconnect™.
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F+W Media Selects iPublishCentral to Support its Viral Marketing Efforts – 22 April 09
F+W Media's long-term partnership with Publishing Technology paves the way for the adoption of iPublishCentral solution.
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Publishing Technology appoints Natasha Oostergetel as Online Sales Manager – 24 March 09
Publishing Technology is pleased to announce its appointment of Natasha Oostergetel to the position of Online Sales Manager.
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Publishing Technology, Klopotek Alliance established to increase availability of online offerings in Germany and the Benelux – 23 February 09
Publishing Technology plc (LSE: PTO) and Klopotek AG, the two largest providers of software and services to the publishing industry, have announced an alliance to promote ingentaconnect™ and pub2web products in the German and Benelux markets.
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PGUK gains efficiency, ease and liberation through Publishing Technology’s hosted services – 29 January 09
Publishers Group UK (PGUK), a sales and marketing fulfillment service provider to publishers, was struggling with out-dated systems and sought a new system that would bring automation to their warehouse and eradicate their reliance on a lone IT technician for operation and maintenance of their aged database. They turned to Publishing Technology for help.
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Publishing Technology delivers visibility and credibility for scholarly publishers online – 22 January 09
Two scholarly publishers on opposite sides of the pond took on ambitious plans to put their journal archives online and both turned to Publishing Technology to help them achieve their goals. Case studies have just been published outlining each project and the benefits realized..
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