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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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NASW selects pub2web to maximize visibility of growing e-publications collection– May 27 , 2010

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) has selected Publishing Technology's pub2web platform to host content made available to over 150,000 users. NASW will initially present its four journal titles, currently hosted on IngentaConnect, on the new website to a growing user base of faculty, practitioners, agencies, libraries, clinicians, and researchers throughout the United States and abroad, with book titles to be added in the near future. Web 2.0 features, including integration with social bookmarking, a flexible ecommerce system and comprehensive administrator tools providing NASW with the control to manage content, subscriptions, business intelligence and site plus marketing information, will all maximize visibility of NASW’s content online.

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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

The Home of Scholarly Research boosts its signal on the Mobile Web.

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

Australian entity to be created to deliver next-generation applications to Australasian market.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Publishing Technology invests and expands Client Management Group with two key appointments – October 28, 2009

Publishing Technology partners with SunMedia to launch Japan's leading online publishing platform – October 8, 2009

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

Canongate Wins Publisher of the Year Award Sponsored by Publishing Technology – June 2, 2009

Publishing Technology congratulates the independent publisher on their Nibbie win.

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.

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.

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.

New chapter begins for book downloads – 12 April 09

The Financial Times highlights Publishing Technology's service to download digital books.

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.

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.

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.

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..