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Longstanding partnership yields strategic new e-resource of aggregated content

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Oxford,

17 May 2012 – Publishing

Technology, the

largest provider of software and services to the publishing industry, along with

Dutch publisher and long-term partner BRILL,

announce the launch of the new aggregated scholarly portal, Brill Online

Books and Journals.

 

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.

 

Transitioning

much of its content from Publishing Technology’s ingentaconnect solution,

Brill has moved to a custom pub2web platform to consolidate content

assets previously distributed across multiple resources.  The publisher now

commands an agile and adaptable site ensuring long-term cost efficiency and a

solid and flexible base for future innovation and

experimentation.

 

Brill

Online Books and Journals now

features;

• search and browse of content by title, type, subject or imprint

• preservation of individual imprint catalogues and brand

• faceted search and browse functionality, facilitating greater discoverability

• usability enhancements such as the introduction of auto-suggestions within search

• ability to create new categories of collections across both journals and e-books

• promotional features for generating content recommendations to libraries

• integration with back-end enterprise systems, for consolidated production workflow

Sam

Bruinsma, Director of Business Development, BRILL,

commented: “We are excited to launch our next generation online platform, one

of the richest scholarly resources of its kind. We have worked closely with

Publishing Technology to implement a

digital strategy which drives discovery and usage, allows us to quickly and

easily capitalize on the latest business models for online delivery, and gain

important workflow efficiencies with close integration with our key back office

systems.”

 

Louise

Russell, Chief Operating Officer for Online Solutions at Publishing

Technology, said:

“As a

highly-valued customer for over 12 years, we are very proud to deliver the next

step in BRILL’s digital strategy. The combination of book and journal content

within a single platform brings immediate benefits for BRILL and their customers

but also generates a number of existing opportunities for future innovation. By

providing the reassurance of a leading edge platform with a clear product

development roadmap, we provide a foundation for agile and efficient innovation

and look forward to collaborating further with BRILL – the journey does not end

at launch!”

 

 

For

more information about Publishing Technology’s online publishing services,

 

 

please visit our booth

(#207) at the SSP 34th Annual Meeting,

 

May

30-June 1, Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, VA.

 

-ENDS-

 

Notes to Editors:

 

 

For more information,

please contact:

 

Emily Taylor Gregory,

Publishing Technology plc

 

Tel: +44 1865

397873

 

Email: emily.taylor@publishingtechnology.com

 

 

 

Publishing

Technology plc:

 

Publishing

Technology’s products and services include advance,

ingentaconnect, VISTA, author2reader, pub2web, ICS and PCG. The

Publishing Technology group enables publishers to focus on their core

competences by providing a single, trusted partner for both technology

requirements and business development services. It is one of the largest

providers of software and services for the publishing industry, servicing eight

out of ten of the world's largest publishers. The group’s proposition uniquely

spans front and back office systems – complemented by a range of business

development services – to provide the industry's only end-to-end suite of

software specifically designed to support the publishing process. Capabilities

cover editorial & production, product information, billing & fulfilment,

content conversion & hosting, website development, marketing programs,

information commerce, customer relationship management, rights & royalties

and business intelligence. All application modules can be configured

independently to meet specific publishers' needs and to allow flexible

integration with existing systems. Associated sales and marketing services

include consultancy and research, sales representation and telemarketing. The

company is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and has offices

in the UK, US, Brazil, India, China and Australia.

 

About

pub2web

 

pub2web™

is a customized, multi-content publications platform—delivering all the

functionality needed to support evolving online strategies and to satisfy the

user base, however diverse their needs. Customers benefit from proven,

regularly-updated technology while also maintaining full control of their brand,

their content and their user relationships. It allows customers to help their

users to explore all their content – whatever its format – with progressive

browsing options driven by pub2web’s award-winning data storage and modelling.

 

 

Visit

www.publishingtechnology.com,

follow on Twitter @publishingtech, or connect on LinkedIn.

 

About

BRILL

 

Founded in 1683 in

Leiden, the Netherlands, BRILL is a leading international academic publisher in

the fields of Ancient Near East and Egypt; Middle East and Islamic Studies;

Asian Studies (incl. Hotei imprint and Global Oriental imprint); Classical

Studies; Medieval and Early Modern Studies; contemporary History and History of

War studies; Biblical and Religious Studies; Slavic Studies; Language &

Linguistics; Biology; Science (VSP imprint); Human Rights and Public

International Law (Martinus Nijhoff imprint). With offices in Leiden and Boston

(MA), Brill today publishes more than 130 journals and around 600 new books and

reference works each year. In principle all publications are made available in

both print and electronic form. Following the acquisition of IDC Publishers in

2006 a large number of collections and databases with primary sources are

marketed in the same academic fields. Key customers are academic and research

institutions, libraries, and scholars. BRILL is a publicly traded company and

listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please go to

www.brill.nl.