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ISPG and The Charlesworth Group give presentations to key Chinese consortia

March 14, New Jersey - In February 2012, hosted by The Charlesworth Group, Tom Taylor, Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting Founder and President and the director of Independent Scholarly Publishing Group (ISPG), visited China and conducted seminars at a few prominent Beijing medical institutions. Curators, librarians and medical researchers from Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing Capital Medical University, Beijing Hospital, Air Force Hospital, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, and others attended the seminars. Tom introduced the world renowned journals that are in the ISPG collection:

13 publishers: 36 journals and 1 eBook Series
All medical and biological sciences
Highest quality collection in the world based on impact factors and ranks in disciplines
All on the HighWire platform

Tom also introduced the 9 trends that have emerged and will continue during the transition from the print era to the digital publishing era:

Blurring of content categories
Data sets as a publication unit
More precise searching (semantic web)
Usage analytics
Proliferation of delivery devices
Growth in global research
Social media
Migration from subscription model to access management model
Consortia model continues to grow globally

The attendees showed great interest in the seminars and asked a variety of questions about ISPG’s collection promotion in China. ISPG will work with The Charlesworth Group and aim to let all Chinese researchers have access to their top quality journal content.

Tom Taylor said of his visit to China, “I was very pleased to be able to meet and present to a key group of Chinese librarians. The presentation on 9 future trends in publishing was organized using key input from ISPG member publishers and other key industry thought leaders.”

“The Charlesworth China staff, who represent ISPG, assisted with the translation and meeting planning on this excellent 3-day tour of China. It was an excellent opportunity to show the value and quality of the ISPG collection to the Chinese librarians, and to hear direct and positive feedback. I’m very thankful for the excellent organization and chance to meet all the dedicated sales and marketing staff of The Charlesworth Group. I learned so much about the Chinese market and am grateful to The Charlesworth Group for making this possible.”

Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) is a coalition of independent publishers of high-impact journals and related academic content, hosted on the HighWire platform, which promotes, markets to, and negotiates with library consortia, hospitals and other organizations around the world.

Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting provides the highest-quality sales and marketing services to academic publishing companies, societies and libraries internationally. Utilizing a global network of experienced professionals, Dragonfly directs the market development, launch, and sales of new and existing texts, represents societies and publishers to library consortia, and offers general sales and marketing services as needed.

The Charlesworth Group offers customizable and trusted publishing services, innovating and educating from our global office base across 3 continents: Asia, Europe and North America. We specialize in China sales and marketing, cutting edge XML workflows, and Author & Education services. Our experienced staff and powerful publishing tools support clients with project management, editorial and educational services. We help publishers evolve their publishing practices. For more information, visit www.charlesworth-group.com

Dragonfly to represent GeoScienceWorld in key global markets: Partnership to become exclusive in July

New Jersey (February 23, 2012) – Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting, with GeoScienceWorld, are delighted to announce a new partnership to extend sales and marketing services to academic consortia in Australia and New Zealand, Canada and Korea.

GeoScienceWorld is a comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals, indexed, linked, and interoperable with GeoRef. With this new agreement, Dragonfly has now begun to represent GeoScienceWorld’s 40 earth science journals from 26 global STM publishers in those key global markets. In mid-july, the representation relationship becomes exclusive.

“The founders of GeoScienceWorld worked with leading geoscience societies and university presses to develop a truly exceptional electronic research resource that is unprecedented in the field of science,” commented Alix Vance, GeoScienceWorld Executive Director. “We believe that, with Dragonfly’s expertise, our distinctive journal content, from different disciplines and multiple sources will become more accessible to researchers and scientists in these important areas of the global science market.”

“We’re pleased to now be working with GeoScienceWorld,” added Tom Taylor, Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting President. “Scientists, researchers, and academics in Australia and New Zealand, Canada and Korea deserve to have access to the remarkable content offered by GeoScienceWorld and we’re looking forward to offering it to them in the months to come.”

GeoScienceWorld is a U.S. nonprofit organization whose mission is to make earth science research easily and economically available on the Internet. The platform hosts 40 peer-reviewed geoscience journals from 26 global publishers and is uniquely integrated with GeoRef, the leading abstracting and indexing database in the earth sciences. Each year, GSW serves millions of academic and professional researchers in 40 countries. www.GeoScienceworld.org

Contact: Tom Taylor
732-414-2656
tom.taylor@dragonflypubservices.com,
Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting

ISPG Partners with JISC Collections to Bring New Collection to UK Academic Community

New Jersey (February 1, 2012) – The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) and JISC Collections have successfully concluded a three year NESLi2 agreement for the higher education and further education communities in the UK. This agreement offers libraries access to the prestigious medical and life-sciences society journals, which are part of the ISPG and will enable institutions in the UK to access the entire collection.

The ISPG Collection – Europe, a very recent and ambitious initiative in scholarly publishing, is made up of fifteen independent society publishers, and thirty-five journals, which are all hosted on HighWire Press. UK academic institutions will now have the singular opportunity to benefit from research published in these high-impact society journals for their libraries.

“The recent JISC Collections agreement represents a very important development for the ISPG publishers in that they have the opportunity to work closely with UK institutions in improving access to cutting-edge resources,” commented ISPG Facilitator and Spokesman, Tom Taylor. “We are extremely excited about this collaboration and opportunities for the near future.”

The JISC Collections NESLi2 SMP initiative provides UK institutions with a more effective means of access to the ISPG journals, along with favorable terms and conditions and a more simplified administrative process. This agreement with the ISPG journals also reflects the NESLi2 aim of widening access to content on behalf of NESLi2 member institutions.

For more information about the details of this agreement, please contact ISPG’s representative in Europe, Jas Atwal.

JISC Collections was established by the UK Higher and Further Education funding councils, to support the procurement of digital content for education and research in the UK. It undertakes negotiations with a large number of scholarly and research publishers on behalf of UK universities and colleges in the area of e-journals, e-books, databases and datasets achieving best pricing and licensing conditions for its members.

Contact: Tom Taylor
732.414.2656
Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting

Swets adds Canada to its areas of representation for The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group

California (November 3, 2011) – The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) is pleased to announce that, in addition to representing the ISPG content to the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent, Swets will now be adding Canada to its area of representation.

Swets, which is regularly included in E-Content Magazine's annual “100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry,” has been providing its customers with world-class professional information solutions services since it began from a single bookshop in Amsterdam 110 years ago. Now operating from more than 20 offices around the world, with a loyal customer base of more than 60,000 clients in 160 countries, Swets will help to establish and then grow the presence of the high-impact ISPG content to key Canadian library consortia, hospitals and other organizations.

“ISPG’s coalition of 49 journals and other resources from 21 publishers, all hosted on the HighWire platform, are an important resource for libraries and hospitals in Canada, and we’re pleased to play a role in getting that content into their hands,” commented Stuart Silcox, Swets National Sales Manager.

“The ISPG is truly making its presence known across the world, and we don’t want to overlook our neighbors in Canada,” added Tom Taylor, Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting President and ISPG Facilitator. “As they do in other key areas of the world, Swets has the experience needed to genuinely connect to the Canadian market and we know they’ll have great success in their quest to represent the ISPG there.”

Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting provides the highest-quality sales and marketing services to academic publishing companies, societies and libraries internationally. Utilizing a global network of experienced professionals, Dragonfly directs the market development, launch, and sales of new and existing texts, represents societies and publishers to library consortia, and offers general sales and marketing services as needed.

Swets is the world's leading information services company, built on 110 years of experience to maximize the return on investments in time and money for clients and publishers in today's complex information marketplace. With clients in over 160 countries and more than twenty offices around the world, Swets is a true "long tail" powerhouse that provides the most comprehensive and sophisticated e-commerce platform currently available in its field.

Duke University Press adds Fluids and Environments to the Independent Scholarly Publishers Group

California (October 27, 2011) – The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG), managed by Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting, is pleased to add Duke University Press with its interdisciplinary STM journal, Limnology and Oceanography: Fluids and Environments (L&O:F&E) to its ranks.

Limnology and Oceanography: Fluids and Environments presents interdisciplinary limnology and oceanography research focusing on the interactions of fluid dynamics and biological, chemical, and geological processes in aquatic environments. The journal’s online format makes it possible to publish articles throughout the year without issue-space restrictions and articles showcase a variety of approaches, including modeling, theory, and empiricism.

All members of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography have free access to L&O:F&E and now, with this new agreement, the journal will also be available to many more readers, since it’s been added to the ISPG’s coalition of 49 journals and other resources from 21 publishers, all hosted on the HighWire platform, and being offered to library consortia, hospitals and other organizations globally.

“We’re delighted to add L&O:F&E to the ISPG since its STM content will now have a larger audience in the worldwide scientific community,” commented Cason Lynley, Duke University Press Journals Marketing Manager. “The ISPG offers excellent global sales and marketing opportunities for specialized resources like ours.”

“We welcome the internationally-recognized and prominent Duke University Press, and its journal Limnology and Oceanography: Fluids and Environments to our ISPG offerings,” added Tom Taylor, Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting President and ISPG Facilitator. “We look forward to increasing the visibility of that cutting-edge journal around the world, like we have with the other ISPG resources.”

Duke University Press, internationally recognized as a prominent publisher of books and journals, publishes approximately 120 books annually and over 40 journals, as well as offering five electronic collections. A not-for-profit scholarly publisher, Duke University Press is best known for publishing in the humanities and social sciences. http://www.dukeupress.edu

Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) is a coalition of independent publishers of high-impact journals and related academic content, hosted on the HighWire platform, which promotes, markets to, and negotiates with library consortia, hospitals and other organizations around the world.

The American Society for Cell Biology joins The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group

California (October 12, 2011) – The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG), managed by Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting, has added the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) to its ranks, along with its highly regarded journals: Molecular Biology of the Cell and CBE—Life Sciences Education.

The American Society for Cell Biology is an international nonprofit membership organization of biologists studying the cell, the fundamental unit of life. Now with this new agreement, the following two ASCB journals will be included with the ISPG’s coalition of 48 journals and other resources from 21 publishers, all hosted on the HighWire platform, and being offered to library consortia, hospitals and other organizations globally:

Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) publishes original and scholarly research reports that contribute significantly to the scientific understanding of the molecular basis of cell structure and function. In a twice-a-month online format, MBoC serves as a forum for presenting the significant advances that arise from a combination of experimental approaches.

CBE—Life Sciences Education (CBE-LSE), a free, online quarterly journal, publishes peer-reviewed articles on life science education at the K–12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. The journal focuses on how students are introduced to the study of life sciences, as well as approaches in cell biology, developmental biology, neuroscience, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, and proteomics.

“We’re pleased to be part of ISPG, with its world-class global sales and marketing resources,” commented Mark Leader, ASCB Publications Director. “Since our founding in 1960, we’ve been dedicated to advancing scientific discovery around the world. The dissemination of knowledge through our journals is one means by which we achieve that goal, and we believe the ISPG will help to make the journals’ content accessible to a greater audience than ever before.”

“We’d like to welcome the American Society for Cell Biology and its two journals to the ISPG family,” added Tom Taylor, Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting President and ISPG Facilitator. “It’s great to be able to add their top-notch journals to our growing ISPG Collection, being offered to our customers around the world.”

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is a nonprofit membership organization of biologists studying the cell, the fundamental unit of life. Founded in 1960, the ASCB has grown to approximately 10,000 members in more than 65 countries around the world, including those from all research sciences, students, educators (high school, undergraduate, and graduate level), and technicians who have education or research experience in cell biology or an allied field. www.ascb.org

The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group Adds Leading Oncology Journal to its Clients

California (September 28, 2011) – The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG), managed by Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting, is delighted to welcome the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and its prestigious journal, the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) to its ranks.

The Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) is the most credible, authoritative resource for disseminating significant clinical oncology research. Published three times a month in both print and in electronic formats, JCO provides the highest quality articles dedicated to clinical research. With this new agreement, ASCO’s Journal of Clinical Oncology will now be included with the ISPG’s coalition of 46 journals and other resources from 20 publishers, all hosted on the HighWire platform, and being offered to library consortia, hospitals and other organizations around the world.

“We warmly welcome the highly-respected American Association of Clinical Oncology and the Journal of Clinical Oncology to our constantly-growing ISPG collection,” commented Tom Taylor, Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting President and ISPG Facilitator. “This authoritative title is among the most trusted sources of cancer information worldwide and is an important addition to our ISPG offerings.”

The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group Welcomes Society of Nuclear Medicine

California (September 20, 2011) – The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG), managed by Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting, is delighted to add to its ranks the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) and its prestigious journals—the most widely read peer-reviewed publications in molecular imaging, nuclear medicine and allied disciplines: The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) and Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology (JNMT).

For more than 50 years, SNM has been representing nuclear and molecular imaging professionals, all of whom are committed to the advancement of the field. Now with this new agreement, these SNM journals will be included with the ISPG’s coalition of 46 journals and other resources from 20 publishers, all hosted on the HighWire platform and being offered to library consortia, hospitals and other organizations globally:

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine brings readers worldwide, clinical investigations, basic science reports, continuing education articles, book reviews, employment opportunities, and updates on rapidly changing issues in practice and research every month.
Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology focuses on technology, quality assurance, radiation safety, and the clinical applications of nuclear medicine. Each quarterly issue features continuing education articles, news, and updates on practice, licensure, and credentialing for nuclear medicine technologists.

“We’re anticipating that the ISPG will elevate the awareness of these two important journals in the global scientific and medical communities,” commented Virginia Pappas, SNM CEO. “ISPG’s sales and marketing resources will be key in increasing the visibility of the journals; reaching those libraries and hospitals that need the important information we can provide them.”

“We’re pleased to welcome Society of Nuclear Medicine and its two well-respected journals to our constantly-growing ISPG collection,” added Tom Taylor, Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting President and ISPG Facilitator. “Both of these journals provide readers with cutting-edge research data and articles approved for continuing education credits. Plus, the Journal of Nuclear Medicine enjoys the highest impact factor of any medical imaging or radiology journal worldwide – 7.022 – a great example of the quality of high-impact resources the ISPG offers.”

The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), headquartered in Reston, Va., is a nonprofit scientific and professional organization that promotes the science, technology and practical application of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. With 17,000 members worldwide, SNM strives to be a leader in unifying, advancing and optimizing molecular imaging, with the ultimate goal of improving human health. For more information, visit www.snm.org

Contact: Tom Taylor 805.496.5939 tom.taylor@dragonflypubservices.com

The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group to work with Swets in the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent

California (July 19, 2011) – The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) is pleased to announce that Swets will be representing its content to both the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent.

Swets, which is regularly included in E-Content Magazine's annual “100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry,” has been providing its customers with world-class professional information services since it began from a single bookshop in Amsterdam over 100 years ago. Now operating from more than 20 offices around the world, with a loyal customer base of more than 60,000 clients in 160 countries, Swets will help to establish and then grow the presence of the high-impact ISPG content to the library consortia, hospitals and other organizations in that important region.

“We’re looking forward to helping maximize the visibility of the vital ISPG resources,” commented Lorraine Ellery, Publisher Sales Manager for Swets Gateway. “Our global marketing and sales distribution services will increase the Group’s presence in this emerging, but dynamic region, providing key direction in getting their HighWire-platform-hosted, 42 ISPG journals and other resources from 18 publishers, into as many hands as possible.”

“When reaching out across the globe, it’s important to truly understand the nuances of each market and its business culture and we’re thrilled to be working with such a qualified company as Swets,” added Tom Taylor, Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting President and ISPG Facilitator. “Their sales force knows the unique Middle Eastern and Indian markets we’re reaching out to and we’re confident in their ability to connect us with those potential customers.”

Swets is the world's leading information services company, built on more than 105 years of experience to maximize the return on investments in time and money for clients and publishers in today's complex information marketplace. With clients in over 160 countries and more than twenty offices around the world, Swets is a true "long tail" powerhouse that provides the most comprehensive and sophisticated e-commerce platform currently available in its field.

The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group Welcomes Society for the Study of Reproduction

Los Angeles, CA (May, 3, 2011) – The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG), managed by Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting, is delighted to welcome the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) and its prestigious journal, Biology of Reproduction (BOR), to its ranks.

The Society for the Study of Reproduction is a group of scientists and others who share the common interest of reproductive biology, endocrinology and other related fields. SSR informs its members of current key political issues and functions as a representative voice for science at a national level. With this new agreement, Biology of Reproduction, the official journal of the SSR, will now be included with the ISPG’s coalition of 42 journals and other resources from 19 publishers, all hosted on the HighWire platform, and being offered to library consortia, hospitals and other organizations globally.

“It’s been our goal to increase the visibility of Biology of Reproduction, elevating the awareness of the journal in the scientific community,” commented Judith Jansen, SSR Executive Director. “Joining the ISPG, with its superb sales and marketing resources, will go a long way towards helping us reach that goal. Libraries and hospitals across the world will now have additional access to the journal, reinforcing its designation as the ‘go-to’ place for information about reproductive biology.”

“We’re pleased to welcome Society for the Study of Reproduction and Biology of Reproduction to our constantly-growing ISPG collection,” added Tom Taylor, Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting President and ISPG Facilitator. “Biology of Reproduction is considered the number one journal in its area of research, with a current impact factor of 3.300, and it is representative of the quality of high-impact resources we’re offering.”

Biology of Reproduction, the official journal of the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR), publishes original research and reviews on a broad range of topics in the field of reproductive biology. With a current impact factor of 3.300, Biology of Reproduction is consistently one of the most highly cited journals publishing original research in the field of reproductive biology.

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