Infotrieve Announces Global E-Content Agreements.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2001 New Alliances With American, Canadian, and British Publishers Strengthen Infotrieve's International Presence and Electronic Journal Offerings Infotrieve, the market leader in article research and delivery, today announced agreements with three distinguished publishers in the scientific, technology and medical field: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, the National Research Council of Canada The National Research Council Canada (NRC) is Canada's leading organization for scientific research and development. History NRC was established in 1916, mainly to advise the government. Then, in the early 1930s, laboratories were built in Ottawa. (NRC NRC abbr. 1. National Research Council 2. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Noun 1. NRC - an independent federal agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants ) Research Press, and International Water Association Publishing. Infotrieve will offer the publishers' electronic journals within its e-Content collection. Infotrieve offers the e-Content collection as the finest peer-reviewed journals peer-reviewed journal Refereed journal Academia A professional journal that only publishes articles subjected to a rigorous peer validity review process. Cf Throwaway journal. and periodicals available in a convenient digital format. Searching the e-Content collection is free and articles are provided on a pay-per-article basis. The latest e-Content contributors -- Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, NRC Research Press, and International Water Association Publishing -- join such noted Infotrieve digital content partners as Harvard Business School Publishing Harvard Business School Publishing is a not-for-profit, wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard Business School. It operates as an umbrella corporation to manage a group of publishing products associated with the School, including Harvard Business Review (management journal), Harvard and The University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the largest university press in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including The Chicago Manual of Style, dozens of academic journals, including . For more than 25 years, New Jersey-based Lawrence Erlbaum Associates has been a respected publisher of books, journals, and software on topics such as cognitive science cognitive science Interdisciplinary study that attempts to explain the cognitive processes of humans and some higher animals in terms of the manipulation of symbols using computational rules. , neuroscience neu·ro·sci·ence n. Any of the sciences, such as neuroanatomy and neurobiology, that deal with the nervous system. neuroscience the embryology, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology of the nervous system. and clinical psychology. With a publishing program that started in 1929, NRC Research Press is the publishing arm of the National Research Council of Canada, recognized as that country's leading science and technology research organization. London's International Water Association Publishing provides information services See Information Systems. on all aspects of water and related environmental fields, responding to the needs of the international water industry and research community. "NRC Research Press publishes highly influential works from authors around the world. Infotrieve will contribute to making our publications accessible to the widest possible audience. The fact that desktop delivery is available should make this service more attractive to users," said Aldyth Holmes, Director, NRC Research Press. Reinforcing the importance of global content access, Jo Bell, Marketing Manager, International Water Association Publishing, confirmed, "We see this agreement as a way to further extend access to our portfolio of key water journals to consultants, libraries and researchers all over the world." "Content and clientele know no borders," added Jan Peterson, Infotrieve Vice President for Content Development. "Our new partnerships with these three international publishers confirm our global positioning and our commitment to electronic aggregation." About Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. A leading international publisher and distributor of books, journals, software and alternative media, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. has been successfully serving the academic and professional communities for more than 25 years. What began as a small publishing house concentrating on research monographs in psychology has grown into a global company actively engaged in publishing professional/reference work and textbooks spanning a wide range of academic disciplines and a full complement of psychological subdisciplines. For more information, visit www.erlbaum.com. About NRC Research Press NRC Research Press has been publishing scholarly journals since 1929. As part of the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, it publishes journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and allied publications. A continuing investment in electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. keeps NRC Research Press at the forefront of scientific communications and helps satisfy the needs of its international clientele. For more information, visit http://researchpress.nrc.ca About International Water Association (IWA IWA International Water Association IWA International Webmasters Association IWA Inland Waterways Association (UK) IWA International Windsurfing Association IWA Williams-Gateway Airport ) Publishing International Water Association Publishing is the wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of the International Water Association (IWA), which was established following the merger of IAWQ IAWQ International Association on Water Quality and IWSA IWSA International Water Supply Association IWSA Interscan Web Security Appliance . It is a not-for-profit publisher providing information services on all aspects of water and related environmental fields. The surplus from sales of its publications is returned to the water community through the activities of the International Water Association. The IWA Publishing program encompasses a wide range of journals, books, reports and electronic products. For more information, visit www.iwapublishing.co.uk. About Infotrieve Launched in 1987, Los Angeles-based Infotrieve is one of the largest independent document delivery services in the world. Through its international network of library, archive and publishing alliances, the company offers full-service online research and document delivery services, access to free bibliography databases on the Web, and tools to simplify the process of identifying, retrieving and paying for published literature. Infotrieve's mission is to facilitate efficient, affordable and innovative methods of distributing published materials to libraries and end users while protecting the rights of content creators. For more information, visit www.infotrieve.com. |
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