WOLTERS KLUWER PURCHASES BALTZER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS.Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. (Euronext: WKL) is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. (Dordrecht, Neth.) has acquired Baltzer Science Publishers Baltzer Science Publishers are a Netherlands publisher of scientific journals established in 1980. List of journals Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
Baltzer publishes a handful of scientific journals, including Catalysis catalysis Modification (usually acceleration) of a chemical reaction rate by addition of a catalyst, which combines with the reactants but is ultimately regenerated so that its amount remains unchanged and the chemical equilibrium of the conditions of the reaction is not Letters, Annals of Operations Research operations research Application of scientific methods to management and administration of military, government, commercial, and industrial systems. It began during World War II in Britain when teams of scientists worked with the Royal Air Force to improve radar detection of and Hyperfine Interactions. The acquired company had 2000 revenue of about EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 3 million. Baltzer co-owner Laurenz Baltzer said his company decided to sell to Kluwer because "it had become evident that our program was a good fit with Kluwer Academic and their large-scale electronic publishing platform expanded opportunities for online distribution and enhanced usage." Kluwer Academic president Jeff Smith said the acquired titles will help strengthen Kluwer Online, "especially in the fields of chemistry, operations research, mathematics, physics, computer science and telecommunitions." KAP publishes more than 700 journals and approximately 1300 new book titles each year. |
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