Release: Burgundy support for small & medium sized publishers

["Nancy Buckley" <nancy@burgundyservices.com>]

To liblicense-l

In the age of large aggregated collections of journals and the 
all encompassing big-deal, I hope that the initiative outlined in 
the press release below will be of interest to the readers of the 
list.

The original can be found at: 
http://www.burgundyservices.com/LatestNews.htm

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Burgundy campaigns to support small & medium sized publishers at 
forthcoming UKSG Exhibition
Oxford, UK, 10th March 2008

Burgundy Information Services Ltd is a new style of intermediary 
that promotes the product portfolios of small and medium sized 
publishers. At the forthcoming UKSG Conference and Exhibition: 
April 6-9, Torquay UK, Burgundy has invited seven of its 
publisher clients and contacts to exhibit their products at its 
booth. Speaking of the collaboration Sales Director Paul Calow 
commented "In a climate of shrinking library budgets and the 
larger publishers' big-deals it is often hard for smaller, 
independent publishers to compete for a librarian's attention. At 
this year's UKSG Burgundy is offering a unique opportunity for 
smaller publishers to gain an affordable presence at one of the 
most important conferences in the library calendar".

The Burgundy team will spend the weeks leading up to the 
conference urging librarians to support smaller publishers, 
through email invitations to arrange publisher meetings, trials 
and online product demonstrations at the booth. The Burgundy 
booth will be made of three stands (101-103) on the Mezzanine 
level of the exhibition hall. The following publishers will be 
available for meetings:

Keesing's World News Archive: A web-based database comprising 
more than 95,000 articles, from 1931 to the present. With the 
help of Burgundy, Keesing's has recently been approved by the 
JISC and has adopted the standard NESLI pricing and License 
model.

Morgan & Claypool Publishers: An innovative new company formed by 
experienced publishing professionals to serve the global research 
and development communities in science and technology. Through 
Burgundy's representation Morgan & Claypool has recently been 
endorsed by JISC and now adopts the NESLI license and pricing 
model.

Reviews.com: Founded in 1999, Computing Reviews is a 
collaboration between Reviews.com and the Association for 
Computing Machinery (ACM), and is the leading online review 
service for books and articles across all areas of computer 
science.

RMIT Publishing: Australia's leading scholarly e-press, 
delivering the largest collection of Australasian scholarly 
research materials via their Informit online service to students 
and researchers worldwide.

Science: The world's leading journal of original scientific 
research, global news, and commentary.

SPIE Digital Library: The most extensive resource available on 
optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 
230,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference 
Proceedings from 1990 to the present. Through partnership with 
Burgundy, this resource has recently been accepted into the JISC 
portfolio and from 2008 supports the NESLI License and pricing 
model.

Thomas Telford (ICE): The knowledge business of the Institution 
of Civil Engineers, creating specialist products and services for 
the civil engineering and construction markets.

Burgundy Information Services are also organizing meetings for 
the Future Science Group whom it represents in UK, Ireland, 
Europe, Turkey and Africa. Their stand is situated at Stand 28.

Contact Details
Nancy Buckley
Burgundy Information Services
Nancy@burgundyservices.com
www.burgundyservices

About Burgundy

Burgundy Information Services Ltd is an independent company 
providing outsourced sales resources to small and medium 
publishers. Based in Oxfordshire UK, Burgundy contributes to 
publishers' sales policy, price strategy, license negotiation and 
sales for online content across European markets.