*apologies for cross-posting*.
16th May 2005 - Ringwood, England
Coutts announces online book distribution arrangement with Elsevier
Coutts Information Services, the Global Library and Information Supply
Company, and Elsevier today announce the signing of a distribution
arrangement that will enable Coutts to sell to its 5,000 Library customers
Elsevier online book titles hosted on ScienceDirect.
The arrangement currently covers nearly 400 well known online Elsevier
Reference Works, Book Series, and select Handbook Series. The agreement
offers both companies the opportunity to partner in driving sales and high
customer service levels in an ever growing, online world where libraries
and their users need and expect instant access to quality content 24 hours
a day, seven days a week.
Tom Rosenthal, Senior Library Sales Manager for Elsevier commented on the
arrangement. “We are delighted to be working with Coutts and to be offering
their thousands of library customers access options to online books on
ScienceDirect. The benefit to libraries of purchasing through Coutts is
that they can incorporate the online book titles into their Coutts OASIS
system and offer them as part of their Approval and New Title notification
plans.
Rosenthal continued, “In addition, Coutts offers tremendous sales support
and will provide MARC records for the titles that can be downloaded
straight into the Library’s OPAC. We are looking forward to working with
the Coutts team to roll out this offering to their customers in addition to
offering the products direct from Elsevier.”
Andy Free, Commercial Director at Coutts commented, “Elsevier produces some
of the highest quality and authoritative book titles available. Their
Reference Works are in most cases ‘must have’ titles, and we are delighted
to now be able to offer our customers the choice of purchasing either the
print or the electronic edition of any title.
Mr. Free continued, “By supporting ScienceDirect and providing MARC records
for all book titles, Coutts is rapidly becoming the only Library Supply
Company that can truly help Libraries bridge the gap between print and
electronic.”
For further information on how libraries can purchase Elsevier online books
please contact:
Coutts Information Services
Headlands Business Park
Ringwood
Hants
BH24 3PB
Tel: 01425 471160
Email: Nadine Prowse at [log in to unmask]
<<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
About Coutts Information Services
Coutts Information Services, based from four key locations in the USA,
Canada, the UK and the Netherlands, specializes in Library Supply to the
Academic, Governmental, Corporate, Public and Institutional book and
information markets.
Coutts’ activities include: the supply and full shelf ready processing of
Monographs; the provision of Standing Order and Approvals services; full
ILS integration services; the development and marketing of new "e-book"
technology; and other value added services to over 5,000 customers in over
100 countries around the world.
More information can be found at: www.couttsinfo.com
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical
information products and services. Working in partnership with the global
science and health communities, Elsevier’s 7,000 employees in 74 offices
worldwide publish more than 1,800 journals and 2,200 new books per year, in
addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as
ScienceDirect (<<http://www.sciencedirect.com/>>), MD Consult
(<<http://www.mdconsult.com/>>), Scopus (<<http://www.news.scopus.com/>>),
bibliographic databases, and online reference works.
Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com/ <<http://www.reedelsevier.com/>>) is a
global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices
worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc
(<<http://www.reedelsevier.com/>>), a world-leading publisher and
information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal,
education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-
quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing
emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker
symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and
ENL (New York Stock Exchange
About ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is the essential information resource for millions of
researchers and scientists, holding more than a quarter of the world’s
electronic collection of science, technical and medical full-text, peer-
reviewed titles.
More than 2,000 journals and hundreds of books from Elsevier - including
prestigious titles such as The Lancet, Cell, Tetrahedron Letters, the
Handbooks in Economics Series and the International Encyclopedia of the
Social and Behavioral Sciences - are available on ScienceDirect.
Users can access more than 6.8 million full-text articles and more than 75
million abstract records, from all fields of science. Most journal articles
become available immediately after peer review and before the printed
versions are issued. Additionally, they gain online access to multimedia
features not available in print journals, such as video, audio and
spreadsheet files.
More information can be found at: <<http://www.info.sciencedirect.com>>
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