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Full Press Release: http://www.burgundyservices.com/pdf/AGU_sept_2010.pdf

PRESS RELEASE
Burgundy contract with American Geophysical Union (AGU) to provide sales
services across Europe, Israel and South Africa.

Oxford, UK, 27th September 2010
Specializing in the promotion of innovative publishers, Burgundy Information
Services has signed an exclusive agreement with the AGU to provide sales
expertise and pricing authority for all customers across more than 50
countries in Europe as well as Israel and South Africa.

Speaking of the partnership Nancy Buckley, Managing Director of Burgundy
commented ³Burgundy are excited to be working with the AGU during the next
three important years. Burgundy¹s expertise in consortia negotiations and
institutional licensing will provide a launch pad for AGU¹s improved product
and pricing offerings.²

AGU¹s Director of Publications Bill Cook agreed, saying ³we are pleased to
have Burgundy on board to ensure that AGU¹s mission to increase the
awareness and dissemination of geophysical sciences is met²

The AGU is beginning a multi-year process of simplifying its pricing
policies so that its customers have a clearer understanding of and better
ability to budget for their content. AGU¹s overarching objective is to
create pricing for its online content that is transparent and fair ­
ensuring that ³like² customers are treated as ³like²; while encouraging
users to utilize a broad range of AGU content across its portfolio of online
journals.

Some highlights of the AGU¹s changes to pricing policies and strategy
include:

·     Employing a network of sales agencies to increase their global content
sales including Burgundy Information Services Ltd

·     A Current Subscription to online journal content will cover the period
of 1996 (or from the first year of publication if after 1996) through the
current year.   

·     AGU are re-defining their Digital Library Archive with 100 years of
archives with over 63,000 articles covering all journal content published
during the period of 1894 through 1995.  This product is available as an
annual lease or a perpetual access can be purchased.

·     Printed Journals remain available for purchase.  A discount is
available for a print journal when a current online subscription to that
journal is purchased.
 
About Burgundy
Burgundy represents a wide range of publishers aggregators specializing in
negotiating the delivery of scholarly information to Libraries and
Information Centers throughout Europe. Burgundy is an independent and highly
motivated company based in Oxfordshire, England.
Contact Details: Nancy Buckley, Burgundy Information Services, 9 Orchard
Piece, Mollington, Oxfordshire, OX17 1DP, UK  [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0) 1295 758089 www.burgundyservices.com
<http://www.burgundyservices.com>

About The AGU
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is an international non-profit
scientific association with over 58,000 individual and institutional members
worldwide.  Established in 1919, the AGU is entering its tenth decade as a
leader in the field of the sciences of geophysics
Contact Details: William J Cook, American Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida
Avenue NW, Washing DC 20009, USA  [log in to unmask] Tel: (202) 777-7520
www.agu.org <http://www.agu.org>  

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