Commercial Digest, a once a week digest of messages containing
informational content from commercial bodies (i.e., publishers, vendors,
agents, etc.)

This week's digest contains two messages:

(1) Entomological Society of America to preserve e-journals with Portico
(2) Bloomsbury Publishing selects Publishers Communication Group to
represent Churchill Archive and Drama Online

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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:37:46 -0500
From: Marita LaMonica <Marita.LaMonica@ithaka.org>
Subject: Entomological Society of America to preserve e-journals with Portico

Entomological Society of America to preserve e-journals with Portico

Portico is pleased to announce that the Entomological Society of America
(ESA) has entered into an agreement with Portico to preserve its eight
e-journals. Through this agreement with Portico, ESA ensures that its
e-journals will be preserved and available for future scholars,
researchers, and students.

ESA is the largest organization in the world serving the professional and
scientific needs of entomologists and people in related disciplines. ESA
offers journals that provide unsurpassed coverage of the broad science of
entomology.

Portico will be a mechanism to provide post-cancellation access to the
titles committed to the Archive.

For more information, please visit: www.portico.org To view the
announcement, please visit:
www.portico.org/digital-preservation/news-events/news/general-news/entomological-society-of-america-to-preserve-e-journals-with-portico

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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:54:58 -0000
From: Daniel Freeman <Daniel.Freeman@midaspr.co.uk>
Subject: Bloomsbury Publishing selects Publishers Communication Group to represent Churchill Archive and Drama Online

Bloomsbury Publishing selects Publishers Communication Group to represent
Churchill Archive and Drama Online

PCG to provide global sales, marketing and customer service for new
digital collections

 

Cambridge, MA, February 28, 2012 - Leading independent publisher
Bloomsbury and industry consultancy Publishers Communication Group (PCG)
today announce an exclusive sales, marketing and customer service
partnership for Bloomsbury's two newest ventures, the Churchill Archive
and Drama Online.  The two digital collections will launch during 2012
under the Bloomsbury Academic imprint of the London-based literary and
reference publisher.

  Specializing in the humanities and social sciences, Bloomsbury Academic
publishes more than 1,000 books each year, maintains a backlist of about
20,000 titles, and is aggressively expanding its online portfolio of
digital resources with collections such as Berg Fashion Library, Churchill
Archive and Drama Online.

With this agreement, PCG continues to grow its program of full-service
global representation for scholarly publishers. By leveraging local
networks in Europe, North America, Latin America, India and China, PCG
will execute sales and multi-channel marketing programs, as well as manage
all library-facing customer service and fulfillment duties for these two
collections.

The Churchill Archive makes accessible nearly one million documents
amassed by Winston S. Churchill throughout his life.  Published
electronically in collaboration with the Sir Winston Churchill Archive
Trust and Churchill Heritage Ltd, and previously only available on
microfilm, the collection is designed as a research and teaching resource
documenting Churchill's engagement in national and international affairs
over six decades of public life as soldier, journalist, wartime leader and
historian.  Drama Online aggregates the most studied, performed and
critically acclaimed plays from the last two and half thousand years from
the Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare and Faber lists.   The collection
meets the full range of drama teaching needs, incorporating critical
analysis, contextual information, performance and practitioner texts from
theory to backstage and acting guides coupled with video and audio
material.

Douglas Wright, Director of PCG commented: "We are excited to work with
Bloomsbury on these prestigious, groundbreaking collections. Both the
Churchill Archive and Drama Online are ambitious projects, and we are
uniquely positioned with the necessary global infrastructure,
cross-functional expertise and library connections to deliver this
valuable content to educators, students and researchers of 20th century
history and theatre studies around the world."

Jonathan Glasspool, Managing Director of Bloomsbury Academic said "We are
really looking forward to working with PCG to make these fabulous
resources available to as wide a market as possible."

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For media enquiries, please contact:
Michael Groth, Publishing Technology plc
Tel: +1 617 395-4089
Email: michael.groth@publishingtechnology.com

About PCG:

Publishers Communication Group, Inc., a division of Publishing Technology,
is a full-service marketing and sales consulting firm with locations in
Boston, Oxford, São Paulo, New Delhi and Beijing. PCG was established in
1990 as a resource for scholarly publishers to more effectively work with
the global library market. PCG offers international multi-lingual
telemarketing services, qualitative and quantitative marketing research,
customer services operations based in the UK, US, Brazil, India and China,
sales representation and strategic consulting.

Related Links:

Visit www.pcgplus.com, PCG+ blog at www.pcgplus.wordpress.com, or
follow on Twitter @pcgplus.

About Bloomsbury Publishing:

Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house with
companies in London, New York, Berlin and Sydney.  Bloomsbury publishes
fiction, nonfiction, children's and reference works and databases,
including the Harry Potter series.  Specializing in the humanities and
social sciences, Bloomsbury Academic publishes about 1,100 new titles each
year with a backlist of about 20,000 titles and a growing program of
digital services.  With authors that include many world-leading writers,
Nobel laureates and researchers in their fields, Bloomsbury Academic's
output includes journals, digital collections, textbooks, supplementary
course books, research monographs, reference works and professional books.

Visit www.bloomsbury.com, www.churchillarchive.com, and
www.dramaonlinelibrary.com.

Dani Freeman
Executive Account Director
Midas Public Relations
Midas House, 10 Old Court Place, London W8 4PL
T: 020 7361 7860 | Direct: 020 7361 7866
E: daniel.freeman@midaspr.co.uk

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