Developments in Electronic Publishing
Keith Courtney, Director, Taylor and Francis
Developments in Electronic Publishing
Taylor & Francis Group
1798
Richard Taylor launched ‘Philosophical Magazine’1852 William Francis, a chemist, joined Taylor
1880 Printer to Royal Society & Linnean Society
1890 Pioneered abstracting journals, launched ‘Science Abstracts’
1936 Established as private limited company, academics as shareholders and directors
1982 Established US office in New York
1990 Ceased all printing activities
1995 Acquired Lawrence Erlbaum UK Ltd and established new imprint, Psychology Press
1998 Publishing 150 journals (66 online) and 600 books per annum from UK offices in London, Brighton, and Basingstoke and overseas offices in Philadelphia, Singapore and Sydney
Developments in Electronic Publishing
Developments in Electronic Publishing
Developments in Electronic Publishing
The key issues
The discussion concerned the challenges faced by Publishers in the transition from traditional print on paper to online access, and in particular developing and investing in the technical infrastructure at a time when the market economy is in decline.
Taylor & Francis has taken a long term approach and invested in the Catchword ‘RealPage’ system as their delivery platform. ‘RealPage’ is considered to be as fast a way to access journals online as any other system currently available. It allows for real time browsing and full-text searching.
The discussion also considered the special arrangements for Psychology Press online journals which gives free access to current print subscribers whilst allowing subscribers the opportunity to purchase individual articles from other journals at a concessionery rate .
The special features of the system and in particular the ‘linking’ of references to external databases such as Medline and the plans to extend this feature to other databases was also discussed.
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