2008 ANNUAL MEETING

Sponsors

Sapphire Level Sponsorship

Copyright Clearance Center

Copyright Clearance Center, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, creates innovative licensing solutions for the seamless sharing of knowledge.

Diamond Level Sponsorship

Partnering with a broad range of clients, including libraries and their patrons, research institutions, publishers, corporations and business communities, EBSCO Information Services is the world’s only full-service provider of information. Also known as the industry’s “e” agent, the Company offers a portfolio of services that spans the realm of print and electronic subscription access and management, research databases and more.

Platinum Level Sponsorship

COS

COS, a business unit of ProQuest, aggregates and publishes information vital to researchers and scholars. Its Author Resolver enriches publishing collections with on-demand information about publications’ authors.

SAGE Publications

SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of journals, books and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and sciences, and science, technology and medicine. SAGE Publications, has principal offices in Thousand Oaks, California, London, United Kingdom, and New Delhi, India.

Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell was formed in February 2007 as a result of the acquisition of Blackwell Publishing Ltd. by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and its merger with Wiley’s Scientific, Technical, and Medical business. Together, the companies have created a global publishing business with deep strength in every major academic and professional field. Wiley-Blackwell publishes approximately 1,400 scholarly peer-reviewed journals and an extensive collection of books with global appeal.

Gold Level Sponsorship

Chemical Abstracts Service

CAS, the global leader in chemical information, and a division of the American Chemical Society, provides the most information comprehensive databases of publicly disclosed research in chemistry and related sciences, including the world’s largest collection of substance information, the CAS REGISTRYSM. CAS makes this information available through SciFinder and STN, the best search and retrieval tools for scientists and information professionals.

EBSCO Publishing

EBSCO Publishing is the premier database aggregator, offering more than 200 full-text and secondary research databases powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic library resource.

EMpact Sales™

EMpact Sales ™ partners with publishers to broaden exposure for electronic products and content through active sales representation, and by offering promotional and marketing services.

Scopus

Covering the world’s research literature, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus is designed and developed with over 500 users and librarians internationally. Its unique database contains abstracts and references from 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers worldwide, ensuring broad interdisciplinary coverage.

Silver Level Sponsorship

Gale

Gale, part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses, creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are delivered online, in print and in microform products.

Massachusetts Medical Society

The Massachusetts Medical Society, the oldest continuously operating medical society in the United States, was established as a professional association of physicians by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in an Act of Incorporation, Chapter 15 of the Acts of 1781, just days after the Revolutionary War’s climactic Battle of Yorktown.

New England Journal of Medicine

Today, the Massachusetts Medical Society continues to advocate for patients and physicians. In recent years, the Society has assumed a leadership role in public health, health system reform, and the quality of health care and patient safety. With 18,000 members today, the Massachusetts Medical Society continues to serve the citizens and the physician community of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Medical Society publishes the New England Journal of Medicine and Journal Watch.

Meta Press

MetaPress is an innovative controlled-access content-management service that formats publishers’ printed products for easy online viewing and provides a customized, branded host system to manage them. MetaPress is the world’s largest primary-content host site and is a silent partner dedicated to supporting and enhancing their clients’ brands in the marketplace. Please contact Michael Margotta for more information at: 205-991-1176.

Bronze Level Sponsorship

American Psychological Association

The American Psychological Association located in Washington, DC has more than 148,000 members and works to advance psychology as a science, as a profession and as a means of promoting human welfare.

Aries Systems

Aries Systems’ innovative workflow solutions transform the way scholarly publishers bring high-value content to the world. Publish faster, publish smarter, with Aries Systems.

CrossRef

CrossRef is a membership association, founded and directed by publishers. Our mandate is to connect users to primary research content. We operate an extensive citation linking system. Our network today covers millions of articles from scholarly publishers.

Fry Communications, Inc.

Fry Communications, Inc. is a nationally recognized leader in composition, printing, and distribution services. State-of-the art technology, first-rate personnel, and a commitment to excellence are the winning ingredients for delivering products of the highest quality to the Association/Society publishing marketplace.

Inera, Inc.

Since 1992, Inera has supplied sophisticated solutions to the publishing industry. Inera’s eXtyles product suite provides integrated tools for Microsoft Word that automate editorial and XML production processes.

Publisher Promotion & Fulfillment

For more than 30 years, PPF has successfully partnered with publishers worldwide to provide customized subscription fulfillment and marketing services specific to scientific, technical, medical, and business publications. During these years, PPF has developed a reputation and expertise that is unequaled by other companies. Let our proven solutions for publisher success work for you!

Reprints Desk

Reprints Desk provides ePrint hosting services and reprint service bureaus to publishers. Affiliated Pools Press specializes in printing STM reprints, with no minimum quantity.

Rockefeller University Press

The Rockefeller University entered journal publishing in 1905 and joined the book publishing business in 1958, when Detlev Bronk, who headed the institution at that time, established The Rockefeller Institute Press. The focus of the book program, biomedical research, has reflected Rockefeller’s primary focus. Book topics have ranged from genetics, cell biology, and neuroscience, to history of science, biographies of researchers, and policy issues.

Systems Link International

Systems Link International is a multinational company with offices in Miami, São Paulo, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Santiago, México City and San Juan, being leader as a supplier of integrated information solutions for all Latin America and Caribbean. We specialize in providing academic, scientific and industrial content, via online databases and virtual libraries.These contents come from the most recognized publisher worldwide.