Swets
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| Industry | Publishing |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Adriaan Swets, Heinrich Zeitlinger |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Employees | 590[1] |
| Website | www.swetsinformationservices.com |
Royal Swets & Zeitlinger Holding NV is a group of information services companies operating worldwide as an interface between publishers and libraries.[2] Swets provides overall management and processing of subscriptions to scientific and professional printed and electronic publications for libraries.[3]
History
- Founded by Adriaan Swets & Heinrich Zeitlinger in 1901
- Swets bought out Zeitlinger after one year
- Swets remained 100% owned by the Swets family until the mid-nineties
- In 2007, Swets was sold to Gilde, a Dutch investment firm
- In 2008/09 Swets opened offices in India, New Zealand, Finland, Austria & Switzerland, China
- Also in 2008 Swets acquired Boekhandel E. Frencken BV
- In 2010 started comprehensive eBook catalog and procurement options supplying over 1 million eBooks in 2011
- In 2011, Swets acquired the publisher communication services company, Accucoms[4]
Partnerships
Swets partner products and services are:
- ALJC (by ALPSP)
- PressDisplay (by Newspaperdirect),
- e-Select[5]
- Scholarly Stats[6]
- Document Delivery Service
- Mendeley[7] Institutional Edition, powered by Swets.
- Discovery Services (by Deep Web Technologies)
See also
References
- ↑ "Annual Report 2011". Retrieved 2013-02-12.
- ↑ "Bloomberg report on Swetswise". Retrieved 2012-02-12.
- ↑ "Digest of News". Managing information (Association for Information Management) 11 (1-10). 2004.
- ↑ http://accucoms.com/news/swets-acquires-accucoms
- ↑ "E-Select Licensed Partners". Retrieved 2012-02-16.
- ↑ "Scholarly Stats Press Release". Retrieved 2012-02-16.
- ↑ "Mendeley Blog". Retrieved 2012-02-12.
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