ALPSP adds weight of the Law to AJLC collection

A law journals package has been added to the range of subscription packages available from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Learned Journals Collection. ALPSP announced the new package alongside news that five new publishers are joining the scheme.

The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection (ALJC) provides small journal publishers with the opportunity to market their titles to consortia and library services as a single collection. AJLC includes collections on Arts, humanities & social sciences, Medicine & life science, Science & technology and now Law.

"The introduction of the new Law package will make the collection even more useful and attractive to libraries," said Sally Morris, ALPSP chief executive. All titles within ALJC are sold under a single licence by SwetsWise Information Services.

Morris announced that five new publishers have joined the ALJC programme, including Dutch humanities specialists Brill Academic Publishers, health journal publishers Gunther Eysenbach, the Edinburgh University Press, politics publisher The Policy Press and Whiting and Birch, the social sciences publisher.

These new deals bring 125 new titles onto the ALJC offering from 47 publishers.

Subscription agents Swets Information Services manages ALJC on behalf of ALPSP, providing library customers with online access to full-text journal articles. ALPSP is the international trade association for not-for-profit publishers.

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