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November 2008
The R2 Digital Library Adds Wiley to Publisher Roster Online Library from
Rittenhouse Book Distributors Offers New Content
King of Prussia PA, October 2008 – Rittenhouse Book Distributors,
Inc., a health sciences distribution company, announces the expansion of its R2
Digital Library service to include content from global publisher John Wiley &
Sons, Inc.'s Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly (STMS) business,
also known as Wiley-Blackwell. The R2 Digital Library currently delivers full
text eBook content from health sciences publishers to leading medical, academic
and institutional libraries.
"Wiley-Blackwell is a leading publisher for medical and professional content,"
said Meg White, R2 Digital Library Project Manager, "Rittenhouse is pleased to
be able to expand our longstanding partnership with Wiley to include digital
distribution services."
"We are extremely excited by this partnership. Our longstanding relationship
with Rittenhouse has been very successful on the print side and we look forward
to expanding it with our eBook offerings via the R2 Digital Library," said
Peter Balis, Director of Online Sales, Wiley.
The R2 Digital Library is a leading vertical platform, providing more than 900
full text titles in a single health sciences-specific, internet-based platform.
The application enables libraries to acquire and build digital book collections
quickly and easily. Other participating publishers include: McGraw-Hill,
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Oxford University Press, Thomson PDR, Delmar
Cengage Learning, Springer Business and Media, the American Society of Health
System Pharmacists, Jones & Bartlett, F.A. Davis, American Psychiatric Press,
Inc., the Pharmaceutical Press, the American Academy of Pediatrics and Pearson.
Selected titles from Wiley-Blackwell will be available via the R2 Digital
Library platform beginning in late 2008.
About Wiley
Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of
information and understanding for 200 years, helping people around the world
meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Wiley and its acquired
companies have published the works of more than 350 Nobel laureates in all
categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology/Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and
Peace. Its core businesses publish scientific, technical, medical, and
scholarly journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services;
professional/trade books, subscription products, training materials, and online
applications and websites; and educational materials for undergraduate and
graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley's global headquarters are
located in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia,
Canada, and Australia. The Company's Web site can be accessed at
www.wiley.com and its online visitors' forum can be accessed at
www.wiley.com/go/livinghistory. The Company is listed on the New York
Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb.
About 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. For more information on Wiley-Blackwell, please visit
www.blackwellpublishing.com or http://interscience.wiley.com.
July 2008
The R2 Digital Library Releases OpenAthens SP 1.1 Compliance
King of Prussia PA, July 29, 2008 – Rittenhouse Book
Distributors, Inc, a health sciences book distribution company, has been
certified to support access to its market-leading health sciences eBook
collection, the R2 Digital Library, using Eduserv's OpenAthens SP.
With OpenAthens, institutional subscribers to the R2 Digital Library can now
offer another level of access and integration to their users, while maintaining
the highest level of content and copyright security. In addition, OpenAthens
supports several assertion consumer services, including Shibboleth.
"The balance between open scholarly communication and the rights of copyright
holders is paramount in today's academic and research environments", said Meg
White, Executive Director of Technology Services at Rittenhouse, "OpenAthens
assists libraries in providing a wide array of content to their patrons,
securely and easily."
About Eduserv
Eduserv is a not-for-profit IT services group, with the mission to realize the
benefits of IT for learning and research. 4 million users worldwide gain access
to protected online resources using Athens or OpenAthens.
About the R2 Digital Library:
The R2 Digital Library is specialized, integrated eBook book platform that
features titles from leading publishers in medicine, nursing and allied health.
The service is available exclusively through Rittenhouse Book Distributors,
Inc., a privately held health sciences information and distribution services
company.
About Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc:
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc., a privately held corporation headquartered
in King of Prussia, PA, provides health sciences book distribution services to
libraries, bookstores, and industry since 1946. Web Address:
www.rittenhouse.com
May 2008
The Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library Announces Availability of Consumer Health
Titles
King of Prussia PA, May 13, 2008 – Rittenhouse Book Distributors,
Inc, a health sciences book distribution company, announces the availability of
consumer health titles on the company's eBook platform, the R2 Digital Library.
The titles compliment the more than 650 titles currently available in medicine,
nursing and allied health.
"Increasingly health sciences professionals and librarians are providing
educational materials to patients," said Wendy Bahnsen, Executive Director of
Library Services, "through our existing partnerships with leading health
science publishers Rittenhouse works with libraries to enable access to
accurate and reliable medical information for the lay person."
The R2 Digital Library offers consumer health titles from Jones & Bartlett
Publishers, G.W. Medical Publishing and McGraw-Hill Professional.
September 2007
Rittenhouse Announces Enhancement to the R2 Digital Library Platform
King of Prussia PA, September 2007 – Rittenhouse Book
Distributors, Inc, announces the addition of Course Links to the R2 Digital
Library. The R2 Digital Library is focused exclusively on digital book content
for health sciences and offers a unique business model enabling the purchase of
individual resources from multiple publishers on one platform.
Course Links enables Librarians to support course management and other
educational software through the integration of links to R2 Library resources.
Working in conjunction with their library, faculty can create links for
authenticated users to R2 Digital Library resources to support class
assignments, assigned reading and follow up for class.
"Course Links provides librarians with one more option to help support their
patrons' information needs." said Meg White, Director of Technology Services at
Rittenhouse. "The ability to allow integrated access to relevant content
enhances the librarian's ability to support the user's educational experience".
The R2 Digital Library Administrators can experience course links functionality
through the tool suite in the "ADMIN" tab. Rittenhouse offers a free 30-day
trial of the R2 Digital Library at www.r2library.com.
More information about The R2 Digital Library is available at
www.r2library.com.
About The R2 Digital Library
The R2 Digital Library is an electronic book platform that offers a unique
business model for digital content. It enables the purchase of individual
resources from multiple publishers, on one platform. The R2 Digital Library
offers access to more than 400 searchable health science titles from 25 health
science publishers, and offers one of the largest nursing and allied health
collections with more than 150 titles available.
About Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. is a privately held corporation.
Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, the company has provided health sciences
book distribution services to libraries, bookstores, and industry since 1946.
Web Address: www.rittenhouse.com.
September 2007
The Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library Announces Partnership with American
Pharmacists Association
King of Prussia PA, September 2007 – Rittenhouse Book
Distributors and American Pharmacists Association (APhA) have created a digital
partnership to provide selected APhA titles in the Rittenhouse R2 Digital
Library. The R2 Digital Library is one of the leading platforms providing
aggregated health sciences electronic books to libraries.
Several titles from APhA will be available via the R2 Digital Library. Some of
these titles include: Chiquette's Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy,
Cohen's Medication Errors 2/e and Boyle's Leadership and Advocacy for
Pharmacy.
"The American Pharmacists Association book publishing program is pleased to join
the other high-quality presses whose books are available digitally through R2
Library," said Julian Graubart, Senior Director, Books and Electronic Products,
American Pharmacists Association. "APhA expects good results from serving the
marketplace both through Rittenhouse's traditional services and now its R2
Library."
More information about The R2 Digital Library is available at
www.r2library.com.
About American Pharmacists Association (APhA)
The American Pharmacists Association, founded in 1852 as the American
Pharmaceutical Association, represents more than 60,000 practicing pharmacists,
pharmaceutical scientists, student pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and
others interested in advancing the profession. APhA, dedicated to helping all
pharmacists improve medication use and advance patient care, is the
first-established and largest association of pharmacists in the United States.
About The R2 Digital Library
The R2 Digital Library is an electronic book platform that offers a unique
business model for digital content. It enables the purchase of individual
resources from multiple publishers, on one platform. The R2 Digital Library
offers access to more than 400 searchable health science titles from 25 health
science publishers, and offers one of the largest nursing and allied health
collections with more than 150 titles available.
About Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. is a privately held corporation.
Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, the company has provided health sciences
book distribution services to libraries, bookstores, and industry since 1946.
Web Address: www.rittenhouse.com.
September 2007
The Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library Announces Partnership with Elsevier
King of Prussia PA, September 2007 – Rittenhouse Book
Distributors, Inc, a health sciences distribution company, and Elsevier
announces their digital partnership. Under the agreement, Rittenhouse will
distribute selected Science and Technology titles via its R2 Digital Library
platform.
"We are pleased to expand the list of R2 Digital Library partners with the
addition of Elsevier," said Meg White, Director of Technology Services, "the
availability of this leading publisher via the R2 Digital Library ensures that
libraries and their patrons have access to the highest quality electronic
resources available."
Several titles from Elsevier will be available via the R2 Digital Library. Some
of these titles include: Birren's Encyclopedia of Gerontology, Fink's Encyclopedia
of Stress, and Kaas's Evolution of Nervous Systems.
"The Elsevier Books division is pleased to be working with Rittenhouse and R2
Library to expand on our long time print distribution partnership into the
world of online reference books." said Tom Rosenthal, Senior Manager of
Electronic Product Sales. "This continues our policy of providing our customers
with a broad range of options for accessing our content."
More information about The R2 Digital Library is available at
www.r2library.com.
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical
information products and services. Working in partnership with the global
science and health communities, Elsevier's 7,000 employees in over 70 offices
worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year, in
addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as
ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/), MD Consult
(http://www.mdconsult.com/), Scopus (http://www.info.scopus.com/),
bibliographic databases, and online reference works. Elsevier
(http://www.elsevier.com/) is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group
plc (http://www.reedelsevier.com/), a world-leading publisher and information
provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and
business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible
information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a
means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam),
REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).
About The R2 Digital Library
The R2 Digital Library is an electronic book platform that offers a unique
business model for digital content. It enables the purchase of individual
resources from multiple publishers, on one platform. The R2 Digital Library
offers access to more than 400 searchable health science titles from 25 health
science publishers, and offers one of the largest nursing and allied health
collections with more than 150 titles available.
About Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. is a privately held corporation.
Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, the company has provided health sciences
book distribution services to libraries, bookstores, and industry since 1946.
Web Address: www.rittenhouse.com.
May 2007
The Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library Announces Partnership with Cambridge
University Press
King of Prussia PA, May 2007 – Rittenhouse Book Distributors,
Inc, a health sciences distribution company, and Cambridge University Press,
announces their digital partnership. Rittenhouse is proud to be partnering with
Cambridge University Press to offer their titles in the R2 Digital Library.
"The addition of Cambridge University Press helps the R2 Digital Library
fulfill its mission of delivering the highest quality resources to our library
partners and their patrons", said Meg White, Director of Technology Services,
"these titles are among the most prestigious and authoritative in the health
sciences".
Cambridge University Press will have several titles available including:
Melloni's Illustrated Review of Human Anatomy 3/e, Goodman's Medical
Writing: A Prescription for Clarity 3/e and Lubin's Medical Management
of the Surgical Patient 4/e.
More information about this service and the R2 Library is available on the
Rittenhouse Book Distributors web site at www.rittenhouse.com.
About Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the world's oldest continuing publisher. Cambridge
University Press has a long history of publishing the writings of leaders in
Science, Technology and Medicine, from Charles Darwin through several Nobel
Prize winners, Albert Einstein, and beyond. The Press also has a long tradition
of Medical publishing and stands out particularly in the areas of Psychiatry,
Neurology, Anesthesia and Emergency Medicine while aggressively growing
programs in Radiology, Dermatology, Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Medicine, and
Hematology/Oncology.
About The R2 Digital Library
The R2 Digital Library is an electronic book platform that offers a unique
business model for digital content. It enables the purchase of individual
resources from multiple publishers, on one platform. The R2 Digital Library
offers access to more than 400 searchable health science titles from 25 health
science publishers, and offers one of the largest nursing and allied health
collections with more than 150 titles available.
About Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. is a privately held corporation.
Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, the company has provided health sciences
book distribution services to libraries, bookstores, and industry since 1946.
Web Address: www.rittenhouse.com.
May 2007
The Rittenhouse's R2 Digital Library Announces Partnership with Humana Press
King of Prussia PA, May 2007 – Rittenhouse Book Distributors,
Inc, a health sciences distribution company, announces the addition of Humana
Press to the R2 Digital Library. "We are pleased to add Humana Press to our
list of R2 publishing partners", said Meg White, Director of Technology
Services, "the availability of titles from Humana Press greatly enhances the
caliber of resources accessible to libraries and their patrons via the R2
Digital Library".
Rittenhouse is pleased to be partnering with Humana Press, who will be offering
selected titles in the R2 Digital Library, including: Wartofsky's Thyroid
Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management, 2/e, Rosendorff's Essential
Cardiology: Principles and Practice 2/e, and Cheng's Essentials of
Anatomic Pathology 2/e.
The R2 Digital Library currently offers over 400 titles from more than 25
publishers in one single interface. Visit www.rittenhouse.com
to learn more.
About Humana Press
Humana Press is a major, worldwide publisher of books and journals in molecular
biology, neuroscience, cancer research, and medicine. Humana publishes
approximately 150 book titles per year, roughly half in Clinical Medicine and
half in Biomedicine / Life Sciences. Humana also has a distinguished backlist
of approximately 1,700 titles and a portfolio of 25 journals. Humana is perhaps
best known for its Methods series, including Methods in Molecular Biology™.
One of Humana's most successful products is the industry-leading online
protocol database, BioMedProtocols.
About The R2 Digital Library
The R2 Digital Library is an electronic book platform that offers a unique
business model for digital content. It enables the purchase of individual
resources from multiple publishers, on one platform. The R2 Digital Library
offers access to more than 400 searchable health science titles from 25 health
science publishers, and offers one of the largest nursing and allied health
collections with more than 150 titles available.
About Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. is a privately held corporation.
Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, the company has provided health sciences
book distribution services to libraries, bookstores, and industry since 1946.
Web Address: www.rittenhouse.com.
May 2007
The Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library Announces Partnership with Springer
Publishing
King of Prussia PA, May 2007 – Rittenhouse Book Distributors and
Springer Publishing have created a digital partnership to provide selected
Springer Publishing titles in the Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library. The R2
Library is one of the leading platforms providing aggregated health sciences
electronic books to libraries.
More than 40 titles from Springer Publishing will be available via the R2
Digital Library. Some of these titles include: Haber's Health Promotion and
Aging 4/e, Lashley's Emerging Infectious Disease 2/e and
Veenema's Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological
and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards.
"We are pleased to announce our partnership with Rittenhouse's R2 Library and
look forward to having our titles included in their digital collection," said
Ted Nardin, CEO and Publisher of Springer Publishing Company, LLC.
More information about the R2 Library is available on the Rittenhouse Book
Distributors web site at www.rittenhouse.com.
About Springer Publishing
With a 57 year history in publishing, Springer Publishing Company, LLC acquires,
develops, publishes, and markets books and journals in both print and digital
form in the fields of nursing, gerontology, long-term care, psychology, public
health, social work, rehabilitation, and medical education. Owned by Mannheim
Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of the Mannheim Trust, our mission is to bring
vital information to professionals, to assist them in updating and refining
their practice, and to help them provide excellent care and services to
patients and clients.
About The R2 Digital Library
The R2 Digital Library is an electronic book platform that offers a unique
business model for digital content. It enables the purchase of individual
resources from multiple publishers, on one platform. The R2 Digital Library
offers access to more than 400 searchable health science titles from 25 health
science publishers, and offers one of the largest nursing and allied health
collections with more than 150 titles available.
About Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. is a privately held corporation.
Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, the company has provided health sciences
book distribution services to libraries, bookstores, and industry since 1946.
Web Address: www.rittenhouse.com.
April 2007
Rittenhouse's R2 Digital Library Expands Publishers and Resources
King of Prussia PA, May 2007 – Rittenhouse Book Distributors,
Inc, a health sciences distribution company, announces the expansion of the R2
Digital Library with three new publishers. Rittenhouse is proud to be
partnering with Prentice Hall Health, The Pharmaceutical Press and Mountainside
MD Press to offer titles in the R2 Digital Library.
Prentice Hall Health is partnering with Rittenhouse to provide the following
content to the R2 Library: Smith's Clinical Nursing Skills 7/e, Kozier's Fundamentals
of Nursing 8/e, LeMone's Medical Surgical Nursing 4/e, and
Olsen's Medical Dosage Calculations 9/e. These titles will soon be
available on the R2 Digital Library.
The Pharmaceutical Press will have titles including: Lee's Adverse Drug Reaction
2/e, Rowe's Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients, and
Martindale's The Complete Drug Reference.
Mountainside MD Press is the publisher of Dr. Judy Stone's Conducting Clinical
Research 1/e. This title is now available on the R2 Digital Library. To
promote her title Dr. Stone will be joining Rittenhouse at MLA booth #521 to
sign copies of her book.
Other titles recently added to the R2 Digital Library now available for purchase
are: 2007 AORN Standards, Devita's Cancer: Principles and Practice of
Oncology 7/e, Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry
8/e. The R2 Digital Library now offers one of the leading collections
of oncology related titles available electronically. "Oncology and Palliative
Care are two critical subject areas. Professionals who treat oncology patients
rely on leading resources to ensure that they are providing the newest and most
effective treatment protocols and drugs available," said Meg White, Executive
Director of Technology Services, "The R2 Library offers not only one of the
most comprehensive collections available in this area, but also one of the most
authoritative.
About Prentice Hall Health
Prentice Hall Health, established in 1999, has become a name that signifies a
broad scope of authoritative resources for college students, instructors, and
professionals alike. Our goal is to foster life-long learning and success for
all health professionals. To learn more about what is available, we invite you
to browse through our catalog and online bookstore by visiting
www.prenhall.com/health
About The Pharmaceutical Press
Pharmaceutical Press has offices in both London and Chicago. Pharmaceutical
Press has been producing high-quality publications on pharmacy and related
disciplines for over 150 years. They publish a wide range of titles in print
and digital formats. To learn more visit: www.PharmPress.com
About Mountainside MD Press
Mountainside MD Press strives to provide accurate, thorough, readable guides to
clinical research for both medical professionals and consumers. To learn more
visit http://conductingclinicalresearch.com.
About The R2 Digital Library
The R2 Digital Library is an electronic book platform that offers a unique
business model for digital content. It enables the purchase of individual
resources from multiple publishers, on one platform. The R2 Digital Library
offers access to more than 400 searchable health science titles from 25 health
science publishers, and offers one of the largest nursing and allied health
collections with more than 150 titles available.
About Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. is a privately held corporation.
Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, the company has provided health sciences
book distribution services to libraries, bookstores, and industry since 1946.
Web Address: www.rittenhouse.com.
November 2006
Rittenhouse Announces Enhancements to the R2 Library Platform
King of Prussia PA, November 2006 – Rittenhouse Book
Distributors, Inc, announces the addition of My Images to the personalization
component, My R2, of the R2 Library. The R2 Library is focused exclusively on
digital book content for health sciences and offers a unique business model
enabling the purchase of individual resources from multiple publishers on one
platform.
My Images is the first of three new features offered to users on the R2
platform. Users can now save, organize and export images from all available R2
Library Resources. More than 68,000 images are available across the entire R2
Library platform, one of the single largest collections available on the
internet. My Images provides the user with easy access to often used or
referenced images and the capability to download images for use in
presentations and papers, with publisher’s copyright ensuring appropriate
attribution to all images.
“The addition of My Images brings additional functionality to one of the
most highly utilized content types on the R2 Library.” said Nicole Gallo
Executive Director Sales & Marketing, “This is one more feature of
the R2 Library that has been user tested and designed by librarians and their
patrons.”
Currently My R2 includes: My Bookmarks, Saved Searches and Search History. This
enables users to bookmark at the section level, save key searches and
automatically access the user’s last ten searches.
In addition to My Images, My References and My Courselinks will be available by
the end of the year. The My Reference component will allow users to save,
organize, and export citations to R2 content. My Courselinks will enable
administrators to save and export deep links to chapter and paragraph level
content with courseware applications. About Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. is a privately held corporation.
Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, the company has provided health sciences
book distribution services to libraries, bookstores, and industry since 1968.
Web Address: www.rittenhouse.com.
October 2006
R2 Library Announces Partnership with Doody Enterprises
Doody’s Core Title and Review Information Now Available to R2 Library
Clients
King of Prussia PA, October 2006 – Rittenhouse Book Distributors,
Inc, and Doody Enterprises have created a partnership to provide Doody Core
Title and Doody Review information to Rittenhouse’s R2 Library clients.
The R2 Library is one of the leading platforms providing aggregated health
sciences electronic books to libraries. Beginning in fall 2006, all R2 Library
clients will be able to access DCT and Doody Review Information when making
collection development decisions. The DCT and Review Information is compiled
and written by subject area experts and is designed specifically to support the
collection development process and will be complimentary on the R2 Library
platform.
“Partnering with Doody will provide our R2 customers with the data that
they need to make informed collection development decisions,” said Meg
White, Director of Technology Services at Rittenhouse. “In a time when
every dollar counts, we want to ensure that librarians feel knowledgeable about
their individual title selections”. More information about this service
and the R2 Library is available on the Rittenhouse Book Distributors web site
at www.rittenhouse.com.
About Doody Enterprises
Doody Enterprises was founded in 1993 with the mission to develop time-saving
information update products for health care professionals. From its inception,
Doody Enterprises has delivered its unique content using technology to
customize the content to reflect the individual interests of each subscriber.
Web Address: www.doody.com
About Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. is a privately held corporation.
Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, the company has provided health sciences
book distribution services to libraries, bookstores, and industry since 1968.
Web Address: www.rittenhouse.com
August 2006
R2 Library Expands Holdings to More Than 200 Resources
Online Library from Rittenhouse Book Distributors Offers New Content
King of Prussia PA, August 2006 – Rittenhouse Book Distributors,
Inc, a health sciences distribution company, announces the expansion of the R2
Library to more than 200 monographic resources from fifteen STM publishers.
Launched in May 2005, The R2 Library is focused exclusively on specialized
content for health sciences and offers a unique business model for digital
content enabling the purchase of individual resources from multiple publishers
on one platform.
The R2 Library boasts one of the single largest collections of digital
monographic content with 41 allied health titles, 51 nursing titles, and 113
medicine titles. The R2 Library has more than 50 new titles scheduled for
release in the 4th quarter of 2006 from leading publishing partners such as
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, McGraw-Hill, American Psychiatric Press,
Inc., Springer, Oxford University Press, and F.A. Davis bringing the total to
more than 250 monographic resources.
“The inclusion of these premiere resources expands the content available
via R2 and enhances Rittenhouse’s ability to deliver the aggregated
environment required by our clients and their patrons”, said Meg White,
R2 Library Project Manager, “Distribution via the R2 Library enables our
publishing partners to reach markets that are difficult for them to reach via
existing channels”.
Participating publishers include, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press, F. A. Davis Company, Thomson PDR, Thomson
Delmar, Springer, The American Society of Health System Pharmacists, American
Psychiatric Publishing, Jones & Bartlett, Slack, Karger, HCPro, The
American Academy of Pediatrics and The Association of periOperative Registered
Nurses.
About Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. is a privately held corporation.
Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, the company has provided health sciences
book distribution services to libraries, bookstores, and industry since 1968.
Web Address: www.rittenhouse.com
January 2005
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. Expands Offerings to Include Digital
Services
King of Prussia PA -- January 01, 2005 – Rittenhouse Book
Distributors, Inc, a health sciences book distribution company, announces the
expansion of its services to include digital warehousing, products, and
fulfillment. The R2 Library is a digital repository and technology
infrastructure designed to aggregate content from multiple publishers
electronically on the desktop for the company’s key customer groups.
“This is a natural progression of our traditional place in the
market”, said Clark Morrell, President, “Rittenhouse has a
fifty-five year history of providing book distribution services; health
sciences information is moving to a digital environment, and we are evolving.
Providing access to multiple publishers’ content in the R2 Library
application is an extension of what we do today.”
The R2 Library repository and technology infrastructure provides storage and
flexible access to health sciences content from multiple publishers. Launching
in spring 2005, the company’s initial offering will be an institutional
application designed for its hospital and academic Library customers.
Applications for retail partners and other key customer groups are in
development.
“The key to the R2 Library is the digital repository”, said Meg
White, Executive Director of Digital Business Development, “In the field
of health sciences, finding answers to questions rapidly and effectively is
paramount. Our content architecture and aggregation allows the R2 Library to
respond to this market demand”.
Market research has identified a gap between what is available in an aggregated,
functional, digital format and the needs of the marketplace. The R2 Library
will fill that gap providing the flexibility, features and content desired.
Initial participating publishers include, McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press,
Thomson PDR, Thomson Delmar Learning, and Springer, Inc.
“Rittenhouse is dedicated to leadership in the area of health
sciences,” continued Morrell, “We are committed to this initiative
as the next step in ensuring that we continue to meet the needs of our
customers and our publishing partners.” In addition to full text
monographic content for medicine, nursing and allied health, the R2 Library
will include a robust suite of administrative and collection development tools
in a user-friendly interface.
About Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc:
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc., is privately held. Headquartered in King
of Prussia, PA, the company has provided health sciences book distribution
services to libraries, bookstores, and industry since 1968.
CONTACT RITTENHOUSE:
Nicole Gallo
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc.
800-345-6425, ext. 600
800-223-7488 fax
www.rittenhouse.com
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