From: Kimberly Steinle <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 14:04:29 +0000

*For immediate release*

February 9, 2021



*For more information, contact:*

Allison Belan

Director for Strategic Innovation and Services

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*Duke University Press now offering journal publishing services to
nonprofit scholarly publishers*



Duke University Press is pleased to partner with nonprofit scholarly
journal publishers and societies to

provide journal services including subscription management, fulfillment,
hosting, and institutional

marketing and sales in a collaboration called the Scholarly Publishing
Collective (SPC).



Beginning in 2021, the SPC will provide subscription management and
fulfillment services, in partnership

with Longleaf Services, to Cornell University Press, Texas Tech University
Press, and the University of

North Carolina Press. The SPC online content platform will launch in 2022,
hosting journals and fulfilling

digital access on behalf of Michigan State University Press, Penn State
University Press, the Society of

Biblical Literature, and the University of Illinois Press.



“Finding a powerful hosting platform for our eighty scholarly journals, as
well as securing the expert sales

and marketing services of the SPC, will transport our journals to new
levels of impact,” said Patrick

Alexander, director of Penn State University Press. “We’re thrilled about
offering enhanced services to our

societies, journal editors, and libraries, and we are eager to work with
colleagues at Duke University Press,

one of the most talented teams in university press publishing.”



Through the SPC, publishers will have access to resources that would
otherwise be cost-prohibitive, such

as a best-in-class web platform, proven customer relations and library
relations teams, and a network of

global sales agents with insight into university press content.



“We are honored to be working with this prestigious group of publishers,”
said Duke University Press

director Dean Smith. “The SPC gives us an opportunity to support a healthy
ecosystem for nonprofit,

mission-driven publishing and to help ensure that these publications and
organizations remain vital to the

communities they serve.”



Duke University Press is a nonprofit scholarly publisher with a focus on
the humanities, the social

sciences, and mathematics. The Press publishes approximately 140 books
annually and more than 50

journals, as well as offering several electronic collections and
open-access publishing initiatives.



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