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RSC Publishing announces new partnership for South Africa and Botswana.
RSC Publishing is the award-winning publishing division of the Royal Society of
Chemistry and provides a broad range of resources for the scientific community
including books/eBooks, databases, journals and magazines. In recent years, RSC
Publishing has seen a significant increase in international content submissions
and subscriptions. Stephen Hawthorne, RSC Sales Director says, “Working with
WWIS gives us the opportunity to work more closely with our customers in South
Africa and Botswana and offer them a more valued customer service. We’ve seen
over 50% growth in published articles in 2011 compared to 2010, a large
proportion of it coming from the international market place and want to build on
the growth we are seeing in South Africa.”
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NewsBank, Inc. & Readex Appoint Worldwide Information Services as
Exclusive Representative in South Africa
NewsBank’s Access World News, the world’s largest collection of news and
newspaper content, is used for research in academic and public libraries around
the globe. This exclusive agreement with Newsbank, Inc & Readex, Inc. provides
WWIS to effectively become the custodian of all the information they have to
offer and it will be the role of WWIS to create an awareness of the unique
products of Newsbank, Inc & Readex, Inc. in Southern Africa. "WWIS brings an
unparalleled level of service and support to academic, public and corporate
libraries in South Africa" says Tim Russell, Vice President of International
Markets. "And given the strong interest and enthusiasm for our research
collections across the African continent, especially World Newspaper Archive:
African Newspapers, 1800-1992, WWIS will offer excellent local support and
knowledge. We are delighted to be working with WWIS to make more content from
Africa and around the world available for scholarly research.”
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WWIS: David triumphs Goliath in subscription services.
The origin of WWIS is Universitas, a well-respected and successful South African
subscription agency founded 1953. In 1991, the corporate and government
operations of Universitas were acquired by Mast Commercial Operations, and
renamed Mast Publications. A mere five years later, in 1996, Mast was bought by
the JSE-listed AdvTech Group as part of its expansion into publishing. In early
2006, the current WWIS management team bought out Mast from the AdvTech Group,
renaming and restructuring the company into WWIS, reflecting a new, more focused
strategic direction for the company.
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Thomson Reuters appoints WWIS as agent of the year 2010
During the annual sales meeting at Thomson Reuters at the UK Online, WWIS
received the award as AGENT OF THE YEAR 2010. This was a result of hard work and
dedication from both WWIS & Thomson Reuters.
Associations and interest groups
LIASA
The Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) is a professional non-profit organization uniting and representing all institutions and people working in libraries and information services in South Africa.
SAOUG
The South African Online User Group provides a forum for the exchange of information on current developments, applications and opportunities in the expanding field of online information in the broadest sense.
SLIS
The Special Libraries & Information Services Group is a vibrant network of people involved in the provision of information services within specific subject fields.
OSALL
The Organisation of South African Law Libraries is the national law library organisation of South Africa.
SANHIP
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL HEALTH INFORMATION PARTNERSHIP is a loose community of academic health science and medical librarians in South Africa, who purchase electronic material for their collections. Contact: Dr Glenda Myers, Witwatersrand Health Sciences Library,
glenda.myers@wits.ac.za
