BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, U.S.A., Aug. 15, 2006 - Eight publishers have recently selected MetaPress^® as their strategic partner for electronic content distribution. Publishers who have added their journal content to MetaPress, continuing the dramatic growth of the industry's largest primary host of scholarly content, include:

The University of Toronto Press, founded in 1901, is Canada's oldest and largest scholarly press and one of the largest university presses in North America. Annually, the University of Toronto Press publishes 35 journals, releases approximately 140 new books and maintains a backlist of more than 1,000 titles in print.

"After a fairly lengthy search, we decided that MetaPress was the best content hosting option," said Anne Marie Corrigan, vice president of journals, the University of Toronto Press. "We evaluated a number of hosting platforms along a number of criteria. We looked at price, but we also looked at fit with our journals, the features of the MetaPress site, the ease of report generation, the robustness of the MetaPress system, the stability of the company and the MetaPress reputation in the publishing community. Most importantly, we spoke to existing clients about their experience hosting their journals with MetaPress. MetaPress was the best all-around platform for us."

Henry Stewart Publications is a leading international publisher of professional and academic journals. Journals from Henry Stewart Publications provide a forum for the publication of articles, papers and case studies that combine real issues affecting practitioners with the high intellectual standards demanded by academics. Subject areas include management, finance, the care sector and life sciences.

"We chose MetaPress because of the technical expertise, quality of service and value we believe it can offer us and our customers," said Daryn Moody, managing director, Henry Stewart Publications. "We look forward to working with MetaPress as we launch more journals from Henry Stewart Publications online."

The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) is the national professional society of pharmacists in the United States. APhA represents the third largest health profession, composed of more than 200,000 pharmacy practitioners, scientists and student pharmacists. APhA publishes periodicals such as the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, the timely Pharmacy Today newspaper and the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, recognized internationally as the monthly journal reporting the latest state-of-the-art research.

Left Coast Press Inc. is a publisher of academic and professional materials in the humanities, social sciences and related disciplines. The press publishes for scholars and students in academic settings, professionals in cultural institutions and informed readers in the wider world. Left Coast produces a wide range of products in a limited number of fields to meet as many informational needs in the select disciplines as possible.

The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition supports and advances efforts to improve student learning and transitions into and through higher education. The center achieves this mission through the convening of conferences, teleconferences, institutes and workshops; publishing monographs, a peer-reviewed journal, a newsletter and other resources; generating and supporting research and scholarship; and administering a Web site and electronic listservs. www.sc.edu/fye.

Oceania Publications is a department within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney. The original interest of Oceania Publications was the social and cultural anthropology of Australia and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Current publications include Archaeology in Oceania and a monograph series, Oceania Monographs. www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/oceania.

The Society of Biblical Literature publishes books with a scholarly focus as well as works intended to convey biblical scholarship to wider audiences. The Society fosters the professional development of biblical scholars by creating venues for publication, enhancing editorial skills and providing critical responses to manuscripts submitted for publication. In addition to offering books of scholarly excellence and general interest, the Society publishes the Journal of Biblical Literature, the flagship journal of the field.

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press was partly responsible for the founding and flourishing of Latino academic publishing in the United States. Since 1969, it has published hundreds of books and periodicals on the experiences of Chicanos (Mexican Americans). The mainstay of the press is Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, biannual journal that is the premier journal in its field.

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