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The Hague - April 6, 2005. Today Peter Hendriks, President Sales and Marketing of Springer, and Wim van Drimmelen, Director General of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), signed an agreement on long-term digital archiving of the electronic publications of Springer.
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek will receive digital copies of all e-journals, e-books and reference works that are also available on the web platform of Springer, www.SpringerLink.com. The KB will further invest on long-term preservation and research in order to safeguard permanent access to these digital publications stored within the e-Depot including relevant bibliographical and technical metadata.
Springer is planning to send approximately 100,000 articles of more than 1,250 online journals annually as well as over 1.5 million articles from the Springer Online Archives, which represent the complete collection of Springer’s backvolumes. Additionally 2,000 e-books will be added to the e-Depot of the National Library of the Netherlands.
The KB will provide on site access to the e-publications to users that are granted access to the library collections in general. With this agreement Springer is able to provide its customers with a solid and secure global archiving solution for all electronic publications. For everybody involved in research and the communication of research results - authors, researchers, librarians and publishers alike - the agreement between the KB and Springer is yet another step forward in keeping ‘the records of science’ available in perpetuity.
Springer is one of the leading international scientific publishing companies and ranks second in the world in the sciences, technology and medicine (STM) sector. Its publications cover a wide range of subjects including biomedicine and the life sciences, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer sciences, and economics. Since the merger with the Dutch scientific publishing house Kluwer Academic Publishers in July 2004, 1,250 journals and more than 3,500 new books will be published by Springer world wide each year, 80 percent of which will be in English. Springer is part of the specialist publishing group Springer Science+Business Media (which owns 70 publishing companies in 18 countries throughout the world and employs some 5,000 people).
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) is the National Library of the Netherlands and is an autonomous administrative body financed by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The KB's mission statement is to provide universal access to the knowledge and culture of the past and present by providing high-quality services for research, study and cultural enrichment. Major tasks are preservation, management, documentation and accessibility of the national cultural heritage in written, printed and electronic form. As deposit library for Dutch publications the KB is responsible for the National Bibliography. As research library the KB aims at Dutch history, language and culture in a wide international context. In addition the KB also owns rare and special collections like medieval manuscripts and early printed books. The KB supports cooperation between libraries, musea and archives and furthermore participates as initiator or coordinator in national and international digitization and preservation activities.
For further information:
Springer
Sabine Schaub
Phone +49 (0)30-827-875282
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Johan Steenbakkers,
Director e-Strategy and Property Management
Phone +31 (0)70-3140-497
Web: www.kb.nl/e-depot