News Release

IOS Press China Web site launched

Business Announcement

IOS Press

Amsterdam, The Netherlands/Beijing, China, March 15, 2009 – IOS Press today launched its China mirror website www.iospress.cn. The hosting server located in China is connected to both China Education and Research Network (CERNET) and public network. For customers from over 2000 universities in China this is especially beneficial as they can will have fast 24/7 connection to the website for full information of IOS Press publications without paying 'oversea site surfing fee' which they have to pay now. The China mirror website of IOS Press will be promptly synchronized with its original website in Europe.

Popke Huizinga, Vice Director of IOS Press says: 'During the recent years we continuously tried to find a solution to have our website better accessible in China, a country where we see a significant increase of demand and usage of high level scientific publications. Thanks to an excellent assistance of Inspirees, who set up the infrastructure and helped us with the technical issues, we can now offer the Chinese Academic community a much better service. Boudewijn Heeren, Managing Director of Inspirees says: 'IOS Press is one of our important client publishers with a clear vision for its China business. We realize it is essential nowadays to constantly deliver the cost-effective solutions and value-added services to our publishers in order to help them achieve success in China. Inspirees has been proving itself to be a reliable and competent marketing partner for our clients who have ambition to grow into Chinese market'

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About IOS Press

IOS Press is one of the leading STM publishers, which publishes about 90 international journals and approximately 120 book titles a year, ranging from computer sciences and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences. Commencing its publishing activities in 1987, IOS Press serves a variety of scientific and medical communities in all parts of the world. IOS Press is a rapidly-growing publishing company that embraces new technologies for the dissemination of information. All journals are available online and an online book platform has been launched in the first half of 2006. Following its founding, IOS Press established several co-publishing initiatives. Its most recent expansion is the acquisition of Delft University Press at the end of 2005. IOS Press also maintains offices in the Washington, DC area, Berlin and a co-publishing relationship with Ohmsha, Ltd (Tokyo). More information about IOS Press can be found at www.iospress.cn

About Inspirees

With office in Netherlands and Beijing, China, Inspirees provides tailor-made consulting, marketing and distribution services for our client publishers who are associated with European Chinese Publisher Promotion Center (ECPPC), a unique platform established by Inspirees to facilitate the interactions between European and Chinese publishing industry. ECPPC currently has about 15 member publishers. More information about ECPPC and Inspirees can be found at www.ecppc.com and www.inspirees.com


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