Atypon

CAMBRIDGE, MA and SANTA CLARA, CA – December 08, 2005 – The MIT Press announced today that it is partnering with Atypon to host the new MIT Press online journals publishing platform.

The MIT Press will be working with Atypon's Premium solution, a full service information platform for electronic publishing that is a cost effective solution for publishers of any size.

Atypon's Literatum software was designed to give publishers maximum flexibility and control of their content, business models, and users. Atypon provides solutions ranging from a cost effective, simple-to-use content hosting and delivery service to a set of sophisticated tools and custom solutions for hands-on management of online content. "At The MIT Press, we serve an audience of intelligent, increasingly busy readers who have more information to digest than ever before. We are confident that the decision to move to Atypon will allow our readers to access our wide range of journal content on a high-quality and well-developed web platform with great ease" said Rebecca McLeod, Journals Manager for The MIT Press. "We're pleased to have chosen Atypon as our partner."

Atypon Premium

Atypon Premium e-publishing solution offers publishers a complete platform that manages each step of the process from content production and linking to administration of content collections and licensing models through full control of a custom-designed, branded website for their users. Publishers use a sophisticated administration tool to gain a high level of hands-on administrative control of their online business and a customized, feature-rich web site to present their content.

Atypon is continuing to build on this platform with modules that allow publishers greater control over the content and appearance of their site, additional tools to efficiently mine usage data and create marketing and outreach programs.

Atypon Premium is geared towards publishers wishing to maximize the power of the Internet to build their online business, experiment with new business models and content configurations, customize their websites, and reach a wider audience.

"The MIT Press was looking for a partner that could provide them with cutting edge technology, a responsive and easy-to-use electronic hosting platform, and a team of solutions experts who understood the needs of their customers and could provide the highest levels of service and satisfaction" said Georgios Papadopoulos, Atypon's CEO. "Atypon offers a mature, and stable platform for all our publishing clients and we look forward to working with MIT Press for many years to come."

About Atypon

Since 1996, Atypon has focused on providing software and services to the information industry.

Atypon offers a suite of software and services for the information industry. Atypon has two electronic publishing services, Atypon Link (the former Extenza service) and Atypon Premium that together with other custom services provide services to over 60 publishers. These clients include major websites such as Blackwell-Synergy, Annual Reviews, and CrossRef as well as mid-sized commercial and not-for profit publishers. Atypon Link provides a fully managed low-cost e-publishing solution to a growing group of international publishers including Walter de Gruyter, the American Marketing Association, and Thomas Telford. Other Atypon services include PDFplus, which dynamically adds links to PDFs, and LINKplus, a full service linking solution for publishers.

The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with offices in New York and Oxford. For more information on Atypon, please visit http://www.atypon.com.

Media Contacts:
Lucy McBride
Marketing Communications Executive
Atypon Limited
Tel: +44 (0) 870 350 2032
lmcbride@atypon.com

About MIT Press

The MIT Press is a non-profit university press, and has been publishing journals for over 30 years. Currently, the Press publishes over 30 different journals with titles in computer science, neuroscience, economics, social science, art, architecture, design and music and performance studies. The MIT Press manages subscriptions for over 30,000 customers annually.

Media Contacts:
Rebecca McLeod
Journals Manager
The MIT Press
Tel: 617-258-0596
mcleod@mit.edu