News Release

Accucoms and IOS Press cooperation to provide better service to North American market

Business Announcement

IOS Press

As of the beginning of this year, Accucoms, a leading provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, and IOS Press have started working together to better service the North American library market. Accucoms represents IOS Press for the North American journal sales and offers customer support services. With this cooperation, IOS Press can now provide better service to its customers.

Mr. Popke Huizinga, Deputy Director of IOS Press: “I have known and worked with the Accucoms senior management team for many years and know them to be dedicated and highly qualified people. The way Accucoms has grown over the last few years is a testament to their commitment to their customers and their knowledge of the needs of publishers. We wanted to work with an organisation that could be dynamic and proactive. We are looking forward to working with the newly created US Accucoms office and we are confident that the team there will both serve our existing journal customers and increase our business in that part of the world.”

“We have worked with IOS Press on many marketing campaigns over the years and have a great understanding of their business. IOS Press is a highly forward thinking publisher with an extensive journals’ list and a large customer base. We are very excited and look forward to supporting their current customers and growing their subscriber base in this important region,” said Pinar Erzin, Managing Director of Accucoms.

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About Accucoms

Accucoms BV (www.accucoms.com) is an independent company providing specialist sales and marketing services for scholarly and society publishers worldwide. Based in The Netherlands, and in the US, Accucoms provides cost-effective and efficient inbound and outbound telemarketing, sales support and customer service.

About IOS Press

For over 20 years IOS Press (www.iospress.nl) has been servicing a variety of scientific and medical communities in all parts of the world. Publishing some 90 international journals and approximately 100 book titles a year, ranging from computer sciences and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences, 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 was 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).


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