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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Bold;color:black">For immediate release<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">February 9, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Bold;color:black">For more information, contact:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">Allison Belan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">Director for Strategic Innovation and Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:#1155CD"><a href="mailto:allison.belan@duke.edu">allison.belan@duke.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Bold;color:black">Duke University Press now offering journal publishing services to nonprofit scholarly publishers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">Duke University Press is pleased to partner with nonprofit scholarly journal publishers and societies to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">provide journal services including subscription management, fulfillment, hosting, and institutional<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">marketing and sales in a collaboration called the Scholarly Publishing Collective (SPC).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">Beginning in 2021, the SPC will provide subscription management and fulfillment services, in partnership<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">with Longleaf Services, to Cornell University Press, Texas Tech University Press, and the University of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">North Carolina Press. The SPC online content platform will launch in 2022, hosting journals and fulfilling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">digital access on behalf of Michigan State University Press, Penn State University Press, the Society of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">Biblical Literature, and the University of Illinois Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">“Finding a powerful hosting platform for our eighty scholarly journals, as well as securing the expert sales<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">and marketing services of the SPC, will transport our journals to new levels of impact,” said Patrick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">Alexander, director of Penn State University Press. “We’re thrilled about offering enhanced services to our<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">societies, journal editors, and libraries, and we are eager to work with colleagues at Duke University Press,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">one of the most talented teams in university press publishing.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">Through the SPC, publishers will have access to resources that would otherwise be cost-prohibitive, such<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">as a best-in-class web platform, proven customer relations and library relations teams, and a network of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">global sales agents with insight into university press content.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">“We are honored to be working with this prestigious group of publishers,” said Duke University Press<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">director Dean Smith. “The SPC gives us an opportunity to support a healthy ecosystem for nonprofit,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">mission-driven publishing and to help ensure that these publications and organizations remain vital to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">communities they serve.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">Duke University Press is a nonprofit scholarly publisher with a focus on the humanities, the social<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">sciences, and mathematics. The Press publishes approximately 140 books annually and more than 50<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto-Regular;color:black">journals, as well as offering several electronic collections and open-access publishing initiatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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