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New Publisher for Population Council's Professional Journals

NEW YORK (29 September 2003) — The Population Council announced today that it has chosen Blackwell Publishing to publish the organization’s journals Population and Development Review and Studies in Family Planning. Ownership of these two publications will remain in the hands of the Population Council, an international nonprofit research organization. Full editorial independence will be maintained. The Council awarded the contract to Blackwell Publishing after a competitive bidding process. The journals’ editorial staffs determined that Blackwell offered a close fit with their objectives. Blackwell has extensive experience in working with scholarly journals, learned societies, and nonprofit organizations.

The arrangement will provide individual readers and institutional subscribers with improved electronic access to the journals. The number of readers who will have online access to the journals will increase significantly. Non-subscribers will be able to affordably download individual articles, a service not currently available. Blackwell’s online delivery system will also provide abstract, author, and reference links to and from a wide range of databases. Because Blackwell publishes more than 600 scholarly journals, it can offer a sophisticated cross-referencing program that enables researchers to search among a wide range of sources.

The Population Council will continue to make the journals available on a complimentary basis in both hard copy and electronic editions to qualified institutions and individuals in developing countries. Moreover, as a result of Blackwell’s collaborative arrangements with a variety of organizations, including the World Health Organization, many new developing-world institutions will receive the journals online free of charge. “We believe that the widened dissemination promised by this new publication arrangement will increase the journals’ value to the population and reproductive health fields,” said Ethel Churchill, director of the Population Council’s Publications Office.

About the Population Council
The Population Council, www.popcouncil.org, is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental research organization that seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Council conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research and helps build research capacities in developing countries. Established in 1952, the Council is governed by an international board of trustees. Its New York headquarters supports a global network of regional and country offices.

About Blackwell Publishing
Blackwell Publishing, www.blackwellpublishing.com, is the world’s leading, independent society publisher with offices in the UK, US, Japan, Denmark, Australia, Germany and France. Blackwell publishes over 670 journals in partnership with more than 550 academic and professional societies. This year alone, Blackwell will publish over 600 text and reference books across a wide range of academic and professional subjects.

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