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Duluth, GA —August 19, 2013

Equinox Software is proud to announce the signing of a new hosting and support agreement with the PaILS SPARK Consortium. Equinox will oversee the migration of SPARK’s current Evergreen installation, currently hosted by an organization within the state, to the new Equinox hosted environment. Equinox will also provide ongoing system administration, top tier technical support, and staff training services to the consortium. They are expected to go live in early September.

SPARK currently has 30 member library systems across Pennsylvania with more expected to join during 2013. PaILS was founded in 2011 as part of a collaborative effort toward a state wide resource sharing system under the leadership of the Pennsylvania Office of Commonwealth Libraries

Lew Mauer, Executive Director for PaILS, says, “From observations of Equinox’s authoritative participation in the 2013 Evergreen conference through their on-target response to PaILS’s RFP and now in the proactive and responsive approach of their migration team, Equinox has demonstrated the knowledge, skills and quality of work to win our complete confidence.”

Equinox Education Specialist, Erica Rohlfs, says, “It was a pleasure meeting and working with Lew, Lugene, Scott and several Pennsylvania public librarians. I was excited to have the opportunity to show them the wonderful new features that have been developed since version 2.1.”

About Equinox Software, Inc.

Founded in 2007 by the original Evergreen developers, Equinox remains deeply committed to being an active and enthusiastic voice in the open source community. Equinox's unparalleled depth of knowledge regarding libraries and library data is reflected in our services which include implementation, development, support, hosting, and educational services for both Evergreen and Koha software.
For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com

About Evergreen

Evergreen is an award-winning ILS developed with the intent of providing an open source product able to meet the diverse needs of consortia and high transaction public libraries. However, it has proven to be equally successful in smaller installations including special and academic libraries. Today, almost 1200 libraries across the US and Canada are using Evergreen including NC Cardinal, SC Lends, and B.C Sitka.

For more information about Evergreen, including a list of all known Evergreen installations, see http://evergreen-ils.org.

Press contact: Corinne Hall, corinne@esilibrary.com, 770-709-5571

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 19 August 2013

Brill extends Brill Open, its Open Access model, to include books.

As a major publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Biology and International Law, Brill is committed to enhancing access to academic content in any sustainable way. Since its academic book publications are a cornerstone of the program, it is extending Brill Open to include monographs and edited volumes.

Brill Open offers authors the choice to make their research freely accessible online in exchange for a Publication Charge. Brill Open is made available to authors only upon acceptance of their manuscript for publication. This requires a positive outcome of the peer review process and Brill’s editorial decision making. Titles published in Brill Open undergo the same rigorous peer review and uphold the same high-quality publication standards that Brill is known for. Brill Open is a sustainable, high-quality and accessible mode of publication.

Brill Open is available for books accepted for publication under Brill and its imprints. Authors retain copyright of their work in exchange for a Book Publication Charge (BPC). Upon receipt of the BPC, the title will be made freely accessible on Brill’s Online Books and Journals platform under a Creative Commons license: CC-BY or CC-BY-NC. The type of license determines the applicable rights and the level of the Book Publication Charge (BPC). For an overview of the current BPCs see: www.brill.com/brillopen.

All Brill Open book titles are listed in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), of which Brill is a proud sponsor, and are available through all Brill’s regular trade channels.

Brill believes in sustainable models that enhance the quality and dissemination of academic content. For this reason Brill is participating in a number of Open Access initiatives, among others the OAPEN pilot study into the effects of Open Access on books in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

For more information on Brill Open or open access inquiries, go to: www.brill.com/brillopen or contact brillopen@brill.com.

For more information on this Media Alert contact Mr. Sam Bruinsma, Vice President Business Development, bruinsma@brill.com or +31-(0)71 5353 517.

About Brill
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in 20 main subject areas, including Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, and International Law, among others. With offices in Leiden and Boston, Brill today publishes almost 200 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year, available in both print and electronic form. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please visit www.brill.com.