Berkeley Electronic Press signs new consortium contracts

"The Berkeley Electronic Press has entered a three-year journal licensing agreement with the National Science and Technology Library, a nationwide consortium of five hundred Chinese academic institutions, research institutes, and government departments. The agreement, brokered by The Charlesworth Group, includes twelve bepress journals in STM fields, among them Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering, and International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. This contract represents bepress' first major countrywide agreement in Asia"