BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, U.S.A., July 21, 2006 - Eight publishers have recently added their journal content to MetaPress®, an electronic content management and hosting service. MetaPress provides sophisticated access control to publisher content with seamless integration of titles and subscribers in a secure, publisher-branded, online environment. Publishers that have recently selected MetaPress as their strategic partner for electronic content distribution include:

McFarland & Company Inc. Publishers is one of the leading publishers of scholarly and reference books in the United States, with nearly 3,100 titles published to date including more than 2,000 in print. In addition to two journals - North Korean Review and Journal of Information Ethics - McFarland publishes 290 new book titles each year for a worldwide market and is recognized for its serious works in a variety of fields, including the performing arts, sports and leisure, military history, popular culture, automotive history and more.

"We decided to go with MetaPress upon recommendation from another publisher who said the staff was very knowledgeable and helpful," said Rhonda Herman, executive vice president, McFarland & Company. "We knew that MetaPress provided the technology to meet our subscribers' needs, and we were very pleased that our journals will be accessed, reliably and professionally, under our company name."

Peter Lang is an international publishing group with offices in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the United States, Belgium and England. The Peter Lang group specializes in academic publications in the humanities and social sciences and publishes a range of academic titles including monographs, collected papers, conference proceedings, festschriften, doctoral theses, textbooks, yearbooks and journals. Peter Lang has much experience with direct marketing and distributes books worldwide through Peter Lang AG, Switzerland.

Stylus Publishing LLC, a distributor for independent publishers and non-government organizations, publishes books for teachers, administrators and policymakers with an interest in the exchange of ideas and theory and research that promote effective practice. Stylus Publishing also serves other audiences, including environmental policymakers, collectors of Asian and Japanese art, psychologists, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists among others.

Boston University, on behalf of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, publishes the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, a quarterly, international journal that provides information relevant to the recovery and rehabilitation of individuals with severe psychiatric disabilities. CPR also publishes books, articles, curricula, workbooks and multimedia that advance the role, scope and quality of services which facilitate the community readjustment of individuals with psychiatric disabilities.

ELT Press, founded in 1988, complements the journal ELT, offering book-length studies on turn-of-the-century British writers. ELT Press publishes works from a host of important British authors regarded as essential to the study of the Transition era and modern literary history who are often overlooked in other publications. ELT Press's 1880-1920 British Authors series continues to make available critical, biographical, bibliographical and primary works on Transition authors.

The National Catholic Bioethics Center conducts research, consultation, publishing and education to promote human dignity in health care and the life sciences. The Center publishes two journals, Ethics & Medics and The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, and at least one book annually on issues such as physician-assisted suicide, abortion, cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

Administrative Theory & Praxis is published by and with the support of the College of Public Affairs and Community Service and the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Administrative Theory & Praxis is a quarterly journal of dialogue in public administration theory that seeks to advance knowledge and stimulate new thought in public administration. Philosophia Africana, an international philosophy journal edited at DePaul University, publishes peer-reviewed academic philosophical works that explore the pluralistic experiences of Africa and the Black Diaspora from both universal and comparative points of view.

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