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Russell Sage Foundation Signs with Atypon for New Open Access JournalSANTA CLARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Atypon®, a leading provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry, today announced that the Russell Sage Foundation has signed an agreement with Atypon for Literatum to power the recently announced open access, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. The Russell Sage Foundation chose the Literatum platform to manage and deliver their content and to provide valuable features to librarians and readers. "With its sophisticated, user-friendly administrative tools, Literatum provides us with the tools we need to launch our new journal," said Suzanne Nichols, Director of Publications for the Russell Sage Foundation. "We look forward to working with Literatum to expand the dissemination of RSF-funded research in the social science community." "We are excited to be supporting the Russell Sage Foundation s they introduce new online capabilities," said Jonathan Hevenstone, Senior VP of Business Development at Atypon. "The introduction of a new Open Access journal by the Russell Sage Foundation will open up new dialog opportunities for the social sciences." The new journal is intended to promote cross-disciplinary collaborations on timely topics of interest to social scientists and other academic researchers, policymakers, and the public at large. Each issue will be thematic in nature and will focus on a specific research question or area of interest. The introduction to each issue will provide an accessible, broad, and synthetic overview of the research question under consideration and the current thinking from various fields. RSF will be a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of original empirical research by both established and emerging scholars. The first issue is scheduled to be published in fall 2015. About Atypon Atypon delivers innovative solutions that revolutionize the way publishers do business. Literatum, Atypon's flagship SaaS (News - Alert) ePublishing platform, provides all of the functionality that professional and scholarly publishers need to compete in the digital world, including advanced search and information discovery, access control, e-commerce, advertising and business intelligence. RightSuite, Atypon's enterprise access and e-commerce solution, enables publishers and media organizations to monetize their digital content, experiment with new business models and optimize revenue streams. For more information, visit www.atypon.com. About the Russell Sage Foundation The Russell Sage Foundation is the principal American Foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences. Currently, the Foundation dedicates itself exclusively to strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences as a means of improving social policies. The Foundation is a research center for a select group of Visiting Scholars each year, a funding source for studies by scholars at other academic and research institutions, and an active member of the nation's social science community. The Foundation also publishes, under its own imprint, the books that derive from the work of its grantees and Visiting Scholars. For more information, visit www.russellsage.org.
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