With apologies for cross-posting.

1 November 2004

Today, Ian Bannerman, Managing Director - Journals, Taylor & Francis,
and Wim van Drimmelen, Director General of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
(KB), the National Library of the Netherlands, signed an agreement on
long-term digital archiving of all electronic journals of the Taylor &
Francis Group. Under the terms of this agreement the Koninklijke
Bibliotheek will receive digital copies of all journals made available
on the online platform of Taylor & Francis
(http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk) which currently contains over
350,000 articles in over 1,000 academic journals.

"Taylor & Francis has been publishing journals for over 200 years," says
Ian Bannerman. "This agreement with the Koninklijke Bibliotheek is an
important part of our commitment to safeguard scholarly information for
future generations."

The KB will provide on site access to the journals on a current basis to
all who come to the library and are permitted access to the library's
collections. The agreement covers new publications as well as digitized
backfiles. In addition, should there be a catastrophic disaster such
that the online platform of Taylor and Francis is inoperable for a long
period of time, the KB would be part of the interim service system.

For further information please contact:

Taylor & Francis Group
Ashleigh Bell, Journals Sales Manager
Taylor & Francis Group
4 Park Square
Milton Park
Abingdon OX14 4RN
UK
Tel: + 44 (0)207 017 6350
Email: ashleigh.bell@tandf.co.uk
Web: www.tandf.co.uk/journals

Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Director Information Technology and Facility Management PO Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
Tel +31 70 3140644
Fax + 31 703140651
E-mail: johan.steenbakkers@kb.nl
Web: www.kb.nl

Taylor & Francis Group is the Academic Division of T&F Informa plc