Our companies share a single vision: to provide the very best services, partnering libraries through evolutions in all areas of the scholarly communications industry.

Casalini Libri, Erasmus Antiquariaat en Boekhandel and @Cult pledge their continued commitment to libraries, accompanying traditional, core services with investment in new, flexible and sustainable ways of providing access to academic publishing from all over the world.

Leading providers of publications, bibliographic data and knowledge management solutions, together we focus on providing the best possible services to libraries, steered solely by our long-standing and close ties with the international library community and in line with their evolving needs.

Firmly rooted in our joint mission to disseminate European academic publishing to libraries around the world, to advocate for libraries and to create innovative tools that facilitate access to knowledge:

we continue to supply books and journals in print format, providing expert collection development support across all disciplines and tailoring resources to the library’s shelf-ready preferences.
we support libraries through all aspects of selecting, acquiring and accessing digital publications, to make collection development, discovery, and everything in between as simple and streamlined as possible, with flexible selection tools and acquisitions models tailored to each library’s individual requirements, including permanent access, single title purchasing and PDA models.
we maintain our commitment to timely and quality bibliographic data and to the development of new solutions for information management and knowledge sharing, supporting innovative, collaborative andsustainable approaches to cataloguing environments and knowledge sharing.

With over 150 years of collective experience, our well-established relations with publishers, knowledge of individual markets and constant contact with the territories we cover mean we are ideally placed and equipped to source any print publication, allowing libraries to consolidate orders for all titles with confidence, regardless of language, format and subject area.

Thanks to our very own digital library platform, which hosts content from over 580 academic publishers, we are able to negotiate on behalf of libraries, representing their voice with academic publishers, to ensure vast digital collections and a full range of services for academic libraries.

Driven by the determination to anticipate the changing needs of the market, we work side by side with the international library community to define and develop tools that ensure the integrity and authority of bibliographical data and to forward the practical implementation of BIBFRAME and linked open data for libraries.

We know that all libraries and all collections are unique, which is why we believe that libraries themselves are best placed to steer our activities, according to real-life requirements. Our common aim in this new eco-system of academic publishing is to continue to partner and facilitate libraries in sustaining and promoting access to scholarship for their patrons and serving new generations of the international research community.

Michele Casalini
Chief Executive of Casalini Libri

This update is part of our ongoing commitment to better serve our global community. Italian-speaking users can now easily navigate and access all of our content in their preferred language by selecting Italian from the language options. Benvenuti!

We’re glad to announce a new collaboration with Editis Group for the Torrossa platform. In the near future we will start adding eBooks from 72 French publishers, including prestigious publishers such as Dalloz, La Découverte, Perrin, Robert Laffont, CNRS éditions and First Édition

Oxford University Press (OUP) is closing its systems for “a number of weeks” from mid-March to mid-April, during which time the publisher will not be able to process sales orders or invoices, issues purchase orders, or respond as quickly to customer and supplier queries.

Shipments from OUP’s UK and US warehouses will also be disrupted during the same period and some purchase options on its e-commerce sites will also be offline.

The changes are happening as part of OUP’s efforts to modernise and streamline its back-office systems and processes with the introduction of a new SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, which it says will enable “consistent, standardised processes in areas such as procurement, inventory, manufacturing, supply chain, finance and customer service”. The majority of OUP’s digital services, platforms and products are unaffected by the changes.

A spokesperson told The Bookseller: “At OUP, we produce a wide range of products, including journals, monographs, reference works, music, textbooks and children’s books, and make these available across a range of languages, often in both print and digital formats.

“OUP is releasing a new enterprise resource planning system for both the UK and US to align our back-end systems and processes so that we can work as effectively as possible.

“To minimise the risk of any issues with our services after the ERP upgrade has happened, we are conducting a careful, controlled pause of our different systems, during a quieter time of the year, before moving to the new system.”

OUP said it “recognise[s] some customers may be impacted in the short-term" and said it has “updated them where necessary, including more specific updates since January”.

“We have also taken steps to help customers plan ahead, including supplying them with our bestselling titles for the shutdown period and working with wholesalers in both the US and UK to ensure stock and backlist titles will be available. Finally, we can confirm that our team will still be on hand to respond to any customer queries and provide support during the shutdown period.”

From the Bookseller: Mar 6, 2024 by Sian Bayley