In October 2022 major UK distributor Turpin
went into administration. This affected many publishers, among which
Brill, Berghahn, Emerald and Liverpool University Press to name a few.
Some of the publishers distributed by Turpin moved their distribution
to Turpin’s sister company Orca/Marston. Others have taken the
distribution into their own hands or partnered with other distributors.
Complete list of former Turpin publishers:
Berghahn Books Ltd
Brill
International Labour Organization
Liverpool University Press
The O.E.C.D. (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
The Royal Society
White Horse Press
Callan Method Organisation
The Commonwealth Secretariat
Dunedin Academic Press
Emerald Group Publishing
Fiscal Publications
5M Publishing
ILM Publications
IWA Publishing
John Harper Publishing Ltd
SEN Press
Spiramus Publishing
World Trade Organization
Zophorus Books
Setting up these new arrangements has taken considerable time and has
put huge pressure on the operations of the new distributors, causing
delays of at least 4-6 weeks with distributors like Orca/Marston.
Publishers are also still struggling to get the stock released that is
still held at Turpin due to legal and administrative restrictions.
As a result, only now, nearly 5 months later, we and all other vendors
are receiving the first few print-on-demand books from Brill publishers.
Their offset-printed books will not be available until Summer.
We are in close contact with all affected publishers regarding the
status of your orders and will keep you updated. We are very sorry for
the inconvenience caused by these delays and thank you for your
understanding in this matter.
We would like to introduce to you the changes and improvements we have made:
Over 58 million publications
Our new database holds over 58 million publications from all corners of the
world. That is more than 52 million on our Erasmus Amsterdam website (
https://www.erasmusbooks.nl) and more than 6 million on our Erasmus Paris website (https://www.erasmus.fr).
Until now our websites featured a comprehensive database for
English,
French, German, Dutch, Spanish and
Italian language publications, but we now include recent
Danish, Swedish and
Norwegian publications as well.
The bibliographic quality of publications has also improved. When available,
we now show more descriptive data, classifications (such as BIC, Dewey and
Thema) and summaries (descriptions, table of contents and bibliographical
notes).
Up-to-date technologies have dramatically improved speed throughout our
website and will deliver you better search results, faster.
Quicksearch suggestions
Our
Quicksearch input will now show suggestions as you type,
making it easier to find what you are looking for. These suggestions can be
filtered by Title, Author, Publisher, Keywords, Torrossa (our e-book platform)
and NTS (Erasmus' curated selection). All from the Quicksearch input itself,
available anywhere on the website.
Aftersearch filters
Our Aftersearch filters have expanded to now include the possibility to filter
by:
Availability (Available, Forthcoming, Out of print, etc...),
Product type (Hardback, Paperback, Digital, etc...),
Years of publication,
Publisher,
Series,
Contributors,
Countries of publication,
Classification (List of available schemes)
All filters dynamically recalculate their totals, as you apply them. Allowing
for complicated deep dives such as 'Forthcoming hardbacks from India with
thema Architecture' or 'Available paperbacks from Spain by Pablo Picasso'.
Sorting by relevance
By default your search results will now be sorted by 'Relevance'. This
relevance is based on our curated New Title Service selection, year of
publication and on how many times your keywords occur in the bibliographical
record and in which places.
It is of course always possible to change the sorting to alphabetically by
title, author/editor, publisher or by ISBN or Publication date, ascending or
descending:
We hope the new database will give you a better experience using our websites.
If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to contact us at
erasmus@erasmusbooks.nl
