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
An initial collection from Brepols international academic publisher includes all e-books published between 2017 and 2023, now available for purchase through the Torrossa Digital Library and Bookstore.
Torrossa and Brepols are pleased to announce their new collaboration which brings many of the publisher’s most recent publications to the Torrossa Digital Library and Bookstore. The e-books are available both for institutional purchase by libraries and research institutes, and for purchase by individuals for personal use.
Over 800 e-books have already been added to the Torrossa catalogue, all published between 2017 and 2023 and covering a range of subjects, from linguistics and literature to history, theology and social sciences. Further additions will be made to the catalogue in the future, as new publications are released in digital format.
“We are delighted to welcome Brepols to Torrossa”, stated Ludovic Lautussier, Director of Digital Sales. “Their catalogue offers a wealth of outstanding academic publications which we are confident will be enthusiastically received by subscribing institutions and indivudual users alike.”
An international academic publisher founded in 1796, Brepols is committed to producing high-quality, distinguished publications that will have a lasting scholarly impact. An independent firm, it plays an active role in the scholarly community, running its own research centre in Turnhout, Belgium. It publishes in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of source works.
For further information contact info@torrossa.com.
Erasmus Antiquariaat en Boekhandel is delighted to announce that its merger with Houtschild Internationale Boekhandel will come into effect on 1st June 2023. The combined company, under the leadership of current Managing Director, Dirk Raes, will continue to operate under the name Erasmus Antiquariaat en Boekhandel BV, with headquarters in Amsterdam.
The union of the two companies brings together their long-established expertise in academic book supply, in order to reinforce their strengths, reaffirm the range of services on offer, and remain competitive in an increasingly complex industry. Houtschild customers, while maintaining their existing customer service contacts, will now have the option to benefit from additional services, such as Erasmus' New Title Information, covering forthcoming academic titles in a wide range of subjects from the Benelux, France, Scandinavia, Germany, the UK and the USA, and skill in selecting titles for supply on approval plan.
"We are delighted to welcome on board our Houtschild colleagues and excited about the opportunities our fusion presents", stated Managing Director, Dirk Raes. "We are confident that the merger will enable us to further increase our efficiency and allow us to provide the best possible services to our customers."
Founded in Amsterdam in 1934, Erasmus Antiquariaat en Boekhandel has since become a preeminent name in the international book trade, specializing in the areas of art and art history, and providing a comprehensive service to university, research and specialist libraries. Its subsidiary in Paris, Librairie Erasmus, founded in 1990, guarantees efficient delivery of French publications.
Since its foundation in the Netherlands in 1974, Houtschild International Booksellers has made a name for itself as an outstanding supplier of academic books and journals from all countries, in all languages, specialising in the supply of English and foreign-language European publications to academic, corporate and government libraries.
For further information on the merger and what it means for your library, contact your customer services representative or write to us at erasmus@erasmusbooks.nl.
What is the official, registered name and address of the merged company?
Erasmus Antiquariaat en Boekhandel BV
Veemarkt 207
1019CJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-20-535 34 33
Fax: +31-20-620 67 99
E-mail:
erasmus@erasmusbooks.nl
Chamber of Commerce: 33044879 (Kamer van Koophandel Amsterdam)
VAT number: NL007025117B01
EORI number: NL007025117
For Houtschild customers:
How long will the Houtschild bank accounts remain open?
What happens with my outstanding orders?
How to order books?
Where should returns be sent to?
I have accounts both with Houtschild and Erasmus. What will happen to my accounts?
How to reach my Houtschild contact?
For Erasmus customers:
The merger of Erasmus and Houtschild will have no consequences for Erasmus customers.
For Publishers:
What happens with the Houtschild orders:
Where should monographs, standing orders and journals be shipped to?
For books and standing orders, please use these addresses.
For journals, if the journal is being sent to Houtschild in Rijswijk, please change the address to Erasmus. If the journals issues are sent directly to another address, please continue using that address.
Erasmus Antiquariaat en Boekhandel BV
Veemarkt 207
1019CJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
For Dutch publishers, aansluitnummer Vervoercentrale: 7121076
USA:
Woodland Group – Media Division
For: Erasmus Amsterdam / IBS / AIR
560-596 Bercik Street
Suite #1
Elizabeth, NJ 07201
United Kingdom:
WBS / IBS
Attn. Erasmus Boekhandel, Amsterdam
Dollymans Farm
Doublegate Lane, Rawreth
Wickford, Essex
SS11 8UD
United Kingdom
Germany:
International Book Service GmbH & Co. KG
Attn. Erasmus 1019CJ Amsterdam
Benzstraße 21
48619 Heek
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany
If you have any questions or if we can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.
“Erasmus
Antiquariaat en Boekhandel”, fournisseur de livres aux bibliothèques
universitaires et institutionnelles, est une librairie historique fondée
en 1934 et basée à Amsterdam et à Paris.
Recherche pour son bureau amstellodamois un(e) collaborateur(trice) pour intégrer l’équipe du Service clients.
Candidat(e)
idéal(e) a un esprit d’équipe, aime le domaine de livres, connaît le
milieu universitaire, a une excellente rédaction en français et est à
l’aise avec l’environnement numérique et informatique.
En effet,
vous serez co-responsable d’accompagner nos clients francophones et de
leur fournir les informations adaptées à leurs demandes. De la prise en
charge des requêtes spécifiques au domaine du livre, en passant par le
traitement des commandes jusqu’à leur suivi, vous serez chargé(e)
d’apporter des solutions adéquates et éclairées.
Amené(e) à
résoudre les problèmes de manière proactive et organisée, il vous faudra
communiquer facilement au sein de votre équipe Service clients (en
Français), en liaison étroite avec les autres départements (en Anglais
et/ou Néerlandais). Une formation progressive en interne vous sera
proposée afin d’intégrer le plus rapidement possible l’environnement du
travail au sein de la librairie.
Responsabilités :
Communiquer avec les clients par mail.
Fournir des réponses éclairées aux questions sur les ouvrages, les prix et la disponibilité de ces derniers.
Coopérer avec les départements internes pour répondre aux besoins des clients.
Saisie de données sur diverses plateformes numériques internes.
Qualifications :
Langues : Français, Anglais.
Néerlandais serait un plus.
Excellente
étiquette et excellentes compétences verbales, écrites et
interpersonnelles. Capacité à effectuer plusieurs tâches, à organiser et
à hiérarchiser le travail.
Au moins 1 à 3 ans d'expérience de travail en librairie serait appréciable.
Secteur d'activité : Librairie / Fourniture de Livres.
Contrat : CDD 38 heures, 1 an renouvelable
À pourvoir de suite.
CV et Lettre de motivation en français à envoyer à erasmus@erasmusbooks.nl
N’hésitez pas à nous contacter en cas de questions et/ou demandes d’informations complémentaires.
Casalini Libri and Erasmus Boekhandel are pleased to announce a series of agreements with some of Europe's most authoritative and respected academic publishers, for an ever more comprehensive coverage of scholarly publishing from across Europe.
The result of a co-ordinated effort and continued investment in the Torrossa Digital Library, the new partnerships confirm the further evolution of the platform, which now offers access to almost 400,000 monographs and over 1000 scholarly e-journals from more than 450 European publishers.
The new entries to the Torrossa Digital Library bring to the catalogue a wealth of scholarly material published in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Spain and beyond.
From the University Presses of Leuven and Bielefeld to the well-known academic publishers De Gruyter, Peeters Publishers, and John Benjamins, now available in Torrossa are a range of interdisciplinary publications with a strong focus on the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as scholarly works in many, diverse subject areas. They are joined by specialist publishers Oxbow books, Birkhäuser and Mohr Siebeck, as well as publisher of professional resources, Wolters Kluwer, to further expand the Torrossa catalogue.
“Erasmus is delighted to help bring new publishers to the Torrossa Digital Library,” stated Dirk Raes, Managing Director of Erasmus Boekhandel. “Over the last twelve months Torrossa has seen an increase not only in the number, breadth and diversity of the titles in its catalogue, but also in the quantity of content available in English, French, Dutch and German language. This further reinforces its position as one of the principal platforms for European digital research content, while enabling us to offer additional value to libraries and research institutions.”
Among the most recent publishers to have signed agreements, Torrossa welcomes long-established names Duncker and Humblot, Boom/Eleven and Reimer Verlag, together with the respected publisher of study resources, Éditions Ellipses, and the dynamic Grupo Editorial Sargantana. Titles from these publishers will be made available through Torrossa in the coming months.
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.
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.
For any questions you might have, please contact us at erasmus@erasmusbooks.nl.
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.
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.
Our Aftersearch filters have expanded to now include the possibility to filter by:
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'.
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
