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