Ground breaking licensing agreement between academic publisher and sporting body
Multi-Science Publishing and the UK's Professional Golfers Association licensing deal


BRENTWOOD, UK October 14, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- ground breaking licence agreed between academic publisher and sporting body
Multi-Science Publishing & Professional Golfers Association licence agreed.

Multi-Science Publishing Co Ltd has announced that it has signed a licence with the UK's Professional Golfers Association (PGA) whereby PGA members will have unrestricted online access to the International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, The Annual Review of Golf Coaching series, and the Sports Science Handbook, from 2010.

Commented Kyle Phillpots, PGA's Director of Training and Education, "Professionalising coaching in this country comes in part through coaches being able to use high quality, peer reviewed materials of this sort. Organisations like the PGA can play a great role in coach development by making it possible for our members to have access to this material at no cost to themselves. Empowered coaches are better coaches!"

Bill Hughes, Multi-Science's Managing Director, said "Understanding that authoritative, peer reviewed research can have a role outside of academia, and finding innovative ways to exploit licensing opportunities, will be what distinguishes successful publishers in these difficult times. With the economic climate in turmoil, and the publishing business model under pressure from all sides, doing 'more of the same' is no answer to anything. Commercial considerations aside, I am delighted that, through the PGA, its members will be able to use our content. While the resources freely available on the internet are, at best, better than nothing, at worst they are positively misleading. If people, in whatever way engaged in teaching and learning can have, at no cost to themselves, access to materials whose quality and completeness is not in question, that is a great step forward. I congratulate the UK PGA on having the courage to make this ground-breaking agreement".

Late stage talks are taking place with the US Fencing Coaches Association, and Australian Field & Track on similar arrangements.

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More information
Bill Hughes, Multi-Science, tel +44 1277 224632, bill@multi-science.co.uk

Kyle Phillpots, Director of Training and Education, PGA (UK) +44 1675 470333, kyle.phillpots@pga.org.uk



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