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Maney Publishing buys Brill journal The Pain Clinic

Leeds, UK, 6 December 2006

Health sciences journal The Pain Clinic has been bought by Maney Publishing in a deal with Brill. The journal, formerly published by VSP, a subsidiary of Brill, is the official journal of the World Society of Pain Clinicians (WSPC) and will be added to Maney's existing list of healthcare titles in print and online.

Matthias Wahls, Business Development Manager of Brill said: “This journal is an important resource in pain research, but had become somewhat isolated within Brill. We are pleased it is going to a good home with Maney Publishing.”

Michael Gallico, Managing Director of Maney Publishing, welcomes the latest acquisition: “The Pain Clinic is an excellent addition to our healthcare list and will further increase diversity in the scope of our journals. We look forward to working with the WSPC to ensure a smooth transition period and to continue its highly regarded work in the field of pain research.”

The Pain Clinic focuses on the clinical methods used and the problems involved in the diagnosis and treatment of persistent and recurrent types of pain. This interdisciplinary journal provides a forum in which pain clinicians can exchange new ideas and experiences, and communicate information on methods of pain prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Its scope includes anaesthesia, neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, orthopaedic surgery, palliative care, psychiatry and rheumatology. It is already hosted on Ingenta Connect, and will now be incorporated into the MORE (Maney Online 

Research E-journals) healthcare collection.

About the WSPC

The WSPC was founded in 1964 as a non-profit organisation to bring together international clinicians concerned with the treatment of pain. The Society aims to encourage the dissemination of information on pain around the world through its meetings, publications and scientific research on all aspects of pain. Please visit www.painclinicians.org for more information.

About Brill

Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the fields of Ancient Near East and Egypt; Middle East and Islamic Studies; Asian Studies (incl. Hotei imprint); Classical Studies; Medieval and Early Modern Studies; Biblical and Religious Studies; Social Sciences ; Biology; Science (VSP imprint); Human Rights and Public International Law (Martinus Nijhoff imprint). With offices in Leiden and Boston (MA), Brill today publishes more than 100 journals and around 500 new books and reference works each year. In addition, Brill is a major provider of primary source materials online and on microform for researchers in the humanities and social sciences through its imprint IDC Publishers. In principle all publications are available in print or microform, as well as in electronic form. Our customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. Please visit www.brill.nl for more information.

For further information please contact Alison Holgate, Marketing & PR Assistant, Maney Publishing. Email: a.holgate@maney.co.uk  Tel: +44 0113 386 8160 

or Matthias Wahls, Brill. Email: wahls@brill.nl Tel. +31 5353431