McGill-Queen’s University Press (MQUP) is one of North America’s leading scholarly presses, publishing 120-140 titles annually, with a backlist of over 4000 titles, including monographs, trade, and education titles in print, digital, and audio formats. The Press has selected BiblioSuite to replace their title management database Trilogy and ONIX solution Consonance, to consolidate MQUP’s operations from product and contact management, ONIX, production, contracts, rights, royalties, sales analytics, and project management in a single system.
Why BiblioSuite?
MQUP needed a turnkey solution to manage all their products—including print, ebooks, and audiobooks—throughout the entire publishing workflow, within a single platform, supporting the academic missions of McGill and Queen’s universities by improving access for scholars, students, and readers worldwide, and unifying teams across its offices in Montreal, Kingston, and Toronto.
The Solution
BiblioSuite will replace multiple systems and spreadsheets with a single publishing management system that will:
Serve as the unified title information database for MQUP’s new ecommerce website, which will be offering direct print and digital book sales to consumers.
Provide digital asset management workflows for ebook files and integration with ebook retailers through automated feeds.
Unify press operations across the publishing process, giving all staff access to shared tools and the resources they need.
Centralize MQUP’s title data and other business information, so that data is entered once and managed centrally—eliminating data re-keying and helping data to flow from one department to the next.
More specifically, BiblioSuite provides a contemporary, user-friendly system that is reliable and instills confidence in staff by delivering capable and effective publishing management workflows, which are responsive and adaptable to their needs and changing requirements over time. Streamlining and automating workflows to:
Store and track peer reviews, which can be monitored and managed via the contact record directly.
Generate reports for peer review requests, events and awards, plus ONIX feeds, to reduce the time spent managing multiple spreadsheets and metadata with distributors.
Bring efficiencies and time-savings to schedule management and other production activities.
Manage customers, authors, suppliers and agents, with the ability to link data, images and assets to people and organizations.
Log and manage permission requests, especially for reporting compliance on third-party rights and collections on incoming permissions.
Save time managing royalties and subrights, giving staff access to all the information they need to control the process—eliminating the need for any third-party involvement
Integrate sales files from different ebook and print book vendors for royalties, sales analysis and reporting, with an option to interface with MQUP’s financial services to upload financial data.
“BiblioSuite was the obvious choice for McGill-Queen’s University Press. Being able to consolidate our complex workflows and manage our extensive, diverse catalog in one system will fortify and streamline our operations, saving our teams time and empowering the Press to better serve our authors, partners and readers worldwide.”
Lara de Beaupré, Associate Director, Finance & Operations, McGill-Queen’s University Press
“We’re delighted to partner with McGill-Queen's University Press. We look forward to supporting their dynamic publishing needs with BiblioSuite's comprehensive and adaptable capabilities, ensuring they remain leaders in scholarly publishing long into the future.”
Rodney Elder, EVP, North America, Virtusales Publishing Solutions
About McGill-Queen's University Press
McGill-Queen's University Press is a scholarly publisher that defends, refutes, and creates fresh interpretations of the world. With over 4,000 books in print and numerous awards and bestsellers, our goal is to produce peer-reviewed, rigorously edited, beautifully produced, intelligent, interesting books.
A joint venture of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, MQUP is both a specialist in the Canadian perspective and a publisher of international themes, attracting attention from the New York Times to the Globe & Mail.
A Canadian university press with a global reach, we aim to advance scholarship, promote public debate, and contribute to culture. Find out more on our website.
About BiblioSuite
BiblioSuite is the most advanced suite of publishing software for optimizing workflows. It empowers publishers by enabling them to manage all their products—from books, journals and articles, to Open Access publications, eBooks, digital platforms and beyond—in a single system. Being content-led, the system allows publishers to fully utilize their IP and maximize their income (regardless of the publishing formats chosen).
BiblioSuite is proven to help publishing houses of all shapes and sizes to save time, reduce duplication of efforts and increase access to key information, documents and media files company-wide.
By choosing the BiblioSuite’s comprehensive system, your publishing house will be able to:
Manage multiple formats including books, eBooks, audiobooks, journals, OA publications, packs which include non-book products, merchandise and more;
Easily maintain high-quality metadata and enhanced ONIX feeds;
Control and record all aspects of safety-testing (if applicable);
Create, store and distribute all your digital assets in a single system;
Create costings and schedules for production;
Raise purchase orders within the BiblioSuite system;
Manage contacts, marketing and publicity in a single, comprehensive and integrated system;
Generate and authorize contracts with software that enables full rights management;
Handle complex royalty calculations and payments, using multiple currencies and generate statements on demand;
Improve operational performance, save money on excess stock, and spot new revenue streams;
And much, much more.
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