Torrossa Services for Publishers

Quality

Well positioned in its markets, Torrossa combines a solid infrastructure with an excellent reputation. The vast offer of quality original-language publishing, together with the accessible, multilingual and user-friendly platform, attract an international community of readers, allowing you to offer an ideal showcase to your authors, while at the same time eliminating the need for you to develop, maintain and constantly update a separate infrastructure.

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Distribution

Active for over 25 years in the electronic publishing market, first as Casalini Digital Library, and subsequently as Torrossa, we have developed a platform specifically tailored to the distribution of accessible academic publishing, with publications available not only in their entirety as complete e-books and e-journals, but also as single chapters, issues and articles. We operate globally, collaborating with hundreds of publishers from many countries and addressing institutions and readers from all over the world, responding to their search for specialized content, in some cases unique, digital copies of very limited and out-of-print paper editions.

Our experience and wide-reaching network of relationships enable us to:

• give visibility to the content of each publishing brand
• enhance editorial catalogues
• identify market segments with untapped potential
• disseminate bibliographic information on diversified channels to a range of users and potential customers

Promotion

We promote digital titles directly to institutions and readers. Our in-depth knowledge of our customers means that we can bring to their attention precisely the titles that interest each individual profile, regularly updating them on new additions to the catalogue.
We engage with a growing community of professionals and scholars through regular communication campaigns, across our social channels, at international book fairs, library conferences and other events that address specialized audiences.

The individual catalogue of every publisher present in Torrossa is assigned its own, direct link, making it easy for users to reach and browse within your offer of content.
In collaboration with you, we are happy to discuss and define targeted actions and marketing activities aimed at both institutional and independent users.

Sales models

Choose from a range of flexible solutions to define prices and licences, based on:

• type of user
• size of reader base
• duration of the licence

Or opt to diversify your offer based on the type of product:

• single title (new or backlist)
• subject-based or multidisciplinary collections
• journal archives
• backlist content
• paper+digital bundles

Publishing in Open Access

Torrossa also manages and publishes online content in open access!
A dedicated website, oa.torrossa.com, developed specifically to support and promote scientific contributions published in Open Access, offers a unique digital space with quality texts for research and study, promoting the visibility and consultation of titles to the international research community.

Join hundreds of academic publishers specializing in the Humanities and Social Sciences whose works are among the thousands of titles are already available in open access through Torrossa, both as entire works and as articles and chapters. Choose the combined distribution of titles to offer content both in open access and as part of your sales catalogue.

Content management

Titles are assigned OpenURL compliant permalinks and described following international standards for library classifications.

Our services for the online distribution of content include:

• online publication of texts at chapter and article level
• unique permalink for each item according to the OpenURL standard 
• descriptions in line with international library classifications
• registration of standard DOIs and DOI CrossRef
• attribution of usage licenses and DRM with Adobe and Readium LCP technology
• management of online activations for subscriber codes, IP networks and via the SSO (single sign-on) systems Shibboleth and Open Athens
• customized management of the Text & Data Mining opt-out, as required by European legislation (Art. 4 European Directive 2019/790)

Digital Rights Management

Your content is safe! Diversified policies and strategies for digital rights management are tailored to your sales models and usage licenses, while customized solutions using Adobe and Readium LCP services are applied according to their suitability to your digital formats and license features. We work with you to identify the best options for your publications.

Discoverability and dissemination

We are committed to increasing the visibility of your content!

We have long-established collaborations in place with major link resolver providers, Discovery Services and other search tools to facilitate the discoverability and dissemination of the Torrossa catalogue. Thanks to our quality metadata, in certified formats such as UNIMARC, MARC21, KBART, XML, xlsx., library users and researchers can easily find content relevant to their field of study.
Our collaborators include:

• Proquest-Ex Libris
• Alma Community Zone
• Ebsco Discovery Services
• OCLC Services
• Google Scholar

Long-term archiving

Ensure the longevity of your content to keep up with market expectations!
We work with US organizations CLOCKSS and Portico, long-term archives for digital content, to safeguard the digital texts present on Torrossa for the future. Preservation of texts in closed security silos and resulting guarantee of permanent access responds to requirements expected by libraries and institutions that ensure their readers will always be able to access the purchased content.

Accessibility

Torrossa's solid infrastructure is regularly updated with the latest technologies, ensuring its compliancy with market standards regarding security, accessibility and user experience.

We collaborate with the LIA Foundation (Libri Italiani Accessibili) for accessible Italian books, working with the common goal of providing publishers with tools to facilitate the production and distribution of texts and metadata, in line with the new European legislation on accessibility. Our platform is already accessible according to the guidelines on the accessibility of Web content WCAG 2.1 Level AA.

Torrossa Reader

Torrossa distributes content both in PDF format, compatible with Adobe Acrobat Reader, and in ePub format, for which we have developed a dedicated reading solution based on Readium LCP technology.
The Torrossa Reader application, which may be downloaded at no cost from all major App stores, facilitates the consultation of digital texts in ePub, PDF and other formats.
The app allows users to create their own personal libraries, saving and accumulating texts purchased for personal use through Torrossa Bookstore alongside content downloaded through an institutional licence.

Torrossa Reader meets usability expectations for desktop and mobile devices and respects accessibility needs such as:

• text to speech
• text resizing for easier reading
• contrast variation

Online content management tools

Already a Torrossa publisher? Request access credentials for our secure, personalised management platform.

Manage your content directly online:

• upload new material for online publication
• view accounts documents for sales of your content and services provided
• access usage statistics
• download the catalogue of your material already online

Content hosting

Content hosting and maintenance of the repository over time are the core services we offer to publishers along with distribution on the Torrossa platform. In your personal content management area, you can access your catalogue at any time, view it online, or download the texts provided to us previously.

Analytics and statistics

Consult your sales and usage data!
We provide periodic reports on the type of sales made and the licences activated for your content. Our usage statistics comply with the international COUNTER standard, an established and widely-used protocol in the field of digital content distribution. Contact us to define personalised reports based on your requirements.
All data collection is carried out in full compliance with the current GDPR legislation.