Swets has signed up high-profile US journal Science to its SwetsWise online content service and revealed plans to offer access to e-books as well as journals.

Swets chief commercial officer Thomas Snyder said: “SwetsWise is constantly being updated in terms of content and seeking additional deals. We are very pleased with the Science deal and looking for similar.”

SwetsWise is offered alongside facilities such as federated search and usage information, and there are plans to add e-book subscription management tools to meet evolving needs in electronic access.

“We are at the forefront of a major change in how traditional subscription management tools are used, how search in the research environment is used, and how library systems in general may be used,” said Snyder.

“Walls in the information management environment are becoming very porous and traditional barriers do seem to be fading,” he added.

Swets is also preparing to make a number of other new titles available through its service.

At the end of April it signed up Duke University Press, which publishes more than 30 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.

It has also struck a deal with Duncker & Humblot, a German academic publisher with 15 journals and about 11,000 books in the areas of law, political science, economics, social sciences, history, literary studies and philosophy.

Duncker & Humblot has started to digitise its book list this year.

Swets has also done deals with the Optical Society of America, a not-for-profit society with two flagship journals, JOSA A and JOSA B, and with Stansted News, a publisher of healthcare journals for a variety of medical and nursing associations.