WOLTERS KLUWER PURCHASES BALTZER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS.

Wolters Kluwer (Dordrecht, Neth.) has acquired Baltzer Science Publishers (Amsterdam), a publisher of English-language scientific journals for the international academic and professional research market. Baltzer will become a part of Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP), Kluwer's international scientific

Baltzer publishes a handful of scientific journals, including Catalysis Letters, Annals of Operations Research and Hyperfine Interactions. The acquired company had 2000 revenue of about EUR 3 million.

Baltzer co-owner Laurenz Baltzer said his company decided to sell to Kluwer because "it had become evident that our program was a good fit with Kluwer Academic and their large-scale electronic publishing platform expanded opportunities for online distribution and enhanced usage." Kluwer Academic president Jeff Smith said the acquired titles will help strengthen Kluwer Online, "especially in the fields of chemistry, operations research, mathematics, physics, computer science and telecommunitions."

KAP publishes more than 700 journals and approximately 1300 new book titles each year.