Content workflow company Reprints Desk and FIZ Karlsruhe, a European-based provider of information delivery services, today announced the immediate availability of Reprints Desk’s article e-print procurement service within the FIZ AutoDoc full-text brokerage routing system for document delivery.

The new service offering enables FIZ AutoDoc customers, including dozens of major life science and other research-intensive companies, to simplify the content retrieval workflow for individual buyers and to improve internal visibility into electronic content spending and regulatory compliance.

FIZ AutoDoc supports unmediated and mediated ordering for single journal articles, patent documents, reports, conference papers, proceedings or other publications. Reprints Desk offers e-print procurement services as part of its Reprints NRx service that makes it easier for life science and healthcare communications companies to order bulk copies of peer-reviewed journal articles from scientific and medical publications for use in promotions and educational programs.