Krames acquires video health education content provider, wired.MD, Inc. - January 22, 2008
US-based patient education publisher Krames, part of MediMedia, has announced that it has acquired wired.MD, a leading provider of video health education content. Content is delivered via the latter's proprietary streaMed system to hospitals, health plans, universities, resource libraries, and technology companies producing video on-demand and… Read More
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Three universities announce agreement with AAP on new copyright guidelines for course content in digital formats - January 21, 2008
The Association of American Publishers (AAP), US, has announced that three universities - Hofstra, Syracuse and Marquette - have reached an agreement with the association on new copyright guidelines affirming that educational content delivered to students in digital formats should be treated under the same copyright… Read More
Universities and research institutions in Germany gain access to RSC Publishing content - January 21, 2008
The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), on behalf of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), has completed a three-year nationwide licensing agreement for journals and databases from RSC Publishing. This agreement, effective January 2008, follows an earlier deal that provided access to… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell and AWHONN set to launch new women’s health magazine - January 21, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) have announced the March 2008 launch of a new women's health magazine, Health for Women. A quarterly publication, Health for Women… Read More
Peking University becomes first academic institution in China to acquire Thomson Scientific’ Century of Science - January 21, 2008
Information solutions provider Thomson Scientific, part of Thomson Corporation, US, has announced that Peking University in China has purchased Century of Science. Century of Science expands Web of Science with the most important scientific bibliographic and cited reference data covering the period from 1900 to 1944.… Read More
