Macmillan arm acquires US school textbooks publisher Compset - March 5, 2008
Macmillan Publishing Solutions (MPS), the outsourcing arm of Macmillan India Ltd., has announced the acquisition of Compset Inc., a US-based provider of full-service graphics and composition services, for an undisclosed amount. Compset holds developmental and production expertise in elementary-high (el-hi) school textbooks, higher education, medical reference… Read More
Ingram Digital, ALPSP announce new eBooks agreement - March 5, 2008
Digital content services provider Ingram Digital Group, US, an Ingram Content company, has announced that it has been selected by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) as the preferred partner to establish a new co-operative eBook service for its… Read More
Ovid wins national contract to supply NHS England with key online medical, nursing and healthcare databases - March 5, 2008
US-based information research solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the National Library for Health (NLH) to supply all National Health Service hospitals and healthcare facilities throughout England with electronic access to important medical, healthcare… Read More
Author-it CEO Paul Trotter to join board of CM Pros - March 5, 2008
Author-it Software Corporation, a New Zealand-based provider of software for authoring, content management, publishing and localisation, has announced that CEO Paul Trotter has been elected to the 2008-2009 Content Management Professionals (CM Pros) Board of Directors. CM Pros provides information, expertise and support to its members… Read More
Thomson Scientific launches ScienceWatch.com - March 5, 2008
Information solutions provider Thomson Scientific, part of Thomson Corporation, US, has announced the launch of ScienceWatch.com, a free, open web resource for science metrics and analysis. ScienceWatch.com combines the latest Science Watch newsletter material and regularly updated data, analysis, interviews, and commentary that had been previously… Read More
AOSSM names Editors for its new multidisciplinary sports medicine journal - March 5, 2008
The Board of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Medical Publishing Group has announced the selections of Dr. Edward M. Wojtys, Dr. George J. Davies, Dr. Matthew Gammons and Dr. Riann Palmeri-Smith as the founding editors of its forthcoming journal Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary… Read More