Cadmus awarded 3-year contract extension by American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics - July 13, 2009
Publishing services provider Cadmus Communications, US, has announced that it has been awarded a 3-year contract extension by the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET). ASPET is a 4,800 member scientific society whose members conduct basic and clinical pharmacological research in academia, industry and… Read More
Elsevier Foundation calls for grant proposals by August 1 under two programmes - July 13, 2009
The Elsevier Foundation has announced that it is accepting new grant proposals for its 2009 Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries and New Scholars programmes till August 1, 2009. Sponsored by STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, the grants for the two programmes will be awarded in December 2009… Read More
EBSCO Publishing acquires AARP’s AgeLine database - July 13, 2009
Information solutions provider Unlimited Priorities Corporation, US, has announced the sale of AARP's online bibliographic database, AgeLine, to research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US. AgeLine is produced by AARP and focuses on the subject of aging and middle-aged and older adults. Unlimited Priorities initiated the… Read More
Bowker unveils enhanced version of book discovery and collection development platform - July 13, 2009
Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, has announced the beta-release of the latest version of its book discovery and collection development platform, Books in-Print (BIP). The official global market release of BIP 2.0 is scheduled for the early fourth quarter of 2009. BIP 2.0 seeks to provide… Read More
Russia’s largest academic consortium is first to use Nanotechnology Knowledge Dashboard - July 13, 2009
The Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced that NEICON, Russia's largest academic consortium, will be the first organisation to have access to the new Nanotechnology Knowledge Dashboard. The Knowledge Dashboard, developed in partnership with Collexis, is a custom data mining solution for the… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell acquires Topley & Wilson’s Microbiology and Microbial Infections - July 13, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, US, has announced the acquisition of Topley & Wilson's Microbiology and Microbial Infections (T&W) from Hodder-Arnold. T&W is projected as a major reference work of world prominence now in… Read More
