SAGE set to launch Handbook Collection on SAGE Reference Online platform - March 16, 2009
Academic publisher SAGE is set to launch the SAGE Reference Online Handbook Collection, a set of 80 of its highest rated handbooks, digitised and hosted on the SAGE Reference Online platform. The Handbook Collection was developed following extensive consultation with librarians about how researchers are actually… Read More
EMpact Sales to promote IOP journals in regions of North, Central, South Americas and the Caribbean - March 16, 2009
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services, US, has announced an agreement with non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, to serve as sales agent. The agreement grants EMpact the rights to sell IOP's print and… Read More
AquaBrowser search platform to be implemented by Harvard University Library - March 16, 2009
Medialab Solutions, a US-based provider of library software, has announced that the Harvard University Library is to implement AquaBrowser Library, its search and discovery platform, in spring 2009. Medialab is part of bibliographic information provider R. R. Bowker. The Harvard University Library implementation will include faceted… Read More
BioMed Central journal hits 250 publications landmark - March 16, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making has recently hit the 250 publications landmark. The journal has known considerable developments since its launch back in 2001. It is attracting more submissions than ever before and publications… Read More
Gale enters e-books distribution pact with YBP Library Services - March 16, 2009
E-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has entered into a long-term agreement with YBP Library Services, Inc., a provider of materials to academic libraries. The deal is to expand the distribution of Gale's Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) e-book collection, Literature Criticism… Read More
McGraw-Hill Companies names Lawrence P. Neal as President of Platts - March 16, 2009
Information services provider McGraw-Hill Companies, US, has announced the appointment of Lawrence P. Neal as president of Platts. Part of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Platts is a leading global provider of energy and commodities information. Neal succeeds Victoria Chu Pao, who is leaving the Corporation later this… Read More
