McGraw-Hill Education launches custom publishing platform for instructors - October 11, 2010
Education materials publisher McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced the launch of McGraw-Hill Create, a platform that seeks to give instructors control over and customisation of higher education classroom content. With Create, instructors can expect to produce their own e-books or printed texts… Read More
Conference of Italian University Rectors selects Thomson Reuters’ Web of Knowledge for 72 member universities - October 11, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) has selected Web of Knowledge for 72 of its member universities. Under the agreement, CRUI has renewed its current subscription for 60 universities for another four years. Also, it has… Read More
Oxford University Press content now searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service - October 11, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has agreed to make its content available through EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). EDS customers will now be able to search their institution's collection of OUP resources from the EDS… Read More
International Medical News Group re-launches websites for Internal Medicine News and Hospitalist News - October 11, 2010
International Medical News Group (IMNG), US, an Elsevier company, has announced the relaunch of its websites for Internal Medicine News and Hospitalist News. Internal Medicine News Digital Network is the online destination and multimedia properties of Internal Medicine… Read More
Nine more university presses confirm their participation in MUSE e-books programme - October 11, 2010
Project MUSE has announced that nine more university presses have signed contracts to participate in its new initiative to offer e-book collections alongside its electronic journal collections. Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive… Read More
Co-Action Publishing launches new journal on innovation and entrepreneurship - October 11, 2010
Open access (OA) scholarly publisher Co-Action Publishing, Sweden, has announced the launch of a multidisciplinary and international peer-reviewed Open Access journal - Annals of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. The editorial team behind the journal includes Adli Abouzeedan, Researcher at Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy,… Read More