Blackboard and Ingram in deal to integrate VitalSource Bookshelf and Blackboard Learn - July 12, 2012
Enterprise technology and innovative solutions provider Blackboard Inc, US, and Ingram’s Vital Source Technologies, Inc. have announced a global agreement to give students and faculty one-click access to Vital Source’s e-textbook platform directly within the Blackboard Learn learning management (LMS) system. The planned integration would be… Read More
Boston College Libraries have gone live with Ex Libris’ Alma library management service - July 12, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that Boston College Libraries have gone live with the Ex Libris Alma library management service. A development partner for Alma since its conception, this ARL library has played a central role in the evolution of the… Read More
HighWire Press appoints Tara Robenalt as Director of Product Management - July 12, 2012
HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University Libraries, has announced the appointment of Tara Robenalt as the Director of Product Management. Brought on to extend the combination of vision and execution with timely and cutting-edge products, Robenalt comes to HighWire with extensive product management… Read More
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia joins Cambridge’s list of astronomy publications - July 11, 2012
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced that it will become the new home of Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA) from January 2013. PASA publishes new and significant research in astronomy and astrophysics. It covers a wide range of topics within astronomy,… Read More
BioMed Central and BGI launch ‘big data’ journal GigaScience - July 11, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, and BGI, one of the world’s largest genomics institutes, have announced the launch of GigaScience, a new open access, open data journal with a scope that embraces all life science research that generates ‘big data’. This launch is a… Read More
Karger Publishers releases book on Alzheimer’s diagnosis and therapy - July 11, 2012
Biomedical publisher Karger Publishers, Switzerland, has released a book titled Alzheimer's Disease - Modernizing Concept, Biological Diagnosis and Therapy. The book seeks to address the need for effective early diagnosis and therapy. It is edited by Dr. Maria Carrillo, Senior Director of Medical and Scientific Relations… Read More
