McGraw Hill Financial signs definitive agreement to sell Aviation Week to Penton - July 25, 2013
Financial intelligence company McGraw Hill Financial has signed a definitive agreement to sell Aviation Week to Penton, a privately held business information company. Terms of the all-cash transaction, which is expected to close shortly, were not disclosed. The transaction continues the execution of the Company's… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health adds multimedia enhancement to OvidSP’s search and discovery technology - July 25, 2013
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced a multimedia enhancement to the OvidSP medical research platform to aid in clinical research, practice and learning. Now researchers and healthcare practitioners using Ovid will have improved functionality to discover, download and export more than two million… Read More
AAP announces new initiative to rapidly advance implementation of EPUB 3 as the standard global distribution format for eBooks - July 25, 2013
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced its support for the establishment of EPUB 3 as the standard global distribution format for eBooks and has embarked on a new initiative designed to rapidly advance the format's implementation in the marketplace. The EPUB 3 Implementation… Read More
Alexander Street Press launches evidence-based acquisition - July 25, 2013
Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press, US, has announced a milestone agreement with the University of Dundee in Scotland that establishes the publisher as a key resource for evidence-based acquisition of library materials. Beginning this month, patrons of the University of Dundee's library will have unlimited… Read More
Swets and JSTOR in deal to add JSTOR e-Book content into SwetsWise catalogue - July 25, 2013
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, has signed a deal with JSTOR, the digital library of journals, books and primary sources, to make all of their eBook titles available to order directly through its SwetsWise platform. With over 20,000 current and backlist books available in the Books… Read More
Elsevier publishes seven new cyber security books - July 24, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the publication of seven new cyber security books, including Introduction to Cyber-Warfare: A Multidisciplinary Approach and The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing: Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Made Easy. These and other related book titles will be available at… Read More
