Global professional publishing industry to grow 3% in 2012, says Simba report - March 9, 2012
Publishing forecast firm Simba Information, US, has released a report titled Global Professional Publishing 2010-2011. According to the report, the global market for professional publishing products and services, led by the legal, science/technical and medical (STM) segments, will grow 3 percent through 2012, reaching $41.4 billion.… Read More
WK Health to offer nursing programmes to HealthStream customers - March 9, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has partnered with HealthStream, a provider of learning and research solutions for the healthcare industry. Under the deal, WK Health will offer the Lippincott’s Professional Development Programs product suite to HealthStream’s customer base of healthcare organisations. The… Read More
NGL announces significant adoption of K-5 Science and K-8 English as a Second Language products in Florida and Texas - March 9, 2012
National Geographic Learning (NGL), part of Cengage Learning, has announced significant adoptions of their K-5 Science and K-8 English as a Second Language (ESL) products in Florida and Texas, respectively. NGL Science has been adopted by 21 school districts in the state of Florida, including… Read More
Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics partner to publish new book series - March 8, 2012
STM publisher Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI) have announced a partnership to publish a new book series - SIMAI Springer Series. Research-level monographs, advanced textbooks and collected works in English will make up the series, focusing on the applications of… Read More
Turnitin partners with ProQuest to include dissertations from 2008 to the present - March 8, 2012
Turnitin, web-based solution for plagiarism prevention, has partnered with information resources and technologies provider ProQuest to include more than 300,000 dissertations and theses from 2008 to the present in the Turnitin comparison database. With this agreement, Turnitin seeks to enhance its repository of scholarly content… Read More
Thomson Reuters unveils social media sentiment analysis service - March 8, 2012
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced an extension of its machine-readable news offering to include a sentiment scoring service for social media. Thomson Reuters News Analytics will mine the expansive wealth of social media and blog content to deliver digestible analytics on selected companies… Read More
