Cengage Learning and WebAssign reaffirm commitment to joint learning solutions - May 11, 2016
Cengage Learning and Advanced Instructional Systems, Inc. dba WebAssign have announced an agreement in principle to resolve an ongoing dispute regarding rights to intellectual property. The terms of the agreement are confidential but they assure the continued delivery of effective learning solutions, customer and technical… Read More
SirsiDynix announces one-millionth digital content download - May 10, 2016
Library automation solutions provider SirsiDynix has announced the one-millionth digital content download through eResource Central (eRC). eRC is an electronic resource management and discovery system that simplifies access to library resources by uniting physical and digital content into a single discovery interface. Digital content is made… Read More
Elsevier provides new ACA-FUL drug pricing benchmark data on same day government made it available - May 10, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that its Gold Standard Drug Database (GSDD) has incorporated the pricing data for the federal government’s new drug pricing benchmark, Affordable Care Act Federal Upper Limit (ACA-FUL), on the same day the government made it available, enabling Elsevier GSDD customers to… Read More
Over twenty publishers now use HighWire’s Impact Vizor for faster, easier ‘evidenced-based’ publishing insights - May 9, 2016
HighWire Press, Inc., the publishing technology platform provider for renowned scholarly publishers and societies, has announced that twenty-one publishers now use Impact Vizor, a suite of interactive, visualised analytics viewers launched in August 2015. Impact Vizor was an ALPSP 2015 Award for Innovation in Publishing finalist.… Read More
CrossRef to enable registration for preprints - May 6, 2016
CrossRef, a not-for-profit association of worldwide scholarly publishers, will enable registration for preprints by August 2016. Crossref's original registration policy prevented its members from registering content and assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to 'duplicative works.' The new policy means that preprints will have separate DOIs… Read More
Ingram Publisher Services and NYU Press announce joint agreement to provide full-service distribution - May 6, 2016
Ingram Publisher Services has announced a joint agreement with NYU Press to provide full-service distribution. NYU Press and Ingram have a long-standing relationship. The press started using Ingram's Lightning Sourceâ print on demand almost 20 years ago and became a digital… Read More
