Cengage Learning moves corporate headquarters to Boston - April 15, 2014
Educational content, software and services company Cengage Learning has named its Boston, MA office as the new corporate headquarters for its global business. In an unprecedented move, the company is establishing its central operations in the Channel Center, located in Boston's Innovation District. More than 500… Read More
Kazakhstani research community to benefit from access to Scopus and continued access to ScienceDirect - April 15, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has signed a license agreement with the National Center for Scientific and Technical Information (NCSTI) to make key Elsevier resources available to the entire Kazakhstani research community. The agreement, signed on behalf of the Ministry of Science and Education, provides more… Read More
NLM and Wellcome Library in deal to make 150 years of Biomedical journals freely available online - April 15, 2014
Representatives of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health, and the Wellcome Trust recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to make thousands of complete back issues of historically-significant biomedical journals freely available online. The… Read More
Authors Guild appeals to US court to reinstate case against Google and its book digitisation project - April 14, 2014
The Authors Guild asked a federal appeals court on April 11th to reinstate its lawsuit contending that the Internet giant is violating copyright laws with its massive book digitisation project. According to the Guild, Google Inc. is stealing business from online book retailers. The Guild filed papers with the 2nd… Read More
ProQuest and J.P. Morgan partner to widen access to analyst reports - April 14, 2014
ProQuest, an information firm central to global research, and J.P. Morgan, a global financial services firm, have joined forces to help business students and faculty make use of J.P. Morgan’s company and economic research. The companies have created J.P. Morgan Research, which contains intelligence and insight… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education TASC joins McGraw-Hill Education’s line-up of high school equivalency exam prep materials - April 14, 2014
McGraw-Hill Professional, a division of McGraw-Hill Education, has announced the publication of the McGraw-Hill Education TASC, an authoritative guide to the new high school equivalency exam, TASC Test Assessing Secondary Completion™. It claims to be the only book to contain authentic TASC test questions from CTB/McGraw-Hill,… Read More
