McGraw-Hill Education and University of Pennsylvania collaborate to invest in education technology startup, Incubator - October 31, 2013
Digital learning company McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced an investment in the Education Design Studio, Inc. (EDSi), a $2.1 million hybrid incubator and seed fund that was launched in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) and designed specifically to nurture,… Read More
Gale unveils innovative new purchase model for e-books - October 31, 2013
Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, has announced an innovative new purchase option – a Usage-Driven Acquisition (UDA) model – for its Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) e-book platform. Unlike options currently offered by… Read More
CCC distributes over $188.7 million to rightsholders in FY’13 - October 31, 2013
Licensing and content solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced a record royalty payment of $188.7 million to rightsholders in FY’13, an increase of more than 5 percent over the $179.4 million paid the previous year. During the last ten years, CCC has distributed… Read More
Holiday Notice - October 31, 2013
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on November 1, 2013, on account of a Local holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Monday, November 4, 2013. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the October 31st issue. Read More
EBSCO and Aurora IT form ILS partnership to make more content easily accessible to mutual customers - October 30, 2013
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Aurora Information Technology (Aurora IT), an Australian-based company specializing in LMS research, develop and support, have announced a new ILS partnership providing expanded services to customers. EBSCO and Aurora IT will collaborate to enable EBSCO Discovery Service… Read More
Wiley and EMBO announce expanded partnership - October 30, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced that the publisher will provide editorial production, global marketing and distribution services for The EMBO Journal, EMBO reports and Molecular Systems Biology. This expanded partnership with EMBO adds three scientific journals alongside EMBO Molecular Medicine, which Wiley… Read More
