Wiley to be exclusive global publisher and distributor of RSMeans professional reference titles - July 20, 2010
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and RSMeans, North America's leading supplier of construction cost information, have announced a partnership to deliver a new generation of reference materials to the commercial and residential construction markets. Under the deal, Wiley will be the exclusive global publisher… Read More
University of Michigan selects Serials Solutions’ Summon service to improve discovery of library collections - July 20, 2010
E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that the University of Michigan (U-M) has chosen the Summon web-scale discovery service to make searching its library collections effective, fast and easy. More than 50,000 students and faculty at all three of its… Read More
Amazon reports increased sales of Kindle following price cut - July 20, 2010
Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, has announced that Kindle device unit sales accelerated each month in the second quarter - both on a sequential month-over-month basis and on a year-over-year basis. According to the company, the growth rate of Kindle, its e-book reader, tripled since… Read More
North Carolina selects Thomson Reuters for healthcare reporting and analytics - July 20, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that the North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services has awarded the company a five-year contract to provide a healthcare reporting and analytics system. The system will enable the State of North Carolina to better manage all… Read More
Open Educational Resources programme seeks to drive UK content revolution - July 20, 2010
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that the International Open Educational Resources (OER) Symposium will be held in London on July 23, 2010. Speaking ahead of the OER symposium, Brian Lamb from the University of British Columbia has urged higher education to show… Read More
Journal of NeuroVirology to join Springer’s neuroscience portfolio - July 20, 2010
STM publisher Springer has announced that it will publish the Journal of NeuroVirology (JNV), a publication closely affiliated with the International Society for NeuroVirology, starting January 2011. Previously published by Taylor & Francis/Informa, the five-year contract with Springer runs to 2015. A bi-monthly publication, the Journal… Read More
