O’Reilly to distribute Microsoft Press titles - September 28, 2009
Publisher O'Reilly Media, US, and software vendor Microsoft Corp., US, have announced a joint arrangement to support and expand Microsoft Press from production through distribution, co-publishing and content development, marketing and management. Through this strategic relationship, on November 30, O'Reilly will become the distributor of Microsoft… Read More
Questia Media makes entire collection available through new research application – Questia Library - September 28, 2009
Online library provider Questia Media, Inc., US, has announced that it has made its entire collection available through a new research application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The application, called Questia Library, provides mobile access to the full text of 74,000 books and over 2… Read More
Impelsys partners with Audiomedia Production to offer complete talking eBook solution - September 28, 2009
Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has announced a strategic partnership with Audiomedia Production (AP), an audio production vendor to leading educational and trade publishers. The deal is to offer audio content for Impelsys’ VirtualPages. VirtualPages is a reader that quickly and cost-effectively converts print… Read More
BMJ Group names new clinical director for Evidence Centre - September 28, 2009
Medical information publisher The BMJ Group, UK, has announced the appointment of Dr Rubin Minhas as Clinical Director of the Group’s Evidence Centre, which was launched last year. Dr Minhas joins the Evidence Centre having spent a year as a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy… Read More
DigiTool goes live at the National Library of Luxembourg - September 28, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the DigiTool digital asset management solution has gone live at the National Library of Luxembourg. Using the DigiTool platform, the National Library - which also runs the Ex Libris Aleph integrated library system, MetaLib gateway and… Read More
Latest edition of blogspeak now online - September 28, 2009
The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Hope Leman (A Fusion of Science 2.0, Open Science, Research 2.0 and Social Networking); Kent Anderson (A New Word: “Diffintermediation”); Kim Hannula (Blogging geoscience meetings); Michael Nielsen (There is no single future for scientific journals); and Philip Davis (Peer Review… Read More
