Thomson Reuters announces definitive agreement to sell Healthcare Business to Veritas Capital - April 24, 2012
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Healthcare business to an affiliate of Veritas Capital for $1.25 billion in cash. The sale is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions, including the… Read More
The European Library Collections and Europeana now discoverable via the Summon Service - April 24, 2012
Serials Solutions, a business unit of the US-based ProQuest LLC, has announced that its Summon Web-scale Discovery service, in cooperation with the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL), will make the vast collections of The European Library and Europeana discoverable in the Summon unified index. … Read More
SAGE and Association for Psychological Science launch new journal, Clinical Psychological Science - April 24, 2012
Academic and professional publisher SAGE and the Association for Psychological Science (APS) have announced the launch of Clinical Psychological Science, a new peer-reviewed journal focused on publishing advances in clinical science and providing a venue for cutting-edge research across a wide range of conceptual views, approaches… Read More
Semantico directors to present at ALPSP seminar: Mobilising Digital Content - April 24, 2012
UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd has announced that the company’s Managing Director, Richard Padley and Strategy Director, Rob Yates will be joining a panel of industry experts to discuss issues surrounding the mobile industry and its effects on publishing. The event will be hosted… Read More
More than 20,000 individual Springer titles now available on Apple’s iBookstore - April 24, 2012
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media has announced one of the largest scientific, technical and medical (STM) book collections on the iBookstore with more than 20,000 individual Springer titles. Cornerstone works in disciplines like mathematics, medicine and engineering are now available, along with selections in other fields… Read More
OCLC releases executive summary on Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums - April 24, 2012
Library information provider OCLC Research, US, has released the third report that completes the Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums report series. The executive summary is said to provide a high-level overview of all three reports. In the first report, the 21-member Social Metadata… Read More
