CMP acquires Portelligent - November 14, 2007
Media and marketing solutions company CMP, US, has announced that it has acquired Portelligent, the leading provider of product teardowns to the electronics industry. Under the deal, Portelligent will report into CMP's Electronics Group and will be integrated with CMP's Semiconductor Insights division, creating a technology… Read More
Reprints Desk in deal to deliver articles from Elsevier journals - November 14, 2007
Reprints Desk, a US-based content re-purposing company focused on medical and scientific publishing, has announced an agreement with STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands. Under the deal, Reprints Desk will deliver PDFs of individual journal articles from over 2,000 scientific journals published by Elsevier… Read More
Thomson Healthcare launches application to assesses physician performance - November 14, 2007
Healthcare solutions provider Thomson Healthcare, part of Thomson Corporation, US, has announced the launch of Physician Performance Assessment, an application to evaluate the quality and cost of medical care. The Physician Performance Assessment application is claimed to be the first of its kind to emphasise clinical… Read More
Krames wins more than twenty National Health Information Awards - November 14, 2007
US-based patient education publisher Krames, part of MediMedia, was recently presented with 22 National Health Information Awards (NHIA). Now in its 14th year, the NHIA recognises the US' best consumer health information programmes and materials. Among Krames Silver award winners is the Eye Care Flip Pics… Read More
Dear Subscribers - November 14, 2007
STM Publishers can now add their Company to the Knowledgespeak Directory list. You can also update our events calendar, if you are organising an event which may be of interest to the STM publishing community. Also, you can send your company Read More
Major IT and BPO firms in race for Springer arm - November 13, 2007
Major IT and BPO firms together with private equity players are reportedly in the race for Scientific Publishing Services (SPS). SPS, a leading premedia and typesetting services provider for STM publishers, is majority owned by scientific and specialist information publisher Springer Science + Business Media, Germany. According to sources, the… Read More