Wolters Kluwer Health to divest its procedure documentation and order set management software business, ProVation Medical - January 12, 2018
Wolters Kluwer Health has signed an agreement to divest ProVation Medical, its procedure documentation and order set management software business, to Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. for $180 million (approximately €150 million) in cash. The divestment reflects the Health division's increasing focus on supporting healthcare providers… Read More
Sírio-Libanês Hospital in Brazil strengthens medication safety with Wolters Kluwer’s Lexicomp and Medi-Span - January 11, 2018
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced the expansion of its partnership with Sírio-Libanês Hospital, an international health center in São Paulo, Brazil. The institution, which has relied on Wolters Kluwer's UpToDate® clinical decision support since 2010, recently adopted Lexicomp® Online drug reference and Medi-Span® embedded drug data.… Read More
Duke University Press, Mathematical Sciences Publishers and Project Euclid announce new publishing services partnership – Alloy: A Publishing Services Alliance - January 11, 2018
Duke University Press, Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP), and Project Euclid have announced a new publishing partnership, Alloy: A Publishing Services Alliance. Alloy was forged with two goals in mind - to offer journals the finest suite of non-profit publishing services available in the field, and… Read More
Future Science Group and ACCUCOMS extend agreement to include AggregagentTM - January 10, 2018
Publisher Future Science Group (FSG) and ACCUCOMS have extended their agreement to include AggregagentTM. Titles published by FSG will now become available for purchase within multiple subject collections in Aggregagent, including the ALPSP Collections. The titles of Future Science Group, predominantly… Read More
Ingenta Connect integrates Google Scholar’s Campus Activated Subscriber Access service - January 10, 2018
Academic journals aggregator Ingenta Connect has announced the integration of Google Scholar's Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA) service. Google Scholar's Campus Activated Subscriber Access is a new service which expands on Google's subscriber Links programme. It enables researchers to access full text PDFs from journals… Read More
SAGE Publishing acquires journal portfolio from Wichtig - January 9, 2018
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the purchase of the full portfolio of journals from international, independent STM publisher, Wichtig. The acquisition marks a significant milestone in SAGE's science, technology and medical (STM) publishing program and the development of its offerings across clinical medicine and bioengineering.… Read More
Scope creates drug monographs for a leading health portal - January 8, 2018
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of specialized knowledge services for publishers and information providers, has announced the successful delivery of 135 drug monographs for one of the world's leading health information portals. Drug monographs were developed for drugs approved by the European Medicine Agency… Read More
NISO to manage U.S. Group dedicated to document description and processing languages - January 8, 2018
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has been accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to take over management of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 - Document description and processing languages. This international technical committee is concerned with standardisation… Read More
MCG Health and Healthx partner to provide expedited prior authorizations for payers and providers - January 3, 2018
MCG Health, part of the Hearst Health network and a leading provider of informed care strategies, has announced a partnership with Healthx, Inc., the leader in cloud-based digital engagement solutions for healthcare payers, to offer a streamlined authorisation solution. This integration combines MCG's evidence-based care guidelines… Read More
Frontiers and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) form OA publishing agreement - December 29, 2017
The library of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL Library) supports EPFL authors in publishing research articles in Gold open access. As part of this support the EPFL Library has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the terms of this agreement EPFL-affiliated researchers who… Read More
