AAUP and PLS to work together to create awareness for UK Royalties Direct, a collective licensing program for American publishers - December 18, 2015
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has announced that it would work together with the Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) to create awareness for UK Royalties Direct, a new program for American publishers that offers unparalleled visibility into how their works are used in the UK,… Read More
Medicat selects Wolters Kluwer clinical content and terminology management solutions to enhance functionality in its Patient Health Management offering - December 17, 2015
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that Medicat has chosen its suite of clinical content and terminology management solutions to enhance functionality in its Patient Health Management offering. Specifically, the… Read More
ProQuest completes acquisition of Ex Libris - December 16, 2015
ProQuest, an information solutions provider central to global research, has completed its acquisition of Ex Libris Group, a global provider of cloud‑based solutions for higher education. The businesses' complementary assets are being integrated, enabling existing services to be enhanced and sparking the… Read More
IEEE signs letter of intent with World Intellectual Property Organization - December 16, 2015
IEEE, a professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, has signed a letter of intent with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialised agency of the United Nations and global, intergovernmental forum for intellectual property (IP) policy, services, information and cooperation. Through the… Read More
Karger Publishers selects Imperva Incapsula to defend against DDoS attacks - December 16, 2015
Cyber security solutions provider Imperva, Inc. has announced that Karger Publishers, a global medical and scientific publishing company, has selected Imperva Incapsula. The company will use the Incapsula service to ensure that its website, containing approximately 100 new scientific journals per year and a vast e-book… Read More
Harvard Health Publications collaborates with Quizzify to create interactive quizzes that support health literacy in the workplace - December 16, 2015
Harvard Health Publications (HHP), the consumer publishing division of Harvard Medical School, will collaborate with Quizzify, a New York-based start-up that provides employers with educational health information for their employees. HHP will review Quizzify's content for medical appropriateness as well as advise Quizzify on developments in… Read More
Ingram Content Group acquires Aer.io - December 16, 2015
Ingram Content Group has announced the acquisition of Aer.io, a service that allows publishers, retailers and authors to sell and fulfill print and digital books directly to readers via their websites, blogs and social networks. In addition, through Aer.io's marketing platform Aer.io Flyer, publishers, authors… Read More
EBSCO Information Services donates digital content to Worldreader to support literacy in the developing world - December 11, 2015
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Worldreader, a global non-profit dedicated to improving literacy in the developing world through digital books, are partnering to bring non-fiction content to children and their families in sub-Saharan Africa and India. The proprietary reference articles donated by EBSCO will help Worldreader… Read More
Research Square and MyScienceWork partner to offer Video Summaries to research institutions via the Polaris platform - December 11, 2015
Research Square, a provider of solutions to facilitate the communication of research worldwide, has announced a new partnership with MyScienceWork to make its Video Summaries solution available to research institutions. Through this partnership, universities and other institutions will be able to purchase Video Summaries to highlight… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and ReadCube reveal preliminary results of scientific article sharing trial - December 10, 2015
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, part of Springer Nature, has announced the results of its ground-breaking 12-month content sharing initiative to support collaborative research. The trial has concluded with positive results and the initiative to offer on-platform sharing of the full text of nature.com articles using… Read More
