Turner Publishing Company acquires Basic Health Publications - January 6, 2016
Turner Publishing Company has acquired the publishing program of Basic Health Publications, Inc. effective December 31, 2015. Terms were not disclosed. Turner acquired the publishing rights, inventory and related assets for approximately 280 Basic Health titles. The acquisition also includes about 20 titles not yet… Read More
Penton acquires TU-Automotive at CES 2016 - January 5, 2016
Information services company Penton announced at CES 2016 that it has acquired TU-Automotive, an event and digital information company serving the connected vehicle segment of the automotive tech market, from FC Business Intelligence. This acquisition positions Penton at the center of the industry's most innovative and… Read More
LibLynx to develop custom SSO solution for Alexander Street Press - December 30, 2015
Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press (ASP) has engaged LibLynx to develop a custom Single Sign-On (SSO) solution that extends their access management system across two new technical platforms. ASP currently manages customer access through an in-house application that enables authentication and… Read More
Researchers from universities across Israel to benefit from CAS solutions - December 29, 2015
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society and world's authority for chemical information, and MALMAD consortium - Israeli Center for Digital Information Services have announced a five-year agreement to provide SciFinder® with PatentPak™ access to all universities in Israel. PatentPak, a robust… Read More
IEEE, Elsevier and the Institution of Engineering and Technology join together to create recommendations regarding best practices - December 29, 2015
IEEE, the world's largest professional organisation dedicated to advancing technology, is working with other publishing organisations, Elsevier and the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), to create recommendations regarding best practices to help ensure technical conference content quality.… Read More
Wolters Kluwer partners with Halifax Health to improve Sepsis outcomes - December 23, 2015
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has partnered with Halifax Health to improve sepsis outcomes by integrating POC Advisor™ into clinical workflows. A cloud-based, integrated decision support platform, POC Advisor detects and… Read More
Emerald partners with the Egyptian Government to help create the largest digital library - December 22, 2015
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing recently signed a four year agreement to provide Egyptian citizens with access to Emerald content via the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) project, thereby creating the largest digital library in the world. The EKB acts as a repository for content from… Read More
Major European bioinformatics initiative ELIXIR embraces Open Science publishing - December 22, 2015
ELIXIR, a major initiative to develop the infrastructure needed to coordinate and sustain Europe's bioinformatics resources, is the latest organisation to endorse Open Science by reporting their outputs on the open publishing platform F1000Research. The partnership is especially fitting, as the Open Access, Open Data, Open… Read More
Brill offers book and journal access in Wikipedia pilot - December 21, 2015
Academic publisher Brill has kicked-off a pilot with The Wikipedia Library, granting up to 25 of Wikipedia's most active, top editors with access to all publications available on Brill's Books and Journals platform. Participating editors will gain access to over 6,400 e-books and more than 158,000… Read More
Thomson Reuters collaborates with Russia’s scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU - December 21, 2015
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with Russia's scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.RU. The collaboration will bring the nation's research to the forefront of the global scholarly research landscape with the inclusion of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), within… Read More
