Duke University Press makes more than 140 titles available in HathiTrust - April 13, 2015
Duke University Press, in partnership with Google and HathiTrust, has opened an initial set of 145 of its backlist titles in HathiTrust. These titles are available under a CC-BY-NC-ND license, and are available for reading and download worldwide.… Read More
ProQuest announces acquisition of SIPX - April 9, 2015
ProQuest, through its affiliate Bowker, has acquired Palo Alto-based SIPX, a creator of a unique digital course materials solution that addresses a variety of copyright and costs concerns for universities. SIPX eliminates duplicate spending on course packs, collections of assigned readings, by connecting students to materials… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education adopts open technology to enable building personalised learning experiences - April 9, 2015
McGraw-Hill Education, the learning sciences company, has announced a commitment to open technology standards that will lower barriers to integration and allow anyone to build personalised learning experiences that integrate with the company's technologies. The company announced Microsoft Corporation as its first open technology provider in… Read More
OCLC Research Library Partnership includes Harvard University and Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory in its Network - April 9, 2015
OCLC Research Library Partnership has announced two new partners. The Universities are: Harvard University and Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory. The Partner Representatives are Sarah E. Thomas, Vice President for the Harvard Library, and Ludmila Pollock, Executive Director, Library and Archives for Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory. According… Read More
Thomson Reuters and Russian MISiS National University of Science & Technology announce new partnership - April 8, 2015
Thomson Reuters has announced a new partnership with Russia's MISiS National University of Science and Technology to effectively manage the University's research workflow. MISiS National University of Science and Technology is Russia's first higher education institution to use Thomson Reuters' state-of-the-art research scientific information management system… Read More
EBSCO Health and Isabel Healthcare expand partnership to offer Isabel’s Symptom Checker to hospitals looking to enhance patient engagement - April 8, 2015
EBSCO Health and Isabel Healthcare (Isabel) have announced an expansion of their existing partnership. EBSCO Health will now sell the Isabel Symptom Checker to hospitals and healthcare organisations. The Isabel Symptom Checker serves as a patient engagement gateway to guide consumers and patients into and through… Read More
Oxford University Press announces continued support for MathJax project - April 8, 2015
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced its continuing support of the MathJax™ project. OUP has been a supporter of MathJax™ since 2013, which provides the academic community with a seamless user-experience when viewing mathematical equations across digital products. OUP is committed to investing… Read More
ASU, Cengage Learning and Knewton partner to co-develop new Active Adaptive learning solutions - April 8, 2015
Arizona State University (ASU), Cengage Learning and Knewton announced a partnership to co-develop a new Active Adaptive learning solutions which leverage Knewton adaptive technology in brand new ways at the ASU+GSV Summit. These innovators in higher education will co-develop a solution from… Read More
APA Journals Division partners with American Psychological Association of Graduate Students to launch new journal - April 7, 2015
The American Psychological Association is partnering with the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) to publish a new quarterly journal, Translational Issues in Psychological Science. The inaugural issue, a special issue titled 'The Science of Sleep,' is now available. The journal has two primary… Read More
Elsevier and CERN announce further OA agreement - April 6, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier and CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, have announced that articles published by CERN authors in Elsevier Physics journals that are not covered by the SCOAP3 Open Access initiative will be published open access. As part of this… Read More
