The Charlesworth Group signs exclusive agreement with Institutional Investor Journals - February 16, 2015
The Charlesworth Group has announced the signing of an exclusive agreement with Institutional Investor Journals, the international publishing, events and electronic information group to provide sales representation in the Chinese market. This agreement will enable The Charlesworth Group to support Institutional Investor's growth across its strong… Read More
LearnLaunch and Cengage Learning to inspire edtech innovation through expanded partnership in key growth area - February 13, 2015
Cengage Learning, a global education company, will bring LearnLaunch Accelerator, a leading edtech startup program, to Latin America via Cengage Learning's Laboratorio de Innovacion en Experiencias de Aprendizaje (LINNEA). Located in Chihuahua, Mexico, LINNEA is an innovation lab established by Cengage Learning, National Geographic Learning and… Read More
EBSCO support and funding to ensure long-term viability of Koha - February 12, 2015
EBSCO Information Services and Koha, an ILS created by librarians for librarians, are working together to provide a viable web-based, open source ILS for libraries of all types. Koha libraries reached out to EBSCO for support of some important projects, and EBSCO agreed to partner… Read More
JSTOR moves to new platform - February 12, 2015
ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organisation helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways, and Atypon®, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry, jointly announced the move… Read More
IHS acquires Rushmore Reviews, deal gives IHS immediate access to detailed international well information, improving coverage for benchmarking tools - February 9, 2015
IHS Inc., a global source of critical information and insight, has acquired Rushmore Reviews, a Scotland-based company that provides premium, subscription-based service for drilling and completions benchmarking solutions in the oil and gas industry. Established in 1989, Rushmore is the premier provider of quality-controlled offset… Read More
Springer cooperates with MOOC organisers worldwide - February 6, 2015
Effective immediately, the organisers of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can negotiate special rates regarding the purchase of Springer print and eBooks. Students who have registered for a free online course can order these books through a special URL. Additional types of content, for example journal… Read More
Altmetric now tracking Wikipedia references to research outputs - February 5, 2015
Alternative metrics provider Altmetric has announced that any mentions of articles or other academic outputs in Wikipedia will now be reflected in a new 'Wikipedia' tab on the Altmetric details page. Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia written collaboratively by the people who use it, is the… Read More
Springer Publishing Company and Demos Medical Publishing announce merger - February 4, 2015
As of January 1, 2015 the Springer Publishing Company and Demos Medical Publishing, both owned by Mannheim Media LLC, have been combined into one company under the Springer Publishing Company corporate name. Demos Medical Publishing will continue as an imprint of Springer Publishing. The merger… Read More
ProQuest joins BIBCO and ECIP Cataloging Partnership Programs - January 30, 2015
ProQuest has announced that it has become a partner in the Library of Congress' Electronic Cataloging in Publication (ECIP) Cataloging Partnership and BIBCO Programs. The company is the first publisher ever to partner in the ECIP program and joins academic libraries in cataloguing pre-publication galleys of… Read More
Historical databases now accessible to libraries through WorldCat and WorldCat Discovery Services - January 30, 2015
Accessible Archives, Inc., a publisher of electronic full-text searchable historical databases, has entered into an agreement with OCLC, a nonprofit library cooperative providing research, programs and services for libraries, to add MARC records from hundreds of digitised historical book resources to WorldCat for discovery of these… Read More
