MedeAnalytics acquires OnFocus Healthcare - November 21, 2014
MedeAnalytics, a pioneer in healthcare analytics, has announced the acquisition of OnFocus Healthcare, Inc., a provider of healthcare enterprise performance management solutions. The synthesis of OnFocus Healthcare and MedeAnalytics will create the first 'closed loop' analytics and execution-driven performance improvement solution for healthcare. OnFocus Healthcare's… Read More
Times Higher Education and Elsevier partner to provide data behind THE’s flagship World University Rankings and its global university performance analyses - November 20, 2014
Times Higher Education (THE) and Elsevier have announced a partnership to provide the data behind the THE's flagship World University Rankings and its global university performance analyses. The methodology of the global rankings will be broadly preserved. The rankings will continue to… Read More
American Mathematical Society partners with CCC to automate permissions requests using RightsLink - November 19, 2014
Global licensing and content solutions organisation Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that the American Mathematical Society (AMS) has implemented CCC's RightsLink®, a technology solution that allows visitors to the AMS website to license content quickly and easily. AMS is a publisher of mathematics books,… Read More
Macmillan Distribution goes live with new subscription business powered by Publishing Technology - November 19, 2014
International book distributor Macmillan Distribution (MDL) has gone live with its new subscription platform, running on Publishing Technology's advance enterprise system. MDL becomes the first Publishing Technology client in the UK to launch its service on the digitally-native Order to Cash module of advance, which… Read More
Elsevier expands engineering content available on Knovel, adds ten more content providers - November 18, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the addition of ten content providers who will offer content via the Knovel platform, strengthening a range of disciplines including civil engineering, chemical engineering and earth sciences among others. The publishers recently added to the Knovel platform, include De Gruyter, J.… Read More
Phillips Academy Andover selects EBSCO Discovery Service - November 18, 2014
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that the Phillips Academy Andover, an independent, coeducational boarding high school that enrolls more than 1,100 students, has opted for EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) to provide students with a more streamlined search that can be customised to their needs. … Read More
RLUK and OCLC expand partnership for shared collection management and visibility goals - November 17, 2014
OCLC and Research Libraries UK (RLUK), a consortium of research organisations in the UK and Ireland, have announced an expanded partnership that will help RLUK achieve key strategic objectives for shared collection management and resource discovery. Building on existing OCLC cataloguing arrangements,… Read More
LexisNexis plans to acquire Health Market Science - November 14, 2014
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, a division of Reed Elsevier, has announced its intent to acquire Health Market Science (HMS), a leading supplier of high-quality data on health care professionals and an administrator of one of the largest practitioner-level medical claims databases in the… Read More
EBSCO Information Services and The Karolinum Press collaborate to make over 150 Czech titles available via EBSCO ebooks - November 14, 2014
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) recently partnered with Czech publisher, The Karolinum Press, Charles University in Prague, to offer more than 150 Czech titles to its growing collection of e-books available via EBSCO eBooks™. Charles University in Prague is one of Europe's oldest universities. The collection… Read More
CDISC and HIMSS collaborate on standards-based health IT solution, linking patient care with clinical research - November 13, 2014
The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and HIMSS have extended their existing and long-standing relationship and, in collaboration with Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) USA, will work together to foster the adoption of standards to enable the interoperability of health IT… Read More
