SAGE acquires Vathek Publishing - September 4, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the purchase of legal journal publisher, Vathek Publishing. The sale was announced jointly by Lilli Waterford, founder of Vathek Publishing and Ziyad Marar, SAGE's Global Publishing Director. Vathek Publishing, incorporated in the Isle of Man in 2000 by Lilli Waterford,… Read More
Ingram and ProQuest expand ebook collaboration - September 4, 2014
Ingram Content Group Inc. and ProQuest LLC have announced an expanded e-book collaboration that benefits libraries worldwide. Earlier this year, the companies teamed to make titles from Ebook Library (EBL) available through Ingram's OASIS® content platform. Ingram has now added ebrary's… Read More
Shanghai Library adds 2 million records to WorldCat - September 4, 2014
Shanghai Library, the largest public library in China and one of the largest in the world, has contributed 2 million holdings to WorldCat, including some 770,000 unique bibliographic records, to share its collection worldwide. These records, which represent books and journals… Read More
Elsevier to market innovative patient data collection platform from Tonic Health - September 3, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has agreed to market and help further to develop Tonic Health's simple, fun and intuitive patient data collection platform. Using its deep experience serving the healthcare provider market, Elsevier will employ its sales force to offer Tonic's highly engaging, tablet-and web-based, EHR-integrated data… Read More
Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography to publish with Wiley - September 3, 2014
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. has announced its selection by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) to publish their highly regarded portfolio of journals focused on marine and inland water systems. Effective January 2015, Wiley will assume publishing responsibility for… Read More
DynaMed to utilise information from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network - September 3, 2014
Healthcare professionals will be able to access information about the latest and most complete oncology guidelines available at the point of care following an agreement between EBSCO Health and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). Information from NCCN will be summarised along… Read More
De Gruyter Open announces strategic partnership with BIT Congress - September 3, 2014
De Gruyter Open, an academic publisher of open access journals and books, has announced a strategic partnership with BIT Congress, which claims to be one of the world's largest conference operators. BIT Congress Inc. (BIT) is a conference operator with its head office in Dalian,… Read More
Springer-Verlag France sells French-language STM assets to Lavoisier - September 2, 2014
STM publisher Springer has signed an agreement for the sale of Springer-Verlag France's French-language STM publications to Lavoisier. The transaction is effective as of September 1, 2014. Archives and the articles to be published up to and including December 2016 will continue to be accessible… Read More
Thomson Reuters and DataCite collaborate to expand discovery of research data - August 29, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with DataCite, a global non-profit organization dedicated to enabling people to find, share, use, and cite data. The collaboration will promote the discovery of research data sets through the Data Citation Index, a… Read More
Atypon’s Literatum platform to host all ICE Publishing content from mid-2015 - August 29, 2014
ICE Publishing, a leading provider of information in the fields of civil engineering, construction, and materials science, has announced a partnership with Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry. Under the deal, Atypon's Literatum platform will host all ICE Publishing content… Read More
