Elsevier to use Knewton technology to create next generation of digital course materials - June 16, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced a collaboration with Knewton, an adaptive learning company. Starting with courses for nursing and health professions students, Elsevier will use Knewton's infrastructure to power personalised digital solutions that continuously adjust to each individual's unique learning needs. Elsevier is a global leader… Read More
Chemistry World and Scientific American announce content sharing partnership - June 16, 2014
Chemistry World and Scientific American have announced a content sharing partnership where selected cutting edge chemistry content from Chemistry World will appear on the Scientific American website. Scientific American is at the heart of Nature Publishing Group's consumer media division, meeting… Read More
The Serials Solutions website merges into proquest.com - June 16, 2014
The serialssolutions.com website has migrated to become part of the proquest.com website as of June 9. This move reflects the uniting of all Serials Solutions technologies, including Intota and the Summon Service, into the ProQuest brand. Serialssolutions.com pages have been automatically redirected as of June… Read More
Elsevier acquires Amirsys, a healthcare information solutions and content for radiology, pathology, and anatomy provider - June 13, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the acquisition of Amirsys. Focused on visually oriented medical disciplines like radiology, pathology and anatomy, Amirsys' global solutions give healthcare providers the expert information and clinical decision support (CDS) tools to make informed, expert and evidence-based diagnoses. Amirsys also provides learning… Read More
Wiley acquires SimBioSys - June 13, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has acquired SimBioSys Inc., a provider of scientific software tools that facilitate the drug discovery process. Terms were not disclosed. SimBioSys is a pioneer in the field of computer-aided retrosynthetic analysis where it supports chemists in the challenges of… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry renews cooperation agreement with SAFEA – a division of the Chinese Government - June 13, 2014
The Royal Society of Chemistry celebrated the renewal of a cooperation agreement with the State Administration for Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) - a division of the Chinese Government - with an event at Burlington House in London. As part of a wider Chinese governmental initiative… Read More
Brill completes acquisition of Editions Rodopi - June 13, 2014
Scholarly publisher Koninklijke Brill N.V. has closed the acquisition of all shares of Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam. The acquisition includes highly esteemed book series and journals in history, philosophy, theology, social sciences, linguistics, literature, and cultural studies. In total, the publishing list comprises 3,000 book titles,… Read More
Taylor & Francis Group LLC acquires Landes Bioscience - June 10, 2014
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group has acquired Austin TX-based publisher Landes Bioscience Inc (LBI). LBI's list of 50 journal titles covers a range of topics, including genetics, cell biology, molecular biology and biomedicine. The Landes Bioscience publishing program covers a range of specialist titles, many… Read More
Reed Business Information acquires agricultural software and workflow solutions business, Farmade - June 9, 2014
Reed Business Information (RBI), a division of Reed Elsevier, recently announced that it has acquired the entire issued share capital of agricultural software and workflow solutions business Farmade. Farmade will join RBI's agricultural information, software and marketing solutions business, Farmers Weekly Group. Farmade provides widely… Read More
Research Solutions, Inc. to provide paid content access to MyScienceWork’s collaborative online science platform - June 6, 2014
Research Solutions, Inc. has announced that it has been selected by MyScienceWork to provide paid content access to MyScienceWork's collaborative online science platform. Research Solutions is a pioneer in facilitating the flow of information from the publishers of scientific, technical, and medical content to enterprise customers… Read More
