Ziff Davis acquires emedia Communications from Reed Business Information - June 6, 2014
Digital media company Ziff Davis, LLC, has announced the acquisition of emedia Communications LLC, a provider of research to IT buyers and leads to IT vendors, from Reed Business Information. An agreement has also been signed to acquire the UK-based division of emedia, which will… Read More
Princeton University Press and De Gruyter sign distribution partnership - June 5, 2014
Princeton University Press has granted academic publisher De Gruyter non-exclusive global distribution rights to its eBooks. PUP is one of the world's respected university presses, publishing in all areas of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Princeton University Press Director Peter J. Dougherty believes… Read More
Gale adds Wiley titles to e-Book platform - June 4, 2014
Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and education resources for libraries, schools and businesses, has announced that more than 400 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. e-books are coming to the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL). GVRL is the e-book platform offered by… Read More
Tbilisi Centre of Mathematical Sciences and De Gruyter Open announce cooperation agreement - June 4, 2014
The Tbilisi Centre of Mathematical Sciences has entered into a cooperation agreement with open access publisher De Gruyter Open. Under the deal, De Gruyter Open will take over the Tibilisi Mathematical Journal, which, from now, will be available to read, download and… Read More
Elsevier to publish official journal of CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre - June 3, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a publishing agreement with The CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Under the deal, Elsevier will publish and host the organisation's official journal - Studies in Mycology (SiM), beginning June 2014.… Read More
SHARE partners with Center for Open Science to build the SHARE Notification Service - June 3, 2014
SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) and the Center for Open Science (COS), a Charlottesville, Virginia–based non-profit technology start-up, have agreed to form a partnership to build the SHARE Notification Service. This service will provide notice that research is available to the public.… Read More
Cengage Learning and Pathbrite partner to add ePortfolio solutions to deliver robust course solution - June 3, 2014
Education company Cengage Learning has announced a new partnership with Pathbrite, a leading Portfolio Learning Platform. Students will now gain access to Pathbrite's best-in-class e-portfolio in Cengage Learning's course solutions. The addition of an e-portfolio to MindTap's high quality course content differentiates it as the only… Read More
HighWire Press receives significant equity investment from Accel-KKR to support strategic growth - June 2, 2014
HighWire Press, a technology service provider to influential scholarly publishers and an auxiliary unit of Stanford University Libraries, has received a significant equity investment to support its strategic growth from Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm. The new partnership enables HighWire to further its investment in… Read More
Boopsie and NoveList partnership to provide in-app catalogue access to NoveList Select - June 2, 2014
Boopsie, Inc., a mobile app platform for libraries, has partnered with NoveList®, an EBSCO Information Services offering, to provide in-app catalogue access to NoveList Select™. NoveList Select applies NoveList’s expert-generated book recommendations to a library’s catalogue. Patrons search for a title in… Read More
ELT division of Cambridge University Press partners with Gutenberg Technology to deliver unique online reading experience - June 2, 2014
The English Language Teaching (ELT) division of Cambridge University Press has engaged Gutenberg Technology to provide students and adult learners around the world access to their award-winning products and services on a range of mobile devices and platforms. The Cambridge Bookshelf, designed and built by… Read More
