Thomson Reuters collaborates with the Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management - April 16, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with the Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management to power a unique academic research portal through the Web of Science, the premier scientific search and discovery platform and… Read More
Wiley signs definitive agreement to acquire CrossKnowledge - April 16, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CrossKnowledge, a learning solutions provider focused on leadership and managerial skills development, for $175 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close on May 1. CrossKnowledge is a privately-held company based… Read More
Complete digital editions of Harvard Business Review Press now available for purchase via EBSCO eBook platform - April 16, 2014
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Harvard Business Review Press have extended the availability of Harvard Business Review Press products to EBSCO Corporate, Government and Hospital users. For the first time, all digital editions of Harvard Business Review Press titles are being made available via the EBSCO… Read More
Kazakhstani research community to benefit from access to Scopus and continued access to ScienceDirect - April 15, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has signed a license agreement with the National Center for Scientific and Technical Information (NCSTI) to make key Elsevier resources available to the entire Kazakhstani research community. The agreement, signed on behalf of the Ministry of Science and Education, provides more… Read More
NLM and Wellcome Library in deal to make 150 years of Biomedical journals freely available online - April 15, 2014
Representatives of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health, and the Wellcome Trust recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to make thousands of complete back issues of historically-significant biomedical journals freely available online. The… Read More
Atypon Systems acquires Metapress from EBSCO Online, Inc. - April 15, 2014
Atypon Systems, Inc. and EBSCO Online, Inc. have announced that Atypon has acquired the Metapress business from EBSCO Online, Inc., which has made the decision to discontinue the Metapress platform. Atypon and EBSCO will work together to transition Metapress clients to Atypon's… Read More
ProQuest and J.P. Morgan partner to widen access to analyst reports - April 14, 2014
ProQuest, an information firm central to global research, and J.P. Morgan, a global financial services firm, have joined forces to help business students and faculty make use of J.P. Morgan’s company and economic research. The companies have created J.P. Morgan Research, which contains intelligence and insight… Read More
ebrary partners with Wolters Kluwer for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ebooks - April 11, 2014
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest and Wolters Kluwer are teaming up to make more than 1,000 critical medical titles available on the ebrary platform through subscription (including the award-winning Academic Complete™), patron-driven acquisition (PDA), and perpetual purchase. The Lippincott titles available… Read More
University of California Press to partner with HighWire - April 11, 2014
University of California Press (UC Press) has announced that beginning in mid-2015 its journal content will be hosted on the HighWire Open Platform from Stanford University's HighWire Press. The HighWire Open Platform technology infrastructure is increasingly becoming the platform of choice… Read More
figshare and IOP Publishing announce collaborative pilot to help authors share their work - April 10, 2014
IOP Publishing (IOP), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, and figshare have announced a collaborative pilot to test new ways to help authors share figures and data from IOP's journals more easily. The aim of the pilot is to assist authors further… Read More
