Biometrics Institute and Elsevier announce strategic partnership for delivery of the Biometrics 2014 Conference & Exhibition - February 19, 2014
The Biometrics Institute, the independent and international impartial body for the biometrics sector, has announced a strategic partnership with STM publisher Elsevier for the delivery of the Biometrics 2014 Conference & Exhibition to be held October 21-23, 2014 in London. The… Read More
QScience to use Rubriq’s standardised, independent peer review tool - February 19, 2014
Open access publisher Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation has announced that it will partner with Rubriq, complementing its own peer review process for its journals on QScience.com with the latter's groundbreaking scorecard, a standardised, independent peer review tool developed to speed publication and improve trust in the peer… Read More
Nature Publishing Group signs major agreement with French national licensing programme ISTEX - February 18, 2014
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has signed a major agreement with the French national licensing programme ISTEX, to make key scientific resources available to the French research community. More than 1.9 million students, researchers and scientists at over 200 French universities and institutions will… Read More
The Charlesworth Group to handle exclusive eBook sales for GeoScienceWorld in China - February 18, 2014
The Charlesworth Group is working with GeoScienceWorld (GSW) to handle exclusive eBook sales in China. Utilising its experience in the medical and academic sales' arena, and the company's established base in China, The Charlesworth Group will be working to support GSW by selling their eBook portfolio… Read More
Blackboard and Pearson announce collaboration to better support K-12 schools - February 18, 2014
Blackboard Inc. and Pearson, providers of technology and services to K-12 education, have announced a collaboration that will improve the integration and flow of data between their complementary K-12 solutions, in direct response to requests from educators. With this partnership, the… Read More
RCN Publishing to preserve e-journal content with Portico - February 17, 2014
RCN Publishing, part of the Royal College of Nursing group, has signed an agreement with Portico to preserve its e-journal content. Through the agreement, institutions participating in Portico's E-Journal Preservation Service will be assured continued access to RCN Publishing title content for their nurses, students and… Read More
UKB consortium in the Netherlands and the National Library of the Netherlands sign new agreement to move library services to OCLC WorldShare - February 17, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has announced that the UKB consortium of Dutch university libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands have signed a new agreement to move library services to OCLC WorldShare. This move by UKB means that its… Read More
HighWire offers altmetrics integration to publications hosted on HighWire Open Platform - February 14, 2014
Stanford University's HighWire Press and Altmetric LLP have announced the completion of an agreement to offer altmetrics integration to publications hosted on the HighWire Open Platform. This new agreement will enable leading publications on HighWire to join publishers such as the National Academy of Sciences… Read More
Metadata from NEWTON Media now searchable in EBSCO Discovery Service - February 14, 2014
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced that metadata from NEWTON Media, a Media Monitoring provider in Central and Eastern Europe, will be searchable in EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). NEWTON Media delivers the largest media news archive in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland… Read More
Wiley to publish Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria - February 14, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced a new partnership with Bergey’s Manual Trust, which will see Wiley publish Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB) from 2014. Bergey's is recognised as the most complete and authoritative description of bacterial and archaeal diversity… Read More
