Routledge Journals adds three more titles to its Library & Information Science portfolio - February 13, 2014
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group has announced that three titles, Journal of Global Information Technology Management; Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research; and Journal of Information Privacy & Security, previously published by Ivy League Publishing, are now to be published under the Routledge imprint.… Read More
Oxford University Press to publish Federation of European Microbiological Societies journals from 2015 - February 13, 2014
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) recently signed a contract with the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) to publish five of their journals from January 1, 2015. FEMS brings together 50 member societies from 35 European countries, covering over thirty thousand microbiologists. The Federation… Read More
Dean Health Plan selects Wolters Kluwer Health’s Health Language to enhance enterprise management of medical terminologies and codes - February 12, 2014
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, has announced that Dean Health Plan (DHP) has selected its Health Language® solutions to centralize management of medical terminologies and code sets within its electronic systems. Integrating these tools will allow DHP to… Read More
American Medical Association partners with ACCUCOMS for shared representation in India - February 12, 2014
ACCUCOMS, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, and the American Medical Association (AMA) have announced a new sales representation agreement for the promotion of JAMA Network publications in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Under the deal, ACCUCOMS will… Read More
The Max Planck Society secures access to 110,000 books from almost 170 years of publishing history for its researchers - February 11, 2014
STM publisher Springer has announced that the Max Planck Society has bought the entire Springer Book Archives (SBA) consisting of 110,000 individual titles. The purchase gives staff in 82 Max Planck institutes in Germany direct online access to the retro-digitised books via the SpringerLink platform (
Over 600 public research and higher education institutions in France gain access to ScienceDirect Freedom Collection - February 11, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Couperin Consortium have come to a new agreement that provides researchers at over 600 public research and higher education institutions in France access to the ScienceDirect Freedom Collection content for five years. ScienceDirect is Elsevier' full-text database of more than… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health and American Society for Dermatologic Surgery announce publishing agreement - February 11, 2014
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, and the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery have announced an agreement to publish the Society's official journal, Dermatologic Surgery, in print, online and digital formats effective with the June 2014 issue. Dermatologic… Read More
Canada’s Competition Bureau signs consent agreements with four publishers regarding e-book pricing policies - February 10, 2014
Canada's Competition Bureau has reportedly reached consent agreements with four multinational publishers regarding their e-book pricing policies. The agreements resolve the Bureau's concerns that the four companies - Hachette Book Group Canada, Simon & Schuster Canada, HarperCollins Canada and Macmillan Canada -… Read More
American Geophysical Union and Wiley launch new OA journal – Earth and Space Science - February 7, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) have announced the creation of a new all open access peer-reviewed journal, Earth and Space Science. Marking AGU's second new open access journal in the last 12 months, Earth… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education acquires Area9 - February 7, 2014
Digital learning company McGraw-Hill Education, US, has acquired Area9 Aps, an adaptive learning company, which the company has partnered with to deliver personalised learning experiences through technology since 2007. In January 2013, McGraw-Hill Education purchased a 20 percent equity stake in Area9. The latest agreement covers… Read More
