Baker & Taylor and LightSail partner to improve K-12 literacy technology - February 6, 2014
Baker & Taylor, a distributor of digital and physical books, has announced its exclusive partnership with LightSail Education to provide its vast portfolio of digital books and robust KnowledgePoint content management solutions to LightSail's groundbreaking K-12 digital literacy platform. The new integrated solution will ensure… Read More
Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition gain access to Elsevier’s research management and database solutions - February 5, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has expanded its collaboration with the Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition (KoBSON). KoBSON members will now have access to Elsevier's journal back file content (research articles published before 1995), a collection of more than 4,000 ebooks and to research performance solution… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education to acquire Engrade - February 4, 2014
Digital learning company McGraw-Hill Education, US, has agreed to acquire Engrade, the developer of an open digital platform for K-12 education that unifies the data, curriculum and tools that educators use every day to drive student achievement and inform district educational strategy. The move enables McGraw-Hill… Read More
California Digital Library and Elsevier renew contract for next 5 years - February 3, 2014
The California Digital Library (CDL) has announced that it has completed a favourable negotiation with STM publisher Elsevier to renew the ScienceDirect journals for 2014-2018. ScienceDirect is the largest journals package for co-investment by the UC libraries with over 1200 titles.… Read More
NIMS, Japan and Switzerland-based Empa partner to expand opportunities for open access publishing in materials science - February 3, 2014
The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan) has announced a new collaboration with the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa, Switzerland) to expand the open access journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM). NIMS and Empa… Read More
Occam’s Reader Project and Springer announce agreement to run eBooks Interlibrary Loan Pilot program with GWLA members - February 3, 2014
The Occam's Reader Project – comprising Texas Tech University, the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) – and STM publisher Springer have entered into an agreement to run a pilot program with GWLA's 33 members, focused on eBook interlibrary loans… Read More
Taylor & Francis, Figshare partnership to make research more discoverable - January 31, 2014
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced a partnership with Figshare, an online repository which enables researchers to securely host, publish and share all their research. Authors who publish with Taylor & Francis journals will see their supplemental material in a new online format, as… Read More
American Psychological Association to publish American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 31, 2014
The American Psychological Association (APA) recently announced that it has become the publisher of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (AJOP). The mission of the journal is to clarify, challenge, or reshape the prevailing understanding of factors in the prevention and correction of injustice and in the… Read More
Brill journal content directly available through INASP as part of Brill’s Developing Countries Program - January 31, 2014
Scholarly publisher Brill, Netherlands, and INASP have signed an agreement to make Brill journal content directly available through INASP as part of Brill's Developing Countries Program. Brill content is already included through EBSCO, but starting in 2014, the journal content will also be offered directly… Read More
Springer adds altmetrics information to all articles available on SpringerLink - January 30, 2014
STM publisher Springer has added altmetrics information to every article available on SpringerLink, the publishing company's online platform. The data is provided by Altmetric, a London-based start-up which tracks and analyzes the online activity around scholarly literature. The addition of this feature… Read More
