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
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
