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
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
