Content providers worldwide partner with OCLC to improve library workflows for e-content - January 28, 2014
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, has finalised agreements with 17 publishers worldwide to add valuable electronic collections to the WorldCat database, the most comprehensive online catalogue of resources available through libraries worldwide. Incorporating bibliographic data that link to these collections into… Read More
Gale and Portico extend partnership to preserve remaining digital collections - January 27, 2014
Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, and Portico, a not-for-profit digital preservation service, have announced an extension of their relationship to preserve the majority of Gale's remaining digital archives. The organisations have previously… Read More
ASM Press titles now available to order via Swets’ online content management and procurement platform, SwetsWise - January 27, 2014
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Press has agreed to make its titles available to order via SwetsWise, Swets' online content management and procurement platform. The American Society for Microbiology is the oldest… Read More
The Charlesworth Group and the American Medical Association renew agency agreement covering sales in China - January 27, 2014
The Charlesworth Group has announced that it has renewed the agency agreement with the American Medical Association covering sales in China. The Charlesworth Group has a longstanding relationship with the AMA, and has supported its activities in China since 2006. The AMA is responsible for… Read More
ProQuest joins Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association - January 27, 2014
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), which represents the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines. ProQuest is renowned for innovative content and technology solutions that increase… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health and Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses collaborate on Lippincott decision-support solutions - January 23, 2014
Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced a collaboration with the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN) to review the core medical-surgical procedures in the Lippincott Procedures software application, one of the leading online procedure solutions for… Read More
Informa’s Taylor & Francis and Fundación Infancia y Aprendizaje announce publishing partnership - January 23, 2014
Publisher Taylor & Francis and the Fundación Infancia y Aprendizaje (FIA) have announced a new publishing partnership for 2014. Taylor & Francis will publish the Fundación Infancia y Aprendizaje's five highly-regarded journals - Psyecology, Bilingual Journal of Environmental Psychology; Infancia y Aprendizaje, Journal for the Study… Read More
Ex Libris Group and Swets announce collaborative partnership - January 23, 2014
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has entered into a collaborative partnership with Swets, a provider of content management services for libraries. The collaboration will provide staff at academic and research libraries with a new, streamlined acquisition process compatible with both… Read More
De Gruyter Open and Academy of Management in Poland announce collaboration on five journals - January 22, 2014
Open access publisher De Gruyter Open has announced a publishing agreement with the first private Polish Academy of Management (SAN). The Academy of Management (SAN) is a teaching and research body founded in 1994. Over the past two decades SAN has quickly grown into a… Read More
Ovid to be exclusive site license partner for current and archival NEJM content in China - January 22, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has extended its global distribution agreement with the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM.org), a publisher of breakthrough biomedical research and best practices in clinical medicine, to be the exclusive provider of NEJM site licenses… Read More