Wiley partners with Knode to provide customised research expertise portals to learned societies and other academic organisations - January 9, 2014
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a new partnership with startup technology company Knode to provide customised research expertise portals to learned societies and other academic organisations worldwide. Designed to foster innovation and collaboration, Knode's expertise profiling system compiles a "research signature" for… Read More
Cengage Learning partners with Knewton to implement adaptive learning technology - January 9, 2014
Educational content, software and services company Cengage Learning has announced a partnership with adaptive learning company, Knewton. Through this agreement, Cengage Learning will implement Knewton's application programming interface (API) into select higher education products to provide personalized learning pathways for students and predictive analytics for instructors.… Read More
Decker Intellectual Properties signs licensing agreement with Scientific American to re-establish Scientific American Medicine database - January 6, 2014
Decker Intellectual Properties, Inc., has signed a licensing agreement with Scientific American to re-establish the comprehensive professional medical database, Scientific American Medicine (SAM). The subscription-based database, first published in 1981, now includes an enhanced medical offering through this agreement with Scientific American.… Read More
Husson University Library improves access to resources with Serials Solutions’ 360 Link - January 6, 2014
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that Husson University is working with the company to improve usage of the W. Tom and Bonnie Sawyer Library's resources. In pursuit of a solution to increase the number of full-text downloads, the university selected the 360 Link OpenURL… Read More
Brill acquires scholarly publishing activities of HES & DE GRAAF Publishers - December 30, 2013
Scholarly publisher Koninklijke Brill N.V. has reached an agreement for the acquisition of all scholarly publishing activities of HES & DE GRAAF Publishers B.V (Houten, NL). The take-over will take effect on 1 January 2014. Under the deal, Brill will acquire an English language list… Read More
CAS and Kalexsyn announce three-year agreement to offer unlimited SciFinder access to researchers - December 20, 2013
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's authority for chemical information, has announced a three-year agreement for SciFinder, the choice for chemistry research, with Kalexsyn, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) uniquely positioned to address the needs of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology communities. Through this partnership, Kalexsyn will… Read More
Springer and the American Thoracic Society join forces on the book series Respiratory Medicine - December 20, 2013
STM publisher Springer and the American Thoracic Society (ATS) have entered into a partnership to collaborate on the book series Respiratory Medicine. Springer will hold editorial responsibility, but will work with the ATS to develop new topics for books. Members of the society will have free… Read More
University College London and Elsevier launch UCL Big Data Institute - December 19, 2013
University College London (UCL) and STM publisher Elsevier will establish the UCL Big Data Institute as part of a new collaboration to explore innovative ways to better serve needs of researchers through the exploration of new technologies and analytics as applied to… Read More
EBSCO and Cosmotron partner to boost library discovery in Czech and Slovak Republic - December 18, 2013
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced a new partnership with Cosmotron, an ILS vendor serving the Czech and Slovak Republic, to provide expanded services to mutual customers. A joint development will enable libraries to deliver valuable content from EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) to… Read More
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Medical School in deal with McGraw-Hill Professional For AccessMedicine - December 18, 2013
McGraw-Hill Professional, a division of McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced a subscription agreement with The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Medical School for AccessMedicine, McGraw-Hill Professional's premier online learning product. UNC Chapel Hill Medical School is a leader in interrelated areas of… Read More
