LexisNexis merges MEDai into healthcare business - July 16, 2013
LexisNexis Risk Solutions recently completed an agreement with its sister company Elsevier to transfer MEDai, its clinical-analytics-focused business unit, to the LexisNexis healthcare business. LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Elsevier are both part of Reed Elsevier Group plc. The combined organisation will allow LexisNexis to offer… Read More
HighWire Press and Tizra announce strategic partnership - July 16, 2013
HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University Libraries, has announced a strategic partnership with Tizra to extend ebook functionality and integration to the HighWire Open Platform. Combining an intuitive web control panel with uniquely integrated content remixing, ecommerce, SEO and mobile web capabilities, Tizra… Read More
Ukrainian research institutions to benefit from broader access to Elsevier content and solutions - July 12, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its cooperation with the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science in order to provide access to Elsevier's scientific databases for sixty Ukrainian research institutions. A Declaration of Intent for Cooperation has been signed by the Ministry of Education and Science… Read More
MetaMetrics partners with five major publishers to provide Quantile measures for over 30 new mathematics textbooks - July 12, 2013
MetaMetrics, developer of The Quantile Framework for Mathematics, recently collaborated with five major publishers to provide Quantile measures for more than 30 new mathematics textbooks that cover materials intended for students in Kindergarten to 10th grade. These textbooks will join over 600 textbooks and 3,500 resources… Read More
Thomson Reuters acquires BioWorld - July 11, 2013
BioWorld and its companion publication Medical Device Daily (MDD) have been acquired by Thomson Reuters, a leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. It is expected that joining Thomson Reuters will allow the company to further invest in innovation and to grow its… Read More
Baker & Taylor and Bookmasters, Inc announce strategic partnership - July 11, 2013
Baker & Taylor, a distributor of digital and physical books, has entered into a strategic partnership with Bookmasters, Inc., a provider of publisher services. This partnership will expand Baker & Taylor's portfolio of value-added services to include the full suite of high quality services Bookmasters currently… Read More
APA and the APA Insurance Trust announce new business relationship - July 9, 2013
The American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychological Association Insurance Trust (The Trust) have announced that they have agreed to restructure their long-standing relationship, and, together with the American Psychological Association Practice Organization (APAPO), enter into a new business arrangement. This new relationship will… Read More
NLM collaboration with The Universities at Shady Grove expands to include virtual internships - July 8, 2013
The Universities at Shady Grove (USG), in partnership with the National Library of Medicine (NLM), will offer five virtual internships to students from the University of Maryland, College Park, College of Information Studies (iSchool), beginning Fall 2013. USG is a campus community of nine leading Maryland… Read More
Cengage Learning in deal with lenders to restructure balance sheet and strengthen financial position - July 5, 2013
Educational content, software and services company Cengage Learning, Inc., US, has announced an agreement with certain of its lenders to restructure its balance sheet and significantly reduce its about $5.8 billion of outstanding debt to better position the Company for long-term growth and profitability. In… Read More
177 universities in Turkey gain access to Scopus and ScienceDirect for next 3 years - July 2, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced an agreement with the Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBIM) to provide 177 academic and research institutions in Turkey with access to Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. In addition, access to ScienceDirect, Elsevier's full-text… Read More
