Elsevier and National Association of Postgraduate Centers of Economics in Brazil, announce publishing agreement - June 25, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a publishing agreement with the National Association of Postgraduate Centers of Economics (ANPEC) in Brazil. Under the deal, Elsevier will publish EconomiA, ANPEC's official academy journal, starting September 2013. The journal will be published and hosted as an open… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education to acquire ALEKS Corporation - June 21, 2013
Digital learning company McGraw-Hill Education, US, has signed an agreement to acquire ALEKS Corporation, the privately held developer of the ALEKS adaptive learning technology for the K-12 and higher education markets. The move strengthens McGraw-Hill Education's position as the leader in delivering personalised learning experiences through… Read More
ARL partners with SAA to offer Digital Archives Specialist courses at ARL Libraries - June 21, 2013
Registration is now open for the first offering of Society of American Archivists (SAA) Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) courses targeted for staff in ARL member institutions. ARL is working with SAA to deliver four DAS courses back-to-back in a single week, travelling across 11 different ARL… Read More
EQT Partners and GIC Special Investments agree to sell Springer Science+Business Media to BC Partners - June 20, 2013
EQT Partners AB (EQT) and GIC Special Investments Pte Ltd (GIC) have agreed to sell their majority stake in Springer Science+Business Media (Springer), a global scientific, technical and medical (STM) publisher, to the private equity firm BC Partners Limited (BC Partners). The plans for an initial… Read More
Liverpool University Press to make scholarly monograph content available via OUP’s UPSO platform - June 20, 2013
Liverpool University Press has announced a partnership with the Oxford University Press to launch Liverpool Scholarship Online on OUP's University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform, taking advantage of a fully enabled XML environment with cutting edge search and discovery functionality. Liverpool… Read More
HathiTrust and DPLA partnership to make nearly 3.5 million books accessible via DPLA portal and API - June 19, 2013
The HathiTrust Digital Library will partner with the recently launched Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to expand discovery and use of HathiTrust's public domain and other openly available content. DPLA provides an online portal to freely available digital material held by libraries, archives, and… Read More
Eight new publishers to join University Press Content Consortium in 2014 - June 19, 2013
Eight distinguished scholarly presses, including the recently-revived University of Missouri Press and the Chinese University Press, are confirmed to join the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) and make their books available digitally on the Project MUSE platform in 2014. Cornell University Press, Northern Illinois University Press,… Read More
Scope partners with AAPA to provide ‘Big Data’ services - June 18, 2013
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, has entered into a partnership with the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), the US national professional society for physician assistants, to provide big data analytics solutions. Scope has considerable experience in… Read More
Elsevier to pair educational content with ClaimGear, CollaborateMD’s online medical billing and coding solutions - June 14, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it is pairing its educational content with ClaimGear, CollaborateMD's online solution for medical billing and coding education. CollaborateMD, a provider of online medical practice management and medical billing solutions, has been providing ClaimGear to the academic arena since 2007.… Read More
EBSCO and Al Manhal in deal to add Arabic content to EBSCO Discovery Service - June 14, 2013
Library resources provider EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), US, has announced that collections from Al Manhal, the largest provider of electronic resources in the Arab world, will now be searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The agreement between EBSCO and Al Manhal will allow metadata for their… Read More
