ePals Corporation launches enhanced services for educational publishers worldwide - June 27, 2013
Education media company ePals Corporation announced the launch of enhanced services for educational publishers worldwide. These end-to-end services enable providers of curriculum, quality resources and learning activities to distribute their content into classrooms, schools and homes globally. Using the new Learning Centers, publishers can create… Read More
EBSCO expertise allows libraries using Kuali OLE to incorporate discovery into the ILS implementation - June 26, 2013
The Kuali Foundation has announced EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) as one of its latest Kuali Commercial Affiliates (KCA) within the Kuali community. EBSCO will provide expertise in seamlessly integrating discovery services with the Kuali OLE (Open Library Environment) for enhanced access to both print and digital… Read More
More than 200 Lippincott Continuing Education eCourses now available for individual purchase through eCommerce site - June 26, 2013
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that all of the online courses in Lippincott's Professional Development Programs are available for the first time for individual purchase to nurses looking to satisfy their Continuing Education (CE) requirements or to gain knowledge in a specialty… Read More
McGraw-Hill Professional and The Institution of Engineering and Technology sign publishing deal - June 26, 2013
Print and digital engineering content provider McGraw-Hill Professional, US, has signed a new multi-year agreement with The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a professional engineering organisation with more than 150,000 members in 127 countries. Under the agreement, McGraw-Hill Professional and The IET will jointly… Read More
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
