Australasian universities welcome Springer Book Archives - April 5, 2013
STM publisher Springer has announced that it will offer online access to 100,000 eBooks with historic content through its Springer Book Archives (SBA), available anywhere, at any time, via SpringerLink by the end of 2013. As early adopters, Australasian universities were some… Read More
Newly established Ural Regional Universities Consortium in Russia gains access to ScienceDirect and Scopus - April 4, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its official collaboration with the Ural Regional Universities Consortium by providing 11 universities in Russia's Ural region with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus throughout 2013. Led by the Ural Federal University, the Ural Regional University Consortium was newly established… Read More
McGraw-Hill Professional and IHS partner to deliver critical engineering content to professionals worldwide - April 4, 2013
Scientific and medical information resources provider McGraw-Hill Professional, US, has signed an exclusive agreement with IHS, the premier source of insight and information to professionals in the field. As part of the agreement, IHS will provide McGraw-Hill Professional's innovative AccessEngineering platform as part of its suite… Read More
Project MUSE partners with HighWire Press - April 4, 2013
The Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) has reached an agreement with Stanford University's HighWire Press to transition to the HighWire Open Platform as the new digital hosting and delivery platform for Project MUSE. Over the past year, JHUP and its digital publishing unit Project MUSE… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health and Wiley expand partnership for content on Ovid - April 3, 2013
Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced an extension of its long-term partnership with publisher John Wiley & Sons to provide more than 460 premier journals on the Ovid medical research platform. The new agreement includes the addition of Early… Read More
The Charlesworth Group to represent ISPG in Mainland China and Hong Kong - April 3, 2013
The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) is pleased to announce the renewal of its exclusive agreement for representation in Mainland China with The Charlesworth Group. The renewed agreement now includes representation in Hong Kong. ISPG is a coalition of 20 independent HighWire hosted publishers of… Read More
Springer, CAS collaboration to accelerate chemistry research - April 1, 2013
STM publisher Springer and chemical information provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, will collaborate to include thousands of new experimental procedures for chemical reactions reported in Springer journals in the CAS databases. This collaboration will increase… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education launches new version of LearnSmart - April 1, 2013
McGraw-Hill Education, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has launched a new version of the company's market-leading adaptive learning program, McGraw-Hill LearnSmart. With this expansion, McGraw-Hill Education aims to help improve education and results for a market of more than 15 million students… Read More
Credo partners with ReadSpeaker to add text-to-speech technology into Literati solutions - April 1, 2013
Credo, a provider of information and digital literacy solutions for libraries, has announced that it is integrating technology from ReadSpeaker, a provider of online text to speech, into its Literati solutions. ReadSpeaker’s text-to-speech technology is one of many recent additions to the innovative learning technologies that… Read More
SAGE to publish South African Journal of Psychology - March 28, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE has begun a partnership with the Psychological Society of South Africa, (PsySSA) to publish its flagship journal the South African Journal of Psychology. The rigorously peer-reviewed journal is dedicated to publishing empirical, theoretical and review articles that focus on South African, African and… Read More
