Portland Press and Chinese National Science and Technology Library announce licence agreement - February 19, 2013
Portland Press Limited, the not-for-profit publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, recently signed an agreement with the Chinese National Science and Technology Library (NSTL) for country-wide online access to journals within their portfolio. Negotiations were facilitated by The Charlesworth Group. The three-year licence will ensure… Read More
ICA selects Health Language to support new addition to its health information exchange platform - February 18, 2013
Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that ICA has selected Health Language to support its health information exchange (HIE) platform. Health Language medical terminology management software and services will enable ICA, a provider of interoperability technology that enables care management and… Read More
SRU approved as OASIS Standard - February 18, 2013
The Search and Retrieve via URL (SRU) 2.0 has been approved as a standard by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). SRU is the web-based successor to Z39.50. Functionality supported by SRU includes defining a standard query grammar for complex interoperable searching, the ability to… Read More
Brill’s Linguistic Bibliography Online migration now complete - February 15, 2013
Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, recently migrated Brill's Linguistic Bibliography Online from a stand alone site to the existing Brill bibliography site: bibliographies.brillonline.com. The Linguistic Bibliography Online is a cross-searchable linguistic database with over 300.000 records and 20.000 titles… Read More
Bowker and Vook partner to offer e-book creation and distribution services - February 14, 2013
Bowker, a ProQuest affiliate, has announced a partnership with Vook to enrich the offerings available on Bowker's acclaimed MyIdentifiers.com site. In addition to accessing Bowker's ISBN and metadata services on MyIdentifiers.com, authors will now be able to purchase Vook's ebook production and distribution solutions, all from… Read More
Data Conversion Laboratory partners with Bowker to better serve self-publishing market - February 13, 2013
Digital publishing services provider Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), US, has announced a partnership with bibliographic information provider Bowker to better serve the self-publishing market. Bowker Identifier Services will now offer self-publishers DCL's robust EPUB on Demand eBook Product Service through Bowker's MyIdentifiers.com… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education ties up with Magna Publications to launch Learning Institute - February 13, 2013
McGraw-Hill Education has announced the launch of McGraw-Hill Learning Institute. The initiative is a professional development programme created to keep institutions and instructors up-to-date on the latest education technologies and provide guidance in determining which emerging technologies and best practices are right for their needs. As… Read More
Geological maps from SEG now discoverable and downloadable through Elsevier’s Geofacets research tool - February 12, 2013
STM Publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) have announced the inclusion of maps from SEG's flagship Economic Geology journal into Geofacets, Elsevier's research tool for geoscientists working in exploration. The joint effort means that geoscientists in the metals and mining, and oil… Read More
OUP adds British Computing Society’s Interacting with Computers journal to computer science portfolio - February 12, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that it will publish the journal, Interacting with Computers (IwC), on behalf of the British Computing Society (BCS). OUP currently publishes both The Computer Journal and ITNOW on behalf of BCS. With the addition of IwC to its… Read More
ICIS to produce NACD’s Chemical Distributor magazine - February 12, 2013
The National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) and petrochemical market information provider ICIS have announced a new partnership. Under the deal, ICIS will produce NACD's Chemical Distributor magazine, beginning February 2013. To be distributed to the NACD membership on a quarterly basis, ICIS will enhance… Read More
