RSuite CMS joins Association of Educational Publishers - February 5, 2013
RSuite CMS, a content management system for publishers, recently joined the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) as an affiliate member. The AEP serves the diverse needs of the entire educational resource community, including publishers, content developers, IT professionals, service providers, researchers, instructors, and communication experts from… Read More
Elsevier and Kanazawa University in Japan team up to map university’s research performance - February 4, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its collaboration with Kanazawa University in Japan by providing access to SciVal and consultative support in mapping the university's research performance. With the help of SciVal Consultants, Kanazawa University used SciVal to map out its research expertise and areas of… Read More
Elsevier and NWO announce collaboration with 5 year access agreement to Reviewer Finder and Scopus - February 1, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), have announced their collaboration with a 5 year access agreement to Elsevier's Reviewer Finder and Scopus, which will further improve NWO’s assessment process of research grant applications. As a leading research funding council in… Read More
HighWire renews consortia sales support agreement with Dragonfly - February 1, 2013
HighWire, a division of Stanford University, has renewed its consortia sales support agreement with Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting. The aim is to renew their commitment to support scholarly publishers in their efforts to reach library consortia in accessing a collection of high-impact life science content… Read More
New titles to be added to British Academy Publications Online - January 31, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press and the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences have announced that the British Academy Publications Online (BAPO) will be updated with 28 new titles on January 31, 2013. British Academy Publications Online is an online… Read More
WALDO selects Books at JSTOR programme for demand-driven acquisition model - January 31, 2013
JSTOR and WALDO (the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organisation) have announced an agreement that enables WALDO member libraries to participate in the Books at JSTOR through both outright book purchases as well as a demand-driven acquisition (DDA) programme. WALDO - the membership organisation that counts… Read More
BMJ Group set to publish military medical title, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps - January 30, 2013
Medical publisher the BMJ Group, UK, has announced that it will take over production and publication of the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps (JRAMC) from March 2013. First issue of the journal under the new partnership is due in March. The quarterly title… Read More
RSC and India’s CSIR partner to advance cheminformatics for novel therapies - January 30, 2013
The Royal Society of Chemistry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in India to raise awareness of the importance of cheminformatics - or eScience - in accelerating the discovery of novel therapies for neglected diseases such… Read More
RCN Publishing adopts DataSalon’s MasterVision service - January 30, 2013
RCN Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing, has announced that they have adopted DataSalon's MasterVision service in order to gain a better understanding of their customer base and to further develop their business. MasterVision gives RCN Publishing a complete 'single… Read More
ProQuest to digitise 70,000 volumes from BnF’s collection of European books as part of Early European Books programme - January 29, 2013
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris are joining forces to expand access to the Library's rich historical treasures. As part of its Early European Books programme, ProQuest will digitise about 70,000 volumes from BnF's collection of… Read More
