ACM and Morgan & Claypool announce agreement to co-publish e-books on cutting-edge computing research - January 16, 2013
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has entered into a long-term agreement with Morgan & Claypool to co-publish a series of scholarly books that capture the latest advances in computing research. These books, to be available from both ACM and Morgan & Claypool later this year,… Read More
MIT Press and OUP partner to make scholarly monograph content available via the UPSO platform - January 16, 2013
The MIT Press has announced a partnership with the Oxford University Press to launch MIT Press Scholarship Online on OUP’s University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform to take advantage of a fully enabled XML environment with cutting edge search and discovery functionality. Responding to increased… Read More
University of North Carolina’s library and BioMed Central partner to archive faculty research - January 14, 2013
The University of North Carolina's library and open access publisher BioMed Central have announced a collaboration as a result of which nearly 800 journal articles by UNC researchers will now enjoy greater visibility. Every time BioMed Central publishes an article by a UNC affiliate, the… Read More
Jisc in deal to preserve and host Vital subject portals - January 14, 2013
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) has finalised an agreement to preserve and host the Vital subject portals, an invaluable resource for schools. From April 1, 2013, management of the established subject and special interest portals will move from The Open University. The portals… Read More
Cambridge University Press to publish ASTIN Bulletin in partnership with the International Actuarial Association - January 11, 2013
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press, UK, has announced that it will publish the ASTIN Bulletin from 2013, on behalf of the International Actuarial Association (IAA). ASTIN Bulletin - The Journal of the IAA was founded in 1958 as a journal providing an outlet for actuarial… Read More
Elsevier acquires Aureus Sciences - January 10, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of Aureus Sciences, a Paris, France, based privately held company that provides databases and information tools to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Formed in 2002, Aureus Sciences gathers unique and high quality quantitative biological activity data for major… Read More
EBSCO Publishing acquires PEMSoft, expands evidence-based Pediatric content - January 10, 2013
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has expanded its evidence-based healthcare content with the acquisition of PEMSoft, a premiere pediatric point-of-care clinical information resource. PEMSoft is an online clinical library and multimedia decision support system that addresses acute and chronic illness and injury… Read More
Brill acquires English-language Entomology publications programme from Apollo Books - January 10, 2013
Scholarly publisher Brill, Netherlands, has finalised an agreement with Apollo Books (Denmark) to acquire the English-language Entomology publications programme as well as a small number of other Biology titles. The acquisition comprises a number of book series, such as: Geometrid Moths of Europe, The Moths and… Read More
Elsevier to publish Cytotherapy: The Journal of Cell Therapy - January 9, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) has selected Elsevier to publish Cytotherapy: The Journal of Cell Therapy, effective January 2013. Cytotherapy claims to be a highly influential publication in the mainstream of the rapidly expanding field of cell-based… Read More
Acumen Publishing joins Metapress hosting platform - January 9, 2013
MetaPress, a hosting service for academic content, has announced its recent association with Acumen Publishing. Metapress is ready to meet Acumen's speed-to-market needs by first hosting the publisher's content on the new Metapress Essential platform before launching the publisher's new online publishing platform, which is scheduled… Read More
