The Journal for Nurse Practitioners named official publication of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners - February 21, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that The Journal for Nurse Practitioners (JNP) has been chosen as an official publication of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). AANP is a new organisation formed by the merger of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and… Read More
Maney Publishing signs agreement with Atypon for Literatum - February 21, 2013
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has signed an agreement with Atypon, a provider of software to the scientific and scholarly publishing industry, for Literatum to power the future of its digital publications. Maney Publishing is an independent publishing company specialising in academic journals in materials… Read More
Portland Press becomes latest publisher to participate in JUSP - February 20, 2013
Portland Press Limited, the not-for-profit publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, has confirmed its participation in the Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP). JUSP is a service built in response to demand from the UK HE community. At a time of economic constraint it is essential… Read More
DynaMed and Isabel Healthcare expand relationship to create powerful integration of diagnosis and treatment information tools - February 19, 2013
DynaMed, a clinical reference that seeks to offer timely updates and a strong evidence-based approach, has announced an agreement with Isabel Healthcare, which produces the highly respected differential diagnosis tool Isabel. The integration and the new reselling agreement seamlessly extends evidence-based medicine into diagnosis decision-making. … Read More
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
