ACCUCOMS launches user interaction programme for Elsevier in Turkey - January 17, 2013
ACCUCOMS, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, has announced that it will train Elsevier users in Turkey as part of a newly launched user interaction programme. The user interaction programme trains researchers and librarians in the use of Elsevier's… Read More
Wiley acquires assets of FIZ Chemie Berlin - January 16, 2013
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced that it has acquired the assets of the FIZ Chemie Berlin, a provider of online database products for organic and industrial chemists. The acquisition aligns with the company’s long-term strategy to support research, learning, and professional practice through… Read More
WK Health and Natural Standard partner to provide access to Natural Standard Database via Ovid’s medical research platform - January 16, 2013
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, and Natural Standard, the authority on integrative medicine, have announced a partnership to expand access to Natural Standard Database through Ovid’s medical research platform. Produced by The Natural Standard Research Collaboration, this up-to-date repository contains thousands of evidence-based systematic… Read More
EBSCO Publishing and Ingram partner to make eBooks on EBSCOhost available via the OASIS library platform - January 16, 2013
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and Ingram Content Group Inc., a subsidiary of Nashville-based Ingram Industries Inc., have announced an agreement aimed at benefiting mutual customers of Ingram’s OASIS (Online Acquisitions and Selection Information System) and eBooks on EBSCOhost. The agreement will allow… Read More
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
