Cengage to integrate iChemLabs’ ChemDoodle Web Components into e-learning products - October 16, 2012
Cengage Learning, US-based provider of teaching, learning and research solutions, and iChemLabs LLC, the developer of the ChemDoodle chemical drawing programme, have announced the integration of the HTML5 ChemDoodle Web Components into Cengage Learning's e-learning products for chemistry. The ChemDoodle Web Components seek to introduce users… Read More
Texas Southmost College partners with Pearson for all-digital content programmes - October 16, 2012
Texas Southmost College (TSC) has partnered with Pearson, a US-based provider of educational content and services, to provide digital content, services and technology in support of its transition to an independent, two-year public community college in fall 2013. The new institution will feature digital delivery of… Read More
IOP Publishing launches ebook programme, announces new partnership - October 12, 2012
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced its entrance into the book market as part of a long-term strategy to expand its support to the research community by offering the broadest range of publishing services to authors and readers. The IOP… Read More
SAGE acquires primary sources publisher Adam Matthew - October 11, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the purchase of primary sources publisher Adam Matthew at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Best known for digitising the Mass-Observation Archives at the University of Sussex, the 'American West' project with The Newberry Library, Chicago, and a wide range of resources… Read More
ProQuest to offer access to Journal Watch via expanded tie-up with NEJM - October 10, 2012
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has expanded its long-standing relationship with the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Now, in addition to integration of the full-text of NEJM in its information products, plus a collection of classic images and deep index images, ProQuest will… Read More
Health Economic Evaluations Database now available via EBSCOhost - October 10, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that the Health Economic Evaluations Database (HEED), a database containing information on studies of cost-effectiveness and other forms of economic evaluation of medicines, is now available via EBSCOhost. Initially developed as a joint initiative between the… Read More
Stanford University Press partners with Oxford University Press to launch Stanford Scholarship Online on OUP’s UPSO platform - October 10, 2012
Academic publisher Stanford University Press has announced a partnership with Oxford University Press (OUP) to launch Stanford Scholarship Online on OUP's University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform. Responding to increased demand for online scholarly content, UPSO streamlines the research journey by… Read More
Cyprus becomes a CERN Associate Member State - October 9, 2012
The CERN Director-General, Rolf Heuer, and the Cyprus Minister of Education and Culture, George Demosthenous, have signed an agreement under which Cyprus will become an Associate Member State in the pre-stage to Membership. The agreement will have to be ratified by the Parliament of Cyprus before… Read More
ACCUCOMS and RINGGOLD sign representation deal - October 9, 2012
ACCUCOMS, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, has signed a contract with RINGGOLD for exclusive representation for territories outside the UK and North America. This is the first such partnership between ACCUCOMS and another provider of publisher services. … Read More
The Charlesworth Group to represent Henry Stewart Talks in Mainland China - October 8, 2012
The Charlesworth Group has announced that Henry Stewart Talks, the UK producer of the Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection, has appointed the company to represent them in Mainland China. The collection of specially prepared, online, animated, audio-visual lectures by world leading scientists (including many Nobel… Read More
