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
EBSCO, Elsevier agreement allows mutual customers to access Scopus within EBSCO Discovery Service - October 5, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and STM publisher Elsevier have announced an agreement to allow mutual customers to access Scopus within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Scopus is a bibliographic, abstract and citation database provided by Elsevier. The agreement… Read More
WK Health and Joanna Briggs Institute expand partnership to provide full suite of JBI resources on OvidSP - October 5, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced an expanded partnership with the University of Adelaide's Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). JBI is an international producer of evidence-based practice (EBP) resources and tools. Ovid, part of WK Health, will be the exclusive channel… Read More
Publishers, CNRS in framework licence agreement for document delivery - October 5, 2012
The Laboratoire INIST of the CNRS, France, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) have agreed a framework licence agreement to be entered into directly by the individual publishers and the CNRS. The framework licence agreement will start from January 1,… Read More
Elsevier expands DirectCourse’s web-based learning Curricula - October 4, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Elsevier's DirectCourse has expanded, adding a new curriculum, College of Personal Assistance and Caregiving (CPAC). This interactive, web-based curriculum is designed to train and educate personal care assistants, home care providers and family caregivers caring for people with physical… Read More
DynaMed ranks highest among ten online clinical resources in fourth independent report - October 4, 2012
DynaMed, a clinical reference tool designed for use primarily at the point of care, has ranked highest among ten online clinical resources in a new study in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. The resources were evaluated in three areas - timeliness of content updating, breadth of… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education in deal with Vibal Publishing to expand reach into international markets - October 4, 2012
McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has announced a new agreement with Vibal Publishing, a Philippines-based provider of educational tools and resources for education, to adapt the company's McGraw-Hill My Math and Glencoe Math programs for use in the country's private schools.… Read More
