Wiley to sell travel assets to Google to focus on core publishing areas - August 14, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell all of its travel assets, including all of its interests in the Frommer's brand, to Google. Proceeds from this sale, and others that may arise from the sale of other consumer… Read More
New agreement between SAGE and the University of Toronto provide access to SAGE’s content and platforms - August 14, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE has announced a new agreement with the University of Toronto. The deal will allow the University's staff, students and researchers access to a wide variety of SAGE's content and platforms. The agreement includes many electronic products and platforms offered by SAGE and… Read More
American Psychological Association to deploy Editorial Manager for journals - August 14, 2012
Aries Systems, a US-based provider of publishing software, has announced that the American Psychological Association (APA) has selected its Editorial Manager for manuscript submission and peer review of over 70 journals. APA Journals expects the Editorial Manager tool to provide it with various additional features… Read More
ASTM International selects Scope eKnowledge Center to provide enhanced smart content and MARC cataloging services - August 13, 2012
Knowledge services company Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope) has announced that ASTM International, one of the largest voluntary standards developers worldwide, has engaged the company to provide enhanced smart content services and MARC cataloguing for its highly valued content. Previously, Scope had developed a domain-specific, multi-level taxonomy… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education and Time To Know partner to develop digital teaching platform for K-12 schools - August 10, 2012
McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., US, has announced an exclusive licensing agreement with educational innovator Time To Know to develop an all-digital, data-driven differentiated teaching and learning platform for one-to-one computing classrooms. This partnership will combine McGraw-Hill Education's proven content and educational… Read More
Taylor & Francis and NISC announce co-publishing agreement - August 10, 2012
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced that it has been appointed to publish the South African Journal of Plant and Soil from 2012 together with specialist South African co-publisher NISC. This new partnership brings changes including the creation of a new site for the… Read More
Elsevier and Society of Biological Psychiatry renew publishing deal - August 9, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP) have renewed their publishing agreement. Under the deal, Elsevier will continue to provide publishing services for the society's journal Biological Psychiatry. The SOBP and Elsevier have worked together continuously since 1983. Biological Psychiatry is… Read More
University of Chicago Press and OUP partner to launch Chicago Scholarship Online via OUP’s UPSO platform - August 9, 2012
The University of Chicago Press has reportedly announced an agreement with Oxford University Press to launch Chicago Scholarship Online via OUP’s University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform. Chicago becomes the second major American university press to sign on to OUP’s e-book platform,… Read More
McGraw-Hill’s digital learning platforms now part of JISC Collections’ offerings to members - August 8, 2012
Scientific and medical information resources provider McGraw-Hill Professional, US, has announced an agreement with JISC Collections to offer its acclaimed suite of digital learning platforms to its members. McGraw-Hill Professional is a global provider of education and reference materials, information, and books for the Science,… Read More
National Geographic Learning to deliver ASCD resources for educators - August 8, 2012
National Geographic Learning (NGL), a US-based provider of educational materials for the PreK-12, higher education, adult education and ELT markets, has announced a distribution agreement with ASCD, which develops and delivers programmes, products and services for educators. NGL is part of Cengage Learning. Through this… Read More
