IPG, Amazon reach agreement on sale of e-book titles - May 28, 2012
Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, and books distributor Independent Publisher's Guild (IPG) have reportedly announced an agreement. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The move comes three months after Amazon pulled e-book titles off its site from clients of… Read More
Pearson set to acquire GlobalEnglish Corporation for $90 million - May 28, 2012
Print and digital education materials provider Pearson has announced the acquisition of GlobalEnglish from its current ownership group for $90 million in cash. The transaction is subject to approval by GlobalEnglish’s shareholders. Founded in 1997 in California, GlobalEnglish is a provider of cloud-based, on-demand Business… Read More
BA Insight ties up with MuseGlobal to expand offerings via TotalView Applications - May 25, 2012
BA Insight, a US-based provider of integrated search technologies and search-based applications, has announced a partnership with metasearch technology provider MuseGlobal, Inc., US. As a result of the partnership, BA Insight has expanded the number of content sources it can securely integrate into its TotalView Applications.… Read More
SAGE Publications and HighWire renew partnership - May 24, 2012
SAGE Publications, IPG's 2012 Publisher of the Year, has announced the renewal of its strategic partnership with HighWire Press and their electronic publishing organisation. SAGE cited HighWire's versatility, scalability, and the support of its highly capable publication management team as key deciding factors in renewing its… Read More
NPG offers site license access to Spektrum der Wissenschaft - May 23, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, will offer site license access to Spektrum der Wissenschaft, the German-language edition of Scientific American, as well as to Spektrum's sister publications and archives. All titles, available in German, will be hosted on the Spektrum.de platform. Together with Scientific… Read More
ProQuest and Elsevier Health expand medical licensing agreement - May 22, 2012
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, and Elsevier Health have announced that both companies are expanding their relationship for licensing of the Lancet family of medical journals to include 36 additional acclaimed health science titles from Elsevier in ProQuest’s information products. The new three-year agreement… Read More
UBM Medica US and MedicExchange announce marketing and distribution deal - May 22, 2012
UBM Medica US, part of UBM Connect, and MedicExchange have announced a marketing and distribution partnership. MedicExchange provides technology solutions, technical data and a robust social media platform for over 90,000 healthcare buyers and sellers in radiology, healthcare IT, medical services and equipment markets. Through… Read More
Accelrys ties up with Thomson Reuters for Cortellis for Informatics content - May 22, 2012
Accelrys, Inc., a US-based scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, has announced a strategic content sourcing collaboration with the Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters. The agreement will deliver relevant, current and expertly curated life sciences content from Thomson Reuters' Cortellis for Informatics… Read More
Brill and Publishing Technology launch strategic new e-resource of aggregated content - May 18, 2012
Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, along with Dutch publisher BRILL have announced the launch of the new aggregated scholarly portal, Brill Online Books and Journals. For the first time, all of Brill’s content from 20 subject specialities across three… Read More
Research4Life announces dramatic increase in peer reviewed research available to developing world - May 17, 2012
The Research4Life partners have announced that content available through its collaborative public-private partnership has dramatically increased since 2011 to reach 17,000 peer reviewed scientific journals, books and databases. Research4Life provides over 6,000 institutions in more than 100 developing countries with free or low cost access to… Read More
