Association of American University Presses and CCC announce referral partnership - March 14, 2012
Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced a referral partnership with the Association of American University Presses (AAUP). Under the deal, AAUP's members can protect copyrighted assets and earn revenue from their online content using CCC's RightsLink service at a… Read More
East Carolina School of Dental Medicine selects Ingram’s VitalSource for e-textbook solution - March 14, 2012
Ingram Content Group Inc., US, has announced that the East Carolina School of Dental Medicine has selected its e-textbook management and distribution platform, VitalSource, as a cornerstone of its new e-learning environment for dental students. Vital Source worked directly with leading education publishers to develop… Read More
Blackboard and ACE expand partnership to support ACE Fellows Program - March 13, 2012
Enterprise technology and innovative solutions provider Blackboard Inc, US, and the American Council on Education (ACE) have announced a renewed partnership and a $700,000 in-kind gift from Blackboard to support the ACE Fellows Program, which prepares senior leaders to serve colleges and universities nationwide. Through… Read More
Thomson Reuters selected by 4 organisations for data analysis and management - March 13, 2012
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that it has been selected by four organisations to provide essential data and insight into their ground-breaking scientific initiatives. The organisations include Alzheimer's Research UK, the Institute of Physics, the National Institutes of Health… Read More
EBSCO Publishing and Accessible Archives expand partnership - March 13, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has expanded its partnership with Accessible Archives, Inc. to include American County Histories to 1900: New England and The Civil War: Parts V and IV in EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The agreement allows metadata from these two resources… Read More
Ben-Gurion University to contribute to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database - March 13, 2012
Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has joined the thousands of research institutions worldwide that contribute to the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database (PQDT), a commercially available repository of graduate works. Through PQDT, a worldwide network of scholars can expect to discover BGU's doctoral… Read More
Wiley to divest selected publishing assets - March 9, 2012
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced that it has retained Allen & Company LLC to explore the sale of a number of consumer print and digital publishing assets in its Professional/Trade business that no longer align with the company's long-term strategies. The assets are… Read More
Elsevier collaborates with Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine to publish new journal - March 9, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will publish the new journal of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (FPM), Health Policy and Technology. In March FPM will launch the first issue of the cross-disciplinary journal focusing on past, present and future health policy and… Read More
WK Health to offer nursing programmes to HealthStream customers - March 9, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has partnered with HealthStream, a provider of learning and research solutions for the healthcare industry. Under the deal, WK Health will offer the Lippincott’s Professional Development Programs product suite to HealthStream’s customer base of healthcare organisations. The… Read More
Crown Research Institutes of New Zealand select Web of Knowledge to accelerate research and development - March 9, 2012
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that the Crown Research Institutes of New Zealand (CRIs) have selected the Web of Knowledge platform to enhance the research and analytic capabilities of almost 3,000 researchers from six institutes. The renewal of the agreement represents a key… Read More
