NGL announces significant adoption of K-5 Science and K-8 English as a Second Language products in Florida and Texas - March 9, 2012
National Geographic Learning (NGL), part of Cengage Learning, has announced significant adoptions of their K-5 Science and K-8 English as a Second Language (ESL) products in Florida and Texas, respectively. NGL Science has been adopted by 21 school districts in the state of Florida, including… Read More
Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics partner to publish new book series - March 8, 2012
STM publisher Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI) have announced a partnership to publish a new book series - SIMAI Springer Series. Research-level monographs, advanced textbooks and collected works in English will make up the series, focusing on the applications of… Read More
Turnitin partners with ProQuest to include dissertations from 2008 to the present - March 8, 2012
Turnitin, web-based solution for plagiarism prevention, has partnered with information resources and technologies provider ProQuest to include more than 300,000 dissertations and theses from 2008 to the present in the Turnitin comparison database. With this agreement, Turnitin seeks to enhance its repository of scholarly content… Read More
Knovel expands customer base across EMEA - March 7, 2012
Queen Mary, University of London, The University of Southampton and The University of the West of England are among a growing number of Universities across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which over the last six months have added Knovel to their engineering and science reference… Read More
IOP Publishing and TEMIS sign license and services agreement - March 7, 2012
TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has announced that it has signed a license and services agreement with non-profit scientific publisher, IOP Publishing (IOP). IOP publishes a range of journals, websites and magazines and hosts over 450,000 articles spanning… Read More
Elsevier announces completion of Kyoto University’s study on research activities and competencies at universities across Japan - March 6, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the completion Kyoto University's study on research activities and competencies at universities across Japan. The study was based on analyses of data driven from Elsevier's multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, SciVerse Scopus. Measuring the effect of the Japanese government's… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell announces new publishing partnership with the Society of Actuaries - March 6, 2012
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with the Society of Actuaries to publish six publications in the field of actuarial science, beginning in 2012. The publications are designed to prepare for the Construction… Read More
Seven titles from Brill Academic Publishers join Taylor & Francis’ journals portfolio - March 5, 2012
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group, UK, has announced that it will be adding 7 journals to its Science, Technology and Engineering portfolio. These titles are transferring from Brill Academic Publishers over the coming weeks. Following the transfer, the journals will be published under the Taylor… Read More
Baker & Taylor to make nearly 100,000 original Smashwords ebooks available to Blio readers - March 5, 2012
Baker & Taylor, Inc., a distributor of digital and physical books, together with K-NFB Reading Technology, developer of the Blio e-reading application, have announced a distribution agreement with indie ebooks distributor Smashwords. The deal will bring nearly 100,000 independently-published ebooks to the Blio store. Blio… Read More
OCLC transfers rights to license publisher-owned databases to EBSCO - March 2, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has transferred to EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) the rights to license publisher-owned databases that are currently available through the OCLC FirstSearch reference service. This transaction is intended to complete the cooperative’s transition out of the role of content… Read More
