MarkLogic, Hortonworks partnership to enhance Big Data apps with Apache Hadoop - March 2, 2012
Data analytics products firm MarkLogic Corporation, US, has announced that it has joined the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program. Hortonworks is a commercial vendor promoting the development and support of Apache Hadoop. The partnership is projected to help businesses and public sector agencies take the next step… Read More
Blackboard and Datatel+SGHE announce strategic partnership to integrate Colleague with Blackboard Learn 9.1 - March 2, 2012
Enterprise technology and innovative solutions provider Blackboard Inc, US, and Datatel+SGHE have announced a strategic partnership to integrate Colleague with Blackboard Learn 9.1 through Datatel+SGHE’s Intelligent Learning Platform (ILP). The planned integration will make it easier for institutions to manage information from their administrative and academic… Read More
Elsevier/Gold Standard to be exclusive distributor of new price type, Predictive Acquisition Cost - March 1, 2012
Drug database provider Elsevier/Gold Standard, US, has announced an agreement with Glass Box Analytics to become the exclusive distributor of a new price type, Predictive Acquisition Cost (PAC). Glass Box Analytics represents a strategic joint venture between Pathria Analytics LLC and ChainDrugStore.net. Together they bring advanced… Read More
OCLC and Relais International partner to share data and services from the OCLC WorldShare Platform - March 1, 2012
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and Relais International, which provides systems to support interlibrary loan and document delivery services, have signed an agreement that will allow mutual subscribers access to WorldCat data and OCLC services through the OCLC WorldShare Platform. Under this new partnership, Relais… Read More
SAGE to publish Association of Research Ethics Committees journal – Research Ethics - March 1, 2012
Academic and professional publisher SAGE will publish Research Ethics, the quarterly journal of the Association of Research Ethics Committees (AREC), with the first SAGE issue appearing in March 2012. Research Ethics publishes original papers and review articles as well as informative case studies. It is… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell adds 44 titles to its journal publishing programme in 2012 - February 29, 2012
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that it will begin publishing 44 titles new to its journal programme in 2012. This includes 16 new launches and 40 journals published in collaboration with societies or other organisations.… Read More
Open Road Integrated Media selects Ingram Content Group companies to print and distribute ebooks - February 29, 2012
Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company, has selected Ingram Publisher Services and Lightning Source, Ingram Content Group companies, to distribute print versions of a group of its e-books. The programme will begin in March 2012. Open Road Integrated Media is… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell expands publishing partnership with the British Educational Research Association - February 28, 2012
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has expanded its partnership with the British Educational Research Association. Under the agreement, Wiley-Blackwell will publish two further journals together with the British Educational Research Association. In 2013 the British Journal… Read More
Taylor & Francis and Atomic Energy Society of Japan announce new publishing partnership - February 28, 2012
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis, UK, has announced a new publishing partnership with the Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ) for the Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology. First published in 1964 and currently in Volume 49 (2012), the formerly self-published Journal of Nuclear Science… Read More
Cambridge University Press acquires 19 Australian Academic Press journals - February 28, 2012
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP), UK, has acquired the Australian Academic Press’ (AAP) journals list. The AAP list, consisting of 19 titles either owned by AAP or published on behalf of several Learned Societies, expands and complements CUP's existing journals portfolio of over 300 academic… Read More