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
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
