Advantage Business Media acquires Vicon Publishing, Inc. - January 5, 2012
Advantage Business Media, US, has announced the acquisition of Vicon Publishing, Inc. of Amherst, New Hampshire, effective January 1, 2012. Vicon Publishing will now be renamed as Vicon Business Media, Inc. and operate as a subsidiary of Advantage Business Media, LLC. With this acquisition, Advantage… Read More
More university presses select Ingram Content Group’s CoreSource platform for digital asset management and distribution - January 5, 2012
Ingram Content Group Inc., US, has announced that more university presses have selected the company’s digital content distribution system, CoreSource, for their digital asset management and distribution needs. The most recent university presses that have selected CoreSource are: The University of New Mexico Press, University of… Read More
The McGraw-Hill Companies completes sale of Broadcasting Group - January 3, 2012
Information services provider McGraw-Hill Companies, US, has completed the sale of its Broadcasting Group to The E.W. Scripps Company. The purchase price of the nine-station Broadcasting Group was $212 million in cash. The divestiture of the Broadcasting Group, a non-core asset, was carried out pursuant to… Read More
Dutch national library Koninklijke Bibliotheek to be integrated with National Archives - December 27, 2011
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the National Library of the Netherlands, and the nation's National Archives (NA) will be integrated into one organisation. This was recently decided by the Cabinet following a proposal from Secretary of State Zijlstra (OCW: Ministry of Education, Culture and Science). The integration… Read More
Wolters Kluwer completes sale of pharma-related Marketing & Publishing Services business to Springer - December 27, 2011
Global information services company Wolters Kluwer, Netherlands, has announced that it has completed the sale of its pharma-related Marketing & Publishing Services business to Springer Science+Business Media. The sale is part of Wolters Kluwer's strategy to focus on core health markets through its Wolters Kluwer Health… Read More
RSC Publishing supports Japanese Shibboleth - December 23, 2011
Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, has announced that it is developing the RSC Publishing Platform to work with Shibboleth institutions all over the world. With this move, the publisher seeks to provide customers and users more access… Read More
Swets adds five new publishers to e-journal gateway - December 22, 2011
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, recently signed contracts with five publishers to make their publications available in SwetsWise Online Content, its e-journal gateway. The publishers include Brepols, Cairn.info, JST, NecPlus and RMIT Publishing. With more than 13,000 full text titles and over 38 million articles, SwetsWise… Read More
Elsevier and Beijing Normal University in deal to provide language editing support to researchers and students - December 21, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and Beijing Normal University have entered into an agreement enabling researchers and students at Beijing Normal University to make use of Elsevier’s Language Editing Services. The language editing services agreement with Beijing Normal University is the first of its kind. This service… Read More
Publishing Technology ends year with 50 new publisher contracts - December 21, 2011
Publishing Technology has announced that it is finishing the year on a positive note by announcing its most successful year to date, having signed contracts with over 50 publishers. The company is welcoming several US academic publishers to its online custom hosting platform, pub2web, including:… Read More
TEMIS to assist Karger Publishers with content discoverability initiative - December 21, 2011
TEMIS, a US-based provider of Semantic Content Enrichment Solutions for the Enterprise, has announced a new contract in STM publishing with Switzerland-based S. Karger AG, an academic publisher of scientific and medical journals and books. Karger has chosen to partner with TEMIS to provide the… Read More
