SAGE, Hindawi partnership concludes - November 4, 2011
The partnership between academic publisher SAGE and Hindawi Publishing Corporation in publishing open access journals has now concluded. SAGE will be bringing three of the SAGE-Hindawi journals in house and the further 33 journals will now be solely owned by Hindawi.… Read More
Cengage Learning and Desire2Learn partner to deliver content and integrated solutions via MindLinks - November 4, 2011
Teaching, learning and research solutions provider Cengage Learning, US, and enterprise teaching and learning platforms provider Desire2Learn Inc. (Desire2Learn) have announced the immediate availability of the integration of Cengage's digital content and solutions with Desire2Learn Learning Suite. The relationship leverages the power of Cengage Learning's… Read More
Safari Books Online selects Ingram Content Group to expand e-content library - November 3, 2011
Safari Books Online and Ingram Content Group’s CoreSource platform have announced an agreement that will enable education, technology, and business publishers worldwide to expand the reach of their content. Safari Books Online’s on-demand digital learning library claims to provide the best… Read More
dawsonera eBooks now available to order via SwetsWise - November 3, 2011
Information services provider Swets, Netherlands, recently signed an agreement that will see Dawson Books eBook content available to order via SwetsWise. SwetsWise is an information resource management and procurement platform, with over 1million eBooks included in its catalogue. It remains the only interface for managing both… Read More
SAE International and World Scientific Publishing announce strategic partnership - November 3, 2011
SAE International, US, and scientific publisher World Scientific Publishing (WSP) have announced a strategic partnership. The deal will enable SAE International to sell electronic versions of selected WSP books via its own e-bookstore. The agreement, which may be expanded over time, includes 10 initial titles. … Read More
Google launches eBookstore in Canada - November 2, 2011
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has expanded its online bookstore to Canada, offering hundreds of thousands of electronic books for sale and millions of others for free. According to Google, the company is partnering with a number of Canadian publishers for the launch… Read More
Wiley-VCH and the Chemical Society Located in Taipei announce publishing partnership - November 2, 2011
Wiley-VCH, part of the scientific and technical publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and the Chemical Society Located in Taipei have signed an agreement to closely cooperate and jointly publish the Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society. The journal will be available online from… Read More
BMJ Group in deal with Orion Health to support better patient care - October 28, 2011
Medical publisher BMJ Group and Orion Health have successfully completed the integration of evidence based decision support within Orion Health's clinical software. Orion Health provides clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector. The guidance, provided by Best Practice, the BMJ Evidence Centre's reference… Read More
CABI sponsors ORCID to improve tracking of scholarly authors - October 28, 2011
Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI has joined the founding sponsors of ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), the organisation set up to solve the problem of name ambiguity in scholarly research. CABI has become a Silver Sponsor of the organisation, which plans to launch its… Read More
NoveList and COMPanion partner to integrate NoveList Select to the Alexandria Library System - October 28, 2011
NoveList, a division of EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), has announced a partnership with COMPanion Corporation. COMPanion is the developer of Alexandria - best known for its power and ease of use. Alexandria offers the best cross platform library automation solution for Windows and Macintosh. The partnership… Read More