Thirteen more scholarly publishers to participate in the UPCC eBook Collections - June 1, 2011
Project MUSE has announced that 13 more scholarly publishers have signed contracts to participate in the UPCC eBook Collections, coming to the MUSE platform on January 1, 2012. To date, a total of 64 university and scholarly presses have contracted to include their ebooks in the… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health acquires Lexi-Comp, Inc. - May 30, 2011
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Lexi-Comp, Inc., a provider of drug information and clinical content for pharmacists, clinicians and hospitals internationally. The acquisition is the latest in a series of strategic acquisitions WK… Read More
EMpact Sales to provide sales representation service for Cambridge University Press - May 30, 2011
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO, has announced that it has been chosen as sales agent for Cambridge University Press (CUP). The new partnership will allow EMpact to represent the latter's electronic and print content in the UK, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Kuwait,… Read More
ProQuest and Library and Archives Canada announce new agreement for dissertations and theses processing - May 27, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, and Library and Archives Canada (LAC), the source of enduring knowledge for the government of Canada, its people, and institutions, have signed a new three-year agreement for dissertations and theses processing for the more than sixty universities that participate… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell and CECity, Inc announce strategic alliance - May 27, 2011
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and Scholarly (STMS) publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a strategic alliance with CECity, Inc. to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals with new, customised quality and learning solutions. CECity is a provider of cloud-based healthcare information technology… Read More
NPG selects The Charlesworth Group for new OA journal - May 27, 2011
The Charlesworth Group has announced that Nature Publishing Group's (NPG) new online open access journal, Scientific Reports, will use its XML production workflow, tailored to NPG's goals and specifications, to publish original papers judged to be technically valid in all areas of… Read More
NPG and California State University partner to support development of interactive textbooks in college-level science - May 25, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and the California State University (CSU) have announced a three-year partnership. Under the deal, NPG will support design and development of an innovative series of affordable, high quality interactive textbooks in college-level science. The 'born digital' textbooks will be… Read More
Elsevier and METI partner to integrate nursing education content and solutions with human patient simulators - May 24, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a partnership agreement with Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI), a manufacturer of medical simulation and healthcare learning technologies. The companies will collaborate to release a turn-key healthcare education product that combines Elsevier's nursing education content with METI's human patient simulators.… Read More
O’Reilly Media selects Ingram’s CoreSource for digital asset management and distribution - May 24, 2011
Ingram Content Group Inc., US, has announced that publisher O'Reilly Media has selected Ingram's CoreSource platform for digital asset management and distribution. O'Reilly's selection of CoreSource builds on the two companies' total inventory management agreement announced earlier in April this year. … Read More
Accucoms and AIP announce new sales representation deal - May 24, 2011
Accucoms, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, has reached a new agreement with the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Accucoms offers publishers worldwide a sales representation service that includes face-to-face selling, account management, representation… Read More
