Cengage Learning expands strategic partnership with the National Geographic Society - June 27, 2011
Teaching, learning and research solutions provider Cengage Learning, US, has signed a definitive agreement that significantly expands its strategic partnership with the National Geographic Society (NGS) including the acquisition of the NGS school publishing unit and extended use of the NGS brand. Since 2007, Cengage… Read More
SciVerse ScienceDirect content now searchable via Ex Libris Primo Central Index - June 24, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group have announced their collaboration to make the full text of SciVerse ScienceDirect journal articles and ebooks searchable in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index. Primo Central is an integral part… Read More
University of New Brunswick Libraries becomes first Canadian university to sign up to use OCLC Web-scale Management Services - June 24, 2011
Computer library service and research organisation OCLC, US, has announced that the University of New Brunswick Libraries is the first Canadian library to sign up to use OCLC Web-scale Management Services, the Web-based cooperative library management tools for metadata management, acquisitions, circulation, license management and workflow… Read More
EBSCO Publishing and Elsevier partner to provide full-text searching of SciVerse ScienceDirect database - June 23, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and STM publisher Elsevier have announced a partnership under which, full text from SciVerse ScienceDirect will be added to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). ScienceDirect, part of the SciVerse suite of search and discovery… Read More
BioMed Central to publish International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology - June 23, 2011
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that the International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology (IJPE) is the fifth journal this year to move to its publishing platform. The journal's previous content is currently available in its entirety on Hindawi's site and can be accessed from… Read More
Island Press eBooks on ecology and environment now available on SpringerLink - June 22, 2011
STM publisher Springer has announced a partnership with Island Press, a non-profit environmental publisher, for the distribution of their titles electronically for the next two years. Under the deal, Island Press books will be featured in Springer's eBook Collections of scientific, technical and medical publications on… Read More
Utopia links ChemSpider and RSC journal articles - June 22, 2011
Scientific publisher RSC Publishing and its free database ChemSpider have integrated chemical semantic publishing across its chemical publications, and in collaboration with University of Manchester have made it accessible from the article PDF via the Utopia Documents reader. ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database… Read More
AcademicPub announces two new publishing relationships and distribution partnerships - June 22, 2011
AcademicPub, the higher education unit of SharedBook Inc., has made a three-part announcement underscoring rapid adoption of the service since its April 2011 launch. According to Caroline Vanderlip, CEO, SharedBook Inc., AcademicPub entered into two new publishing relationships, including one with… Read More
McGraw-Hill and Greenway Medical Technologies partner to deliver national EHR curriculum - June 21, 2011
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, and Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. have announced the formation of McGraw-Hill's Integrated Electronic Health Records: An Online Course and Worktext for Greenway Medical Technologies' PrimeSUITE. Developed as a comprehensive learning resource, the hands-on course will be available… Read More
Elsevier announces exclusive e-learning partnership with The Quality Group - June 21, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced an exclusive partnership with blended e-learning solutions provider The Quality Group (TQG). Under the deal, Elsevier will market and distribute TQG's customised process improvement (Lean Six Sigma) training solution for healthcare professionals, The Health Care Series. The newly developed… Read More
