EBSCO Publishing and The H.W. Wilson Company announce merger agreement - June 3, 2011
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, and The H.W. Wilson Company (Wilson) have announced a merger agreement. This combination of organisations will allow the strengths of each to benefit existing and forthcoming products and services. With 180 combined years of experience serving libraries,… Read More
RSC Publishing makes eBook Collection available to RLUK research libraries - June 3, 2011
The Royal Society of Chemistry has partnered with Research Libraries UK (RLUK) to offer their library members value for money for the RSC eBook Collection. eBook options are now available to RLUK members for 2011 within a one-off purchase regime that will give standard indefinite access… Read More
ProQuest acquires BNI - June 1, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has acquired BNI, a database for nursing and midwifery in the UK. BNI - shortened from British Nursing Index - has been compiled through a partnership of the libraries at Bournemouth University, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the Royal… Read More
Four publishers sign expanded territory agreements with EMpact Sales - June 1, 2011
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO, has signed additional expanded territory agreements for active sales representation with the American Society of Plant Biologist (territory added is Japan); Audio Visual Archives (territory added is India); Maney Publishing (territory added is Italy); and Multi-Science Publishing… Read More
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
