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
Springer and TEMIS extend partnership on semantic analysis of scientific content - May 23, 2011
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media and US-based text analytics solutions provider TEMIS have agreed on a broad extension of their strategic collaboration on semantic enrichment and linking of content for the SpringerLink platform. SpringerLink claims to be one of the world's largest… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry adds RDF functionality to ChemSpider database - May 20, 2011
The Royal Society of Chemistry's chemical database ChemSpider has added RDF functionality to its interface, in collaboration with the University of Southampton's School of Chemistry. The availability of RDF is said to allow the database records to be found and understood by semantic web tools. This… Read More
Springer in deal with Dai Nippon Printing for POD solutions in Japan - May 20, 2011
STM publisher Springer has announced an agreement with Japan-based Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP). Under the deal, DNP will provide single-copy minimum print-on-demand (POD) solutions for Springer titles delivered to the Japanese market. DNP will also handle the delivery logistics to local distributors, libraries and… Read More
American Psychological Association adopts DataSalon’s MasterVision - May 20, 2011
The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced that it has adopted DataSalon's MasterVision product in order to integrate and better utilise customer information from a number of its different data sources. The system integrates institutional electronic and print subscribers, and data… Read More
CABI and SharedBook in deal to make CAB Reviews available via AcademicPub platform - May 19, 2011
Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI has signed an agreement with publishing innovator SharedBook to make the reviews journal CAB Reviews available through SharedBook's AcademicPub platform. Lecturers and course leaders in the fields of agriculture, veterinary science, nutrition, and natural resources will now be able to… Read More
Cambridge University Press partners with GYLO to create new medical apps - May 19, 2011
Cambridge University Press (CUP), the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, has announced a partnership with GYLO (GetYa Learn On, LLC) to produce multiple medical books as interactive apps for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. Initially, three of Cambridge's key texts for medical… Read More
