Springer announces publishing partnership with French intensive care society - January 12, 2011
STM publisher Springer is set to publish two journals for the Société de Réanimation de Langue Française (SRLF), a French intensive care society. Starting in 2011, Springer will publish Réanimation, formerly published by Elsevier, and a new open access journal in English… Read More
ProQuest adds books from Dutch library to Early European Books project - January 12, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, UK, has announced that the company will digitise more than 30,000 rare early books from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the National Library of the Netherlands, capturing every volume in high-resolution colour scans. This is the third major European national library… Read More
Springer to make journal articles available via DeepDyve’s online rental service for scholarly publications - January 11, 2011
DeepDyve, a research engine for the Deep Web, has announced that STM publisher Springer has agreed to make journal articles from more than 100 journals in key subject areas such as biomedical, public health, and business and economics available through DeepDyve's online… Read More
Access Intelligence announces acquisition of healthcare media brand OR Manager - January 11, 2011
Business intelligence and integrated marketing solutions provider Access Intelligence (AI), US, and its Dorland Health division have acquired OR Manager, a media brand and events company serving operating room executives, managers and doctors. OR Manager's suite of publications, webinars, books and an annual conference will now… Read More
OCLC and Amigos form new partnership to deliver OCLC Web-scale Management Services to libraries - January 10, 2011
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and Amigos Library Services have entered into a new partnership to provide libraries with expanded implementation, training and education services for OCLC's new Web-scale Management Services. With over 600 members, Amigos claims to be one of the largest consortia of libraries… Read More
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society expands publishing partnership with SAGE - January 10, 2011
The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) has announced a partnership with academic publisher SAGE to produce, distribute, and market all five of its periodicals, beginning in 2011. The publications are: Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society;… Read More
ProQuest acquires ebrary - January 7, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced the acquisition of US-based digital content products and technologies provider, ebrary. The agreement will marry both companies' inventive, user-centric technologies and add a growing pool of a quarter-million e-books to ProQuest's monumental content… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education to adopt LTI framework in partnership with Blackboard - January 7, 2011
Education materials publisher McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced seamless integration of its Connect platform and Blackboard Learn using certified standards initiated by IMS Global Learning Consortium at the HigherEdTECH summit. IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) v1.0 seeks to provide a single framework… Read More
Elsevier to publish official journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research - January 6, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a publishing partnership with the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research's (ISPOR). Under the deal, Elsevier will publish Value in Health, the official journal of the ISPOR. Value in Health… Read More
BMJ Group acquires Informatica Systems Ltd - January 6, 2011
Medical publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced the acquisition of Informatica Systems Ltd, a UK-based software company which provides performance management systems for GPs. This acquisition complements the Group's existing portfolio of evidence-based products. Also, with this acquisition, the global publisher seeks… Read More
