McGraw-Hill Education provides digital learning programmes to California Learning Resource Network - November 19, 2010
Education materials publisher McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced that it will provide unprecedented access to many of its K-12 online programmes to the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN). Part of the Statewide Education Technology Services initiative from the California Department of Education, CLRN seeks to provide… Read More
De Gruyter selects MarkLogic for next generation publishing platform - November 19, 2010
Information infrastructure software provider Mark Logic Corporation, US, has announced an agreement with academic publisher De Gruyter to use MarkLogic as the central component of its next generation publishing platform. The agreement establishes MarkLogic as the primary database for De Gruyter, and will enable library, corporate,… Read More
UC San Diego named founding partner of National Digital Stewardship Alliance - November 18, 2010
The University of California, San Diego Libraries have been named founding partners of the Library of Congress' National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA). The libraries expect to play a leadership role in mapping out national standards and best practices for preserving and sharing digital content via the… Read More
Google and Hachette Livre announce book scanning deal - November 18, 2010
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has announced an agreement with French publisher Hachette Livre to scan thousands of out-of-print French books for Google's online library. The two companies said in a statement they had settled previous disagreements and signed a memorandum of understanding that… Read More
Epocrates acquires Modality, Inc. - November 17, 2010
Point-of-care reference solutions provider Epocrates, Inc., US, has announced it has acquired Modality, Inc. Modality is a premier developer of digital learning, assessment, training and reference applications for Apple mobile devices. This acquisition is expected to expand Epocrates' product portfolio and accelerate… Read More
Ingenuity Systems and Sage Bionetworks announce new collaboration - November 17, 2010
Ingenuity Systems, a provider of information solutions for life science researchers, has announced a new collaboration with Sage Bionetworks, a nonprofit medical research organisation focusing on predictive disease network research. Under the collaboration, Sage will leverage IPA, Ingenuity's industry-leading analysis software, and the Ingenuity Knowledge Base… Read More
BNF partners with MedKeeper to enhance support for local content management - November 16, 2010
The British National Formulary (BNF) and MedKeeper, a provider of clinical and workflow pharmacy tools, have announced a partnership to extend support for local content management by providing a locally installable intranet version. The 61st edition of the BNF will include content from both BNF and… Read More
Maney Publishing set to publish US journal – Twentieth-Century China - November 16, 2010
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced that it will publish Twentieth-Century China (TCC), the official journal of the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China, from 2011. Founded in 1983 as Republican China, the journal focused on the history of the 1911-1949 period. Since assuming its current… Read More
Berkshire Publishing Collection now available on Credo Reference - November 15, 2010
Online reference library Credo Reference has announced that it has expanded its agreement with the Berkshire Publishing Group. Five major Berkshire resources - 31 acclaimed volumes in all - will be available for the first time through the Credo Publisher Collection service. Berkshire Publishing specialises in… Read More
Elsevier and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine announce publishing partnership - November 11, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a partnership with the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) to publish the latter's official journal - Psychosomatics. The announcement was made at the annual APM meeting in Marco Island, Florida. The partnership marks an important move by the APM and… Read More
