IK Investment Partners acquires EPiServer - November 11, 2010
IK Investment Partners (IK), a Pan-European private equity firm, has announced that it has agreed to acquire EPiServer Group AB (EPiServer) from Amadeus Capital, Martin Bjäringer, Monterro Holdings, Northzone Ventures, Mikael Runhem and family and employees. EPiServer is a fast growing provider of platforms that drive… Read More
Scholarly publications from ingentaconnect to be indexed in EBSCO Discovery Service - November 10, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, recently announced an agreement with ingentaconnect to further expand the resources discoverable through EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and bring added value to its users. The agreement allows selected scholarly journals from ingentaconnect to be indexed in EDS. Resources… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education acquires Starting Out, Inc - November 8, 2010
Education materials publisher McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced the acquisition of Starting Out, Inc., a publisher of life-skills learning, and workplace readiness information for the education, workforce, and corrections markets. This acquisition is expected to significantly strengthen McGraw-Hill Education's position as a leading provider of… Read More
IOP Publishing in deal with the IUPAP Commission on Computational Physics to publish open-access conference proceedings - November 5, 2010
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, and the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Computational Physics have signed a five-year framework agreement for publishing open-access conference proceedings. This is the first formal publishing agreement of its kind between IOP… Read More
APS to make journal articles available via DeepDyve’s online rental service - November 5, 2010
DeepDyve, a research engine for the Deep Web, has announced that the American Physical Society (APS) has agreed to make its articles available, in a nine-month pilot program, via DeepDyve's online rental service for research articles. The APS is widely acknowledged as… Read More
SAGE and the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics announce publishing deal - November 5, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced a new publishing agreement with the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO). Under the deal, SAGE will publish the latter’s official journal, Prosthetics and Orthotics International, from 2011. Launched in 1977, Prosthetics and Orthotics International is an international scientific publication… Read More
Gale and 18thConnect partner to improve access to eighteenth century documents - November 5, 2010
Educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, and 18thConnect have announced a partnership to share scholarly content and improve the searchability of documents within Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) archive. 18thConnect is a scholarly organisation dedicated to forging links between eighteenth-century archives and today’s… Read More
LWW and the American Society of Anesthesiologists renew publishing partnership - November 4, 2010
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) have signed an agreement to renew their publishing partnership. Under the deal, LWW will continue to publish Anesthesiology, the official journal of the ASA. Anesthesiology… Read More
CABI opens large number of CAB Direct’s life sciences abstracts to Google search engine - November 4, 2010
Life-sciences publisher Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI), UK, and online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, have announced the completion of a project to open a large number of CAB Direct's life sciences abstracts to the Google search engine. With this move, CABI seeks to… Read More
Credo Reference adds Encyclopedia of American Studies to Credo General Reference service - November 4, 2010
Online reference library Credo Reference has signed an agreement with Johns Hopkins University Press to integrate the latter’s Encyclopedia of American Studies (EAS) into the Credo General Reference service. With this agreement Johns Hopkins University Press joins a growing list of university presses that have chosen… Read More
