Elsevier announces publishing partnership with Canadian Cardiovascular Society - November 3, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a new partnership with the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. Under the deal, Elsevier will publish the Society’s official journal, Canadian Journal of Cardiology, beginning January 2011. Dr. Stanley Nattel, Paul-David Chair in Cardiovascular Electrophysiology and Professor of Medicine at the University… Read More
Springer to distribute eBooks from Wageningen Academic Publishers - November 3, 2010
STM publisher Springer has announced that it will become the exclusive distributor of the eBook versions of titles published by Wageningen Academic Publishers. The cooperation will begin with the copyright year 2011 and will include about 30 new titles annually. The electronic versions of the Wageningen… Read More
univadis partners with The Lancet for global medical literature service - November 3, 2010
Healthcare firm MSD - which is known as Merck in the US and Canada – has announced a new partnership between univadis, its medical education and health information website, and medical journal The Lancet. Through a global medical literature service called Just Published, clinical specialists registered… Read More
Credo Reference partners with NERL consortium - November 3, 2010
Online reference library Credo Reference has announced a new partnership with the Northeast Research Libraries consortium (NERL) to provide member libraries with access to Credo’s General Reference and Publisher and Subject Collections services at a discount. The Northeast Research Libraries Consortium was organised in 1996 to… Read More
SAE International and ASTM International announce strategic partnership - November 2, 2010
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International, US, and ASTM International have agreed to a strategic partnership that will enable SAE International to sell electronic versions of selected ASTM books both in their entirety and as individual chapters. The agreement begins with five titles, with the… Read More
Gideon ties up with O’Reilly Media to distribute infectious diseases e-books - November 2, 2010
Medical-decision support applications provider Gideon Informatics, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with publisher O'Reilly Media, Inc. to distribute a new series of 411 Gideon e-books on infectious diseases. The e-books can be read on Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad, mobile devices and… Read More
Scope supports IEEE in enhancing author data for future author database - November 1, 2010
Content enhancement and knowledge services provider Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a Quatrro Group company, has announced that it will support a significant new initiative of the IEEE, the world's largest technical professional association, to build a unique author name database. IEEE plans… Read More
Maney Publishing and Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals announce publishing partnership - November 1, 2010
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced a partnership with the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals (Washington, USA) to publish the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine (JSCM), from 2011. JSCM is edited by Dr Donald Bodner, Professor of Urology at Case Western Reserve University School… Read More
Google spent $1.6 billion on 40 deals in 2010 - November 1, 2010
Internet search services provider Google Inc., US, completed 40 acquisitions worth $1.6 billion during the first three quarters of 2010, according to a regulatory filing made by the company. According to the company's quarterly report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Google's largest deals… Read More
UK organisations form implementation group to boost open access implementation - October 29, 2010
Ten organisations from the UK's higher education and research sector have joined forces to form the UK Open Access Implementation Group, which will seek to drive the implementation of open access (OA) in the nation. This would be both in terms of policy and promoting a deeper understanding of the… Read More
