AOL to acquire technology news blog TechCrunch - September 30, 2010
Web services company AOL, US, has reportedly announced plans to buy technology news blog TechCrunch. With this acquisition, AOL seeks to bolster its growing online editorial business. While the terms of the agreement were not disclosed, the price tag is believed to be more than $25… Read More
OCLC to provide cataloguing and processing services for the NRC-CISTI - September 29, 2010
Library cooperative OCLC has announced that it will perform cataloguing and processing services for the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), Canada's national science library and the library for NRC. Under the new agreement, OCLC will perform all of NRC-CISTI's cataloguing… Read More
BMJ Group launches Iraq BMJ Learning to improve medical education Iraq - September 28, 2010
BMJ Learning, the medical education division of The BMJ Group, UK, and the Iraq Ministry of Health has launched a new online service to meet the medical education, professional development, publishing and research needs of 19,000 doctors in Iraq. Iraq BMJ Learning is a new integrated… Read More
DJS to provide production services for American Diabetes Association journals - September 28, 2010
Journal production services provider Dartmouth Journal Services (DJS), part of The Sheridan Group, US, has announced a partnership with the American Diabetes Association. Under the deal, DJS will offer copyediting, issue management, and composition services to help the Association enhance, streamline, and improve the front-end workflow… Read More
SAGE and IMechE announce publishing partnership for journals programme - September 24, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) have announced a long-term partnership arrangement. Under the deal, SAGE will publish all 18 of the Institution's academic journals. This includes the 16 highly respected Proceedings of the Institution. The Proceedings of the IMechE are 16… Read More
WK Health and Joanna Briggs Institute partner to deliver evidence-based clinical resources - September 23, 2010
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced an exclusive partnership with the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), a recognised global leader in evidence-based healthcare resources based at the University of Adelaide, Australia. The move is part of an expansion of the nursing, allied… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center expands partnership programme - September 23, 2010
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a not-for-profit organisation providing copyright licensing solutions, has announced the expansion of its partner programme and details of its recent partnerships with life sciences PDF search platform Pubget and Web-based learning resource Study.Net. CCC works with leading application vendors, publishing platform providers… Read More
Ovid and China’s Higher Education Press sign new licensing agreement - September 22, 2010
Information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced a partnership with the China-based publisher Higher Education Press (HEP), to offer English-language and bilingual traditional Chinese medicine books. To support the growing need for online access to Chinese-language medical content, Ovid will be… Read More
EDP Sciences and Cambridge University Press announce new publishing agreement - September 22, 2010
Society publisher EDP Sciences (Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences), France, has announced a new agreement with Cambridge University Press to market and distribute EDPS journals. Cambridge University Press is the publishing division of the University of Cambridge. Under the new agreement, Cambridge University Press will be the… Read More
SAGE set to publish European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation - September 21, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced a new partnership with the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR) to publish the latter's official journal, European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation. The journal was previously published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Currently in its 17th volume,… Read More
