WK Health and Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education and State Ministry for Scientific Research sign publishing partnership - October 29, 2010
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced a publishing partnership with the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education and State Ministry for Scientific Research (ENSTINET). The two organisations have agreed to collaborate on the development and publication of leading medical and scientific journals… Read More
New UBM business merges EE Times Group and Canon Communications Electronics properties - October 28, 2010
Niche information services provider United Business Media Ltd. (UBM), UK, has announced the formation of a new company, UBM Electronics, from the merger of UBM's existing EE Times Group portfolio with the electronics-related properties it recently acquired through the purchase of Canon Communications LLC. The new… Read More
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins to publish RSPA journal, Pathology - October 27, 2010
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it has signed an agreement to serve as exclusive publisher for the journal Pathology, effective January 1, 2011. The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA), which produces Pathology, is… Read More
Hart Energy Publishing acquires Rextag Strategies - October 26, 2010
Energy publisher Hart Energy Publishing, US, has acquired Rextag Strategies, a mapping and GIS (geographic information system) database services company, in an all-cash deal. Both firms are privately held and terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The Rextag acquisition adds to… Read More
Springer set to publish official journal of the Chinese Meteorological Society - October 25, 2010
STM publisher Springer has announced that it will publish the official journal of the Chinese Meteorological Society, Acta Meteorologica Sinica, starting January 2011. The peer-reviewed journal joins Springer's Chinese Library of Science, a collection of more than 90 high-quality Chinese research journals. Founded in 1987, Acta… Read More
Argosy extends use of Publishing Technology’s author2reader application as business expands - October 25, 2010
Publishing Technology, a UK-based provider of software and services to the publishing industry, has announced that Argosy Books, Ireland, has extended the use of its author2reader application for their new book distribution service. Argosy has been successfully using Publishing Technology's VISTA-branded author2reader software for their wholesale… Read More
Google to install high-speed broadband network at Stanford University - October 22, 2010
Internet search services provider Google Inc., US, has announced plans to test an ultra high-speed broadband network at Stanford University. The company will provide Internet speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second to around 850 faculty- and staff-owned homes on Stanford's Palo Alto, California, campus.… Read More
DynaMed and McMaster University partner to identify practice-changing evidence across medical disciplines - October 21, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced that its clinical reference tool, DynaMed, has partnered with McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit to help physicians understand the scope of the medical research being published every day. Through this partnership, physicians from around the… Read More
BMJ Learning now available to physicians in China via univadis - October 20, 2010
Medical publisher The BMJ Group, UK, and MSD have announced that BMJ Learning will now be available free of charge to physicians across China in simplified Chinese through MSD's rapidly growing medical portal univadis. This extension of a successful partnership in Europe… Read More
Diversified Agency Services acquires Excerpta Medica from Elsevier - October 19, 2010
Diversified Agency Services (DAS), a division of global marketing and corporate communications company Omnicom Group Inc., US, has acquired Amsterdam-based medical communications agency Excerpta Medica from STM publisher Elsevier. Excerpta Medica will now become a division of DAS's… Read More
