Nine more university presses confirm their participation in MUSE e-books programme - October 11, 2010
Project MUSE has announced that nine more university presses have signed contracts to participate in its new initiative to offer e-book collections alongside its electronic journal collections. Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive… Read More
Springer and Ex Libris partner to provide access to online content via Primo Central - October 8, 2010
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that it has signed an agreement with STM publisher Springer at the ongoing Frankfurt book fair. Under the deal, Springer’s academic journals and e-books will be directly accessible via the Primo Central mega-aggregate of scholarly e-content. Springer, a… Read More
Sansum Clinic opts for WK Health’s Medi-Span - October 8, 2010
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Sansum Clinic will deploy Medi-Span to provide clinicians with point-of-care access to comprehensive drug information and medication decision support. Sansum Clinic is a nonprofit healthcare organisation between the Los Angeles Basin and the San… Read More
ANA and Ovid partner to deliver key nursing eBooks via OvidSP and Nursing@Ovid - October 7, 2010
Information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced a new partnership with the American Nurses Association (ANA). Under the deal, ANA will offer a collection of its essential professional reference titles through OvidSP and Nursing@Ovid, the health information search, discovery, and management… Read More
Reed Construction Data and Source2 form new company, SMARTBIM LLC - October 7, 2010
Construction information provider Reed Construction Data (RCD), US, a division of Reed Business Information, and Source2, a private investment group focused on technology enabled service companies, have announced the formation of a new company, SMARTBIM LLC. SMARTBIM LLC has acquired the BIM… Read More
Ovid in deal with China’s Institute of Science & Technology to open access to LWW Journal Definitive Archive collection - October 6, 2010
Information solutions provider Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has signed an agreement with the Institute of Science and Technology Information of China to provide access to the Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) Journal Definitive Archive collection through the National Science and Technology Library (NSTL)… Read More
Glasgow Caledonian University opts for ProQuest Central database - October 6, 2010
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that the UK's Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) is joining university libraries around the world that are subscribing to ProQuest Central, a CODiE award-winning database. Students, researchers and lecturing staff at the university will… Read More
Taylor & Francis and Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition announce new publishing partnership - October 6, 2010
Publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F), UK, has announced a new publishing partnership with the Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (JSSSPN) to publish the journal, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, from 2011. The journal, previously published by Wiley-Blackwell, is currently in volume 56 (2010).… Read More
Briefings in Palliative, Hospice, and Pain Medicine & Management and PAL-MED CONNECT collaborate to create new monthly feature - October 5, 2010
Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced that Briefings in Palliative, Hospice, and Pain Medicine & Management, the e-newsletter companion to Journal of Palliative Medicine, will collaborate with The Institute for Palliative Medicine's PAL-MED CONNECT hotline to create a new monthly feature for the… Read More
AIP and CSTAM sign co-publishing agreement - October 4, 2010
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has signed a new partnership agreement with the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM). Under the deal, AIP and CSTAM will co-publish the new journal Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters (TAML). The journal is slated for launch in… Read More
