JISC Collections to bring out licence comparison site with DataSalon - September 2, 2010
JISC Collections, an organisation that manages the acquisition and provision of digital resources for universities and colleges in the UK, will be working with DataSalon to specify and build an online licence comparison site. The site will enable librarians to view, compare… Read More
Inderscience selects PCG for sales and marketing representation in Europe and North America - September 1, 2010
Market intelligence, sales and marketing services provider Publishers Communication Group (PCG), a division of Publishing Technology, Inc., UK, has announced that it has been selected by STM and business publisher Inderscience for sales and marketing representation in Europe and North America. Under the partnership, PCG will… Read More
Major publishers join CSU venture to promote new model for teaching and learning with digital materials - August 31, 2010
The Digital Marketplace, an initiative of the California State University Office of the Chancellor, has announced plans to launch a pilot to license digital course content from publishers Bedford/Freeman/Worth, Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Starting in the fall 2010 semester,… Read More
Google strikes web licensing deal with Associated Press - August 31, 2010
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has announced that it has retained the right to publish content from the Associated Press under a new licensing deal. The multiyear agreement has two key components - an undisclosed payment for the rights to AP's content, and a… Read More
National Geographic Books and Random House Publisher Services expand distribution partnership - August 31, 2010
National Geographic Books, a division of the National Geographic Society, has announced a multiyear extension of its sales and distribution partnership with Random House Publisher Services (RHPS), which began in 2005. National Geographic Books will continue to utilise the full range of Random House's sales and… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education and CambridgeSoft collaborate to integrate ChemDraw into digital teaching and learning platform - August 30, 2010
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, has partnered with CambridgeSoft to integrate ChemDraw - the molecular editor used by chemistry professionals - into McGraw-Hill Connect Chemistry. Connect Chemistry is a web-based assignment and assessment platform designed for organic chemistry courses. The collaboration between McGraw-Hill… Read More
Elsevier and Royal Tropical Institute sign MoU to provide researchers in developing nations with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus - August 30, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide 150 researchers working in least-developed and low-income countries with access to the latter's online scientific research platform and flagship abstract and citation database - ScienceDirect and… Read More
EU collaborates with IBM for digitisation of historic European texts on massive scale - August 26, 2010
Multinational computer, technology and IT consulting firm IBM, US, and the EU have unveiled a new initiative called IMPACT (IMProving ACcess to Text). The project seeks to provide technology that will enable highly-accurate digitisation of rare and culturally significant historical texts on a massive scale. The… Read More
ebrary to provide digital editions of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles - August 26, 2010
Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced a partnership with CHOICE to offer digital editions of more than 1,000 of the latter's recent Outstanding Academic Titles (OAT). CHOICE is a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the premier… Read More
Thomson Pharma to serve key commercialisation and business development needs of MRCF members - August 25, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF) has chosen Thomson Pharma, to serve the key commercialisation and business development needs of its 27 members. Thomson Pharma claims to be the largest and most comprehensive database of critical pharmaceutical… Read More
