Thieme selects Ingram’s CoreSource platform to power global e-content strategy - August 19, 2010
Ingram Content Group Inc., US, has announced an agreement with STM publisher Thieme Medical Publishers. Under the deal, Thieme has selected Ingram's CoreSource platform for facilitating the archiving and distribution of e-content to partners worldwide. Ingram's CoreSource is an easy to use, one-stop, online solution for… Read More
Cambridge University Press and Kaplan International Colleges sign 5-year collaboration deal - August 19, 2010
Kaplan International Colleges and Cambridge University Press, the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, have signed a five-year agreement to collaborate on developing learning and teaching materials for students and lecturers of English for Academic Purposes. With material developed by Kaplan, Cambridge University Press will… Read More
Scope to support ProQuest in enhancing evidence-based medical content - August 17, 2010
Content enhancement and knowledge services provider Scope eKnowledge Center, a Quatrro Group company, has announced an initiative to support the continued enhancement of ProQuest's Medical Evidence Matters. ProQuest's Medical Evidence Matters online healthcare knowledge management system is designed to assist decision makers… Read More
Google may acquire visual search firm Like.com - August 17, 2010
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, is reportedly set to acquire Like.com, a visual search and e-commerce company that lets users search for products using images. Media reports estimate the deal size at $100 million. This is not the first time that Google has looked… Read More
QuadraMed and CPMRC partner to provide evidence-based clinical content - August 17, 2010
Healthcare technologies and services provider QuadraMed has announced a partnership with Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier firm engaged in developing clinical practice guidelines for healthcare. Under the deal, CPMRC will provide QuadraMed's clients with nursing and allied health clinical documentation, care planning, and… Read More
Ariadne, Cellecta and Roswell Park Cancer Institute collaborate to develop knowledgebase of prostate-specific pathway models - August 17, 2010
Bioinformatics software solutions provider Ariadne, US, has announced a joint collaboration with Cellecta and Roswell Park Cancer Institute to develop a comprehensive knowledgebase of prostate-specific pathway models. The project, partially sponsored by an NCI SBIR Phase 1 grant, uses Cellecta's siRNA library screening system for a… Read More
Google acquires Jambool’s Solid Gold virtual currency platform - August 16, 2010
Internet search services provider Google Inc. has announced that it has acquired Jambool, developer of the Solid Gold virtual currency platform that competes with Facebook Credits. Jambool CEO Vikas Gupta and CTO Reza Hussein, who previously worked on Amazon.com, announced the deal in a company blog… Read More
PLoS goes live with Editorial Manager for PLoS ONE publication - August 16, 2010
Online submission system provider Aries Systems Corporation, US, has announced that Public Library of Science (PLoS) has gone live with Editorial Manager for its PLoS ONE publication, with additional PLoS publications to follow in the coming months. The system launch in July, 2010 was the result… Read More
Newsbank partnership takes news content on EDS to over 100 million articles - August 13, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that the amount of news content in its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) has grown to more than 100 million articles since January 2010 from its partnership with Newsbank alone. Additional news content sources and the addition of… Read More
ICIS announces joint venture with MRC, extends presence in Russian market - August 13, 2010
Global chemicals information provider ICIS is extending its presence in the Russian plastics market through a joint venture with specialist Former Soviet Union (FSU) based benchmark price provider Market Report Company Group (MRC). To mark the launch of their collaboration, ICIS and MRC will hold a… Read More
