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
UBM Medica acquires OBGYN.net - October 18, 2010
UBM Medica, part of United Business Media Plc, US, has announced that it has acquired the website OBGYN.net from MediSpecialty.com, Inc. OBGYN.net is a women's health website for obstetrics and gynecology professionals and patients. The site provides article-based and multimedia content generated… Read More
ASME announces new partnerships in China - October 18, 2010
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has announced agreements with PetroChina Pipeline Company (PPC), the Petroleum Storage & Transportation Committee of the Chinese Petroleum Society (PSTC) and the China Machinery Industry Federation (CMIF), all based in China. These formal agreements aim to facilitate an information… Read More
Connecticut Library Consortium joins OCLC Partnership Program - October 15, 2010
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has announced the Connecticut Library Consortium (CLC) as the latest partner in the OCLC Partnership Program. The CLC is a statewide membership collaborative that serves all types of Connecticut libraries by initiating and facilitating cost-effective services,… Read More
Apollo Hospitals partners with The BMJ Group for mobile health applications - October 15, 2010
Healthcare major Apollo Hospitals has announced an agreement with medial publisher The BMJ Group to develop mobile health applications for patients and continuous medical education (CME) for doctors and other healthcare professionals. The BMJ Group is the media arm of the British Medical Association. The first… Read More
Taylor & Francis and Semantico update The Europa World of Learning resource - October 15, 2010
Publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F), UK, and online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, have updated The Europa World of Learning. Up-to-date details of more than 200,000 staff and officials at over 30,000 universities, colleges, schools of art and music, libraries, learned societies, research institutes, museums… Read More
