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
Chadron State College selects EBSCO Discovery Service to boost information literacy goals - August 25, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced that Chadron State College has chosen EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) as part of its overall goal to improve information literacy. The college was looking to wean students off typical search engines while encouraging students to access valuable… Read More
Springer and Helmholtz Association sign agreement for OA membership - August 24, 2010
STM publisher Springer and the Helmholtz Association have signed an agreement for open access membership. The move follows the launch of SpringerOpen, a new series of open access journals that will span all STM disciplines. The agreement covers article processing charges for authors from the participating… Read More
Microsoft and Google to co-chair W3C Web Performance Working Group - August 23, 2010
Software vendor Microsoft Corp., US, is to co-chair a new World Wide Web Consortium working group with Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US. The W3C Web Performance Working Group has been mandated to find methods for measuring application performance on the web. The first deliverable… Read More
Indian medical library consortium to gain access to medical content via Elsevier’s electronic platforms - August 23, 2010
Publisher Elsevier Health Sciences has announced an agreement with India-based premier medical library consortium for e-resources, Helinet. Under the deal, Elsevier Health Sciences will provide all medical students at Helinet's medical colleges with access to leading international and local medical content through Elsevier's electronic platforms: ScienceDirect… Read More
Academic Medical Center adds Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills for instant access to nursing information at the point of care - August 23, 2010
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that SUNY Downstate Medical Center will provide the expert clinical content from Lippincott's Nursing Procedures and Skills to nurses in their facility. SUNY Downstate Medical Center is a leading urban medical… Read More
Elsevier, ASRT partnership makes leading CT Basics series available to healthcare organisations - August 20, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced an exclusive partnership with The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) to provide a complete series of computed tomography modules through Mosby’s Imaging Suite for technologists’ continuing education. This partnership will provide technologists access to quality continuing education, and will… Read More
Cambridge University Press and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries announce publishing partnership - August 20, 2010
Cambridge University Press, the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries have formed a new partnership to publish two publications - Annals of Actuarial Science and British Actuarial Journal - in the field of actuarial science from 2011. This… Read More
Google seen to cooperate with Motorola for Android 3.0 tablet - August 20, 2010
As several smartphone makers are working aggressively to form cooperation agreements with Google for an Android 3.0 tablet PC, Motorola is currently the company's priority choice, Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo has said citing upstream component makers. Kuo pointed out that cooperation would be similar… Read More
