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
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
