Molecular Neurodegeneration named official OA journal of the AHAF - July 21, 2010
The American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) has announced a new partnership with open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central's OA journal, Molecular Neurodegeneration (MN). Under the deal, Molecular Neurodegeneration will be the official open access journal of the AHAF. The journal publishes peer-reviewed,… Read More
Wiley to be exclusive global publisher and distributor of RSMeans professional reference titles - July 20, 2010
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and RSMeans, North America's leading supplier of construction cost information, have announced a partnership to deliver a new generation of reference materials to the commercial and residential construction markets. Under the deal, Wiley will be the exclusive global publisher… Read More
North Carolina selects Thomson Reuters for healthcare reporting and analytics - July 20, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that the North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services has awarded the company a five-year contract to provide a healthcare reporting and analytics system. The system will enable the State of North Carolina to better manage all… Read More
Journal of NeuroVirology to join Springer’s neuroscience portfolio - July 20, 2010
STM publisher Springer has announced that it will publish the Journal of NeuroVirology (JNV), a publication closely affiliated with the International Society for NeuroVirology, starting January 2011. Previously published by Taylor & Francis/Informa, the five-year contract with Springer runs to 2015. A bi-monthly publication, the Journal… Read More
Google acquires Metaweb to improve search - July 19, 2010
Internet search services provider Google Inc. has acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains an open database of people, places, and things called Freebase. Google will integrate this information into its search algorithms. This is expected to further boost Google's ability to accept search queries, and to… Read More
European Commission okays Google project to digitise archives of Dutch library - July 16, 2010
The European Commission has reportedly stated that it does not object to Google digitising 160,000 books in the archives of the National Library of the Netherlands if these will be made available publicly. The Dutch library, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), recently announced an agreement with Internet search… Read More
Springer to distribute eBooks from Sense Publishers - July 16, 2010
STM publisher Springer has announced an agreement with international academic publishing house Sense Publishers. Under the deal, Springer will distribute the latter's book program as part of Springer's eBook collection on www.springerlink.com, starting in 2011. Sense has an annual output of about… Read More
EBSCO Publishing acquires two SAGE databases - July 16, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has acquired two databases from academic publisher SAGE. These are: Criminal Justice Abstracts and Communication Abstracts. The deal will bring two leading databases in their fields to users through the EBSCOhost platform. Criminal Justice Abstracts and Communication Abstracts… Read More
National Technical Information Service to be official distributor of Death Master File - July 16, 2010
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS), an agency of the US Department of Commerce, has announced that it has been named the authorised official distributor of the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Death Master File (DMF). The DMF is used by leading government, financial, investigative, credit reporting… Read More
The National Library of Netherlands signs book digitisation agreement with Google - July 15, 2010
The National Library of Netherlands, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), has announced an agreement with Internet search services provider Google. Under the deal, Google will digitise more than 160,000 out-of-copyright (public domain) books from the library's collection. The books will be fully searchable and accessible for free via… Read More
