Credo Reference adds titles from Princeton and Purdue university presses - May 5, 2010
Online reference library Credo Reference has announced an agreement to integrate five Princeton University Press titles into the Credo General Reference collection. Princeton University Press publishes approximately 250 academic books each year across various disciplines. Following the latest agreement, Credo users can gain access to the… Read More
Maney acquires two journals from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine - May 5, 2010
Maney Publishing, UK, has announced that it has acquired two journals of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). The journals, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (ATM) and the Annals of Tropical Paediatrics (ATP), have been published by Maney under licence since 2002. Under the… Read More
St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center to implement WK Health’s ProVation Order Sets - May 5, 2010
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that the St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center has selected ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of evidence-based order sets. Located in Paterson, New Jersey, the St. Joseph’s Regional… Read More
Canon Communications acquires pharmaceuticals industry blog Pharmalot - May 4, 2010
Trade publisher Canon Communications, US, has announced the acquisition of Pharmalot, a blog focused on news and information in the pharmaceutical industry. As part of the acquisition, Pharmalot’s founder, Ed Silverman, will join Canon as an Editor at Large in the Pharmaceutical Media Group and will… Read More
BioMed Central and MIT Libraries partner to deposit OA articles automatically using SWORD protocol - April 30, 2010
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries. The deal is to develop an automated system that uses the latest technology to automatically populate MIT's digital repository, DSpace@MIT, with the official version of articles by MIT researchers that have… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and b-on in deal to provide 69 Portuguese institutions with site license access to Nature - April 30, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online (b-on) have signed a three-year agreement to provide 69 institutions in Portugal with site license access to Nature. More than 300,000 researchers and students in Portugal will now gain access to research and news published… Read More
Ex Libris and Gale partner to offer online access to e-books and journals via Primo Central - April 30, 2010
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, US, has announced an agreement with e-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US. Under the deal, a number of Gale’s academic databases can now be accessed directly via the Primo Central mega-aggregate of scholarly e-content. The flagship… Read More
ScholarOne partners with SciVee to capture and share meeting content - April 29, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced a new partnership between ScholarOne and SciVee, a provider of rich media solutions to the scientific, technical and medical market. ScholarOne is Thomson Reuters’ industry-leading peer review workflow management solution. The partnership between ScholarOne and SciVee will give… Read More
Semantico’s online publishing expertise helps Nature improve discoverability - April 29, 2010
Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, has announced that it has completed an important consultancy project for scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) examining the use of taxonomies across their online content. It is observed that readers frequently use search facilities to find articles that… Read More
Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center selects ProVation EHR software for electronic documentation and patient charting - April 29, 2010
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center has selected its ProVation EHR electronic health record and patient charting solution. ProVation EHR is an electronic health record designed for busy, cost-conscious Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs). It offers robust… Read More