enTourage ties up with F.A. Davis to offer nursing and healthcare content - May 28, 2010
enTourage Systems, Inc., the US-based developer of a dualbook branded 'enTourage eDGe', has announced a partnership with publisher F.A. Davis to upgrade its e-book store with additional titles. The enTourage eDGe seeks to bridge multiple technologies into one device. With its hinged E-Ink and LCD screens,… Read More
Baker & Taylor and LibreDigital announce expanded agreement for delivery of e-books - May 28, 2010
Baker & Taylor, Inc., a US-based distributor of physical and digital books, has announced an expanded agreement with digital media services company LibreDigital Inc, US. Both parties will partner for the delivery of e-books - creating a one-stop, comprehensive suite of services… Read More
Publishing executives join together to form new digital media consulting business - May 28, 2010
Three senior publishing executives have announced the formation of INCITE Partners, LLC (INCITE), a new digital media consulting business. INCITE is a digital media consulting firm that seeks to help publishers and professional societies achieve their online content goals. The firm will provide services across the… Read More
FDA to collaborate with Drugs.com to expand access to consumer health information - May 27, 2010
The US Food and Drug Administration has announced that it will collaborate with the website Drugs.com to expand access to the FDA's consumer health information. Drugs.com seeks to provide patients with information to better manage their own healthcare and to assist in the reduction of medication… Read More
Google ties up with American Booksellers Association for digital books - May 27, 2010
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, and the American Booksellers Association (ABA) have reportedly formed a partnership. The partnership was announced at a session on Google Editions at the BookExpo America 2010 during the ABA Day of Education with ABA COO Len Vlahos and Tom… Read More
SAGE and RTVJ Division of AEJMC partner to publish Electronic News - May 27, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has partnered with the Radio-Television Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) to publish the latter's official journal, Electronic News. A quarterly journal, Electronic News is devoted to advancing knowledge and understanding of news as disseminated through… Read More
Hackensack University Medical Center deploys Thomson Reuters NeoFax Online to provide evidence-based drug information - May 27, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that Hackensack University Medical Center has deployed Thomson Reuters NeoFax Online to provide physicians, nurses, and pharmacy staff in its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with electronic, evidence-based drug information. Hackensack University Medical Center is a 775-bed academic… Read More
Eleven new partners join IMPACT consortium - May 26, 2010
The European research project IMPACT (Improving Access to Text) recently entered its second phase by taking up 11 new partners from Southern and Eastern Europe into the consortium. These new partners will seek to contribute to the project's goals of optimising OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software… Read More
Oxford University Press implements RSuite to transform publishing operations - May 26, 2010
Academic and reference books publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has licensed RSuite, a content management system for publishers. OUP is implementing RSuite across an initial subset of its book content. The Press publishes more than 6,000 new titles a year. RSuite will serve as the central… Read More
Ariadne and Aureus Pharma join forces to deliver knowledge management solutions for life sciences industry - May 26, 2010
Bioinformatics firm Ariadne, US, and Aureus Pharma have announced a partnership to deliver leading knowledge management solutions for the life sciences industry. Ariadne will also distribute Aureus' offerings in the US. Financial terms were not disclosed. The two companies will initiate a collaboration to explore together… Read More
