East View Information Services’ content now searchable via Summon Web-Scale Discovery service - February 26, 2010
E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that East View Information Services is the latest content player to sign with the Summon web-scale discovery service. With the Summon service, East View will provide content on its Universal Database platform, a key… Read More
ULAKBİM Turkish National Databases collection now available via EBSCOhost - February 26, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has signed an agreement with ULAKBİM, the Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre. Under the deal, Turkish subscribers will gain access to the ULAKBİM Turkish National Databases collection via the EBSCOhost platform. The agreement allows for the collection… Read More
Emerald announces two new book deals in Canada - February 26, 2010
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK, has announced two new book deals with the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) and Login Canada Inc. The deals were announced at the ongoing Ontario Library Association (OLA) Super Conference 2010, Toronto, Ontario, February 24-27,… Read More
American Physiological Society extends multi-year deal with Cadmus Communications - February 26, 2010
Content management and production services provider Cadmus Communications, a Cenveo company, has announced that it has been awarded a four-year contract extension by the American Physiological Society (APS). Under the deal, Cadmus will provide a full range of journal production services including composition, content management, and… Read More
Elsevier, PANGAEA link content for easier access to full earth system research - February 25, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the data library PANGAEA - Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data - and Elsevier have implemented reciprocal linking between their respective content in earth system research. Research data sets deposited at PANGAEA are now automatically linked to the… Read More
NPG implements RSuite for content management - February 24, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that it has implemented RSuite, a content management system for publishers. NPG publishes journals, online databases and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine. NPG needed to replace… Read More
Springer and University of Hong Kong in deal for Open Choice programme - February 23, 2010
The University of Hong Kong Libraries has announced an agreement with STM publisher Springer, Germany. The deal allows researchers at the affiliated institutions of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) to publish their research in Springer journals using Springer Open Choice. Springer operates the Springer Open… Read More
DeepDyve to provide Caltech Alumni Association members with affordable access to scholarly journals - February 23, 2010
DeepDyve, a research engine for the Deep Web, has announced that it has been chosen by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Alumni Association to provide members with access to DeepDyve’s extensive catalogue of scholarly and professional journals. As part of the agreement, Caltech Alumni Association… Read More
Open Text to acquire Nstein Technologies for C$35 million - February 23, 2010
Enterprise content management (ECM) software provider Open Text Corporation, Canada, has announced an agreement to acquire digital content management solutions provider Nstein Technologies, Inc., Canada. Under the deal, Nstein shareholders will receive C$0.65 in cash for each Nstein common share held, unless certain eligible shareholders otherwise… Read More
OUP announces new publishing partnerships, expands economics journals programme - February 22, 2010
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, has announced new publishing partnerships to publish two leading Economics journals - Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE), on behalf of Harvard University, and The Review of Economic Studies (REStud), on behalf of Review of Economic Studies Ltd. QJE… Read More
