Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Laerdal Medical partner to develop nursing skill simulations - January 26, 2010
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced a partnership with Laerdal Medical. Under the deal, Lippincott’s print and online nursing content will be integrated with Laerdal’s state-of-the-art simulators and superior simulation programmes. Practicing nurses and nursing students will… Read More
Macmillan Education Group selects Semantico for online English learning products - January 26, 2010
Teaching and school curriculum materials publisher Macmillan Education Group, US, has announced that it will implement the Semantico Access Management System (SAMS) across its industry-leading range of English teaching materials and e-learning products. SAMS provides a flexible and sophisticated approach that can integrate simply with third-party… Read More
British Library Preservation Advisory Centre and DPC sign MoU to build digital preservation skills - January 25, 2010
The British Library Preservation Advisory Centre and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) have signed a new memorandum of understanding. Both organisations seek to promote a culture of shared responsibility for and understanding of digital content amongst those caring for library and archive… Read More
Cornell University Library seeks financial support for online scientific repository - January 25, 2010
Cornell University Library, one of the leading academic research libraries in the US, is broadening the funding base for its online scientific repository, arXiv. Nearly 600,000 e-prints - research articles published online in physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science and related disciplines - now reside in arXiv,… Read More
SAGE and Histochemical Society announce publishing partnership - January 25, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced a partnership with The Histochemical Society (HCS). Under the deal, SAGE will publish the latter’s official journal, the Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry, beginning with volume 59 in 2011. Dr. John R. Couchman, the Danish National Research Foundation Professor at the… Read More
Quertle announces content expansion - January 22, 2010
Biomedical search engine Quertle has expanded the content covered by its innovative, free website, www.quertle.info, for searching the biomedical, life science, and chemical literature. With this release, Quertle adds full-text scientific whitepapers and research posters to the PubMed and full-text journals already… Read More
Maney acquires healthcare titles from Henry Stewart Publications - January 21, 2010
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced that it has acquired three quarterly healthcare journals from Henry Stewart Publications, an international publisher of peer-reviewed, professional and academic journals. The journals - Journal of Care Services Management, Journal of Management and Marketing in Healthcare and Journal of… Read More
Credo Reference adds Hodder Education titles to Credo collection - January 20, 2010
Online reference library Credo Reference, US, has signed an agreement with Hodder Education to incorporate three major subject references into the Credo collection. These will be the first Hodder Education titles licensed to Credo. Hodder Education publishes for the educational market at all levels. It claims… Read More
Cambridge Imaging Systems in deal with British Library to build moving image archive - January 18, 2010
Cambridge Imaging Systems has announced a deal to supply the British Library with an advanced digital archive management system, known as Box of Broadcasts or simply ‘BoB'. The British Library contains over 150 million items including a moving image collection of around 40,000 titles. As part… Read More
De Gruyter and CiteULike partner with DeepDyve to make journals more widely accessible - January 15, 2010
Academic publisher De Gruyter, Germany, has announced that it is making more than 160,000 scholarly and professional journal articles available via DeepDyve, a company whose rental service for scientific research articles is designed to meet the needs of sophisticated professionals and consumers. Through DeepDyve, users will… Read More
