Ex Libris and Ingram Digital in deal to make e-book content available via MyiLibrary - February 10, 2010
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, and digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, have announced an agreement to make e-book content available through Ingram’s e-content aggregation platform, MyiLibrary. MyiLibrary e-book content will now be available to library users through the full suite of Ex… Read More
British Library, Microsoft launch online platform for collaborative research - February 9, 2010
The British Library and Microsoft Research have announced that the new open source 'Research Information Centre' (RIC) Framework v1.0 is now available to download for free at http://ric.codeplex.com. The RIC is seen to represent an entirely new way of conducting research by… Read More
Ex Libris acquires company’s Scandinavian distributor - February 9, 2010
Library solutions provider Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced the acquisition of the Fujitsu Services A/S library division - the exclusive distributor of Ex Libris products in Denmark and Sweden - and the assumption of all interaction with the Company’s approximately 200 customer… Read More
Dartmouth Journal Services goes live with PNAS - February 9, 2010
Journal production services provider Dartmouth Journal Services (DJS), part of The Sheridan Group, US, has announced the successful transition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). DJS provides full service copyediting, composition, online deliverables, print production, back… Read More
BMJ Group and OUBS launch accredited online courses in Clinical Leadership - February 8, 2010
BMJ Learning, the medical education division of The BMJ Group, UK, and The Open University Business School’s (OUBS) Centre for Professional Learning and Development (CPLD) have launched postgraduate qualifications in Clinical Leadership for healthcare professionals. The new courses have been developed following the recommendations of Lord… Read More
Bowker acquires BML from Publishing News - February 8, 2010
Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, has announced the acquisition of BML (Book Marketing) from Publishing News Ltd. With this acquisition, Bowker seeks to expand its ability to provide business intelligence to the global publishing market. BML is a provider of market research on the UK book… Read More
Dartmouth Journal Services to provide production services for The Journal of Immunology - February 5, 2010
Journal production services provider Dartmouth Journal Services (DJS), part of The Sheridan Group, US, has announced an agreement with The American Association of Immunologists. Under the deal, DJS will provide services for the production of The Journal of Immunology (The JI). The JI is owned and… Read More
Hong Kong University to deploy Scopus API for institutional repository - February 4, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has opted to use its Scopus search Application Programming Interface (API) technology. HKU will use Scopus to continuously update its institutional repository and expert profiling system with information on where and how often… Read More
Six publishers to make journal articles available via DeepDyve’s online rental service - February 4, 2010
DeepDyve, a research engine for the Deep Web, has announced that six major publishers have agreed to make their articles available via the company’s online rental service for research articles. These publishers will add important journals in the areas of information technology, social sciences and the… Read More
Helsebiblioteket selects UpToDate as a point-of-care reference tool for all primary and specialty healthcare in Norway - February 4, 2010
Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that UpToDate has been selected as a point-of-care reference tool by Helsebiblioteket (The Norwegian Electronic Health Library). Helsebiblioteket provides health personnel with free online access to useful and trustworthy knowledge resources - journals, databases, summarised… Read More
