Baker & Taylor partners with EBSCO Publishing to make book and multimedia data available via EDS - February 12, 2010
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, US, has announced a partnership with information services company Baker & Taylor, Inc., US. The new partnership will make rich book and multimedia data from Baker & Taylor available as part of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). EBSCO’s discovery solution is… Read More
Springer and Society for Biological Systematics announce publishing partnership - February 11, 2010
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced a partnership with the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (Society for Biological Systematics). Under the deal, Springer will publish the society's official journal Organisms Diversity & Evolution, beginning with Volume 10, Issue 1, in March 2010. The journal was previously published… Read More
Maney renews publishing agreement with Australasian mining institute - February 11, 2010
Academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has announced that a publishing agreement with the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) has been renewed for another three years. The Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy journals; Mining Technology, Applied Earth Science and Mineral Processing and… Read More
IHS acquires Emerging Energy Research for $18 million - February 11, 2010
IHS Inc., a US-based provider of energy-focused information, has announced the acquisition of Emerging Energy Research, an energy advisory firm, for $18 million. Emerging Energy seeks to help clients understand, leverage and exploit the technological, regulatory and competitive trends in the global emerging energy sector. Emerging… Read More
Outsell, Inc. acquires content and technologies specialist The Gilbane Group - February 10, 2010
Research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc., US, has announced that the The Gilbane Group, a UK-based consulting firm covering content technologies, has joined Outsell. This addition makes Outsell the only research and advisory firm with 360-degree coverage of the information industry - established and disruptive information… Read More
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
