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
National Library of Medicine’ Bookshelf adds National Academies Reports - February 3, 2010
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health, has announced that more than 70 reports by the National Academies are available online at NLM's Bookshelf. Bookshelf is a searchable, online collection of biomedical books and other material, produced by NLM's National… Read More
EBSCO to co-sponsor librarian scholarship for DPER 2010 Diversity & Inclusion award winner - February 3, 2010
Information services provider EBSCO, US, will co-sponsor a scholarship for the SLA Division of Petroleum and Energy Resources (DPER) 2010 Diversity & Inclusion award winner, Stephen Kizza. Kizza, solo librarian of the Resource Centre of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development in Uganda, won the… Read More
Ten Alps buys Asian media assets from Reed Elsevier - February 2, 2010
Media group Ten Alps Plc, UK, has announced the formation of a majority-owned joint venture (JV) to acquire publisher Reed Elsevier’s Asian assets. The businesses would be added to the company’s Singapore operation, where it also hopes to tie up further JVs. Under the acquisition deal,… Read More
Springer strengthens oncology journals program with Journal of Cancer Education - February 1, 2010
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced the addition of the Journal of Cancer Education (JCE) to its journals publishing programme. Published on behalf of the American Association for Cancer Education and the European Association for Cancer Education, the journal features a varied editorial board made up… Read More
SAGE in deal with EIRA Consortium to provide access to health science journals - February 1, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced a new agreement with the Swedish Association of Local Authorities to provide the EIRA consortium (Effective Information Retrieval and Acquisition) with access to all SAGE health science journals. Made up of 21 member county councils, EIRA exists to support Swedish healthcare… Read More
