Open University of Hong Kong selects suite of Ex Libris products - October 7, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the Stanley Ho Library of the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) has acquired a suite of Ex Libris products. These include the Aleph integrated library system (ILS), the MetaLib gateway and metasearch portal, the SFX… Read More
Humedica and Anceta partner to improve patient care through clinical analytics - October 2, 2009
Clinical informatics company Humedica, US, and Anceta, the health care informatics subsidiary of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), have announced a long-term partnership. Anceta has selected Humedica to be its exclusive partner in the development of its nationwide collaborative data warehouse and robust clinical analytics… Read More
Informed Decisions’ e-prescribing solution now offered via AMA’s new ePrescribing Learning Center - October 1, 2009
Drug and clinical information solutions developer Informed Decisions, LLC, an Elsevier company, has announced that it is providing information about its EMPOWERx e-prescribing solution via the American Medical Association's (AMA) new ePrescribing Learning Center. The new online platform provides physicians with the information and tools they… Read More
BioMed Central partners with AuthorMapper to add publishing metadata - September 30, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has teamed up with AuthorMapper.com and SpringerExemplar.com to add data for its more than 60,000 published articles to both platforms. Launched in February of 2009, AuthorMapper is a free analytical online tool for discerning trends, patterns and subject experts within… Read More
O’Reilly to distribute Microsoft Press titles - September 28, 2009
Publisher O'Reilly Media, US, and software vendor Microsoft Corp., US, have announced a joint arrangement to support and expand Microsoft Press from production through distribution, co-publishing and content development, marketing and management. Through this strategic relationship, on November 30, O'Reilly will become the distributor of Microsoft… Read More
Impelsys partners with Audiomedia Production to offer complete talking eBook solution - September 28, 2009
Electronic content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, US, has announced a strategic partnership with Audiomedia Production (AP), an audio production vendor to leading educational and trade publishers. The deal is to offer audio content for Impelsys’ VirtualPages. VirtualPages is a reader that quickly and cost-effectively converts print… Read More
Outpatient Surgery Center of Jonesboro selects WK Health’s ProVation MD software for procedure documentation and coding - September 24, 2009
Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Outpatient Surgery Center of Jonesboro has selected its ProVation MD software for procedure documentation and coding. The software will be used to document Gastroenterological (GI) procedures at the facility. Outpatient Surgery Center of Jonesboro… Read More
OCLC and ABES in deal to add French Sudoc records to WorldCat - September 23, 2009
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and ABES (l’Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur), France, have signed an agreement to load 9 million records from Système Universitaire de documentation (Sudoc), the cataloguing system for French academic libraries managed by ABES, into WorldCat. WorldCat claims to be the largest… Read More
EBSCO partners with key consortia to make renewal of e-journal packages simpler - September 22, 2009
EBSCO and a number of library consortia are working together to help consortia members reduce the cost and burden of processing e-journal package renewals by using EBSCO’s RapidRenewal service, available via EBSCONET. EBSCO's RapidRenewal, an online tool for managing the renewal of licensed e-journal collections, is… Read More
Berkeley Electronic Press joins Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certification programme - September 22, 2009
E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) provider Serials Solutions, US, has announced that academic publisher Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) has joined its KnowledgeWorks Certified Program. As a KnowledgeWorks Certified content provider, bepress will supply data for 51 journals to more than 360 libraries, guaranteeing mutual subscribers… Read More
