Backstage Library Works acquires Preservation Service Center from OCLC - August 6, 2009
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has announced that Backstage Library Works has acquired the assets of OCLC’s Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as part of a multiyear strategic partner relationship. Backstage Library Works is an organisation that provides digitisation, retrospective… Read More
Swinburne University opts for Ex Libris library products - August 6, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, has chosen a full suite of Ex Libris solutions to serve as the backbone of its library services. The university has opted for the Primo discovery and delivery solution… Read More
Emerald partners with Latin American Council of Management Schools to promote management research - August 6, 2009
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has partnered with Consejo Latinoamericano de Escuelas de Administración (CLADEA). Under the deal, both parties will be working together on a number of initiatives to promote management research, education and practice in the Latin America region.… Read More
CRKN in deal with SAGE to provide member libraries access to SAGE Premier - August 5, 2009
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has signed an agreement with academic publisher SAGE. Under the deal, CRKN will gain access to SAGE Premier, with content focusing on business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine. Participating members of CRKN, an… Read More
CambridgeSoft, Imaginatik launch visual collaboration tool for life science scientists - August 5, 2009
Life sciences software provider CambridgeSoft, US, and Imaginatik have announced the launch of ChemBioConnect, a new tool for collaborating online in large groups. The tool is projected to allow scientists to draw, view, edit, archive and search chemical structures and biological systems in a secure, robust… Read More
Transaction Publishers to distribute eBooks through ebrary - August 5, 2009
Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that hundreds of recently published, multi-disciplinary eBooks from Transaction Publishers will soon be available for purchase through ebrary. Transaction Publishers is an independent publisher of social scientific books, and serials. The new selection from Transaction, which… Read More
StayWell launches online health management platform - August 4, 2009
Custom health communications company StayWell Custom Communications (SCC) has introduced StayWell Engage, an online health management platform. StayWell Engage is designed to engage consumers with vast customised content, health assessment tools and digital health coaching programmes that together seek to create a personal health improvement experience… Read More
Chinese scientific database added to WorldWideScience’s offering - August 3, 2009
The WorldWideScience Alliance has announced that China has recently signed its charter. Following this, users of WorldWideScience.org can now obtain access to the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China's database. In addition, users will now have access to the document… Read More
ebrary offers IGI Global’s InfoSci-Books - July 29, 2009
Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced that it is offering InfoSci-Books, a selection of all books and reference works published since the year 2000 by IGI Global, a publisher of advanced computer science and information technology research. InfoSci-Books features over 25,000 chapters… Read More
Emerald to publish Journal of Advances in Management Research - July 29, 2009
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced the recent acquisition of the Journal of Advances in Management Research. Emerald will publish the journal in association with the Indian Institute of Technology from Volume 6, issue 1. Two sample papers from previous… Read More
