Elsevier announces publishing partnership with Peking University - October 14, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a publishing partnership with Peking University. Under the deal, the global publisher will publish the Proceedings of the Beijing Forum from 2004 to 2008 in Procedia. Procedia is Elsevier’s e-only product publishing high quality conference proceedings. It enables fast dissemination… Read More
More publishers add multilingual content to NetLibrary eBook and eAudiobook collections - October 14, 2009
Global library cooperative OCLC has announced that its e-book and e-audiobook service, NetLibrary, now offers more than 200,000 eBooks and over 13,000 eAudiobooks from over 550 publishers in a variety of subject areas and disciplines. NetLibrary claims to be the first eContent provider to offer academic,… Read More
OCLC, SWRLS announce collaboration using WorldCat Local in UK - October 13, 2009
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and the South West Regional Library Service (SWRLS) have announced a collaboration. The initiative will initially see seven public library authorities in the South West of England using WorldCat Local as their shared end user discovery service in 2010. Library authorities… Read More
John Wiley & Sons partners with Scrivener Publishing - October 12, 2009
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a new partnership with Scrivener Publishing, a provider of book and chapter length material for industry practitioners and academic researchers in the technical applied sciences. Under the deal, Wiley and Scrivener will co-develop a line of books… Read More
Publishing Technology to rebuild Sunmedia’s publishing platform with pub2web tech - October 12, 2009
Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, has announced a partnership with content solutions provider Sunmedia, Japan. Under the deal, Publishing Technology will deploy its pub2web technology to rebuild Sunmedia’s online publishing platform as a robust new research service. Sunmedia's current platform supplies Japanese researchers… Read More
JISC Collections to acquire Content Complete Ltd - October 9, 2009
JISC Collections, an organisation that manages the acquisition and provision of digital resources for universities and colleges in the UK, has reached an agreement to acquire Oxfordshire-based Content Complete Ltd, effective January 1, 2010. Library clients, publishers and content providers are expected to benefit from this… Read More
World Scientific and SCPG to jointly launch the English translation of the ‘Developing China’ series - October 9, 2009
Scientific publisher World Scientific Publishing Company (WSPC), Singapore, and Shanghai Century Publishing Group (SCPG) will jointly launch the English translation of the ‘Developing China’ series with its first volume entitled China's Economy - Rural Reform and Agricultural Development, at the forthcoming Frankfurt Book Fair. Professor Deng… Read More
IBM journals to be available via IEEE Xplore - October 8, 2009
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and IBM, US, have announced a publishing agreement. Under the deal, all papers published in IBM journals will be available exclusively in the IEEE Xplore digital library (www.ieee.org/ieeexplore) from the first quarter of 2010… Read More
Summa Health selects WK Health’ ProVation Software for cardiology procedure documentation and coding - October 8, 2009
Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Summa Health System has selected ProVation MD software for Cardiology procedure documentation and coding. Summa Health will use the software to document and code catheterization cases at its three cardiac catheterization labs at Summa… Read More
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
