JISC Collections, Gale partner to make Eighteenth Century Collections Online Part 2 available to UK academic community - July 2, 2009
E-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, and JISC Collections have announced an agreement to make Part 2 of the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) digitisation project freely available to all UK academic institutions currently subscribing to ECCO. With… Read More
ProQuest acquires microfilming assets from National Archive Publishing Company - June 30, 2009
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has acquired assets related to the microfilming of newspapers, collections (such as groups of books, manuscripts and historical documents) and dissertations from National Archive Publishing Company (NAPC). ProQuest expects to integrate the assets smoothly, providing full service to its… Read More
DA Information Services acquires Languages Direct - June 29, 2009
Learning and information resources provider DA Information Services, Australia, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Languages Direct, the leading supplier of LOTE (Languages Other Than English) books and AV material to Libraries in Australasia. This acquisition will mean public, state and University libraries… Read More
Pearson invests $30 million in Indian education companies - June 26, 2009
Publishing group Pearson, UK, has announced investments totalling $30 million in two Indian education companies - Educomp Solutions and TutorVista. The move is seen to build Pearson's position in one of the world's largest and fastest-growing education markets. Educomp, a listed education company, serves more than… Read More
EMpact Sales and Multi-Science Publishing sign exclusive partnership deal - June 26, 2009
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services, US, has announced an agreement with Multi-Science Publishing Co Ltd. in which EMpact will serve as exclusive sales and marketing representative. According to the agreement, EMpact will promote scientific journals that concentrate on energy, acoustics… Read More
Springer and Sitronics Labs in deal for trial access to Springer eBooks and eJournals - June 25, 2009
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, and Sitronics Labs, the corporate research center of Sitronics, have announced the launch of a trial access to Springer eBooks and eJournals in Mathemathics and Statistics, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Engineering and Computer Science. With immediate effect, all Sitronics R&D… Read More
Thomson Reuters and Taiwan’s STPI sign MoU to support Science & Technology development - June 25, 2009
The Healthcare & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Science & Technology Policy Research and Information Center (STPI) on collaborative efforts to provide direction and support for Taiwan's Science & Technology (S&T) development. STPI is… Read More
Scientific American to form consumer media division of Nature Publishing Group - June 24, 2009
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that the Scientific American team will soon join their NPG colleagues in the existing NPG offices in Varick Street, New York City. The office move marks a major step in the integration of two of Macmillan Publishers'… Read More
AAUP announces cooperative agreement with iPublishCentral - June 23, 2009
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has announced a cooperative agreement with iPublishCentral, a self-service e-content delivery platform from Impelsys, to support its 130 members in pursuing electronic publishing. The partnership provides AAUP members with a discount for using iPublishCentral's e-publishing platform and services through… Read More
Springer, SISSA sign publishing deal - June 22, 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced a publishing partnership with the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy. Under the deal, Springer will publish the latter's online-only scientific journal, Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), starting January 1, 2010. The JHEP publishes a wide array of… Read More
