Oxford University Press USA joins PubEasy book ordering service - April 16, 2009
Books enquiry and ordering services provider PubEasy, UK, has announced that Oxford University Press in the US, which is affiliated with the largest scholarly press in the world, has joined the growing PubEasy community of booksellers and suppliers. As a new PubEasy member, joining its affiliate… Read More
EMpact Sales and East View Information Services announce strategic partnership - April 16, 2009
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services, US, has announced an agreement with East View Information Services (East View), a leading provider of information products and services in foreign languages and English translation. Under the deal, EMpact will… Read More
SAGE partners with online education applications - April 16, 2009
Academic publisher SAGE recently announced a partnership with two industry-leading, online education applications - Blackboard and CourseSmart. The synergy created from this partnership provides both students and education professionals with an innovative new mode of education. Blackboard/WebCT claims to be the most used course management system… Read More
EMpact Sales and e-libro partner to promote 30,000 Spanish language titles - April 14, 2009
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services, US, and e-libro, an international partner of e-content services and technology provider ebrary, have entered into a three-year partnership agreement. Under the agreement, EMpact will promote all Spanish language content in the e-libro database -… Read More
Swets Gateway signs sales and marketing agreement with MA Healthcare - April 14, 2009
Swets Gateway, the special publisher services division of Swets, Netherlands, has announced an agreement with UK-based MA Healthcare. Under the deal, Swets Gateway will act as the exclusive sales and marketing representative for MA Healthcare in the Asia/Pacific region. The agreement covers Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand,… Read More
Chinese universities gain access to IOS Press’ e-journals - April 13, 2009
STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, and the National Science and Technology Library (NSTL), China, have signed a 3 year contract for the access to all of IOS electronic publications. The deal follows an extensive review of actual usage by the Chinese library users, which showed that… Read More
OCLC, EBSCO deal to offer library patrons online access to full text of authoritative ejournals - April 13, 2009
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, and electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), recently signed an agreement. The new deal makes it possible for libraries that subscribe to both WorldCat Local and EBSCOhost services to provide their users with easy online… Read More
Elsevier acquires Professional Development Software, Inc - April 10, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of the assets of Professional Development Software, Inc. (PDS), the provider of Softwarefornurses.com online learning education products. Under the deal, PDS will be integrated into Elsevier's Evolve Testing and Remediation product suite (which includes the 'HESI Test'), bringing… Read More
Lab Manager Magazine and ALMA announce collaboration - April 10, 2009
Lab Manager Magazine, a publication for the scientific research market, has entered into a collaboration with ALMA, the Association of Laboratory Managers. Through this collaboration ALMA and Lab Manager Magazine will mutually support the missions of their organisation and readership - to deliver learning opportunities and… Read More
EBSCO Publishing acquires NISC, Inc. - April 9, 2009
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing, a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc., US, has announced the acquisition of NISC, Inc. NISC publishes a full range of bibliographic, abstract, and full-text databases. This acquisition is projected to augment EBSCO's… Read More
