Ingram Digital announces agreement with Taiwan Library Consortium - March 4, 2009
The Taiwan Library Consortium, in conjunction with the government of Taiwan, has announced a three-year agreement with digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US. Under the deal, Ingram Digital will supply 250,000 users with access to 5,000 digital titles covering a wide spectrum of subject matter.… Read More
EMH Swiss Medical Publisher selects Editorial Manager for online peer-review - March 3, 2009
Online submission system provider Aries Systems Corporation, US, has announced an agreement with EMH Swiss Medical Publisher Ltd. (Schweizerische Ärzteverlag AG). Under the deal, Aries' Editorial Manager online peer-review system will be deployed to journals published by EMH. The project will begin with deployment of Editorial… Read More
NPG, PMJ unveil enhanced usage reporting service with MPS Insight - February 27, 2009
Publishers Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, and Palgrave Macmillan Journals (PMJ) have announced that upgraded usage statistic reporting is now available for all online publications. With immediate effect, NPG and PMJ statistic reports now include the additional reports and services required by the new COUNTER Release… Read More
‘Archives of Disease in Childhood’ becomes official journal of EAP - February 27, 2009
The European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP) has announced that specialist international title Archives of Disease in Childhood (ADC) has been named its official journal. This is the second time the title has acquired this status - it is already the official journal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child… Read More
ProQuest signs licence agreement for database access in Slovenia - February 26, 2009
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, US, has announced that the full suite of ProQuest Central database products is now available to members of the Institute of Information Science (IZUM) throughout Slovenia through a subscription arrangement. The breadth of content in ProQuest Central is seen to… Read More
BioMed to help Computer Aid raise funds to provide PCs to African university - February 26, 2009
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced a partnership with Computer Aid International to support research in Africa. BioMed will support Kenyatta University in Nairobi to help local scientists conduct vital research directly relevant to local problems in one of the poorest parts of… Read More
Karger opts for EMpact to promote online collection of clinical titles in various regions - February 26, 2009
Publisher Karger, Switzerland, has announced a partnership with EMpact Sales, the publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services, US. Under the deal, EMpact will offer the new Karger Hospital Collection to customers in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Mexico, Central and South… Read More
ConnectivHealth sells health news division to Intellaerus - February 26, 2009
VerusMed, a medical information business unit of ConnectivHealth, Inc., US, has been sold to Intellerus, LLC, a private investment firm. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. As part of the sale, about 12 employees have left the company to work… Read More
Springer and Senckenberg society announce publishing partnership - February 25, 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced a partnership with the Senckenberg Gesellschaft fuer Naturforschung to publish two scientific journals - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments and Marine Biodiversity - starting March 2009. A quarterly publication, Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments is an international journal providing a multidisciplinary approach to the… Read More
Australian Research Council selects Scopus to assess higher education research output - February 24, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Australian Research Council (ARC) has selected Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation (A&C) database, for its Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. The ERA initiative will assess research quality within Australia's higher education institutions using a… Read More
