TBI launches viral marketing campaign for BMJ Group - March 31, 2009
TBI Communications, a UK-based strategic marketing consultancy for scholarly publishers, recently launched 'Perfect 10', a viral marketing campaign on behalf of medical publisher BMJ Group. Targeting about 250,000 initial recipients, the campaign is projected as the first major use of viral marketing technologies in the reference… Read More
PE firms put up academic publisher Springer for sale - March 30, 2009
Candover and Cinven, the private equity (PE) companies that own media group Springer Science and Business Media, Germany, have reportedly put the company up for sale with a price tag of £2 billion. The PE owners are believed to have appointed UBS and Goldman Sachs to… Read More
Emerald signs 5-year agreement with CASPUR - March 30, 2009
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced a 5-year deal with CASPUR (Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Applicazioni di Supercalcolo per Università e Ricerca) Inter-University Consortium for the Application of Super-Computing for Universities and Research. This agreement provides CASPUR's 27 members with… Read More
EMpact Sales and CSIRO PUBLISHING sign sales and marketing deal - March 30, 2009
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group of EBSCO Information Services, US, has signed an agreement with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) PUBLISHING to serve as the exclusive sales and marketing representative. Under the deal, EMpact will promote 23 scientific-based, peer-reviewed journals for… Read More
GLC announces new custom publishing partnership with OrthoCarolina - March 30, 2009
Publishing services provider GLC Custom Publishing, US, has announced a new custom publishing partnership with OrthoCarolina, one of the most comprehensive and prestigious orthopedic practices in the US. Fall 2008 was GLC's first issue of a consumer and referring physician magazine, OrthoCarolina, for this physician group.… Read More
CAPES expands local research community access to Scopus - March 25, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) is expanding local research community access to the company's flagship product, Scopus. Scopus is projected as the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.… Read More
BMJ Group set to publish veterinary medicine titles - March 25, 2009
Medical information publisher BMJ Group, UK, will start publishing - Veterinary Record and In Practice - two leading veterinary medicine titles from May 2009, it was announced. The journals are currently published by the British Veterinary Association (BVA) for its more than 11,000 members and subscribers.… Read More
MIT Press launches e-book portal using iPublishCentral platform - March 25, 2009
E-content delivery solutions provider Impelsys, Inc., US, has announced that MIT Press has launched its e-book portal using iPublishCentral, its self-service e-publishing platform. iPublishCentral enables publishers of any size or in any location to digitise their content for sale online, and promote… Read More
Dialog partners with QUOSA for streamlined search tool - March 25, 2009
Online information services provider Dialog, US, part of the ProQuest family of brands, has announced a partnership with specialist software company QUOSA. Under the deal, the two companies will enable their shared customers to explore full text and search results from Dialog's… Read More
Nature Publishing Group partners with InnoCentive to facilitate open innovation - March 24, 2009
InnoCentive, Inc., the global open innovation marketplace, and scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced a partnership to facilitate greater scientific collaboration and open innovation. Under the deal, InnoCentive and NPG will work together to stimulate the involvement of scientists… Read More
