Talis, LibLime in deal to make available bibliographic records on biblios.net - February 3, 2009
Library management systems provider Talis, UK, has announced a partnership with LibLime, a leading provider of open solutions for libraries. Under the deal, over five million bibliographic records will now be made available to the library community on LibLime's ‡biblios.net platform. The… Read More
Ingram Digital and ALPSP launch exclusive e-Book Collection - February 2, 2009
Digital content services provider Ingram Content companies, US, has announced the launch of a new eBooks cooperative service enabling members of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) to offer multi-publisher collections to libraries. The ALPSP eBook Collection (AeBC) consists… Read More
ARL and ACRL release guide for developing scholarly communication program in libraries - February 2, 2009
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have published a guide to "Developing a Scholarly Communication Program in Your Library." The guide provides background information and outlines steps for setting up a scholarly communication… Read More
Versita, MPS Technologies partner to build e-content platforms in Central and Eastern Europe - February 2, 2009
Versita, a leading STM e-publisher and e-publishing technology marketer in Central and Eastern Europe, has announced a partnership with MPS Technologies to implement the MPS ContentStore platform for launching and developing their new digital business. MPS Technologies is the technology arm of… Read More
BMJ Group to provide on-line medical education service to Saudi Pediatric Association - January 30, 2009
Medical information publisher BMJ Group, UK, has signed an agreement with the Saudi Pediatric Association (SPA) to provide a customised on-line medical education service for the Association's 1500 members. The service is available through a new BMJ Learning Channel for the SPA: Read More
YBP Library Services announces full cataloging support for Oxford Scholarship Online eBook Collections - January 30, 2009
YBP Library Services, a leading provider of materials to academic libraries, has announced the availability of fully customisable MARC records for all titles included in Oxford Scholarship Online eBook Collections. Oxford Scholarship Online is a rapidly expanding cross-searchable library which now offers quick and easy access… Read More
Springer signs new publishing agreements - January 29, 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced a publishing partnership with the Education Research Institute of Seoul National University in Korea. Under the deal, Springer will publish the latter's journal, Asia Pacific Education Review (APER), from 2009. Published quarterly, the Asia Pacific Education Review aims to stimulate… Read More
Taylor & Francis in co-publishing agreement with Indian scholarly publisher Anamaya - January 29, 2009
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), LLC, US, has announced that it will be co-publishing academic research journals with India-based Anamaya Publishers under the 'Taylor & Francis' and 'Routledge' imprints. Anamaya publishes and distributes scholarly books and journals with an Indian focus on behalf of authors,… Read More
SAGE joins PubEasy book ordering service - January 29, 2009
Books enquiry and ordering services provider PubEasy, UK, has announced that academic publisher SAGE has joined the PubEasy community of booksellers and suppliers. As a new PubEasy member, SAGE's catalogue of 11,000 titles will now be available to retail booksellers for purposes… Read More
JSTOR to be merged with non-profit organisation Ithaka - January 28, 2009
JSTOR, an online archive of scholarly publications, has announced its merger with Ithaka, a provider of research, strategic and administrative services to non-profit projects. The move is seen to unite two pioneering entities focused on helping the scholarly community take advantage of rapidly advancing information technologies.… Read More
