CIG Media in pact with Medscape to add oncology journals to Publishers’ Circle - November 7, 2008
Publisher CIG Media Group, LP, US, a subsidiary of Medical Media Holdings, has announced that it has joined Medscape Publishers' Circle, a collection of journal articles from prominent medical publishers, professional societies, academic and government institutions. Medscape (www.medscape.com), a source of health… Read More
McGraw-Hill Professional launches CME functionality on online medical resource - November 5, 2008
Scientific and medical information resources provider McGraw-Hill Professional, US, has announced a partnership with the American College of Emergency Physicians to launch Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for learning modules on AccessEmergency Medicine (http://www.accessemergencymedicine.com). Physicians can now earn AMA… Read More
Safari Books Online adds Apress books to the Safari Books Online platform - November 5, 2008
Safari Books Online, a US-based e-reference joint venture between publishers O'Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, has announced the addition of Apress books to the Safari Books Online platform. The move is in response to requests from the company's growing base of corporate customers and… Read More
Stanford University Libraries and SirsiDynix partner for original script access - November 4, 2008
Library technology solutions provider SirsiDynix, US, and Stanford University have announced the completion of a project that allows searching and display of the library's Chinese, Japanese, and Korean holdings in the original scripts. In a previous related project, functionality for searching, sorting,… Read More
South African university expands its resources with Springer eBooks - October 31, 2008
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, in cooperation with subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has signed an agreement with the University of the Free State in South Africa to provide all of its libraries with the Springer eBook Collection 2005 - 2008. With immediate effect, 10,781… Read More
EBSCO Publishing acquires niche databases provider NISC - October 31, 2008
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., US, has announced the acquisition of NISC, Inc. for an undisclosed amount. As NISC provides refined subject area databases, EBSCO expects the acquisition to augment its own database offerings. NISC databases include Family… Read More
Publisher Taylor & Francis in partnership with Committee on Publications Ethics - October 30, 2008
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), LLC, US, has announced a partnership with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), under which all T&F journals will be supported by COPE. The committee works with scientific journal editors to help them improve their skills… Read More
IOS Press acquires Millpress Science Publishers from Ger Guijs - October 30, 2008
STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, has announced that it has acquired Millpress Science Publishers for an undisclosed amount. Millpress is focused on conference proceedings in the field of engineering, earth sciences and environmental sciences. Ger Guijs Publishers, which was the previous owner of Millpress, is now… Read More
University of Rome Tor Vergata signs license with ScienceDirect for electronic journal archive - October 30, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the University of Rome Tor Vergata have recently reached an agreement to provide the University library system with the fully digitalised copies of all the journals published by Elsevier since 1823, also known as External link ScienceDirect backfiles. Students and researchers… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell set to publish the Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry - October 30, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a new agreement to publish the Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry on behalf of Heterocorporation. Wiley-Blackwell will assume publishing responsibilities beginning with Volume 46, Issue 1, in January 2009.… Read More
