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
European Patent Office gains access to Indian traditional knowledge database - February 24, 2009
The Indian government has granted the European Patent Office (EPO) access to its Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL). Loaded with ancient medical knowledge, the online database contains translations of manuscripts and textbooks in five languages, including English. Examiners at the EPO will use the TKDL to… Read More
SAGE expands advertising sales force - February 24, 2009
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the acquisition of a portion of the advertising sales business of US-based Leonard Media Group (LMG). Jeff Leonard, principal of Leonard Media Group, will continue to own and operate his remaining businesses under the LMG umbrella. The 5-member team from the… Read More
Oxford Journals and ISCB announce new publishing partnership - February 20, 2009
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced a new publishing partnership with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). Under the deal, the journal Bioinformatics will once again become an official journal of the ISCB from this… Read More
Springer in deal with Japanese scientific societies to publish Reproductive Medicine and Biology - February 20, 2009
STM publisher Springer, Germany, will publish Reproductive Medicine and Biology, the official English-language journal of the Japan Society for Reproductive Medicine, the Japan Society of Fertilization and Implantation, and the Japan Society of Andrology from March 2009. Professor Hiroshi Imai from Kyoto University in Japan will… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell and APS announce publishing partnership - February 19, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with the American Physiological Society (APS). Under the deal, Wiley-Blackwell will publish the latter's Physiology Online, an evolving compendium of current knowledge of all aspects of physiology. The… Read More
Swets Gateway to market IOS Press journals in the Asia Pacific region - February 19, 2009
STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, and Swets Gateway, the special publisher services division of Swets, recently reached an agreement to market and disseminate IOS Press journals in the Asia Pacific region. Swets Gateway will, on behalf of IOS Press, serve as its… Read More
