Tigerlily Foundation adopts Thomson Reuters’ NexCura cancer profiler tools - October 2, 2008
Thomson Reuters, a US-based provider of information for businesses and professionals, has partnered with Tigerlily Foundation, an education and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the quality of life for young women affected by breast cancer. Thomson Reuters is providing the Foundation with its NexCura cancer profiler… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell set to publish British Journal of Pharmacology - October 1, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that it will publish the British Journal of Pharmacology, beginning January 1, 2009. The journal is the official journal of the British Pharmacological Society. The Company already publishes the British… Read More
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins to publish Diseases of the Colon & Rectum - October 1, 2008
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it is set to publish the journal - Diseases of the Colon & Rectum - beginning with the January 2009 issue. The journal is the official journal of the American… Read More
Springer to publish the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia - September 29, 2008
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it will partner with the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society (CAS) to publish the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia / Journal canadien d'anesthésie (CJA), starting in January 2009. CJA is projected to enhance Springer's expanding portfolio of books and journals in the… Read More
SAGE and Alexander Street Press to add new transcripts from Verilogue to mental health research and training database - September 29, 2008
Academic publisher SAGE and publisher Alexander Street Press, US, have announced that research and training mental health resource - Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works - is being enhanced by the addition of hundreds of new transcripts from Verilogue… Read More
AAUP and Tizra announce e-book partnership - September 29, 2008
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has announced a new cooperative venture with e-publishing service provider Tizra, Inc., US. Through this agreement, AAUP members will be eligible for discounted access to the Tizra Publisher platform. The Tizra Publisher platform is a… Read More
BRAVeCONTENT licenses e-book publishing tools from ebrary for African market - September 25, 2008
E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced that reseller BRA Virtual eContent Ltd. (BRAVeCONTENT) has licensed its technology and ASP services. Deploying ebrary's solutions, BRAVeCONTENT will aggregate e-books and other digital content from publishers in Sub-Saharan Africa and distribute them directly to libraries and other institutional… Read More
Gibson Library Connections, CRKN sign multimillion-dollar deal - September 24, 2008
E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced that Gibson Library Connections, which has licensed its e-publishing services and technology since 2005, has signed a major contract with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) that will provide millions of dollars in revenues to participating publishers over the… Read More
The Royal Society and EMpact Sales agreement for promoting Science journals in Korea - September 19, 2008
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group within the EBSCO Information Services division, US, has announced an agreement to serve as sales and marketing agent for the Royal Society (the Society), the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth. Under the deal, EMpact… Read More
ISI Global forms partnership with Blackwell to distribute InfoSci-Books collection - September 19, 2008
Publishing company IGI Global, US, has announced a new, non-exclusive partnership with Blackwell Corporation, a supplier of books and bibliographic support to academic and research libraries. The new agreement is projected to assist libraries in their acquisition of IGI Global's InfoSci-Books collection,… Read More