Elsevier acquires publishing assets of William Andrew, Inc. - January 22, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the acquisition of the publishing assets of William Andrew, Inc. (William Andrew). William Andrew is an independent, mid-size publisher of technical and scientific materials that include applied science handbooks, references, and databases that promote knowledge, technology, and productivity, allowing individuals,… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell extends publishing partnership with American Cancer Society - January 22, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that it has expanded its long-standing partnership with the American Cancer Society (ACS) to include CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Wiley-Blackwell has published CANCER and Cancer Cytopathology on behalf… Read More
Japan ministry selects Thomson Reuters’ information solutions for strategic national project on accelerating translational research - January 21, 2009
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters has announced that the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation (FBRI) has selected its key intellectual property and pharmaceutical & life sciences data platforms - Thomson Innovation, Thomson Pharma and IDRAC - for a major national project. The project aims… Read More
Elsevier, CAS agreement to increase cooperation in information exchange - January 21, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and chemical database provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, recently reached an agreement to increase cooperation in information exchange to improve their respective operations and service offerings. Under the agreement, Elsevier will… Read More
Apple opts for MathType as equation editor for new iWork ’09 suite of applications - January 21, 2009
Enterprise software vendor Design Science, Inc., US, has announced that Apple has chosen its product MathType as the equation editor for its new iWork '09 suite of applications. Design Science makes the MathFlow line of MathML editing and composition tools for XML publishing. Phil Schiller, Apple's… Read More
Tomball Regional Medical Center deploys Thomson Reuters’ Clinical Xpert Solutions - January 20, 2009
Healthcare solutions provider Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that the Tomball Regional Medical Center has selected the Clinical Xpert suite of products - Clinical Xpert Navigator and Clinical Xpert CareFocus - as part of its continuing effort to improve clinical performance and patient… Read More
American Nurse Today, NINR partner to provide research news for nurses in practice - January 20, 2009
American Nurse Today, the official journal of the American Nurses Association (ANA), and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md, have partnered to deliver succinct reports of current research to nurses in practice. The first article in this periodic… Read More
The British Library selects Syndetic Solutions for catalogue enrichment - January 16, 2009
Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, has announced that it has won the contract to provide catalogue enrichment to the British Library via their Syndetic Solutions service. The agreement includes the provision of tables of content, images, annotations, first chapters and author notes for UK and US… Read More
The UNILINC Library Network in Australia opts for Ex Libris discovery and delivery interface - January 15, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the UNILINC network has selected the Company's Primo discovery and delivery solution. UNILINC is a network of university, research, and other higher education libraries in Australia. Primo is claimed to be a one-stop solution for the… Read More
OCLC and Atlas Systems sign deal to continue development of resource sharing services - January 13, 2009
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has signed an agreement with Atlas Systems, creator of ILLiad and Odyssey resource sharing management software. Under the deal, OCLC will continue to support ILLiad and Odyssey and, in partnership with Atlas Systems, integrate the software… Read More
