Reprints Desk and FIZ Karlsruhe sign cooperation agreement - July 4, 2008
Reprints Desk, Inc., a US-based content re-purposing company focused on medical and scientific publishing, Inc., has announced a cooperation agreement with scientific information services provider FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany. The deal will integrate Reprints Desk as a document supplier in FIZ Karlsruhe's full-text… Read More
ProQuest acquires Dialog, names Suzanne BeDell Dialog General Manager - July 3, 2008
ProQuest, a Cambridge Information Group company, has closed on its agreement to acquire the Dialog business from ThomsonReuters. This acquisition will allow ProQuest to deepen its penetration in the corporate library and professional research markets with a valued brand, authoritative content and precision search tools. Industry… Read More
BMJ Group selects Manuscript Central for new BMJ Case Reports website - July 3, 2008
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters has announced that the BMJ Group has selected Manuscript Central as its online peer review system for its new BMJ Case Reports website. Manuscript Central is a web-based, database-driven peer review and online submission program for… Read More
ReadOz to offer digital editions of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine - July 3, 2008
Digital publishing innovator ReadOz, US, has announced that it has partnered with Putnam Media's Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine to provide digital editions of the magazine on the ReadOz portal. The magazine joins hundreds of high quality publications available on ReadOz. The digital edition of the magazine allows… Read More
The Geological Society of London signs up Accucoms for European representation - July 2, 2008
Accucoms, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, has announced that it has been selected by the UK-based Geological Society of London to sell subscriptions to the Society's Lyell Collection and other Earth science content to… Read More
ProQuest, Dow Jones extend distribution agreement - July 1, 2008
ProQuest, a Cambridge Information Group company, has announced that it has extended its exclusive distribution agreement with Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group for an additional three years. Under the new deal, ProQuest will continue to provide the latest news and business information from Dow Jones Factiva… Read More
Princeton University Press selects Ingram Digital to enable digital strategy - July 1, 2008
Digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, has announced that it has been selected by Princeton University Press to enable the publisher's digital strategy. Ingram Digital will provide a comprehensive roster of services to the Press ranging from file digitisation and format conversion to digital asset… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell renews publishing agreement with the Physiological Society - June 30, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced renewal of its publishing agreement with the Physiological Society for the Journal of Physiology (JP) and Experimental Physiology (EP). The Physiological Society is the not-for-profit learned Society dedicated to the… Read More
Australian state library opts for Ex Libris discovery and delivery interface - June 30, 2008
Library solutions provider Ex Libris (Australia) has announced that the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has chosen to implement the company's Primo discovery and delivery solution. The product is projected to serve as an easy-to-use, single-search interface for widely sharing SLQ's print, digital, audio, film and… Read More
Charlesworth Group integrates AutoProof solution into Aries Systems production workflows - June 30, 2008
Publishing solutions provider The Charlesworth Group, UK, has announced that its AutoProof solution has been integrated with Aries Systems Preprint Manager production tracking system. Developed exclusively by Charlesworth, the AutoProof system allows publishers to create page proofs from their own desk top in just a few… Read More