TechWeb’s Light Reading Communications Network acquires Pyramid Research - August 29, 2008
TechWeb's Light Reading Communications Network has announced the acquisition of Pyramid Research, a market research and advisory service company. Light Reading Communications Network is a leading integrated publishing, events and research company serving the global communications marketplace. Under the acquisition deal, Pyramid will be integrated with… Read More
Association for Computing Machinery signs up EBSCO-owned EMpact to boost journal sales - August 28, 2008
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group within the EBSCO Information Services division, has entered into an agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The new agreement, which appoints EMpact as ACM's sales and marketing agent, provides for EMpact to promote ACM journals in the… Read More
Collexis and Health Sciences South Carolina partner to launch knowledge directory of South Carolina Medical Research - August 27, 2008
Knowledge management and discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with Health Sciences South Carolina (HSSC) to launch the first virtual knowledge directory of health science research being conducted across the state by HSSC partner institutions. With this… Read More
ebrary signs new publishing partners - August 27, 2008
E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced that it is enhancing its growing selection of more than 170,000 titles with e-books and other authoritative materials from more than 14 new publishing partners. ebrary has now secured partnerships with more than 300 of the world's leading publishers… Read More
University of Puerto Rico School of Dentistry selects Ingram Digital platform for curriculum delivery - August 26, 2008
Digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, has announced an agreement with the University of Puerto Rico School of Dentistry to deliver the entire programme's curriculum in digital form, beginning in the Fall of 2008. University of Puerto Rico dental students will receive all of the… Read More
Max Planck Society in OA contract with PLoS for central funding of publication fees - August 25, 2008
German research organisation Max Planck Society (MPS) has announced an agreement with the Public Library of Science (PLoS) for the central funding of publication fees of MPS scientists. The move is projected to reflect MPS' commitment to ensure public availability of its… Read More
Springer partners with CiteULike for reference management services - August 21, 2008
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that SpringerLink has partnered with CiteULike, the social bookmarking website for researchers. SpringerLink is claimed to be one of the world's largest scientific databases. The deal seeks to ensure that researchers using SpringerLink will benefit from… Read More
Thomson Reuters to expand its Order Set Solution - August 18, 2008
Thomson Reuters, a US-based provider of information for businesses and professionals, has announced that it is working with enterprise content management (ECM) vendor HealthGate Data Corp, US, on a next generation document lifecycle management application to enhance its Order Set Solution. The… Read More
EBSCO Publishing, NewsBank announce integrated search partnership - August 18, 2008
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO publishing (EBSCO), a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., US, has announced an agreement with NewsBank, inc., a premier information provider serving publishers, public libraries, colleges and universities, schools, government and military libraries, genealogists, professionals and researchers worldwide.… Read More
SAGE joins Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certification programme - August 18, 2008
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that it has become a Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certified content partner. KnowledgeWorks Certified is a new publisher certification programme that helps Serials Solutions to maintain the highest quality bibliographic metadata for e-resources. With this move, the publisher seeks to ensure that… Read More
