John Wiley & Sons and LibreDigital partner to deliver eBook, custom content and discovery tools - June 2, 2008
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and LibreDigital, a division of NewsStand, Inc., have announced that Wiley has selected the latter's Internet Digital Warehouse solution to provide eBook, custom content, and discovery tools to Wiley customers, partners, and users. This partnership… Read More
EMpact, Bentham announce sales and marketing agreement - June 2, 2008
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group within the EBSCO Information Services division, has recently entered into an agreement with Bentham Science Publishers (Bentham) in which it has been appointed sales and marketing representative, and consultant, to increase scholarly journal sales. Under the agreement, EMpact will… Read More
Ingram Digital offers publishers a transition to Ingram Search and Discover platform - May 30, 2008
Digital content services provider Ingram Digital Group, US, has announced an agreement with software vendor Microsoft Corp., US, to offer publishers a transition option from Live Search Books to the Ingram Search and Discover platform. Microsoft recently announced plans to shut down the Live Search Books… Read More
Allen Press and Odyssey Press join forces to offer end-to-end publishing services - May 29, 2008
Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc., US, and Odyssey Press, Inc. have announced that they are integrating operations of the two organisations. The initiative seeks to provide competitive end-to-end publishing services to scholarly journal publishers looking for a single source for content… Read More
American Book Company joins NSTA’s sciLINKS programme - May 29, 2008
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has announced that the American Book Company (ABC) has become the latest publisher to join NSTA's sciLINKS programme. NSTA is a professional organisation promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning. ABC will link the pages of 10 of… Read More
Really Strategies and Inera, Inc. announce technology partnership - May 29, 2008
Content provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, and editorial and XML production software provider Inera, Inc., US, have announced a technology partnership that benefits publishers working with XML. RSuite, a browser-based content management system (CMS) from Really Strategies and eXtyles, an integrated suite… Read More
Maney Publishing signs up Accucoms for North America sales representation deal - May 28, 2008
Accucoms, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, has announced that it has been selected by academic publisher Maney Publishing, UK, to deliver sales representation services in North America. The exclusive deal will see Accucoms selling… Read More
Microsoft to terminate Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects - May 27, 2008
Software vendor Microsoft Corp., US, is reportedly shutting down the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects. Microsoft will however preserve the Live Search Books and Live Search Academics databases and these will appear in the regular Live web search results. The databases will remain… Read More
New England Journal of Medicine selects Atypon for new integrated content delivery platform - May 26, 2008
Information services provider Atypon Systems, Inc., US, has signed an agreement with the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), to develop a new website for the delivery of the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal Watch professional newsletters. Atypon's experience in providing leading scholarly publishers with… Read More
British Medical Journal Group signs new agreements in Germany and New Zealand - May 23, 2008
Medical publisher The BMJ Group has signed a three year nationwide licensing agreement with the Bavarian State Library on behalf of the German research foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Under the deal, BMJ Journals' content will be made available to universities and other publicly financed research institutions… Read More
