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
Tizra and CDC in partnership to provide online access to scholarly books - June 26, 2008
Chicago Distribution Center (CDC), a division of the University of Chicago Press, has signed an agreement with online services provider Tizra, Inc., US. Under the deal, CDC publishers will be able to sell subscriptions to online books. The joint venture will pilot… Read More
Akadémiai Kiadó and EMpact partner to boost sales among academic and research libraries - June 26, 2008
EMpact Sales (EMpact), the publisher representation group within the EBSCO Information Services division, has recently entered into an agreement with Akadémiai Kiadó Zrt (AK) in which it has been appointed sales and marketing representative, and consultant, to increase sales among academic and research libraries. Under the… Read More
Hellman joins private equity consortium to bid for publisher Informa - June 25, 2008
Providence Equity Partners Ltd. and the Carlyle Group, private equity firms that are considering a joint bid for media company Informa Plc, UK, have announced that Hellman & Friedman LLC is also participating in the consortium. The takeover of Informa is projected as one of the biggest leveraged buyouts in… Read More
New bidder emerges for Informa as merger talks with UBM fall through - June 24, 2008
United Business Media's (UBM) bid to join together with rival publisher Informa, UK, has fallen through but another bidder has reportedly emerged for the company. In a recent statement, Informa has announced that discussions with UBM had 'ceased' as 'no agreement on terms had been reached between the parties'. Private… Read More
CRKN, ProQuest partner to bring Periodicals Archive Online to research institutions in Canada - June 23, 2008
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has announced a partnership with ProQuest, a Cambridge Information Group company, to bring Periodicals Archive Online to leading research institutions in Canada. The Periodicals Archive Online will now be available to 67 key research institutions in… Read More
Sherborne Gibbs’s medical journals content to be accessible via SIMID SMILE - June 23, 2008
Healthcare information and education provider Sherborne Gibbs Ltd, UK, has announced a partnership with SIMID, S.M.I.L.E. (Scientific Medical Information Library Europe), a combination database and library of medical journals and books covering forty medical disciplines. Under the deal, Sherborne Gibbs Ltd will… Read More
