SPARC Europe signs agreement with Driver to jointly promote repositories - July 9, 2008
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Europe and European Digital Repository Research Infrastructure (Driver) have signed an agreement to work together for promoting repositories. The cooperation is seen to help progress and enhance the provision, visibility and application of European research… Read More
Collexis Holdings, JISC Collections agreement to help widen access to essential biomedical research in the UK - July 9, 2008
Knowledge management and discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc., US, has announced an agreement with JISC Collections for an online resource, which aims to encourage greater collaboration and expand scientific knowledge amongst the biomedical research community in the UK. Under the deal,… Read More
Boston Ventures acquires Oakstone Publishing - July 8, 2008
Private equity firm Boston Ventures, US, has announced the acquisition of Oakstone Publishing, US, from Haights Cross Communications. Oakstone publishes professional reference and continuing education materials for physicians, educators and human resource professionals. Nancy McMeekin, President and CEO of Oakstone Publishing, will… Read More
National Research Council of Canada joins multilateral alliance for governance of global science gateway - July 7, 2008
The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has joined a multilateral alliance to govern a quickly growing online access point to the world's research information - WorldWideScience.org. Officials representing 38 countries recently met in Seoul, Korea, to move WorldWideScience.org from a partnership-based… Read More
CINP expands partnership with Cambridge Journals - July 7, 2008
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP), US, has announced that the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP) has signed a long-term contract to continue its publishing partnership with Cambridge Journals. Under the deal, CUP will continue to publish the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology (IJNP), which is the official… Read More
StayWell forms alliance with HealthMedia for online behaviour change programmes - July 7, 2008
Custom print and online health communications publisher StayWell Custom Communications (SCC), a division of MediMedia USA, recently announced a strategic alliance with HealthMedia, Inc. Through the alliance, StayWell seeks to bring its clients innovative online behaviour change programmes that work in concert with its custom health… Read More
Emerald acquires Accounting Research Journal - July 7, 2008
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, recently announced the acquisition of the Accounting Research Journal from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. The journal will continue to be edited by Professor Christine Ryan, Head of Accounting at the Queensland University of Technology. Aimed… Read More
OCLC and Index Data work together to expand discovery capabilities of WorldCat Local - July 4, 2008
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, is working with software development and consulting enterprise Index Data, Denmark, to extend the discovery capabilities of WorldCat Local to include all licensed and full-text resources of a library. Index Data specialises in information retrieval and… Read More
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
