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
University of Notre Dame selects Ex Libris’ Primo discovery and delivery solution - June 23, 2008
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame in conjunction with its colleagues in the Michiana Academic Library Consortium have selected the Primo discovery and delivery solution to serve as a major library portal. An Ex Libris customer… Read More
H.W. Wilson and MLA make article-level records available in OCLC WorldCat.org - June 20, 2008
Database producers H.W. Wilson and Modern Language Association (MLA) have agreed to make article-level records available in WorldCat.org, the web destination that allows information seekers to find what they need from a single source through OCLC's cooperative organisation of libraries. Under the… Read More
Decision Resources acquires Manhattan Research - June 19, 2008
Research and advisory firm Decision Resources, Inc., US, has acquired Manhattan Research, a leading provider of access to physician and consumer opinions on the global healthcare market. Manhattan Research expands Decision Resources, Inc.'s offering to include the type of consumer and physician… Read More
Elsevier announces publishing partnership with INACSL - June 19, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a new partnership with the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL). Under the deal, Elsevier will publish the latter's official online journal - Clinical Simulation in Nursing - beginning with Volume 4:2 (July 2008). An online only… Read More
Ambassador books partners with ebrary for new e-book offering - June 19, 2008
E-book technology firm ebrary, US, has announced that it has been selected by Ambassador Books and Media, a provider of print and non-print materials to libraries of all types, to provide Ambassador's new e-book offering. Under the agreement, Ambassador will resell ebrary's e-books from leading publishers… Read More
SwetsWise Online Content signs six new publishers to its industry leading collection of e-journals - June 19, 2008
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that it recently signed agreements with six publishers to make their journals available via SwetsWise Online Content - Swets' e-journal gateway that provides a single point of access to the most extensive collection of e-journals currently available, all in… Read More
