Wiley-Blackwell content now available to universities and publicly-funded institutions in Germany - June 3, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has completed agreements to provide access to nearly 400 journal backfiles to users in research institutions and teaching universities across Germany. All universities and publicly-funded institutions in Germany can now provide access… Read More
EBSCO acquires Minerva Wissenschaftliche Buchhandlung from Springer - June 3, 2008
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has reached an agreement with EBSCO Information Services for the sale of Minerva Wissenschaftliche Buchhandlung. Minerva Wissenschaftliche Buchhandlung GmbH, Vienna (Austria) is one of the foremost library providers in central Europe and views its role as… Read More
Jones and Bartlett Publishers acquires Tarascon Publishing - June 3, 2008
Educational publisher Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. (J&B), US, has announced the acquisition of Tarascon Publishing, a leading publisher of portable medical reference products. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Tarascon is the third medical publishing company acquired by J&B in 2008. Earlier this year,… Read More
Swets, Anubex announce partnership - June 3, 2008
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced a partnership with Anubex, a leading automated application modernisation solutions provider. Under the deal, Anubex will perform the cross-platform migration of an enterprise application of Swets. The project will involve the conversion, migration, and modernisation of the last back… Read More
AIChE acquires ACS’s ownership interest in Biotechnology Progress - June 2, 2008
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has announced that it has agreed to acquire the American Chemical Society's (ACS) 50 percent ownership interest in the journal, Biotechnology Progress. In taking full ownership of the journal, which it founded in 1985, AIChE will end its co-publishing… Read More
HighWire Press joins Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certification programme - June 2, 2008
Online technology provider in scholarly publishing HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has announced that it has become a key content partner in Serials Solutions' KnowledgeWorks Certification programme. KnowledgeWorks Certified is a new publisher certification programme that helps Serials Solutions to maintain the… Read More
Unbound Medicine powers LWW’s launch of 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2009 - June 2, 2008
Knowledge management solutions provider Unbound Medicine, US, and healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced the release of the electronic versions of the 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2009. The Unbound Platform now powers the website, a mobile version for download… Read More
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
