Swets puts eBooks procurement portal into beta testing phase - November 23, 2009
Subscription services provider Swets, Netherlands, has announced that its newly developed eBooks procurement portal has entered into Beta Testing. The portal integrates a comprehensive eBook catalogue and procurement options into existing SwetsWise services, most notably SwetsWise Subscriptions. These features will provide customers with a single source… Read More
Doctors Without Borders physicians to receive free access to MD Consult - November 19, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the physician-members of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders, will receive free access to MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com), its electronic clinical decision support (CDS) tool. The move is part of Elsevier’s ‘All You Need… Read More
WK Health to showcase key platform and content developments at Frankfurt Book Fair - October 16, 2009
Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that Ovid and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journals, part of its Medical Research business unit, are exhibiting at the ongoing Frankfurt Book Fair. Representatives from Ovid, an aggregator of online information for medical and… Read More
Reed Business Information looking to sell US trade magazines - August 5, 2009
B2B publisher Reed Business Information (RBI) is putting Library Journal and its affiliated publications, School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly, up for sale. The transaction is part of RBI’s strategy to divest most of its trade magazines in the US. A few, including Variety, will not… Read More
IMS Health announces jobs cuts following fall in second quarter revenue - July 28, 2009
Pharmaceutical and healthcare information provider IMS Health, US, plans to trim 850 jobs globally over the next 12-15 months, media reports have indicated. The move follows a worse than expected decline in quarterly revenues. Second-quarter revenue was $522.8 million, down 13 percent. Including a $25.4 million… Read More
American Chemical Society announces key changes in journal pricing and publication - July 21, 2009
The American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Division is pursuing a series of product, platform and pricing initiatives in 2009-2010 designed to meet the information demands of scientific readers and the research libraries that support them. The move is in response to its customers expressing strong preferences… Read More
Ex Libris expands its European organisation - July 16, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced the opening of Ex Libris Italy-a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The opening of this office, part of the continually expanding Ex Libris European organisation under the management of Marc Daubach, corporate VP and general manager… Read More
Thomson Reuters announces plans to unify dual listed company structure - June 23, 2009
Thomson Reuters, a leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, has announced plans to unify its dual listed company (DLC) structure. Under the initiative, the company plans to withdraw shares from the London Stock Exchange. The Thomson Reuters Board of Directors has unanimously determined… Read More
ACS shifts to condensed print format for journals - June 17, 2009
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced plans to begin publishing the print editions of most of its journals in a 'rotated and condensed' format that will fit two pages of content on one printed page. The plan, which will go on stream in July 2009,… Read More
SPIE reduces SPIE Digital Library subscription fees by 10 percent for 2010 - June 11, 2009
The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Inc. (SPIE) has announced a 10 percent rollback in pricing for institutional subscriptions to the SPIE Digital Library for 2010. The move is the result of a year-long study involving in-depth interviews with academic, government, and corporate librarians and researchers… Read More
