Wiley and The Cochrane Collaboration Launch Cochrane Learning
The Cochrane Collaboration and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (NYSE:JWa, JWb), the publisher of The Cochrane Library and Wiley Health Learning activities, today announced...
OCLC acquires Dutch library systems provider HKA
OCLC has acquired the shares of Huijsmans en Kuijpers Automatisering (HKA), a Dutch organization that develops, implements and manages systems for libraries, educational and...
Elsevier Announces its Collaboration with Qatar University
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced its collaboration with Qatar University by providing access to SciVal...
Wolters Kluwer Sells French Healthcare Publishing Activities to Galilée
Wolters Kluwer today announced that it has completed the disposal of its French healthcare publishing activities to Galilée. This divestiture is part of the...
Penguin Group to Distribute eBooks to Public Libraries via Axis 360
Baker & Taylor, the world's largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment products, today announced that Penguin Group (USA) LLC's ebooks are...
Copyright Clearance Center Joins Open Researcher and Contributor ID Initiative (ORCID)
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization creating global licensing, content and Open Access (OA) solutions that make copyright work for everyone, has...
OUP plans Nelson Thornes transition for early 2014
Nelson Thornes will formally integrate into Oxford University Press early next year, it was announced today.
OUP, which is a department of the University of...
US judge weighs Google book copyright case
A federal judge Monday pointedly questioned attorneys for the Authors Guild in a long-running case on whether Google's book-scanning project violates copyright law.
The two...
Wolters Kluwer Health and the American College of Physicians (ACP) Expand Publishing Partnership to...
Wolters Kluwer Health, a world leader in healthcare information solutions, announced today that ACP Smart Medicine, an evidence-based clinical reference tool produced by the...
Thomson Reuters Reveals New Strategies for Navigating Big Data in the Pharmaceutical Industry
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today released Big Data and the Needs of the Pharma Industry, a whitepaper offering new strategies for managing Big Data, most specifically by using an array of technologies to convert it into more meaningful, accessible Little Data. The paper highlights how the inherently data-driven pharmaceutical industry requires deep, broad information to feed drug R&D, but the way it processes Big Data is unique.
Ian Hames Joins Credo as Director of International Sales
Credo, the industry leader for information skills solutions, today announced that Ian Hames has joined the team as Director of International Sales. He will...
Cogent – New Open Access publisher aims to build more connected communities
Cogent OA – an innovative new Open Access publisher – launched today. Cogent OA is backed by Taylor & Francis Group – a major...