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Thomson Learning has announced that it will change its name to Cengage Learning. The company, recently acquired by Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partners, says the new name is based on being at the “center of engagement” for its customers worldwide.
Posted Jul 31, 2007
ProQuest has signed an agreement with Cambridge University Press intended to offer more than 200 Cambridge Journals titles in selected ProQuest platform products.
Posted Jul 24, 2007
ResearchMarketResearch.com has announced a business partnership with Valid Results Incorporated that allows for the marketing and distribution of Valid Results’ proprietary market analyses through the MarketResearch.com website.
Posted Jul 24, 2007
Thomson Financial, an operating unit of The Thomson Corporation has announced an agreement with Generate Inc. designed to deliver people data, private company data, and real-time business intelligence with integrated relationship-mapping technologies.
Posted Jul 20, 2007
Answers Corporation, creator of Answers.com, has announced an agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC, owner of the web properties Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com, for $100 million in cash.
Posted Jul 20, 2007
Ovid Technologies, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced that it has expanded its agreement with Oxford University Press (OUP) to provide over 300 OUP medical and health science e-books, including over 80 new titles, for subscription and purchase on the Books@Ovid platform.
Posted Jul 17, 2007
infoUSA and Guideline, Inc. have announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement to provide for the acquisition of Guideline by infoUSA.
Posted Jul 17, 2007
Healthline, a provider of intelligent health information services, has secured $21 million in Series B financing led by GE/NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund, a joint venture between GE Commercial Finance's Media, Communications & Entertainment business and NBC Universal.
Posted Jul 17, 2007
Euromonitor International has announced the launch of Passport, its new industry information system designed to support multinational organizations with strategic decision--making.
Posted Jul 13, 2007
The H.W. Wilson Company has announced the 19th Edition of Sears List of subject Headings.
Posted Jul 13, 2007
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and Zepheira, LLC have announced that they reconstruct OCLC’s Persistent URL (PURL) service.
Posted Jul 13, 2007
Ovid Technologies, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health and a provider in electronic medical, scientific, and academic information research solutions, has announced that it has added two new content modules to Primal Pictures on Ovid, its 3D Anatomy Imagery product.
Posted Jul 03, 2007
EBSCO has announced the launch of its new Web site.
Posted Jul 03, 2007
Mainstream Data has announced that it acquired the content provider Newscom LLC, from a joint venture between Tribune Media Services and The McClatchy Company.
Posted Jul 03, 2007
Cambridge University Press, an academic publisher, and MyiLibrary, a global provider of digital content, has announced an exclusive partnership to offer hundreds of titles in five digital collections: Humanities, Social Sciences, Medicine, Law, and Science and Technology.
Posted Jun 29, 2007
Books24x7, a subsidiary of SkillSoft PLC and a developer of online book collections for IT, business, engineering, financial, and government professionals, has announced the availability of ITIL Powered by Books24x7, a new online collection that provides subscribers with access to the current IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), ITIL Version 3.
Posted Jun 29, 2007
Elsevier has announced a partnership with Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) to create a new free online resource for the scientific community.
Posted Jun 29, 2007
The New York Public Library has launched a federated search solution powered by WebFeat.
Posted Jun 26, 2007
Xrefer has changed its name to Credo Reference. Users of Credo Reference will still receive the same reference capabilities that they’ve always had with Xrefer.
Posted Jun 26, 2007
Gale Virtual Reference Library has officially launched on an upgraded platform, bringing enhancements to Gale Virtual Reference Library’s interface and functionality.
Posted Jun 26, 2007
EBSCO has announced its enhancements to the EBSCONET Subscription Management System, a multi-lingual web-based management tool.
Posted Jun 26, 2007
Copyright Clearance Center Inc. (CCC), a provider of text-licensing solutions, has announced the launch of the Annual Copyright License for academic institutions, a single license that provides faculty and staff with pre-approved permissions to use content in course management systems, paper and electronic course packs, electronic library reserves, research collaboration, and more.
Posted Jun 26, 2007
Manta, a business research site, has enabled its users to modify its more than 45 million company profiles.
Posted Jun 22, 2007
ProQuest has added PapersInvited to complete the suite of COS Research Support Services available on the CSA Illumina platform.
Posted Jun 22, 2007
OverDrive, a digital media provider for libraries, and Nettwerk Music Group have announced a partnership so that music lovers will soon be able to download and fill their MP3 players with tunes--using their library cards.
Posted Jun 22, 2007