Elsevier Information Systems GmbH, a subsidiary of Elsevier, a publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, has announced the establishment of an advisory board.
Posted Aug 21, 2007
BioMed Central, a publisher of open access scientific journals, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) have announced a membership agreement.
Posted Aug 21, 2007
Infiniti Research, a corporate research firm, announced the launch of TechNavio.
Posted Aug 21, 2007
Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas (PRISMA), from ProQuest, now has more than 100 full text journals available to customers.
Posted Aug 17, 2007
H.W. Wilson has announced the debut of Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective: 1913-1983-- historical content from the H.W. Wilson references Applied Science & Technology Index and Industrial Arts Index.
Posted Aug 14, 2007
ProQuest has signed an agreement with Nelson Mandela to digitize No Easy Walk to Freedom.
Posted Aug 14, 2007
OCLC, a library cooperative, has opened an office in Beijing.
Posted Aug 14, 2007
Legal electronic publisher Justis Publishing Ltd. has signed an agreement with TimeBase Pty. Ltd. to index Australian Commonwealth Cases on its legal reference citator service, JustCite.
Posted Aug 14, 2007
In response to rising customer demand for tools to manage ejournal package content, EBSCO has developed and launched the E-Journal Package Change Report.
Posted Aug 14, 2007
Legal electronic publisher Justis Publishing Ltd has signed an agreement with the Singapore Academy of Law to index the Singapore Law Reports on their legal reference citator service, JustCite.
Posted Aug 10, 2007
Safari Books Online, a reference and learning platform and a joint venture of O'Reilly Media Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, has launched the beta version of its How To Database, a new service that delivers step-by-step configuration and programming tutorials to IT and software-development professionals and end users.
Posted Aug 07, 2007
EBSCO Publishing, a database aggregator, has expanded its Shibboleth authentication service to support Shibboleth version 1.3.
Posted Aug 07, 2007
SequenceBase Corporation and FIZ Karlsruhe have launched The USPTO Genetic Sequence Database, USGENE on STN.
Posted Aug 03, 2007
PureWellness and EBSCO Publishing have joined forces for access to health information and the tools.
Posted Aug 03, 2007
Ex Libris Group and GIDEON Informatics have announced that a successful beta-testing period carried out by MetaLib customers and Ex Libris staff has been added to the MetaLib Central Knowledge Base (CKB).
Posted Jul 31, 2007
LexisNexis has announced the launch of ExecRelate a subscription based service that has been designed to provide intelligence on directors, executives, and their relationships.
Posted Jul 31, 2007
LexisNexis has announced the addition of more photos and graphics to its collection of global news, business and legal information on the market with the addition of the Newscom and World Picture Network (WpN) collections
Posted Jul 31, 2007
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