EBSCO buys NetLibrary
18 March 2010
EBSCO is buying the OCLC NetLibrary Division, as well as the rights to license some vendor-owned databases currently available through the OCLC FirstSearch service
Publishing news
AIP opens Chinese office
15 March 2010
The American Institute of Physics is opening an office in Beijing
Austrian government invests in digital archiving
12 March 2010
The Austrian Federal Chancellery is investing 4.58 million euros in a cross-government digital archiving solution
Bloomberg and Wiley strike book publishing alliance
12 March 2010
Wiley will be the exclusive global publisher of Bloomberg and Bloomberg BusinessWeek-branded books
Elsevier Foundation awards $600,000 in grants
19 January 2010
The Elsevier Foundation has awarded grants to support the work of libraries and scholars in science, technology and medicine
Thomson Reuters buys analytics provider
5 January 2010
Thomson Reuters has acquired Discovery Logic, which provides customisable analytics and decision support solutions for scientific research
ResearcherID helps reduce author ambiguity in Hong Kong
4 January 2010
The University of Hong Kong chooses ResearcherID from Thomson Reuters to standardise research identifiers
Bentham signs e-book distribution agreement
21 December 2009
E-books from Bentham Science Publishers will be distributed through Barnes & Nobels and Academic Rights Press
Springer bought by EQT and GIC
11 December 2009
Investors from Sweden and Singapore have acquired Springer Science+Business Media
Publishing is more than just information
4 December 2009
Tom Wilkie reports back from the Online Information Show in London at the start of December
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