Wolters Kluwer sells Education division
Private equity firm Bridgepoint Capital Limited is buying the Education division of Wolters Kluwer.
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Blackwell’s books platform becomes COUNTER-compliant
Blackwell Books Online has been certified as providing COUNTER-compliant usage data.
‘Scientists are wary of open-access journals’
Scientists fear that non-traditional publication could affect their chances of promotion, according to a new study.
German researchers get Emerald archive
German researchers will have access to all Emerald journals between 1994 and 2005 thanks to a new agreement between the publisher and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
UK plans national e-theses service
The UK should have a live, fully-integrated, national electronic theses service within two years, thanks to funding of a new project.
US publishers endorse international STM declaration
The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has endorsed the Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing.
Elsevier acquires Beilstein Database
Elsevier has bought the Beilstein Database, the world's largest compilation of chemical facts in the field of organic chemistry.
National Library of New Zealand partners with OCLC
The National Library of New Zealand will add some 8 million records and the holdings of 275 libraries to WorldCat.
Digitisation helps preserve printing history
ProQuest CSA and Oxford University Library Services will digitise more than 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.
US university presses want to expand open-access discussion
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has called for the open-access debate to be opened up to different types of scholarly literature and…
Apex takes on medical digitisation project
The publishing services division of Apex CoVantage has been selected to create a multi-million page digital archive of medical journals for a major association.
ALPSP Learned Journals Collection signs Southern European deal
The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection and Swets have signed the first cross-country consortia agreement with the Southern European Library Link (SELL).