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May 27, 2003
Richard Poynder |
BertelsmannSpringer Is Sold to Private Equity Firms German media and entertainment company Bertelsmann has announced the sale of its academic publishing group BertelsmannSpringer to the European private equity firms Candover and Cinven.   |
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April 16, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Wolters Kluwer Adds SilverPlatter Information to Its Collection Dutch mega-publisher Wolters Kluwer has acquired SilverPlatter Information, Inc. The acquisition expands Wolters Kluwer's collection of medical and scientific databases and research tools and extends its reach into more libraries and medical establishments... |
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November 6, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
Reed Elsevier, Thomson Negotiate Two-Step Deal to Buy Harcourt General Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier will buy U.S. rival Harcourt General, Inc. for $4.5 billion, and then will sell the college textbook division and other assets---including a large part of the corporate and professional division---to Canadian publishing rival The Thomson Corp... |
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November 27, 2006
Rebecca Lenzini |
Wiley to Acquire Blackwell Publishing Continuing the trend toward consolidation in the scholarly publishing community, John Wiley & Sons announced on Nov. 17, 2006, that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the outstanding shares of Blackwell Publishing. |
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April 30, 2001
Richard Poynder |
The Debate Heats Up Are Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. Monopolists? |
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December 2002
Richard Poynder |
A True Market Failure Professor Mark McCabe, an expert in mergers and anticompetitive practices at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talks about problems in the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing industry. |
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December 14, 2009
Katherine Allen |
Springer Sold to Private Equity Firms EQT and GIC The German company is the world's second-largest scientific, technical, and medical publisher after Reed Elsevier and was formed in 2003 by the merger of Kluwer Academic Publishers and Bertelsmann Springer. |
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September 2004
Richard Poynder |
Interview: Put Up or Shut Up Derk Haank, Springer's new CEO (and former chairman of Elsevier Science), discusses his plans for the company, scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journal pricing, the Big Deal, and open access. |
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November 14, 2011 |
Springer to Acquire Pharma Marketing and Publishing Services From Wolters Kluwer MPS is one of the five largest global providers of strategic marketing, publishing and business intelligence products and services to the pharmaceutical industry, as well as to medical libraries and academic and research institutions. |
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April 2002
Richard Poynder |
Not Pleading Poverty Elsevier Science chairman Derk Haank addresses industry and end-user issues... |
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October 29, 2009 |
Royal Society of Chemistry Delivering Ebooks via Ovid The first 46 books going onto the OvidSP scholarly search and discovery platform will cover chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, and related disciplines. |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
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March 18, 2013 |
Serials Solutions Partners With Wolters Kluwer Health Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, and Wolters Kluwer Health announced that Lippincott Williams & Wilkins content available on the Ovid institutional research platform will be indexed in the Summon discovery service. |
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February 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
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March 5, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Bowker for Sale, All or in Parts Reed Elsevier plans to sell off several of its major reference publishing operations, specifically Bowker... |
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November 3, 2011 |
Taylor & Francis Group Opens More Open Access In 2012, it will initiate changes to its open access program. It has also announced a new list of OA publications. |
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August 2000 |
Harcourt to Be Sole Owner of MD Consult Harcourt, Inc., the global education, training, assessment, and professional information company, has announced it has signed an agreement with publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, to acquire LWW's one-third interest in MD Consult, a clinical-information resource for physicians.... |
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July 31, 2014 |
LexisNexis and Wolters Kluwer Share Legal Businesses LexisNexis will acquire the Canadian legal publishing business of Wolters Kluwer, which has about 50 employees, in order to extend its product portfolio to Canadian customers. |
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August 2003 |
News Break: What's New in Enterprise Search, Insider Trading, and More FAST Buys AltaVista Enterprise Search... AskJeeves Sells Enterprise Search... Future Developments in Search... Faster Access to Insider Trading Filings... New KM Solutions... Library Alliance Fights BertelsmannSpringer Sale... etc. |
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August 29, 2005
Nathan Parmelee |
NDCHealth Checks Out Per-Se Technologies and Dutch firm Wolters Kluwer divide and conquer NDCHealth. For shareholders, this means a buyout at approximately 20 times the company's average free cash flow over the last three years. |
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January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
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March 5, 2012 |
Wiley-Blackwell Adds 44 Titles to Journal Publishing Program in 2012 Brand new titles publishing on Wiley Online Library over the course of 2012 include Advanced Healthcare Materials, PsyCH Journal, Clinical Liver Disease, Food and Energy Security and the open access title Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease. |
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June 22, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Wiley Books a Profit The book publisher reports slightly lower earnings as revenues rise. Investors, take note. |
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August 17, 2009 |
ebrary Announces Publisher Half-Off Sale Under the Publisher Half-Off Sale, institutions around the globe can save 50% off list price when they purchase as few as 15 to 25 backlist titles from a single participating publisher through Dec. 15, 2009. |
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April 11, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Ovid Adds Social Policy Database... Thomson Gale Launches Economic Literature Collection... Amazon Acquires Print-on-Demand Company... |
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April 4, 2011 |
Copyright Clearance Center Launches Get It Now for Academic Institutions The service complements academic institutions' interlibrary loan (ILL) borrowing services by providing immediate fulfillment of full-text articles from unsubscribed journals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
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July 19, 2004
Rich Smith |
Publishers Dueling for No. 1 The Thomson Corporation and publishing competitor Reed Elsevier, jockey for the title of worldwide uber-publisher. |
Information Today
May 17, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Ovid Launches Portal Advantage Service with Medical Content Ovid Technologies has announced a Portal Advantage Service to help societies and publishing partners, independent journal publishers, foundations, and corporations to build fully customizable portals. |
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March 2003
Dick Kaser |
The Scholarly Publishing Debate Will this debate between users, intermediaries and vendors, which has gone on now for nearly a generation, ever end? |
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November 19, 2009
Katherine Allen |
Reed Elsevier's CEO Quits After 8 Months Ian Smith will be replaced by Erik Engstrom, CEO of Elsevier, effective immediately. Engstrom had previously been ruled out of the running for the position following the departure of Crispin Davis. |
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February 16, 2010 |
Kluwer Law International Offers Transactional Pricing With Launch of New E-Store Kluwer Law International has launched a new e-store, where customers without subscriptions can purchase journal articles on a transactional basis. |
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August 2004
Paula Hane |
New Ovid/LWW CEO Brings a Fresh Look An interview with the president and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health's global Medical Research division on the company's initiatives and some industry issues. |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2012
Rebecca Trager |
Anti-open access bill suffers sudden death Legislation in the US Congress that would have stopped funding agencies stipulating that research they fund with taxpayer dollars be made publicly available has collapsed. The dramatic development could signal a pivotal shift in scientific publishing. |
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October 14, 2010 |
Nursing Reference Titles Joining Ovid Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced a new partnership with the American Nurses Association, the U.S.'s largest nursing professional organization, to offer a collection of its professional reference titles through OvidSP and Nursing@Ovid. |
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September 22, 2015 |
Fastcase Acquires Wolters Kluwer's LoislawConnect Loislaw subscribers will retain access to Wolters Kluwer's library of 125 treatises on topics such as bankruptcy, business, employment, and intellectual property. |
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April 8, 2013 |
Wolters Kluwer Health and Wiley Extend Partnership Wolters Kluwer Health announced an extension of its long-term partnership with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to provide more than 460 premier journals on the Ovid medical research platform. |
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February 13, 2012
Robin Peek |
The Cost of Knowledge Versus Elsevier: 5,600 Signatures and Growing Timothy Gowers, a Cambridge mathematician and winner of the coveted Fields medal in mathematics, began The Cost of Knowledge website petition to publicize his own personal boycott of Elsevier, thus encouraging others to do the same. |
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February 16, 2012 |
Wolters Kluwer Health Expands Distribution Agreement With NEJM Under the terms of the agreement, Ovid will be the only medical research aggregator to distribute current, nonembargoed NEJM content to institutions and their clinicians, researchers, and students. |
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September 3, 2002
Miriam A. Drake |
Elsevier Teams with Dutch National Library for Digitization Project Elsevier Science and Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, have announced an agreement that designates KB as the first official digital archive for Elsevier journals. |
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March 10, 2015 |
Thieme's Delhi Division Makes Strides in Neurology Publishing Thieme Publishers Delhi took over the publication of the peer-reviewed, open access Indian Journal of Neurosurgery from Wolters Kluwer Health's Medknow division. |
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April 2003 |
The Latest on Companies, Search Engines, and Products Once again, the past month's news has been dominated by developments in the RoweCom/divine situation... A series of recent acquisitions reveals the pressures and mounting rivalries in the Web search arena... D&B, Hoover's Update... etc. |
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February 25, 2008
Marydee Ojala |
Reed Elsevier Chooses ChoicePoint, Rejects Business Publications It plans to add the ChoicePoint products to the Risk & Information Analytics subsidiary of LexisNexis. |
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December 15, 2008 |
NursingCenter.com Launches New Features NursingCenter.com from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a site for online nursing continuing-education and peer-reviewed content, has been updated with improved navigation and search and new interactive multimedia tools. |
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March 24, 2003 |
News Digest Kluwer Launches New Service for Wireless Research... Aventis Pharmaceuticals Chooses JeevesOne... Energy Database Available via Flat-Rate Web Access |
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October 13, 2015 |
Wolters Kluwer Details Benefits of New Acquisition Wolters Kluwer has been promoting its new product benefits since its acquisition of Effacts, a Netherlands-based legal management software provider. |
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November 17, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident. |
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September 6, 2012 |
Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting Acquires BSI BSI is a provider of international tax, legal, business, and investment information and advances Wolters Kluwer's portfolio of international information. |
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January 23, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest NAPC Offers New Content Solutions to Libraries... Wolters Kluwer Enhances Clinical Trials Database... MPS Launches ScholarlyStats Service... etc. |
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March 2003
Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
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June 7, 2004
Robin Peek |
Elsevier Allows Open Access Self-Archiving In a move that has stunned both the publishing community and the academic world, major journal publisher Elsevier is going to permit Open Access self-archiving for almost all of its journal titles. |
