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Thomson Reuters announces definitive agreement to sell its Intellectual Property & Science business to Onex and Baring Asia
Thomson Reuters has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Intellectual Property & Science business to private equity funds affiliated with Onex Corporation (“Onex”) and Baring Private Equity Asia (“Baring Asia”) for $3.55 billion in cash. The sale is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions, including the expiration or termination of applicable waiting periods under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, and is expected to close in the next few months.
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SAGE Publishing unveils new SAGE Video collections in Business and Management, Politics and International Relations and Psychology
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the launch of three new exclusive SAGE Video collections: Business and Management, Politics and International Relations and Psychology. Bringing key social science fields of research to life, the collections invigorate teaching, independent learning and research at all levels, adapting to the changing needs of students, while reinforcing course fundamentals and introducing new perspectives.
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The Rockefeller University Press announces participation in CCC’s text mining solution
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a firm dedicated to creating global licensing and content solutions that make copyright work, has announced that The Rockefeller University Press (RUP) is participating in its text mining solution, RightFindTM XML for Mining. RightFind XML for Mining allows publishers to offer life science companies controlled access to full-text articles in native XML format for import into their preferred text mining software such as Linguamatics I2E.
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University of California Press to publish Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
Publisher BioOne and University of California Press have announced that as of January 2017 UC Press will begin publishing Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, the transdisciplinary open access journal published byBioOne since 2013. From its launch, Elementa has facilitated collaborative, peer-reviewed research with the ultimate objective of accelerating scientific solutions to the challenges presented by the new era, in which human activity has become the dominant influence on our climate and environment.
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CU Anschutz selects Ex Libris solutions for cloud-based management of its Health Sciences Library
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and Primo® discovery and delivery solution to manage and provide access to the Health Sciences Library’s large collection of electronic and physical materials. The library will be migrating from Innovative Millennium.
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ARL publishes Affordable Course Content and Open Educational Resources, SPEC Kit 351
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released Affordable Course Content and Open Educational Resources, SPEC Kit 351, an exploration of the degree to which ARL member institutions advocate, support, and develop such materials. This study gathered information on affordable course content and open educational resource (ACC/OER) initiatives at the institutional level and the role of the library in these initiatives.
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