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Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 18 September 2012

Brill and Semantico are pleased to announce a major new collaboration for the design and engineering of a new platform for Brill’s primary source collections. The expected delivery date for the platform is early 2013.

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) -- 18 September 2012

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, has now completed the acquisition of Leiden-based KITLV Press.

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 17 September 2012

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, has finalized an agreement with Emerald Group Publishing to acquire the Language and Linguistics titles from their extensive books portfolio, effective immediately. The list is expected to add 200,000 Euro in revenue per annum.

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 17 September 2012

Brill, the international scholarly publisher, has finalized an agreement with Emerald Group Publishing to acquire the Language and Linguistics titles from their extensive books portfolio, effective immediately. The list is expected to add 200,000 Euro in revenue per annum.

Princeton, NJ, Sept. 10, 2012 – Portico is pleased to announce the addition of two Gale Digital Collections – Nineteenth Century Collections Online and National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994 to Portico’s D-Collections Service. Portico has already preserved more than 1,380,000 objects and 83,000,000 files from 14 Gale Collections previously committed to the archive.

These new collections represent a wide range of content types, including monographs, newspapers, journals, and manuscripts.

Company Honored for Extensive Advocacy Work

Farmington Hills, Mich., September 4, 2012 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced it is the 2012 recipient of the inaugural Michigan Library Association (MLA) Heart of a Champion Award. The award was presented to Gale to honor the vast advocacy efforts the company undertakes on behalf of all libraries, in Michigan and around the country.

Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) -- 31 August 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 18, 2012, Medford, NJ—Information Today, Inc. [ITI] has announced the publication of The Embedded Librarian: Innovative Strategies for Taking Knowledge Where It's Needed by David Shumaker.

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (JLSC) joins a growing number of journals and publishers in implementing the Almetric badge on its article pages. Altmetric provides a means of capturing and tracking the online conversations generated by scholarly articles. The informal impact of scholarship, particularly within librarianship, is overlooked by formal measures like citation counts; the Altmetric score looks at tweets, blog posts, citation managers and other online sources that indicate interest in each article.

Farmington Hills, Mich., July 11, 2012 — Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced Business Insights: Essentials, a new resource for research on business, companies and industries built on the same intuitive platform as the recently-announced Business Insights: Global. Business Insights: Essentials will replace Gale’s long-standing Business and Company Resource Center database.