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RMIT Publishing presents the digitised Meanjin archive

RMIT Publishing is delighted to welcome Meanjin, one of Australia’s most established and highly acclaimed literary journals, to its Informit service following a major digitisation project. As the journal enters its 70th year, there can be no better way to mark its next era than by bringing together the journal’s backfiles into one online [...]

Thomson Reuters Chosen To Support World University Rankings

Data Quality And Analysis Primary Factors In Selection
Philadelphia, PA, London, UK, October 30, 2009 – Thomson Reuters, the authority on research citation data for more than half a century, announced today that it will be the sole provider of data used to calculate the annual World University Rankings produced by the Times Higher Education.
“In [...]

University of Illinois Press and JSTOR announce agreement

The University of Illinois Press, the publishing division of the University of Illinois, has announced an agreement with JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform that is part of the not-for-profit ITHAKA. Under the deal, the University of Illinois Press will make leading journals from the Press available worldwide as part of the Current Scholarship [...]

JSTOR Announces Arts & Sciences VIII Collection

JSTOR is pleased to announce the launch of the Arts & Sciences VIII Collection, which will include a minimum of one hundred forty (140) titles when it is completed at the end of 2011. This collection extends JSTOR’s coverage in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, with new and expanded focus on art & [...]

RMIT Publishing announces new partnership with the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ)

12 October 2009
RMIT Publishing is delighted to be extending its provision of authoritative engineering research to include New Zealand full text content. Thanks to a new collaboration with peak professional body, The Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) Informit will unlock a wealth of influential research from engineers, for engineers.
With almost 100 years of [...]

ARTstor Announcements

New collection release: The Museum of Modern Art
ARTstor is collaborating with The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to share more than 1,400 images of works from its permanent collection in the Digital Library. The images have been selected from the museum’s unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture. The works in the Department [...]

JSTOR Training Available

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We, Jenny McKillop and Michael Gallagher, would like to introduce ourselves as part of JSTOR’s recently reorganized Education & Outreach team. We are dedicated to assisting you in training others to use JSTOR. As the school year begins for some, we’d like to point out some JSTOR training resources available to you, free of charge.
The [...]

RMIT Publishing: TVNews embargo

Dear TVNews Subscriber
RMIT Publishing would like to advise that there is currently a court imposed suppression order blocking satellite transmission of the ABC broadcast satellite signal outside originating regions. This has impeded RMIT Publishing’s ability to capture and index program broadcast by ABC SA, ABC NT, ABC QLD and ABC WA. The suppression order is [...]

RMIT Publishing presents the Informit Health Collection

Press Release: Melbourne, Vic, Australia (September 1, 2009)
Read more at www.informit.com.au/health
RMIT Publishing, the leading source of authoritative content from the Australasian region is pleased to present the forthcoming Informit Health Collection. This new full text online resource will deliver instant, cover-to-cover access to core allied health content from the Australasian region. Many of the peer reviewed [...]

The all-new ProQuest Platform

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Recently, we announced that we will be launching our all-new platform in 2010—removing the virtual walls between platforms. Soon, users at every level will instantly find specific information as well as discover more across a full spectrum of subject [...]

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