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MAIDENHEAD, England, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw-Hill Professional today announced that it has reached an agreement with JISC Collections to offer its acclaimed suite of digital learning platforms to its members. McGraw-Hill Professional is a leading global provider of education and reference materials, information, and books for the Science, technical, and Medical markets. Its market-leading Access-branded digital learning platforms provide subscribed students, doctors,...

CAMBRIDGE, England, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Autonomy, an HP Company, today announced that Mimas, a world-class academic data centre based at the University of Manchester which provides researchers in the UK with key information assets, has launched a new pioneering search and discovery platform on behalf of JISC Collections - JISC Historic Books, powered by Autonomy IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer). Part of the JISC eCollections service, this new platform gives the UK...

LONDON, November 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Collaborative approach has helped keep focus on researchers' information needs JISC Collections announced today that they have agreed the terms of a license to renew access for the next five years to Elsevier's journal content, via their SciVerse ScienceDirect platform [http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect ]. The vast majority of researchers at UK academic institutions...

READING, England, June 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- JANET(UK), the provider of the U.K.'s education and research network, called JANET, has worked with Verizon to produce a networking solution to support a first for global education and collaboration in the U.K. -- the ability for academic institutions to collaborate online over ultra-fast broadband, running at up to 100G (gigabits per second). The Verizon solution also gives JANET a platform that can not only support the U.K.'s educational...