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EBSCO Publishing, the database aggregator serving the content needs of corporations, associations and organisations has acquired Expert Publishing (ExPub), the provider of decision-support chemical information for the global environmental health & safety (EH&S) community

More than three quarters of professionals intend to increase spending on projects that address data quality and consistency issues as they look to exploit data consistency to support data hungry risk management processes and achieve a holistic view of risk

Microsoft does not rate the way universities use technology, according to a government minister

News and information provider Thomson Reuters reported a 16% fall in underlying profits and a 3% decline in its total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2009 because of challenging global markets and weaker sales of its legal and financial services

British software company Autonomy is raising £500 million by issuing convertible bonds to fund its acquisitions plan

Committing itself to music research, EBSCO Publishing has acquired the Music Index Online from Information Coordinators, Harmonie Park Press, a music reference publishing company

LexisNexis, a provider of information and business solutions, has entered an agreement with RTÉ, Ireland’s national television and radio broadcaster, to increase web content covering Ireland to the Nexis research services

Thomson Reuters, the intelligent information provider for businesses and professionals has started working with thousands of institutions and research facilities to produce a one-of-a-kind resource called the Global Institutional Profiles Project

The German academic publisher Springer Science+Business Media was sold today to the Swedish private equity firm EQT Partners and Government of Singapore Investment Corp for €2.3bn (£2.1bn).