 Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners in deal to merge majority of Macmillan Science and Education with Springer Science+Business Media |
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Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Holtzbrinck) and BC Partners (BCP) have reached an agreement to merge Springer Science+Business Media (owned by funds advised by BCP) in its entirety with the majority of Holtzbrinck-owned Macmillan Science and Education (MSE), namely Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and the global businesses of Macmillan Education. The transaction is subject to approval by various competition authorities, and this is expected during the first half of 2015. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Elsevier acquires media monitoring company Newsflo |
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STM publisher Elsevier has announced the acquisition of Newsflo, a London-based company that helps researchers and academic institutions to measure the wider impact of their work by tracking and analysing media coverage of their publications and findings. The acquisition is effective immediately and financial terms of the transaction are not being disclosed. More Search for more news in this Category |
 CCC announces findings from open access roundtable discussion with UK institutions and publishers |
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Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organisation, recently brought together institutions from the UK and publishers from both the US and UK for an Open Access roundtable discussion to explore the implications of managing Open Access fees on a large scale. During this meeting, held at University College in London, the attendees examined a number of issues related to fragmentation, approach and processes, including ways vendors can play an expanded role in addressing the challenges. More Search for more news in this Category |
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Editage becomes first adopter of Aries’ manuscript ingest functionality for Editorial Manager |
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Aries Systems, a provider of workflow solutions to STMS publishers, societies, and researchers, announced at their Eleventh Annual European Editorial Manager User Group Meeting in London, England, that Editage, the flagship manuscript editing brand of Cactus Communications, is the first adopter of its new ‘ingest service’ for Editorial Manager (EM). As part of the collaboration, Editage will soon be able to transfer author manuscripts directly to participating journal EM submission sites and simplify the manuscript submission workflow for both journals and authors alike. More Search for more news in this Category |
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SAGE launches OA journal Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine |
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Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of a new peer-reviewed, ‘gold’ open access journal, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine (GGM). An interdisciplinary journal sponsored by the Southern Gerontology Society (SGS), GGM will publish original research, review articles, and will serve as an interactive forum for the exchange of gerontological and geriatric knowledge. More Search for more news in this Category |
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ProQuest Dialog adds new features to its patents product |
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ProQuest has announced that its professional search service for researchers in the pharma, engineering and patents industries, ProQuest Dialog, recently added two new features to its patents product. ProQuest Dialog now features hyperlinks to non-patent literature and patents cited throughout its patent content collections. Additionally, ProQuest Dialog users can now search and export full images for more than 149 million patents through the LexisNexis Univentio database. More Search for more news in this Category |
 Professor Benjamin List appointed new Editor in Chief for Thieme Chemistry journal SYNLETT |
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Professor Benjamin List, director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr, has been appointed head of the SYNLETT editorial board, effective immediately. Professor List takes over the position of editor-in-chief from Professor Peter Vollhardt of UC Berkeley, who will continue his work for the English-language journal for synthetic chemistry as Editor for Accounts and Synpacts. More Search for more news in this Category |
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California Digital Library, UC Libraries, and Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service announce new partnership |
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The California Digital Library (CDL) and the UC Libraries are partnering with Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service. In the coming year, CDL’s Web Archiving Service (WAS) collections and all core infrastructure activities, i.e., crawling, indexing, search, display, and storage, will be transferred to Archive-It. This new partnership will allow the CDL to meet its mission and goals more efficiently and effectively and provide a robust solution for stakeholders. More Search for more news in this Category |
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PPF names Elizabeth Just Business Development Manager |
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Publisher Promotion & Fulfillment (PPF) has named Elizabeth Just to the position of Business Development Manager, responsible for identifying opportunities related to the outsourcing of order fulfillment, distribution, customer service, and marketing for publishers. Just comes aboard as part of PPF’s overall rebranding effort. More Search for more news in this Category |
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National Agricultural Library unveils PubAg, a new search engine for published USDA research |
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The National Agricultural Library (NAL) has unveiled PubAg, a user-friendly search engine that gives the public enhanced access to research published by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. PubAg, which can be found at PubAg.nal.usda.gov, is a new portal for literature searches and full-text access of more than 40,000 scientific journal articles by USDA researchers, mostly from 1997 to 2014. More Search for more news in this Category |
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