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John Wiley & Sons to acquire Atypon
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Atypon, a Silicon Valley-based publishing-software company, for $120 million in cash. Atypon is a trusted technology partner that enables scholarly societies and publishers to deliver, host, enhance, market and manage their content on the web. The transaction is expected to close October 1, 2016.
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EBSCO Information Services appoints Andrew Nagy as Director of SaaS Innovation
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has expanded its Software as a Service (SaaS) Team, hiring Andrew Nagy as Director of SaaS Innovation. In this role, Nagy will work directly with libraries to help support the growth and development of the open source FOLIO Library Services Platform and the EBSCO SaaS portfolio. With his background in open source software, Nagy will continue to champion open source software in libraries.
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Wolters Kluwer releases updates to its Sentri7 electronic surveillance solution
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has released updates to its Sentri7® electronic surveillance solution. The most significant is new technology for Direct Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Automation of reporting to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).
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Venue and agenda for first OpenAthens Customer Conference announced
OpenAthens, part of Eduserv, a not-for-profit IT services company based in Bath, UK, has announced the venue and agenda for the first OpenAthens Customer Conference. The conference will bring together information professionals and technical experts from across the spectrum of healthcare, academia, corporate and publishing under the theme of Creating Connections to discuss the key challenges and opportunities facing organisations in the context of Identity and Access Management (IAM).
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bioRxiv deploys Editorial Manager Ingest Service to simplify author submission to journals such as PLOS ONE
Aries Systems has announced that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s preprint service, bioRxiv, has added to its technical repertoire an interface to the Editorial Manager Ingest Service. This means that authors who post a preprint to bioRxiv, enabling pre-publication sharing of findings, can submit – with a single click – the manuscript files and associated metadata to any journal that uses Editorial Manager. The first publisher to take advantage of this capability will be the Public Library of Science (PLOS).
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Oxford University Press to publish the Journal of the European Economic Association
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) has signed an agreement with the European Economic Association to publish the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA), one of the leading journals in the field, beginning in January 2017. JEEA was established in 2003 and first published by MIT Press.
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Emerald to showcase new social sciences books programme at ASA 2016
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing will be exhibiting at the American Sociological Association (ASA)Annual Meeting, in Seattle from August 20-23 and showcasing the new social sciences books programme. Philippa Grand, who recently joined Emerald as Executive Publisher for Sociology and Criminology following 10 years at Palgrave Macmillan, and Kim Chadwick, Commissioning Editor for Education & Politics, will be representing Emerald at booth 330.
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