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 Project DEAL and Springer Nature in negotiations for a forward-looking model for publishing and reading scientific literature
Project DEAL of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany and publisher Springer Nature are negotiating a forward-looking model for publishing and reading scientific literature. After the latest meeting, the spokesman for the DEAL Project Steering Committee and President of the University Rectors Conference, Prof. Dr. Horst Hippler, and Dagmar Laging, Vice President Institutional Sales Europe at Springer Nature, commented that they have already achieved some alignment on principle questions.
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 Taylor & Francis and the Japan Society of Civil Engineers announce publishing partnership from 2018
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis and the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) have announced a new publishing partnership, effective 2018. Taylor & Francis will publish Coastal Engineering Journal on behalf of JSCE. With its 60th volume due to publish in 2018, this well-established journal features articles on coastal, harbor, and offshore engineering achievements and practices.
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 LBF launches the first ever Audiobook Publisher award, entries open for The LBF International Excellence Awards 2018
The London Book Fair (LBF), in association with the Publishers Association (The PA), has launched the LBF International Excellence Awards’ first ever Audiobook Publisher award. The 2018 awards, in their fifth year, have now opened online submissions. The awards, sponsored by Hytex, celebrate publishing success in 16 categories, representing the best publishing ambassadors, innovative publishing, and ground-breaking initiatives in the industry.
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 SSP 40th Annual Meeting Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads: What’s working, what’s holding us back, where do we go from here?
As the Society for Scholarly Publishing celebrates its 40th anniversary, the theme for the conference highlights the many crossroads within scholarly publishing, including past and future practices, changing revenue models, funding challenges, regulation changes, technological innovations, and reaching new markets while maintaining established ones. These crossroads introduce new challenges as well as new opportunities for scholarly publishing and for the communities it serves and help keep up with the changing needs of researchers and academics who both generate and use the content.
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 The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and Cambridge University Press announce new publishing partnership
The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and academic publisher Cambridge University Presshave announced the formation of a new publishing partnership beginning in January 2018. The Society’s journals, Mineralogical Magazine and Clay Minerals, will join Cambridge’s world-leading Earth and Environmental Sciences publishing programme.
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 ACCUCOMS to represent NEJM Group in France, Germany and Italy
ACCUCOMS has announced its new representation agreement with NEJM Group in France, Germany and Italy. NEJM Group, publisher of premier medical resources for research, education and practice, is expanding its presence in institutions around the world. To accelerate that goal, NEJM Group has entered into an agreement with ACCUCOMS to represent its site license products in France, Germany and Italy.
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 OCLC and Internet Archive partner to expand library access to digital collections
OCLC and Internet Archive are working together to make the Archive’s collection of 2.5 million digitised books easier to find and access online and through local libraries. OCLC will process metadata from the Internet Archive for its digital collection, matching to existing records in WorldCat, the world’s most comprehensive database of information about library collections, or adding a new record if one does not exist.
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