The professional publishing landscape – key events that made headlines in 2015 The professional publishing landscape looks a bit different heading into 2016 after a busy 2015 that brought some unexpected headlines. The year’s top stories centered on changes and challenges affecting the market’s most recognisable players. More Search for more news in this Category… Read More »
Elsevier and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands reach agreement in principle on open access and subscription STM publisher Elsevier and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) recently reached an agreement in principle that marks a milestone in the Netherlands’ transition to Open Access scholarly publishing and provides Dutch researchers with continued… Read More »
ProQuest completes acquisition of Ex Libris ProQuest, an information solutions provider central to global research, has completed its acquisition of Ex Libris Group, a global provider of cloud-based solutions for higher education. The businesses’ complementary assets are being integrated, enabling existing services to be enhanced and sparking the creation of all-new solutions that will help… Read More »
American Chemical Society announces new open access journal serving global and multidisciplinary chemistry, ACS Omega The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will expand its open access program in 2016 with the announcement of ACS Omega, a new open access, multidisciplinary chemistry journal publishing peer-reviewed research of broad impact from around the world.… Read More »
STM responds to the Max Planck Digital Library White Paper on the Open Access Transition The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has welcomed the Max Planck DL (MPDL) paper on the transition to OA. STM welcomes this contribution to the open access debate and shares the belief that the most sustainable… Read More »
Wolters Kluwer Health launches UpToDate Anywhere in Italy The Health division of Wolters Kluwer has announced the launch of UpToDate ® Anywhere in Italy. UpToDate Anywhere enables hospitals and healthcare organisations to provide clinicians with mobile and EHR-based access to UpToDate, the acclaimed evidence-based clinical decision support resource. UpToDate Anywhere expands the availability of this… Read More »
Nature Publishing Group and ReadCube reveal preliminary results of scientific article sharing trial Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, part of Springer Nature, has announced the results of its ground-breaking 12-month content sharing initiative to support collaborative research. The trial has concluded with positive results and the initiative to offer on-platform sharing of the full text… Read More »
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI in Russia becomes first Russian university to benefit from access to Mendeley Institutional Edition STM publisher Elsevier has announced its collaboration with National Research Nuclear University MEPhI by providing its researchers, faculty members and management with access to Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE). MEPhI is one of Russia’s leading institutions for… Read More »
Springer Nature and the Egyptian Government in deal to expand access to scientific content, launches Arabic edition of Scientific American Egypt’s Specialized Presidential Council for Education and Scientific Research and Springer Nature have announced the launch of a 5 year national access agreement for Springer Nature content and services and the full sponsorship of an… Read More »
Ithaka S+R’s Deanna Marcum selected to receive the NFAIS 2016 Miles Conrad Award The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAISTM), a global non-profit membership organisation serving the information services community, has announced that Deanna Marcum, Managing Director of Ithaka S+R, has been selected to receive the NFAIS 2016 Miles Conrad Award. NFAIS’s Miles Conrad… Read More »