McGraw-Hill Education acquires equity stake in global mobile language learning platform, busuu McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, has taken a Euro 6 million (approximately $6.5 million) minority equity stake in busuu, the world’s largest social network for language learning with more than 55 million users. The transaction includes an agreement that will give McGraw-Hill… Read More »
The Frankfurt Book Fair and Publishing Perspectives to host The Markets: Global Publishing Summit A new conference to kick off the Frankfurt Book Fair, to be held the day before the fair officially opens (14-18 October 2015), will set the theme for the world’s largest industry meeting: ‘The Markets – Global Publishing Summit’ is the… Read More »
Knovel’s engineering content now discoverable via EBSCO Discovery Service STM publisher Elsevier has announced that content from Knovel, an engineering decision-support solution, is discoverable through the EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS). The integration allows mutual customers to combine answers from high quality engineering references within a unified search platform, as well as directly access Knovel subscription… Read More »
AAAS acquires Peer Review Evaluation service to help promote transparency and public trust in science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the Science family of journals, has announced the acquisition of ‘Peer Review Evaluation’ (PRE), a web-based service that promotes public trust in science by making the review of original… Read More »
Elsevier unveils seven new food science and safety books at Institute of Food Technologists’ IFT15 conference STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of seven new food science books, including Food Safety: Emerging Issues, Technologies and Systems edited by Steven Ricke, Janet Donaldson and Carol Phillips. In this book, experts in the field discuss recent… Read More »
Elsevier and US National Cancer Institute implement reciprocal linking between research articles and datasets STM publisher Elsevier and the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) have implemented two-way linking between research articles on ScienceDirect and datasets stored in NCI’s cancer Nanotechnology Laboratory (caNanoLab) data portal. Reciprocal linking between data portals and scientific literature ensures that the… Read More »
Oxford University Press and the European Society of Cardiology launch European Heart Journal – Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) have announced the launch of European Heart Journal – Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes (EHJQCCO), the first issue of which was… Read More »
Wiley and the British Society for Nanomedicine launch new OA publication, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Nanomedicine Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc., and the British Society for Nanomedicine have announced the launch of a new open access publication, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Nanomedicine. The Journal of Interdisciplinary Nanomedicine (JOIN) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that… Read More »
Springer acquires three OA journals from the Max Planck Society STM publisher Springer has acquired the three pioneering ‘living’ open access journals: Living Reviews in Relativity (impact factor 19.25), Living Reviews in Solar Physics (impact factor 17.64) and the recently launched journal Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics from the Max Planck Society. Furthermore, Springer has… Read More »
New Chemical Resistance Database available via Knovel STM publisher Elsevier has introduced its Chemical Resistance Database: Plastics and Elastomers. Available via Knovel, the database is the industry’s largest compilation of normalized data detailing the degradation of plastics and elastomers exposed to a variety of environments and elements. Characterizing the effect of thousands of reagents, the… Read More »