Industry News
Selected news items from the industry.
Monday, 8 April 2013 - 4:48pm
Springer has announced that the Springer Book Archives(SBA) now contain 72,000 eBooks. This news represents the latest developments in a project that seeks to digitize nearly every Springer book ever...
Monday, 8 April 2013 - 4:39pm
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has announced an agreement with the Associated Press (AP) to digitize their corporate archives, including millions of pages of news copy (some never-before published...
Monday, 8 April 2013 - 4:27pm
Reprints Desk, Inc., US, has announced a collaboration with DeepDyve Inc., an online rental service for scholarly and professional research articles. With this agreement, the companies seek to expand...
Monday, 8 April 2013 - 4:24pm
Annual Reviews, the non-profit publisher that synthesises critical research literature, has announced the new Annual Review of Animal Biosciences journal. The journal was created to address the...
Friday, 5 April 2013 - 4:22pm
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of a new Recommended Practice: Institutional Identification: Identifying Organizations in the Information Supply Chain...
Friday, 5 April 2013 - 4:16pm
Rubriq, a for-benefit organisation offering peer review and journal matching services, has completed the first phase of beta testing for its independent peer review system, and the second phase is...
Friday, 5 April 2013 - 4:13pm
Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that as of this month OUP journals are compliant with the Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust policies on open access (OA). OUP is mission-...
Thursday, 4 April 2013 - 1:24pm
Mark Carden is joining the Mosaic Search & Selection Ltd to further expand its UK & international publishing executive search business. Mark will have a particular focus on the academic...
Thursday, 4 April 2013 - 1:16pm
Brill has announced that JISC Collections has purchased the Brill Journal Archive Online Part 2 on behalf of the education and research community in the UK. Part 2 of the Brill Journal Archives...
Wednesday, 3 April 2013 - 4:25pm
John Wiley has sold more of its remaining consumer publishing assets, completing a deal April 2 to sell its pets, crafts and general interest consumer publishing titles to Nashville-based Turner...