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IOP Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of Nano Futures, a new high-impact, multidisciplinary journal that will be positioned through an editorial policy geared strictly to capturing groundbreaking, future-oriented research with long term influence for nanoscience.

Emerald Group Holdings Limited (Emerald) - the global knowledge business that brings research to life - has positioned itself for further growth after agreeing a £27.5m financing package with Barclays and HSBC.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) today announced the launch of a new open access program, IET Open. The creation of the program underpins the IET’s commitment to supporting open science across engineering disciplines to progress research across all areas.

IOP Publishing has announced a new partnership with Altmetric and Digital Science, to provide its authors and readers with a deeper understanding of how published research is being used and discussed. Authors and readers will be able to view the online attention surrounding each publication via the Altmetric badges embedded into article pages.

For the first time, a study has developed scenarios for restructuring transitioning Switzerland's scientific publication system towards Open Access (OA). The study was initiated by the SNSF in collaboration with the Scientific Information programme (SUC P-2) run by swissuniversities. It recommends a model that proposes a pragmatic and flexible way of making publicly funded research freely available at no charge and with no delay.

Wolters Kluwer Health announces that it has today completed the acquisition of Emmi Solutions for a total net consideration of $170 million (€158 million) in cash following termination of the waiting period under the U.S. Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. The agreement to acquire Emmi was originally announced on October 4, 2011

Outsell, Inc., the world’s only research and advisory firm focused on media, information, and technology, announces a partnership with the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) to provide its members preferred pricing for Outsell’s Market Intelligence Service.

The index’s data show that, on average, cross-channel partnerships were producing 26% more high-quality research in 2015 than in 2012, with the average collaboration score, as calculated by the Nature Index, increasing from 120 to 152. In contrast, the score for UK collaborations with the rest of the world has remained between 40 and 50 since 2012.

After more than twelve months of author consultation and intense development Glasstree Academic Publishing launches its revolutionary global online self-publishing platform this month.

Atypon, home to more than one-third of the world’s journal content and the fastest-growing technology company in the scholarly and professional publishing industry, has been honored by EContent magazine as a trendsetter in digital publishing.

ACCUCOMS is pleased to announce a brand new representation agreement with Primal Pictures. The agreement will entail getting Primal Pictures’ 3D digital anatomy product into the hands of health science educators, students and practitioners within Italy.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and CHORUS have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to advance public access to content reporting on USDA-funded research. USDA already links from the PubAg portal to CHORUS-verified, publicly accessible content on CHORUS Publisher Members’ sites.