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Maverick Publishing Specialists, the specialist strategic consultancy and outsource services company for the publishing industry, today announced that in conjunction with Lettie Y. Conrad Consultancy, they will be launching two new specialist publisher support packages at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair

Practical information for professionals in computing, IT, business, engineering and mathematics De Gruyter, a leading publisher for academics and professionals, has been providing first-class information since 1749, and is launching a new imprint, De|G Press, at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

SAGE Publishing, is pleased to announce that Rosalia da Garcia has been appointed to the role of Deputy Managing Director and Head of Sales and Marketing, SAGE Asia Pacific. In her new role Rosalia will be responsible for the strategic direction of textbook and library sales, as well as development and marketing within the Asia Pacific region.

fullstopp offers an innovative new advisory service to media companies which aim to invest in start-ups. fullstopp strategic investments relies on the experience in both leadership and consulting of investors as well as investing in a successful portfolio itself.

The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has today announced the publication of a special open access issue of their journal Learned Publishing. The University Press Redux comprises articles arising from the conference of the same name held in March and hosted by Liverpool University Press.

Taylor & Francis today announced its partnership with publishing technology company, ReadCube. Through ReadCube’s Discover service, over four million Taylor & Francis journal articles and book chapters are now indexed and discoverable across ReadCube’s platform.

Axiell, the leading vendor to public libraries in Europe and the market leader in Scandinavia, today announces its acquisition of BiBer GmbH, a full service provider to public libraries in Germany and Switzerland, offering Bibliothekssystems BIBDIA, an advanced hosting and library logistics solution.

Springer Nature has merged the major reference programs from Palgrave Macmillan and Springer to form a complementary, comprehensive Major Reference Works (MRW) program. The expanded MRW portfolio includes high-profile trade and academic references from all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, humanities, business and economics.

Continuing the successful series of Digital Publishing seminars, in 2016 we are bringing together industry-leading digital operations experts to give you an insight into some of the trickiest challenges facing us today.

The University of California, Riverside Library will host International Open Access Week 2016, an event that is part of a global effort called Open Access Week. Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the potential benefits of sharing what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make “open access” a new norm in scholarship and research.

Kevin Smith, Sarah Thomas, Beth McNeil and Joseph Lucia to Join Board of Governors The members of HathiTrust have elected four library directors to serve...

The course is designed for people working in scholarly publishing and primarily with journals. To gain the most benefit from the course, the ideal participant will need to have at least one - three years publishing experience as junior or middle manager but others with more experience will find the course a useful refresher and an inspiration for their future career.