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As part of our commitment to engage closely with our research communities and to meet their future needs, we are pleased to be offering authors the choice of single or double-blind peer review on Materials Research Express and Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express from January 2017

Cambridge University Press is excited to announce its participation in Peer Review Week – an annual event to recognise and highlight the essential work done by peer reviewers.

ALPSP Council is delighted to present this year’s award to Alice Meadows. As Director of Community Engagement and Support at ORCID, Alice has played a central role in expanding its presence with an endeavour that really bridges the divide between publishers and authors.

MidOcean Partners, a premier middle market private equity firm, and Wasserstein & Co, a leading independent private equity and investment firm, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to sell Penton, an innovative professional information services company, to Informa plc (“Informa”) for $1.56 billion.

To honor and celebrate peer review, a group of organizations is working collaboratively to plan a week of activities and events. The group is delighted to announce that the second annual Peer Review Week will run from September 19- 25, 2016.

According to the 2017 Serials Price Projection Report from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO), the overall effective publisher price increases for academic/medical libraries are expected to be the range of 5 to 6 percent (before currency impact).

ProQuest has been chosen over 30 other information and technology providers by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science to support and enhance scholarship by supplying dissertations and theses to 50 Russian institutions.

The international academic publisher De Gruyter is teaming up with Kudos in order to help its authors increase the visibility and impact of their published articles. Kudos is a service that allows authors to offer additional information or material related to their publications, such as abstracts or videos. It thus promotes the dissemination and discovery of knowledge. By using Kudos, authors can boost their visibility while also tracking the success of their activities.

EMBO and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), announced today the launch of the ‘SmartFigures Lab’, a prototype online publishing website...

SLACK Incorporated, an independent STM publisher of peer-reviewed health care journals, is pleased to announce its selection of Editorial Manager to power the submission...

Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Apex CoVantage are hosting a webinar for publishers looking to streamline their production processes for greater speed and accuracy. Helen Atkins, PLOS Director of Publishing Services, will share a case study of how PLOS achieved:

OpenAthens and Knowledge E today announce the signing of a new strategic partnership that will bring single sign-on (SSO) access to essential academic and professional information resources to a wider range of organisations throughout the Middle East.