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Cambridge University Press has launched a new publishing model to provide an outlet for world-class research and writing that sits outside the traditional formats of book or journal article.

Churchill Capital Corp (“Churchill”) (NYSE: CCC), a public investment vehicle, and Clarivate Analytics (“Clarivate”), announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge. The combined company will operate as Clarivate and will become publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press), a leading publishing house based in Doha, Qatar, and Enago will work together to enable researchers to prepare their manuscripts for publication through Enago’s end-to-end English language editing and publication support services.

We’re proud to announce that from today customers of ‘Figshare for Institutions’ and ‘Figshare for Publishers’ will now be able to host content on a custom domain. Figshare portals have historically lived on a Figshare subdomain eg. university.figshare.com but now can be hosted anywhere eg. data.publisher.com, data.institution.edu, theworldscoolestdata.com.

A survey of publishers with journals indexed in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) has revealed surprising trends in the way that content is published; what types of organisations are publishing the content; on how publishing standards are being accepted globally; and geographical trends on the uptake of open access.

Known for providing high-quality chemical information in the field of organic synthesis, Thieme Chemistry has provided approximately 700,000 distinct structures to PubChem – the open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

ProQuest and Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, are expanding their commitment to their Latin American customers and users, opening three new offices in the region and hiring additional local staff.

DeepMatter, the AIM-listed company focusing on digitizing chemistry, announce that it has agreed to acquire from global publisher Springer Nature the entire issued share capital of Infochem GmbH, a specialist in cheminformatics, for a total consideration of approximately €2.0 million to be satisfied as to €0.36 million in cash and 68,400,000 new ordinary shares in the capital of the Company.

BioOne (about.BioOne.org), the nonprofit publisher of more than 200 journals from 150 scientific societies and independent presses, has launched a new website for its content aggregation, BioOne Complete. Powered by a nonprofit collaboration with SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, the new site leverages SPIE’s proprietary platform for the benefit of BioOne’s more than 4,000 accessing libraries and millions of researchers around the world.

Digital Science and ICE Publishing announce a recent integration that allows for the display of Dimensions Badges within the ICE Virtual Library. The badges provide an innovative way to visualize citations and view interlinked performance metrics drawing from the data within Dimensions.

The Iowa State University (ISU) University Library and De Gruyter have signed a landmark “read and publish” agreement which represents the first of its kind for De Gruyter in North America.

A template for agreements between academic publishers and universities for the deposit of metadata relating to journal articles has been launched today by the Publishers Association following input from members of the PA’s Academic, Professional and Learning Publishers Council.