BMJ partners with European Society for Medical Oncology
Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has partnered with the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), with the aim of publishing a new open access...
Rachel Armitage Joins RCNi As Managing Director
RCNi, publisher of the weekly magazine Nursing Standard and a host of other products, has appointed Rachel Armitage as its new Managing Director.
Rachel joins...
German Consortium Baden-Wuerttemberg Signs Agreement with Scientific Publisher Elsevier
Together with Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, the Consortium Baden-Wuerttemberg, an alliance of the scientific libraries...
Overleaf and Bookmetrix Announced as Finalists in ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing
Overleaf and Bookmetrix, the joint project between Altmetric and Springer, have both been announced as finalists in the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing...
IPR License recruits Antonella Pearce as BDM
IPR License, the global rights and licensing trading platform, has recruited Antonella Pearce from the Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) to take on the role...
Springer acquires three pioneering open access journals from the Max Planck Society
Springer has acquired the three pioneering ‘living’ open access journals: Living Reviews in Relativity (impact factor 19.25), Living Reviews in Solar Physics (impact factor...
Maney Publishing joins Taylor & Francis Group
Taylor & Francis Group has acquired Maney Publishing. Maney’s high-quality portfolio consists of scholarly journals in Materials Science and Engineering, the Humanities and Social...
European Commission opens formal antitrust investigation into Amazon’s e-book distribution arrangements
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into certain business practices by Amazon in the distribution of electronic books ("e-books"). The Commission...
Emerald Global Publishing Group Acquires GoodPractice
Global player in the publishing industry, Emerald Global Publishing Group (further referred to as ‘the Group’), today announces the successful acquisition of GoodPractice, providers...
Frankfurt Book Fair invests in IPR License
The Frankfurt Book Fair announced a significant investment in IPR License, the global rights and licensing trading platform. The deal will see FBF take...
Bioscientifica announces three new sales agent deals
Bioscientifica, the commercial subsidiary of the Society for Endocrinology, will announce today that it has successfully secured three exclusive deals with library sales agents...
Open access transition made easier with UK’s first collaborative publishing consortium
Humanities scholars will now be able to benefit from a collaborativeopen access (OA) consortium agreement which means that authors won’t have to pay to...