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The European Research Area should be strengthened and broadened as part of the Brexit process, to increase scientific collaboration across member states and associated countries such as the UK, Norway and Switzerland, according to a new report from Wellcome.

Today, Elsevier and Hypothesis are announcing a collaboration to align annotation capabilities in Elsevier’s Research Products with the emerging ecosystem of interoperable clients and services for annotation based on open standards and technologies.

Joachim Flickinger took over responsibility for S. Karger GmbH in Freiburg, Germany, as the Managing Director. Alongside his new role he will continue to serve as Director Sales & Distribution and as a member of the Management Board of S. Karger AG in Basel, Switzerland.

The Dutch publishing giant Elsevier has granted uninterrupted access to its paywalled journals for researchers at around 200 German universities and research institutes that had refused to renew their individual subscriptions at the end of 2017.

Knowledge Unlatched, the central Open Access (OA) platform, has once again demonstrated the success of its OA programmes in the Humanities and Social Sciences with KU Select 2017 growing more than 20% on the previous year.

Science Reviews 2000 and ACCUCOMS have signed an agreement to include Science Reviews 2000 titles in the ALPSP Collections of Aggregagent.

Around 200 German universities will lose their subscriptions to Elsevier journals within weeks, because negotiations have failed to end a long-term contract dispute.

Koninklijke Brill NV, the international scholarly publisher, announces the appointment of Jasmin Lange (39) as Chief Publishing Officer and member of the Management Team, as per January 1st, 2018. Within Brill’s senior leadership, Jasmin will lead Brill’s publishing teams and focus on further expanding Brill’s offering to the scholarly community.

New partnership offers students collaborative reading using in-document discussions and rich-media annotations on selected books and textbooks

Kudos has announced that the University of Manchester is the latest institution to sign up for Kudos for Institutions, which provides research tools and intelligence to help universities maximize dissemination of research.

Leading global STM provider Enago announced today a new partnership with Bioscientifica, a well-respected provider of publishing, events and association management services,owned by the Society for Endocrinology.

UKSG has announced the appointment of Bev Acreman as Interim Executive Director. Bev replaces Sarah Bull who is moving on to pursue other opportunities. Bev is well known by the UKSG community, having held senior roles at Taylor & Francis, BioMed Central, Springer Nature and F1000. She has also served on several UKSG committees.