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...
IPR License completes raft of LBF sign-ups
IPR License, the global rights and licensing trading platform, has completed membership deals for a raft of publishing houses thanks to a hugely successful...
Future Science Group launches first interactive community for medicinal chemistry professionals
Future Science Group (FSG) has launched MedChemNet, the first online community for those working in the field of medicinal chemistry. The new interactive portal...
UK universities save over £1.38bn but more must be done to remain competitive, claims...
A new report on the potential of collaboration and shared services in UK higher education (HE) launches this week fromLoughborough University and the Efficiency...
Appointment of Jisc chair
Professor David Maguire, vice-chancellor at the University of Greenwich, has been appointed into the role of Jisc chair.
David is currently a Jisc trustee and...
IPR License and SAGE announce affiliation at LBF
The opening day of the London Book Fair 2015 has seen IPR License, the global rights and licensing trading platform, team up with SAGE,...
Taylor & Francis appoints Leon Heward-Mills as Global Publishing Director, Journals
Leon Heward-Mills joins Taylor & Francis Group on 2nd April 2015 as Global Publishing Director, Journals, to provide overall leadership for the editorial team...
Tech festival digi-proofs the future of education
Teachers, IT managers, librarians, lecturers and research managers from across the UK were given the chance to discuss the positive impact of technology on...
Ebooks are an ‘electronic service’ and subject to higher tax, rules EU court
France and Luxembourg cannot apply a reduced rate of VAT to the supply of electronic books, in contrast with paper books
In France and in Luxembourg,...
De Gruyter partners with Scope to create MARC records from ONIX/Klopotek XML files
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, is pleased to announce its engagement with De...
RCN Publishing changes name to RCNi
RCN Publishing announced today that it has changed its name to RCNi. The new brand reflects more accurately the organisation’s continued evolution towards developing...