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The previously announced sale of the Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business to Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia was completed today. The company's many well‐known brands include Web of Science™, Cortellis™, Thomson Innovation™, Derwent World Patents Index™, Thomson CompuMark™, MarkMonitor®, Thomson IP Manager™and Techstreet™, among others.

Qatar University Library and Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced their collaboration to maximize visibility, impact and dissemination of articles published by QU faculty and researchers.

ProQuest® Early English Books Online (EEBO) has been chosen by the National Institute of Informatics (NII) and Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources consortium (JUSTICE) as a joint consortium product for academics and researchers across the country.

ALPSP and The PA are to host a debate on the impact of Brexit on academic publishing at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair. Thursday 20 October 2016, 10:30 to 11:00 am, Publishing Perspectives Stage, Hall 6.0, Frankfurt Book Fair.

McGraw-Hill Education today announced the acquisition of Redbird Advanced Learning, LLC, a leading digital personalized learning company that offers courses in K-12 math, language arts and writing and virtual professional development programs for educators. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Britton, who has decades of experience working in the marketing and research information industries, will be responsible for the open research portfolio across Springer Nature, including BioMed Central, SpringerOpen, the open access journals from Nature Research and open access monographs from Springer and Palgrave Macmillan.

Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, is pleased to announce its participation at the forthcoming Frankfurt Book Fair from October 19 - 23, 2016.

Glencoe Software, Inc. is pleased to announce that HighWire Press Inc., the leading technology platform and strategic partner to scholarly publishers and societies, has named Glencoe's Data InPress Video Injection Service (http://glencoesoftware.com/data-inpress.html) as a preferred partner for delivery of video content for its partner publishers.

OpenAthens today announced it has renewed its contract with NICE on behalf of the NHS in England, providing access to essential content for hundreds of thousands of front-line medical workers and researchers across the country.

Elsevier, has today launched a Brexit Resource Centre (www.elsevier.com/connect/brexit-resource-centre). The site provides free access to comprehensive research data, metrics and other online resources to help researchers, institutions, funders and government decision makers within and outside of the UK to monitor effects of the referendum on the UK’s research base, and support decision-making based on this data.

A new library management system which will promote collaboration between cross-sector libraries in Wales was celebrated at an event in the National Assembly. The new bilingual library management system will deliver cost benefits, greater collaboration, and the potential to share collections throughout Wales.

Three Young Chemistry Researchers are Recognized for Their Innovative and Original Research. Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced the three winners of the 2016 Reaxys PhD Prize at its annual Symposium held in conjunction with the New Scientist Live festival in London.