Matt Cockerill to leave BioMed Central/Springer BioMed Central mission and branding to remain unchanged
Matt Cockerill, the Managing Director of BioMed Central, is leaving the company at the end of the year.
Springer acquired BioMed Central in 2008, catching...
PeerJ receives the 2013 ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation
We are pleased to announce that PeerJ received the 2013 ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) Award for Publishing Innovation at their...
ARL Publishes Report on Transforming Liaison Roles in Research Libraries
ARL today released Transforming Liaison Roles in Research Libraries, the third report in the New Roles for New Times series. This series highlights the transformation...
The Alberta Library selects OCLC group catalogue as its provincial discovery tool, TAL Online
The Alberta Library (TAL), a consortium of 49 public, university, college, technical institute and special libraries, has selected a group catalogue solution from OCLC as...
Global Medical Publishing 2013-2014 – Book Sales Continue To Fall.
Medical and health care e-books titles are hot — unfortunately for publishers, the double-digit growth rate for e-books has not countered print book losses...
IHS Announces Knowledge Collections: Single Source Subscriptions for Technical eBooks, Standards, Reference Works, Patents...
IHS, the leading global source of information and analytics, today announced the introduction of the IHS Knowledge Collections, an expansive set of pre-packaged compilations...
Wolters Kluwer Health and China’s People’s Medical Publishing House Signs MOU to Boost Healthcare...
Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, today announced that it will work together with the People's...
AAP releases statement on OSTP deadline for federal agencies’ public access plans
Today marks the deadline for US federal agencies with $100+ million in R&D expenditures to submit their plans to the White House Office of...
Open access to research publications reaching ‘tipping point’
The global shift towards making research findings available free of charge for readers—so-called 'open access'—was confirmed today in a study funded by the European...
Edanz appoints Benjamin Shaw as COO
Benjamin Shaw has been appointed chief operating officer (COO) for Edanz Group Ltd, a leading author services company based in Japan and China. He...
Research Libraries UK joins The European Library
The UK consortium of scholarly libraries, Research Libraries UK (RLUK), has recently joined The European Library, a membership organisation that provides services to researchers, with...
Library and Repository Communities Join Together to Identify New Competencies for Academic Librarians
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and the Association of...