ORCID appoints Andy Mabbett as Wikipedian-in Residence
ORCID is pleased to appoint Andy Mabbett as our Wikipedian-in Residence. In this pro-bono role, Andy will extend his work as an ORCID...
Reed Business Information acquires Farmade, an agricultural software and workflow solutions business
Reed Business Information (RBI), a division of Reed Elsevier, announced today it has acquired the entire issued share capital of agricultural software and workflow...
Four universities in Sweden acquire Springer Book Archives
Over 85,000 Swedish students, faculty members and researchers have access to tens of thousands of eBooks from the 1840s to 2004
Four major universities and...
Burgundy signs an exclusive distributor agreement with ACSESS
Burgundy signs an exclusive distributor agreement with ACSESS – The Alliance of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science Societies
Specialising in the development and implementation of...
Springer launches CrossMark service for journal content
Springer is launching CrossMark, an identification service from CrossRef, for forthcoming journal articles, ensuring that the user always gets the latest updates and most...
IMS Health Announces Acquisition of Forcea
IMS Health (NYSE: IMS) has acquired Forcea, a leading Belgium-based provider of business intelligence applications and analytics, to advance performance management capabilities for hospitals...
EU rejects international solution to library and archive copyright problems; causes collapse of WIPO...
Discussions by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) broke down in the early hours of Saturday...
IOP Publishing to participate in 2014 NHS Pilot
IOP Publishing (IOP) is delighted to announce that it is participating in a pilot that will enable access to journal content licensed by Jisc Collections to...
SAGE launches online collection of applied research methods cases
SAGE today announces the launch of SAGE Research Methods Cases, a collection of real social research case studies, specially commissioned and designed to help...
ALPSP appoints BMJ’s Peter Ashman as Chair Elect
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has appointed Peter Ashman, Publishing Director at BMJ, as Chair Elect of its governing Council...
UK Research Council funding data comes to life in two new visualisations
Competition run by British Library, BBRSC and AHRC challenged the public to create a visualisation showing how £3 billion of funding is apportioned across...
2014 Emerald Literati Network Award Winners Announced
Global academic publisher, Emerald Group Publishing, today announces the winners of its prestigious Literati Network Awards for Excellence, 2014. Now in their 21st year, and...