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Cambridge University Press has brought its higher education textbooks together on a new, tailor-made website to meet the changing needs of students, instructors and universities.

Elsevier, a global research publishing and information analytics provider, and part of RELX, has acquired SciBite, a semantic AI company headquartered in Cambridge, UK, to help customers...

This week, Research Square launched the beta version of their artificial intelligence (AI) based editing service. The technology, built on AJE’s 16 years of editing experience, assesses English-language grammar, spelling, and phrasing in scientific manuscripts and provides authors with a language quality score and an automated language edit.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the six Science family of journals, will be moving its full suite of online journal content to Atypon’s online publishing platform, Literatum, in the summer of 2021.

The American Chemical Society (ACS), a leading voice in science communication and education, has launched Untold, a new video series in partnership with PBS Digital Studios and YouTube Learning. The limited-run series features stories about science and how chemistry, physics, astronomy and geology can provide insights into the world around us.

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and IGNITE Online are partnering to support libraries looking to adopt the FOLIO Library Services Platform (LSP). EBSCO and IGNITE Online will work together to provide reliable local hosting and support services to libraries across Latin America.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has been awarded the inaugural University Press Redux Sustainability Award for its SDG Pathfinder website, an innovative tool that uses UNSILO technology to link all its content to relevant goals from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The American Society of Microbiology (ASM) has selected Atypon’s Literatum as its new online publishing platform. In addition to its 18 journals, Literatum will also host ASM multimedia, datasets, and supplemental materials.

Hindawi has launched a new author services section of its website, providing authors with the ability to take advantage of a wide range of tools and services to help them make the most of their research throughout the publication process.

Aries Systems Corporation, a leading technology workflow solutions supplier to the scholarly publishing community, is pleased to announce its partnership with SciScore™. Aries and SciScore have partnered to integrate Editorial Manager® (EM), a cloud-based manuscript submission and peer review system for scholarly journals, reference works, books and other publications, with SciScore, the leading methods review tool for scientific articles.

De Gruyter is partnering with LibLynx to power identity, access and analytics for their new digital publishing platform. De Gruyter’s goal is a highly customized digital platform that allows the publishing house to become more user-centered and data-driven and react much more flexibly to customer needs.

Underline (www.underline.io) has secured partnerships with several leading scientific associations to produce and host important scientific and academic conferences in Summer and Fall 2020. All of these meetings were initially planned to be held in-person, but organizers have turned to Underline, and a virtual format, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.