Publishing News

New UNESCO policy embraces open access

16 May 2013
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will make its digital publications available to millions of people around the world free-of-charge with an open licence

ProQuest completes EBL acquisition

14 May 2013
ProQuest has completed its acquisition of Ebook Library in a move that it says will 'significantly expand its e-book delivery and aggregation capabilities with libraries worldwide'

De Gruyter joins CLOCKSS

8 May 2013
De Gruyter is now archiving its 36 databases and 55 eBookPLUS in the CLOCKSS Archive

Pilot programme brings e-textbooks to MOOCs

8 May 2013
Coursera, which provides massive open online courses, has announced a pilot programme with several top higher education publishers to expand the availability of their content and resources

De Gruyter acquires Ontos

2 May 2013
De Gruyter has acquired the German publisher Ontos