BioData has announced that the Innovative Medicines unit of the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, has adopted the Labguru platform for the global management of biological reagents used in pre-clinical research
Springer has taken control of the journal Autoimmunity Highlights, which was previously owned by A. Menarini Diagnostics, an Italian company
Nature Publishing Group is joining forces with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) to publish NPJ Breast Cancer, an open access research journal which will help us to understand, prevent, treat and cure the disease
IOP Publishing has launched Convergent Science Physical Oncology, said to be the first and only interdisciplinary title dedicated to bringing together all researchers in the field of the physics of cancer
BioMed Central has announced plans to publish the new innovative journal Research Involvement and Engagement, which aims to publish its first articles in June 2015
This week has seen the launch of NPJ Parkinson's Disease, an open access journal entirely dedicated to research aimed at helping the scientific community to understand, mitigate, and eventually cure Parkinson's disease
BioMed Central and the University of Michigan are to publish a new open access journal, Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology, which is now open for submissions and will begin publishing in the first quarter of 2015
Springer is collaborating with the German Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine to publish a new open access journal, Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics
Elsevier has added five new subject areas to its Legacy eBook Collection on ScienceDirect. The Legacy Collection consists of digitised, classic scholarly book content, now including nearly 13,000 books
SAGE acquires OA neurochemistry journal
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
From bypassing aggregators to the influx of new university presses, the world of library-based publishing is changing fast, reports Rebecca Pool
Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
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Chris Smith explains why they matter, and how publishers and universities can benefit
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Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
Nandita Quaderi – editor-in-chief of the Web of Science – champions objectivity, selectivity, and data integrity
This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli
