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The independent Dutch academic publisher John Benjamins has chosen Publishing Technology's pub2web platform to host its publications in one place for the first time

SPARC has named the Public Library of Science's PLoS ONE as the latest SPARC Innovator

Ingram Content Group's Vital Source business has grown its e-textbook offering with the acquisition of VPG Integrated Media

Digital Science has invested in 1DegreeBio, which helps scientists discover and select biological reagents more efficiently

BioMed Central is working on set of initiatives to encourage African researchers to publish their work in open-access journals

Several major scholarly publishers are backing a new model to help them understand and handle customer data better

Another eight publishers are now able to supply metadata that conforms to the KBART recommended practice

The volume of peer-reviewed research articles published under an open-access model has grown at a much faster rate than the total annual volume of…

The Japan Science and Technology Agency has selected ScholarOne Manuscripts as a peer-review workflow management system for its 64 journals

EBSCO Publishing and The H.W. Wilson Company have merged. The organisations say that the merger will bring benefits to existing and forthcoming products &…

Publishers Communication Group, part of Publishing Technology, has opened an office in New Delhi, India

O'Reilly Media has selected Ingram's CoreSource platform for digital asset management and distribution