Publishing news

SAGE has signed the UKSG Project Transfer Code of Practice.

Simon Dessain, chief operating officer of Publishing Technology and former chief executive of Ingenta, has announced that he is leaving the company.

Two prestigious Australian institutes, the University of New South Wales and Monash University, have chosen the Scopus database.

Journal prices have risen by very different amounts over the past seven years, according to a study by LISU, of Loughborough University, UK.

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, is opening a representative office in China.

Private equity firm Bridgepoint Capital Limited is buying the Education division of Wolters Kluwer.

Blackwell Books Online has been certified as providing COUNTER-compliant usage data.

German researchers will have access to all Emerald journals between 1994 and 2005 thanks to a new agreement between the publisher and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Elsevier has bought the Beilstein Database, the world's largest compilation of chemical facts in the field of organic chemistry.

The publishing services division of Apex CoVantage has been selected to create a multi-million page digital archive of medical journals for a major association.

The new publishing services company formed from the merger of Ingenta and VISTA International will be listed on the AIM stock exchange from tomorrow.