Industry trends

Learnosity and Zapnito have announced a collaborative partnership, aimed at enhancing the knowledge environments of publishers and business services worldwide

CLOCKSS, the long-term preservation service for scholarly communications, has named Craig Van Dyck as executive director

Sven Fund, a former CEO of De Gruyter, who left the academic publisher at the end of 2014, has launched his consulting and investment company

The Higher Education Statistics Agency has launched Heidi Plus, a new business intelligence service for the UK higher education sector

Organisers of the inaugural Researcher to Reader Conference have announced the full programme for the event, while extending the deadline for the 'early-bird' booking rate until 15 December

FIZ Karlsruhe and the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters have announced that Derwent Markush Resource is now available on STN International, the online service for research and patent information

Nature Publishing Group has released Turning Point: Chinese Science in Transition, a white paper that takes the pulse of scientific research in China at a critical time in its development

UK information professionals are subject to a significant gender pay gap, while there is low ethnic, gender and age diversity in the sector, according to a survey by CILIP and the Archives and Records Association

The University of Liverpool and Liverpool University Press have adopted the Altmetric for Institutions and Altmetric Badges to help their faculty, management and consumers of their content monitor and analyse the online attention surrounding their published research

F1000, a provider of services to biomedical researchers to support the discovery, writing and publication of new scientific findings, has announced the appointment of Rebecca Lawrence as managing director