Industry trends

Paul Feldman, currently an executive partner at Gartner UK, has been appointed as new Jisc chief executive with a start date in mid-October 2015

Highwire Press and Kudos have both made key appointments in recent weeks

INASP has launched in Open Access Week Competition for 2015. The competition is open to representatives of institutions and organisations from INASP partner or network countries

A survey of 22,000 academic researchers by Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan has found that a decreasing number of authors are concerned about perceptions of the quality of open access publications

The annual conference of the Association of Subscription Agents (ASA) is to be renamed Researcher-to-Reader, with the next event scheduled for February 2016

Registration is now open for the STM Frankfurt Conference, the premier executive publishing event for the scholarly publishing industry

Kudos, which helps maximise the reach and impact of research publications, has announced the latest organisations with which it is partnering: TrendMD, Research Media, and Altmetric

The use of ebooks in corporate settings is increasing dramatically in enterprises, according to research by FreePint, the international analyst group

Clay McDaniel has joined ProQuest as vice president for global marketing