Publishing news

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will make its digital publications available to millions of people around the world free-of-charge with an open licence

ProQuest has completed its acquisition of Ebook Library in a move that it says will 'significantly expand its e-book delivery and aggregation capabilities with libraries worldwide'

De Gruyter is now archiving its 36 databases and 55 eBookPLUS in the CLOCKSS Archive

Coursera, which provides massive open online courses, has announced a pilot programme with several top higher education publishers to expand the availability of their content and resources

De Gruyter has acquired the German publisher Ontos

Semantico is working with Bioscientifica to develop Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism (EDM) Case Reports, the publisher's new open-access publication

Nature and the Nature Research journals are introducing new measures to improve the consistency and quality of reporting in the life sciences research they publish.

BMJ has teamed up with IC Tomorrow, part of the Technology Strategy Board, in a UK-wide competition to help encourage digital innovation in the healthcare sector

The Book Industry Study Group, a USA-based trade association representing the book supply chain, has selected Ingram Content Group's CoreSource platform to manage digital assets and distribute e-content worldwide