Publishing news

Gale has signed agreements to enable higher education institutions in Brazil and Saudi Arabia to access its National Geographic Virtual Library

10,000 titles from De Gruyter's e-book programme, e-dition, will be made available for purchase through YBP Library Services' acquisition and collection management interface

The European Publishers Council has welcomed a decision by the German Bundestag to approve an ancillary copyright for news publishers in law that means that search engines and other aggregators who commercialise publishers' content will no longer be able to do so without permission

eLife has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

Nature Publishing Group has announced a majority investment in the Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers

Akademiai Kiado and Wiley have signed new representation agreements with Accucoms

De Gruyter has announced the acquisition of two academic publishers : Akademie Verlag, based in Berlin, and Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, based in Munich

CCC renews China secondary rights agreement with The Charlesworth Group

Maney Publishing has signed an agreement with Atypon to use Literatum as its new publishing platform

BMJ Group has been selected as a preferred provider for the UK's recently established NICE Electronic & Print Content Framework Agreement