Publishing news

Mike Evans is appointed global managing director of the Charlesworth Group

Bioscientifica journals are moving to a CC-BY licence, for all research published on an open-access basis

The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that from 1 April, authors will have the option to publish gold open-access papers under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence

Paul Peters is the new president of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) from 15 March, taking over from Caroline Sutton

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