Publishing news

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has been rejected by the European Parliament and cannot become law in the EU or in its member states

The Transfer project has released a rapid alerting service that will allow publishers to provide a standardised set of information about journal transfers to a searchable database

Global project to facilitate the communication and expression of digital rights information in the creative content sector holds first plenary meeting

PeerJ launches with the novel business model of 'pay once, publish for life'

HighWire will be the platform for eLife, the new open-access life and biomedical sciences journal resulting from funder-researcher collaboration

BioMed Central and ACCUCOMS have signed an agreement for dedicated sales representation in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey

​Wolters Kluwer has sold its pharma-related Healthcare Analytics business to private equity firm Symphony Technology Group

Wiley has bought Harlan Davidson a small, US educational publisher of history titles for undergraduates

Veritas Capital is buying the healthcare business of Thomson Reuters for $1.25 billion