Four national ICT bodies have begun a multinational tender process to explore with publishers the possibility of cross-border licensing arrangements.
Hindawi Publishing has changed its last two subscription-based journals to an open-access publishing model.
Springer has acquired 29 journals from Transaction Publishers to strengthen its social-sciences position.
Cambridge Information Group (CIG) has acquired ProQuest Information and Learning, which it will combine with its CSA subsidiary.
Emerald and Multilingual Matters have both chosen ScholarOne's Manuscript Central as their online peer-review systems.
Two major technology providers are joining together to form Publishing Technology.
Wiley has finalised its acquisition of Blackwell Publishing.
The Royal Society has registered all of its historical back-file content with CrossRef.
JSTOR and Atypon Systems have teamed up to develop a new software platform for publications archived with JSTOR.
CrossRef has reached agreements with three new partners to include hundreds of journals from Africa and Asia in its linking network.
Single sign-on provider OpenAthens announced the winner of its inaugural best publisher user experience (UX) award for 2020 earlier this year
As scholarly publishing communities search for the meaning behind metrics, the need for context is becoming crystal clear, reports Rebecca Pool
In February 160 attendees gathered in London at BMA House for the Fifth Researcher to Reader Conference. Heather Staines reports
Tamir Borensztajn describes attempts to support an open research infrastructure
Mark Carden ponders: does the Covid-19 pandemic mean that the world has changed forever and nothing will be the same again?
Kim Eggleton
Kim Eggleton wonders: how do we solve the problem of diversity in peer review?
Publishing organisations should look to adopt modular infrastructure and modular business models so they can experiment, writes Brian Cody
The pandemic has demonstrated the importance of open access and open science, writes Rossana Morriello
