Dutch investment firm, Gilde, buys subscription agent, Royal Swets and Zeitlinger, with plans to expand business into new markets
US digital content provider, Proquest, claims its social sciences database, Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas (Prisma), now holds more than 100 full text journals
Emerald Group Publishing, UK, has penned a five year deal with Italy's largest university consortium
In a bid to drive so-called open access publishing forward, the Swiss National Science Foundation reveals a new directive on open access for SNSF-sponsored researchers
Scientific publishers worldwide have refused to publish papers written in Word 2007. Rebecca Pool investigates
Electronic book business, ebrary, has teamed up with University of Virginia Press, Allen & Unwin and other publishers to make more 'eBooks' available to libraries worldwide
Brill has selected "IngentaConnect" to host its 50,000 article back-file in a bid to give academics the opportunity to search for a broader range of content
Ovid Technologies will provide over 300 OUP medical and health science e-books, including over 80 new titles, for subscription and purchase on the Books@Ovid platform.
SAGE will act as the Hammill Institute on Disabilities' representative regarding subscriptions, licensing, production, advertising, and online dissemination for the nonprofit organisation's 14 special education journals.
Springer Science+Business Media will buy German scientific publisher Spektrum Akademischer Verlag from Elsevier.
Fiona Hutton
Fiona Hutton, of Cambridge University Press and Assessment, looks back over her career and tells of her love of the wilderness
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While open science has gained from the pandemic many challenges remain, writes David Stuart
David Armstrong
Options for disseminating research content have proliferated over the past decade, writes David Armstrong
Rachel Burley
The peer review-based publishing is under more pressure than ever to become faster and more open, writes Rachel Burley
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Shane Rydquist and Minhaj Rais ask: has investment in new content types led to a new era in discovery?
James Gray
Kortext CEO James Gray reflects on founding the company, his wider career, and some life-changing moments
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'Elitist world' discriminating against humanities must be avoided at all costs, write Martin Eve and Anthony Cond
Sami Benchekroun
Sami Benchekroun outlines post-pandemic trends in scholarly communications
Alvin Hutchinson
Institutional repositories have not evolved in the way they were first intended, writes Alvin Hutchinson
Frances Downey
Frances Downey, head of research and innovation culture at UKRI, explains the formation of the organisation’s Good Research Resource Hub
