Publishing news

Elsevier is piloting a new peer-review programme for Chemical Physics Letters where reviewers can choose which articles they would like to review

Jerry Cowhig, managing director of IOP Publishing, has been made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) 'for services to science' in the Queen's Birthday Honours list

Uptake of the open-access option on Oxford Journals' papers is still small five years after the publishers' Oxford Open initiative first launched

Elsevier has bought Collexis Holdings, which develops semantic technology and knowledge discovery software

Cambridge University Press academic and scholarly books will become accessible to people with print disabilities thanks to a new licensing deal with Bookshare

Begell House will preserve all its 38 e-journals with Portico

Thomson Reuters has acquired Revista dos Tribunais

Thieme Publishing Group has joined CLOCKSS, a non-profit initiative to preserve academic digital content

The Royal College of Nursing has appointed Rhonda Oliver as the new managing director/publisher at RCN Publishing

Gale, part of Cengage Learning, will distribute De Gruyter periodicals through a number of its academic resources