Publishing news

Informa has confirmed that it is in discussions about acquiring Springer Science + Business Media

Publishing Technology has become the development partner for a pilot project being coordinated by TBI Communications into the use of the semantic web

The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society have signed agreements to join CLOCKSS and preserve their materials in the CLOCKSS network of geographically- and geopolitically-distributed archive nodes

Elsevier has announced the winners of the 2009 Semantic Web Challenge

The American Economic Association and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health will use Atypon Premium software to power their new publishing websites

Academic publishers cooperate in the publication and sales of journals from Eastern Europe and books from Eastern and Central Europe

Multi-Science Publishing and the Professional Golfers Association have agreed a licence that will give the association's members unrestricted online access to several peer-reviewed sports titles

SpringerWienNewYork and Versita are working together to distribute, market, and sell STM journals from Central European societies and other institutions

Toby Green, head of publishing at OECD, was elected as the next chair of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

ALPSP announced the winners of its 2009 Awards at the ALPSP International Conference dinner in September