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Semantico has announced the winners of its annual competition for second year University of Sussex software engineering students

Brill has chosen PubFactory to develop its next-generation platform to host its journals, books, reference works, and corporate site

Alternative metrics provider Altmetric has confirmed the addition of Scopus citation counts to the Altmetric Explorer for Publishers and Institutions platforms

The Association of Universities in the Netherlands and the academic publisher De Gruyter have signed an agreement that provides for the publication of an unlimited number of open access articles in De Gruyter's hybrid journals

Peter Lang is to move all of its journals and books onto PubFactory in Summer 2016. The move to the PubFactory online publishing platform is aimed at unifying its content and business operation

Atypon has signed multi-year renewals with eight of its clients, including the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Economic Association, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the American Public Health Association, Allen Press, Annual Reviews, and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists

One of the UK’s best-known newspapers, The Telegraph, has been made available in a new fully-searchable digital archive

Stephen Barr, president of SAGE International, has been elected as the new president of The Publishers Association