Publishing news

The French STM publisher EDP Sciences has launched a new model where authors choose their own price to publish an article in open access

Emerald Group Publishing is partnering with ORCID, which provides a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities

Sage Publishing has selected Atypon, the Silicon Valley-based publishing technology firm, to host all SAGE Journals content on its online publishing platform, Literatum

Ex Libris has announced that it has integrated altmetrics into its Summon discovery service

Hindawi Publishing Corporation has added two new members to its London-based management group; Richard Bennett as commercial director and Craig Raybould as chief process engineer

Three research-intensive universities in the UK have set up an open-access digital platform to publish scholarly articles

Earth science publisher the Geological Society of London has partnered with Boston-based publishing technology company ReadCube to index the society's scholarly journals and books with the ReadCube Discover service

Timo Hannay is joining the Sage Publishing board of directors as a non-executive director

Researchers prefer serendipitous discovery, the process of stumbling on interesting and relevant content in the process of research, to having materials recommended by peers or discovering them based on popularity