Publons and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) have entered into a pilot partnership that will allow verified peer review recognition to peer reviewers of 12 participating ASM journals via the Publons platform
ProQuest has completed the acquisition of Coutts Information Services and MyiLibrary from Ingram Content Group
Sage has announced the purchase of Pion, an independent publisher of academic journals. The acquisition results in the entire Pion publishing portfolio becoming a part of the Sage journal program
The Institution of Engineering and Technology and Editage have announced a partnership that will provide discounted English-language editing services to authors submitting to the IET portfolio of journals
Elsevier has rejected criticism of its new sharing and hosting policy, following a negative analysis by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
Sage has announced a pilot partnership with Publons, a new company working with reviewers, publishers, universities and funding agencies to turn peer review into a measureable research output
Liverpool University Press has won the 2015 Bookseller Industry Award for Independent Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year
Key competition authorities including the European Union and the US Department of Justice have cleared the merger of Springer Science+Business Media and the majority of Macmillan Science and Education. The new company will be called Springer Nature
Sage has launched Sage Video, streaming video collections designed to support a range of needs across higher education, including pedagogical use in undergraduate teaching and learning and higher-level academic study and research
Oxford University Press is partnering with the National Library of Medicine as they launch their Emergency Access Initiative to provide free access to biomedical research for healthcare professionals and aid workers responding to the recent earthquake in Nepal
