Publishing news

Elsevier and LeWeb have announced the 15 shortlisted start-ups that are being given the opportunity to showcase their work as part of LeWeb Tech conference in Paris

Macmillan Science and Education has launched a publishing initiative aimed at allowing readers to share an 'unprecedented' wealth of scientific knowledge

The Independent has partnered with Gale, part of Cengage Learning, to digitise the complete run of its newspaper from its very first issue to the end of 2012

Mendeley and WriteLaTeX have collaborated in an effort to make it easier for authors to ‘cite as they write' by linking their Mendeley reference library to WriteLaTeX’s online collaborative writing and publishing service

Springer Science+Business Media and the Association of Dutch Universities (VSNU) have reached a landmark agreement that includes access to more than 2,000 of Springer's subscription journals

Times Higher Education (THE) and Elsevier are partnering to provide the data behind THE's flagship World University Rankings and its global university performance analyses

Elsevier has announced the addition of 10 content providers who will offer content via the Knovel platform, strengthening a range of disciplines including civil engineering, chemical engineering and earth sciences, among others

Oxford University Press (OUP) has partnered with Emerge Education, an accelerator for education technology start-ups. As part of the partnership, OUP has sponsored a 300 sq m co-working space for education businesses enrolled on the accelerator course

Springer has signed a deal with the Forderkreis Grundungs-Forschung (FGF), the foremost organisation of professors of entrepreneurship and small business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Accucoms, a provider of sales and marketing services for publishers with headquarters in Leiden, The Netherlands, has been bought back by founder and managing director Pinar Erzin