Publishing news

Open-access articles in the journal Nature Communications attract three times as many views as those only available to subscribers, according to independent analysis

Digital Science has invested in WriteLaTeX - a London based scientific start-up and creator of the online collaboration platform for scientific research, Overleaf

Open-access publisher BioMed Central has presented its Open Access Advocacy Award for 2014 to Neelie Kroes, the European Commission vice-president for the digital agenda

Data Conversion Laboratory is collaborating with Elsevier in a multi-year conversion initiative to enrich and enhance content in the Scopus database

SAGE and O'Reilly have invested an undisclosed amount in the young open-access publisher PeerJ

The journal Nature has retracted two papers on the topic of stem cell research

Sustainability publisher GSE Research has received new funding and signed two new directors to its board

Brill has now acquired all shares of Amsterdam-based Editions Rodopi

John Wiley & Sons has acquired SimBioSys, a provider of scientific software tools that facilitate the drug discovery process

Princeton University Press has granted De Gruyter non-exclusive global distribution rights to its e-books