Publishing news

Articles submitted to BioMed Central, Chemistry Central, and SpringerOpen journals from 3 February 2014 onwards will be subject to the new CC-BY 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution licence

Thomson Reuters has acquired German-based AVEDAS, which develops and implements current research information systems

On 1 January 2014 ACCUCOMS will take over from Van De Bilt Sales and Marketing in representing IOS Press across the whole of Europe, including Turkey

Elsevier is strengthening and refocusing the scope of its long-standing relationship with China Science Publishing & Media

Palgrave Macmillan has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

Publishers Communication Group will begin representing the Independent Scholarly Publishers Group collections of journals to the Indian sub-continent in January

The Radiological Society of North America has signed a strategic Software as a Service agreement for TEMIS' Luxid semantic solution

Versita, the open-access publisher owned by De Gruyter, is introducing Crosscheck Plagiarism Screening to all its third-party-owned journals

European Commissioners have recommended the STM text and data mining Roadmap as one of the 10 outcome 'pledges' that they hope will bring practical value to the future of digital content delivery and licensing within Europe