Publishing news

Elsevier will provide edX with science and technology book content for up to five massive open online courses

A report by ALPSP on the state of the publishing industry shows that publishers are generally in good health but should be aware of potential effects of changes in scholarly publishing, particularly the move towards open access

Maruzen will act as a non-exclusive sales agent for Maney Publishing's MORE (Maney Online Research E-journal) Collections throughout Japan

CCC adds educational/instructional program use case to its rights descriptions and announces first publishers to grant this type of use

ProQuest strikes deal to work with Minha Biblioteca, Universitetsforlaget AS and Boom uitgevers Den Haag

IOP Publishing has unveiled the first titles in the company's new e-books publishing programme at the Frankfurt Book Fair. This programme was announced at the same fair last year

Results of a recent survey indicate room for improvement in how publishers are applying customer data such as that relating to journal subscriptions, usage or submissions

Oxford University Press is joining a collaborative research project exploring open-access scholarly monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences

Two PLOS journals are the first to use a new Connect feature in Peerage of Science