Publishing news

RCN Publishing ends agreement with ProQuest for aggregated access to journals

Kudos, a service aimed to help authors and institutions maximise the visibility of their publications, has announced AIP Publishing as its third and final partner for its pilot phase of research and development

Brazilian consortium signs up to Springer content for five years

The UKSG Transfer Working Group has released Version 3.0 of its Code of Practice for public comment

Springer has signed an agreement to provide Bookshare, which provides people with visual impairments, physical disabilities and/or learning disabilities access to copyrighted digital accessible books, with world rights to its titles

HighWire Press has entered a strategic partnership with Tizra to extend e-book functionality and integration to the HighWire Open Platform

Wiley has announced that James Milne will be its new publishing director for physical sciences

Elsevier has announced that Karo Bio, which develops drugs for large medical needs, has started to use its Reaxys and Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry products

The Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing has chosen TSO's OpenUp platform to publish its bibliographic linked open data

CourseSmart, which provides e-textbooks and digital course materials, has announced partnerships with 16 more publishers, bringing its total to over 31