ProQuest completes Coutts acquisition
ProQuest has completed the acquisition of Coutts Information Services and MyiLibrary from Ingram Content Group
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Sage strengthens environmental portfolio with Pion aquisition
Sage has announced the purchase of Pion, an independent publisher of academic journals. The acquisition results in the entire Pion publishing portfolio becoming a…
Spare Rib enters the digital age following Jisc/British Library collaboration
All 239 editions of the landmark feminist magazine Spare Rib have been published online for the first time; from today, every edition of Spare…
Open-access books slowly on the rise, says PCG
Publishers and libraries are increasingly experimenting with open access books, according to a new survey by Publishers Communication Group
Aries and Overleaf form partnership
Aries Systems has partnered with Overleaf to allow authors to directly submit manuscripts created in the Overleaf platform to the thousands of scholarly journals…
IET and Editage join forces
The Institution of Engineering and Technology and Editage have announced a partnership that will provide discounted English-language editing services to authors submitting to the…
Elsevier rebuffs COAR/SPARC criticism of sharing and hosting policy
Elsevier has rejected criticism of its new sharing and hosting policy, following a negative analysis by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)…
Sage and Publons announce peer review pilot
Sage has announced a pilot partnership with Publons, a new company working with reviewers, publishers, universities and funding agencies to turn peer review into…
Prestigious award for Digital Science’s Amy Brand
Amy Brand of Digital Science has been given the Award for Meritorious Achievement by the Council of Science Editors. This award is the highest…
More success for Liverpool University Press
Liverpool University Press has won the 2015 Bookseller Industry Award for Independent Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year
House of Lords papers digitised by ProQuest and National Library of Scotland
ProQuest has partnered with the National Library of Scotland to create the first digitised collection of 19th Century House of Lords Parliamentary Papers, providing…
Thomson Reuters releases results of five-year Academic Reputation Survey
Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of its 2015 Academic Reputation Survey and new report, Exploring Scholarly Trends and Shifts Impacting the Academic Reputation…