Libraries are getting access to thousands of BBC academic titles following an expanded agreement between ProQuest and BBC Learning

Elsevier has announced the launch of Entellect, a new cloud-based data platform

IntechOpen has become the first fully open access book publisher to implement Altmetric Badges for Books

IntechOpen has announced the first implementation of Dimensions badges by a book publisher

Authors of biology and biomedical papers can now choose to submit to a journal directly from bioRxiv, as well as to submit to bioRxiv automatically from a journal

Copyright Clearance Center has launched the OA Agreement Manager, an integrated publishing workflow solution

Cambridge University Press has expanded its partnership with author services company American Journal Experts

Cambridge University Press is launching a content sharing service – Cambridge Core Share – aimed at providing the academic community and wider public with greater access to research.

The new service has been launched on the Cambridge Core platform and will extend the functionality to a select number of journals during an initial pilot phase.

Overleaf has launched a service for publishers and institutions – the Overleaf LaTeX Validation Service. The service enables publishers and other third parties to more easily process LaTeX manuscripts for publication, saving time for authors and providing publishers with improved consistency and quality control.

After evaluating several competing products in 2016, De Gruyter has chosen River Valley’s online proofing platform, ProofCheck.

De Gruyter had previously been sending authors their proofs in PDF format for annotation.  Authors’ corrections would then be implemented to produce the final publication. De Gruyter was looking for a faster and more reliable system in order to minimise admin within the publication workflows of their online-only journals.