Clarivate to acquire ProQuest for $5.3bn
17 May 2021
Clarivate has announced it will buy ProQuest, establishing what it describes as ‘a premier provider of end-to-end research intelligence’
Business deal
Accucoms Latin America wins six publisher agreements
28 January 2021
Accucoms reports a healthy start to 2021 with the launch of new clients and a growing team
Wiley announces Hindawi acquisition
5 January 2021
Wiley says the purchase adds 'quality, scale and growth to the company’s open access publishing program'
A dynamic and rapid evolution
12 March 2020
Leon Heward-Mills and Rebecca Lawrence discuss the Taylor & Francis acquisition of F1000 Research
F1000 Research deal 'strengthens Taylor & Francis’ capabilities'
10 January 2020
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group has announced the addition of open research publisher F1000 Research
Norway deals boost research strategy
21 March 2019
The country of Norway has signed two major deals to further its national scholarly communications strategy
Latest issue
Antonia Seymour, chief executive at IOP Publishing, and Andrew Barker, director of library services and learning development at Lancaster University, talk about hybrid working and re-thinking how we work
David Stuart writes: are new ways of measuring research are providing a more realistic picture of scholarly communication?
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Siân Harris looks at what role cloud-based services play in libraries today, their benefits and limitations and what challenges remain
Charlie Rapple
Kudos co-founder Charlie Rapple explains her passion for accelerating the dissemination – and impact – of science
Sowmya Swaminathan
Sowmya Swaminathan discusses the implications for publishers in helping to foster open research practices
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi explains how Covid-19 continues to affect the citation network, and introduces a new kind of citation distortion
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere outlines how researchers in sub-Saharan countries are being hamstrung by economics
Helen Lippell
Helen Lippell explains why organisations should learn more about taxonomies, ontologies and metadata - and describes her love of a good quiz
Mark Hahnel
Figshare founder Mark Hahnel describes the company's beginnings and raison d’être – and his wider hopes for scholarly communications
Miriam Maus
If scientists are successful, we are successful, writes Miriam Maus, publishing director at IOP Publishing
