De Gruyter announces reorganisation of its imprints - January 13, 2014
Academic publishing house De Gruyter has announced the reorganisation of its imprints following the successful integration of Akademie and Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. As of January 2014, all titles in the fields of history, economics, computer science, and German-language engineering will be published under the 'De Gruyter Oldenbourg'… Read More
Portico and Knowledge Unlatched announce preservation agreement - January 13, 2014
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced an agreement with Knowledge Unlatched to preserve the latter’s Pilot Collection of Open Access e-books in the Portico Archive. The Knowledge Unlatched Pilot Collection includes 28 new books from 13 recognised scholarly publishers: Amsterdam University Press, Bloomsbury Academic, Brill,… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - January 13, 2014
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (When Paid Scientific Articles Were Legally Considered “Advertisements”); Sarah Callaghan (Data Citation and Sharing: What’s in it for me?); David Crotty (Indirect Economic Impacts of Public Access Policies for Journals); and Steve Caplan (Why we are not ready… Read More
Holiday Notice - January 13, 2014
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on January 14, 2014 on account of a Local holiday. We will resume our newsletter service on Wednesday, January 15, 2014. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the January 13th issue. Read More
BMJ appointed international sales partner for RCN Publishing’s nursing titles - January 10, 2014
RCN Publishing, part of the Royal College of Nursing group, has appointed global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ as its sales partner for institutional customers outside the UK. The agreement covers all 10 RCN Publishing owned titles and includes its flagship journal, Nursing… Read More
Allen Press to hold annual event on emerging trends in scholarly publishing in April - January 10, 2014
Publishing services provider Allen Press, Inc., US, will present its annual Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing Seminar on April 24, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. The 2014 seminar is titled A Matter of Perspective. Leaders in the field of scholarly and… Read More
