Springer Publishing Company and Demos Medical Publishing announce merger - February 4, 2015
As of January 1, 2015 the Springer Publishing Company and Demos Medical Publishing, both owned by Mannheim Media LLC, have been combined into one company under the Springer Publishing Company corporate name. Demos Medical Publishing will continue as an imprint of Springer Publishing. The merger… Read More
Association of Canadian Publishers and Ingram Content Group develop digital to print program for publishers - February 4, 2015
Ingram Content Group Inc. and the Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP) have announced a digital to print program, offered through Ingram's Lightning Source Inc. that gives ACP member publishers tools to easily convert digital books to physical books and print and distribute them to booksellers and… Read More
PeerJ launches new OA journal – PeerJ Computer Science - February 3, 2015
Open access publisher PeerJ has announced the launch of PeerJ Computer Science, a cross-disciplinary open access journal publishing articles across all fields of computer science. The journal will start accepting preprints on February 3rd and peer-review articles on February 12th, which is also PeerJ's two-year anniversary… Read More
Maney Publishing unveils digital archives, unlocks over a century’s worth of content - February 3, 2015
Academic publisher Maney Publishing has announced that the new MORE (Maney Online Research E-journal) Digital Archives include the back-file content of 80 journals and offer instant online access to a wealth of significant, historical research and scholarly excellence, much of which has been published by academic… Read More
Oklahoma State University Libraries select Ex Libris Alma and Primo - February 3, 2015
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that Oklahoma State University (OSU), together with the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) College System of 11 universities and colleges, has selected Ex Libris Alma for next-generation resource management services and Ex Libris Primo® for unified resource… Read More
Submissions for 2015 Brill/IFLA Open Access award called for - February 3, 2015
International scholarly publisher Brill and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) have announced the 2015 IFLA/Brill Open Access award. The IFLA/Brill Open Access award is created to reward initiatives that facilitate and/or promote Open Access Scholarly Monographs in the humanities or social… Read More