Kudos appoints Rebecca Shumbata as Sales Manager in North America - August 14, 2015
Kudos, which helps maximise the reach and impact of research publications, has announced the appointment of Rebecca Shumbata as the company's Sales Manager in North America. Rebecca was most recently at Publishing Technology, prior to which she held roles at the New England Journal of Medicine… Read More
Perceptions of open access publishing are changing for the better, reveals NPG and Palgrave Macmillan survey - August 13, 2015
A survey of 22,000 academic researchers by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan has found that a decreasing number of authors are concerned about perceptions of the quality of open access publications. In 2014, 40 percent of scientists who had not… Read More
Wiley and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers announce publishing agreement - August 13, 2015
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced a new publishing agreement with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). Under the contract the company will publish the ALPSP journal, Learned Publishing from January 2016 through December 2020. Membership of ALPSP is comprised… Read More
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group reorganises management structure, appoints John Sargent as EVP - August 13, 2015
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company, has reorganised its management structure following the formation of Springer Nature earlier this year, with Macmillan's John Sargent assuming the role of HPG's executive vice president, reporting to group CEO Stefan von Holtzbrinck. Springer Nature chief scientific… Read More
Wolters Kluwer’s clinical decision support resource UpToDate accredited by the Royal College of General Practitioners - August 13, 2015
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has accredited its clinical decision support resource, UpToDate. General Practitioners (GPs) in the United Kingdom… Read More
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science journal joins the Independent Scholarly Publishers Group collection - August 13, 2015
The National Academy of the Sciences (NAS) recently joined The Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG) by adding its journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, to the ISPG collection. Established by an Act of Congress and signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863,… Read More
