Drafts charters of W3C Publishing Business Group, EPUB 3 Community Group available - December 27, 2016
As part of work towards implementing the plan to combine IDPF with W3C, proposed initial charters have been drafted for the anticipated new W3C Publishing Business Group and W3C EPUB 3 Community Group. These drafts were prepared in collaboration with co-chairs of the IDPF EPUB… Read More
The Society for Scholarly Publishing organises regional event covering open access in education - December 27, 2016
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) held its first Philadelphia-based regional programming event, 'Open Access in Education: Open Educational Resources (OERs) and the Open Syllabus Project in the Context of Scholarly Publishing', on December 7, 2016, at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). The format… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry and the Max Planck Digital Library in Germany sign new ‘Read & Publish’ agreement - December 22, 2016
The Royal Society of Chemistry has signed a new 'Read & Publish' agreement with the Max Planck Digital Library in Germany, under which corresponding authors from the Max Planck Institutes will be able to publish open access in all hybrid Royal Society… Read More
SAGE ceases publication and sale of Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications, 6th edition - December 22, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has immediately ceased the publication and sale of Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications, 6th edition, by Dr. Geraldine Hynes as one of the examples listed does not measure up to its high standards of scholarly knowledge and academic discourse. While the… Read More
DirectCourse collaborates with the Association of People Supporting Employment First to provide curricula for new and experienced employment professionals - December 22, 2016
DirectCourse, a collaboration between Elsevier and the University of Minnesota's Research and Training Center on Community Living, is working with the Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE) to offer the DirectCourse College of Employment Services (CES) curricula to APSE members. CES helps launch new… Read More
Penn State University Press celebrating 60 years with new direction, branding - December 22, 2016
The Penn State University Press is celebrating its 60th anniversary. In embracing this new era while maintaining its core focus on foundational, peer-reviewed scholarship, Penn State Press has made a variety of changes to its publishing program. These include publishing a larger number of titles of… Read More
