Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 16, 2017
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: David Crotty (The Facebooking of Scholarly Research); John Sack (Innovation starts with HighWire’s Intelligent Publishing Platform); Hollydawn Murray (Transparency meets transparency); Amy Forrester, Bo-Christer Björk and Carol Tenopir (New web services are helping authors make data-driven decisions when choosing which… Read More
Project DEAL and Springer Nature in negotiations for a forward-looking model for publishing and reading scientific literature - October 13, 2017
Project DEAL of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany and publisher Springer Nature are negotiating a forward-looking model for publishing and reading scientific literature. After the latest meeting, the spokesman for the DEAL Project Steering Committee and President of the University Rectors Conference, Prof. Dr.… Read More
Taylor & Francis and the Japan Society of Civil Engineers announce publishing partnership from 2018 - October 13, 2017
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis and the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) have announced a new publishing partnership, effective 2018. Taylor & Francis will publish Coastal Engineering Journal on behalf of JSCE. With its 60th volume due to publish in 2018, this well-established journal… Read More
LBF launches the first ever Audiobook Publisher award, entries open for The LBF International Excellence Awards 2018 - October 13, 2017
The London Book Fair (LBF), in association with the Publishers Association (The PA), has launched the LBF International Excellence Awards’ first ever Audiobook Publisher award. The 2018 awards, in their fifth year, have now opened online submissions. The awards, sponsored by Hytex, celebrate publishing success… Read More
SSP 40th Annual Meeting Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads: What’s working, what’s holding us back, where do we go from here? - October 13, 2017
As the Society for Scholarly Publishing celebrates its 40th anniversary, the theme for the conference highlights the many crossroads within scholarly publishing, including past and future practices, changing revenue models, funding challenges, regulation changes, technological innovations, and reaching new markets while maintaining established ones. These crossroads… Read More
The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and Cambridge University Press announce new publishing partnership - October 13, 2017
The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and academic publisher Cambridge University Press have announced the formation of a new publishing partnership beginning in January 2018. The Society's journals, Mineralogical Magazine and Clay Minerals, will join Cambridge's world-leading Earth and Environmental Sciences publishing programme. … Read More
