De Gruyter appoints Eric Merkel-Sobotta as Director Communications - October 4, 2016
Academic publisher De Gruyter is establishing a global communications function in order to improve communications with researchers, librarians and business partners and to expand and increase employee communications. Eric Merkel-Sobotta joined De Gruyter on October 1, 2016 as Director, Communications and will lead the efforts in… Read More
Emerald Group Publishing announces key strategic and high profile appointments - October 4, 2016
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has made a number of key strategic and high profile appointments, as it continues to heavily invest in its academic Books programme. Dr. Philippa Grand, previously Editorial Director, Palgrave Social Sciences at Springer Nature, has been appointed as Editorial Director,… Read More
Open-access journal eLife to start charging fees for all accepted papers - October 3, 2016
The open-access journal eLife is dropping one of its most distinctive features - free publishing. From 2017, it will charge a fee of $2,500 for all accepted papers. Most open-access journals already charge for publishing, because they have few other ways to bring in cash.… Read More
Elsevier partners with the International Society for Neurovascular Disease to develop and publish co-branded neurovascular disease book series - September 30, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has partnered with the International Society for Neurovascular Disease (ISNVD) to develop and publish an ISNVD-cobranded series of books covering various topics in neurovascular disease. The book series will focus on the latest research in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for neurovascular disease and… Read More
Canadian Science Publishing and East China Normal University partner to launch OA journal – Anthropocene Coasts - September 28, 2016
Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) has signed an agreement with East China Normal University (ECNU) as the first official step in launching both a new international partnership and a new open access international journal, Anthropocene Coasts. This peer-reviewed international journal will explore multidisciplinary studies on the regime… Read More
Emerald appoints Ernst Kallus as new Technology & Programme Director - September 26, 2016
Emerald Group Publishing has announced the appointment of Ernst Kallus as its Technology & Programme Director. Kallus was formerly Digital Media Director at Oxford University Press and, most recently, Director of Platform Strategy at Pearson. This is a key appointment for Emerald and the wider… Read More
