A week before the biggest meeting of the industry, Frankfurt Book Fair Director Juergen Boos talks of a start-up boom that has reached continental Europe - October 2, 2013
At a recent press conference in Berlin, director of the Frankfurt Book Fair Juergen Boos compared the state of international publishing to Germany’s 19th century “Gründerzeit” – an age of pioneering entrepreneurship: “2012 was called the ‘year of the start-up’ in the USA and the UK.… Read More
Elsevier and The Geological Society of America collaborate to integrate more than 80,000 maps into Geofacets - October 2, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the Geological Society of America (GSA) have announced that geological maps from GSA's leading line of journals and books have been integrated into Geofacets, Elsevier's research tool for geoscientists working in exploration. The collaboration means that geoscientists in subscribing companies… Read More
Oxford University Press joins OAPEN-UK project - October 1, 2013
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) is joining OAPEN-UK, a collaborative research project exploring open access (OA) scholarly monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences. OAPEN-UK is co-funded by Jisc and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is gathering data in order to… Read More
ALPSP publishes report on the state of the publishing industry – Scholarly Journals Publishing Practice - September 30, 2013
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has published its report on the state of the publishing industry, Scholarly Journals Publishing Practice. Although the report shows that publishers are generally in good health, the ALPSP warned that the report should… Read More
SPARC and the World Bank announce speakers for Open Access Week 2013 kick-off event - September 30, 2013
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the World Bank have announced the speakers for the Open Access Week 2013 kick-off event to be held October 21, starting at 3:00 p.m. EDT in Washington, DC. Speakers include: Stefano Bertuzzi, Executive Director of the American… Read More
Hawaii Department of Education selects McGraw-Hill Education’s Reading Wonders program for state-wide use - September 30, 2013
Digital learning company McGraw-Hill Education, US, has announced that the Hawaii Department of Education has selected McGraw-Hill Reading Wonders – the first-to-market K-6 core reading program built from the ground up to address the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts – as the exclusive… Read More
