Five Elsevier titles honoured with Textbook Excellence awards - February 24, 2017
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that five of its books will receive 2017 textbook awards in the College category from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA). Three titles will receive the Textbook Excellence Award, better known as a "Texty;" one title will receive the Most… Read More
SAGE Publishing appoints Michael Duffy as US Director of Library Sales - February 24, 2017
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced that Michael Duffy has been appointed Director of Library Sales, overseeing SAGE's North American Library Sales Team. Michael joined SAGE Publishing as Library Sales Manager in 2011 and quickly moved from Senior Library Sales Manager to District Library Sales… Read More
AAAS to partner with the March for Science to promote science education and the use of scientific evidence to inform policy - February 24, 2017
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will partner with the March for Science, a nonpartisan set of activities that aim to promote science education and the use of scientific evidence to inform policy. The March for Science has released a list of… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched to make 343 HSS books Open Access - February 24, 2017
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the Open Access initiative supporting monographs in the humanities and social sciences, will be unlatching all 147 front list and 196 backlist e-books from the KU Select 2016 collection. Around 270 libraries and consortia from 21 countries pledged towards the unlatching of… Read More
Springer Nature launches Recommended – connecting researchers with research that matters to them - February 23, 2017
Publisher Springer Nature has launched Recommended, a new service which connects the research community with the most relevant content. The service has been developed in response to the extensive and rapid increase in published research which makes it difficult for researchers to keep up to date… Read More
PLOS releases annual update of milestones and highlights - February 23, 2017
Open access journal publisher PLOS has released an Annual Update of milestones and highlights. The Annual Update provides a centralised resource for those looking to understand more about who PLOS is and what they do with easy browsing through the year's achievements, links to quickly access… Read More
