United Scientific Group relocates corporate headquarters - January 3, 2017
Scientific publisher and networking organiser United Scientific Group (USG) has moved from its Santa Clara, CA corporate headquarters where it has been situated since 2014 to a new facility at Plano, TX. The move was made on November 1, 2016, but due to transition it will… Read More
Scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan set to lose access to Elsevier journals - December 27, 2016
Thousands of scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan are set to lose online access to journals from the Dutch publisher Elsevier. Contract negotiations in both Germany and Taiwan broke down in December, while Peru's government has cut off funding for a licence. Universities regularly complain… 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
Thieme to acquire Schattauer - December 21, 2016
International medical and science publisher Thieme will acquire Stuttgart-based publishing house Schattauer Verlag, effective on January 1, 2017. Schattauer's owner and CEO Dieter Bergemann will retire from the business at age 79. Established in 1949 by Friedrich Karl Schattauer as an academic publisher for medicine and… Read More
