Turner Publishing Company acquires Basic Health Publications - January 6, 2016
Turner Publishing Company has acquired the publishing program of Basic Health Publications, Inc. effective December 31, 2015. Terms were not disclosed. Turner acquired the publishing rights, inventory and related assets for approximately 280 Basic Health titles. The acquisition also includes about 20 titles not yet… Read More
F1000 strengthens senior leadership team with the appointment of Liz Allen as Director of Strategic Initiatives - January 6, 2016
F1000, a provider of services to biomedical researchers to support the discovery, writing and publication of new scientific findings, has strengthened its senior leadership team with the appointment of Liz Allen as Director of Strategic Initiatives. Liz was formerly Head of Evaluation at the Wellcome Trust,… Read More
LibLynx to develop custom SSO solution for Alexander Street Press - December 30, 2015
Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press (ASP) has engaged LibLynx to develop a custom Single Sign-On (SSO) solution that extends their access management system across two new technical platforms. ASP currently manages customer access through an in-house application that enables authentication and… Read More
Brill adds Méthexis: International Journal for Ancient Philosophy to its portfolio of Ancient Philosophy - December 29, 2015
International scholarly publisher Brill is set to add the journal Méthexis: International Journal for Ancient Philosophy (Rivista internazionale di filosofia antica) formerly published by Academia Verlag (Germany). Founded in 1988, Méthexis seeks to be an international platform for the publication of scholarly material in ancient… Read More
Elsevier and the National Medical Association announce publishing agreement - December 23, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has been selected by the National Medical Association (NMA) to publish its journal, Journal of the National Medical Association (JNMA), as of January 2016. Journal of the National Medical Association, the official peer-reviewed publication of the NMA, is published 4 times a year.… Read More
Emerald partners with the Egyptian Government to help create the largest digital library - December 22, 2015
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing recently signed a four year agreement to provide Egyptian citizens with access to Emerald content via the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) project, thereby creating the largest digital library in the world. The EKB acts as a repository for content from… Read More
