IOP Publishing and Egyptian Knowledge Bank partner to provide access to all Egyptian researchers - October 11, 2018
IOP Publishing (IOP) and the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) have announced a new agreement as a result of which researchers and readers in Egypt will now gain access to all IOP Publishing's (IOP) journals and ebooks. IOP and the EKB have signed a three-year contract enabling… Read More
Elsevier and American Chemical Society file second lawsuit against ResearchGate for copyright infringement - October 10, 2018
Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have filed a second lawsuit against ResearchGate, alleging mass copyright infringement. Last year, the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, a group representing more than 140 publishers, wrote to ResearchGate, a popular… Read More
Wiley to acquire Learning House from Weld North - October 10, 2018
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a global leader in research and education, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Learning House, an education services provider, from Weld North Holdings. Under the terms of the agreement, Learning House shareholders will receive $200 million in cash. The transaction… Read More
Oxford University Press and Society of Breast Imaging partner to publish Journal of Breast Imaging - October 10, 2018
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) and the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) have announced their partnership to publish Journal of Breast Imaging (JBI), the first peer-reviewed journal to focus solely on breast imaging. JBI is a peer-reviewed publication that aims to provide high quality,… Read More
Dove Medical Press and The Charlesworth Group partner to integrate WeChat into its manuscript submission system - October 10, 2018
Dove Medical Press Ltd., a division of Taylor & Francis, has partnered with The Charlesworth Group to integrate its manuscript submission system into Charlesworth's WeChat Gateway platform. The use of WeChat within the scientific community in China continues to grow and has… Read More
Seven publisher partners sign up to Kudos’ Shareable PDF for author sharing - October 10, 2018
Kudos, a platform for managing research dissemination, has announced that seven more publisher partners have signed up to switch on the Shareable PDF (S-PDF) feature and enable their authors to use Kudos for managing and evaluating PDF-based sharing. S-PDF makes it easy for researchers to… Read More
