STM Online services to grow, says new Simba Information report - February 2, 2017
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a report, STM Online Services 2016-2020, according to which, online services continue to be the fastest growing of all content delivery segments, faster than journals and much faster than books. Before elimination of trading between publishers,… Read More
SAGE Publishing relaunches MethodSpace with new Big Data Hub - February 2, 2017
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the relaunch of its popular MethodSpace website, a free-entry online community with over 20,000 registered social and behavioural science researchers. The revamped site includes a hub focused on how social science research is using big data. Since 2009 MethodSpace… Read More
University of California selects HighWire’s BenchPress for its new journal – Case Studies in the Environment - February 1, 2017
Scholarly publishing company HighWire Press has announced that University of California Press (UC Press) has selected BenchPress as the manuscript submission, editorial tracking, peer review, and production tracking system for its new journal, Case Studies in the Environment. The new journal, which… Read More
Frontline Medical Communications announces promotions of Sally Cioci and Josh Prizer to Group Publisher - February 1, 2017
Frontline Medical Communications (FMC) recently announced the promotions of Sally Cioci and Josh Prizer to Group Publisher. For the past several years Sally has led Dermatology News® and Pediatric News® as the Publisher of both titles, while also serving as Associate Director, SDEF Sponsorships for… Read More
Education publishers sue Amazon marketplace vendors over counterfeit sales - January 30, 2017
Education publishers Pearson Education, Cengage Learning and McGraw Hill have summoned Amazon to disclose the names and financial accounts of online vendors allegedly selling low-cost pirated copies of the publishers' books via the Amazon marketplace site. According… Read More
New OCLC Research report on digitization in public and state libraries - January 30, 2017
The Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced that OCLC Research has published a new report: Advancing the National Digital Platform: The State of Digitization in US Public and State Libraries. This report summarises the results of a… Read More
