Springer Science+Business Media acquires Planète Permis SAS - January 29, 2014
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media (Springer) has acquired the French publisher of driving school materials, Planète Permis SAS, based in Gertwiller (Alsace), France. The acquisition complements the existing driving school and road safety publishing activities of Springer. Springer Science+Business Media is… Read More
IOS Press launches new OA journal – Journal of Facade Design and Engineering - January 24, 2014
STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, has announced the launch of the Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, an open access journal, edited by Prof.Dr.Ing. Ulrich Knaack and Dr. Ing. Tillmann Klein, from Delft Technical University, the Netherlands. The journal is primarily a scientific journal, but… Read More
Springer begins 2014 with two major accomplishments - January 23, 2014
Springer started 2014 by announcing two major accomplishments. The publisher completed its Springer Book Archives (SBA), a four-year project to digitise nearly every book it had published from the 1840s to 2004. While the company originally anticipated that around 100,000 books would be part of this… Read More
Elsevier and the Institution of Structural Engineers collaborate to publish new research journal – Structures - January 23, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier and the Institution of Structural Engineers, a professional body for qualifications and standards in structural engineering, have announced their collaboration to publish Structures, a new online peer-reviewed journal covering the full breadth of structural engineering research. Combining the depth of structural engineering research… Read More
TU Delft Library and IOS Press in deal to publish OA books - January 22, 2014
STM publisher IOS Press, Netherlands, and TU Delft Library, part of the Corporate Office of TU Delft, have signed an agreement to publish at least ten Open Access (OA) books - as ebooks – by authors affiliated with TU Delft. Both parties hope to stimulate the… Read More
Springer expands open access activities in South Korea, in deal for two new SpringerOpen journals with Korean partners - January 22, 2014
STM publisher Springer is intensifying its open access activities in South Korea by signing agreements for two new SpringerOpen journals with the Korean Geotechnical Society (KGS) and the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles (KSCT). Starting in January 2014, both research societies will start publishing their… Read More
