Wiley partners with Arizona State University to strengthen higher education outcomes in Vietnam - December 12, 2017
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc. has announced a partnership with Arizona State University (ASU) to provide higher education institutions funding, leadership training materials and publishing workshops in order to develop engineering and science capacity in Vietnam. The agreement complements ASU's BUILD-IT Project, sponsored by the… Read More
STM Advisers LLC helps set the Mathematical Association of America’s publishing on a new course - December 11, 2017
STM Advisers LLC (STMA), a financial advisory and consulting firm in scientific and scholarly communications, recently assisted the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) in successfully exploring strategic alternatives for its high quality mathematics books and journals publishing programs. Over a fifteen month collaboration, STMA worked… Read More
Springer and Akadémiai Kiadó to co-publish the Journal of Flow Chemistry - December 8, 2017
Springer, a part of Springer Nature, and Akadémiai Kiadó will add a further journal to their long-established co-publishing programme. The Journal of Flow Chemistry serves as a high-level academic forum for rapid publication of the latest results in flow chemistry. It was originally founded by the… Read More
New Nature Index data indicates surge in collaboration as businesses outsource discovery to academia - December 7, 2017
New data from the Nature Index show that as corporations have scaled back their own in-house research, there has been a surge in collaboration with academic and government research bodies, as they look to share the burden of scientific discovery. These findings are featured in the… Read More
German universities may lose access to Elsevier journals with still no sign of a deal to allow continued access - December 7, 2017
About 200 universities in Germany will reportedly lose their subscriptions to Elsevier journals. According to Nature News reports, negotiations have failed to end a long-term contract dispute. Academics in the country lost access to Elsevier content briefly earlier this year, but it… Read More
Springer and MATRIX to co-publish new book series covering pure and applied mathematics and statistics - December 6, 2017
Springer, part of Springer Nature, and the international Mathematical Research Institute MATRIX, based in Melbourne in Australia, have signed a collaboration agreement to publish a new book series. The cooperation further strengthens Springer's relationship with the mathematical sciences in Australia, while also bringing the work of… Read More