Copyright Clearance Center partners with SciBite - October 17, 2016
Global licensing and content solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has entered a partnership with Cambridge, UK-based SciBite, a provider of semantic solutions for the Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical industries. CCC will work with SciBite to further support customers’ needs in text analytics and semantic… Read More
Yale University Press partners with De Gruyter the worldwide sales of e-publications - October 17, 2016
Academic publisher De Gruyter and Yale University Press (YUP) have announced a partnership for the worldwide sales of YUP’s electronic publications. This includes a significant frontlist of titles and a selection of backlist and archive publications. The partnership will expand YUP’s international reach and also strengthens… Read More
ACCUCOMS signs new representation deal with AIAA - October 17, 2016
ACCUCOMS has announced that the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has signed an agreement for further representation in South Korea. ACCUCOMS already represents AIAA in Europe, India, Turkey and the MENA region. The organisation publishes cutting-edge aerospace books and journals and also serves as… Read More
ÜberResearch unveils global grants database, Dimensions, for publishers - October 17, 2016
Data science company ÜberResearch has unveiled its global grants database, Dimensions, for scholarly publishers – to enable them to understand new trends in research as they emerge, and compare the most up-to-date activity in research funding with ongoing publication trends. Dimensions is the industry’s first searchable… Read More
EPUB 3.1 now proposed specification - October 17, 2016
The IDPF Board recently approved working group recommendations to advance the specifications of EPUB 3.1 to Proposed Specification status. A final member and public review and comment period for these specifications will be open through November 7, after which the final step according to IDPF policies… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 17, 2016
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roger C. Schonfeld (A Taxonomy of University Presses Today); Adam Hodgkin (Guest Post, Adam Hodgkin: Do Books Need More Aggregation or More Curation - Time to Uncircle the Wagons?); Fiona Murphy (Publishing and sharing data papers can increase impact and… Read More
