HighWire Press, Inc. appoints Jennifer Chang as Vice President, Publisher Relations - September 23, 2015
HighWire Press, Inc., the leading technology platform and strategic partner to influential scholarly publishers and societies, has announced the appointment of Jennifer Chang as Vice President, Publisher Relations. Jennifer comes to HighWire to lead the global publisher relations team. She brings a breadth of knowledge… Read More
National Library of New Zealand selects OCLC to host Te Puna Services - September 23, 2015
The National Library of New Zealand has selected OCLC to host Te Puna Services, a collection of online tools and services created with New Zealand librarians to support daily workflows in searching, cataloguing, resource sharing and managing collections. OCLC has previously… Read More
Cengage Learning acquires Learning Objects - September 23, 2015
Cengage Learning, a global education company, has announced the acquisition of Learning Objects, a Washington, D.C.-based education technology company. Learning Objects powers innovative, customised and adaptive online learning programs and courses to higher education institutions through its state-of-the-art learning platform and instructional design services. With… Read More
Society of American Foresters partners with Editage for manuscript preparation services - September 23, 2015
Editage, English-language editing and publication support services provider, has announced a partnership with the Society of American Foresters (SAF), a scientific and educational organisation representing the forestry profession in the United States and the largest professional society for foresters worldwide. Through a co-branded author services… Read More
Reference management tools essential to scientific and technical publishers’ customer strategy, reveals Simba report - September 22, 2015
A recent report from media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information reveals that reference management tools such as Mendeley and ReadCube only generate 1% to 2% of scientific and technical journal sales, but publishers are betting on them in a big way to build deeper relationships… Read More
New journal covering all research disciplines publishes its first papers - September 22, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that Heliyon, its new open access journal publishing research across all disciplines, has published its first eight papers since the journal opened for submissions earlier this year. Covering topics as diverse as Yard-long beans in Sri… Read More
