Blackboard acquires Nivel Siete - August 14, 2015
Education technology company Blackboard Inc. has announced the acquisition of Nivel Siete, a leading Moodle provider operating in Latin America. By joining their forces, the two companies will be able to offer more services and solutions to organizations that leverage Moodle, a widely used learning management… Read More
HighWire appoints Amy Mosher as VP Human Resources - August 14, 2015
HighWire Press, Inc., a technology platform and strategic partner to influential scholarly publishers and societies, has announced the appointment of Amy Mosher as Vice President of Human Resources. As a member of the executive team, Amy will work closely with Dan Filby, HighWire’s CEO and… Read More
Kudos appoints Rebecca Shumbata as Sales Manager in North America - August 14, 2015
Kudos, which helps maximise the reach and impact of research publications, has announced the appointment of Rebecca Shumbata as the company's Sales Manager in North America. Rebecca was most recently at Publishing Technology, prior to which she held roles at the New England Journal of Medicine… Read More
Perceptions of open access publishing are changing for the better, reveals NPG and Palgrave Macmillan survey - August 13, 2015
A survey of 22,000 academic researchers by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan has found that a decreasing number of authors are concerned about perceptions of the quality of open access publications. In 2014, 40 percent of scientists who had not… Read More
Wiley and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers announce publishing agreement - August 13, 2015
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has announced a new publishing agreement with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). Under the contract the company will publish the ALPSP journal, Learned Publishing from January 2016 through December 2020. Membership of ALPSP is comprised… Read More
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group reorganises management structure, appoints John Sargent as EVP - August 13, 2015
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company, has reorganised its management structure following the formation of Springer Nature earlier this year, with Macmillan's John Sargent assuming the role of HPG's executive vice president, reporting to group CEO Stefan von Holtzbrinck. Springer Nature chief scientific… Read More
