SAGE acquires Symposium Journals, strengthens education journal portfolio - September 16, 2014
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the purchase of education journals publisher, Symposium Journals Limited. The sale was announced jointly by Roger Osborn-King of Symposium Journals and Ziyad Marar, SAGE's Global Publishing Director. With a journals publishing career spanning nearly 40 years, Roger founded Symposium Journals… Read More
Publishers to celebrate Banned Books Week with events, resources and more for readers and others - September 16, 2014
Member organisations of the Association of American Publishers are actively participating and engaging readers, educators and book lovers of all kinds in the 32nd annual Banned Books Week, September 21—27. AAP was a founding member of Banned Books Week and continues to collaborate with libraries,… Read More
OUP Southern Africa named Academic Publisher of the Year - September 16, 2014
Academic publisher Oxford University Press Southern Africa (OUPSA) won the Sefika Academic Publisher of the Year award 2014 on August 26. It is the sixth time since 2006 that OUPSA has won the award, which recognizes outstanding achievements and contributions to the South African book industry.… Read More
Thomson Reuters and BMJ Publishing collaborate to optimise peer review process - September 15, 2014
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with British Medical Journals (BMJ), a publisher of healthcare research, to optimise the efficiency of the article peer-review process and solve the industry-wide problem of reviewer fatigue by utilizing ScholarOne Reviewer Locator, an extension… Read More
Elsevier forms Materials Science Council to support efforts of materials science research community worldwide - September 15, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that, together with leading experts in the field, it has established the Elsevier Materials Science Council, a discipline-specific initiative to raise the profile and support the efforts of the materials science research community across the globe. Over the next three… Read More
Retraction Watch and PRE partner to support journals and editors in providing quality content - September 15, 2014
Retraction Watch, launched in 2010 in an effort to increase the transparency of the retraction process among scholarly publication, and PRE (Peer Review Evaluation), which was formed to support publishers in promoting trust and transparency related to peer review, will work together to share information related… Read More
