Publishers Association elects Annie Callanan as President and David Shelley as Vice-President - May 19, 2020
Publishers Association has elected Annie Callanan, CEO of Taylor & Francis, as the new President, and David Shelley, CEO of Cambridge University Press, as Vice-President and Treasurer. Perminder Mann, CEO of Bonnier Books UK, was confirmed as the new Chair of the Consumer Publishers Council. Perminder… Read More
De La Salle University adopts Ex Libris higher-ed cloud platform to support online teaching and streamline workflows - May 19, 2020
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that De La Salle University (DLSU) has chosen the Ex Libris Alma library services platform, Ex Libris Primo discovery and delivery solution, and Ex Libris Leganto course resource list solution to streamline workflows, enhance patrons’ user experience, and support… Read More
Springer Nature reaches new milestone with the publication of 1000th OA book - May 18, 2020
Springer Nature has reached a new milestone in open access (OA) publishing with the release of its 1000th open access book. With 84 million chapters downloaded across the portfolio, the company is advancing discovery by offering the possibility to publish scholarly books open access so they… Read More
SAGE and Norwegian consortium sign transformative agreement - May 18, 2020
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has signed a new open access publishing agreement with Unit consortium (Norwegian consortium for higher education and research), which negotiates and manages 39 licence agreements on behalf of Norwegian research libraries from the public sector. The three-year read and publish agreement applies… Read More
ConTech.Live webinars go from strength to strength - May 18, 2020
Being able to reach out to colleagues, extended networks and friends is more important now than ever before. ConTech recently launched its free weekly webinars with the hope to do just that and is overwhelmed by the response. The organisers have now announced the schedule for… Read More
SSP announces RFP for abstract management system - May 18, 2020
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is accepting request for proposals (RFP) for an abstract management system on a cost-neutral basis to support the needs of the organisation as described within the Scope of Services starting in August 2020. The goal of… Read More
