UK’s first collaborative publishing consortium makes open access transition easier - May 1, 2015
Humanities scholars will now be able to benefit from a collaborative open access (OA) consortium agreement which means that authors will not have to pay to make their research open access. The publishing model – the first of its type in the UK – is being offered by the Open… Read More
European Food Safety Authority seeks publisher for Efsa Journal - May 1, 2015
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a procurement procedure to identify a publishing partner for its main scientific publication, the EFSA Journal. The services required include editorial and production, hosting and marketing and the contract is valued at EUR 3 million for a period… Read More
Ex Libris acquires UK-based SaaS Platform provider, oMbiel - May 1, 2015
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris has expanded its product portfolio by acquiring oMbiel, a UK-based SaaS Platform provider of mobile and portal solutions for higher education. campusM™, oMbiel’s flagship product, enables educational institutions to deliver services and information to prospective, enrolled, and graduating students, as… Read More
The Charlesworth Group to support BRILL in China - May 1, 2015
The Charlesworth Group has announced the provision of China Liaison Services to academic publisher BRILL by way of dedicated marketing and sales support. This arrangement will see The Charlesworth Group provide dedicated specialist staffing and sales' management activity, along with marketing support, to facilitate BRILL's strategic… Read More
Max Planck Digital Library study calculates redeployment of funds in Open Access - April 30, 2015
The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the liberation of scholarly literature is possible at no extra costs.… Read More
Springer launches new textbook series, opens up new horizons for network science and engineering - April 30, 2015
STM publisher Springer has launched a new textbook series, 'Textbooks in Telecommunication Engineering.' After six years of campaigning, this field of engineering education has attained accreditation provisions of its own. The work of Dr. Tarek El-Bawab of Jackson State University, as head of the IEEE Communications… Read More
