Ford Foundation adopts open licensing policy for all grant-funded projects and research - February 4, 2015
The Ford Foundation has announced that it is adopting an open licensing policy for all grant-funded projects and research to promote greater transparency and accessibility of materials. Effective February 1, grantees and consultants will be required to make foundation-funded materials subject to a Creative Commons license… Read More
Ninth Annual Knovel Academic Challenge begins - February 4, 2015
The Ninth Annual Knovel Academic Challenge launched on February 2nd providing an opportunity for thousands of students at hundreds of academic institutions worldwide to compete to win prizes. The Knovel Academic Challenge, hosted by Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and… Read More
Annual Reviews appoints Dr. Richard Gallagher as President and Editor-In-Chief - February 4, 2015
Annual Reviews, the non-profit publisher that synthesises critical research literature, has appointed Dr. Richard Gallagher as President and Editor-In-Chief, effective May 1, 2015. He succeeds Samuel Gubins, who will be retiring after 20 years of service and will remain with Annual Reviews to ensure a smooth… Read More
Springer Publishing Company and Demos Medical Publishing announce merger - February 4, 2015
As of January 1, 2015 the Springer Publishing Company and Demos Medical Publishing, both owned by Mannheim Media LLC, have been combined into one company under the Springer Publishing Company corporate name. Demos Medical Publishing will continue as an imprint of Springer Publishing. The merger… Read More
Association of Canadian Publishers and Ingram Content Group develop digital to print program for publishers - February 4, 2015
Ingram Content Group Inc. and the Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP) have announced a digital to print program, offered through Ingram's Lightning Source Inc. that gives ACP member publishers tools to easily convert digital books to physical books and print and distribute them to booksellers and… Read More
PeerJ launches new OA journal – PeerJ Computer Science - February 3, 2015
Open access publisher PeerJ has announced the launch of PeerJ Computer Science, a cross-disciplinary open access journal publishing articles across all fields of computer science. The journal will start accepting preprints on February 3rd and peer-review articles on February 12th, which is also PeerJ's two-year anniversary… Read More
