McGraw-Hill Education to acquire Engrade - February 4, 2014
Digital learning company McGraw-Hill Education, US, has agreed to acquire Engrade, the developer of an open digital platform for K-12 education that unifies the data, curriculum and tools that educators use every day to drive student achievement and inform district educational strategy. The move enables McGraw-Hill… Read More
Rheumatology journal appoints new editor - February 4, 2014
International, peer-reviewed scientific journal Rheumatology has announced the appointment of Prof. Jacob van Laar as the new editor. Prof. van Laar will take over from the current editor Prof. Robert Moots. Throughout his five years as editor for the journal Prof. Moots has been dynamic,… Read More
California Digital Library and Elsevier renew contract for next 5 years - February 3, 2014
The California Digital Library (CDL) has announced that it has completed a favourable negotiation with STM publisher Elsevier to renew the ScienceDirect journals for 2014-2018. ScienceDirect is the largest journals package for co-investment by the UC libraries with over 1200 titles.… Read More
BMJ appoints Jay Lippincott as the company’s non-executive chairman - February 3, 2014
BMJ has announced the appointment of Jay Lippincott as the company's non-executive chairman. He succeeds Michael Chamberlain, who is standing down after nearly ten years as chairman, during which time the company has more than doubled in size, and expanded globally. Lippincott has been a… Read More
OSA announces new editors-in-chief for Advances in Optics and Photonics and Optics Letters - February 3, 2014
The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that Govind Agrawal and Xi-Cheng Zhang have been named the new editors-in-chief of Advances in Optics and Photonics and Optics Letters, respectively. Agrawal, a professor of optics and physics at the University of Rochester, will serve as the second editor… Read More
NIMS, Japan and Switzerland-based Empa partner to expand opportunities for open access publishing in materials science - February 3, 2014
The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan) has announced a new collaboration with the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa, Switzerland) to expand the open access journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM). NIMS and Empa… Read More
