Wiley in deal to acquire Zyante Inc. - July 1, 2019
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Zyante Inc., a leading provider of computer science and STEM education courseware. Under the terms of the agreement, which will close on July 1, 2019, Zyante shareholders will receive $56 million in cash. Zyante was… Read More
UKRI signs San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment - July 1, 2019
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has signed an international declaration aimed at strengthening and promoting best practice in the way research is assessed. The San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA) recognises the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of research are… Read More
PLOS collaborates with ORCID to include credit for reviewers - June 28, 2019
PLOS has announced that its collaboration with ORCID now includes credit for reviewers. For more than five years, PLOS authors have used ORCID to make their professional lives easier. Now reviewers at PLOS can take advantage of the same benefits to track… Read More
ECS partners with IOP Publishing for journal services - June 27, 2019
The Electrochemical Society (ECS) has selected IOP Publishing (IOPP) as its journals publishing partner. Starting in 2020, IOPP will partner with ECS in the publication of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society and the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and… Read More
Three Universities joins OCLC Research Library Partnership - June 27, 2019
Three Universities have joined the OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP). The new partners are: Louisiana State University (LSU), the University of Nevada, Reno, and Virginia Tech. The LSU Libraries support the academic mission of the university by fostering teaching, learning, and research. The libraries contain… Read More
HighWire provides hosting and submissions technology for the new preprint server - June 26, 2019
Scholarly publishing tech provider, HighWire, is supporting the founders of medRxiv, by providing the hosting and submissions technology that underpins the new preprint server. medRxiv, is a collaboration between its founding organisations, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), BMJ and Yale University. It is a free… Read More
De Gruyter announces exclusive journals partnership with Maruzen-Yushodo for Japan - June 26, 2019
Academic publisher De Gruyter and Maruzen-Yushodo have entered into an exclusive sales and distribution partnership for all subscription journals owned and distributed by the Berlin-based publisher, with effect from the 2020 subscription year. Under the arrangement, Maruzen-Yushodo will assume responsibility for promoting De Gruyter’s Portfolio… Read More
Atypon acquires RedLink® - June 24, 2019
Atypon, the technology leader in the scholarly publishing market, has acquired RedLink®, the provider of key data and insights for academic publishers, libraries, and consortia. RedLink’s portfolio includes Remarq®, the popular article-sharing, commenting, and annotation platform for researchers. RedLink’s data and… Read More
ScienceOpen and Future Science Group expand collaboration to include latest biomedical research - June 24, 2019
ScienceOpen and Future Science Group have announced an extended collaboration that integrates two new featured collections covering the latest scientific findings in drug discovery and biotechniques into the ScienceOpen research discovery environment. These collections join the already featured open-access article collection ‘Future… Read More
Hindawi joins Transpose initiative - June 21, 2019
Open access publisher Hindawi has announced that all Hindawi journals are now included in the Transpose database, which brings together multiple journals’ policies on peer review, co-reviewing, and preprinting, acting as a single source of easy to access policy information for authors and publishers alike, improving… Read More
