Springer Nature and Qatar National Library announce transformational agreement - May 28, 2019
Springer Nature and Qatar National Library have announced a three-year agreement that combines reading access and open access (OA) publishing in a single arrangement. The Library is leading the first consortium in the Middle East to implement such an agreement, which… Read More
Clarivate Analytics and RISTEKDIKTI sign collaborative agreement to improve research performance in Indonesia - May 28, 2019
Clarivate Analytics has signed a collaborative agreement with the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of Indonesia (RISTEKDIKTI) to improve research performance in Indonesia. In Indonesia’s pursuit of research excellence, RISTEKDIKTI has made stunning progress in helping Indonesia’s research to grow exponentially over the… Read More
BMJ and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine announce new agreement - May 24, 2019
BMJ and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine have announced a new agreement to continue supporting learning and development for primary healthcare physicians across the country. The 1-year agreement will provide ongoing access to BMJ Best Practice and BMJ Learning for 4,000 Ukrainian primary healthcare… Read More
Wiley and UNSILO collaborate on testing UNSILO’s Manuscript Evaluation software suite - May 23, 2019
John Wiley and Sons Inc. and UNSILO have partnered in a pilot to boost researcher capacity for simplified submission and screening of research content using UNSILO's artificial intelligence tools. An increasing amount of time is spent by authors, editors, and reviewers… Read More
Cochrane seeks publishing partner from January 2021 - May 23, 2019
Cochrane, producer of the Cochrane Library, a pre-eminent collection of high quality evidence to inform healthcare decisions, has announced the launch of a competitive tender to establish its future publishing partner from 2021 for the next decade. Cochrane wants to identify a publishing partner that… Read More
ScienceOpen and Tsinghua University Press partner to increase impact of Chinese research - May 23, 2019
The discovery platform ScienceOpen has announced a partnership with Tsinghua University Press (TUP) to contextualise and promote Chinese research within an interactive research environment. The partnership integrates six TUP journals as featured collections in the ScienceOpen Super Collection ‘Tsinghua University Press’. Tsinghua University Press started… Read More
McGraw-Hill and Alchemie to co-develop mobile AR learning tools for general chemistry courses - May 22, 2019
McGraw-Hill has announced a new collaboration with Alchemie, a Troy, Michigan-based educational technology startup, on a National Science Foundation grant to research the development of three-dimensional (3D) and augmented reality (AR) learning tools for teaching college-level general chemistry. Over the next year, a team of… Read More
Royal Society’s digital publishing platform migrated to Atypon’s Literatum platform - May 21, 2019
The Royal Society's digital publishing platform migrated from HighWire to the Literatum platform from Atypon at the end of 2018. The move enabled the Royal Society to host the same high quality content but do so in a way that improves the… Read More
Atairos acquires ownership position in ProQuest - May 20, 2019
ProQuest, a global leader in educational technology, and Atairos, an independent private company focused on supporting growth-oriented businesses, have announced that Atairos will acquire an ownership position in ProQuest. ProQuest will use the proceeds from the transaction to repurchase most of the shares owned by entities… Read More
Infobase selects LibLynx to provide COUNTER -compliant reporting & analytics - May 16, 2019
Educational media company Infobase has selected LibLynx to provide COUNTER-compliant reporting and related business intelligence across its portfolio of brands, including Facts On File, Films On Demand, and Learn360. LibLynx’s plug and play COUNTER widget enables Infobase to easily embed on-demand… Read More
