Copyright Clearance Center partners with FontoXML to resell FontoXML Editor Solution - December 20, 2018
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has partnered with FontoXML, becoming a reseller of its core product, the FontoXML Editor, which makes it easy for anyone to create structured and intelligent content. Structured content is information or content that is organised in a predictable way and… Read More
IOP Publishing and the Korean Society for Composite Materials partner to launch a new journal – Functional Composites and Structures - December 18, 2018
IOP Publishing and the Korean Society for Composite Materials (KSCM) have announced a partnership to launch a new journal - Functional Composites and Structures (FCS). Co-owned by KSCM and IOP Publishing, FCS will deal with materials with mechanical integrity, whose functional properties can be achieved,… Read More
BMJ and ScienceOpen partner to promote open science - December 18, 2018
Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has announced that its new open access journal, BMJ Open Science, has joined ScienceOpen to promote best practices in preclinical and basic biomedical research with an interactive featured collection on the platform. To increase rigor, transparency and reproducibility in biomedical research,… Read More
SAGE Publishing and the British Orthodontic Society partner to publish Journal of Orthodontics - December 14, 2018
Academic Publisher SAGE Publishing has partnered with the British Orthodontic Society to publish its flagship journal, the Journal of Orthodontics (JOO). The Journal of Orthodontics aims to publish original research that furthers orthodontic care, either by strengthening existing research or by providing new analysis within… Read More
EBSCO Information Services acquires Linguistics Abstracts Online from Wiley - December 12, 2018
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced the acquisition of Linguistics Abstracts Online from global publishing company, Wiley, thereby expanding its linguistics resources. Linguistics Abstracts Online is a bibliographic database providing high-quality, cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts from leading linguistics and language study journals.… Read More
OUP and the Max Planck Society announce combined open access and subscription deal - December 10, 2018
Academic publisher Oxford University Press and the Max Planck Society have announced a new two-year deal, which includes a significant open access element, to provide access to OUP's prestigious journal collection for all Max Planck Society members. The deal comes into… Read More
Funding Bodies sign open letter in support of ORCID - December 7, 2018
ORCID has announced the launch of an open letter in support of the use of ORCID identifiers (iDs) in the grant application and reporting process. Nine funding bodies around the world have signed the letter - and are inviting others to join them - to indicate… Read More
SAGE Publishing invests in Thusly to launch TagWorks crowd annotation software into academic research market - December 7, 2018
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has made a major seed investment in Thusly Inc., a technology start-up creating research tools for big data analysis of document archives. The investment is the first for SAGE as part of its SAGE Ocean initiative, and will support the launch of… Read More
LSC Communications and Elsevier sign multi-year agreement to provide book fulfillment and distribution services in the US - December 7, 2018
LSC Communications has announced a multi-year agreement with Elsevier, the global information analytics business specialising in science and health. LSC currently prints a significant share of Elsevier's books and journals and, under the new agreement, will begin providing book fulfillment and… Read More
Springer Nature and Project DEAL make considerable progress in negotiations for a groundbreaking model for publishing and reading scientific literature - December 5, 2018
Springer Nature and Project DEAL of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany have made considerable progress in their negotiations on a groundbreaking model for publishing and reading scientific literature, as the project's negotiation leader Prof. Dr. Horst Hippler, and Dagmar Laging,… Read More