IOP Publishing and Egyptian Knowledge Bank partner to provide access to all Egyptian researchers - October 11, 2018
IOP Publishing (IOP) and the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) have announced a new agreement as a result of which researchers and readers in Egypt will now gain access to all IOP Publishing's (IOP) journals and ebooks. IOP and the EKB have signed a three-year contract enabling… Read More
HighWire to offer digital access to Springer Publishing’s collection - October 11, 2018
Digital publishing technology provider HighWire has partnered with Springer Publishing to offer digital access to its extensive collection of nursing, behavioural and health sciences, and medical content, including textbooks, professional reference and clinical books, and journals. Springer Publishing's collection of professional… Read More
Wiley to acquire Learning House from Weld North - October 10, 2018
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a global leader in research and education, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Learning House, an education services provider, from Weld North Holdings. Under the terms of the agreement, Learning House shareholders will receive $200 million in cash. The transaction… Read More
Elsevier, Atypon, Digital Science and COUNTER collaborate to develop new standard for Distributed Usage Logging - October 9, 2018
Scholarly publishers will soon be able to receive usage reporting from Mendeley, Elsevier's Scholarly Collaboration Network (SCN), and Digital Science's literature discovery tools, ReadCube, Papers, and Dimensions. These industry firsts are made possible by a collaboration led by Elsevier, Atypon, Read More
University Consortium of the South of Russia gain access to Digital Science’ Dimensions and Figshare - October 9, 2018
Research technology company Digital Science has announced an agreement that will provide researchers and students from the University Consortium of the South of Russia access to two products aimed to transform the way their researchers manage, search and analyse research, and to support student education through… Read More
Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica acquires three Aggregagent journal collections - October 9, 2018
ACCUCOMS, a provider of sales and marketing services to academic and professional publishers, has announced that Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica has chosen to purchase the Sports Science, Physical Therapy and Orthopedics Aggregagent™ collections featuring 42 journals. Aggregagent now includes 28 publishers with a total… Read More
National Health Service Wales gains access to latest evidence-based clinical information with DynaMed Plus - October 5, 2018
NHS Wales Informatics Service has made EBSCO Health's DynaMed Plus™ available to all NHS Wales staff via the NHS Wales e-Library for Health. It provides access to the most current, evidence-based clinical information on thousands of topics and specialties to healthcare professionals.… Read More
Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion releases Joint Statement of Principles - October 5, 2018
The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) has released a Joint Statement of Principles to demonstrate the commitment of participating organisations to promote involvement, innovation, and expanded access to leadership opportunities that maximise engagement across identity groups and professional levels. The Joint Statement… Read More
De Gruyter forms commercial partnership with University of Chicago Press - October 5, 2018
Academic publisher De Gruyter and The University of Chicago Press have formed a commercial partnership for the global distribution of 2,500 University of Chicago Press frontlist and backlist e-book titles on degruyter.com. Furthermore, De Gruyter and the… Read More
American Chemical Society adopts new RightsLink module to support offsetting agreements and expand OA business - October 5, 2018
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society and a leading source of authoritative scientific information, has significantly expanded its investment in the RightsLink Author platform with the addition of OA Agreement… Read More
