Hindawi signs new membership agreement with Delft University of Technology - March 15, 2018
Hindawi has signed a new membership agreement with the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Article Processing Charges (APCs) for accepted manuscripts, where the corresponding author is affiliated with TU Delft, will now be funded directly by the university. APCs funded in this way will also… Read More
BMJ and ELM to roll out Clinical Decision Support Training for healthcare professionals in Jordan and Iraq - March 15, 2018
Medical knowledge provider BMJ is implementing an ambitious Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Training Initiative, aimed at improving differential diagnosis of infectious diseases, as well as achieving broader healthcare outcomes in Jordan and Iraq. The Initiative provides clinicians and healthcare professionals with evidence-based online tools and… Read More
VSNU and the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing unable to reach new agreement for access to journals - March 14, 2018
The Dutch universities and Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing (RSC) have been unable to reach a new agreement on access to scientific journals. The VSNU's aim in the negotiations was to secure a transition to open access without Dutch academics having to pay double to access… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education and Unizin in deal to make affordable digital learning materials available to 25 universities and nearly 1 million students - March 14, 2018
Learning science company McGraw-Hill Education has announced a new agreement with Unizin, Ltd. ("Unizin") to provide its 25 member universities with affordable, high-value, digital learning materials through an Inclusive Access model - automatically giving students easy access to materials on the first day of class. The… Read More
Oxford University Press extends partnership with DeepDyve - March 13, 2018
DeepDyve and Oxford University Press (OUP) have announced that OUP has agreed to make over 400 journals available via DeepDyve's innovative scholarly journal rental platform. The collaboration follows a successful pilot program dating back to 2012 whereby OUP made a subset of… Read More
MDPI becomes member of UKSG - March 13, 2018
MDPI, a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access journals, has become a member of UKSG, the UK's scholarly communications community. Through UKSG, different stakeholders share their knowledge and experience in order to improve the knowledge and information environment for researchers. UKSG’s members include universities, publishers, content providers,… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health completes divestment of ProVation Medical to Clearlake Capital Group - March 12, 2018
Wolters Kluwer Health has completed the divestment of ProVation Medical to Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., as originally announced on January 11, 2018. The divestment reflects the Health division's increasing focus on supporting healthcare providers in delivering improved patient outcomes by offering a broad and cohesive suite… Read More
Wiley and OhioLINK partner to lower cost of course materials in the state of Ohio - March 9, 2018
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, Inc. and OhioLINK, a consortium of 91 Ohio college and university libraries, have announced a new partnership that will reduce the cost of textbooks for students in the state of Ohio. This collaboration around Inclusive Access is part of Affordable Learning… Read More
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and IOP Publishing announce new pilot agreement to help grow the society’s participation in OA publishing - March 8, 2018
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have announced a new pilot agreement to help grow the society's participation in open access publishing. The new Institutional Research Licence has been developed by IOP to enable institutions to manage the cost of hybrid… Read More
University of Missouri System and McGraw-Hill Education in deal to expand access to affordable course materials - March 8, 2018
Learning science company McGraw-Hill Education and the University of Missouri System have announced a new agreement that will increase student access to affordable course materials, lowering the cost of all McGraw-Hill Education electronic textbooks by an additional 38 percent to meet the University's definition of low… Read More
