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
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to move flagship journal Environmental Health Perspectives to Atypon’s Literatum online publishing platform - March 8, 2018
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the institutes comprising the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), will move its flagship journal, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), to Atypon's Literatum online publishing platform. It will be the first US government… Read More
ProQuest Dialog database adds Northern Light database for real-time access to breaking information from life sciences events - March 7, 2018
Pharmaceutical researchers and other users of the ProQuest Dialog® professional search service can now access more than 2.7 million abstracts and posters from medical and life sciences conferences around the world. ProQuest Dialog has announced a partnership with Northern Light, making its… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health to acquire Firecracker - March 6, 2018
Wolters Kluwer Health has signed an agreement to acquire Firecracker, an adaptive learning, assessment, and study-planning solution used by more than 20 percent of U.S. medical students. Firecracker will become part of the Health Learning, Research & Practice group, which produces high quality medical education and… Read More
Knowledge Unlatched and Luminos announce partnership - March 6, 2018
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for the sustainable funding of Open Access (OA) models, has announced a partnership with Luminos, the OA initiative from the University of California Press (UC Press). The Luminos initiative publishes around 40 books per year in OA. Books selected… Read More
Figshare and the Genetics Society of America partner to promote data underlying publications - March 5, 2018
Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, has announced a partnership with the Genetics Society of America (GSA). The Genetics Society of America is the professional membership organisation for scientific researchers and educators in the field of genetics. GSA is dedicated to promoting research… Read More
