FinELib consortium and Elsevier in deal for subscription access and open access publishing - January 19, 2018
The FinELib consortium and Elsevier have signed an agreement making Elsevier's globally published research articles available to Finnish academic institutions, while providing Finnish researches with incentives to publish open access if they so choose. The three-year contract applies to 13 Finnish universities, 11 research institutions and… Read More
Association of Health Care Journalists partners with Wiley to provide member access to health science research - January 19, 2018
The Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) has enhanced its partnership with global research and learning company, John Wiley and Sons Inc., to provide members with access to the full collection of journals published on Wiley Online Library. AHCJ members can now read 6 million articles… Read More
ACCUCOMS to represent NEJM in Poland and Turkey - January 19, 2018
The NEJM Group, publisher of premier medical resources for research, education and professional practice, is expanding its presence globally. To facilitate this goal, NEJM has now entered into a new agreement with ACCUCOMS whereby the latter will represent the publisher's site license products in Poland and… Read More
Elsevier acquires Via Oncology, a clinical decision support solutions provider for oncology professionals - January 18, 2018
Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, and part of RELX Group, has acquired Via Oncology, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company that provides decision support and best practices in cancer care management. A former subsidiary of UPMC, one of the nation's leading integrated healthcare… Read More
SAGE Publishing acquires Data-Planet, expands data offering - January 18, 2018
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced the purchase of Data-Planet, a statistical multidisciplinary data repository that has application in academic libraries, public libraries, government and commercial markets. Data-Planet Statistical Datasets claims to be the largest collection of organised statistical data and is used by many… Read More
Edanz partners with Aries Systems to adopt Editorial Manager Ingest Service for its Author Path product - January 18, 2018
Author services company Edanz has announced a partnership with Aries Systems to adopt the Editorial Manager Ingest Service for its Author Path product. The Edanz Author Path was launched in beta last April in both English and Chinese. This partnership means… Read More
South Korean universities reach agreement with Elsevier for access to ScienceDirect - January 17, 2018
A consortium of hundreds of South Korean universities has reportedly reached a new deal with scientific publisher Elsevier for access to ScienceDirect, a database containing content from 3500 academic journals and thousands of electronic books. The agreement includes price hikes between 3.5%… Read More
Oxford University Press joins the Initiative for Open Citations - January 17, 2018
Academic publisher Oxford University Press has joined the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data. I4OC is a project which promotes the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data… Read More
Bladder Cancer named official journal of the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network - January 17, 2018
STM publisher IOS Press and the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN), have announced that the journal Bladder Cancer will now become the official journal of BCAN. As the result of this new partnership, Bladder Cancer and BCAN will combine resources to support a readily accessible… Read More
Elsevier and University of Oxford announce 5-year collaboration to support early career researchers in the field of mathematics and data science - January 16, 2018
Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, and the University of Oxford, a world-leading centre of learning, teaching and research and the oldest university in the English-speaking world, have announced their five-year collaboration to develop exceptional research talent in the field of mathematics… Read More
