Wolters Kluwer completes acquisition of Emmi - November 18, 2016
Wolters Kluwer Health has completed the acquisition of Emmi Solutions for a total net consideration of $170 million (€158 million) in cash following termination of the waiting period under the U.S. Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. The agreement to acquire Emmi was originally announced on… Read More
CHORUS adds GeoScienceWorld as its 50th member - November 18, 2016
Non-profit organisation CHORUS has announced that GeoScienceWorld has joined CHORUS as its 50th member. CHORUS' diverse membership includes medical, science, and humanities publishers, both commercial and not-for-profit, with both Open Access and subscription titles, as well as publishing platforms and industry… Read More
Elsevier collaborates with the World Conference on Transport Research Society for co-branded transportation book series - November 17, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it will collaborate with the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) to develop and publish a WCTRS-co-branded series of books covering various topics in transportation. The book series will focus on the latest research in emerging issues and… Read More
Outsell, Inc. and the Society for Scholarly Publishing partner to provide members with preferred pricing for market intelligence service - November 17, 2016
Research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc. has announced a partnership with the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) to provide its members preferred pricing for Outsell's Market Intelligence Service. As an additional resource, the service provides confidential decision support through Outsell's team of… Read More
Elsevier and ACCSES collaborate to provide DirectCourse Curricula to disability service providers - November 16, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier will offer Elsevier's DirectCourse eLearning curricula to the more than 1,200 organizations in the ACCSES network that provide exceptional services to people with disabilities across the United States. ACCSES is an elite network of more than 1,200 disability service providers promoting and… Read More
Ithaka S+R and PALCI join NFAIS as new members - November 15, 2016
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™), a global non-profit membership organization serving the information services community, has announced that Ithaka S+R and the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) have joined NFAIS as new members. Ithaka S+R is a not-for-profit service that helps… Read More
SAGE Publishing and Perusall in deal to support digital pedagogy and increase class preparation - November 14, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced a new agreement allowing access to a selection of SAGE textbooks through the eBook platform and social annotation tool Perusall. Perusall allows students and instructors to annotate digital texts together, connect with other classmates, and respond to questions directly… Read More
Authorea acquires research publisher The Winnower - November 11, 2016
Authorea, the online collaborative platform for researchers, has acquired The Winnower, a pioneering research publisher that offers advanced publishing tools to individual authors. With the acquisition, Authorea seeks to enhance the foremost online platform for researchers to write, cite, collaborate, host data,… Read More
IDPF members approve plan to combine with W3C - November 8, 2016
The member organisations of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) have approved, by a margin of 72 (88%) in favour to 10 (12%) opposed, a plan proposed by the IDPF Board of Directors to combine IDPF with the World Wide Web Consortium… Read More
Ringgold and PSI partner to harness the power of linked data - November 7, 2016
Ringgold, an ISNI Registration Agency, and Publisher Solutions International, Ltd. (PSI) have signed an agreement that will enable both companies to provide services based on the power of combining Ringgold's Identify Database and PSI's IP Registry. The process is underway to map Identify and the… Read More
