Cengage acquires WebAssign, acquisition allows for greater investment in STEM disciplines - September 28, 2016
Cengage, an education and technology company, has announced the acquisition of WebAssign, a leading provider of digital learning solutions for higher education. The acquisition strengthens Cengage's position as a market leader in science, technology and math offering three unique platforms for faculty and institutions. WebAssign's… Read More
OCLC and Internet Archive join forces to ensure future sustainability of Persistent URLs - September 28, 2016
Global library cooperative OCLC and Internet Archive have announced the results of a year-long cooperative effort to ensure the future sustainability of purl.org. The organisations have worked together to build a new sustainable service hosted by Internet Archive that will manage persistent URLs and sub-domain redirections… Read More
Russian medical publisher Media Sphera partners with Publons to recognise reviewers - September 26, 2016
Media Sphera, the leading Russian publisher of peer-reviewed medical journals, has partnered with Publons to help reviewers track, verify and showcase their peer review efforts. In a true show of innovation, Media Sphera has also developed an open-source plugin so other journals, using the Open Journal… Read More
Hindawi and Editage partner to provide English language editing services - September 26, 2016
Hindawi and Editage have announced a new partnership that will provide English-language editing to authors wishing to submit to Hindawi publications. This partnership will result in Editage's services being integrated into Hindawi's submission process and provide a 10% discount to Hindawi authors.… Read More
Pearson and Jisc announce e-book pilot - September 23, 2016
Learning company Pearson and Jisc have announced a year-long pilot that will make e-books more readily accessible to students across UK higher education (HE). The agreement is based on extensive engagement and feedback from members of Jisc, and follows six months of… Read More
Thieme partners with Publons to recognise reviewers - September 22, 2016
International medical and science publisher Thieme has announced a partnership with Publons to recognise the efforts of their reviewers. It will now be easier for Thieme reviewers to have their peer review contributions formally recognised. With two simple clicks, reviews for… Read More
Pulsus Group acquires openaccessjournals.com - September 22, 2016
Medical Publisher Pulsus Group has announced the acquisition of Openaccessjournals.com with a view to enrich the current research in the field of Medicine. The move is seen as a crucial first step towards strengthening and integrating standard medical publications across the globe.… Read More
Over 750 publisher journals to integrate with Publons - September 21, 2016
Publisher John Wiley & Sons has announced that a further 750 journals will be integrated with Publons, the world's leading peer review recognition platform. The partnership is an expansion of a 6-month pilot program that Wiley and Publons ran in 2015. … Read More
ProQuest partners with Oxford University Press to make thousands of ebooks available on the UPSO platform via the OASIS system - September 21, 2016
ProQuest is teaming with academic publisher Oxford University Press to make thousands of ebooks available on University Press Scholarship Online platform (UPSO) via the OASIS® system. A groundbreaking online library, UPSO grants access to more than 20,000 monographs in subjects covering… Read More
De Gruyter Mouton and American Psychological Association announce publishing partnership - September 21, 2016
De Gruyter Mouton and the American Psychological Association have started a unique publishing partnership which embraces the best contemporary research on topics where psychology and language intersect. In an unprecedented way, the partnership encourages scholars working on such diverse issues as… Read More
