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
CERN in deal with leading scientific publishers and learned societies to extend SCOAP3 initiative for three more years - September 21, 2016
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and the 'host organisation' of SCOAP3 has announced that it has signed contracts with 10 leading scientific publishers and learned societies to extend this Open Access initiative for three more years. This was the last step for this unique… Read More
Wiley acquires Ranku - September 20, 2016
Ranku, a recruitment technology and predictive analytics software company for higher education, has been acquired by John Wiley & Sons, a global provider of knowledge and learning solutions that improves outcomes in research, professional practice, and education. Ranku licenses proprietary marketing… Read More
K-12 libraries can now easily add EBSCO eBooksTM to collection via Mackin.com - September 20, 2016
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Mackin have partnered to make EBSCO eBooks™ available to order on the Mackin.com ecommerce site. The collaboration between EBSCO and Mackin, a provider of high-quality library and classroom materials to librarians and educators in K-12 schools, gives MackinVIA customers the opportunity… Read More
De Gruyter to publish American Energy Society’s official magazine, Energy Today - September 19, 2016
The American Energy Society, a professional association dedicated to accelerating the pursuit of abundant, affordable, and safe energy, has announced the selection of De Gruyter as the publisher of its official e-magazine, Energy Today. With academic rigor and journalistic flair, this… Read More
Over one million scholarly blog posts now part of the PlumX Suite mentions - September 16, 2016
A new partnership between Plum Analytics, an EBSCO company, and ACI Information Group will give PlumX Suite users access to metrics collected from the world's only scholarly blog service. Scholarly blogs are increasingly part of the public discourse… Read More
New forum for responsible research metrics launched - September 16, 2016
A group of research funders, sector bodies and infrastructure experts are working together in partnership to promote the responsible use of research metrics. The 2015 independent report The Metric Tide highlighted growing pressure on higher education institutions, researchers, funders and policymakers to use metrics in managing and assessing research.… Read More
Informa to acquire Penton for $1.56 billion - September 15, 2016
MidOcean Partners ("MidOcean"), a middle market private equity firm, and Wasserstein & Co. ("Wasserstein"), an independent private equity and investment firm, have entered into a definitive agreement to sell Penton, an innovative professional information services company, to Informa plc ("Informa") for $1.56… Read More
