Cengage Learning and WebAssign reaffirm commitment to joint learning solutions - May 11, 2016
Cengage Learning and Advanced Instructional Systems, Inc. dba WebAssign have announced an agreement in principle to resolve an ongoing dispute regarding rights to intellectual property. The terms of the agreement are confidential but they assure the continued delivery of effective learning solutions, customer and technical… Read More
SSP and STM collaborate to promote the value of mentorship in scholarly communications for early-career professionals - May 10, 2016
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) are collaborating to develop a panel discussion to be presented at the SSP 38th Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, on June 1. Members of the… Read More
Emerald signs two-year partnership with Kudos research dissemination service - May 10, 2016
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing has signed a two-year partnership with Kudos - the online platform that helps increase the impact of publications - after seeing high engagement levels with the service from its authors during trials. Kudos helps researchers, their institutions… Read More
Altmetric joins the Annotating All Knowledge Coalition - May 10, 2016
Altmetrics data provider Altmetric has joined the Annotating All Knowledge Coalition, an initiative spearheaded by Hypothes.is and comprising many innovators in the field of scholarly communication, including PLOS, CrossRef, and the HathiTrust. The purpose of the Coalition is to create an open, interoperable annotation layer over… Read More
Over twenty publishers now use HighWire’s Impact Vizor for faster, easier ‘evidenced-based’ publishing insights - May 9, 2016
HighWire Press, Inc., the publishing technology platform provider for renowned scholarly publishers and societies, has announced that twenty-one publishers now use Impact Vizor, a suite of interactive, visualised analytics viewers launched in August 2015. Impact Vizor was an ALPSP 2015 Award for Innovation in Publishing finalist.… Read More
SAGE Publishing partners with the Literacy Research Association to publish Literacy Research: Theory, Method and Practice - May 6, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has partnered with the Literacy Research Association (LRA) to publish Literacy Research: Theory, Method and Practice (LR:TMP). An annual publication, LR:TMP reflects the research and theory on literacy and literacy education presented at the Annual Meeting of the LRA. An outlet for… Read More
Ingram Publisher Services and NYU Press announce joint agreement to provide full-service distribution - May 6, 2016
Ingram Publisher Services has announced a joint agreement with NYU Press to provide full-service distribution. NYU Press and Ingram have a long-standing relationship. The press started using Ingram's Lightning Sourceâ print on demand almost 20 years ago and became a digital… Read More
Australian Research Council to use Thomson Reuters Web of Science for analysis of benefits from university research - May 5, 2016
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced that the Australian Research Council (ARC) recently obtained Thomson Reuters Web of Science™ Core Collection as one of the data sources to contribute to analyses that will be utilised by the… Read More
TrendMD and ReadCube integration across Ingenta Connect to enhance discovery of scholarly article - May 4, 2016
Ingenta, a provider of technology and associated services to the publishing and information industries, has partnered with the scholarly discovery services TrendMD and ReadCube to boost discoverability of articles hosted on its aggregated content portal Ingenta Connect. The platform integration with… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center acquires Ixxus - May 4, 2016
Global licensing and content solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has acquired London-based Ixxus, a software professional services firm and leading provider of publishing solutions that reinvent the way organisations work with content. With offices in the UK, US, Spain and Romania, Ixxus is now… Read More
