Scope in deal with Springer Nature to provide thesaurus development and maintenance services - May 18, 2016
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced a partnership with Springer Nature, one of the leading global publishing companies. Under the terms of the agreement, Scope's team of Subject Matter Experts… Read More
Elsevier acquires the Social Science Research Network - May 18, 2016
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the acquisition of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Founded in 1994, SSRN is a Rochester, NY-based scholarly research preprint repository and online community. SSRN will be further developed alongside Mendeley, a London-based free reference manager and… Read More
Cross-industry coalition forges to collaborate on solutions to protect against predatory publishing and irresponsible author support practices - May 18, 2016
The Coalition for Responsible Publication Resources is one step closer to its mission to help preserve the integrity of the scholarly literature by sharing industry knowledge of irresponsible and in some cases predatory practices associated with academic publishing. The Coalition is also committed to ensuring transparency,… Read More
Research Square partners with Wiley for trial of video summaries for Wiley authors - May 18, 2016
Research Square, leading provider of author services to researchers worldwide, announced a new trial with Wiley to make its Video Summaries solution available to authors publishing in a select set of Wiley journals. As part of this pilot partnership, authors accepted… Read More
The Society for Scholarly Publishing and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination to “write the book” on the future of scholarly publishing in 72 hour sprint - May 17, 2016
Arizona State University's (ASU) Center for Science and the Imagination is bringing together a team of science fiction authors, scholars, digital publishers, journalists, and technologists to write a book on the fly in 72 hours at the 2016 Society for Scholarly Publishing… Read More
EBSCO Health and American Medical Association partner to give all AMA members access to DynaMed Plus - May 17, 2016
Clinical decision support solutions provider EBSCO Health and the American Medical Association (AMA) have expanded their partnership to give all AMA-members complimentary access to DynaMed Plus®, the evidence-based, clinical information resource that is designed to provide the most useful information to healthcare professionals at the point… Read More
Overleaf announces new partnership with Royal Society of Chemistry - May 17, 2016
Overleaf has announced a new partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry. Through this partnership, authors submitting to the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) journal will have access to the award-winning Overleaf collaborative cloud-based writing and reviewing tool with 1-click submission into… Read More
SAGE Publishing partners with the Essex Summer School to support Research Methods teaching - May 13, 2016
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has announced a partnership with the Essex Summer School to sponsor its coveted workshops on Social Science Data Analysis. Research Methods has been at the heart of SAGE's mission since its founding in 1965. Sara Miller McCune, SAGE's founder, published SAGE's… Read More
University of California Press and California Digital Library partner with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to develop open source monograph publishing platform - May 13, 2016
California Digital Library and University of California Press have announced their partnership with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to develop Editoria, a new open source, digital-first book production platform. Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of California Press (UCP) and… Read More
YBP Library Services and Taylor & Francis partner to Offer Routledge e-book titles through GOBI - May 11, 2016
E-books from the Taylor & Francis e-books platform are now available through the GOBI acquisition platform from YBP Library Services (YBP). This helps to simplify the complex process of discovery, acquisition model and content management that libraries have to manage when purchasing… Read More
