FastPencil and Infinity Publishing partner with Bowker to offer automated self publishing solution to small publishers and authors - May 11, 2016
FastPencil and Infinity Publishing have announced a partnership with ProQuest affiliate Bowker to deliver key technology and services for self-publishers via PCs, Macs and mobile devices. Creators of a self-publishing and services solution which combines a SaaS application with an author… Read More
Kudos announces partners with Thomson Reuters’ ScholarOne to help authors explain their research articles - May 11, 2016
Kudos, a service for maximizing the reach and impact of research publications, has announced a partnership with Thomson Reuters' ScholarOne manuscript submission and peer review system to facilitate the capture and dissemination of plain language summaries of research articles. Plain language explanations… Read More
World Wide Web Consortium and International Digital Publishing Forum announce merger plans - May 11, 2016
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) have announced mutual interest in combining their respective organisations to more quickly advance publishing technologies on the Open Web Platform. Tim Berners-Lee, Web Inventor and W3C Director, and… Read More
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
