IET and key publishers create draft recommendations to improve conference content quality - December 1, 2014
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), together with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and STM publisher Elsevier, has created draft recommendations for conference content. These recommendations are designed to uphold the quality of published research presented at scientific meetings and conferences.… Read More
Taylor & Francis adopts DataSalon’s MasterVision service for customer reporting - November 26, 2014
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has adopted DataSalon's MasterVision service to provide subscription and usage reporting for their journals customer base. MasterVision combines over 60 million rows of data from different databases into a single user-friendly interface - providing detailed customer insight.… Read More
Thomson Reuters and the National Research Foundation of Korea announce new initiative to integrate content within Korean Citation Index into Web of Science - November 25, 2014
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), have announced an initiative to expand the global imprint of the region's scientific research by integrating content within the Korean Citation Index (KCI) into the… Read More
Oxford University Press and Emerge Education partner to support educational start-ups - November 24, 2014
Academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) recently announced a partnership with Emerge Education; confirming its commitment to supporting education technology (ed-tech) start-ups. The Emerge Education accelerator programme aims to improve educational outcomes worldwide by supporting innovative solutions and ideas from educational start-up companies. It offers… Read More
Springer and Association of Dutch Universities reach wide-ranging agreement on access - November 21, 2014
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media and the Association of Dutch Universities (VSNU) have reached a landmark agreement which includes access to more than 2,000 of Springer's subscription journals as well as a commitment to rapidly moving toward open access publishing for all publicly financed research results… Read More
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine to join Cambridge Journals list from January 2015 - November 21, 2014
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press and the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) have announced that the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine (CJEM) will join the Cambridge Journals list from January 2015. CJEM is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal, produced specifically for… Read More
MedeAnalytics acquires OnFocus Healthcare - November 21, 2014
MedeAnalytics, a pioneer in healthcare analytics, has announced the acquisition of OnFocus Healthcare, Inc., a provider of healthcare enterprise performance management solutions. The synthesis of OnFocus Healthcare and MedeAnalytics will create the first 'closed loop' analytics and execution-driven performance improvement solution for healthcare. OnFocus Healthcare's… Read More
Times Higher Education and Elsevier partner to provide data behind THE’s flagship World University Rankings and its global university performance analyses - November 20, 2014
Times Higher Education (THE) and Elsevier have announced a partnership to provide the data behind the THE's flagship World University Rankings and its global university performance analyses. The methodology of the global rankings will be broadly preserved. The rankings will continue to… Read More
American Mathematical Society partners with CCC to automate permissions requests using RightsLink - November 19, 2014
Global licensing and content solutions organisation Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that the American Mathematical Society (AMS) has implemented CCC's RightsLink®, a technology solution that allows visitors to the AMS website to license content quickly and easily. AMS is a publisher of mathematics books,… Read More
Macmillan Distribution goes live with new subscription business powered by Publishing Technology - November 19, 2014
International book distributor Macmillan Distribution (MDL) has gone live with its new subscription platform, running on Publishing Technology's advance enterprise system. MDL becomes the first Publishing Technology client in the UK to launch its service on the digitally-native Order to Cash module of advance, which… Read More
