Brill completes acquisition of Editions Rodopi - June 13, 2014
Scholarly publisher Koninklijke Brill N.V. has closed the acquisition of all shares of Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam. The acquisition includes highly esteemed book series and journals in history, philosophy, theology, social sciences, linguistics, literature, and cultural studies. In total, the publishing list comprises 3,000 book titles,… Read More
Taylor & Francis Group LLC acquires Landes Bioscience - June 10, 2014
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group has acquired Austin TX-based publisher Landes Bioscience Inc (LBI). LBI's list of 50 journal titles covers a range of topics, including genetics, cell biology, molecular biology and biomedicine. The Landes Bioscience publishing program covers a range of specialist titles, many… Read More
Reed Business Information acquires agricultural software and workflow solutions business, Farmade - June 9, 2014
Reed Business Information (RBI), a division of Reed Elsevier, recently announced that it has acquired the entire issued share capital of agricultural software and workflow solutions business Farmade. Farmade will join RBI's agricultural information, software and marketing solutions business, Farmers Weekly Group. Farmade provides widely… Read More
Research Solutions, Inc. to provide paid content access to MyScienceWork’s collaborative online science platform - June 6, 2014
Research Solutions, Inc. has announced that it has been selected by MyScienceWork to provide paid content access to MyScienceWork's collaborative online science platform. Research Solutions is a pioneer in facilitating the flow of information from the publishers of scientific, technical, and medical content to enterprise customers… Read More
Ziff Davis acquires emedia Communications from Reed Business Information - June 6, 2014
Digital media company Ziff Davis, LLC, has announced the acquisition of emedia Communications LLC, a provider of research to IT buyers and leads to IT vendors, from Reed Business Information. An agreement has also been signed to acquire the UK-based division of emedia, which will… Read More
Princeton University Press and De Gruyter sign distribution partnership - June 5, 2014
Princeton University Press has granted academic publisher De Gruyter non-exclusive global distribution rights to its eBooks. PUP is one of the world's respected university presses, publishing in all areas of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Princeton University Press Director Peter J. Dougherty believes… Read More
Gale adds Wiley titles to e-Book platform - June 4, 2014
Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and education resources for libraries, schools and businesses, has announced that more than 400 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. e-books are coming to the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL). GVRL is the e-book platform offered by… Read More
Tbilisi Centre of Mathematical Sciences and De Gruyter Open announce cooperation agreement - June 4, 2014
The Tbilisi Centre of Mathematical Sciences has entered into a cooperation agreement with open access publisher De Gruyter Open. Under the deal, De Gruyter Open will take over the Tibilisi Mathematical Journal, which, from now, will be available to read, download and… Read More
Elsevier to publish official journal of CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre - June 3, 2014
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a publishing agreement with The CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Under the deal, Elsevier will publish and host the organisation's official journal - Studies in Mycology (SiM), beginning June 2014.… Read More
SHARE partners with Center for Open Science to build the SHARE Notification Service - June 3, 2014
SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) and the Center for Open Science (COS), a Charlottesville, Virginia–based non-profit technology start-up, have agreed to form a partnership to build the SHARE Notification Service. This service will provide notice that research is available to the public.… Read More
