Wolters Kluwer Health to publish Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants - March 1, 2013
Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, and the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) have announced an agreement to publish its official journal effective with the June 2013 issue. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, will be the journal's… Read More
IOP Publishing and Thomson Reuters partner to manage significant growth in scientific article submissions - March 1, 2013
The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced that it is working with IOP Publishing, part of the Institute of Physics, to provide its Thomson Reuters ScholarOne solution for handling the Institute's substantial increase in article submissions. IOP Publishing has undertaken a comprehensive… Read More
Gale and the Smithsonian Institution announce licensing agreement to distribute Smithsonian assets into the library and academic space - March 1, 2013
Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, and the Smithsonian Institution have announced a licensing agreement to distribute Smithsonian assets into the library and academic space. The Smithsonian Institution claims to be the world's… Read More
Frontiers and Nature Publishing Group announce strategic alliance to advance global open science movement - February 28, 2013
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced a majority investment in the Swiss-based open access (OA) publisher Frontiers. NPG and Frontiers will work together to empower researchers to change the way science is communicated, through open access publication and open science tools. Frontiers,… Read More
Akadémiai Kiadó and Wiley sign representation agreements with ACCUCOMS - February 28, 2013
ACCUCOMS, a Netherlands-based provider of sales and marketing services to scholarly and society publishers, has signed new representation agreements with Akadémiai Kiadó and Wiley. Wiley has selected ACCUCOMS to promote and sell its Online Library in the Turkish Corporate and Government sector. Akadémiai Kiadó has… Read More
De Gruyter acquires academic publishers Oldenbourg and Akademie - February 27, 2013
Academic publisher De Gruyter, Germany, has announced the acquisition of two academic publishers with a long and rich tradition - Akademie Verlag, based in Berlin, and Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, based in Munich. Both companies were acquired retroactively as of January 1, 2013 from Franz Cornelsen Bildungsgruppe, which… Read More
University of Chicago Press to make scholarly monograph content available via OUP’s UPSO platform - February 25, 2013
The University of Chicago Press will partner with Oxford University Press to launch Chicago Scholarship Online on OUP's University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform taking advantage of a fully enabled XML environment with the cutting edge search and discovery functionality. Chicago Scholarship Online will launch in… Read More
SAGE set to publish Measurement and Control journal - February 22, 2013
Academic publisher SAGE and The Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC) has announced a new agreement to publish the journal Measurement and Control (M+C), effective April 2013. Edited by Ron Summers, Measurement and Control publishes both practical and technical research and news pieces from both… Read More
CCC renews agreement with The Charlesworth Group to expand services into Chinese language rights licensing - February 22, 2013
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has renewed its agreement with The Charlesworth Group to help CCC expand services into Chinese language rights licensing. The Charlesworth Group and CCC helps Chinese publishers reach new global secondary rights markets and better understand copyright and… Read More
BMJ Group selected as preferred provider for NICE Electronic & Print Content Framework Agreement in England - February 21, 2013
Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ Group, UK, has been selected as a preferred provider for the recently established NICE Electronic & Print Content Framework Agreement in England. This means that NHS organisations and partner organisations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland can now purchase BMJ Group… Read More