De Gruyter announces reorganisation of its imprints - January 13, 2014
Academic publishing house De Gruyter has announced the reorganisation of its imprints following the successful integration of Akademie and Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. As of January 2014, all titles in the fields of history, economics, computer science, and German-language engineering will be published under the 'De Gruyter Oldenbourg'… Read More
Cengage Learning seeking $2 billion in bankruptcy exit loans - January 6, 2014
College textbook publisher Cengage Learning is seeking as much as $2 billion in loans to exit bankruptcy. Earlier in July 2013, the publisher had agreed with lenders to restructure $5.8 billion of debt. According to a December 27 court filing, the financing would consist of… Read More
Digital Science donates SureChem data of more than 15 million chemical compounds and patents to EMBL-EBI - December 12, 2013
Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Science & Education, is donating the SureChem collection of more than15 million chemical structures from world patents into the public domain through the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). It is the first time a world patent chemistry collection has been made… Read More
Global healthcare stakeholders want standards-based interoperability and communications, says IEEE-SA - December 11, 2013
Tens of billions of dollars a year reportedly slip through the cracks in interoperability and connectivity among medical devices in the United States alone, but it now appears there exists new interest to close those gaps in the global web of healthcare, says the IEEE Standards… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education expands efforts to ensure fully interoperable future for the education technology industry - December 10, 2013
Digital learning company McGraw-Hill Education, US, has designated its Tel Aviv-area technology innovation center as its company-wide interoperability hub. The center will continue to ensure that all of the company's current and future digital learning solutions adhere to the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) guidelines, the… Read More
American Meteorological Society becomes AIP’s latest member society - December 3, 2013
The American Institute of Physics has announced that the Boston-based American Meteorological Society (AMS) has become the institute's newest member society. AMS will now receive all the benefits conferred by full membership, including free subscriptions to AIP's flagship magazine, Physics Today, for all AMS members… Read More
ORCID announces changes in member agreements and new authentication-only API - November 22, 2013
ORCID, a non-profit organisation that provides an open registry of unique identifiers for researchers, has reviewed its member agreements to incorporate feedback received from the community, as part of the organisation's first anniversary. A number of changes have been announced. ORCID hopes that these changes will… Read More
PeerJ announces significant new benefit for authors - November 12, 2013
Open access publisher PeerJ has announced that all authors can now make unlimited submissions to PeerJ PrePrints, entirely for free. Previously authors without a PeerJ publication plan could only publish one free preprint per year. PeerJ launched 'PeerJ PrePrints,' an innovative… Read More
HathiTrust announces intention to become a DPN replicating node - November 12, 2013
HathiTrust recently announced its intention to become a 'replicating node' in the Digital Preservation Network, contingent upon acceptable terms and conditions for doing so. HathiTrust is one of five institutions or consortia that have been collaborating over the past year to… Read More
JUSP welcomes Springer adoption of COUNTER Release 4 to improve journal usage data - November 6, 2013
The Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP) has welcomed the adoption of Release 4 of the COUNTER standard by international publisher Springer Science+Business Media. The implementation ensures that the journal usage data Springer is providing to higher education libraries are now compliant with the standard, ensuring… Read More
