(Berlin, 26 February 2013) De Gruyter has acquired 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 1 January 2013 from Franz Cornelsen Bildungsgruppe. “The acquisition of Akademie and Oldenbourg will considerably strengthen De Gruyter’s publishing portfolio…
(New York, 26 February 26 2013)Yale University Press has announced a partnership with Oxford University Press to launch Yale Scholarship Online on OUP’s University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform to take advantage of a fully enabled XML environment with cutting-edge search and discovery functionality. “Yale is very pleased to partner with Oxford, joining their breadth…
(Hoboken, N.J. 15 January 2013) John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced today that it has acquired the assets of the FIZ Chemie Berlin, a leading provider of online database products for organic and industrial chemists. The acquisition aligns with the company’s long-term strategy to support research, learning, and professional practice through high quality content and…
(16 February 2013) Judith Rosen writes in Publishers Weekly that at a time when many independent booksellers in the US and abroad are beginning to gain traction selling Kobo e-books, other retailers are eyeing the secondary market for e-books and other digital content…Last month Amazon received a patent to create a digital marketplace for used…
(6 February 2013) The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has redesigned its website, accessible at www.sspnet.org. Easier navigation, a cleaner design, and more streamlined event registration and login procedures as well as a more friendly user interface were the driving forces for the redesign. “The new site is much more flexible, and surfaces important content,…
(7 February 2013, United Kingdom) Chinese Laser Press and Cambridge University Press have announced that they will be launching a new open access journal from 2013. The new journal, High Power Laser Science and Engineering (HPLaser), will be an online-only (printed version available only in China), international and peer-reviewed journal focusing on all aspects of…
(Hoboken, NJ, 7 February 2013) John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced that its 12,200 Online Books would be made available through the Research4Life initiatives of HINARI, AGORA and OARE, benefitting research and academic communities in 80 low- and middle-income countries including Malawi, Cambodia, and Bolivia. Research4Life provides 6,000 institutions in developing countries with free…
(Portland, Or. 21 January 2013). The world’s largest eBook distribution network for independent authors just got bigger. BookBaby, the popular one-stop self-publishing solution, just announced a new partnership with eSentral, the biggest eBook store in Southeast Asia. “I’m thrilled to add eSentral to our growing list of partners,” says BookBaby president Brian Felsen. “Now our…
Over 50 academic libraries, in collaboration with the Educopia Institute, are founding the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC). The project emerged from conversations between Purdue University, the University of North Texas, and Virginia Tech regarding the need for a community dedicated to advancing the field of library publishing. Academic libraries and the researchers and organizations they…
(College Park, MD, 1 February 2013) —The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announces the formation of AIP Publishing LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary. The purpose of AIP Publishing LLC is to support the scientific and educational mission of the AIP through scholarly publishing activities in the physical and related sciences. The LLC’s board will include…
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