(Berlin, 19 June 2013) EQT Partners AB (EQT) and GIC Special Investments Pte Ltd (GIC) have agreed to sell their majority stake in Springer Science+Business Media (Springer), a leading global scientific, technical and medical (STM) publisher, to the private equity firm BC Partners Limited (BC Partners). The plans for an initial public offering have been cancelled. Derk…
(New York, 6 June 2013) Elsevier today signed a strategic collaboration agreement with People’s Medical Publishing House (PMPH), China. The announcement expands on Elsevier’s current publishing collaboration with the largest Chinese medical publisher in China. Elsevier’s collaboration with PMPH goes back to the 1990s. Since then PMPH has translated and published hundreds of Elsevier’s book…
(Philadelphia, PA, 4 June 2013) Elsevier today announced a major investment in services provided to its society partners and individual readers: a new online platform and management system for its 500+ health, medical, and life science journal-branded websites. The new online platform will provide these journal-branded websites improved search results accuracy, a more robust editorial…
(5 June 2013, Sunnyvale, Calif) DeepDyve, the leading online rental service for scholarly and professional research articles, today announced a new “freemium” offering whereby users can preview the full text of any article for free for five minutes per day. Users will no longer have to settle for simply reading abstracts. With just an email…
(5 June 2013) The office will provide strategic leadership, business management and support functions to Macmillan’s Science businesses in Greater China, and Scholarly and Education businesses in Asia. Along with Macmillan’s existing footprint in Tokyo, Hong Kong and other locations in Asia, the new Shanghai office will provide high-quality content and solutions to transform learning…
(5 June 2013) IOP Publishing and The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) have today announced a five year agreement for the publication of Applied Physics Express (APEX) and The Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP). These titles are English language journals currently self-published by The Japan Society of Applied Physics. As a result of…
(Farmington Hills, Mich., 29 May 2013 /PRNewswire/) Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced the availability of Air & Space and Smithsonian Magazine Archive, the first resource in the line of Gale – Smithsonian Institution collections. Launched as part of a…
(29 May 2013) Authors based in China contributed 8.5% of all research papers published in Nature branded journals in 2012, up 35% on 2011 figures. This is according to the Nature Publishing Index 2012 (NPI) China, published today as a supplement to Nature. Authors from institutions in China contributed 303 papers published in Nature branded…
(15 May 2013, Boston, Oxford) – Credo, the industry leader for information skills solutions, today announced that it has launched 12 new and updated Subject and Publisher Collections, adding to the more than 75 collections currently available for perpetual purchase or subscription. Read more about the collections here: http://corp.credoreference.com/about-credo/press-releases/325-15may-content-pr.html
(Washington DC & Stanford, CA, 30 May 2013) GeoScienceWorld (GSW) and HighWire Press today announced a significant expansion of their journals partnership through a new integrated eBooks platform built on the HighWire Open Platform. The GSW eBooks Collections will be the first nonprofit, multi-publisher eBooks platform devoted to the study of the earth sciences. It…
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