(15 August 2013) Springer is now owned by BC Partners. Competition authorities in the US and in Europe have approved the transaction and all other preconditions have been met. Read the announcement here.
Project Euclid is conducting research into how it can further Project Euclid’s mission to advance scholarly communication by addressing the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals. The publisher is inviting librarians working in the math and statistics communities to share their opinions of Project Euclid in a 5 minute survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ProjectEuclid. The results…
(New York / Heidelberg, 31 July 2013) Springer has released an Android version of its SpringerLink mobile application, allowing for wider access to its content. The app’s user interface has also been improved, making navigation easier and faster. In January 2012 Springer released its first version of the app on Apple iTunes, which gave scientists, researchers and…
(24 July 2013) The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC)—a library led, two-year initiative to advance the field of library publishing—has launched its new website at http://www.librarypublishing.org/. Current LPC activities include development of a Shared Documentation Portal that hosts model documents, compilation of a Directory of Library Publishing Services, and planning for a forum to be held…
(New York, NY, 24 July 2013) Wolters Kluwer Health has a multimedia enhancement to the OvidSP medical research platform to aid in clinical research, practice and learning. Now researchers and healthcare practitioners using Ovid will have improved functionality to discover, download and export more than two million assets, including video and images integrated with searching…
(8 July 2013) Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Temasek Holdings Pte agreed to buy a minority stake in China’s Cloudary Corp. (READ) at a 25 percent lower valuation than in a previous funding round, said two people with knowledge of the matter. The story is reported by Bloomberg, here.
Deal makes content available globally to people with print disabilities (Berlin / New York, 15 July 2013) Springer has signed an agreement to provide Bookshare, an international leader in providing people with visual impairments, physical disabilities and/or learning disabilities access to copyrighted digital accessible books, with world rights to its titles. Springer is home to the world’s…
(16 July 2013) Pearson Australia has today announced a number of significant changes across its education business. These changes are being made in order to create a more nimble organisation that is able to respond more quickly to the needs of our customers: the students, teachers and learning institutions across the country. Central to Pearson’s…
(Stanford, CA & Providence, RI, 16July 2013) HighWire Press, the leading ePublishing platform for scholarly publishers has a strategic artnership with Tizra to extend eBook functionality and integration to the HighWire Open Platform. “HighWire provides an advanced digital publishing platform to help industry‐leading scholarly publishers innovate and thrive,” said Tom Rump, Managing Director of HighWire.…
(Stamford, CT, 2 July 2013) Cengage Learning, Inc. today announced an agreement with certain of its lenders to restructure its balance sheet and significantly reduce its approximately USD5.8 billion of outstanding debt to better position the Company for long-term growth and profitability. In order to implement the financial restructuring, Cengage Learning and all of its domestic wholly-owned…
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