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Elsevier and Mendeley – an interview with Victor Henning

Andy Tattersall has championed Mendeley since 2009. He responds to the buy-out news and speaks directly to co-founder Victor Henning.

Elsevier buys Mendeley

Publishing giant has bought the research collaboration platform.

Making the most of Higher Education

Linden Harris of Cengage Learning shares his thoughts on how information providers are working with universities to prepare students for the working world.

Germany: publisher to make titles OA through crowdfunding

De Gruyter will offer 100 titles for Open Access through crowdfunder Unglue.it

Journal of Library Administration: Editor steps down

The Editor and his entire editorial board have resigned citing 'restrictive' authors' agreement.

Portugal: pressure on Google to pay for news content

Media companies in Portugal seeking payment for content.

France: government help for bookshops

€5m fund to help independent booksellers.

France: OA works to be indexed in Summon

Works will be included in Summon Discovery Service.

Max Planck Society and De Gruyter to publish OA books

Academic publishers De Gruyter and the Max Planck Society to cooperate.

ProQuest to acquire EBL

The acquisition will expand ProQuest's e-book delivery and aggregation capabilities.

Acquisition of library supplier Erasmus

Smiths News has acquired Erasmus Antiquariat en Boekhandel.

Wiley acquires FIZ Chemie Berlin

John Wiley & Sons has acquired the assets of the FIZ Chemie Berlin.

Elsevier acquires Knovel

Elsevier has bought the engineering information provider Knovel.

Germany's Financial Times to close

The Financial Times Deutschland is being closed down after 12 years.

Wolters Kluwer looking outside Europe for growth

Europe's largest legal/tax publisher is not expecting any growth in its European market in 2013.

CLOCKSS – a community governed archive

Collaboration between publishers and libraries demonstrates a shared commitment to preserving digital assets while supporting OA.

Reform and reality - experiences of a 'gold' OA publisher

Dan Scott, the founder of the gold open access website Social Sciences Directory, wants to provide an alternative to traditional scholarly publishing.

Amazon e-lending library hits Europe

Amazon is to launch its Kindle Owners' Lending Library in France, Germany and the UK.

Migration to updated SpringerLink

STM publisher has begun migrating library customers to its revamped platform.