Dan Scott, the founder of the gold open access website Social Sciences Directory, wants to provide an alternative to traditional scholarly publishing.
Posted 16 October 2012
Amazon is to launch its Kindle Owners' Lending Library in France, Germany and the UK.
Posted 12 October 2012
STM publisher has begun migrating library customers to its revamped platform.
Posted 03 October 2012
EBSCO's latest Serials Price Projection Report released.
Posted 18 September 2012
STM publisher offers its entire collection to developing countries via international innovation programme.
Posted 14 September 2012
Springer has announced the winners of its research-focused API Challenge 2.0
Posted 13 September 2012
Publisher states that books are 'the next logical focus' in the progress of OA.
Posted 30 August 2012
Publisher of the FT is to launch its own college.
Posted 14 August 2012
ScienceWatch reports on the increase in multi-author articles.
Posted 02 August 2012
Formal announcement on long running dispute expected soon.
Posted 25 July 2012
Article evaluation service has published its first articles.
Posted 18 July 2012
Increased European representation reflected in new name - Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC).
Posted 17 July 2012
NPG's fastest growing journal increases author license options.
Posted 28 June 2012
Finalists for best new journal and publishing innovation awards announced.
Posted 21 June 2012
Agreement reached which 'respects the rights of authors'.
Posted 17 June 2012
Information and media monitoring service sold to competitive intelligence company.
Posted 17 June 2012
German publisher plans to become a leading digital player.
Posted 06 June 2012
Submission rates are increasing overall but with stronger growth in emerging nations.
Posted 06 June 2012
Munich University Department votes to cancel subscriptions.
Posted 08 May 2012
CodeForScience competition looking for apps and mash-ups that use Elsevier content.
Posted 26 April 2012
Newspapers collaborating on shared payment system.
Posted 09 April 2012
New platform will provide CC0 access to NPG's publication data.
Posted 09 April 2012
New corporate content platform provides customised access to 5.6 million research documents.
Posted 30 March 2012
Higher education institutions to be ranked by researchers and academics.
Posted 16 March 2012
Skoobe is German publishers' response to the demand for 'popular' ebook content.
Posted 06 March 2012