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June 3, 2002
Richard Poynder |
Blackwell Publishing in Dynasty-style Dispute Blackwell Publishing is engulfed in a family feud fit for a Dynasty plot.   |
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May 27, 2003
Richard Poynder |
BertelsmannSpringer Is Sold to Private Equity Firms German media and entertainment company Bertelsmann has announced the sale of its academic publishing group BertelsmannSpringer to the European private equity firms Candover and Cinven. |
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June 22, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Wiley Books a Profit The book publisher reports slightly lower earnings as revenues rise. Investors, take note. |
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November 4, 2002
Richard Poynder |
Kluwer Academic Publishers Sold to Venture Capitalists Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer has announced the sale of Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) to London-based private equity funds Candover and Cinven for approximately $591 million. |
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February 7, 2011 |
Wiley Launches New Program of Open Access Journals The first journals will launch shortly, publishing primary peer-reviewed research in a range of broad-based subject disciplines in the life and biomedical sciences. |
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January 27, 2015
Marydee Ojala |
Springer and Macmillan Poised to Merge On Jan. 15, 2015, there was a disruption in the field of academic scientific publishing. |
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March 5, 2012 |
Wiley-Blackwell Adds 44 Titles to Journal Publishing Program in 2012 Brand new titles publishing on Wiley Online Library over the course of 2012 include Advanced Healthcare Materials, PsyCH Journal, Clinical Liver Disease, Food and Energy Security and the open access title Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease. |
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November 6, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
Reed Elsevier, Thomson Negotiate Two-Step Deal to Buy Harcourt General Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier will buy U.S. rival Harcourt General, Inc. for $4.5 billion, and then will sell the college textbook division and other assets---including a large part of the corporate and professional division---to Canadian publishing rival The Thomson Corp... |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
Information Today
September 2004
Richard Poynder |
Interview: Put Up or Shut Up Derk Haank, Springer's new CEO (and former chairman of Elsevier Science), discusses his plans for the company, scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journal pricing, the Big Deal, and open access. |
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February 16, 2012 |
China/Asia on Demand Metadata Accessible via EBSCO Discovery Service The agreement allows for metadata from this valuable collection of research literature from Asia to be added to the Base Index of EDS. T |
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January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today
October 16, 2008
Susanne Bjorner |
Open Access Moves Into the Mainstream: BioMed Central Purchased by Springer STM publishing giant Springer Science+Business Media announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase BioMed Central Group, the leading global open access publisher, for an undisclosed price. |
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February 11, 2002 |
News Digest Blackwell Publishing Announces New Version of Blackwell Synergy... Inmagic Releases DB/TextWorks 5.2... ebrary Enters Agreements with Elsevier Science, Princeton University Press |
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August 12, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Wiley Online Library Replaces Wiley InterScience The year 2010 may go down in history for the most new platform launches in the information industry. |
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March 22, 2004
Paula J. Hane |
U.K. Parliamentary Committee Holds Hearings on Scientific Publishing On March 1 and 8, the U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee held the first two days of hearings as part of its inquiry into the pricing and availability of scientific publications and possible government support for open access publishing. |
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August 8, 2011 |
The Hastings Center Partners With Wiley-Blackwell Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced a new partnership with The Hastings Center to publish the Hastings Center Report |
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December 14, 2009
Katherine Allen |
Springer Sold to Private Equity Firms EQT and GIC The German company is the world's second-largest scientific, technical, and medical publisher after Reed Elsevier and was formed in 2003 by the merger of Kluwer Academic Publishers and Bertelsmann Springer. |
Information Today
December 2002
Richard Poynder |
A True Market Failure Professor Mark McCabe, an expert in mergers and anticompetitive practices at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talks about problems in the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing industry. |
Search Engine Watch
April 12, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Academic Search The targeted search service is focused on connecting students and researchers with peer-reviewed scholarly information, and addresses two needs of the academic community that have traditionally been under-served. |
Information Today
March 7, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Library Publishing Coalition -- A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future. |
Information Today
March 22, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access The DC Principles are a response to charges that current publisher practices impede access to published scientific research. |
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January 22, 2009 |
Wiley Announces Online Books Agreement With YBP Library Services Nearly 7,000 online books will be available on YBP's main collection planning and acquisitions tool, GOBI (Global Online Bibliographic Information. |
Information Today
December 2000 |
Swets Blackwell Acquires Munksgaard Direct Swets Blackwell and Munksgaard have announced the signing of an agreement stating that Swets Blackwell has acquired Munksgaard Direct, the book and subscription service division of the Munksgaard Group... |
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December 17, 2009
Dan Tonkery |
Baker & Taylor Acquires Blackwell North America and James Bennett--Market Reaction The news of this acquisition has been reported throughout the library media world. |
Information Today
July 26, 2004
Richard Poynder |
British Politicians Call on U.K. Government to Support Open Access Following 7 months of deliberation, the U.K. House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee has concluded that the current model for scientific publishing is unsatisfactory. |
D-Lib
May 2000
Richard K. Johnson |
A Question of Access SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing |
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May 24, 2011
Katie Spence |
Bye Buy Books, Hello Digital! In the digital era, do these publishers have what it takes? |
Information Today
April 2004
Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
Information Today
June 5, 2008
Barbara Quint |
`It Ain't Over Till It's Over': Impact of the Microsoft Shutdown Although the announcement of Microsoft's decision to shut down its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects seemed to indicate that the program would cease digitizing immediately, conversations with participating libraries indicated otherwise. |
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July 19, 2004
Rich Smith |
Publishers Dueling for No. 1 The Thomson Corporation and publishing competitor Reed Elsevier, jockey for the title of worldwide uber-publisher. |
Information Today
March 2001
Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
Information Today
April 17, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Offers Alternative to Google Scholar: Windows Live Academic Search The new search tool will search proprietary content from scholarly publishers, as well as the open Web. The initial beta test offers content from 10 publishers; two more are on the way. |
Information Today
March 2003
Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
Information Today
February 26, 2015 |
NASIG and SSP Collaborate on Information Policy Event NASIG and the Society for Scholarly Publishing will host a joint full-day program, Evolving Information Policies & Their Implications: A Conversation for Librarians & Publishers. |
Information Today
March 3, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
Information Today
December 23, 2010 |
Wiley-Blackwell Launches Mobile Applications for Select Health Publications The applications, which will be freely available, will allow for the mobile delivery of title and abstract listings of articles with a feature that will enable users to create a "reading list" of desired full-text articles, available from the user's desktop computer through Wiley Online Library. |
Information Today
February 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Divine Debacle Rocks Industry RoweCom, a library subscription agency and subsidiary of divine, Inc., has suffered financial collapse. The orders for subscriptions and payments that libraries placed with RoweCom throughout the fall were not passed along to the publishers, leaving both libraries and publishers in limbo. |
Information Today
November 14, 2011 |
Springer to Acquire Pharma Marketing and Publishing Services From Wolters Kluwer MPS is one of the five largest global providers of strategic marketing, publishing and business intelligence products and services to the pharmaceutical industry, as well as to medical libraries and academic and research institutions. |
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Jul/Aug 2011
Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
Information Today
October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. |
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April 8, 2013 |
Wolters Kluwer Health and Wiley Extend Partnership Wolters Kluwer Health announced an extension of its long-term partnership with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to provide more than 460 premier journals on the Ovid medical research platform. |
Information Today
November 2004
Tom Hogan |
The Fall 2004 ASIDIC Meeting The fall 2004 meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) examined the issues surrounding open access (OA) publishing. Many questions were raised and many views expressed, but few conclusions were drawn. |
Information Today
February 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Information Today
December 2000 |
Wiley Partners with netLibrary, Lightning Source John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced that it has signed agreements with netLibrary and Lightning Source to provide the online distribution of about 750 new frontlist titles per year... |
Information Today
December 2004 |
NewsBytes EBSCO Publishing Partners with All Academic... Thomson Signs Distribution Agreement with Universal Technical Systems... netLibrary Teams with Recorded Books... Blackwell Publishing Purchases Food and Nutrition Press, Inc... etc. |
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December 2000
Jill E. Grogg & Carol Tenopir |
Linking to Full Text in Scholarly Journals There is an exciting variety of options, but a variety that can confuse both information professionals and end users. When trying to find the full text of journal articles, the promises and advertisements of aggregators and publishers often seem inflated... |
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March 6, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Wiley InterScience Introduces Author Resources... Emerald Group Publishing Debuts Product to Help Community Colleges... Thomson Pharma Offers Ability to Analyze Clinical Information... etc. |
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October 13, 2009 |
SPARC Reviews Income Models for Open Access Publishing The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition examines the issue of sustainability for current and prospective open access publishers in a new guide, Income Models for Open Access: An Overview of Current Practice. |
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June 23, 2008 |
CrossCheck Plagiarism Screening Service Launches CrossRef has announced the official launch of CrossCheck, a new initiative to aid publishers in verifying the originality of scholarly content. |
