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Information Today 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. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today August 6, 2015 |
Springer Nature Stacks Its Humanities Portfolio Springer Nature acquired German humanities publisher J.B. Metzler. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today November 27, 2006 Rebecca Lenzini |
Wiley to Acquire Blackwell Publishing Continuing the trend toward consolidation in the scholarly publishing community, John Wiley & Sons announced on Nov. 17, 2006, that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the outstanding shares of Blackwell Publishing. |
Information Today May 7, 2015 |
Merged Company to Be Called Springer Nature The European Union, the U.S. Department of Justice, and other key competition authorities cleared Springer's merger with the majority of Macmillan Science and Education. |
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. |
Information Today 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... |
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. |
Information Today September 17, 2015 |
Springer Provides Austrian Researchers With OA Options Springer and the Austrian Academic Consortium finalized a 2-year Springer Compact agreement to combine reading and open access publishing in one annual fee. |
Information Today April 2, 2012 |
Springer for R&D Platform Launched for Corporate Sector Springer Science+Business Media launched a new corporate platform, Springer for R&D, which provides access to more than 5.6 million research documents, all optimized for specific corporate markets. |
The Motley Fool 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 February 26, 2015 |
Springer Partners With CCC for TDM Solution Springer Science+Business Media partnered with Copyright Clearance Center for a solution that enables corporate life sciences researchers to do text and data mining across publishers. |
Information Today July 16, 2013 |
Springer Renews Its Commitment to Open Access Springer Science+Business Media announced that the influence of its open access journals has increased over the past year. |
Information Today April 30, 2001 Richard Poynder |
The Debate Heats Up Are Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. Monopolists? |
Information Today March 26, 2015 |
Springer's SciDetect Software Tracks Down Fake Papers Springer Science+Business Media and Joseph Fourier University teamed up to launch SciDetect, an open source software program for discovering fake scientific papers |
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Springer and Ex Libris Partner to Offer Content via Primo Central Springer, a premier global scientific publisher, is the latest to join the rapidly expanding group of publishers and aggregators who have chosen to make their content accessible to library users via Primo Central |
BusinessWeek December 26, 2005 Bettina Wassener |
Static Plagues Saban's TV Deal Why the biggest German media sale in years may not make it past regulators |
Information Today November 2004 Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: No Gain Without Pain How are publishers responding to the open acess (OA) movement, and can it really deliver on its promise? More importantly, can it reduce library costs? |
Information Today October 18, 2010 |
Ingram to Handle All Elements of Springer's U.S. Distribution Ingram will hold Springer's entire U.S. inventory and, as it sells down, Ingram will transition titles to print on demand when it makes economic sense. All fulfillment will come through Ingram. |
Information Today April 2002 Richard Poynder |
Not Pleading Poverty Elsevier Science chairman Derk Haank addresses industry and end-user issues... |
Information Today January 17, 2012 |
Springer Launches Interdisciplinary Open Access Journal SpringerPlus It is the publisher's first open access journal with a broad interdisciplinary approach covering the entire scientific spectrum. Papers from emerging areas of research are welcome. |
BusinessWeek January 10, 2005 William Boston |
Springer Steps Up Its Eastward Push Germany's leading newspaper publisher is finding niches in Eastern Europe -- and filling them fast. |
Information Today May 5, 2015 |
Springer Hosts Researchers' Stories on New Website Springer Storytellers is a project that allows Springer authors to tell personal stories about being researchers on its website, beforetheabstract.com, which is open to the public |
Information Today March 5, 2001 Barbara Quint |
Bowker for Sale, All or in Parts Reed Elsevier plans to sell off several of its major reference publishing operations, specifically Bowker... |
ONLINE 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 13, 2011 Barbara Quint |
SpringerLink Expanding Ebook Collection to Cover All Titles Dating From 1846 Since 2005, all new Springer books have been available as ebooks. After completion of the just announced Springer Book Archives digitization project, that number should grow to more than 100,000. |
Information Today October 22, 2015 |
Overleaf and Springer Integrate Writing and Submission Platforms Springer will integrate 20 of its journals and the Springer Transfer Desk with the Overleaf LaTeX and rich text collaborative writing and publishing platform. |
Information Today August 17, 2009 |
ebrary Announces Publisher Half-Off Sale Under the Publisher Half-Off Sale, institutions around the globe can save 50% off list price when they purchase as few as 15 to 25 backlist titles from a single participating publisher through Dec. 15, 2009. |
Information Today January 28, 2013 Barbara Brynko |
Springer Book Archives Makes Its Debut This new online book collection from Springer Business+Science Media represents Springer's ongoing commitment to the scientific research community by digitizing about 100,000 books dating from the 1840s. |
Information Today February 2002 Dick Kaser |
Ghost in a Bottle The ghost is out of the bottle. That's how Derk Haank describes the current situation in which the authors of scientific papers are taking an increasing interest in who publishes them.... |
Information Today June 26, 2006 Paula J. Hane |
Enhanced SpringerLink Offers eBook Collection Springer, which claims to be the world's largest scientific, technical and medical book publisher, has announced it will offer its complete publishing program online and on one integrated platform. |
Information Today November 19, 2009 Katherine Allen |
Reed Elsevier's CEO Quits After 8 Months Ian Smith will be replaced by Erik Engstrom, CEO of Elsevier, effective immediately. Engstrom had previously been ruled out of the running for the position following the departure of Crispin Davis. |
Information Today October 20, 2015 |
Palgrave Connect Ebooks Come to Springer Platforms Springer will add all Palgrave Connect ebooks from Palgrave Macmillan to SpringerLink -- and include thousands of ebooks in the Springer Book Archives. |
Information Today February 10, 2011 |
Ebooks From Springer Archived by CLOCKSS A not-for-profit joint venture between the scholarly publishers and research libraries, CLOCKSS's mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive for the benefit of the greater global research community. |
Information Today October 27, 2015 |
Springer Nature Debuts Related Content Service Springer Nature released an interactive Related Content service on SpringerLink -- first to articles in the biotechnology collection and soon to the rest of the collections. |
Information Today April 7, 2015 |
Springer and Jisc Work Toward Sustainable OA Publishing Springer Science+Business Media and Jisc reached an agreement that helps U.K. scientists comply with multiple funders' open access policies. |
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 |
The Motley Fool February 18, 2005 Rich Smith |
Europe Is Different Apparently, the fact that publisher Reed Elsevier is both growing, and growing more profitable, at slower rates than its Canadian nemesis does not matter as much to the Europeans as the fact that Reed Elsevier is growing at all. |
Information Today October 24, 2013 |
Springer Announces Korean OA Journal and Book Series Springer Science+Business Media will publish new South Korean content in partnership with the Korea Nano Technology Research Society and KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Press. |
Information Today November 29, 2010 |
Springer Launches SpringerBriefs as Ebooks SpringerBriefs will cover a wide range of content from professional to academic across a variety of subject areas including business and economics, computer science, human and behavioral sciences, life sciences, mathematics and physical sciences. |
Chemistry World March 2, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
Anti-open access bill suffers sudden death Legislation in the US Congress that would have stopped funding agencies stipulating that research they fund with taxpayer dollars be made publicly available has collapsed. The dramatic development could signal a pivotal shift in scientific publishing. |
Information Today August 7, 2014 |
Springer Provides Journal Access to Chile's Researchers Researchers, students, and faculty at all major institutions in Chile can now access the 1,500-plus journals in Springer's Americas Collection. |
Information Today February 25, 2008 Marydee Ojala |
Reed Elsevier Chooses ChoicePoint, Rejects Business Publications It plans to add the ChoicePoint products to the Risk & Information Analytics subsidiary of LexisNexis. |
Information Today November 14, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest RLG Partners with LookSmart... Dialog Offers Unlimited Access Plan to Academics... Springer Acquires the Current Medicine Group... etc. |
Information Today February 11, 2014 |
SpringerLink Articles Add Altmetrics Springer Science+Business Media now offers altmetrics information on all of its SpringerLink articles. |
Information Today October 9, 2008 |
Softcover Books Enhance Springer's Ebook Collection Registered library patrons can now order softcover copies for their personal use of those Springer books that the library has purchased. Users can just click on the MyCopy button on SpringerLink. |
Information Today December 3, 2009 |
Springer Collaborates With Amazon's CreateSpace for POD Springer Science+Business Media has signed an agreement with CreateSpace to make Springer's paperback book catalog, frontlist, midlist, and backlist, available via print on demand (POD) in the U.S. |