Alastair Horne is Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Stirling in Scotland, where his research interests include digital and academic publishing. He worked in publishing for thirteen years, firstly at ProQuest and then with Cambridge University Press, where he served as Innovation Manager and led work on the BETT-award-winning Race to Learn software in partnership with the Williams Formula One team. After leaving Cambridge in 2016, he began work on a PhD exploring how smartphones are changing storytelling.
A new pilot programme from Kudos aims to help publishers prevent copyright infringement and reclaim the usage lost through the sharing of articles on scholarly collaboration networks. It is hoped ... Read more
Change at the top for Springer Springer Nature CEO Derk Haank will be retiring at the end of 2017, after a career in academic publishing spanning thirty years, half of ... Read more
Springer Nature has become the largest publisher so far to open up its reference lists for data discovery and reuse, making the metadata available across all its own journals and ... Read more
