No one could have known what we were heading into back in January. Yet the year that would have so much sadness in it began with sadness in the book ... Read more
Springer opens up Springer Nature has announced that from January 2021, publication in Nature and the 32 Nature primary research journals will be available via a gold open access model ... Read more
Congratulations to Stuart Wilson from the Pan Mac art department for a memorable cover for the Booker-winning Shuggie Bain. Thanks to his treatment of the striking image by photographer Jez ... Read more
AUP seeks to raise university presses’ profile The Association of University Presses’ University Press week, which ran from November 9th-15th, focused this year on the role that university presses play ... Read more
What a week. To paraphrase president-elect Joe Biden’s favourite poet, Seamus Heaney, it has been a week that opened two doors out of the darkness. First there is Biden’s victory ... Read more
Busy month for Taylor & Francis It’s been a busy month for Taylor & Francis. The publisher has partnered with Knowledge E to make almost 2,500 of its journals available ... Read more
There are more diversity initiatives on both sides of the Atlantic. At the same time as Penguin Random House UK announced its Lit in Colour programme to address the white ... Read more
Cambridge University Press to be merged with Cambridge Assessment The University of Cambridge has announced that Cambridge University Press, the world’s oldest publisher, will be merged with the university’s international ... Read more
A tough week for James Daunt, the west’s most important bricks and mortar bookseller. In the UK, Waterstones is having to cope with an ever-changing landscape of lockdowns, while in ... Read more
Oxford tackles bias, implements new policies Oxford University Press, which recently announced a new partnership with the Genetics Society of America to publish the journals GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, has ... Read more
