Oxford University Press was named Publisher of the Year for the eighth time in succession at this year’s Academic Book Trade Conference Awards in Stratford-upon-Avon, ahead of Wiley and SAGE. ... Read more
London, 16 February 2017: Speakers from Wiley, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis are among the prestigious names participating in LBF’s dedicated academic publishing conference, The Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum, ... Read more
The implications of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union continue to loom large in the thoughts of scientific publishers. In one of the most popular sessions at this year’s ... Read more
Alastair Horne discusses the latest in academic publishing. This month, academic publishers lose copyright court case in India; mixed news on revenues; experiments in university bookselling; partnerships and acquisitions; and ... Read more
Persistent identifiers, or PIDs, may not seem the most rock’n’roll feature of the scientific research process, but the launch of a new two-day open festival, co-hosted by the California Digital ... Read more
Published ahead of last week’s Beijing International Book Fair, the PA Market Report China Journals highlights some of the dilemmas faced by Chinese scholarly publishing on its path towards a ... Read more
As the STM publishing sector continues to digest the likely implications of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, news of a potentially significant further disruption came from the Wellcome ... Read more
It’s been a mixed month for the academic sector, with news of growth and ambitious new initiatives interspersed with more worrying developments. Figures released by the Publishers Association alongside its ... Read more
Five talented women working in diverse areas of the publishing industry – from academic publishing to children’s books – have been announced as the shortlisted candidates for the 2015 Kim ... Read more