Western Michigan University’s Medieval Institute Publications announces a marketing partnership with De Gruyter, as Cambridge University Press sees digital reaching ‘close to 40 percent of total sales.’
University College London Press Passes 1 Millionth Open Access Book Download
As it reaches its third anniversary, UCL Press declares its open access–only model a success, calling it as transformational today as ‘the invention of movable type printing.’
The 2018 PROSE Awards Are Led by Bloomsbury’s Arcadian Library Online
Stressing ‘the centuries-old interface between the Christian West and the Arab and Islamic world,’ this year’s PROSE / Hawkins winner is the Arcadian Library Online, an ongoing digitization project of Bloomsbury.
Springer to Publish the ‘Journal of Public Health’ in Canada and ‘Flow Chemistry’ in Hungary
Canada’s journal on public health will be published by Springer, which also will co-publish ‘Flow Chemistry’ with Budapest’s Akadémiai Kiadó in January.
Cambridge University Press Announces New Content Sharing Platform
Cambridge University Press launches a selection of journals in its Core content sharing program, which offers subscribers read-only links.
Blockchain Potential in Scholarly Publishing: New Report from Digital Science
‘It would make larger parts of the research cycle open to self-correction,’ says the Digital Science report’s author, but so might ‘a less drastic change.’
European Parliament: IPA’s Michiel Kolman on Publishers, Fake News, and Big Tech
‘Checks and balances’ amid fake news—tech companies are becoming like publishers, Michiel Kolman says in Brussels, and publishers more like tech companies.
Peer Review Week: Nature Research Offers Free Training; De Gruyter opens ‘Science Discoveries’
One of the world’s leading journal programs has begun offering free training in peer review: ‘We truly appreciate the service that peer reviewers provide.’
Reviewing Peer Review: London’s Birkbeck Gets Second Mellon Foundation Grant
‘Surprisingly little is known about what peer review looks like at scale,’ says Birkbeck’s Martin Eve, who’ll lead a team in collaboration with PLOS ONE.
The UK’s ‘Academic Book of the Future’ Project: Key Reports
Two new reports from the UK’s Academic Book of the Future call for stakeholders in academic publishing tto formalize their collaboration in order to make advancements and improvements.