The Educational Publishers Enforcement Group (EPEG) publishers, consisting of Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill and Pearson, have obtained a Preliminary Injunction from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against 63 eBook websites that sell illegal, unlicensed eBooks using the functionalities of Google and Microsoft.
Posted 06 October 2020
A freely available toolkit helps academic book authors to better understand open access book publishing.
Posted 06 October 2020
The purchase of SlideShare from LinkedIn by Scribd raises questions about slide and document sharing.
Posted 01 September 2020
Clarivate Plc , known in library circules for the Web of Science, Cortellis, Derwent, CompuMark, MarkMonitor and Techstreet, signed a definitive agreement to combine with CPA Global, a global leader in intellectual property software and tech-enabled services.
Posted 04 August 2020
The eight shortlists for the 2020 Nibbies have been revealed.
Posted 20 March 2020
A shortlist of eight titles for each of the Medals has been revealed.
Posted 19 March 2020
Three-year agreement offers open access and publishing.
Posted 17 February 2020
Annual figure exceeds 10,000 for the first time.
Posted 17 February 2020
Move will help strengthen Taylor & Francis' capabilities in open access and open research and will extend its range of innovative publishing services.
Posted 13 January 2020
The deal will enable greater visibility, impact, efficiency, transparency and sustainability in the dissemination of German research.
Posted 13 January 2020
The University Press Redux Sustainability Award will be presented at the ALPSP conference in March 2020
Posted 08 January 2020
Facebook will remove videos modified by AI and designed to deceive.
Posted 08 January 2020
Report highlights the distorting effect of hyper-authored articles on citation and impact analysis.
Posted 10 December 2019
Five UK-based society publishers have signed pilot transitional OA agreements courtesy of Jisc.
Posted 10 December 2019
OpenMonographs.org wants to change the landscape of scholarly book publishing.
Posted 04 December 2019
Oxford University Press has reached agreement with Iowa State University Library.
Posted 03 December 2019
The London Library is the largest independent lending library in the world.
Posted 20 November 2019
A miniature manuscript written by 14-year old Charlotte Brontë is expected to fetch at least £650,000 at auction in Paris.
Posted 13 November 2019
Collaboration with Google announced.
Posted 08 November 2019
Almost 50,000 free to use images released.
Posted 04 November 2019
Aim is to provide links between citations and digital content.
Posted 02 November 2019
The International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA) welcomes the move towards the open access environment for journal articles.
Posted 31 October 2019
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, outlines the company's position in a series of tweets.
Posted 31 October 2019
New resource to provide a single destination for literary research, teaching and learning.
Posted 28 October 2019
New features added to enhance the Internet Archive music experience.
Posted 18 October 2019