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An eye-opening report by consulting firm FTI , forecasts a massive financial cost to UK university presses and journal publishers if propo...

A new group backed by PLOS, Wikimedia Foundation, eLife and others has come together to establish a framework for sharing article & jour...

Announced today ( press release ) by the Publishers Licensing Society (PLS-UK) is a pilot program that will make thousands of academic and s...

In an inevitable but still significant decision, The University of Toronto has declined to renew a controversial licensing deal with Access ...

From the Chronicle of Higher Ed a 20 minute interview with Fred Dylla, executive director at the American Institute of Physics, and Brian D....

The Boston Phoenix closed down last week. ( CJR ): But nobody was expecting the guillotine. I certainly wasn’t. As a longtime Phoenix read...

Yesterday the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) bill was introduced in Congress by U.S. Representatives Zoe Lofgren...

The fight over open access in the UK has been joined by David Willets, the governments Universities Ministers proclamation that all publicly...

Brian Kibby, President of McGraw Hill Higher Education interviewed in Inside Higher Ed Question 4: It seems to me that in your position a...

The Economist takes a look at how Springer has approached the digitization of their entire backlist/archive of books. They already provide ...

From CCC's Beyond to Book series, How Social Media is Keeping Alive the Journal Article: Scholarly communication is rapidly changing, ...

The New York Times takes up the issue of "pricy" scholarly journals and leads with their view point ( NYT ): After decades of he...

From his beyond the book series , Chris Kennealy interviews Rafael Sidi, Elsevier VP of Product Management for Applications Marketplace and ...

Originally posted June 24th, 2008 Large publishers like Elsevier, Macmillan and Kluwer spent the past 20-30 years or so consolidating journa...

I've mentioned that information and academic publishers are starting to open up their data to third party applications providers and, in...

In 2008, Springer acquired open access publisher BioMed Central amid worries the publisher would curtail the open access model despite claim...

In the early days of the on-line self-publishing revolution when companies like Xlibris, iUniverse, Author House and Publish America were vy...

In the University's alumni magazine this quarter, Boston University discuss their recently launched open access research repository unde...

Journal publisher Elsevier has announced a beta project to re-think the journal article. In collaboration with their journal Cell, the com...

An interesting announcement from Swets that the contents of their journals database are available via the Apple iPhone and iTouch. Swets i...