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Elsevier announced the availability of SciVal Strata (an odd name) which enables a user to evaluate the performance - both actual and proje...

Several UK Sunday newspapers report new speculation about the future of Reed Elsevier and specifically whether the company could be ripe for...

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

Elsevier announced a partnership with Pangaea which is a 'data library' that links primary research data with journal articles in e...

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

Near Norwich, Bertrams were sold for £8.6mm and all 600 staff were kept on. A remarkable event given the state of UK bookselling. Smiths N...

Reed Elsevier presented a robust end to 2008 with the presentation of their end of year numbers yesterday. In constant currencies, RE reven...

This is my 1001st post - wow. Riverdeep, the owner of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is the subject of a profile by The Boston Globe this morni...

Chris Lee at Ars Technica has some harsh things to say about Elsevier's bundling policy and the quality of their journals: If the quali...

As an update to yesterday's post about RBI's CEO van de Aast, Bloomberg is reporting that bids may come in at around $1bill. which ...

Reed Elsevier announced yesterday that Gerard van de Aast will be leaving his position as CEO of RBI on December 15th. Kieth Jones will be...

Ian Smith has been named to replace Sir Crispin Davis as CEO of Reed when Davis retires early next year. Smith will join Reed in January. ...

The Financial Times reports that the price Reed may get for the sale of RBI will be far below their original expectation of £1.25Bill. In ...

Reuters reports that Bertelsmann's magazine unit Gruner & Jahr maybe in the mix to acquire the RBI unit from Reed Elsevier. Reuters ...

From the Reed Elsevier press release : Strong business momentum and financial performance Restructuring programme on track to deliver furthe...

The Telegraph handicaps some of the interest in the sale of Reed Business information and offers the intreging notion that MGH would purcha...

The FT reports that Reed is delaying the circulation of information relating to the sale of their Reed Business unit in advance of finalizin...

Several UK newspapers ( Telegraph ) are reporting that United Business Media has initiated discussions on a £3billion take over of Informa. ...

Folio is reporting that 41 positions have been eliminated at PW, Variety and Broadcasting & Cable. From their report: Shortly after the...

The Telegraph is reporting that Reed Elsevier is facing such a problem selling Reed business that they are organizing a consortium to provid...