Industry News & Releases
ARVO and Aptara Announce a 3-Year Partnership to Collect Open Access APC in conjunction with Full-Service Journal Production
October 15, 2019 – Falls Church, VA – Aptara has partnered with ARVO to provide an integrated ARVO-branded online platform to collect open access (OA) and article processing charges as part of a full-service journal solution. Aptara’s SciPris platform automates …
2019 Up & Comer Call for Nominations Now Open!
September 18, 2019 – Charleston, SC – Submit your nominations here. The time has come! It’s that exciting time of year again. Do you know a rising star in the library and information world? Would you like to see them recognized …
Mary Anne Baynes joins Overleaf as Head of Sales and Marketing
January 21, 2015 – Boston, MA – Baynes brings researcher, institutional and scientific publishing expertise to Overleaf. Overleaf, (previously WriteLaTeX), the leading collaborative authoring and publishing tool for scientific research, has appointed Mary Anne Baynes as Head of Sales and …
The American Medical Association Chooses Sheridan to Produce Commercial Reprints and ePrints from The JAMA Network
January 13, 2015 – Hanover, PA – The American Medical Association has selected Sheridan to produce all reprints and ePrints offered through The JAMA Network, beginning January 1, 2015. The JAMA Network publishes some of the most highly cited and …
The Value of Public Libraries in America
April 10, 2014 – Katie Greenock, SSP Communications Committee – The Pew Research Internet Project recently reported that 30% of Americans are highly engaged with public libraries in their communities, and that number increases to 69% when either a high or …
Brill announces the Middle East and Islamic Studies Early-Career Paper Prize
February 3, 2014 – Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – Brill supports early-career scholars with the new Middle East and Islamic Studies Early-Career Paper Prize. To encourage and support early-career scholars seeking to publish in leading academic journals, Brill is …
Brill and INASP sign Agreement for Inclusion in Brill’s Developing Countries Program Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA)
January 30, 2014 – Brill and INASP signed an agreement to make Brill journal content directly available through INASP as part of Brill’s Developing Countries Program. Brill and INASP signed an agreement to make Brill journal content directly available through …
EPUB Update by Bill Kasdorf, VP-Apex
December 11, 2013 – As EPUB 3 turns two years old—no “terrible twos” jokes, please—there is more activity than ever around this fundamental standard. Too much, in fact, to present here in detail other than a bulleted-list summary (with links …
Public Consultation on Proposed Canadian Tri-Agency Open Access Policy
November 22, 2013 – Sylvia Hunter, SSP Communications Committee, University of Toronto Press – Canada’s three major public research funding bodies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social …
Free Livestream Available for NISO Altmetrics Project Meeting on October 9
October 7, 2013 – As previously announced, NISO is undertaking—with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation—a two-phase initiative to explore, identify, and advance standards and/or best practices related to a new suite of assessment metrics for the scholarly …
