Industry News
- 24th January 2020: American Chemical Society names Dr. James Milne head of its Publications Division
- 23rd January 2020: IOP Publishing signs new OA agreements with Dutch universities
- 22nd January 2020: The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers launches ‘STM 2020 Research Data Year’
- 22nd January 2020: Open Access, Open Data Increase Demand for STM
- 21st January 2020: Emerald Publishing enters exclusive partnership with Oxford Analytica, offering daily Expert Briefings on geopolitics and international relations events to the worldwide academic community.
- 21st January 2020: The Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing appoint Professor Qi-Kun Xue as chief scientific advisor for China
- 20th January 2020: CSIC and IntechOpen Cooperate on Open Access publishing
- 20th January 2020: Springer Nature revives IPO plans, new bank consortium: sources
- 16th January 2020: Ex Libris Completes the Acquisition of Innovative
- 16th January 2020: American Chemical Society announces the launch of JACS Au, a new fully open access journal
- 24th May 2018: Springer Nature works with tech industry to find innovative solutions for researchers
- 24th May 2018: Aref Matin Named Wiley’s Chief Technology Officer
- 23rd May 2018: Karger Publishers Adds Remarq
- 22nd May 2018: ConTech 2018 – Conference chairs to meet to finalise this year’s programme.
- 22nd May 2018: Macquarie University Successfully Provides Overleaf Accounts to over 40,000 Students and 3,000 Staff
- 22nd May 2018: Kudos announces initial Shareable PDF results:
- 18th May 2018: HighWire and PubGrade partner to increase publisher revenues
- 17th May 2018: Springer Nature charts rapid growth in open access articles by UK authors
- 16th May 2018: World Politics Review Becomes One of the First Global Publishers to use OpenAthens’ New Cloud Product
- 16th May 2018: Clarivate Analytics and REDIB Launch Ibero-American Journal Rankings, Revealing the Most Impactful Journals in Ibero-America
- 16th May 2018: Sweden stands up for open access – cancels agreement with Elsevier
- 16th May 2018: New F1000Research gateway to maximise the 3Rs impact of NC3Rs-funded research
- 16th May 2018: Springer Nature commits to support collaborative solutions to society’s grand challenges
- 15th May 2018: AJE, a division of Research Square, promotes three PhDs to top executive level positions
- 15th May 2018: Peer review information now available for online articles
- 14th May 2018: De Gruyter launches Sciendo
- 14th May 2018: The American Physical Society chooses Aptara’s SciPris platform for the invoicing and collection of their publishing-related charges to authors and institutions.
- 9th May 2018: Weak demand forces Springer Nature to cancel 3.2 billion euro float at last minute
- 9th May 2018: Weak demand forces Springer Nature to cancel 3.2 billion euro float at last minute
- 2nd May 2018: Clarivate Analytics Appoints Keith Collier as Managing Director, Publisher Services
- 1st May 2018: G-Med Partners with Enago to offer Medical Publication Services
- 26th April 2018: Taylor & Francis and Cambridge University Press Join Blockchain for Peer Review Project
- 26th April 2018: IntechOpen Embeds Dimensions Badges from Digital Science
- 26th April 2018: IntechOpen Introduces Strategic Change in Technology and Brand
- 25th April 2018: ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2018. Closing Date for Entries 5 May 2018
- 25th April 2018: Wiley Inclusive Access increases affordability and access for students
- 24th April 2018: Wiley partners with World Scientific to offer affordable digital content in Asia
- 24th April 2018: ConTech 2018 – Conference chairs announced
- 23rd April 2018: Cambridge University Press and Code Ocean Announce Partnership
- 23rd April 2018: Frontiers in Blockchain: first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to blockchain from a scientific publisher
- 19th April 2018: ConTech 2018 announces core themes and call for speakers
- 19th April 2018: ConTech 2018 announces core themes and call for speakers
- 19th April 2018: Digital Science Award Special Blockchain Technology Catalyst Grants
- 19th April 2018: Digital Science Award Special Blockchain Technology Catalyst Grants
- 19th April 2018: Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press, Thieme and ResearchGate announce new cooperation to make it easier to navigate the legal sharing of academic journal articles
- 19th April 2018: STM Course – Elementary course in journal publishing – Europe
- 17th April 2018: De Gruyter extends its reach in Hungary
- 11th April 2018: Karger Publishers has acquired Health Press Ltd to strengthen its clinical decision support business.
- 11th April 2018: Clarivate Analytics Acquires Research Startup Kopernio to Accelerate Pace of Scientific Innovation
- 11th April 2018: Clarivate Analytics Acquires Research Startup Kopernio to Accelerate Pace of Scientific Innovation
- 11th April 2018: Wageningen Academic Publishers Partners with Enago to Provide Author Support Services
- 11th April 2018: Wageningen Academic Publishers Partners with Enago to Provide Author Support Services
- 9th April 2018: IntechOpen Announces VP of Customer Care
- 4th April 2018: LM Information Delivery partners with OpenAthens to enhance offering for library clients
- 4th April 2018: De Gruyter and Iberoamericana Vervuert enter commercial partnership
- 4th April 2018: Elsevier launches Mendeley Data to manage entire lifecycle of research data
- 4th April 2018: Artificial Intelligence Hypothesis Validation Platform Sci.ai Wins Digital Science Catalyst Grant
- 3rd April 2018: Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting Focuses on Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads
- 28th March 2018: Info International announces brand new conference – ConTech 2018
- 26th March 2018: IntechOpen Announces Incoming CEO – Dr. Anke Beck
- 22nd March 2018: Cambridge University Press Announces New Home for Authors
- 20th March 2018: Extending Publons’ Reviewer Recognition Service to 250 Taylor & Francis Journals
- 15th March 2018: Clarivate Analytics Welcomes Caroline Birkle as the New General Manager of Converis
- 9th March 2018: Peter Lang converts eleven journals to Open Access publications
- 8th March 2018: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft to grow open access publishing with IOP
- 7th March 2018: Digital Science and Katalysis Lead Initiative to Explore Blockchain Technologies for Peer Review
- 6th March 2018: Online Journal Discovery and Delivery: Working with libraries and industry intermediaries to maximise readership
- 5th March 2018: De Gruyter and Gorgias Press enter partnership
- 2nd March 2018: IOP Publishing reveals new look for Physics World
- 1st March 2018: European Geriatric Medicine journal now published by Springer
- 28th February 2018: Brexit is an opportunity to forge a stronger European Research Area, according to new consultation
- 28th February 2018: PLOS Collaborates on Recommendations to Improve Transparency for Author Contributions
- 26th February 2018: SpringerNature hurries 7 billion euro Frankfurt listing
- 21st February 2018: Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation
- 21st February 2018: Atypon’s Artificial Intelligence R&D Fuels Four More BioASQ Awards in Semantic Technologies
- 19th February 2018: Info International presents a one day Pharma Reprints Summit
- 19th February 2018: Info International presents a one day Pharma Reprints Summit
- 19th February 2018: Consortium “n+i” Partners with Enago to Offer Manuscript Preparation and Author Education Services
- 14th February 2018: STM Association announce – Intensive Course in Journal Publishing, Singapore
- 14th February 2018: STM Association announce – Intensive Course in Journal Publishing, Singapore
- 14th February 2018: Cambridge University Press expands partnership with AJE to include comprehensive suite of manuscript preparation service
- 13th February 2018: Info International presents a one day Pharma Reprints Summit 21st March 2018
- 13th February 2018: Emerald launches new Engineering, Computing & Technology portfolio
- 13th February 2018: Emerald launches new Engineering, Computing & Technology portfolio
- 13th February 2018: Kudos launching new dissemination management and impact acceleration services
- 13th February 2018: Kudos launching new dissemination management and impact acceleration services
- 9th February 2018: Wiley Displays Commitment to Research and Learning in India
- 9th February 2018: Call for Applications: “IntechOpen Women in Science 2018” Book Collection
- 7th February 2018: Back to the Future: Institute for Scientific Information Re-established Within Clarivate Analytics
- 7th February 2018: PLOS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Enter Agreement to Enable Preprint Posting on bioRxiv
- 6th February 2018: Manchester University Press to Migrate All Books and Journals to PubFactory in Spring 2018
- 6th February 2018: Academic Software “Kopernio” Receives Funding from Innovate UK to Accelerate OneClick Journal Article Access
- 6th February 2018: New National License Agreement Provides Brazil with Unlimited Access to the Cochrane Library
- 5th February 2018: PLOS and PubGrade announce digital advertising partnership
- 5th February 2018: IntechOpen Joins Presentations at Harvard and MIT on Open Access Books Addressing the Need for Fast Publishing with Peer Review
- 25th January 2018: Peking University acquires linguistics and literature eBook package from De Gruyter Mouton
- 25th January 2018: Asia Reclaims Position as Epicenter of Global Innovation
- 25th January 2018: OpenAthens 2018 Conference: Championing the user
- 24th January 2018: World Scientific Publishing partners with Enago to offer Manuscript Preparation and Author Education Services
- 23rd January 2018: Additional 509 IntechOpen Book Chapters Accepted by BKCI
- 23rd January 2018: Additional 509 IntechOpen Book Chapters Accepted by BKCI
- 18th January 2018: Flexible training options for newcomers to scholarly communications from ALPSP
- 18th January 2018: Edanz partners with Aries Systems to adopt Editorial Manager Ingest Service for its Author Path product
- 18th January 2018: Elsevier acquires Via Oncology, a leading provider of clinical decision support solutions for oncology professionals
- 18th January 2018: SAGE Publishing expands data offering with the purchase of Data-Planet
- 17th January 2018: De Gruyter reaches 1000th open access book milestone
- 15th January 2018: Joachim Flickinger appointed as the new Managing Director of S. Karger GmbH in Freiburg, Germany
- 15th January 2018: Digital Science launches Dimensions: next-generation research and discovery platform
- 12th January 2018: Vicky Williams is appointed CEO of Emerald Publishing
- 9th January 2018: SAGE Publishing acquires journal portfolio from international independent publisher, Wichtig
- 8th January 2018: AIP Publishing Eliminates Publication Page Charges across ALL Journals
- 8th January 2018: Germany vs Elsevier: universities win temporary journal access after refusing to pay fees
- 5th January 2018: Author Access to Editing and Translation Improves
- 5th January 2018: Knowledge Unlatched sees more than 20% growth for KU Select 2017
- 4th January 2018: ACS Publications reaches new heights with 100 million article downloads by researchers worldwide in 2017
- 23rd December 2017: Hasan to leave Springer Nature
- 22nd December 2017: Unrestricted Text and Data Mining with allofPLOS
- 20th December 2017: One billion metadata facts now on Springer Nature SciGraph
- 18th December 2017: Science Reviews 2000 joins ALPSP Collections and Aggregagent™
- 18th December 2017: De Gruyter and United Nations cooperate on open access book project
- 13th June 2017: SSRN launches a new network dedicated to biology – BioRN
- 17th February 2015: EDP Sciences and SICOT announce the launch of a new Open Access journal in orthopaedics: SICOT-J
- 19th January 2015: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners announce agreement to merge majority of Macmillan Science and Education with Springer Science+Business Media
- 7th August 2014: CHORUS goes live
- 23rd August 2013: AAP Statement on OSTP Deadline for Federal Agencies’ Public Access Plans
- 26th March 2013: STM Submission to the HEFCE Consultation
- 22nd March 2013: Taylor & Francis Open Access survey results show diverse author opinions
- 5th March 2013: Open letter to STM Members: SHERPA Tool for RCUK OA Policy
- 18th February 2013: Text Mining and Scholarly Publishing
- 11th February 2013: Non-Print Legal Deposit Regulations Laid Before Parliament
- 11th January 2013: Open letter to publishers on CC-BY licences
- 16th November 2012: AAUP appoints Peter M. Berkery incoming Executive Director effective March 13, 2013
- 14th November 2012: Research4Life publisher partners commit to free and low cost access through 2020.
- 24th October 2012: Irish Government announces National Open Access Policy
- 4th October 2012: Publishers and Google Reach Settlement Agreement
- 11th September 2012: Publishers will appeal e-reserve decision that favored Georgia State University
- 9th September 2012: UK Government invests £10 million to help universities move to Open Access
- 4th September 2012: ORCID announces its launch partners
- 30th August 2012: Measuring Academic Research in Canada: Field Normalized Academic Rankings 2012
- 12th August 2012: Judge Denies Publishers Request for Relief in Georgia State U.E -Reserves Case
- 10th August 2012: CrossRef joins STM-DataCite Statement
- 23rd July 2012: ORCID Registry launch planned for October 2012
- 17th July 2012: European Commission embraces Open Access
- 16th July 2012: David Willetts: U.K. publicly-funded research to be made open access
- 16th July 2012: UK government opens up publicly funded research
- 16th July 2012: RCUK announces new Open Access policy
- 10th July 2012: University Applications Fall Sharply in Britain
- 9th July 2012: HathiTrust, Authors Guild File Motions in Digitization Battle
- 9th July 2012: Tough job market for Science Ph.D.s
- 4th July 2012: European Parliament rejected ACTA
- 3rd July 2012: UK announces updates to Copyright Licensing
- 29th June 2012: Thomson Reuters releases 2011 Journal Citation Reports
- 28th June 2012: European Publishers meet with EC, Endorse Single Market for E-Books
- 28th June 2012: Wellcome Trust strengthens its open access policy
- 20th June 2012: Shawn Morin named Chief Operating Officer of Ingram Content Group, Inc.
- 19th June 2012: PEER Usage Reports and Final Project report now available
- 18th June 2012: STM Welcomes Report of the Finch Group into Expanding Access to Research Publications in the UK
- 18th June 2012: Google appeals Authors Guild class action status
- 12th June 2012: Six-year Google Books spat ends with publisher agreement
- 11th June 2012: Research4Life significantly expands developing world access
- 8th June 2012: BMJ Group appoints Tim Brooks as CEO, replacing Stella Dutton who is retiring
- 6th June 2012: ACRL – “Value of Academic Libraries Summit White Paper”
- 4th June 2012: Publishers file proposed order for injunction relief following Georgia State ruling
- 1st June 2012: Publishers Association & ALPSP release report on the potential effect of making journals free after a 6 month embargo
- 1st June 2012: U. S. Judge Allows Class-Action Suit over Google’s Book Scanning
- 29th May 2012: Pritchard leaving Ingram
- 29th May 2012: STM Press Release – PEER partners consensus on Gold Open Access
- 22nd May 2012: Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers
- 21st May 2012: Europe Offers to let Google Settle Potential Antitrust Charge
- 17th May 2012: Georgia State University Copyright Decision Issued – New Rules for Users and Publishers
- 16th May 2012: Research4Life Expands Peer Reviewed Research Available to Developing World: More than 17,000 Resources Now Available
- 15th May 2012: ARL Endorses VRA Statement on Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study
- 15th May 2012: Wolters Kluwer Sells its Healthcare Analytics Business to STG
- 10th May 2012: Google, Authors Guild clash over class action & standing
- 2nd May 2012: Wikipedia founder to help in UK government’s research scheme
- 24th April 2012: German R & D hotspots ranked
- 24th April 2012: Panel questions Harvard Library’s Journal Spending
- 23rd April 2012: Thomson Reuters to sell healthcare unit to Veritas
- 16th April 2012: Google Starts Ranking Journals
- 12th April 2012: ORCID appoints Laurel Haak as Executive Director
- 12th April 2012: Thomson Reuters “Red-Hot Research Papers of 2011”
- 6th April 2012: Robert Darnton promises Digital Library of America
- 29th March 2012: Libraries are colleges’ most effective tech investment, surveys find
- 29th March 2012: UK is back in recession, OECD says
- 20th March 2012: ALPSP announces new Chief Executive – Dr. Audrey McCulloch
- 15th March 2012: Draft Release 1 of COUNTER Code of Practice for Usage Factors now available for comment
- 15th March 2012: JISC report states text mining is being held back by copyright laws and other barriers
- 9th March 2012: Global Professional Publishing Industry to Grow 3% in 2012: Simba Information
- 9th March 2012: Google Begins to Scale Back its Scanning of Books from University Libraries
- 8th March 2012: U. S. Justice Department threatens lawsuits, alleging collusion over e-book pricing
- 7th March 2012: UK High Court upholds Digital Economy Act
- 29th February 2012: International publisher alliance shuts down piracy site
- 29th February 2012: Obama creates trade unit to tackle copyright infringement
- 28th February 2012: PEER End of Project Conference announced
- 27th February 2012: Research Works Act – HR3699 – is declared dead
- 27th February 2012: ARL releases arguments to support website archiving by research libraries
- 27th February 2012: Apple, Google, MS, 3 others on board with mobile apps privacy mandate
- 22nd February 2012: In Memoriam Seiji Sato, 1934 – 2012
- 15th February 2012: Publishers Strike Major Blow against Internet Piracy
- 14th February 2012: AAUP Issues Statement on RWA, FRPAA and America COMPETES Act
- 14th February 2012: Royal Society of Chemistry announces James Milne new Managing Director, Publishing
- 9th February 2012: Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) of 2012 introduced in U. S. Congress
- 9th February 2012: European countries plan cuts to higher education
- 8th February 2012: Mobile devices Internet access doubled in 2011
- 26th January 2012: ARL releases “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries”
- 20th January 2012: U. S. House and Senate Postpone Piracy Laws
- 20th January 2012: PEER Economics Research Final Report now available
- 15th January 2012: White House Says It Opposes Part of Two Antipiracy Bills
- 13th January 2012: DeGruyter acquires Versita
- 9th January 2012: How the FT and NYT aim to make paywalls pay
- 5th January 2012: Scientists call for repeal of “deluded” ESPRC measure
- 27th December 2011: SOPA online piracy bill markup postponed
- 27th December 2011: Class Action Filed in Google Books Case
- 21st December 2011: New International Identifier Connects the Right Person with the Right Credentials
- 20th December 2011: Class Action Filed in Google Book Case
- 16th December 2011: Lines Drawn on U. S. Antipiracy Bills
- 9th December 2011: Opening Europe’s Data
- 9th December 2011: The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) celebrates 170 years of publishing
- 9th December 2011: Deanna Marcum named Managing Director of Ithaka S+R
- 9th December 2011: RLUK announces new publisher terms
- 6th December 2011: ORCID, Inc. picks Semantico to build global scholarly author registry
- 6th December 2011: The British Library sign agreements with Elsevier and Taylor & Francis for document delivery outside the UK to non-commercial researchers
- 5th December 2011: Wolters Kluwer Health Acquires Leading Open Access STM Journal Publisher (Medknow)in India
- 21st November 2011: IEEE and the China Communication Standards Association (CCSA) Sign Memorandum of Understanding
- 10th November 2011: Thirty-three North American research institutions endorse the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge
- 10th November 2011: America COMPETES – Request for Information on Public Access to Digital Data and Scientific Publications
- 10th November 2011: Fair Use & Felony: U. S. library associations say legislation could expose them to copyright prosecution
- 9th November 2011: Library Journal bought by RLJ companies
- 9th November 2011: Springer to acquire Pharma Marketing and Publishing Services from Wolters Kluwer
- 8th November 2011: Martyn Harrow appointed new Head of JISC
- 2nd November 2011: India, US to enhance collaboration in research, skill development
- 27th October 2011: Digital Public Library of America and Europeana announce collaboration
- 26th October 2011: ALA – There are 122,101 libraries of all kinds in the United States
- 26th October 2011: U. S. Copyright Office outlines “Priorities & Special Projects”
- 26th October 2011: Dispute intensifies over ban on some types of scientific cooperation between U. S. & China
- 26th October 2011: ARL (American Research Libraries) publishes Digital Preservation SPEC Kit 325
- 25th October 2011: Jayne Marks joins Wolters Kluwer Health as Vice President, Publishing
- 20th October 2011: A Joint Venture to Create U. S. Federal Science Agency Repositories
- 20th October 2011: ARL (Association of Research Libraries) announces 2011-2012 Board of Directors
- 20th October 2011: High Demand for Science Graduates in the U. S. enables them to pick their jobs
- 20th October 2011: Top 50 Engineering & Technology universities
- 20th October 2011: Top 50 Arts and Humanities universities
- 20th October 2011: Reframing the “STEM Shortage” debate
- 19th October 2011: European Gender Summit: Quality Research and Innovation through Equality
- 6th October 2011: Harvard moves ahead with Library reorganization
- 6th October 2011: Major Copyright Case Against UCLA Dismissed
- 6th October 2011: Final PEER Behavioural Research Report available
- 6th October 2011: Times Higher Education World University Rankings: 2011-201
- 5th October 2011: Current challenges in medical communication: diagnosing and curing unethical practices, Warsaw, Poland 8 October
- 30th September 2011: Robust UK research climate cannot be taken for granted
- 30th September 2011: Google to open startup base in London
- 30th September 2011: Amazon launches online bookstore in China
- 29th September 2011: OCLC and OhioLink release extensive data sets on book usage patterns in academic libraries
- 27th September 2011: Wiley Job Network Launched
- 27th September 2011: STM partners with CCC – special RightsLink discount for STM members
- 27th September 2011: Royal Swets & Zeitlinger celebrates its 110th anniversary
- 26th September 2011: End User Survey of U. S. Federal Depository Libraries
- 26th September 2011: Royal Society of Chemistry appoints Dr. Robert Parker Chief Executive
- 26th September 2011: Publication bubble threatens China’s scientific advance
- 23rd September 2011: Libraries rethink digitization effort after authors sue
- 22nd September 2011: Authors take libraries to court in face off in copyright issue
- 20th September 2011: STM Association signs Out of Commerce Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
- 19th September 2011: University of Michigan admits flaws in HathiTrust system
- 16th September 2011: HathiTrust suspends its Orphan Works Release
- 16th September 2011: Expanding access to published research findings
- 15th September 2011: Judge adopts trial schedule at Google status conference, but settlement talks continue
- 12th September 2011: Amazon in talks to launch digital book library
- 9th September 2011: STM supplemental reply to the EU online survey on scientific information
- 8th September 2011: Europeana Libraries Project Begins to Aggregate Digital Content
- 8th September 2011: STM, PA and British Library agree framework licence agreement for document delivery to non-commercial research publishers outside the UK
- 7th September 2011: Battle for German Brains
- 7th September 2011: U. S. Second Circuit Copyright Ruling Could Affect Libraries and Jobs
- 1st September 2011: RLUK develops journal subscription analysis tool
- 1st September 2011: The Big Deal: Not Price but Cost
- 1st September 2011: Chinese science ministry increases funding – annual round of research grants up 50%
- 30th August 2011: New RIN Report – Data Centres: their use, value and impact
- 29th August 2011: High profile Canadian research universities defect from copyright clearinghouse
- 29th August 2011: U of California San Diego sells 150,000 books & journals due to budget cuts
- 26th August 2011: La Martinere and Google sign agreement
- 25th August 2011: Report shows increased need for libraries on campuses
- 25th August 2011: Taylor & Francis adds 150 new journals to ARDI
- 25th August 2011: Major U. S. libraries join controversial project to publish “orphan works online’
- 24th August 2011: U. S. revises rules on researchers’ financial conflicts of interest
- 20th August 2011: Accessible Publishing, Best Practice Guidelines for publishers encourages making publications as accessible as possible
- 18th August 2011: Cut cost of accessing research e-journals or lose RLUK business, publishers told
- 16th August 2011: U.K. Slashes Science and Engineering Ph.D.s
- 11th August 2011: Obituary for Richard Pike, Royal Society of Chemistry Chief Executive, 1950 – 2011
- 9th August 2011: Publishing gives hint of revival, data show
- 9th August 2011: China’s Intellectual Property Regime Comes of Age
- 8th August 2011: After Much Ado, a Google Book Deal in France
- 4th August 2011: Online business in China is growing even faster than offline
- 3rd August 2011: Indian Performance Royalties threatened by Court Ruling
- 3rd August 2011: Plaigarism Plague Hinders China’s Scientific Ambitions
- 2nd August 2011: UK won’t enact site-blocking laws. May legalise format-shifting
- 2nd August 2011: Google & Microsoft launch free science metrics – promising to democratize citation data
- 2nd August 2011: Peer-review in science ‘can be improved’ MPs report
- 30th July 2011: Kate Wittenberg appointed Portico Managing Director
- 28th July 2011: British Research Libraries Draw Line in Sand over Journal Pricing
- 28th July 2011: Profits surge at OUP
- 28th July 2011: UK House of Commons report on peer review now published
- 28th July 2011: Wolters Kluwer to divest its Pharma Solutions business
- 28th July 2011: Brazil boosts support for science scholarships
- 28th July 2011: UK Parliament Panel Reviews Peer Review
- 27th July 2011: U. S. Congress examines ways to improve peer review in federal science research funding
- 21st July 2011: European Commission launches a public consultation on scientific information in the digital age
- 21st July 2011: Winners of Research4Life Global Case Study Competition announced
- 20th July 2011: China’s publishing industry records 19% growth
- 20th July 2011: NISO publishes special E-Book issue of Information Standards Quarterly
- 20th July 2011: Frustrated judge Denny Chin pushes Google digital book deal
- 18th July 2011: Cornell & Columbia expand library partnership
- 15th July 2011: National Science Foundation (U. S.) publishes report on state of academic research
- 14th July 2011: STM’s Ireland Copyright Review – Consultation on the Review of the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000
- 14th July 2011: Biochemical Society announces Caroline Black as new Managing Director of publishing division Portland Press Ltd
- 13th July 2011: “Fair Use in the U. S. Economy” 2011 study by Computer & Communications Industry Association
- 12th July 2011: Google Ventures quietly invests in collaborative toolset for scientists
- 12th July 2011: Google launches new research institute in Germany
- 8th July 2011: JISC project puts rare, historic images of China online
- 6th July 2011: ProQuest names Kurt Sanford CEO, replacing Marty Kahn
- 5th July 2011: Amazon buys the UK E-tailer The Book Depository
- 30th June 2011: STM prepares submission on the open public consultation on the European Institute of Innovation and Technology
- 30th June 2011: Sarah Durrant announced as Chief Executive of ALPSP
- 29th June 2011: Bangkok, Thailand, Elected World Book Capital 2013
- 29th June 2011: Thomson Reuters releases journal citation reports for 2010
- 29th June 2011: California budget to require bigger cuts from public universities
- 28th June 2011: Thomson Reuters reports Asia leads research output in materials science
- 28th June 2011: Academic publisher steps up efforts to stop piracy of its online products
- 23rd June 2011: University of Michigan’s Library Opens Up Orphan Works
- 20th June 2011: Publishing Research Consortium (PRC) releases study on Journal Article Mining: A research study into Practices, Policies, Plans. . . and Promises
- 20th June 2011: British Library makes Google search deal
- 17th June 2011: U. S. Senate Committee Votes to Make Illegal Streaming of Movies, TV a felony
- 15th June 2011: Videos from the World Copyright Summit: 7-8 June 2011, Brussels – check them out
- 14th June 2011: STM and IPA Statement in Response to the IFLA Draft Treaty on Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Archives
- 13th June 2011: AAUP announces election of MaryKatherine Callaway to presidency
- 9th June 2011: EBSCO acquires H. W. Wilson
- 8th June 2011: STM Statement on Document Delivery
- 8th June 2011: Interview at the World Copyright Summit with U. S. Copyright Czar – Victoria Espinel
- 8th June 2011: Video of WIPO’s DG Francis Gurry’s keynote, at World Copyright Summit
- 7th June 2011: Thomson Reuters to sell its Healthcare business
- 7th June 2011: Issue 12 of the Accessibility Newsletter is now available
- 7th June 2011: U. S. Supreme Court rules against Stanford University
- 2nd June 2011: STM speaks at European Commission Public Hearing on Scientific Information 30 May 2011
- 2nd June 2011: Springer offers free access to research on E-coli bacteria
- 31st May 2011: Springer launches network of job sites
- 31st May 2011: STM submission on Green Paper on the future of VAT
- 31st May 2011: Niko Pfund named president of Oxford University Press USA
- 27th May 2011: U. S. senator blocks online copyright bill
- 25th May 2011: STM responds to Hargreaves Report – Press Release
- 24th May 2011: European Commission sets out “blueprint” for Intellectual Property Rights to boost creativity and innovation
- 24th May 2011: Revamping Intellectual Property Rights in the European Union
- 24th May 2011: European Commission IP Strategy just published
- 24th May 2011: European Commission adopts proposal for a directive on orphan works
- 23rd May 2011: More on the UK inquiry into peer review
- 22nd May 2011: Report of the AAUP Task Force on Economic Models for Scholarly Publishing – “Sustaining Scholarly Publishing”
- 20th May 2011: STM submission on Green Paper Towards a Common Strategic Framework for EU Research and Innovation Funding
- 20th May 2011: Amazon: Kindle Books Outselling Print Copies
- 19th May 2011: STM Publishers welcome Spanish Science Law Press Release
- 19th May 2011: ARL publishes ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics
- 19th May 2011: National Science Foundation (US) releases Strategic Plan for FY 2011-2016, “Empowering the Nation through Discovery & Innovation”
- 19th May 2011: Google Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, tees off on U. S. copyright bill
- 19th May 2011: Jonathan Newcomb appointed Chairman of the Swets Board
- 18th May 2011: Hargreaves Review on Intellectual Property and Growth Released 18 May
- 18th May 2011: IFRRO Business Models Forum, 9 June 2011 in Brussels
- 17th May 2011: Library Copyright Alliance releases statement on copyright reform
- 16th May 2011: Neelie Kroes, VP European Commission – What would you do with Europe’s data?
- 16th May 2011: Research Information speaks on e-books for scholarly research
- 16th May 2011: Biochemical Journal China editorial office launched at Institute of Biophysics – Chinese Academy of Science
- 14th May 2011: China’s largest search engine, Baidu, fined $85K for allegedly helping book piracy
- 14th May 2011: U of California libraries must increase sharing to weather budget cuts
- 13th May 2011: Royal Society studies use of scientific information on scientists & society
- 12th May 2011: China Daily: China-US dialogue reaps benefits
- 12th May 2011: ACS launches “Publishing Your Research 101” – web based videos
- 11th May 2011: Ian Russell, Chief Executive of ALPSP, is leaving and joining OUP.
- 10th May 2011: EDitEUR launches “Accessible Publishing: Best Practice Guidelines for Publishers”
- 7th May 2011: World Copyright Summit
- 5th May 2011: European Commission prepares to announce a series of reforms on intellectual property rights
- 30th April 2011: In comments to FTC, ARL suggests privacy oversight for Google Books
- 30th April 2011: The Royal Society issues a new report on science
- 30th April 2011: High Wire announces appointment of Managing Director
- 26th April 2011: Fifth Bloomsbury Conference on E-publishing and E-publications
- 26th April 2011: STM Submission on amending the Patents Act
- 26th April 2011: April 26 is World Intellectual Property Day
- 19th April 2011: STM statement on negotiating rights for institutional repository postings and author rights
- 14th April 2011: STM responds to RIN Transitions Report
- 8th April 2011: New Report on OA Transition Costs Released by RIN
- 8th April 2011: Key music industry lawyer now EU copyright chief
- 5th April 2011: New RIN Report: Information practices in the humanities
- 30th March 2011: Wolters Kluwer Health supports disaster relief efforts in Japan
- 24th March 2011: Elsevier names CEO of Science & Technology Division
- 23rd March 2011: East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
- 23rd March 2011: AAP responds to Google Book Settlement Court Decision
- 22nd March 2011: NYC Judge rejects Google book settlement
- 21st March 2011: ORCID Participant Meeting
- 15th March 2011: Concrete steps Congress can take to protect U.S’s intellectual property
- 14th March 2011: European Court of Justice’s Advocate General releases opinion on levies and cross-border sales
- 11th March 2011: Thomson Reuters Names “Hottest” Researchers and Papers of 2010
- 10th March 2011: Vancouver Sun – Copyright Reform Close, but no cigar
- 10th March 2011: STM’s Submission to UK House of Commons Science Select Committee Enquiry on Peer Review
- 9th March 2011: ORCID awarded Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- 8th March 2011: U. S. Supreme Court takes on landmark fair use case
- 7th March 2011: STM Submission for the Independent Review of Intellectual Property and Growth
- 3rd March 2011: Presentations from the ASA (Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries) Annual Conference 2011
- 1st March 2011: Copyright law under review in Ireland
- 25th February 2011: WIPO Director General addresses the future of copyright
- 24th February 2011: Google’s Belgian copyright case could set Europe’s Search Policy
- 23rd February 2011: Canadian writers speak out on Canada’s copyright bill
- 22nd February 2011: Social Media lures academics frustrated by journals
- 21st February 2011: Information Today releases market research study on library spending
- 18th February 2011: EU mulls tax cuts for online media
- 17th February 2011: AAP submits Annual Review of global intellectual property protection to USTA
- 7th February 2011: PA – ALPSP Journal Publishers’ Forum – Open access: the next ten years
- 2nd February 2011: Wiley launches new program of open access journals
- 1st February 2011: UK Science & Technology Committee announces an inquiry into the operations and effectiveness of Peer Review
- 25th January 2011: ISNI International Agency developing global standard to identify creative rights holders
- 24th January 2011: CLOCKSS Appoints New Executive Director
- 24th January 2011: Here and Now: The Digital and Ebook Market 2011
- 21st January 2011: Pharmaceutical Press, Ltd seeks applications for non-executive seats on its Board
- 21st January 2011: Simba Reports Publishing Journal Revenues Grew 3% in 2010
- 19th January 2011: RIN releases concluding report on e-journals use by researchers
- 17th January 2011: Study of Open Access Publishing presents findings
- 11th January 2011: Elsevier adds science & technology e-books to Research4Life
- 10th January 2011: European Commission may compel ISPs to combat users’ IP infringement
- 7th January 2011: Wiley-Blackwell adds 102 products through Research4Life
- 6th January 2011: STM responds to America COMPETES Act Public Access Provision
- 5th January 2011: President Obama signs America COMPETES