News: academic

Pearson sells US K12 schools courseware to Nexus in $250m deal

Pearson is selling its US K12 public schools courseware business to private equity group Nexus Capital Management in a deal worth $250m (£193m). Read more

Farquhar-Thomson heads to Princeton University Press

After 20 years heading up the PR department for Oxford University Press's Academic division, Kate Farquhar-Thomson is moving to Princeton University Press as head of publicity, Europe.... Read more

Springer Nature says Plan S stance on hybrid journals 'unacceptable'

Springer Nature has said the current Plan S requirement for publishers to commit to 'flip' hybrid journals to Open Access is "unnecessary, and...unacceptable for us... Read more

ALPSP: '2020 date for Plan S is too soon'

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers has warned that the pace of change scheduled for Plan S gives too little time for members to... Read more

Bloomsbury India begins academic publishing with local authors

Bloomsbury is starting academic publishing in India this year as it continues to evolve its business in the country. Read more

Academic Book Week to focus on Banned Books

Banned Academic Books will be the theme of Academic Book Week (#AcBookWeek), which returns in March for a fourth year. Read more

Pearson expects to report revenue dip, but profit growth, for 2018

Pearson has reported making "good financial and strategic progress in 2018", despite a small revenue fall during the year, saying in its January trading update... Read more

Wiley in 'transformative' partnership with German academic institutions

Wiley has signed what it describes as a “transformative” partnership with Projekt DEAL, which represents nearly 700 academic institutions in Germany. Read more

Clarivate Analytics to merge with Churchill Capital

Clarivate Analytics is to become a publicly listed company following an agreement to merge with Churchill Capital Corp. Read more

CUP launches big programme of speedy, mid-length publishing, Cambridge Elements

Cambridge University Press has launched Cambridge Elements, a large-scale programme for research that sits outside the traditional formats of either book or journal article.... Read more

Williams joins Bristol UP as ops director

Andy Williams, formerly head of operations at Thames & Hudson, has joined Bristol University Press as its operations director, a new role at the press.... Read more

New lease of life for France Loisirs

The Paris commercial court has approved the recovery plan for the France Loisirs book club and its four service subsidiaries. Read more

CUP signs 'landmark' global history of espionage

Cambridge University Press has commissioned a three-volume global history of intelligence from the ancient world to present-day cyber-espionage. Read more

Duijser joins VitalSource as EMEA m.d.

Alice Duijser has been appointed as VitalSource's managing director for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, replacing John Donovan. Read more

Amazon takes on textbook counterfeiting in 'sting operation'

Amazon is tackling sales of counterfeit textbooks on its US site after suspending the accounts of booksellers allegedly selling counterfeit books in a major online sting.... Read more