News: academic

Dr Magdalena Skipper appointed editor-in-chief at Nature

Dr Magdalena Skipper, currently editor-in-chief at Nature Communications, has been given the editor-in-chief role at flagship journal Nature, becoming its first woman editor.... Read more

Bloomsbury Education launches Early Years subscription website

Bloomsbury Education has launched a subscription website for early years practitioners. Read more

Malala among UK academics' top 20 books that changed the world

Titles by Malala Yousafzai, Anne Frank and Reni Eddo-Lodge have been voted on to a list of the Top 20 "most influential books in history written by women".... Read more

Springer Nature, CUP and Thieme agree to collaborate with ResearchGate

Three academic publishers – Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press and Thieme – have reached an agreement with ResearchGate to work together on the sharing of articles.... Read more

Springer Nature looks to raise €1.2bn in IPO

Publisher Springer Nature has confirmed it intends to list its shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, targeting funds of approximately €1.2bn to strengthen its financial... Read more

Nature and Estée Lauder launch women in science awards

Nature Research and The Estée Lauder Companies are launching two new awards for women in science. Read more

Oxford University Press reveals 12.6% pay gap

Oxford University Press has revealed a 12.6% median gender pay gap, lower than the national average of 18.4%. Read more

Princeton UP signs physicist Jim Al-Khalili

Ingrid Gnerlich at Princeton University Press has signed a book from Professor Jim Al-Khalili, provisionally titled The World Physics Made. ... Read more

Elsevier reports 40% gender pay gap

Elsevier has reported a median pay gap of 40%, more than twice the UK average of 18.4% and the highest yet reported by a publishing company.... Read more

Four more academic publishers reveal gender pay gaps

Academic publishers Taylor & Francis (T&F), Wiley, SAGE and Cambridge University Press have published their gender pay gap data, with all showing pay gaps in... Read more

Revenue dips 1.2% at McGraw Hill

Learning science company McGraw Hill saw a revenue drop of 1.2% in 2017, with a total of $1,719.1m (£1,213.8m), compared to $1,740m the previous year,... Read more

Springer Nature reports 15.12% pay gap

Scholarly publisher Springer Nature has reported a 15.21% median gender pay gap between men and women working at the company in the UK. Read more

Pearson reports 21% mean gender pay gap

Pearson has filed its gender pay gap report ahead of new government regulations, showing its overall median gender pay gap in 2017 was 15%, while the mean gap was 21%. ... Read more

Cutting spend on textbooks is a ‘false economy’, says PA

The Publishers Association says school textbooks only need to save teachers four and a half minutes a day to pay for themselves, arguing that not buying them to... Read more

Sage founder McCune to receive LBF Lifetime Achievement Award

Sara Miller McCune, founder and executive chairman of Sage Publishing, is to be awarded the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award 2018. ... Read more