News: academic

Jenny Ridout appointed m.d. of Bloomsbury's non-consumer division

Jenny Ridout has been appointed the new managing director of Bloomsbury's Non-Consumer division. She succeeds Jonathan Glasspool, whose imminent retirement in July after 20 years with the publisher... Read more

Frances Pinter takes on new role at CEU Press

Publisher Frances Pinter has taken a newly created role as executive chair of the Central European University Press in Budapest, Hungary. Read more

Pearson forecasts lower 2020 profits

Pearson has has said it expects profit to fall in 2020, in its full year results. Read more

Elsevier sees 2019 profit and revenue lift

Elsevier saw revenues for the year to end December 2019 up 3.9% to £2,637m (£2,538m in 2018), with underlying growth at constant currency at 2%. Read more

Elsevier and Irish higher education consortium agree Open Access trial

A consortium of 19 Irish higher education institutions have agreed a full Open Access trial programme with Elsevier for its research publications. Read more

S&S strikes partnership with Library Link

Simon & Schuster (S&S) has struck a new partnership with public libraries in the UK Read more

OUP makes a start on its gender pay gap

The latest gender pay gap report released by Oxford University Press shows a small lessening of its median pay gap, down just under 1% to 12.5% in... Read more

Lotinga: consensus and partnership needed in OA development

Stephen Lotinga, c.e.o. of the Publishers Association, has said that all parts of the research ecosystem need to work together in facilitating the transition to... Read more

UKRI proposes OA requirement for monographs from 2024

UK funding body United Kingdom Research & Innovation (UKRI) is proposing to extend an Open Access requirement to academic monographs and book chapters from January... Read more

Publishers restrict China activities as coronavirus spreads

Publishers with operations in China are curtailing some activities in the country after the coronavirus outbreak. Read more

Oliver Gadsby steps back at Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield International c.e.o. Oliver Gadsby is to step back from his executive role at the end of February. Read more

OUP makes coronavirus resources free to all

Oxford University Press is making content related to the coronavirus free to access to the media and the public at large, "in an effort to... Read more

Cengage and McGraw-Hill extend merger deadline

Publishers Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education have extended the deadline for completion of their merger agreement to 1st May. The merger, announced in May last year, had originally... Read more

‘Essential environment reads’ mark Academic Book Week

Academic Book Week has issued a list of 10 academic books on the environment as its ‘Recommended Reads’ for the 2020 event. Read more

Elsevier puts together free resource on coronavirus

Elsevier has set up an Information Centre on the newly emerged coronavirus featuring in the current outbreak in China, with free information in English and Mandarin.... Read more