News: academic

Open Data use growing among researchers, finds Figshare

A survey conducted by Digital Science's data management company Figshare has found "strong signals that open data is becoming more embedded" with researchers. Read more

Pickrum appointed as Cengage c.f.o.

Cengage has appointed Michael Pickrum as chief financial officer, replacing John Leahy who steps down as planned after three years in the role.... Read more

Napack appointed Wiley president and c.e.o.

Brian A Napack, a former president of Macmillan and currently an advisor at Providence Equity Partners, has been named the new president and c.e.o. at... Read more

Levin departs McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill Education c.e.o. David Levin is leaving the company after three years in the role. Read more

Pearson raises profit forecast, PRH sales down 'slightly'

Pearson is expecting its full-year operating profit to come in at the top half of its forecast range, it revealed while giving its third quarter... Read more

Springer Nature plans 'co-operation' with ResearchGate

Days after a coalition of publishers declared that all attempts to work with scholarly collaboration network (SCN) ResearchGate to resolve the issue of copyright infringements... Read more

Princeton UP author in Nobel physics win

Princeton University Press has extended “hearty congratulations” to its author Kip S Thorne, who has been named one of the winners of the Nobel Prize... Read more

Pearson skills report predicts 'one in five' jobs heading for decline

Pearson is forecasting "only one in five workers are in occupations that will shrink", as part of a report it has published examining the jobs and skills... Read more

Taylor & Francis buys open access publisher Dove Medical

Academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group, part of Informa PLC, has acquired independent Open Access (OA) publisher Dove Medical Press for an undisclosed sum.... Read more

Edinburgh UP reports 12% sales rise

Edinburgh University Press has reported a 12% rise in sales for the year to end July 2017, to £3.22m. Read more

University Press title preview: deadline this week

The deadline to submit title information for The Bookseller's upcoming University Press new books preview is this Friday 22nd September.... Read more

Publons and SourceData win ALPSP innovation awards

Peer review platform Publons and open scientific discovery platform SourceData have been named winners at the Association for Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Awards for Innovation in... Read more

Peer review training course launched by Nature Research

An online training course on peer review, incorporating video interviews with journal editors, has been launched by Nature Research, part of Springer Nature. Read more

LUP partners with Voltaire Foundation

Liverpool University Press has agreed a partnership with the University of Oxford's Voltaire Foundation for publication of VF's long-running series Oxford University Studies in the... Read more

Pan Mac makes e-books available to schools

Pan Macmillan is making its e-books available to UK schools through digital education provider RM Books. The partnership means e-books by authors such as Chris Riddell, Eva... Read more