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Information Today
April 30, 2001
Richard Poynder |
The Debate Heats Up Are Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. Monopolists?   |
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April 2002
Richard Poynder |
Not Pleading Poverty Elsevier Science chairman Derk Haank addresses industry and end-user issues... |
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November 4, 2002
Richard Poynder |
Kluwer Academic Publishers Sold to Venture Capitalists Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer has announced the sale of Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) to London-based private equity funds Candover and Cinven for approximately $591 million. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2004
Rich Smith |
Publishers Dueling for No. 1 The Thomson Corporation and publishing competitor Reed Elsevier, jockey for the title of worldwide uber-publisher. |
Information Today
December 2002
Richard Poynder |
A True Market Failure Professor Mark McCabe, an expert in mergers and anticompetitive practices at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talks about problems in the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing industry. |
Information Today
March 5, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Bowker for Sale, All or in Parts Reed Elsevier plans to sell off several of its major reference publishing operations, specifically Bowker... |
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May 27, 2003
Richard Poynder |
BertelsmannSpringer Is Sold to Private Equity Firms German media and entertainment company Bertelsmann has announced the sale of its academic publishing group BertelsmannSpringer to the European private equity firms Candover and Cinven. |
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July 23, 2007 |
Houghton Mifflin to Acquire Harcourt Divisions from Reed Elsevier The sale represents the completion of Reed Elsevier's plan, which it announced in February, to sell off its entire Harcourt Education division. Investors, take note. |
Information Today
September 25, 2000
Barbara Quint |
Thomson's Gale Group Acquires K.G. Saur from Reed Elsevier Thomson continues its empire-building with another acquisition. This time Thomson's Gale Group has purchased K.G. Saur, the prominent German publisher of biographical and other scholarly reference books, from Reed Elsevier... |
Information Today
April 2003 |
The Latest on Companies, Search Engines, and Products Once again, the past month's news has been dominated by developments in the RoweCom/divine situation... A series of recent acquisitions reveals the pressures and mounting rivalries in the Web search arena... D&B, Hoover's Update... etc. |
Information Today
November 27, 2006
Rebecca Lenzini |
Wiley to Acquire Blackwell Publishing Continuing the trend toward consolidation in the scholarly publishing community, John Wiley & Sons announced on Nov. 17, 2006, that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the outstanding shares of Blackwell Publishing. |
Information Today
March 2001
Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
Information Today
November 17, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident. |
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August 15, 2013 |
Elsevier Acquires Woodhead Publishing Titles Woodhead's book program is designed to enhance Elsevier's publications portfolio, offering quality content to researchers to improve productivity. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today
September 24, 2007
Barbara Quint |
Elsevier Launches Vertical Portal With Ad Revenue Support: OncologySTAT The site carries a broad array of content, including current articles culled from more than 100 cancer-related journals, chemotherapy regimens, drug and drug interaction databases, and multimedia content. |
Information Today
November 19, 2009
Katherine Allen |
Reed Elsevier's CEO Quits After 8 Months Ian Smith will be replaced by Erik Engstrom, CEO of Elsevier, effective immediately. Engstrom had previously been ruled out of the running for the position following the departure of Crispin Davis. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2005
Rich Smith |
Europe Is Different Apparently, the fact that publisher Reed Elsevier is both growing, and growing more profitable, at slower rates than its Canadian nemesis does not matter as much to the Europeans as the fact that Reed Elsevier is growing at all. |
Information Today
February 25, 2008
Marydee Ojala |
Reed Elsevier Chooses ChoicePoint, Rejects Business Publications It plans to add the ChoicePoint products to the Risk & Information Analytics subsidiary of LexisNexis. |
Information Today
October 7, 2002 |
News Digest CrossRef Launches Version 2.0, Expands Membership... Infotrieve Signs Two STM Aggregators, 10 Publishers... EBSCO Increases Links to JSTOR, Adds Access to Elsevier Content |
Information Today
April 30, 2007 |
Elsevier Enhances ScienceDirect Elsevier, the STM publisher, announced that it has added several new features to ScienceDirect in its latest release. |
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November 12, 2013
Abby Clobridge |
A Conversation With BioMed Central's Cockerill on Open Access Publishing BMC was founded in 2000 and was acquired by Springer Science+Business Media in 2008. Last month, I had a chance to sit down with Matthew Cockerill to talk about some of his experiences with OA and STM publishing. |
Information Today
September 2004
Richard Poynder |
Interview: Put Up or Shut Up Derk Haank, Springer's new CEO (and former chairman of Elsevier Science), discusses his plans for the company, scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journal pricing, the Big Deal, and open access. |
Information Today
May 30, 2013
Barbie E. Keiser |
First UK Survey of Academics 2012 Issued by Ithaka S+R The survey examines the attitudes and behaviors of researchers at academic institutions across the U.K. with regard to digital technologies, the internet, and open access. |
Information Today
September 11, 2006
Barbara Quint |
ScholarOne Publishing Software Goes to Thomson Scientific With its recently announced acquisition of ScholarOne, the Thomson Scientific and Healthcare Group seems to have set a strategy of intercepting scholarly content at an early stage of maturation in the research-publishing process. |
Information Today
October 16, 2008
Susanne Bjorner |
Open Access Moves Into the Mainstream: BioMed Central Purchased by Springer STM publishing giant Springer Science+Business Media announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase BioMed Central Group, the leading global open access publisher, for an undisclosed price. |
Information Today
March 3, 2015
Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
Information Today
March 2004 |
NewsBytes Thomson Delphion Enhances European Patent Data Analysis... Ingenta, EBSCO Launch Subscription Initiative... EBSCO Celebrates 60 Years of Business... etc. |
Information Today
March 7, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Library Publishing Coalition -- A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future. |
Information Today
February 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
D-Lib
April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
Information Today
January 2004
Paula Hane |
The Latest Developments in Open Access, E-Books, and More Because of Online Information, it was a busy several weeks for news, despite the lull during the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. |
D-Lib
February 2006
Esther Hoorn |
Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective A survey reveals the desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals. |
Information Today
April 22, 2013 |
World Scientific Publishing Signs Ebook Agreement With YBP Library Services Customers will be able to access the publisher's 2012-2013 Front List Full Collection of ebooks that will be available for purchase from World Scientific Publishing through GOBI 3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information), YBP's acquisition and collection management interface. |
Information Today
November 14, 2011 |
Springer to Acquire Pharma Marketing and Publishing Services From Wolters Kluwer MPS is one of the five largest global providers of strategic marketing, publishing and business intelligence products and services to the pharmaceutical industry, as well as to medical libraries and academic and research institutions. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
Information Today
September 11, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest EBSCO Announces Partners for Journal Access... More Support for Federal Research Public Access Act... Evidence Matters Adds New Disease Modules... |
Information Today
December 14, 2009
Katherine Allen |
Springer Sold to Private Equity Firms EQT and GIC The German company is the world's second-largest scientific, technical, and medical publisher after Reed Elsevier and was formed in 2003 by the merger of Kluwer Academic Publishers and Bertelsmann Springer. |
Information Today
August 13, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
Thomson to Acquire NewsEdge In yet another strong sign of consolidation in the information industry, Thomson Corp. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the NewsEdge Corp. for approximately $43 million... |
Information Today
March 2003
Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
Information Today
November 2004
Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: No Gain Without Pain How are publishers responding to the open acess (OA) movement, and can it really deliver on its promise? More importantly, can it reduce library costs? |
Information Today
March 22, 2004
Paula J. Hane |
U.K. Parliamentary Committee Holds Hearings on Scientific Publishing On March 1 and 8, the U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee held the first two days of hearings as part of its inquiry into the pricing and availability of scientific publications and possible government support for open access publishing. |
Information Today
March 15, 2004
Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Announces Scopus Service After two years of planning, development, and initial testing by a select group of about 20 university libraries, Elsevier has finally made an official announcement of the first fully functioning version of Scopus, its highly anticipated, full-text linking, abstracting and indexing database. |
Information Today
June 7, 2004
Robin Peek |
Elsevier Allows Open Access Self-Archiving In a move that has stunned both the publishing community and the academic world, major journal publisher Elsevier is going to permit Open Access self-archiving for almost all of its journal titles. |
Information Today
November 2004
Tom Hogan |
The Fall 2004 ASIDIC Meeting The fall 2004 meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) examined the issues surrounding open access (OA) publishing. Many questions were raised and many views expressed, but few conclusions were drawn. |
Information Today
February 2002
Dick Kaser |
Ghost in a Bottle The ghost is out of the bottle. That's how Derk Haank describes the current situation in which the authors of scientific papers are taking an increasing interest in who publishes them.... |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2012
Rebecca Trager |
Anti-open access bill suffers sudden death Legislation in the US Congress that would have stopped funding agencies stipulating that research they fund with taxpayer dollars be made publicly available has collapsed. The dramatic development could signal a pivotal shift in scientific publishing. |
Information Today
July 10, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
LEXIS Launches New Portal for Small Legal Practices; Other Announcements at ABA LEXIS Publishing has unveiled a new Web portal designed to meet the needs of attorneys in solo and small group practices... |
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Jul/Aug 2011
Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
