Accucoms, the leading provider of sales and marketing services for publishers with headquarters in Leiden, The Netherlands, has been bought back by founder and managing director Pinar Erzin, together with key management: Egon Menardi, Simon Boisseau and Rakesh Malik....

Negotiations between the Dutch universities and publishing company Elsevier on subscription fees and Open Access have ground to a halt. In line with the policy pursued by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the universities want academic publications to be...

Publishing Technology has hired David Montgomery to take up the newly created position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO), with immediate effect, as the company bolsters its senior management team. David joins the company from Inspired Thinking Group (ITG), a Tech...

Libraries Increasingly Fund Open Access Fees – New study by PCG shows 23% of libraries cover article processing charges for author submissions to OA journals Academic libraries are getting ever more involved in the cataloging and funding of Gold Open Access (OA)...

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan are making data from their Author Insights survey publicly available for the first time as part of Open Access Week. The survey, which contains views from 30,466 researchers, is the biggest publisher survey of...

The world of scholarly communication has witnessed immense changes over the last decade and Google Scholar has been a part of the change. To mark its 10th anniversary, Scholar will explore the impact of these changes - looking at how scholarship and citation patterns...