Following the suspension of payment for Swets & Zeitlinger Group BV, granted by the court in Amsterdam on 19 September, the Management team, together with Mr J.L.M. Groenewegen (CMS), the appointed administrator, have been working tirelessly to investigate...

A consortium of six leading UK medical research charities will support the costs of making research articles from their funded research immediately and freely openly available to scientists, patients, and donors alike, through the recently announced joint Charity Open...

Cogent OA – an Open Access publisher backed by Taylor & Francis – has today released a major upgrade to its user interface. Cogent OA’s new platform focuses on assisting authors in ensuring their work gets found and read by the broadest possible audience; and...

The winners of this year’s awards were announced at the ALPSP International Conference Dinner on  Thursday 11 September at the Park Inn Heathrow Hotel and Conference Centre, London, UK ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing 2014 The Council of ALPSP was...

Springer Science+Business Media today celebrates 50 years of operations in the United States. While the founding of the company dates back to 1842 in Berlin, it was not until the mid-20th century that Springer had an official US branch of operations. The motivations...

PeerJ is pleased to announce that the Max Planck Society has signed a publishing plan deal with the award winning open access publisher PeerJ, which entitles any Max Planck author to publish their research in PeerJ at no cost to themselves. With this announcement,...