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,...

Research in the UK has been given a boost this week as specialist data centre provider, Infinity, has secured a five year framework agreement with Janet, the UK’s national research and education network, provided by Jisc. The deal sees the creation of a Jisc data...

A global campaign by scientists, librarians, research funders and universities to increase open access (OA) to scientific research has created a fast growing revenue stream for scientific, technical and medical (STM) journal publishers — this according to Open Access...

Ingram Content Group Inc., and ProQuest LLC today announced an expanded e-book collaboration that benefits libraries worldwide. Earlier this year, the companies teamed to make titles from Ebook Library (EBL) available through Ingram's OASIS® content platform. Ingram...

Springer and Lavoisier have signed an agreement for the sale of Springer-Verlag France’s French-language STM publications to Lavoisier. The transaction is effective as of 1 September 2014. Archives and the articles to be published up to and including December 2016...

As was explained in a statement on the OASPA blog in April 2014 (http://oaspa.org/statement-regarding-the-suspension-of-springers-membership-in-oaspa/), OASPA’s Membership Committee made the decision to place Springer’s membership under review as a result of concerns...