Industry trends

Scholarly publishing company HighWire Press is to acquire Semantico, a provider of technology and services for the scholarly publishing market. Highwire says the acquisition will bring it an increased capacity for technological innovation, a broader range of publishing expertise, and a more powerful range of products.

Following the success of the founding University Press Redux conference, ALPSP has announced that it will now be partnering with presses to deliver the event every two years

Overleaf, a provider of scientific writing and publishing tools, has announced a partnership with Cambridge University Press

Organisers of London Book Fair are inviting applications and nominations for its Academic and Professional Publisher Award

Digital Science has made an investment in Transcriptic, a robotic cloud laboratory for life sciences

Collaboration between British and EU scientists increased over the four years prior to the UK’s Brexit vote.