Publishing news

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners have announced an agreement to merge Springer Science+Business Media in its entirety with the majority of Macmillan Science and Education

Elsevier has acquired Newsflo, a London-based company that helps researchers and academic institutions to measure the wider impact of their work by tracking and analysing media coverage of their publications and findings.

Elsevier is preparing to collaborate with the research community to develop an open-access journal covering all disciplines on one platform, with the aim of enabling 'continual experimentation and innovation'

Nature has today launched its first new self-branded journal for four years: Nature Plants

Elsevier has announced an agreement to integrate some 100,000 maps from Wiley's journals into the Geofacets platform

The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced an initiative to advance efficiency and precision in scholarly publishing by integrating Ringgold’s Identify database into its ScholarOne product

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have created an electronic book publishing partnership as part of the AAS's mission to enhance and share humanity’s scientific understanding of the universe

Information skills solutions provider Credo has announced partnerships with six reference publishers and the launch of several publisher and subject collections

Cambridge Journals has entered a partnership with The Mathematical Association to publish The Mathematical Gazette

SAGE has announced the purchase of International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education (IJEEE) and the International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education (IJMEE), both previously published by Manchester University Press