Publishing news

Springer has signed a deal with the Forderkreis Grundungs-Forschung (FGF), the foremost organisation of professors of entrepreneurship and small business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Accucoms, a 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

Elsevier and LeWeb are inviting up to 15 science and research start-ups to present at a special event at LeWeb 2014, in Paris in December

Lens, an open-source tool introduced by eLife to make reading articles online easier, is being piloted in journals from six publishers on the HighWire platform

Publishing Technology has appointed David Montgomery as chief technology officer (CTO) with immediate effect, as the company bolsters its senior management team

John Wiley & Sons has announced a strategic partnership with Safari, which it says will deliver the next generation in digital reference platforms for students, faculty and librarians

Springer has confirmed it will be principal sponsor of the 2014 Trans-Tasman Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, which challenges students pursuing higher education degrees to turn their theses into three minute presentations

Springer has joined forces with Peerage of Science to help authors more easily submit their manuscripts for consideration in Springer journals

Elsevier's Embase biomedical database has been enhanced to support the retrieval of medical device information. The company says the improvements support comprehensive post-market surveillance and device safety as well as the development of novel devices

University of California Press is entering the open access space with the launch of two new products: a mega journal focused on three core disciplines and a monograph program designed to take advantage of rich, digital formats