Publishing news

Nature Publishing Group has joined the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, a trade association that represents the interests of open access publishers in academic disciplines

Kudos has announced a partnership with Thomson Reuters through which Kudos author dashboards will be augmented with citation data from Web of Science

The University of Birmingham has become the first European institution to partner with the US publisher Wiley, marking a step-change in the provision of distance and online learning in the UK

Springer and Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) have signed an agreement to jointly publish books, journals and digital databases covering the BJTU’s strongest research disciplines

De Gruyter is reorganising its management board, which form now will consist of just two managing directors. As part of this change, Sven Fund will depart from the company

Palgrave Macmillan has published its first open-access Palgrave Pivot title, Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves, under a CC BY licence

Cambridge University Press has acquired the Journal of Global History from the London School of Economics and Political Science

The authors of the new De Gruyter publication Pschyrembel Anesthesiology have donated all of their royalties to Médecins Sans Frontières

RCN Publishing is ending a long-standing arrangement to provide access to current full text journal content via third-party database and aggregation services

Elsevier is to give free access to its clinical information and reference tool, ClinicalKey, to support healthcare professionals battling Ebola in west Africa