Elsevier investigates journals by scientist who created discredited rankings of countries’ intelligenceA leading academic publisher is reviewing its decision to publish research papers by the late British professor Richard Lynn, an influential figure in the discredited field of “race science”... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-12-10 14:14:49 UTC ]
Companies itching to go public face a tough choice as the fall IPO window opens: take the leap with markets near all-time highs, or wait until next year when risks around interest rates and the U.S. election have faded.The window, roughly the nine-week stretch from Labor Day until the Nov. 5... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-08-28 16:53:32 UTC ]
Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and AmazonMore than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “greed” of publishing giant Elsevier.The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-05-07 07:00:16 UTC ]
My friend Robert Molteno, who has died aged 79, was the editorial director of Zed Books for 27 years and helped build its reputation as the pre-eminent radical academic publisher concerned with the developing world.Robert combined a sharp analysis of current issues with a commitment to scholars... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-05-01 18:10:50 UTC ]
Independent academic publisher Boydell & Brewer has appointed Mark Kavanagh as group publishing director. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-12 02:18:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has acquired California-based academic publisher ABC-CLIO in a $22.9m (£17.3m) deal, expanding its academic and digital publishing presence in North America. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-15 16:09:02 UTC ]
Tributes have been paid to academic publisher Michael Holdsworth after his death, aged 73. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-15 13:03:36 UTC ]
Staff at the academic publisher Springer Nature are being given an extra day of holiday on 2nd July to thank them for their "extraordinary efforts" during the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 17:57:04 UTC ]
Academic publisher Springer Nature has launched a name change policy to enable transgender scholars and writers to update their name on published works. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-29 23:20:28 UTC ]
Independent academic publisher Boydell & Brewer has appointed Antje King to be its new group sales and marketing director. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-15 13:51:01 UTC ]
The University of California announced a groundbreaking open access publishing agreement with leading academic publisher Springer Nature, the largest open access agreement in North America to date, and the first for Springer Nature in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
Independent academic publisher Intellect has acquired fellow indie HammerOn Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-09 18:42:42 UTC ]
Informa plc announced Tuesday that it has begun the process of replacing Derek Mapp, chairman of the London-based B2B publisher and exhibitions giant since 2008, with a successor expected to be installed by the end of the year. Mapp first joined Informa's board as a non-executive director in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-01-08 19:41:38 UTC ]
Caroline Summers is leaving her role as head of book sales for academic publisher Emerald and taking up a new post as sales director at The Paperback Shop. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-04 12:35:41 UTC ]
Academic publisher hopes to convince students to pay to access online materialsThe era of students using their loans to buy expensive textbooks upfront could be coming to an end, after the academic publisher Pearson announced a shift towards a Netflix-style subscription-based model.The British... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-07-16 13:31:56 UTC ]
Appointment comes months after walkout by former CEO Louise Adler and five MUP board members in protest over university’s new strategyFive months after the dramatic exit of its former CEO Louise Adler and five board members, Melbourne University Publishing have announced Nathan Hollier will take... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-06-13 01:22:23 UTC ]
Putting customer needs at the heart of your thinking, and letting that drive the change, and pace of change, in your business is the number one lesson for an academic publisher as it navigates the digital transition, according to Brian A Napack, the newly appointed president and c.e.o. of John... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cambridge University Press was asked to suppress articles in China Quarterly. It has now resisted, but it is a worrying developmentThe international furore that followed Cambridge University Press’s compliance with “an instruction from a Chinese import agency to block individual articles from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pearson investors have “little visibility” on what the company may do in the next few months, one analyst has warned, while another has said further restructuring at the academic publisher was “almost inevitable.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
When she’s not busy hula-hooping this Londoner reads Hadley Freeman and follows Guardian style on TwitterI was born in London and lived here until I was 18, when I moved to Cambridge to study English. I stayed on to do an MA in creative writing, then spent the next two years trying to persuade... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]