Informa PLC, publisher of Lloyd's List, confirms takeover approach Jul 2, 2008
The company subsequently acquired academic publishers Routledge and then Taylor & Francis. Today in Business with Reuters. (International Herald Tribune)
Campbell gets a savaging May 12, 2008
inspired selection ltd. one of the fastest growing academic publishers in. Salary on application. (Yahoo News -- Hutton Report)
Big Publishers' Copyright Suit Tests How Much Is Too Much Apr 18, 2008
Academic publishers sue Georgia State officials over digital copying of book sections to students via virtual 'course packs. Janet L. Conley. (Law.com)
iParadigms Partner CrossRef Announces CrossCheck Service for Publishers to Check the Originality of Scholarly Articles Apr 16, 2008
The CrossCheck database will include the full-text journals of leading academic publishers, and is expected to grow very rapidly over the coming months as CrossRef member publishers sign up for the service. CrossCheck will be available to all CrossRef members who opt to contribute their content to the database. (PR Newswire)
Smart People Apr 11, 2008
He's bored with teaching and contemptuous toward students, and has had his latest tome turned down by the usual academic publishers. Things are also sour on the home front. (Variety)
A group approach to teaching teachers Nov 26, 2007
Barbara Kurshan, Curriki's Washington-based executive director, said she believes the deal would be a "major coup" toward the goal of attracting mainstream academic publishers because of the high-profile Sesame name. The group is also in talks with a major non-U.S. publisher she would not name about contributing science-class content to Curriki in a test to see "how open-source can improve their products," Kurshan said. (International Herald Tribune)
Internet providers show how it's done Sep 24, 2007
Scholarly publishers had already gone about the business of digitisation so we were able to do deals with most of the major academic publishers to allow users to search all scholarly information as easily as they search the web today. But what really makes that product powerful is not just the full-text search. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Cambridge University Press Selects WANdisco to Connect Developers in UK and Philippines Aug 23, 2007
Cambridge, UK and San Ramon, CA (PRWEB) August 23, 2007 -- Cambridge University Press, founded in 1534, the world's oldest printer and publisher, as well as one of the world's largest academic publishers, and WANdisco, a leading provider of distributed software development solutions, today announced that Cambridge has selected WANdisco for CVS to support their globally distributed software development efforts. WANdisco continues to add marquee customers to its rapidly growing list by overcoming... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Gaia Online and QOOP Team for Creation of Real World Gaia Themed Merchandise Jun 22, 2007
Today, QOOP's customers include the largest online photo communities social networking sites, and academic publishers including Facebook, Flickr, OReilly Press, Photobucket, The Public Library of Science and Webshots. Gaia Online is a trademark of Gaia Interactive, Inc. in the United States and other countries. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Report details textbook inflation Jun 5, 2007
The McGraw-Hill Companies, one of the largest academic publishers in the world, declined to comment on the report. They did, however, back the AAP's statement. (U-Wire.com)
Learning Goes Global as India Writes U.S. Texts: Andy Mukherjee Apr 24, 2007
The narrowing of India's education deficit -- to a point where knowledge can begin to flow both in and out -- can be seen from the sales pattern of academic publishers. India today represents Wiley's fastest-growing market, expanding at an annual 25 percent pace. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
ACADEMIC HIP-HOP? YES, YES YALL. Mar 6, 2007
"This is already becoming evident in academic publishers' catalog listings of forthcoming books.". Historically black Howard University is ahead of the pack: After being the first to teach hip-hop in 1991, it now offers a minor in hip-hop studies (as of fall). (San Francisco Chronicle)
Monographomania Jan 8, 2007
Lindsay Waters, executive editor for the humanities at Harvard University Press, has dubbed this growing pressure to publish "the tyranny of the monograph." The demands to produce books are increasing even as academic publishers say they don't want to publish them. Libraries lack the money to buy them or just don't think they're important enough. (Boston Globe)
