Educational Publishing – June 2022
Unbiased Emerald purchased by Cambridge Data Group
The Emerald Group, comprising Emerald Publishing and its corporate-learning division Emerald Works, has been acquired by Cambridge Data Group, a New York primarily based funding agency. Based in 1967 by a bunch of administration lecturers on the College of Bradford, Emerald was run for greater than fifty years as an unbiased writer; co-founder and firm proprietor Dr Keith Howard OBE died final 12 months on the age of 89, having stepped down as chairman in 2017. Cambridge Data Group was the proprietor of ProQuest Data and Studying for fifteen years earlier than the sale of the corporate to Clarivate final 12 months.
College presses purpose to open up e-book publishing for ECRs
Six UK college presses – Bristol, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, UCL, and the College of Wales – have launched a pilot undertaking aiming to assist UK-based early profession lecturers publish their first books open entry. The three-year pilot goals to boost £96,000 yearly from library subscriptions to fund the publication of twelve titles annually. The primary titles to be supported by the undertaking are scheduled to be revealed in 2023.
Liverpool hits two open entry targets
Liverpool College Press has achieved a double success with its open entry initiatives. Its Opening the Future library membership programme has now reached the funding threshold for its first two totally open entry titles: Empire Discovered: Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Well-liked Cultures by Daniel F. Silva, and Soccer and Nation Constructing in Columbia by Peter J. Watson. The programme was launched final 12 months as a collaboration between Liverpool and COPIM – with help from LYRASIS and Jisc – as a way of supporting the open entry publication of monographs by collective library funding.
A second Liverpool initiative, LUP Open Planning, has additionally reached its goal. This Subscribe to Open undertaking, in partnership with Jisc and LYRASIS, will see all content material in 2022 from the journals City Planning Evaluation and Worldwide Growth Planning Evaluation made freely out there by way of open entry.
New platform for Bristol
Bristol College Press has launched a brand new platform, Bristol College Press Digital, which brings collectively for the primary time in a single place its journals and ebooks. Internet hosting 1400 books, 18 journals, and 60 open entry titles, the platform may even be house to Bristol’s new, non-profit open entry title, the International Social Challenges Journal.
New and deeper partnership for OLH
The Open Library of the Humanities has introduced that ETH Library (the Swiss Federal Institute of Expertise in Zurich) has grow to be the most recent member of its Library Partnership Subsidy system, serving to to fund the fee-free open entry publication of analysis. OLH has additionally confirmed that its in-house publishing platform Janeway has partnered with three extra establishments emigrate their journals to its techniques: Ghent College Library, the College of Iowa Libraries, and Washington College in St Louis.
Journals in short
Cambridge College Press has taken on publication of the open entry psychology journal Judgment and Determination Making, collectively owned by the Society for Judgment and Determination Making, and the European Affiliation of Determination Making, beforehand self-published by the editorial group.
SAGE Publishing has partnered with the Environmental Peacebuilding Affiliation (EnPAx) to launch a brand new journal, Setting and Safety, specializing in linkages between the surroundings, local weather, safety, battle, and peace; the primary quarterly situation will likely be revealed in late 2023.
Alastair Horne is a lecturer in publishing research on the College of Stirling.
