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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics have adopted DataSalon’s cloud-based service MasterVision to join together their customer data into a complete single customer view which will help generate leads, increase insight, and build global sales.
The full-year revenues were a result of good growth in journals and e-books and a decline in print book sales.
EBSCO has officially joined Project ReShare to provide financial contributions and expertise to the ReShare Community. The ReShare Community is drawn from libraries, consortia, information organizations and developers.
Nancy McKinstry, CEO commented: “We sustained 6% organic growth in 2022, led by digital and service subscription revenues. It was a year of record investments in product development to drive innovation for our customers. We also made significant progress on our ESG objectives. While non-recurring revenue trends still pose a challenge in the first half of 2023, we are confident of delivering robust organic growth and margin improvement for the full year.”
Figshare - part of Digital Science – has formed a new partnership with the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), which is committed to open data and information sharing across Africa.
Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced a new agreement with China’s largest education press, Higher Education Press (HEP), to publish three leading open access journals, Protein & Cell, Life Metabolism, and Life Medicine
Turnitin has successfully developed an AI writing detector that, in its lab, identifies 97 percent of ChatGPT and GPT3 authored writing, with a very low less than 1/100 false positive rate. 
Bone & Joint have launched a new content platform that brings together all of their customer-facing products; their journals (The Bone & Joint Journal, Bone & Joint 360, Bone & Joint Open, Bone & Joint Research and Orthopaedic Proceedings) and digital services (OrthoMedia and OrthoSearch), whilst also providing the flexibility to develop new products in the future.
Open Pharma aims to drive positive change in the communication of research funded by the pharmaceutical industry, with workstreams focused on improving the transparency, accountability, accessibility and discoverability of published research.
Technology consultancy 67 Bricks is the latest signatory to the SDG Publishers Compact, joining an impressive roster of the leading players within the publishing industry. As a member, 67 Bricks will be committing to supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) both by working with clients to ensure best practices and scrutinising their own processes.