The seventh annual Publishers for Development (PfD) conference – which took place in London, UK, yesterday – explored five core ...

The 2014 Publishers for Development conference took place in Oxford recently under the theme Research Matters for Developing Countries. The conference was attended primarily by academic librarians, international publishers, ...

The five winners of the ACU PR, Marketing and Communications Awards 2013 have been revealed.

These annual awards aim to recognise, encourage, and celebrate the achievements of PR and communications professionals in ACU member ...

The African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) will host a meeting themed 'Open access and research publication: Making sense of UK government proposals in African Studies' between 13.00h and 17 ...

Publishers have been urged to look beyond ‘flagship’ universities and research institutes in developing countries to support national research and library consortia.

The 2012 Publishers for Development conference, held in ...

Slow loading times are a major reason why web traffic is cut short. Some pages take so long that users lose patience, lack the time or are unable to access the page at all. Web pages are often larger than they need to be and on low bandwidth ...

Publishers need to coordinate support across their editorial, IT, sales, and marketing teams – and ultimately at board level – to help ensure that developing country researchers are included in the research cycle. ...