AMALGAMATION: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group has agreed to merge a majority of businesses under Macmillan Science and Education with Springer Science+Business Media (owned by funds advising BC Partners) ...

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Holtzbrinck) and BC Partners (BCP) announced today that they have reached an agreement to merge Springer Science+Business Media (owned by funds advised by BCP) in its ...

“The deal makes a lot of sense for both sides,” Claudio Aspesi, a media analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in London, told Nature. “From BC Partners’ perspective, there were a lot of questions ...

So for the company’s CIO/CTO Stephen Devlin, the challenge is clear: preserving a long and illustrious history of academic and editorial excellence, in a world entirely transformed by digital. How, as ...

Ken Michaels will step down as president and COO of Hachette Book Group at the end of the month to move into the newly created role of global chief operating officer for Macmillan Science and ...

Macmillan Science and Education's technology division Digital Science has launched a new programme designed to help small investors decide which research projects to support. Dimensions for Funders ...

Ken Michaels is to join Macmillan Science and Education at the end of the month as its chief operating officer. Michaels, who will be based in London and New York, will join the global leadership team ...

Martin Eve is a founder of the Open Library of Humanities, a UK company limited by guarantee working to create a not-for-profit open-access academic publishing environment in the humanities. He has ...

Joining scores of Nobel laureates who are trying to preserve some educational routine for wartime students, Princeton University’s David MacMillan presented a virtual science lecture this week to ...

The Governor of Maine cancelled all his engagements and went to the seashore. There, at Wiscasset, he found a band of other notables—a rear admiral, an Army colonel, a U. S. Senator, various fellow ...

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Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners have reached an agreement to merge Springer Science+Business Media (owned by funds advised by BCP), with the majority of Holtzbrinck-owned Macmillan ...