7 January 2008 Macmillan Spain is currently running an advertising campaign in Madrid, promoting its Spanish children’s books in the run up to Christmas, through adverts on the city’s buses. ..

3 December 2007 A-IMBN Research was launched today at www.natureasia.com/A-IMBN. The new website highlights some of the best research in molecular biology and biotechnology research in the Asia-Pacific region. A-IMBN Research is produced jointly by the Asia-Pacific International Molecular Biology Network (A-IMBN) and NPG Nature Asia-Pacific, the Asia-Pacific wing of Nature Publishing Group (NPG). ..

19 October 2007 Newly appointed Macmillan CEO Annette Thomas today announced that Steven Inchcoombe, currently Macmillan’s International Director, will become Managing Director of Nature Publishing Group (NPG) with immediate effect. ..

9 October 2007 It was announced today that Holtzbrinck’s US operations are to be re-branded from Holtzbrinck Publishers to Macmillan. Macmillan is one of the most venerable and respected names in publishing, and is already the name of the English and Spanish language publishing operations of the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck in over 70 countries. The name change in the U.S. from Holtzbrinck to Macmillan brings a unified worldwide presence to one of the premier publishing groups in the world. ..

4 October 2007 Annette Thomas, currently Managing Director of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG), has been appointed CEO of Macmillan Ltd with immediate effect, following the departure of Richard Charkin. ..

2 October 2007 Swets extends its extensive product line through acquisition of the award winning ScholarlyStats, continuing its strategic focus on providing the ultimate portfolio of services for libraries worldwide. ..

1 October 2007 Pan Macmillan has acquired children’s publisher Kingfisher from Houghton Mifflin for an undisclosed sum. Kingfisher will become an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Books in the UK, under Managing Director Emma Hopkin. US operations will be run by Simon Boughton, Publisher of Roaring Brook Press, part of the wider Holtzbrinck Group. ..

26 September 2007 Macmillan announced today that Richard Charkin will leave his post as CEO after exactly ten years with the company. He will take up a new position as Executive Director of Bloomsbury plc on Monday 1 October 2007. ..

7 August 2007 Buenos Aires, July 2007. Ángel Estrada y Cía. S.A, a company with 138 years of tradition in the spheres of education, culture, and educational and commercial stationery, made public the completion of the sale of its publishing division, Editorial Estrada, S.A., to Macmillan Publishers Limited. A preliminary announcement had been made in early May. ..

5 July 2007 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is delighted that Nature has today won the prestigious Principe de Asturias Award established by His Royal Highness Heir to the throne of Spain. ..

2 July 2007 London and Madrid - Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is delighted to announce the launch of a new company, NPG Iberoamerica. ..

17 April 2007 Macmillan has signed Peter Ackroyd in a deal for worldwide rights in six major non-fiction titles. The deal was negotiated by Sonia Land at Sheil Land representing Peter Ackroyd. The first book is likely to be delivered in 2011. ..

10 April 2007 Rajiv Seth has been appointed Executive Director of Macmillan Publishing Solutions, the division of Macmillan committed to providing technology solutions to the publishing industry.  Rajiv joins on 9th April 2007, will be based in Bangalore, and will join the Macmillan India board.   Reporting to Rajiv Seth will be Sanjiv Bhatnagar, Neeraj Malhotra, Ratan Hastu, Arun Goyal, Atul Nigam and Nakul Parashar. ..

29 March 2007 International publisher Macmillan has announced that its South African operation, Macmillan South Africa (Pty) Ltd, has concluded a Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BE) transaction, a first for the book publishing sector in South Africa. ..

21 March 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, the academic and professional publishing division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, are pleased to announce the acquisition of the Core Statutes series, previously published by Law Matters Publishing. ..

12 March 2007 London, New York and Tokyo, March 12, 2007 – Macmillan Medical Communications (MMC) is delighted to welcome AJ Weigel as its new Manager of Education and Content Development. He will be reporting to John Elduff, Senior VP of Sales, and will be based out of MMC’s corporate sales office in Philadelphia, PA. ..

1 March 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, the academic and professional publishing division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, and the International Monetary Fund announced today that Palgrave Macmillan will publish IMF Staff Papers, on behalf of the IMF. IMF Staff Papers is one of the leading international economics and finance peer-reviewed research journals and has been published since 1950. ..

21 February 2007 Collaborative medical news website now available in Spanish and German editions ..

19 February 2007 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and AstraZeneca are delighted to announce the launch of Nature China (www.naturechina.com), a new web based publication promoting the best scientific research published in mainland China and Hong Kong...

5 February 2007 Major industry figure joins Macmillan Medical Communications as it opens its new sales office in Philadelphia ..

16 January 2007 Nature Publishing Group (NPG), publisher of the world's most influential science journals, today announced the launch of Nature Education, a new venture to develop innovative educational resources and tools for science students and their professors...

18 December 2006 We are delighted to announce the appointment of Haruo Ono as Managing Director of Macmillan Language House...

21 November 2006 Macmillan Limited are pleased to announce the board responsibilities of Steven Inchcoombe..

14 November 2006 The Macmillan India group announces two significant changes in its operations...

5 October 2006 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is delighted to announce the launch of Nature Nanotechnology, a new research journal dedicated to all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology...

3 October 2006 The Macmillan Publishing Group is delighted to announce the launch of the brand new onestopenglish Staff Room...

28 September 2006 MPS Technologies announces that top university libraries from around the world are taking advantage of the convenience and quality of information provided by having ScholarlyStats collect and consolidate their usage data...

28 September 2006 The ambitious plan from MPS Technologies to develop a digital book platform becomes a reality with the beta launch of BookStore...

24 September 2006 The World Heart Federation and Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine are delighted to announce their collaboration on the creation of an original podcast to mark the occasion of World Heart Day 2006. The podcast is supported by an educational grant from Sanofi-Aventis, and is now entirely free to access online at www.nature.com/ncpcardio/podcast. It is also available to download on the iTunes website...

14 September 2006 re-eminent literary award.  The shortlist was announced by the chair of judges, Hermione Lee, at a press conference at Man Group plc offices in London today (Thursday 14th September)...

24 August 2006 Macmillan Medical Communications (MMC), a new strategic initiative of Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the field of medical communications, is delighted to announce several key appointments in Japan...

14 August 2006 The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud and Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn have both received critical acclaim...

7 August 2006 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today announces launch of its first all Japanese language publication on nature.com. This marks another step in NPG’s strategy to develop a strong publishing program in the Asia-Pacific region..

13 July 2006 Pan Macmillan announces exclusive UK trade sales and distribution deal with TOKYOPOP, the world’s largest Manga publisher outside of Japan whose graphic novel form, ‘Manga’, is taking the UK market by storm...

27 June 2006 Macmillan Medical Communications (MMC) is proud to announce the launch of Dissect Medicine (www.dissectmedicine.com), the first collaborative medical news website...

20 June 2006 Macmillan Medical Communications (MMC) is launched this month. A strategic medical communications agency, MMC is set up to provide customized products and services for partners in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and biotechnology industries. It uses the full range of communication and publishing strategies to develop high impact campaigns and services including novel internet-based approaches...

9 June 2006 Two new initiatives launched by Nature this week are set to explore a bedrock of scientific publishing. A web debate on peer review and a limited trial of open peer review launched on Monday 5 June 2006...

6 June 2006 The ACG is proud to announce an important new member benefit aimed at confirming the ACG's commitment to meeting the educational needs of the clinical gastroenterologist. As an official publication of the ACG, NPG's Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology will provide ACG-member digestive-health specialists with authoritative and timely interpretations of key developments in medical research, translating the latest findings into clinical practice...

5 June 2006 Nature Publishing Group announces the online publication of the Nature archive back to January 1950. In addition, digitization back to the first issue of Nature has begun. The archive is expected to reach November 1869 by late 2007...

11 April 2006 MPS Technologies and sister company in Germany HGV Publishing Services (HGV) have been selected out of twenty technology providers to develop the digital content platform for the Bórsenverein des Deutschen Buchandels, Germany’s publishing association...

11 April 2006 Macmillan Spain is launching a new children’s books list with the first titles due to launch in 2007. The move reflects Macmillan’s strategy to become a premier publisher of Spanish titles in Spain, expanding from its current focus on English language textbook publishing...

11 April 2006 Frank Cottrell Boyce's "Framed" and Emily Gravett's "Wolves" have been shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal respectively...

11 April 2006 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS) today announce the appointment of Dr Dangsheng Li as the new Deputy-Editor-in-Chief for China's premier life science journal, Cell Research (CR). Editor-in-Chief of CR and President of SIBS Professor Gang Pei said "We are delighted to be able to appoint someone with Dangsheng's broad expertise in life sciences, and his past experience as an editor for a top biology journal...

3 April 2006 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announced today that it will be opening two new divisions - NPG India, based in Gurgaon, and NPG Latin America/Spain, based in Mexico City. Along with the recently transformed NPG Nature Asia-Pacific, the new organizations will focus on publishing initiatives in their respective regions...

14 March 2006 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has released new software which enables institutional repositories running EPrints to integrate with the social bookmarking services Connotea and del.icio.us. This latest innovation allows content within institutional repositories to be bookmarked, tagged, and linked to related content. The work behind this development was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of their PALS Metadata and Interoperability Projects 2 program...

9 March 2006 Macmillan India has acquired 100% shares of Interactive Composition Corp (ICC), a company based in the United States. Macmillan will be signing definitive agreements for purchase of the company at a consideration of around Rs 15 crores (USD 3.4 million). ICC has a wholly owned subsidiary in Delhi which employs 300 staff and provides high quality typesetting and other services to major book publishers in the US...

27 February 2006 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Australasian Society for Immunology (ASI) today announce an agreement for NPG to publish in partnership with the Society its flagship journal, Immunology and Cell Biology, from January 2007...

26 January 2006 The Nature Podcast (www.nature.com/nature/podcast/) from Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has successfully completed its pilot phase with a record number of downloads and a sponsorship agreement with Bio-Rad Laboratories. This signals its graduation from an innovative experiment to a fully-fledged service for the scientific community..

13 December 2005 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today announces plans to transform its representative company in Japan into the hub of a scientific, technical and medical publishing powerhouse in the Asia-Pacific region, with several major new initiatives already in development...

13 December 2005 Early editions and print records for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’ Adventures Underground and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland have recently been acquired by the British Library...

27 October 2005 Macmillan announced today that it has been picked as publisher of choice for the Science Museum in London. Macmillan will work with the Museum to produce a broad range of publications, including children’s books, exhibition tie-ins, textbooks and monographs, and adult popular science...

21 October 2005 Palgrave Macmillan, the academic and professional publishing division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, announced today that it has acquired three journals and twenty one books from Perpetuity Press Ltd. The list encompasses the company’s publishing programme in the field of crime, risk and security...

11 October 2005 John Banville's extraordinary novel The Sea, published by Picador, was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize in a ceremony in London last night...

17 August 2005 Palgrave Macmillan, the academic and professional publishing division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd,announced today that it has acquired 21 journals from Henry Stewart Publications Ltd...

29 July 2005 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announced today that the latest installment of the Nature archive will go live on Tuesday, August 2, 2005...

14 July 2005 The Royal Shakespeare Company and Macmillan have announced that they have joined forces to produce a major new edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works, edited by Professor Jonathan Bate...

10 June 2005 Macmillan India Limited, a leader in providing typesetting and back office services to publishers globally, has acquired Charon Tech Pvt. Ltd...

31 May 2005 The print edition of Nature magazine grows from strength to strength. Circulation is growing in countries around the world. The magazine is ever more international in its coverage, and its global influence and impact has never been higher. As a result of this continuing success, Nature Publishing Group is investing heavily in the print edition...

31 May 2005 Palgrave Macmillan has signed an agreement with INSEAD, one of the leading business and management schools in the world, for the creation of INSEAD Business Press...

14 April 2005 The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announce the launch of Molecular Systems Biology..

14 April 2005 In order to maximise the growth potential of the Asia region and to reflect the increasing breadth of diversity in the sales mix amongst Macmillan publishers and non-group clients, Pan Macmillan has decided to create a stand-alone local business in Asia..

14 March 2005 Campaign, a new English course for the Military published by Macmillan Education, has won an ‘Elton’ at the 2005 British Council ELT Innovation Awards.

14 March 2005 Early March on Richard & Judy Christine Aziz, a 52 year old grandmother from Bournemouth, was announced winner of the show's 'How to get published' competition - securing herself a publishing contract with Pan Macmillan and an advance of £50,000.

16 February 2005 International Society of Nephrology partners with Nature Publishing Group to publish its flagship journal.

24 January 2005 The quality and impact of Asian scientific research is increasing and Asia is becoming an important player on the world scientific stage. In order to play a positive role in this process Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is substantially increasing investment in Asia, so that their Asian publishing program reflects the entire breadth of Nature Publishing Group.

19 January 2005 The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) will partner with Nature Publishing Group (NPG) to launch Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology in November 2005.

10 January 2005 As of January 2005, authors of original research papers published by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) will be encouraged to submit the author’s version of the accepted, peer-reviewed manuscript to their relevant funding body’s archive, for release six months after publication.

29 November 2004 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) launched 4 new clinical practice journals this month, and has plans to extend the series to 14 titles in specialist fields over the next 3 years.

24 November 2004 Nature is currently digitizing the archives back to 1950, with content being released in installments. Full text access back to January 1980 is now available.

11 November 2004 Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is proud to announce that it will hold two public forums in China in November 2004 to celebrate the publication on November 18th 2004 of a special Chinese language supplement in Nature, "China Voices II: Keeping pace with change".

03 November 2004 Palgrave Macmillan, the global academic and professional publisher, has won a competitive tender to become the official publisher for The Office for National Statistics (ONS).

20 October 2004 Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty wins the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2004

05 October 2004 Head to head: Questionnaire on Bush and Kerry’s scientific views published in Nature

05 October 2004 Palgrave Macmillan, the global academic and professional publisher, has won a competitive tender to become the official publisher for The Office for National Statistics (ONS)

29 September 2004 NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP WILL LAUNCH NEW METHODS JOURNAL OCTOBER 2004

29 September 2004 ISCBFM AND NPG ANNOUNCE A NEW PUBLISHING PARTNERSHIP

20 September 2004 Pan Macmillan's Audio Books division scoop two top awards in this year's Spoken Words Awards

7 September 2004 EMBO and NPG announce a new online publication: Molecular Systems Biology

6 September 2004 Pan Macmillan chosen as publishing partner for new Richard & Judy writing competition with £50,000 prize

31 August 2004 Nature research journals’ archives are launched

02 August 2004 Palgrave Macmillan wins publishing contract for World Economic Forum away from Oxford University Press

02 August 2004 Palgrave Macmillan’s Steven Kennedy named 'Political Publisher of the Year 2004' by the Political Studies Association

22 July 2004 Press Release from the Nature Publishing Group

12 July 2004 Press Release from the Nature Publishing Group

11 June 2004 Nature Methods in the Limelight at BIO 2004

30 April 2004 Holtzbrinck acquires roaring brook press

14 April 2004 Macmillan announces launch of new Picador Africa imprint

13 April 2004 Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones wins 'Richard and Judy Best Read Award' at the British Book Awards

4 April 2004 Pan Macmillan publishes first online novel backed by web and text promotional campaign

17 March 2004 Louis Theroux signs first book deal with Pan Macmillan

17 March 2004 Pan Macmillan's international sales team wins British Book Award

06 February 2004 Macmillan announces the creation of a specialist division to offer technology solutions and business services to the publishing community

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