Editorial
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UKSG at 50: Tackling the important issues of the day, fifty years on
Fifty years ago, UKSG started because one person thought people who never talked to each other really ought to. That instinct still serves us well and Rob Johnson has reviewed the changes over the last fifty years, and what has stayed the same. Plus some exciting initiatives to coincide with our landmark anniversary in 2027.
UKSG news
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The latest Insights articles
Two recent Insights articles: Diamond publishing and Latin America, and student well-being and support in FE libraries.
Forthcoming Events
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UKSG forthcoming events
Open access, usage data and a week on Trust – read more about our upcoming seminars
Industry news
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Kudos’ Taming the Crocodile enters Phase II: an industry-wide Code of Practice for AI discovery
EBSCOHost joins as a headline sponsor; Wiley, Emerald Publishing, Springer Nature, Silverchair, American Physical Society, Clarivate, Elsevier, IEEE, Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis and Wolters Kluwer continue to support.
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NISO publishes Phase III of the KBART Recommended Practice
NISO has announced the publication of a revision to the Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Recommended Practice (NISO RP-9-2026), commonly known as KBART Phase III.
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New journal publishing solutions alliance expands options for nonprofits
Scholarly organizations seeking to develop or enhance independent journal publishing programs now have access to coordinated software and services through Allied Journal Publishing Solutions, an alliance between The Scholarly Publishing Collective (SPC), Scholastica, and Westchester Publishing Services.
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Harrassowitz enhances licensing services
The enhancement is the addition of a dedicated service for parsing and managing individual institutional licenses.
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Cassyni and Altmetric partner to add seminars as a research attention source
A paper referenced in a Cassyni talk will show a seminar mention on its Altmetric badge, in red. Altmetric weighs a seminar mention the same as a policy document or a clinical guideline.
Resources
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Bluesky: Academic Libraries Starter Pack
We came across this excellent Bluesky academic libraries starter pack (we may be late to this!), created by Ned Potter and thought we would share it. (Also if you want an easy list of public and health libraries, separate starter packs are available for them)
People
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People on the move – eNews 616
Lots of new C-suite executives this issue