UKSG eNews 438

Liberate our library: social justice and the need for change

8 February 2019 Marilyn Clarke, Goldsmiths College As a library worker at Goldsmiths College, an institution focusing on arts, humanities, and social sciences with a very diverse student population in […]

From coalition to commons: Plan S and the future of scholarly communication

5 February 2019 Plan S calls for radical and swift change. The coalition of European research funders require that from 2020, article processing charges are capped, the end of embargoes […]
UKSG Conference awards

6 February 2019 The deadlines for the UKSG conference awards are approaching. UKSG funds six places at its annual conference for students and early career professionals as well as the […]
UKSG Conference awards

6 February 2019 The deadlines for the UKSG conference awards are approaching. UKSG funds six places at its annual conference for students and early career professionals as well as the […]

Transitions to open access

1 February 2019 Wellcome, in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), have engaged Information Power to explore a range […]
TheIPregistry.org

4 February 2019 TheIPregistry.org block list is working successfully at UCL (London). UCL is one of the first libraries to download the block list from theIPregistry.org and it has reported […]
New PRG report

1 February 2019 Primary Research Group has published ‘Profiles of Academic Library Efforts to Develop & Publicize Special & Digital Collections’. This report profiles the efforts of five higher education […]

De Gruyter acquires Jovis Verlag

29 January 2019 Jovis and Birkhäuser, two publishers specialising in architecture, have joined forces to expand their existing publishing programmes and to increase geographic and topical reach. Jovis Verlag, founded […]

UKSG Kudos partnership

Kudos has announced a partnership with UKSG to provide greater support for librarians, authors and publishers, to help them share their work, broaden audiences and accelerate impact. “UKSG has a […]

ALPSP Journal Collections

1 February 2019 The ALPSP Journal Collections are now available through JISC Collections. There are six ALPSP collections to choose from: ALPSP HSS Complete Collection ALPSP Archaeology and History ALPSP […]
Novoe russkoe slovo Digital Archive

5 February 2019 Novoe russkoe slovo (New Russian Word), a daily Russian-language newspaper available in North America for a century, is now available as a digital archive from East View. […]
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

7 February 2019 SAGE Publishing will be publishing the journal Anaesthesia and Intensive Care as of January 2019. This is in partnership with the Australian Society of Anesthetists. The journal […]

OASIS adds Project MUSE e-books

28 January 2019 ProQuest has announced that more than 34,000 e-books from Project MUSE, focused on humanities and social sciences, are now available for title-by-title purchase in the OASIS platform. […]

Atypon leadership changes

Atypon’s Founder and CEO, Georgios Papadopoulos, has assumed the new role of Chairman, and Marty Picco, Atypon’s Senior Vice President of Product, has been promoted to the new role of […]

EBSCO Solar Grant

25 January 2019 EBSCO is soliciting grant applications to give libraries the opportunity to ‘go green’ by funding solar installations. EBSCO will be accepting submissions from both domestic and international […]
John Cotton Dana Award

25 January 2019 The American Library Association is now accepting submissions for the 2019 John Cotton Dana Award. The award honours outstanding library public relations. Eight $10,000 awards will be […]

NASIG conference proceedings

4 February 2019 NASIG, in partnership with UKSG, is aiming to publish the 2021 NASIG Conference Proceedings in the open access journal, Insights. Andrew Barker, Chair of UKSG, said, “NASIG […]