UKSG eNews 429

Making moves: lessons from a library migration

David Morgan, Royal Holloway, University of London 14 September 2018 Over three weeks in August 2017 some 475,000 items were moved from Royal Holloway, University of London’s three existing locations […]

cOALition S

4 September 2018 On 4 September 2018, 11 national research funding organisations, with the support of the European Commission including the European Research Council (ERC), announced the launch of cOAlition […]
Renew Publishing reports

Renew Publishing Consultants has spent a significant amount of time over the last 12 months researching two areas affecting scholarly publishing. The results of both projects are now published and […]
2018 Global State of Peer Review

7 September 2018 Publons has announced the launch of the ’2018 Global State of Peer Review’ report, bringing together the results of a survey of 11k+ researchers with data from […]

SAGE acquires Lean Library

12 September 2018 SAGE Publishing has acquired technology start-up Lean Library and its associated products. The Lean Library browser extension provides seamless, one-click access to all licensed library resources, both […]
Ex Libris acquires *Research

Ex Libris has announced the acquisition of Research Research Limited (known as *Research). Founded in 1994, *Research offers coverage of funding opportunities and publishes news and analysis of research politics […]
Springer Nature RFBR agreement

5 September 2018 Springer Nature and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) have signed a new agreement. As of July 2018, Russian institutions have access to all Springer journals, […]

DataSalon Publisher Dashboard launch

4 September 2018 DataSalon has announced the launch of a new Publisher Dashboard service, building dashboards tailored specifically for scholarly publishers. The new Publisher Dashboard service offers publisher-specific dashboards which […]
EBSCO Intellus Learning partnership

5 September 2018 EBSCO Information Services and Intellus Learning, an educational platform as a service company, have formed a partnership to provide academic libraries with a content curation, assignment, recommendation […]

Access Microbiology

10 September 2018 The Microbiology Society has announced the launch of their new open science journal, Access Microbiology. The journal will publish replication studies, negative or null results, research proposals, […]
New titles from Inderscience

4 September 2018 Inderscience Publishers has provided an update on titles which have joined the collection in the past few months, bringing the number of titles in the full online […]

ProQuest news

30 August 2018 ProQuest is making more of its digital news content discoverable via Ex Libris Primo. ProQuest Historical Newspapers, Recent Newspapers and Newsstream collections – covering nearly 3,000 titles […]
Archival Futures

6 September 2018 Facet Publishing has announced the publication of Archival Futures edited by Caroline Brown. Archival Futures draws on the contributions of a range of experts to consider the […]

2018 Charleston Conference Scholarship

30 August 2018 HARRASSOWITZ has awarded the 2018 Charleston Conference Scholarship to Sara Huber, Acquisitions Librarian at the University of Oklahoma. The scholarship will enable Sara to attend the conference, […]