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Build it and they will come

Helen Rimmer and Amy O’Donohoe, Royal Holloway Library 12 October 2018 Following a library move to a state of the art building in September 2017, Royal Holloway library made use […]

UKSG One-Day Conference

3 October 2018 Online booking is open for the UKSG One-Day Conference being held in London on 14 November 2018. Full details and the programme are now available. The theme […]
New UKSG members

12 October 2018 UKSG is pleased to welcome five members: Auris Associates (UK) GeoScienceWorld (USA) PA Editorial (UK) Public Health England (UK) Third Iron (USA, rejoining)

UKSG webinar: Accessibility aspirations

2 October 2018 The next free UKSG webinar – Accessibility aspirations: the outcomes of the Aspire audit of e-book accessibility statements and their implications for libraries – will take place […]
New UKSG seminar on OA publishing

24 September 2018 UKSG is running a new seminar, Introduction to open access publication lifecycles and compliance, in London on Tuesday 30 October 2018. Previously an area primarily of concern […]

OASPA Board supports Plan S

2 October 2018 The members of OASPA’s Board of Directors have written a statement in support of the implementation of Plan S. “The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is […]
World Digital Preservation Day

26 September 2018 The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is inviting data creators, curators and consumers to prepare to share stories of their own ‘digital preservation day’. World Digital Preservation Day […]
COUNTER Release 5 online tutorials

In January next year the newest version of the COUNTER Code of Practice becomes effective. The team at COUNTER have created the first two foundation classes about COUNTER Release 5. […]

Brill acquires Deo Publishing

4 October 2018 Brill has acquired the full publication programme of Deo Publishing with immediate effect. Last month Brill and Deo Publishing reached an agreement to transfer all assets of […]
Atypon news

8 October 2018 Atypon took on its 400th employee this month. It has doubled in size since 2016 and is projecting continued growth, with plans to expand to 500 employees […]
New Charlesworth partnerships

10 October 2018 Dove Medical Press The Charlesworth Group has announced that Dove Medical Press has chosen to integrate its manuscript submission system into Charlesworth’s WeChat Gateway platform. The use […]

MDPI integrates Hypothesis

2 October 2018 MDPI has integrated the open source annotation software Hypothesis for MDPI journal articles. Using tools available on article webpages, scholars can make public or private comments anywhere […]

Swiss Library Service Platform

10 October 2018 Ex Libris has announced that the Swiss Library Service Platform (SLSP) has opted to base Switzerland’s new national library service for academic universities on the Ex Libris […]

Berghahn Journals pricing and updates

1 October 2018 Berghahn Journals 2019 subscription rates are now available. New journals in 2018: Journal of Legal Anthropology Migration and Society Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind is […]
Aggregagent

2 October 2018 Bone & Joint Publishing ACCUCOMS has announced that journals from Bone & Joint Publishing have been added to Aggregagent. Bone & Joint Publishing has a portfolio of […]

Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts

28 October 2018 Bloomsbury Digital Resources has launched a new digital platform, Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts, expressly designed to support and inspire visual learners. It offers searchable access to: over […]

ALPSP awards

14 September 2018 The winners of the 2018 ALPSP Awards were announced at the ALPSP Conference Dinner on Thursday 13 September 2018. ALPSP Council presented this year’s ALPSP Award for […]

Diversity in peer review

25 September 2018 A recording is available of the half-day conference for Peer Review Week 2018 hosted by AJE and Research Square on 12 September 2018. Peer Review Week 2018’s […]