UKSG eNews 433

After open access – new scope for magazines?

9 November 2018 Adam Hodgkin, Exact Editions Two months ago, against a background of steadily mounting frustration at slow progress towards widespread open access, a broad group of national research […]

UKSG staff news

29 October 2018 UKSG has announced that following an internal staffing restructure, Alison Whitehorn, UKSG Business Manager, has left the organisation. Alison has worked for UKSG since January 1999, and […]

UKSG webinar: Introduction to metadata quality

The next free UKSG webinar – Introduction to metadata quality: the approach of Europeana Collections – will take place on Thursday 22 November 2018 at 1330 GMT. In this webinar […]
UKSG E-Resources for Further Education

There are still a few places available at the UKSG E-Resources for Further Education seminar to be held on 21 November 2018 in London. This popular event aims to bring […]
UKSG E-Resources for Further Education

There are still a few places available at the UKSG E-Resources for Further Education seminar to be held on 21 November 2018 in London. This popular event aims to bring […]

RA21 Corporate Pilot Report

6 November 2018 The International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have released their RA21 Corporate Pilot Report, co-funded by Copyright […]
KBART Automation initiative

2 November 2018 The National Information Standards Organization is seeking comments on a new draft Recommended Practice, KBART Automation: Automated Retrieval of Customer Electronic Holdings. KBART Automation is an enhancement […]
JSTOR and Apex CoVantage mark 20 years

1 November 2018 This month JSTOR and Apex CoVantage (Apex) are marking the 20th anniversary of their relationship. The organisations have pioneered the high-quality conversion of academic publications to digital […]

De Gruyter Vincentz Network agreement

6 November 2018 Vincentz Network and De Gruyter are entering into a sales partnership for Vincentz Network’s frontlist and backlist in the areas of geriatric care and the coatings industry. […]

Literatum integration

26 October 2018 Atypon is now offering customers on its Literatum platform full integration with the IP Registry to solve the problems caused by inefficiencies and inaccuracies within the process […]
ProQuest's Rialto service

6 November 2018 ProQuest is starting the development of the Rialto service, aimed at unifying selection and acquisition in academic libraries. Through benchmark analytics, recommendations, and a marketplace with content […]
StataCorp Code Ocean partnership

5 November 2018 Code Ocean has formed a partnership with StataCorp enabling researchers to share Stata software code on Code Ocean, a computational reproducibility platform for researchers to share, discover, […]

SAGE Journals platform

29 October 2018 SAGE Publishing has made several changes to the SAGE Journals platform including a variety of security and access developments as well as several new features to enhance […]
Journal of Proteins and Proteomics

6 November 2018 The official journal of the Proteomic Society of India will be published under the Springer imprint from January 2019. The Journal of Proteins and Proteomics aims to […]

Springer urban studies portal

31 October 2018 Springer has expanded its urban studies publication programme and set up a specially dedicated urban studies portal. The portal compiles a collection of books, open access publications, […]
GeoScienceWorld news

2 November 2018 GeoScienceWorld (GSW) has announced the addition of the GeoArabia archive (1996 – 2015) and special publications to its collection of Earth science research. A quarterly journal covering […]

ALA Conference scholarships

6 November 2018 The American Library Association (ALA) and EBSCO are offering three scholarships to librarians residing outside of the United States to attend the 2019 ALA Annual Conference & […]

NASIG Awards open for application

2 March 2021 Please visit the Awards Page (https://nasig.org/page-18284) on the NASIG website for full descriptions and applications. Professional/Para-professional Awards Birdie MacLennan Award An award for a mid-career professional in […]
NASIG goes online

20 January 2021 Registration for the conference will open soon. Registration rates for this year’s conference will be as follows: Full Online Conference Registration – Members $40 Full Online […]
NASIG Conference

7 May 2020 The NASIG Executive Board has announced that it will be holding the 35th Annual NASIG Conference online, 9-11 June 2020. The conference will be free to all attendees, […]