UKSG eNews 448

Launched in January 2019 as a way for libraries to offer MIT Press e-books to their patrons, MIT Press Direct is celebrating several milestones as it approaches its six-month anniversary.

La Sapienza University in Rome and De Gruyter have signed a cooperation agreement for the publication of open access books.

HighWire is supporting the founders of medRxiv by providing the hosting and submissions technology that underpins the new preprint server.

TBI is conducting a survey across the global library community to learn more about what is important when purchasing a multidisciplinary abstract and indexing (A&I) database.

The NISO Open Discovery Initiative Standing Committee are hoping for wide participation in the Libraries Survey, needed to ensure the revised recommended practice reflects current discovery practices.

EMBO Press has relaunched a completely redesigned publications website on Atypon’s Literatum.

Bloomsbury Digital Resources, in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects and the University of London, has released a new architectural studies digital platform.

OAPEN and De Gruyter have developed a framework agreement to enable retroactive open access for ERC-funded publications.

Virtual reality and 360-degree viewing functionality is now available for select videos on the ProQuest platform, in ProQuest One Academic, and on the Alexander Street video interface.

Springer Nature is launching a new collection of educational, standalone videos on its online content platform SpringerLink.