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Editorial

Amy Stubbing with an abundance of experience from her recent trip to Washington to attend the ALA conference, ranging from museum visiting, to listening to fantastic keynote speakers, to sketchnoting.

UKSG news

UKSG and ALPSP have announced that the programme and bookings are open for the November One-Day Conference, being held in London on 13 November 2019.
Content Online will be overseeing sponsorship packages and advertising on behalf of UKSG for its annual conference and exhibition in Brighton next year.

Forthcoming events

Booking is also open for the UKSG Usage Data for Decision Making seminar being held on 24 October 2019 in London.

Industry news

Jisc is launching three new library services – Library Hub Discover, Library Hub Compare, and Library Hub Cataloguing – on 31 July 2019.
Ex Libris recently commissioned a report - 'Supporting academic research: understanding the challenges' - on the challenges of HE research which is now available.
The Digital Preservation Coalition is inviting the digital preservation community to submit nominations for its 2019 edition of the Bit List.
OASPA has published a blog post summarising the results of a recent OA article data collection exercise carried out with input from OASPA members.

Company news

NISO and NFAIS have announced that efforts to merge the two organisations have been successfully completed.
Springer Nature and ResearchGate have extended their content sharing pilot.