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Ziyad Marar, President of Global Publishing at SAGE Publishing and a long-time advocate for the value of the social sciences, puts the case for some fresh thinking about measuring the impact of social science.

The Digital Preservation Coalition, which is organising World Digital Preservation Day 2019, has announced that the National Archives of Australia has become the DPC's newest Associate member.

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between MPDL Services, on behalf of Projekt DEAL, and Springer Nature, with the final contract to be concluded later this year.

ProQuest and EBSCO Information Services have extended their existing e-book partnership.

HighWire has announced that McGraw-Hill has implemented HighWire’s latest hosting and access management technology.

Elsevier has signed an agreement to acquire Parity Computing.

BioOne has selected Charlesworth Author Services as their exclusive partner to provide language editing services to BioOne publishing partners.

A group of academic publishers will contribute their expertise to the development of ProQuest Rialto.

Liblynx and PSI have formed a partnership to deliver real time usage metrics to organisations wanting to learn who is accessing their open access content.

Oxford University Press is launching a new programme to partner with librarians on a wide range of research that will feed into the development of future digital initiatives.