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Editorial

Michelle Blake, Head of Relationship Management (Information Services) at the University of York, reflects on what has been happening in relationship management at York and in the wider library community in the run up to the 3rd Relationship Management in HE libraries conference.

UKSG news

Two new 'Insights' articles are now available: one on the importance of decolonizing the curriculum by Elizabeth Charles, and the other a case study by Julie Cleverley and Samantha Heeson evaluating impact of and engagement with library resources at Leeds Beckett University Library.

Industry news

Information Power has released its independent report and transformative agreement toolkit to support learned society publishers transition to immediate open access and align with Plan S.
OpenAIRE and Knowledge Unlatched have signed an agreement to develop an open research analytics service.
The Digital Preservation Coalition has announced its new programme of activities for the coming year, and is inviting contributions to Digital Preservation Day.
CLOCKSS has announced the support of thirteen additional libraries, and also that ten more publishers are working with the archive to preserve their publications for future generations of researchers.
COUNTER has made available the 8th class in this series of online tutorials, explaining how COUNTER Release 5 reports identify use of open access content.

Company news

Brill has announced a partnership with Jus Mundi for the distribution of Jus Mundi – Academic Research to the global academic market.
Wiley has announced a new publishing partnership with ISDN, and also a multi-faceted physiology taxonomy, developed in collaboration with The Physiological Society.
Copyright Clearance Center has announced its expanded partnership with De Gruyter for RightsLink Author.