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Editorial

Leo Appleton, Director of Library Services at Goldsmiths, University of London and co-editor of 'UKSG eNews', considers the continuing importance of print for today's public libraries and their users.

Forthcoming events

A reminder that the November free UKSG webinar – Better together: building services for public good on top of content from the global network of open repositories – will take place on Tuesday 19 November 2019 at 1400 GMT.

Industry news

Overt Software, a provider of federated access management solutions, is inviting colleagues to take part in an online access management and authentication survey.
Non-standard public records, open source intelligence, unpublished research data, and web interfaces have joined the list of critically endangered digital materials in 2019.

Company news

SAGE Publishing is now supplying full-text PDFs to Jisc’s Publications Router service.
Scholastica has announced that journals using Scholastica for open access publishing can now set up automated DOI registration and metadata deposits via Crossref.

Library news

A number of libraries have recently selected Innovative solutions.
The North Rhine-Westphalian consortium is to introduce Alma to member institutions, and the University of Michigan library has selected Alma and Primo to support its collection.

Journal news

Bristol University Press and Policy Press journal prices for 2020 have been announced.

Resources

ProQuest has announced the addition of 7,000 electronic books from Cairn.info to the lineup of aggregator- and publisher-direct platforms available on the OASIS platform.