UKSG eNews 459

Steve Sharp, Head of Library Resources at Sheffield Hallam University and co-editor of 'Insights', UKSG's journal, considers the political situation facing the UK at present and some possible implications for the future.

Six sponsored places for students and early career professionals are being made available at the 2020 UKSG Conference.

A new report by the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate Analytics, 'Multi-authorship and research analytics', examines the effects of complex and hyper-authorship by author, country, and discipline.

Kudos has announced the foundation partners for its Bridging the Divide research project, which will identify critical areas in which researchers need better support for engaging with collaborators and audiences beyond academia.

The first phase of data from a project being undertaken by Springer Nature in partnership with the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and the Dutch Consortium of University Libraries and the National Library (UKB) has been released.

Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has signed an agreement to acquire Innovative, a provider of integrated library systems for public, academic, and specialty libraries.

SPi Global has signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Scientific Publishing Services, or SPS, from Springer Nature Group.

The 2019 edition of the International Library Automation Perceptions survey is under way and will be open until 20 January 2019. Library workers are invited to take a few minutes to take part in the survey regarding technologies used in libraries.

A research study is setting out to investigate whether there are student gender differences (self-identified gender) in the take-up of individually booked library or learning resource centre support sessions.

Scholastica has announced the launch of a new open access University of California Press journal, 'Media+Environmemt', using its platform.