UKSG eNews 460

After another year as Chair of UKSG, Andrew Barker reflects on 2019 – a busy year for UKSG with changes in personnel, a new look to UKSG events, and the Research & Innovation Committee creating new opportunities – and looks ahead to 2020.

The first paper to be published in UKSG 'Insights' this year – 'Transformation: the future of society publishing' by Tasha Mellins-Cohen and Gaynor Redvers-Mutton – focuses on the institutional set-price publish and read (P&R) package being developed by the Microbiology Society.

The Jisc digital archival collections group purchasing scheme is open to UK HE libraries until July 2020, and feedback on the purchasing scheme is being sought.

Springer Nature is appealing to cOAlition S in an open letter not to lose the opportunity Transformative Journals offer to speed up the transition to OA.

Springer Nature and MPDL Services on behalf of Projekt DEAL have announced that the formal contract for a transformative OA agreement has been signed.

The Charlesworth Group has celebrated its 20th anniversary working with academics and scholarly publishers in China.

Council Bluffs Public Library and Faulkner-Van Buren Regional Library System have selected SirsiDynix as their integrated library system partner.

California Baptist University is implementing Ex Libris RapidILL, and the Università Carlo Cattaneo has selected Ex Libris Esploro.

A new version of CORE Reader, the web-based application that enables users to read the open access PDF papers hosted by CORE, has been released.

Friend and colleague Sophie Panagi died on Sunday 29 December 2019.