UKSG eNews 463

Josh Clark, Marketing Manager at Altmetric, considers the development and use of altmetrics over the years since the term was coined, and looks ahead to what the future might hold.

Two new 'Insights' articles are now available: Dominic Walker provides an overview of the multiple, and often unacknowledged, ways in which librarians contribute to research environments; and Scott Taylor outlines recent exploratory steps the University of Manchester Library has taken to convince researchers to take OA research outputs to non-academic audiences.

There are now even more opportunities to receive a fully funded trip to UKSG 2020 in Brighton, with Annual Reviews, EBSCO Information Services and Taylor & Francis joining the UKSG bursary scheme.

The first free UKSG webinar of 2020 – Working with COUNTER 5 Reports in Microsoft Excel – will take place on Thursday 27 February 2020 at 1300 GMT.

CLOCKSS has announced the support of additional libraries and publishers.

UKB, the Dutch consortium of university libraries, and Brill have reached a transformative agreement for the years 2020 and 2021. 

Brill has entered into a partnership with Harvard University Asia Center to distribute all the e-books published by Harvard University Asia Center.

Kudos has announced a new partnership with the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Springer Nature is rolling out the SharedIt initiative to proceedings books.

Jisc is currently running an important piece of work on UK Further Education libraries/LRCs, and is inviting participation in a survey on FE library/LRC technology.