UKSG eNews 465

Following the unprecedented events of the last few weeks and the cancellation of the 2020 conference, UKSG is having to look at different ways of going forward, including the possibility of a virtual AGM.

Two new 'Insights' articles are now available: one is an opinion piece by Eamon Costello questioning some of the assumptions held about ‘native’ English speakers; the other, by Theo Stubbs and Chris Banks, summarises the achievements of the United Kingdom Research Reserve (UKRR) project.

A reminder that the next free UKSG webinar – Interrogating e-book usage data, what can be learned? – will take place on Thursday 26 March 2020 at 1300 GMT.

Scholastica has launched a new industry survey, The State of Journal Production and Access, among scholarly societies, university presses, and university libraries publishing one or more journals.

Springer Nature has announced a new partnership with PubChem, and also that over 100,000 OA articles were published by Springer Nature in 2019.

The Digital Preservation Coalition has launched its new Australasia office in Melbourne.

Annual Reviews has announced that the 2020 volume of the 'Annual Review of Cancer Biology' has been converted from gated to open access.

EDP Sciences has announced the implementation of Subscribe to Open as a pilot open access programme in 2020 for 'Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena'.

The Digital Preservation Coalition has launched an online platform to connect members of the digital preservation community during a time when many are working in isolation.

In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is supporting its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on the Project MUSE platform.