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Editorial

Leo Appleton, in his last editorial as co-editor of ‘UKSG eNews’, gives us an insider view of the upheaval of the last few weeks from his perspective as Director of Library Services at Goldsmiths, University of London.

UKSG news

UKSG has announced that Josh Sendall, University of Lancaster, will be joining Helle Lauridsen and replacing Leo Appleton as a co-editor of 'UKSG eNews'.
Three free UKSG webinars, being held on 27 April, 7 and 13 May 2020, are now open for registration.

Forthcoming events

The free UKSG webinar – Research integrity 2020: new challenges for a new decade – will take place on Monday 27 April 2020 at 1300 BST.

Industry news

A new white paper analyses data from Springer Nature authors and interviews with institutions to better understand the fragmented and varied funding currently available for APCs.
The results of the survey of the Jisc digital archival collections group purchasing scheme have been collated into a report which is now available.
The steering committee of Think. Check. Submit. has announced a new addition to its resources, a checklist for authors wishing to verify the reliability and trustworthiness of a book or monograph publisher.

Company news

Casalini Libri has acquired, along with Dirk Raes, the Dutch based companies Erasmus Antiquariaat en Boekhandel and Houtschild Internationale Boekhandel.
The MIT Press has published its first open access monographs on the MIT Press Direct platform.
Springer Nature has announced new transformative read and publish deals with swissuniversities and the Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India.