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Editorial
UKSG news
Another two new 'Insights' articles are now available, one looking at the consequences of the decision of the Bibsam consortium to cancel its journal licence agreement with Elsevier, and the other exploring the role of Wikipedia in the information ecosystem.
Forthcoming events
A free UKSG webinar – Writing articles for Insights and other journals – will take place on Thursday 7 May 2020 at 1300 BST.
A free UKSG webinar – Preprints are changing the landscape – will take place on Wednesday 13 May 2020 at 1300 BST.
Industry news
Scholastica is inviting participation in a new survey it is running on ‘The state of journal production and access’.
NISO has announced the launch of its work to formalise and develop the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) as an ANSI/NISO standard.
OASPA has announced a new initiative for scholarly publishers to work together to ensure rapid review of COVID-19 content.
Company news
Taylor & Francis has adopted DataSalon’s PaperStack service to provide editorial staff with a reporting suite which delivers the potential to cover all aspects of the peer review process .
Ex Libris has signed an agreement with the InfoReady Corporation, under which Ex Libris will be the exclusive reseller of the InfoReady Review software in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Israel.
Product news
COUNTER has made available a free tool aimed at helping small to medium sized consortia gather COUNTER reports for their affiliated libraries.