The eNews co-editors Josh and Helle, asked the current Board of Trustees to reply to three important questions, exploring UKSG’s response to current challenges and their vision for the future.
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Bev reviews the Autumn activities at UKSG and our plans for 2021.
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Together, EIB and KU will make more than 150 titles available throughout all the major hosting platforms by using the distribution service “KU Open Services.”
Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs Annual Report 2019-2020
Jisc has announced the launch of a digital research community which will explore how technology and innovation can help improve current research practices.
"Brave New World research project is well timed to provide critical insights into how publishers will need to respond to the pandemic."
The agreement runs for three years from 2021 to 2023. Participating institutions include the University College London, University of Manchester, University of Durham and others. All participating institutions will have access to a dashboard to administrate their account with detailed reporting features.
The OA Switchboard initiative is a not-for-profit collaboration between funders, institutions and publishers to provide essential infrastructure, standards and back office services to achieve a breakthrough in the transformation of the market such that Open Access is supported as the predominant model of publication.
Intellect partners with Kudos to improve circulation and increase impact
DOAJ, the CLOCKSS Archive, Internet Archive, Keepers Registry/ISSN International Centre and Public Knowledge Project (PKP) have agreed to partner to provide an alternative pathway for the preservation of small-scale, APC-free, Open Access journals.