UKSG eNews 483

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

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the movement towards open research and open access publishing in scholarly journals, but after shrinking in the pre-COVID-19 period, open access books are not poised to capitalize according to the latest report from Simba Information

The Transfer Code of Practice has consistent guidelines to help publishers ensure that journal content remains easily accessible when there is a transfer between parties, and to ensure that the transfer process occurs with minimum disruption.

Nature Index Artificial Intelligence (AI) supplement investigates emerging trends in AI research output alongside an experiment in AI-powered curation

The new initiative will benefit researchers, institutions and funders by broadening engagement with research among diverse audiences, within and outside of academia.

The survey is a three-yearly wide-ranging survey of user behaviour, mapping the changing nature of how readers, from all over the world, find academic content, and has been running since 2005.

This project will enable the CLA to make content more accessible to their communities of scholars, religious leaders, and local churches, as well as enabling the sharing of collections with a wider audience around the globe.

SMAI awarded funding from Fonds national pour la science ouverte (FNSO) for Subscribe to Open maths journals published in partnership with EDP Sciences

Joint study by Springer Nature, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and the Dutch University Libraries and the National Library consortium (UKB), tracks wider impact of SDG related content when published Gold OA.

The Nature Index Germany supplement finds that strong and steady science funding and long-term investment in basic research are key to Germany’s success