Jisc has launched a renewed digital archival collection (DAC) purchasing scheme that will help institutions reduce the cost of buying digital collections and archives from publishers and opens up the scheme to academic-related affiliates.
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Industry news
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation change OA policy to align with Plan S; eLife new publishing policy
Product news
Jisc now has eight repository suppliers accepted, with other suppliers in the process of applying.
Publisher The American Society of Civil Engineers and Integrator Semantic Scholar are to join GetFTR as of December 2020, expanding the availability of GetFTR to more than 86,000,000 research articles
The British Museum has partnered with Exact Editions to offer digital subscriptions to their membership magazine to institutions around the world.
Various recent customer announcements from Ex-Libris
Library news
The new repository offers simple, cost-effective ways to manage, store and share digital research outputs, and will allow institutions to meet all Plan S mandatory requirements and other funder and publisher mandates for open scholarship.
The new optional workflows allow patrons to use their mobile devices to check books in and out with barcodes and RFID systems. This functionality is supported by vendors such as 3M, Bibliotheca, PV Supa, FE, Envisionware, and D-Tech.
Researchers worldwide will benefit from access to graduate works from diverse South African research university
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