UKSG eNews 487

A first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open access monographs, D2O moves professional and scholarly books from a solely market-based, purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model.

Move gives publisher strong foothold in German language humanities market

Full year revenues increase 29%/Full year net loss decreases to $106mio

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) to participate in mutually beneficial activities to support the scientific research community in China.

Under the new host, ChemRxiv authors will have an author dashboard where they can view the status of their content uploads, easily upload new versions of their preprints and respond to user comments.

In the joint project, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and Knowledge Unlatched (KU) will work together to improve the publication of publisher-independent, non-APC Open Access (OA) journals through a consortial support structure.

Jisc and the OA Switchboard have established an agreement allowing UK universities who are Jisc members to use the service for free.

In support of greater global access to the work of Princeton researchers, Princeton University Library (PUL) has launched the PUL Open Access Publishing Program (POAPP). The new program offers Princeton faculty, researchers, students, and staff the opportunity to make their research available and searchable through open access online journals.

This two-year agreement will enable librarians at APUC’s UK member institutions to opt in to access hundreds of hours of high-quality teaching and learning content on the SAGE Campus and SAGE Video platforms, with similar deals also available for non-member institutions.

The new collection will join existing play texts from Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare, Oberon Books, Faber and Faber, Nick Hern Books, Playwrights Canada Press, and Aurora Metro Books, further diversifying the writers and work the platform offers to meet the needs of drama students, teachers and practitioners around the world.