UKSG eNews 503

In Sweden there is a government directive to reach 100% immediate Open Access during 2021. We won't reach it this year - but we have come far as we today can count approximately 75% immediate Open Access among corresponding authors affiliated to a Swedish university. As early adoptors of transformative agreements we are quite experienced having negotiated them for roughly five years. This has been a bumpy road along which we have cancelled agreements, made mistakes, gained knowledge and also have had some success in our negotiations. Today, through the Bibsam consortia, there are 21 transformative agreements and a handful of agreements with pure Open Access publishers in place.

Save the date - UKSG Annual Conference Exhibits are open for booking soon!

UKSG offers a range of free webinars which support distance learning and attract professionals with diverse experience from a wide range of organisations throughout the world. We are looking for suggestions for our 2022 programme.

Media interest in research has never been greater due to the global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and Climate Change, among other topics. How research is communicated varies from an international scale down to local level, as also reflected in the quality of coverage from in-depth news features to poorly referenced, click-bait churnalism. Join us for this online seminar that takes place over one day - Wednesday 8th December.

Join us on 1st December for a panel discussion where we will explore practical and systemic barriers in the sector, the value of library postgraduate study, diversity in the sector and more.

The agreement, which covers the period of 2021-2023, provides access to nearly all of AIP Publishing’s peer-reviewed, hybrid journals to more than 30 of Jisc’s consortium partners, including many of the UK’s most prestigious institutions of higher education.

Global giants Springer Nature, De Gruyter and Taylor & Francis join Wiley, Elsevier and SAGE Publishing to sign up to the Royal Society of Chemistry’s commitment for equality in publishing

The agreement, which expands on a previous pilot between Wiley and VIVA, will allow researchers at 55 participating Virginia institutions the ability to publish accepted articles open access in all of Wiley’s fully gold and hybrid open access journals, as well as provide access to all subscription content.

The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the appointment of Kathleen H. Canul as the ACS Publications’ ombudsperson. Her appointment fulfills a crucial element of ACS’ commitment to confronting racism and discrimination within the ACS journals program and strengthens efforts to increase diversity throughout the author and reviewer communities.

Rockefeller University Press has announced a partnership with OA Switchboard, which aims to make it easier for institutions to manage read-and-publish deals with multiple publishers.