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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded EMBO a grant to support the operation and development of Review Commons, the journal-independent peer review platform launched in 2019 by EMBO and ASAPbio. The grant secures the ongoing ability of Review Commons to operate at no cost to authors while allowing the project team to further promote the use of refereed preprints and expand the reach of the platform.

The Library Data Platform (LDP) will be the first open source project to participate in its Project Incubation Program. The program is designed to support early-stage open source projects and communities that are developing the balanced and robust mix of technology, governance, resourcing and community engagement required to be self-sustaining.

AIP, John Benjamins Co, Elsevier, Portland Press, Springer Nature and Wiley.

Open Consultation on the Framework which brings together relevant criteria developed by other communities (and refined by the COAR Repository Assessment Working Group) into a global, multidimensional framework for assessing best practices that can be adopted and used by different types of repositories (publication, institutional, data, etc.) and in different geographical and thematic contexts.

The Recommended Practice focuses on several key areas for e-book metadata — defining the minimal requirements for sales, discovery, delivery, electronic holdings management, and preservation purposes; identifying the best way to transmit metadata through the supply chain; updates to titles and holdings; developing rules for e-book metadata deduplication purposes; and sharing a variety of examples of recommended practice implementation.

The TCG Books Play Collection is now live on Drama Online. It has launched with 110 titles and will complete with a further 90 later this year.

The new new, fully-searchable digital book collection in partnership with online platform Exact Editions. Subscriptions are available to both individuals and institutions, including unlimited access to more than 40 titles across web, iOS and Android devices.

EBSCO has created a way for any user to search EBSCO content even before they authenticate to their libraries and institutions. EBSCO Essentials™ is a way to reach more users –– users who typically begin their research on the open web. The site also introduces EBSCO resources to searchers who may not realize the depth and breadth of content available from the libraries and other institutions with which they are affiliated.

Veterinary Source™ covers all aspects of animal health care including access to research from around the world on the prevention, control, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injury in animals.

CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform™ redefines its role in drug discovery with the inclusion of unique biosequence data collection and capabilities