UKSG eNews 512

Kaye Towlson discusses the vital role that the library continues to play at De Montfort as its community works to build an anti-racist university through the “Decolonising DMU” project.

Meet our new Trustees - election results announced at this week's AGM, plus Conference news (you could have a chance to present your project!) and the latest Insights article.

Plan M, predatory publishing and an introduction to eResources

UK universities have reached a three-year agreement with Elsevier providing both unlimited open access publishing and access to paywalled journal articles for a significant reduction on current institutional spend.

The ISNI International Agency (ISNI-IA) has reported that a new, cross-sector ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) project commenced in February 2022.

CCC and the OA Switchboard have announced a collaboration to automate the exchange of OA transactional information between publishers and their customers through the OA Switchboard.

Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) goes live with new partnerships: the start of the year has seen: aerospace publisher AIAA; the American Society for Microbiology ASM; digital library platform DeepDyve; scientific publisher IOP Publishing; research tool SciFinder; and Elsevier’s abstract and citation database Scopus, all go live.

Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences (Full Report in English) is available for downloading.

Access Innovations, Inc. has announced its Video/Audio to Text to Tagging (VATT), a new solution that translates audio files to time stamped text transcripts for indexing, classifying, and enriching by Data Harmony Hub.

Utrecht University aims at a publishing climate in which academic authors publish fully open access (OA). The Executive Board of Utrecht University has agreed to a new OA policy to realise this ambition.