UKSG eNews 513

As in-person conferences restart, how do we decide whether to attend in person or online? Charlie Rapple (UKSG Vice-Chair and co-founder of Kudos) has grappled with the decision, and found it useful to try and distil some of the reasons why we feel like we gain more from being together in person.

Conference news, forthcoming events and the latest from UKSG Insights.

Annual Reviews announced that over the next 18 months they will make their entire portfolio of 51 academic journals freely available to everyone under a new model called Subscribe to Open.

PLOS authors will benefit from additional audience growth via Kudos’ research showcases.

Research Square’s Digital Editing tool, an artificial intelligence-based language check service, will be integrated with Aries’ Editorial Manager® (EM), the leading cloud-based manuscript submission and peer-review tracking system.

Brill shows significant growth in revenue, profit levels and eProduct sales in 2021

The partnership will ensure the long-term preservation of the publisher’s extensive program of scholarly and reference books. More than 22,000 book titles that are a core part of the scholarly record will now be kept safe for posterity through inclusion in the CLOCKSS digital archive program.

BDS will contribute metadata to the ISNI database and begin assigning ISNIs to the public names of individuals and organizations.

ACM has opened the articles published during the first 50 years of its publishing program. These articles, published between 1951 and the end of 2000, are now open and freely available to view and download via the ACM Digital Library.

Mass Observation Project: 1980-2009 explores the history of Britain through three turbulent decades. Just published, the final module captures the experiences, thoughts, and opinions of everyday people in the Noughties.