UKSG eNews 514

PLA (Public Library Association) Conference was for many both the last large live event before lockdown and the first after reopening, and like many other vendors and delegates, Colin Carter worried that it wouldn’t be safe, that nobody dared to attend, and that a long trip and much money spent on making the event festive and attractive would be lost. As you can read from this article this was not the case, instead, it was a joyous event for all, and attending in person is to be strongly recommended. There really is nothing like the buzz of meeting real people.

Bank holidays, new additions to the conference programme, award winners, free events and the latest from Insights.

"Researchers lay bare the challenges and opportunities they face in a post-COVID world" Adrian Mulligan, 20 April 2022

UK publisher sales rose 5% to £6.7 billion in 2021, a new high for the industry. This included books, journals and rights/co-editions sales combined.

Founded in 1999, Interfolio supports over 400 higher education institutions, research funders and academic organizations in 25 countries, and over 1.7 million academic professionals and scholars.

"With this cooperation, we are entering new territory. I am convinced that a virtual reading room as a networked place of learning and working will reveal a dimension of archive use that was previously unimaginable. It will open up entirely new opportunities for researchers to ask questions and gain new insights. At the same time, we are strengthening citizen science in a comprehensive way."

Brill has reached agreement with the shareholders of Wageningen Academic Publishers B.V. (WAP) to acquire all shares in the business. WAP is an international academic publisher in the fields of Animal Science, Food and Health Science, Agriculture, Environment and Agribusiness. It publishes scientific journals, books and conference proceedings, many of which in Open Access.

The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) program—the world’s largest disciplinary open access initiative—has been formally extended by two years, until December 31st, 2024.

The organisations have agreed a process which will see the names of twenty one journals in Springer Nature’s German language medical portfolio change to become more clearly inclusive, while Clarivate will enable them to retain their indexing with no break in coverage and no disruption to their journal metrics in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

Dutch Library Consortium, Jisc, Royal Society of Chemistry and Thieme.