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FinELib, a consortium of Finnish universities, research institutions, and public libraries have signed an agreement that provides support for the Open Library of Humanities from four of their member institutions: Abo Akademi University, University of Eastern Finland, University of Helsinki and University of Jyväskylä.

Interfolio’s portfolio includes Faculty Information System (FIS), Dossier, and Researchfish. Faculty Information System enables academics to collect and manage critical data for academic hiring, review, promotion and tenure, through a streamlined and transparent digital process, using faculty activity data which benefits the scholar and the institution.

The strategic partnership entails hosting and worldwide distribution of more than 2,000 frontlist, backlist and archive titles published by Berghahn via degruyter.com. At least 20% of Berghahn’s total frontlist collection will be exclusively available as DRM-free through De Gruyter.

Scholastica, a peer review and publishing software and service provider for academic journals, today announces the launch of its second “State of Journal Production and Access” survey of independent scholarly society and university publishers. The survey is accepting responses now through August 25, 2022.

Karger Publishers has acquired the British company Research Publishing International (RPI) for an undisclosed amount. Together, RPI and Karger will support researchers and the Health Sciences/Healthcare ecosystem in making scientific findings more accessible and comprehensible to a wider audience.

Hindawi announces the launch of new journal reports, which provide additional detail about the underlying services of Hindawi's journals.

First released in 2017, Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice (CoP) incorporates the concept of continuous maintenance. Thus far changes to Release 5 have been very small. In the last year COUNTER’s volunteer teams, led by the Technical Advisory Group, have been working on a more significant update to the Code of Practice designed to better facilitate Open Access reporting, among other matters, and are now opening our work up to community consultation.

Over 40 CRL affiliated institutions recently agreed to become founding institutional members of Policy Commons. This level of financial commitment means that medium-size CRL institutions will receive substantial additional discounts, and Coherent unlocks complimentary access for over 70 small CRL institutions.

The launch of the Global Social Challenges Journal, the first fully OA journal to be based in the social sciences, which also engages with research from humanities, arts and STEM. Including marginalised, minority and Indigenous world views, the journal will be an important home for research which contributes to the creation of alternative futures that are socially and environmentally just and sustaining.

Bloomsbury Fashion Central and Bloomsbury Design Library have been updated with new featured themes that are now live. Their Featured Content brings together free articles, book chapters, business cases, object images and videos on their respective topics of Menswear: Meaning, Making and Masculinity and Modernism and Design guiding users to discover a variety of helpful content types across formats while supporting teaching or research.