UKSG eNews 541

Andrew Marsden reflects on his first UKSG conference - "full on, very tiring, but also very inspirational"

Andy Tattersall chairs our upcoming seminar on research communication, we have announced the open call for topics for the annual conference in 2024 and the latest article from our OA journal, Insights.

Publication to Press and Introduction to eResources

The $3 million comes from a committed group of investors, including prominent figures within the scholarly communications industry including including Paul Peters (former CEO of Hindawi), Ahmed Hindawi and Nagwa Abdelmottaleb (co-founders of Hindawi), Sven Fund (MD of Reviewer Credits), and James Douglas (MD of Morgan Healey)..

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved the formation of a Working Group to refine and extend the metadata model developed in the Federating Repositories of Accessible Material for Education (FRAME) project, which will enable it to meet broader accessibility needs. NISO is currently seeking members from across the information community to join the resulting Accessibility Remediation Metadata (ARM) Working Group.

Fully funded by the university and overseen by UVM Libraries, the UVM Press operates under a “diamond open access model” – meaning that authors pay no fees to publish with the press, and readers pay no fees to access the press's published materials.

Cengage reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended March 31, 2023. Adjusted Cash Revenue for fiscal year 2023 was $1.48 billion, an 8% increase as reported and a 6% increase on a pro forma basis over the prior fiscal year. Adjusted Cash EBITDA less pre-publication costs (Adjusted Cash ELPP) was $351 million, up 8% as reported and 7% on a pro forma basis over fiscal year 2022.

Project COUNTER have opened up their survey to everyone, whether a member or not. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes to complete and will help shape COUNTER's tools and services for the future.

Announcing the new Global Film and Media Collection, launching on Screen Studies in 2024

GetFTR is designed to improve the journey from discovery to access, and to support publishers in helping their researchers quickly reach the latest version of published content they are entitled to read via their institutional subscriptions.