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Gordon McQueen's personal account of the 2023 UKSG Conference and Exhibition, inspired by Mary Catherine Bateson’s Our Own Metaphor. Gordon won a sponsored place for the conference - don't forget to apply for your place next year when the competition opens!

Practical routes to OA Monographs, the November conference and the UKSG Forum - free to all those in member institutions - is back!

Mutual collaboration simplifies workflows to manage transformative agreements and open access publishing in one place

The Royal Society of Chemistry, and the American Society of Civil Engineers will work with Kudos to map content against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), explain it in plain language, and promote it to broader audiences.

The European Science Foundation-Science Connect (ESF-SC), on behalf of cOAlition S, is seeking to engage a third-party contractor to devise and run a large-scale consultation with the research community regarding cOAlition S’s draft proposal, “Towards Responsible Publishing”.

SPARC Europe have announced the completion of a study on the current landscape of non-legislative policy practices affecting researchers and authors in the authors’ rights and licensing domain.

Since launch in 2019, GetFTR has now welcomed over 28 publishers to the service, strengthening its commitment on improving access for the research community and now supporting streamlined access to over 52% of global research output.

Brill has announced that its global distribution channels are fully operational again. This includes journal subscriptions and print orders, for both Print on Demand (POD) and stock titles.

Over 30 organizations around the world are involved in this year’s Peer Review Week, and there is still time to participate.

UKB, SURF and OpenAIRE are launching a new research portal for the Netherlands on OpenAIRE Connect. The portal covers the publications, datasets and projects of research institutes in the Netherlands.