UKSG eNews 549

This editorial highlights the collaborative relationship between the Research & Innovation Service and the University Library Scholarly Comms Team at Northumbria University. The piece underscores the significance of breaking down silos between Academic Libraries and University Research Offices to foster a thriving research ecosystem.

UKSG is commissioning research around our annual conference - if you are interested in leading that research, please respond to our invitation to tender!

Details of our upcoming seminars about open educational resources, introduction to resource discovery, enriching scholarship and keeping up with our users' information needs. Also, the Forum, free to all in member institutions, is now open for bookings.

Host nation Dubai withdraws their bid - the decision was communicated by the Emirates Library and Information Association who led the bid to support the development of the field and wider region. Read the IFLA announcement here.

This new partnership provides opportunities to increase visibility and to expand their Read & Publish initiative throughout India.

Clarivate has announced it has established an Academia & Government Innovation Incubator. This will further accelerate its strategy to drive innovation, utilize artificial intelligence and introduce novel solutions for its academic users and customers.

F1000 has announced that it has been awarded a second contract for the ongoing technology and publishing services for Open Research Europe (ORE), the European Commission’s open research publishing venue for Horizon funded research and other eligible European Commission research programs in all subject areas.

The new Royal Society Open Access Equity scheme will help to eliminate the cost barrier to open access publication for researchers in eligible low and middle-income countries and territories.

Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is partnering with arXiv, through the support of the Simons Foundation, to provide strategic advisory services to assist arXiv to remain operationally and financially viable, open-source, and user-centered with a robust governance system to support those aims.

RightFind Navigate unifies searching across multiple licensed content sources, publicly available data, and internal proprietary content, empowering researchers to reveal connections and drive innovation.