UKSG eNews 550

Our eNews co-editor Tom Morley sat down with Joe Deville to find out more about the Open Book Futures project. Joe Deville is Principal Investigator on Open Book Futures and is a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University, based jointly in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology.

Our final Seminar for 2023, more speakers at our November conference and sign up before it fills up - our UKSG Forum is back - free to members and a small fee for non-members!

"The enlarged scale will accelerate our transition to Open Access and increase our ability to deliver cutting-edge technology. Together, we will publish over 3,500 books and 800 journals per year while providing the best possible service and infrastructure to our communities."

Touchstone powers publishing models by providing publishers with unique, granular insights into their audiences and demonstrating the value of their content.

200 titles will benefit from enhanced visibility and engagement through ResearchGate’s innovative Journal Home offering.

Elsevier announced that it is piloting Geographical Pricing for Open Access (GPOA) across 142 of its Gold Open Access journals to make open access article publishing charges (APCs) more affordable for authors in low- and middle-income countries.

Kudos is launching a new study to explore author needs and publisher opportunities around the publication and dissemination of research relating to the Sustainable Development Goals. The Real World Change study responds to the recent UN Global Sustainable Development Report, published to coincide with September’s SDG Progress meeting.

STM Solutions today announced the launch of a pilot program to detect duplicate submissions to scholarly publications. This workflow, part of the STM Integrity Hub, represents the first time duplicate submissions can be detected across different journals, publishers, and submission systems while upholding robust confidentiality and privacy standards.

Kudos AI Summaries are carefully engineered to conform to Kudos’ proven structure, with short titles, alongside explanations of what the research is about, and why it is important – all elements that are associated with increased readership and citations.

CABI, Edward Elgar and Royal College of Surgeons of England take advantage of GetFTR’s “free tier” initiative.