UKSG eNews 556

In this week's editorial, Joanna Ball discusses UKSG's commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). The article provides an update on last year's EDI audit and shares the EDI statement developed by UKSG Trustees in response to this and plans for the development of a resourced and measurable EDI action plan.

The latest from UKSG Insights and details on our podcast with Tony Zanders, CEO of Skilltype.

Our Education Sub-Committee have finalised the list of events for 2024. Lots of dates still to be confirmed, but you can register your interest to get further information when it is available.

United2Act has today released their Consensus Statement outlining five key areas of action against the impact of paper mills on the integrity of academic research and publishing.

Cactus Communications has partnered with Elsevier to make over 19 million research article abstracts by the publisher available on R Discovery. This collaboration will allow the global research community to access all of Elsevier’s high-quality content in one place via R Discovery, a research discovery and reading app.

This brings the total number of Sage OA journals to 100, and BMJ to six.

New TU Delft policy and guidelines of Open Access publishing are effective by February 1, 2024. The current policy that dates from 2016 no longer reflects the current practice as much has changed in the open access landscape. The new policy and guidelines bring together all of TU Delft’s Open Access components.

The guidelines are intended to provide support and guidance to actors in Sweden who have an important role to play in the transition to open science.

Big change at Ebsco, news from Emerald and University College Cork and an interim CEO for CILIP

OpenAthens, a single sign-on solution, has received a platinum award in LibraryWorks’ tenth annual Modern Library Awards (MLAs) for the sixth consecutive year.