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This month marks one year since the launch of ‘Knowing me, Knowing UKSG: Scholarly Comms Journeys’, a podcast series for the scholarly communications sector. In this latest episode, Katherine Stephan speaks to Dr. Sabina Alam, Director of Publishing Ethics and Integrity at Taylor & Francis Group. Sabina discusses her route from research into publishing, the complexity and challenges of research integrity and the advantages of working together to combat fraudulent publishing.

Varina Jones-Reid considers the annual conference from the perspective of a first timer, a recipient of one of our sponsored places.

The 2024 conference is over and now we are looking ahead to 2025 - but in the meantime, look at the app stats, the winner of our Passport Game is announced and our next call for papers..

Join us for the 2024 UKSG November Conference. This year's event will take place online over two consecutive half days. Wednesday 20th November and Thursday 21st November. A call for papers will be announced shortly.

#UKSG2025 will be held in Brighton on the 31 March to 2 April 2025 (with set up days on 29/30 March). A call for papers will be issued shortly, so please get your ideas together!

F1000 and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced plans to launch a new verified preprint platform that will enable the rapid availability of new findings and promote research integrity.

UKRI, in partnership with the Association of Learned Society Publishers (ALPSP), the British Academy, and the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), has commissioned a project from Information Power. The project is to support book publishers in their transition to sustainable open access models, with a particular focus on learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers.

Recurring report from KGL Consulting compares editorial compensation data from dozens of journals across a broad range of disciplines

ResearchGate and Optica have announced that all Optica PublishingGroup’s wholly owned subscription and open access journalsare now available through ResearchGate’s innovative Journal Home offering.

Knowledge Unlatched (KU) has shared the results of its 2023 pledging round, which ended in December 2023 and saw hundreds of institutions worldwide pledge support for Open Access (OA) book and journal collections offered by KU and its publishing partners.