UKSG eNews 564

Alice Burns, Journal Marketing Executive at Liverpool University Press, shares an overview of Trailblazers, an initiative that sees ECRs publish their first monographs open access, and benefit from in-depth training about the publishing process.

In this episode of the UKSG podcast, Tom Morley is joined by Professor Jane Secker, Senior Lecturer in Educational Development at City, University of London. Jane is the chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group and was a founder member of LILAC (Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference). Jane was previously employed at the London School of Economics and Political Science, as Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor for 15 years.

Continuing our series of reviews from those attending the conference for the first time, Rachel Branson looks back at her first time at a UKSG 2024 conference. "I applied for a bursary as a first-time attendee and an early career professional. I was extremely honoured to be awarded a fully sponsored place which covered my entire attendance, including travel, accommodation, meals, and all conference events – a real treat and a made it an extra special experience overall. I really love the city of Glasgow too, and it made an excellent setting for the conference."

Open publishing of public health research in Africa and Digital cultural heritage in the crossfire of conflict - two recent articles from the UKSG journal, Insights.

The return of our popular Introduction to E-Resources, a brand new research communication and integrity seminar plus two calls for papers: cybersecurity and censorship and our December Forum (free for members to attend!)

From the Wall Street Journal, as reported in Inside Higher Ed.

Under this collaboration, authors publishing with select CSP journals will now have the opportunity to archive their underlying research data with Dryad at no cost, amplifying the accessibility and transparency of scientific findings.

Wolters Kluwer Health has joined forces with leading pharmaceutical companies to introduce intuitive and customizable workflows on the Ovid research platform to improve research automation and efficiency.

GetFTR has announced collaboration with CrossRef which will expose retraction and errata information to researchers at the point of discovery

A new global study from IOP Publishing (IOPP) has found that certain peer review communities continue to feel overburdened by reviewer requests, while others remain underrepresented.