UKSG eNews 563

Annabelle Nye, University of Bolton reviews her first ever UKSG Annual Conference - we're pleased to hear how much she got out of it: "learning a lot about the sector, and feeling part of a really engaged and forward-looking community."

Our popular Introduction to E-Resources seminar is back, we've got an all-new "trust in research communication" seminar and the call for papers is out for our November conference. Plus a "Save the date" for our free-to-members Forum in Birmingham in December.

The digital library will include audiobooks, e-books as well as magazines. More than 200 municipalities have joined the endeavour, and the service is accessible to 85 percent of people in Finland.

Elsevier and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), have announced the results of their collaboration to explore the emerging concept of a ‘4th generation university’: global universities that are fully integrated in their local innovation ecosystem with the aim of tackling worldwide societal challenges and driving regional economic growth.

BIMM University has chosen Figshare to support the sharing, showcasing and management of its non-traditional research outputs (NTROs).

The report draws on the results of extensive research conducted across 18 months including a literature review of economic and financial aspects of institutional publishing, quantitative surveys, focus groups, and interviews. Ten EIFL partner countries (Albania, Estonia, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine) took part in the survey and one (Serbia) was also involved in focus groups.

In total, 7 Trans Tech Publications journals are included in the partnership, including all their fully open access titles and a leading hybrid title. All version-of-record article content, including archive content and new articles, will be available to ResearchGate’s 25m+ researcher members – boosting readership and engagement, and enabling Trans Tech Publications to connect with new audiences of highly relevant authors.

Scholastica announces the release of a new free “Peer Review System Migration Toolkit” to help journal publishers and editors navigate the process of adopting or changing peer review software.

C4DISC releases the Workplace Equity in Scholarly Communications 2023 Executive Summary, the initial analysis of the 2023 data and free-form comments collected across six continents from 1,755 respondents, 48% more than in 2018.

These principles will serve as a foundational framework for the ethical and transparent use of AI and reflect the values we hold in research libraries. ARL will rely on these principles in our policy advocacy and engagement.