UKSG eNews 440

Notable women of library and information science

8 March 2019 Jill Emery, Portland State University Library The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is #BalanceforBetter. A balanced world is considered a better world and […]

From Finch to Plan S

6 March 2019 Graham Stone and Frank Manista, Jisc The Finch Report reaches the grand age of seven this year, and with the advent of Plan S, Insights wanted […]

COUNTER Release 5 Foundation Classes

4 March 2019 In February librarians were able to collect COUNTER Release 5 usage reports for the first time. Although the reports have only been available for a month, two […]
Zetoc user satisfaction survey

5 March 2019 Jisc are currently conducting an online survey for the Jisc Zetoc service. It would be much appreciated if Zetoc users were able to take a few minutes […]

Atypon acquires Authorea and Manuscripts

25 February 2019 Atypon has announced its acquisition of two authoring platforms – Authorea and Manuscripts – enabling the company to provide free HTML-first authoring and collaboration tools for researchers. […]

EZproxy 6.5

26 February 2019 OCLC is using PSI’s IP Intrusion Service block list to provide a new security feature for their latest release. EZproxy 6.5 contains a feature that incorporates a […]

British Library integrates Syndetics Unbound

21 February 2019 The British Library is aiming to improve the performance of its online catalogue with Syndetics Unbound, a ProQuest enrichment service that helps libraries create an interactive search […]

SAGE journals

5 March 2019 GIGA journals SAGE Publishing and the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies are to publish the GIGA’s open access journals in partnership. From 2019 onwards […]
SAGE journals

5 March 2019 GIGA journals SAGE Publishing and the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies are to publish the GIGA’s open access journals in partnership. From 2019 onwards […]
De Gruyter OA journals

26 February 2019 De Gruyter’s Advances in Nonlinear Analysis (ANA) is one of ten journals recently moved from a subscription model to open access. ANA publishes research articles in the […]

CUP celebrates International Women’s Day 2019

4 March 2019 Cambridge University Press is throwing the spotlight on female writers and researchers in honour of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, by making a collection of […]
Shakespeare’s Globe archive

6 March 2019 Archives from Shakespeare’s Globe are now available online as part of a collaboration with primary source publisher, Adam Matthew Digital. The archival materials in this collection offer […]
Nano patent module

26 February 2019 A new module has been added to Springer Nature’s nanotechnology research database, Nano. The patent module allows users to sort through over 22 million nano-related patents across […]