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Editorial

David Morgan, Metadata, Discovery and Analytics Co-ordinator at Royal Holloway, University of London, with some lessons learned managing a university library migration.

UKSG news

UKSG has sent out a reminder to save the date for the UKSG E-Resources for Further Education free event to be held on 21 November 2018 in London.

Industry news

Eleven national research funding organisations, with the support of the European Commission, have announced the launch of cOAlition S to implement a new open access policy – Plan S.
NISO has announced the release of a draft revision to the Transfer Code of Practice, a NISO Recommended Practice, for public comment.
Renew Publishing Consultants has made available the results of two recent projects which focus on discovery in scholarly publications and streaming video .
Publons has announced the launch of the '​Global State of Peer Review' report, bringing together the results of a survey of researchers with data from ​Publons, ScholarOne​, and ​Web of Science​.

Company news

SAGE Publishing has acquired technology start-up Lean Library and its associated products.
Ex Libris has announced the acquisition of Research Research Limited (known as *Research).
Springer Nature and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research have signed a new agreement.

Product news

DataSalon has announced the launch of a new Publisher Dashboard service, building dashboards tailored specifically for scholarly publishers.