UKSG eNews 433

Adam Hodgkin, Chairman of Exact Editions, considers the implications of cOAlition S and the rapidly changing open access environment for the top tier of magazine publishing.

29 October 2018

UKSG has announced that following an internal staffing restructure, Alison Whitehorn, UKSG Business Manager, has left the organisation. Alison has worked for UKSG since January 1999, and she has made a major contribution to the success of the organisation over that period.

The next free UKSG webinar – Introduction to metadata quality: the approach of Europeana Collections – will take place on Thursday 22 November 2018 at 1330 GMT.

There are still a few places available at the UKSG E-Resources for Further Education seminar to be held on 21 November 2018 in London.

The International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers and NISO have released their RA21 Corporate Pilot Report, co-funded by Copyright Clearance Center.

The National Information Standards Organization is seeking comments on a new draft Recommended Practice, KBART Automation: Automated Retrieval of Customer Electronic Holdings.

This month JSTOR and Apex CoVantage (Apex) are marking the 20th anniversary of their relationship.

CLOCKSS has announced an agreement with four universities – Stanford Libraries, Humboldt University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Alberta Libraries – to formalise its succession plan to ensure perpetual preservation.

Vincentz Network and De Gruyter are entering into a sales partnership for Vincentz Network’s frontlist and backlist in the areas of geriatric care and the coatings industry.

Atypon Literatum is now integrated with the IP Registry to offer publishers IP address verification.