UKSG eNews 442

Don’t waste a good (library) crisis

5 April 2019 Dave Puplett A question I’ve been pondering for a while has been: do librarians waste their crises? We all have them, of course, and as a sector […]

Conference Bulletin Board

Sunday 7 April 2019 SSP Pre-Conference Seminar: ‘We’re not who we used to be: shifting relationship dynamics and imbalances in an open access world’ What: Pre-Conference Seminar When: 13:00-17:00 Where: […]

Five Essential Factors for Data Sharing

2 April 2019 ‘Five Essential Factors for Data Sharing’, a white paper published by Springer Nature, aims to translate findings about researcher attitudes and behaviours into concrete measures that should […]
Springer Nature's first machine-generated book

Springer Nature has published its first machine-generated book on chemistry. The book prototype provides an overview of the latest research in the rapidly growing field of lithium-ion batteries. The content […]

Hindawi Kudos partnership

2 April 2019 Kudos has announced a new partnership with Hindawi, one of the world’s largest fully open access publishers. Kudos’ platform for explaining research in plain language, and its […]
LM Information Delivery news

28 March 2019 LM Information Delivery has renewed its agreement as a framework supplier of printed and electronic journals for the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC). The contract will see […]
Prenax news

27 March 2019 Prenax has announced that, as of 1 May 2019, it is to be an approved aggregator on UKUPC Joint Consortia Agreement. The group is made up of […]

Web of Science ResearcherID

3 April 2019 From 15 April 2019 Publons will be the new environment for adding publications, tracking citations, and managing publication records across Web of Science. Current ResearcherID accounts will be […]
Alexander Street video interface

26 March 2019 ProQuest has announced the launch of a new interface for its Alexander Street streaming video products, including Academic Video Online. The new interface is simpler and faster […]

De Gruyter CzechELib agreement

3 April 2019 CzechELib, the National Centre for Electronic Information Resources of the Czech Republic, and De Gruyter have signed an agreement to provide access to De Gruyter journal collections. […]

Biographical Memoirs

The latest volume of Biographical Memoirs of Members of the Royal Society includes the obituary of Stephen Hawking. In recognition of the anticipated interest of this particular memoir it is […]
South African Law Journals

4 April 2019 Subscribers to Jisc Collections can now access information and resources pertaining to the South African legal system via Sabinet’s African Law Journals collection. This collection is one […]
Thieme library consortium collaboration

25 March 2019 The Thieme Group has signed an agreement with ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences, the Forschungszentrum Jülich, and additional specialist libraries. As part of an initial […]

OED use by researchers

28 March 2019 Oxford University Press are currently conducting market research in order to better understand the researcher community and how the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) could adapt to changes […]

Learned Publishing appointment

2 April 2019 ALPSP has appointed Megan Ainsworth to the new role of Early Career Editor on the Editorial Board of its journal, Learned Publishing. This role has emerged from […]

NASIG conference news

3 April 2019 Student Spotlight Sessions The NASIG Student Outreach Committee is invited proposals for the Student Spotlight Sessions for the 34rd NASIG conference in Pittsburgh from 5 – 8 […]