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Keith Cole, Executive Director Digital Resources Jisc, has issued a statement explaining the rationale for Jisc's decision to end its funding of the Keepers Registry.
NISO is seeking comments on a new recommended practice draft for improved access to institutionally-provided information resources.
The National Information Standards Organization has published an updated version of the Transfer Code of Practice, NISO RP-24-2019.
NISO has announced the publication of a new update to the JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019.
Research carried out by Editage shows that pre-submission language editing improves the chances of manuscript acceptance by 24%.
'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 accelerate data sharing.
Springer Nature has published its first machine-generated book on chemistry.
Bernie Folan is carrying out research for a UKSG session in April, asking "What do publishers want librarians to know?"
COUNTER has created a set of online tutorials to help librarians understand the COUNTER Release 5 usage reports.
Jisc are currently conducting an online survey for the Jisc Zetoc service and would appreciate feedback.