Industry news

The National Information Standards Organization and National Federation of Advanced Information Services have announced a proposed merger.

Jisc has set up a survey about the cost to libraries of annual charges for digital archival collections/static databases acquired as one-off perpetual purchases.

Book authors are being asked to contribute to a Springer Nature report on attitudes to publishing and the awareness and perceived benefits of open access.

Voting Members of NISO have approved a new project to create a Standards-Specific Ontology Standard.

Wellcome, in partnership with UKRI and ALPSP, have engaged Information Power to explore potential strategies and business models through which learned societies can make the transition to open access and adapt and thrive under Plan S.

TheIPregistry.org block list is reported to be working successfully at UCL (London).

Primary Research Group has published 'Profiles of Academic Library Efforts to Develop & Publicize Special & Digital Collections'.

Jisc’s Institution as e-textbook publisher project has compiled and released a toolkit to provide practical help and support to universities wishing to publish their own e-textbooks.

Those working in FE and using or promoting the use of research content, such as journal articles and conference papers, are encouraged to participate in a survey on open access content in further education being run by Jisc.

According to a new report published by OpenAthens, 'Librarians’ experiences in providing access to digital content', more people are working remotely, causing increased demand for remote access to library resources.