SPARC has released the results of its COVID Impact Survey, which was undertaken to better understand academic libraries’ pandemic-related budgetary challenges and approaches, with a focus on understanding how they affected attitudes towards content, collections, and open initiatives.
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An important feature of the Registry is the ‘Notification of issues and data updates’ section in response to requests from librarians. Publishers are urged to check their information on the Registry.
Higher Education Press (HEP) signed a strategic partnership agreement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc., during the 28th Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) held Sept. 14 to 18 in Beijing.
Following a successful pilot program, LYRASIS is opening a new round of funding opportunities to support Open Access (OA) publishing by scholarly journals. The journals seeking investments in OACIP’s second phase include Algebraic Combinatorics, History of Media Studies, and Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.
KU Leuven has become the first institution to join its Opening the Future programme.
Bloomsbury Publishing has announced that it has completed the acquisition of certain assets of Artfilms, the video streaming service of Contemporary Arts Media
Cross-sector initiative will explain key climate science research for broader audiences. Launch partners include Royal Society of Chemistry and AIP Publishing
NISO has announced that it has received a grant of $125,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of a consensus framework for implementing controlled digital lending (CDL) of book content by libraries, which has been approved by NISO members as a new initiative.
De Gruyter, a global leader in HSS publications, has signed an international distribution agreement with Edinburgh University Press (EUP), hosting and distributing more than 3,000 titles of outstanding editorial value for global dissemination through degruyter.com. Per this agreement, De Gruyter will also possess the non-exclusive worldwide license to distribute the press’s frontlist and backlist collections.
Humanities research provider joins community of Open Source projects that make up the Open Library Foundation