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JSTOR’s Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) program is now available through ProQuest Rialto and ProQuest OASIS, providing a new option for academic libraries to participate in JSTOR’s ebook program while managing acquisitions through their preferred workflows.
Milestone comes less than two years after publishing its 1000th OA book and demonstrates the rapid growth of OA book publishing over the last 18 months
The collaboration aims to enhance the discoverability of the journals indexed in DOAJ in two ways: by enhancing DOAJ’s article metadata with metadata from the OpenAIRE Research Graph; and by enabling OpenAIRE to include in the Research Graph the diverse range of journals that DOAJ indexes.
Kudos and Impact Science have announced the launch of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Knowledge Cooperative. This cross-publisher initiative will help companies, educators, politicians, the media and the wider public understand the evidence around EDI issues, as well as increasing the visibility and reach of EDI-related publications within academia. The companies are inviting publisher sponsors to join the cooperative and nominated content that will be summarised and promoted to a broad range of audiences.
Revised Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing have been released by four key scholarly publishing organizations today. These guiding principles are intended as a foundation for best practice in scholarly publishing to help existing and new journals reach the best possible standards.
The handbook, authored by the association’s Acquisitions Editorial Committee, was first published in 2016 to articulate practices that constitute a rigorous process of peer review for scholarly books. The revised edition, issued this week, reflects both evolutions in practice, particularly as the environment of both editors’ and scholars’ work changed through the pandemic, and an increased focus on making this essential step in manuscript evaluation more equitable.
C4DISC is releasing two documents aiming to be a resource to deepen the reflection and a tool to help people in the scholarly publishing world to better deal with DEI challenges: the Anti Racism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous and People of Color in Scholarly Publishing and the Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication.
The integration of OUP’s books collection with a range of accessible reading devices and applications will further support 33,000 learners with a print disability in accessing academic and educational materials
East View has announced that it has licensed the complete microfilm holdings of the International Population Census Collection (IPC) from Gale/Cengage.