OA transparency report launched at Berlin conference
An independent report aiming to improve the transparency of open access (OA) prices and services is calling for a customer-centric, collaborative and pragmatic approach…
Library news
Access all areas!
Under a new name, the Open Athens conference returns to London rebranded as Access Lab
Open Book: You didn’t ask, but I’ll tell you anyway!
Anna Seiffert reflects on the need to communicate the collection’s budget to admin and faculty
Rethink, reimagine, revolutionise
The theme of revolution has been inspired by the rich history of SSP’s 2020 annual meeting host city of Boston
How can academic libraries align with sustainable development goals?
Haseeb Md. Irfanullah looks at the role for Bangladesh libraries in driving the country's evolution
Elsevier Netherlands agreement ‘major breakthrough for open science’
A group of research institutions in the Netherlands have reached an agreement with Elsevier that is being hailed as a 'major breakthrough for open…
Springer Nature warns cOAlition S over Transformative Journals
Springer Nature has issued an appeal to cOAlition S not to 'lose the opportunity' that it says its Transformative Journals offer to accelerate the…
CISPC 2019 – Rising to the challenge
Librarians, researchers, funders, publishers and other vendors came together in a spirit of cooperation for the third CISPC meeting in November
Jisc steps up open access initatives
Five UK-based society publishers have signed pilot transitional open access (OA) agreements with the not-for-profit organisation Jisc
CISPC 2019 – slide decks from presentations
Below are the available slide decks from CISPC 2019, held at London Art House in November 2019
OUP seals first ‘read and publish’ deal with US institution
Oxford University Press has announced its first 'read and publish' deal with a US institution
Defining open research
We asked delegates at CISPC2019: what does open research mean to you and your organisation? Tasha Mellins-Cohen, director of publishing, Microbiology Society: 'Open research covers…