NEWS
Libraries set to save thousands with Jisc pilot
7 February 2018
A second wave of a Jisc pilot, which last year saved participating libraries £127,000 on purchasing digital archival collections, has been launched
Publishing news
ANALYSIS & OPINION
Tartan talking
5 February 2018
City of Glasgow once again to host UKSG annual conference
NEWS
INASP deal means manuscript checking won't cost a Penny for Global South researchers
5 February 2018
INASP’s AuthorAID project has formed a partnership with Penelope.ai, an automated manuscript checking service
ANALYSIS & OPINION
APE 2018 conference report
22 January 2018
More than 250 delegates gathered in Berlin for one of Europe’s most important gatherings on scholarly communication, writes Chris Armbruster
NEWS
OUP joins Initiative for Open Citations
16 January 2018
Oxford University Press has announced that it has joined the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)
NEWS
New CEO for Emerald Publishing
10 January 2018
Emerald Publishing has appointed Vicky Williams as its new CEO
NEWS
SAGE Publishing acquires journal portfolio from Wichtig
9 January 2018
SAGE Publishing has acquired the full portfolio of journals from the STM publisher, Wichtig. The first issues with SAGE will publish January 2018
ANALYSIS & OPINION
Ensuring the accessibility of all learning content
2 January 2018
The accessibility of learning content is undergoing a dramatic change right now, writes Rick Johnson.
NEWS
Springer Nature platform now holds a billion metadata statements
2 January 2018
SciGraph, the linked open data (LOD) platform launched by Springer Nature in March, now holds more one billion metadata statements about content published by the company and links to established external datasets.
ANALYSIS & OPINION
What is blockchain for research?
28 November 2017
Jon Treadway (pictured) explains Digital Science's new report, Blockchain for Research: Perspectives on a New Paradigm for Scholarly Communication, exploring the impact the technology could have on scholarly communication and research
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Interview
Danny Kingsley, deputy director at Cambridge University Library, looks back at her early days at Australian National University – and forward to the many challenges facing librarians
Feature
While researchers, publishers and funders warm to data sharing, issues over misuse, citation and credit remain, reports Rebecca Pool