Research Information is delighted to announce its next live panel webcast, ‘Bridge over Troubled Water – How do we span the Digital Divide?’, on Thursday 13 August
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David Prosser and Nkem Osuigwe
WEBCAST: How do we span the Digital Divide?
29 July 2020
ALPSP chief executive Wayne Sime
ALPSP shortlists finalists for innovation award
23 June 2020
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers – ALPSP – has announced its shortlist for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2020
Publishers ‘must drop fees in wake of Covid-19’ – Jisc/UUK
17 June 2020
Major academic publishers are being urged to reduce their prices by 25 per cent on all agreements in light of the severe financial impact institutions are facing because of the pandemic
Preprint journal clubs – invitation to researchers
16 June 2020
eLife has partnered with PREreview to bring together scientists globally for a series of virtual discussions around research posted as preprints
MIT sticks to OA principles and ends Elsevier talks
12 June 2020
MIT – the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – has ended negotiations with the publisher Elsevier for a new journals contract
Webcast: Covid-19 and the Future of the Academic Library
01 June 2020
EDIT: This webcast has now taken place, but is available on catch-up at the link below. SPOILER: it was excellent!
Improve digital monographs – report
27 May 2020
Readers demand 'digital options with stellar content' along with enhanced usability
Springer Nature enticed by DORA aura
20 May 2020
Springer Nature has formally signed up to the principles outlined in the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, commonly known as DORA
CISPC 2020 – call for speakers
14 May 2020
Our 2020 conference will build on the success of last year’s event by providing librarians and information professionals with deeper knowledge and understanding of communication strategies for open research
Research Square partners with Dimensions on preprint citation data
11 May 2020
Digital Science and Research Square have announced a partnership that will see Dimensions badges display on all Research Square preprints
Jisc and Lyrasis team up on US repository data
05 May 2020
Jisc, a not-for-profit supplier of technology for research and education in the UK, and Lyrasis, a global non-profit membership association, are joining forces to introduce Institutional Repository Usage Statistics in the United States
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Faye Holst
Two librarians from the National Library of Scotland share their experiences with Faye Holst
A crisis requires rapid decision-making, and keeping record of these decisions becomes more important, says William Kilbride
Paul Stokes
Deciding to do nothing about preservation could be a disaster, says Paul Stokes
Julia Peregudova
The Russian Federation has declared 2021 as a year of Science and Technology – which predicts an increase in the sphere of scientific publications, writes Julia Peregudova
There is no easy answer, but some routes through the maze are becoming visible, writes Tasha Mellins-Cohen
More than 120 delegates from an array of institutions and countries around the world joined the organisers of CISPC for the first virtual version of the event.
