Charleston Conference – call for papers now open
Sessions "should include diverse representation from different viewpoints and stakeholders in scholarly communications process"
Metrics
The state of research assessment
New Springer Nature white paper gives insights from more than 6,600 researchers on evaluation practices
Beyond metadata: the future of scholarly access
Global library organisation OCLC explains why linked data is essential for research institutions
COUNTER launches education programme
Offering comes in response to requests from community for more in-depth training
Breaking down silos and beating donkeys with carrots
Hannah Baldwin offers her insights from this year's Researcher to Reader conference held in London
OCLC highest ranked supplier on library procurement index
Framework provides institutions the opportunity to buy a library management system without tender process
Knowledge Unlatched to collaborate with LibLynx on usage statistics
Data pipeline capable of collecting, standardising, and enriching usage event data from partner platforms
American Society for Microbiology in new European partnership
Deal with largest virology society in Europe aims to broaden the reach of virology research
Taylor & Francis eBooks platform integrates with GetFTR
Development highlights GetFTR’s commitment to enabling researchers to access resources more efficiently
Linked data expertise for libraries
Ashleigh Faith discusses data quality for discoverability, analytics and AI using linked data ontologies
When research met policy – a perfect match online
Alex Freeman, founder of Octopus.ac, explains the platform's new feature integrating government ‘areas of research interest’
Predatory Publishing in 2025
Simon Linacre assesses the state of predatory publishing, 15 years since the term was first coined