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News Roundup (March 18, 2021)
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, EBSCO, Elsevier, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup
|Austrian Academic Library Consortium and Elsevier Agree to Pilot for Reading and Open Access Publishing EBSCO Announces New APIs Designed to Enhance Fair Linking and Improve the User Experience How the Humanities Will Help Us Recover (via ARL) MIT Libraries and Faculty Committee on the Library System on UC-Elsevier Deal (via MIT Libraries) OCLC Research […]
University of California and Elsevier Announce “Breakthrough” Open Access Agreement
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Elsevier, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Podcasts, Profiles, Publishing
|UPDATE April 26, 2021: A New ATG! The Podcast Features a Conversation with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason and Ivy Anderson on the University of California/Elsevier Open Access Agreement (via Charleston Hub) We’re pleased to feature a conversation and interview with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, University Librarian and economics professor at UC Berkeley, and co-chair of UC’s publisher negotiation team, […]
CSIRO, Australia’s National Research Agency, “Moves Towards Open Access For National Benefit”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From a CSIRO Announcement: Research aimed at solving Australia’s greatest challenges will be made increasingly accessible as part of a shift towards ‘Open Access’ models at the national science agency, CSIRO. The changes represent significant and coordinated steps towards Open Access for a research organisation in Australia, and will see CSIRO lead the way in removing […]
CLOCKSS Names Alicia Wise as New Executive Director
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Preservation, Elsevier, Libraries, News, Preservation, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
|From CLOCKSS: CLOCKSS – the long-term digital preservation service for scholarly communications – is pleased to announce that Alicia Wise will be its new Executive Director, taking over from Craig Van Dyck, who retires in May. Dr. Wise has worked to improve access to digital research information throughout her career, first with the Archaeology Data […]
Roundup (February 23, 2021)
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Elsevier, Funding, Libraries, News, Roundup
|A New Book: The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge by Peter Kaufman ||| Read an Excerpt From the Book (via LARB) Australia: National Library’s Collections Face ‘Significant Future Risks’ Without Funding for Storage Elsevier Donates Original Drawings of the Pernkopf Anatomy Atlas to the Medical University of Vienna Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week […]
NISO Posts Call For Call for Participation in New “Content Profile / Linked Document” Working Group
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Elsevier, News, Patrons and Users
|From the National Information Standards Voting Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved a new project, Interchange of Academic, Research, and Professional Content, Data, and Semantics, which is intended to follow an ANSI/NISO standardization track. NISO invites volunteers to join the soon-to-be-formed Working Group. This Working Group is charged with reviewing and […]
Trade Associations: STM Appoints Dr. Hylke Koers as CIO of New STM Solutions Initiative to Develop Shared Infrastructures, Collaborative Services
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Elsevier, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
|From a STM Announcement: STM today announced the appointment of Dr Hylke Koers as Chief Information Officer of its new initiative STM Solutions. STM Solutions has been established to develop and manage forward-thinking shared infrastructures and collaborative services to support the scholarly communications community. Its establishment represents a significant milestone in the collective management of […]
Budget Cuts: New Mexico State University Library Will Not Renew Subscriptions to 433 Journals
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Libraries, News
|From The Las Cruces Sun News: The New Mexico State University Library has decided not to renew 433 scholarly journals subscriptions in the wake of university budget cuts. About one-third of the subscriptions cut were titles in a package from Elsevier, one of the largest publishers of scholarly journals in the world. Canceling the Elsevier package […]
Directory of Open Access Journals Shares 2021-2022 Strategic Objectives New Federal Data Center Will Expand Research Opportunities Across St. Louis Region (via St. Louis Public Radio) University of Houston Libraries Provides Update on Negotiations with Elsevier (via UH Libraries)
From Elsevier: Elsevier is pleased to announce the first step of visualizing the gender balance of its scientific journals’ editors. Following a successful pilot project, over 500 journals will now display the self-reported data of their editors’ gender to support openness and increase inclusion and diversity (I&D) in this space. February 11 also marks the […]