OA Switchboard initiative – progress report May 2020 - June 1, 2020
Open Access (OA) output is growing year-on-year and increasingly, funders and institutions are paying for OA centrally. OA business models are becoming ever more diverse, some with or without individual publication fees, some through agreements with publishers. Meanwhile, funders and institutions are expanding their requirements about… Read More
Open Preservation Foundation endorses TRUST principles for digital repositories - June 1, 2020
The Open Preservation Foundation has endorsed the TRUST principles for digital repositories. Following on from several months of RDA consultation and discussion within the digital repository community, a set of guiding principles have been developed to facilitate best practice in trustworthy data… Read More
AGU appoints Randy Fiser as next CEO and executive director - June 1, 2020
AGU, an international nonprofit association that advances Earth and space sciences, has announced Randy Fiser as next CEO and executive director, effective August 17, 2020. Fiser is passionate about AGU’s mission and vision, has a demonstrated ability to creatively lead organisations and shares AGU’s commitment… Read More
LM Information Delivery announces release of comprehensive usage analytics tool, LibMetrix - June 1, 2020
LM Information Delivery, an international information services provider, has announced the latest release of their comprehensive usage analytics tool, LibMetrix. One of the key features of the spring 2020 release of LibMetrix is an external subscription data upload facility. Users can now easily upload the cost… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - June 1, 2020
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Roger C. Schonfeld and Oya Y. Rieger (Publishers invest in preprints); Sam Herbert (The academic digital revolution is here... again); Michael Healy (Around the World: International Copyright Outlook); Eric Jensen and Alexander Gerber (For science communication to be effective it… Read More
