University of Concepcion becomes first library in Chile to implement FOLIO with EBSCO FOLIO Services - March 31, 2021
University of Concepcion (UdeC) has become the first library in Chile to choose FOLIO as its Library Services Platform (LSP) and will use EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) for implementation and hosting services. UdeC has started implementation of the FOLIO ERM and is expected to go live with… Read More
Jisc to use Unsub to evaluate UK university journal subscriptions - March 31, 2021
Jisc has announced that it will be utilizing Unsub, an analytics dashboard, to help evaluate journal agreements that UK universities hold with publishers. The dashboard was created in 2019 by Our Research, a not-for-profit software company. Unsub can produce forecasts of different journal subscription scenarios, giving Jisc… Read More
OCLC to convene a diverse group to explore inclusive descriptive practices - March 31, 2021
OCLC, a non-profit global library cooperative, has been awarded a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to convene a diverse group of experts, practitioners, and community members to determine ways to improve descriptive practices, tools, infrastructure and workflows in libraries and archives. The… Read More
Elsevier announces trans-inclusive policy for author name changes - March 30, 2021
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has launched a trans-inclusive policy for author name changes. This allows authors to retrospectively return to previously peer-reviewed articles of record and update them with their current names. Elsevier is committed to working with its partners to… Read More
The European Commission’s new OA publishing platform, Open Research Europe, to make scientific papers accessible to all - March 30, 2021
The European Commission recently launched Open Research Europe, a publishing platform for scientific papers that will be accessible to everyone. The platform will present the results of research funded by Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme for 2021-2027, and its predecessor, Horizon 2020. Open… Read More
Bioscientifica acquires European Thyroid Journal; journal transitions to OA model - March 30, 2021
Bioscientifica, the society publisher, and commercial subsidiary of the Society for Endocrinology, has acquired the European Thyroid Journal, the flagship publication of the European Thyroid Association. The publisher will also be moving the journal from a subscription to an open access model. This will remove all barriers… Read More
