LibQUAL+ 2020 registration now open - August 14, 2019
The Association of Research Libraries is inviting libraries to join the global assessment community of LibQUAL+® by registering for the 2020 LibQUAL+ survey. LibQUAL+ is a tool that libraries use to solicit, track, understand, and act upon users’ opinions of service quality. The protocol is… Read More
2019 New Directions Seminar to explore ‘the good, the bad, and the ugly’ in scholarly publishing - August 12, 2019
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has announced the program for its 2019 New Directions Seminar, now in its third year. This year, SSP will explore ways publishers and industry leaders are creating new business models, new technologies, and new approaches to new challenges through keynote… Read More
ProQuest collaborates with five academic publishers for development of the Rialto Marketplace - August 12, 2019
A group of global academic publishers have announced that they will contribute their expertise to the development of ProQuest Rialto. Rialto is a comprehensive marketplace that enables libraries to acquire content from a variety of publishers and platforms. Emerald Publishing, Oxford University Press, SAGE Publishing,… Read More
NISO to host virtual conference – From Submission to Publication: Creating and Conveying Quality - August 9, 2019
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is hosting a virtual conference - From Submission to Publication: Creating and Conveying Quality. The event is scheduled to be held from August 21, 12pm–4pm. One on-going concern in scholarly communication has to do with publication time lags and… Read More
MIT Press releases ‘Mind the Gap,’ a new report on all available open-source publishing software - August 9, 2019
The MIT Press has released Mind the Gap: A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms (openly published at mindthegap.pubpub.org), a major report on the current state of all available open-source software for publishing. Funded by a grant from The… Read More
ConTech 2019 announces Not Poster Lightning sessions - August 7, 2019
ConTech 2019 is offering start-ups, vendors, publishers and data scientists the opportunity to talk about their latest ideas. The organisers are looking for content pioneers who already see the benefits of using data science, the data science visionaries who are building new content tools and… Read More
