NISO invites public comments on draft Content Profile/Linked Document standard - March 29, 2023
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that its draft Content Profile/Linked Document (CP/LD) standard is open for public comments through May 12, 2023, at the project web page. Users today expect contextualized, bite-sized, targeted content delivered as a natural part of… Read More
PLOS Global Public Health and PLOS Digital Health now indexed in PubMed Central - March 29, 2023
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) has announced that PLOS Global Public Health and PLOS Digital Health are now fully indexed in PubMed Central (PMC), expanding their reach and furthering their mission of ensuring research content is accessible and discoverable as widely as possible.… Read More
University of Bath and Frontiers announce publishing agreement - March 29, 2023
The University of Bath has joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers. This landmark deal provides a simplified and streamlined route to open-access publishing for researchers in the UK, who publish 7% of the world’s research. This institutional agreement… Read More
OCLC and the Big Ten Academic Alliance partner to advance new OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups - March 29, 2023
OCLC is partnering with the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) to advance development of OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups, a new solution that reimagines resource sharing with a focus on library groups and consortia. OCLC and the BTAA are working… Read More
Taylor & Francis’s first transformative agreement in Italy to support researchers at biomedical institutions to publish open access - March 27, 2023
Bibliosan, the Italian network of biomedical research libraries, and Taylor & Francis have announced a new three-year open access agreement which will significantly extend the reach and impact of research at the 70 participating institutions. Under the read & publish agreement, articles accepted… Read More
The National Library of Luxembourg and Cambridge University Press sign transformative agreement - March 27, 2023
The National Library of Luxembourg (BnL) and Cambridge University Press have signed a three-year transformative agreement, which provides access to content from academic journals and covers publishing costs, signalling a significant step forward in the world of Open Access Publishing. The agreement, which… Read More