April Hathcock elected as Chair of SPARC Steering Committee - September 8, 2022
April Hathcock, Director of Scholarly Communications and Information Policy at New York University Libraries, has been elected to the position of Chair of the SPARC Steering Committee. Hathcock has served as a member of the committee, which provides oversight and guidance to the SPARC organization, since her… Read More
Transformational agreement between Springer Nature and Projekt DEAL extends 2019 partnership for fourth year - September 7, 2022
In 2019 Springer Nature and Germany’s Projekt DEAL signed what was at the time the world's largest, most comprehensive, transformative agreement (TA). Encompassing 2,500 journals with the expectation of enabling 13,000 articles to be published open access (OA) each year, it reflected the commitment… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry sign three Read & Publish agreements with IReL, Central Technical Library at the University of Ljubljana (CTK) and Couperin - September 7, 2022
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has signed three Read & Publish deals respectively with the Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) in Ireland, Central Technical Library at the University of Ljubljana (CTK) in Slovenia and, Couperin in France. These new deals in Europe support endeavours… Read More
Reed Exhibitions appoints Gareth Rapley as new Director of The London Book Fair - September 7, 2022
RX (Reed Exhibitions) has announced the appointment of Gareth Rapley as the new Director of The London Book Fair (LBF). The first fair under Gareth’s leadership will take place next year from 18 – 20 April 2023. Rapley takes over the role from… Read More
IOP Publishing celebrates most influential Chinese and Indian papers with ‘top-cited paper awards’ - September 7, 2022
IOP Publishing (IOPP) is celebrating the significance of Chinese and Indian research with its ‘top-cited paper awards’ for the fifth consecutive year. The awards recognize the strong research presence Chinese and Indian researchers have across the global scientific community and their valuable contribution to Physics. The… Read More
CARL appoints Geoff Harder as Project Director, National Shared Repository Infrastructure - September 7, 2022
CARL has appointed Geoff Harder as Project Director, National Shared Repository Infrastructure. Bringing his extensive experience, knowledge, contacts, and enthusiasm to the role, Geoff will lead business case and project development for a shared national repository service. Initial phases of this work will include scoping and… Read More
