Heidi Fraser-Krauss succeeds Paul Feldman as Jisc CEO - September 16, 2021
Heidi Fraser-Krauss will replace Paul Feldman to take over as the CEO of Jisc. Paul Feldman is retiring after more than six years at the helm. Moving from a role as executive director of corporate services at the University of Sheffield, Fraser-Krauss has since held a variety of leadership roles… Read More
Eight academic institutions adopt EBSCO FOLIO’s ERM for electronic resource management - September 15, 2021
Eight universities in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States have adopted EBSCO FOLIO ERM from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). The libraries either moved from existing electronic resource management (ERM) tools or instituted their first ever ERM. The sites that have recently… Read More
New NISO project to develop a Recommended Practice for Unique Electronic Resource Package Identifiers - September 15, 2021
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced a new project, recently approved by its voting members, to develop a Recommended Practice for Unique Electronic Resource Package Identifiers. Volunteers are now invited to join a new Working Group to create a set of draft recommendations for public… Read More
The Association for Computing Machinery and the Chinese Academy of Sciences sign new transformative OA publishing agreement - September 15, 2021
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have signed the largest transformational open access (OA) publishing agreement in China to date. As a local third-party representing the specific requirements of ACM and CAS, The Charlesworth Group also helped… Read More
IntechOpen launches new publishing format: IntechOpen Book Series - September 15, 2021
Open access publisher IntechOpen has announced the launch of its new publishing format: IntechOpen Book Series with the aim to make book publishing more relevant for the digital age and offer innovative Open Access publishing options. Designed to cover fast-moving research fields in rapidly expanding areas,… Read More
Physical Review Journals announce name-change policy - September 15, 2021
The American Physical Society (APS) has released the details of its name-change policy for the Physical Review journals. The policy is intended to make the world’s leading physics journals more inclusive and ensure authors retain ownership of prior work published under a different name.… Read More
