Portico announces participation in Embedding Preservability project - August 16, 2021
Digital content preservation service Portico will participate in Embedding Preservability, a three-year project led by the NYU Libraries’ Digital Library Technology Services unit and supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The goal of the project is to support publishers in making design choices that result… Read More
Public Knowledge Project accessibility statement - August 16, 2021
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is committed to providing a user experience that is accessible to the widest possible audience. To achieve this, a new OJS Default Theme was developed by PKP for OJS 3.3 and higher, and was audited for accessibility barriers. PKP is actively… Read More
UKRI Open Access Policy: ALPSP Copyright Committee responds - August 13, 2021
As an international trade association, ALPSP supports and represents not-for-profit organizations that publish scholarly and professional content, as well as those that work with them. ALPSP members are very supportive of open access and have already taken and continue to take significant steps to ensure that as… Read More
Brill acquires Folia Primatologica journal from Karger - August 13, 2021
Academic publisher Brill has announced the addition of Folia Primatologica to its Biology program. The journal was established in 1963 by Karger and will be published by Brill as of 2022. Folia Primatologica is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the best of current… Read More
The Company of Biologists announces new Read & Publish agreement with the Spanish National Research Council - August 13, 2021
The Company of Biologists has announced a new Read & Publish agreement with the Spanish National Research Council. This cost-neutral agreement, which runs until December 31, 2023, enables researchers at more than 100 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) institutes to publish an uncapped number of… Read More
ACRL releases new whitepaper: Transforming Library Services for Computational Research with Text Data - August 13, 2021
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has announced the publication of a new white paper, "Transforming Library Services for Computational Research with Text Data: Environmental Scan, Stakeholder Perspectives, and Recommendations for Libraries," from authors Megan Senseney, Eleanor Dickson Koehl, Beth Sandore Namachchivaya,… Read More
