2023 Retrospective
In the busy month of December, it can be a bit difficult to see what progress has been made and the newsworthy accomplishments of those organizations working so tirelessly to deliver robust information services. Take a brief moment now to scan the 2023 headlines of announcements emerging from the NISO community. There was activity in so many areas – acquisitions and mergers, implementations of artificial intelligence, emerging tools and technologies, DEIA efforts, infrastructure, and more!
We honor the engagement of our member organizations and applaud the active steps taken to improve creation, access, and delivery of scholarship and information services. We are grateful for your sponsorship of NISO Plus events. We look forward to the progress that will be made in the coming New Year.
Acquisitions and Mergers
Wolters Kluwer Acquires NurseTim
Wolters Kluwer, Voting Member, Press Release, January 9, 2023
Sage Publishing Acquires Epigeum
Sage Publishing, Voting Member, Press Release, March 13, 2023
Emerald Publishing Acquires ICE Portfolio
Emerald Publishing, Voting Member, Press Release, May 23, 2023
Springer Nature Acquires protocols.io
Springer Nature, Voting Member, Press Release, July 26, 2023
ChronosHub Becomes Subsidiary Dvision of ACS
American Chemical Society (ACS), Voting Member, Press Release, September 8, 2023
CrossRef Adds Retraction Watch to Its Portfolio
Crossref, Voting Member, Press Release, September 12, 2023
Nonprofit Publisher Annual Reviews Acquires Charleston Hub
Annual Reviews, Voting Member, Press Release, October 10, 2023
Springer Nature Further Expands AI Portfolio
Springer Nature, Voting Member, Press Release, October 25, 2023
Artificial Intelligence
Clarivate Announces Partnership with AI21 Labs
Clarivate, Voting Member, Press Release, June 22, 2023
Letter from Martha Whitehead: Initial Guidelines on Generative AI
Harvard University Library, LSA Member, News Announcement, July 13, 2023
Elsevier takes Scopus to the Next Level with Generative AI
Elsevier, Voting Member, Press Release, August 1, 2023
Clarivate Launches Enhanced Search Using Generative AI
Clarivate, Voting Member, Press Release, August 9, 2023
Library gets grant to raise algorithmic literacy
Cornell University Library, LSA Member, News Announcement, September 11, 2023
CCC Pilots AI-disambiguated Researcher and Institution Data
Copyright Clearance Center, Voting Member, Press Release, September 28, 2023
Clarivate Acquires Alethea, an AI Student Engagement Solution
Clarivate, Voting Member, Press Release, September 26, 2023
Bowker collaborates with DeepZen AI to revolutionize audiobook production in the US
Bowker, Voting Member, Blog Post, October 11, 2023
Wolters Kluwer unveils generative AI Labs for UpToDate
Wolters Kluwer, Voting Member, News Announcement, October 3, 2023
Springer-Nature Launches Curie, An AI-Powered Writing Assistant
Springer Nature, Voting Member, Press Release, October 13, 2023
DEIA Initiatives
Cambridge achieves gold for accessibility information
Cambridge University Press & Assessment, Voting Member, News Announcement, February 2, 2023
New library acquisitions advance academic distinction, diverse scholarship
Cornell University Library, L.S.A. Member, News Announcement, April 5, 2023
OU Researchers Win Prestigious NEH Grant to Develop Indigenous Media Portal
University of Oklahoma, L.S.A. Consortia Member (Amigos), News Announcement, May 12, 2023
Newly released: Data Curation Primer on Data Accessibility
University of Michigan Library, L.S.A. Member, Blog Posting, June 9, 2023
Emerging Tools and Technologies
Building Digital Research Tools for Open Access to Canada’s Historical Topographic Maps and Data
University of Toronto, and McGill University, LSA Consortia Members (CRKN), News Announcement, December 5, 2022
Taylor & Francis Welcomes the Launch of STM’s Paper Mill Detection Tool
Taylor & Francis Group, Voting Member, Press Release, May 16, 2023
Infrastructure and Platforms
EBSCO Information Services Joins ReShare Community
EBSCO Information Services, Voting Member, Press Release, February 21, 2023
Oklahoma State University to Adopt the FOLIO Library Services Platform With EBSCO FOLIO
Oklahoma State University, L.S.A. Member (Amigos Library Services), and EBSCO Information Services, Voting Member, Press Release, April 11, 2023
Index Data Applauds Linköping University Library’s Successful FOLIO Implementation
Index Data, Voting Member, Press Release, September 13, 2023
Libraries, Collections and Archives
University of California to research expanded access to digitized books
University of California, L.S.A. Member, News Announcement, January 10, 2023
Libraries Begins Construction of Digital Scholars Lab
University of Texas, Austin, L.S.A. Member, News Announcement, January 6, 2023
NYPL, Vanderbilt, and the National Library of Estonia Join the IIIF Consortium
New York Public Library, and Vanderbilt University, L.S.A. Members, News Announcement, March 16, 2023
NEH grant to transform UChicago’s creation and delivery of digital collections and research data
University of Chicago, L.S.A. Member, News Announcement, April 18, 2023
Serials reductions as part of the life cycle
University of California Berkeley Library, L.S.A. Member, Blog Post, April 5, 2023
UT Libraries to Open New Facility for Long-Term Preservation of Collections
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, LSA Member, News Announcement, July 10, 2023
Internet Archive Files Appeal in Publishers’ Lawsuit Against Libraries
Internet Archive, L.S.A. Member, Blog Post, September 11, 2023
Open Access, Open Science
Nature announces support for authors from over 70 countries to publish open access
Springer Nature, Voting Member, Press Release, January 18, 2023
Wiley’s First Open Access Agreement in Hong Kong Promotes Research Accessibility
Wiley, Voting Member, Press Release, January 16, 2023
Majority of Cambridge Research Papers Now Open Access
Cambridge University Press & Assessment, Voting Member, Press Release, February 5, 2023
ORCID Poised to Support Research Institutions in New Era of Public Access and Research Security
ORCID, Inc., Voting Member, Featured Article, March 28, 2023
Big Ten Academic Alliance and JSTOR Announce Multi-year Agreement for Path to Open Pilot
ITHAKA/JStor/Portico, Voting Member, News Announcement, April 17, 2023
Innovative new open access agreement signed between PALCI and ACS Publications
American Chemical Society (ACS), and Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI), Voting Members, News Announcement, May 10, 2023
CRKN and Érudit renew their Partnership for Open Access for an additional two years
Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), and Érudit, Voting Members, News Announcement, May 9, 2023
AGU’s Journal Water Resources Research Goes Fully Open Access
American Geophysical Union (AGU), Voting Member, Featured Article, June 7, 2023
PLOS to extend accessible data to more articles and repositories
Public Library of Science (PLOS), Voting Member, Press Release, July 6, 2023
Partnerships and Collaborations
Wiley and Aries Systems Formalize Partnership to Elevate Service Solutions for Publishers
Wiley, and Aries Systems Corporation, Voting Members, Press Release, March 23, 2023
Portico and KB extend their collaboration to support preservation of the scholarly record
ITHAKA/JStor/Portico, Voting Member, News Announcement, April 4, 2023
Springer Nature and EMBO cooperate to publish the EMBO Press suite of journals
Springer Nature, Voting Member, Press Release, March 30, 2023
AIP Publishing, Morressier Announce Partnership to Enhance Conference Proceedings with Efficient, Forward-Thinking Platform
AIP Publishing, LLC., and Morressier, Voting Members, Press Release, May 10, 2023
The American Chemical Society and the Chinese Chemical Society renew partnership agreement
American Chemical Society (ACS), Voting Member, Press Release, June 20, 2023
Researchgate and APA Partner on Papers
American Psychological Association (APA), Voting Member, Press Release, August 22, 2023
CCC & GO FAIR Foundation Host Forum on Building AI Strategies with FAIR Data
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), Voting Member, Press Release, August 24, 2023
Product Innovation
OCLC to introduce the new Choreo Insights library analytics solution at ACRL 2023 Conference
OCLC, Voting Member, Press Release, March 13, 2023
OCLC introduces AI-generated book recommendations in WorldCat.org and WorldCat Find beta
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), Voting Member, Press Release, June 21, 2023
Wolters Kluwer and Unbound Medicine Release New Mobile App For Nursing Industry's Bestselling Drug Guide
Wolters Kluwer, Voting Member, News Release, July 27, 2023
OUP To Launch New Interdisciplinary Resource
Oxford University Press (OUP), Voting Member, Press Release, September 6, 2023
Scopus introduces the Author Position metric - a new researcher signal
Elsevier, Voting Member, Blog Post, September 7, 2023
Ex Libris Introduces campusM Library to Support Academic Success and Drive Student Engagement
Ex Libris, Inc., Voting Member, News Announcement, September 11, 2023
Clarivate Expands Real World Data and Analytics Solutions with Addition of U.S. Specialty Pharmacy Data
Clarivate Analytics, Voting Member, Press Release, December 6, 2022
Transformative Agreements
OhioLINK and IOP Publishing sign uncapped transformative agreement
IOP Publishing, Voting Member, News Announcement, January 5, 2023
ACS inks ‘read and publish’ agreements with German consortia
American Chemical Society, Voting Member, Press Release, January 19, 2023
