Member News & Announcements, September IO 2024
Expanded Support of Research and Educational Communities
IOP Publishing hosts Progress In Physics 2024 – a two-day hybrid conference focused on condensed matter physics
IOP Publishing, Voting Member, News Announcement, August 15, 2024
The Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing (IOPP) are launching Progress In Physics 2024, a two-day hybrid workshop hosted at the Institute of Physics’ office in London from 9-10 October 2024. The event will cover topics on condensed matter and will bring together leading physics researchers to exchange knowledge in both an in-person and online format.
Progress in Physics 2024 aligns with the mission of IOPP’s new Progress In seriesTM of journals. The series builds on the success of IOPP’s flagship journal Reports on Progress in PhysicsTM which celebrates its 90th anniversary this year.
Wiley to Expand Reach and Impact of Medical Education Programs to More Than 2.8 million Healthcare Providers
Wiley, Voting Member, Press Release, July 31, 2024
Wiley (NYSE: WLY), one of the world’s largest publishers and a trusted leader in research and learning, is taking steps to increase the impact of its medical education programs, including helping those programs reach a larger and more targeted audience of healthcare professionals. The goal of these measures is to improve learning opportunities and drive better patient outcomes.
A chief measure involves Wiley expanding the reach of its medical education programs by more than 2.8 million healthcare providers thanks to a new relationship with Definitive Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare commercial intelligence with one of the largest collections of audience data for registered healthcare professionals, hospitals, affiliations, and specializations.
Partnerships & Collaborations
EBSCOlearning™ and Harvard Business Publishing Collaborate to Offer Harvard ManageMentor®
EBSCO Information Services, Voting Member, Press Release, August 13, 2024
EBSCOlearning™, a division of EBSCO Information Services, and Harvard Business Publishing are excited to now offer Harvard ManageMentor® as part of EBSCOlearning’s product line of skills development and training resources. This comprehensive online resource of more than 40 micro-courses will help build and enhance skills for employees at companies focused on continuous learning and upskilling their teams. These high-quality micro-courses, developed by Harvard Business Publishing, Corporate Learning, range in length from 60 to 90 minutes, giving users the opportunity to complete courses in their own time.
In each lesson, users will develop key management and leadership skills through videos, infographics and downloadable tools. With topics ranging from developing employees, performance appraisals, finance essentials and career management, these courses are taught by experts and provide the quality expected from the publishers of the Harvard Business Review. Upon successfully finishing a course, users receive a certificate of completion.
ACS signs new read and publish agreement with Universidad Autonoma de Chiriqui
American Chemical Society (ACS), Voting Member, News Announcement, August 12, 2024
ACS Publications is delighted to announce the commencement of a new read and publish agreement with Universidad Autonoma de Chiriqui.
This agreement, the first of its kind between ACS and an institution in Panama, provides faculty and students with full reading access to ACS journals, as well as fully covering open access article publishing charges (APCs) for affiliated corresponding authors when publishing in any ACS journal. The three-year agreement will be available until June 30, 2027.
PLOS renews publishing agreement with the Bibsam consortium in Sweden
Public Library of Science (PLOS), Voting Member, Blog Post, August 9, 2024
PLOS is pleased to announce its renewal of an agreement with the Bibsam Consortium to participate in PLOS’ three innovative publishing models. This two-year agreement, effective on Jan 1, 2024, provides researchers from affiliated institutions with unlimited publishing privileges in PLOS journals without incurring fees. The new agreement covers authors throughout Sweden from more than 90 institutions.
The Bibsam consortium is operated by the National Library of Sweden and is supported by the research funders Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas, and Vinnova that have all made a strategic decision on a funding model to support publication with publishers that exclusively publish fully open access journals.
Open Access, Open Science
New Open Access Journal from APS and Sage Expands Publishing Opportunity for Psychological Scientists
SAGE Publishing, Voting Member, Press Release, August 14, 2024
The Association for Psychological Science (APS) and Sage announce the launch of Advances in Psychological Science Open, a fully open access journal that will publish high-quality empirical, technical, theoretical, and review articles, across the full range of areas and topics in psychological science. The journal will accept submissions in a variety of formats, including long-form articles and short reports, and APS is encouraging scientists to submit integrative and interdisciplinary research articles.
“APS is always working to identify new ways to catalyze advances in psychological science,” said APS CEO Robert Gropp. “We are excited to announce that we are launching Advances in Psychological Science Open to provide a publication option for scientists who want a fully open access journal in which to share their research findings.”
University Libraries Open Publishing launches open-access journal ‘Geomorphica’
Penn State University Libraries, L.S.A. Consortia Member (PALCI), Press Release, August 12, 2024
Penn State University Libraries Open Publishing has launched Geomorphica, a Diamond Open Access journal that promotes discourse and disseminates research in geomorphology, the study of landforms. Geomorphica is the only journal in its field that is free to access, read and publish, as the Diamond Open Access model removes all author and reader fees that come with traditional academic journals.
Geomorphica aims to publish content in the field of geomorphology, including but not limited to landscapes and landforms, earth and other planetary surface and near-surface processes, and the mechanisms, dynamics and timescales pertaining to those processes. The first issue launched in May 2024.
With 44% of its published articles now open access (OA), Springer Nature’s approach to OA continues to deliver highest usage and impact for authors
Springer Nature, Voting Member, Press Release, August 8, 2024
For the third consecutive year, publicly available data[1] shows that Springer Nature’s approach towards open access (OA) continues to deliver the highest impact for its authors and the research community…
The report also highlights key initiatives from Springer Nature in 2023 to support equity in OA. These include expansion of TAs into Africa and the Americas, waiving €26m of APCs in fully OA journals and enabling authors from low-income and low- and middle-income countries (LICs and LMICs) to publish in Nature and the Nature research journals at no cost. They also include publishing over 10,000 OA articles free of charge in 2023 in diamond OA journals and experimenting with new low-cost OA models. More details can be found here.
Infrastructure & Platforms
JSTOR announces “Artstor on JSTOR”
ITHAKA/JStor/Portico, Voting Member, News Announcement, August 5, 2024
The JSTOR platform is now the official home for the complete Artstor Digital Library, an unmatched collection of rights-cleared images and media for use in teaching and research. Comprised of over 2 million images, videos, panoramas, and audio files contributed by museums, galleries, and other cultural organizations around the world, the collection is now known as “Artstor on JSTOR,” signaling the collection’s deep integration with the more than 2,800 journals, 100,000 books, 50,000 research reports, and robust primary source collections accessible on JSTOR.
Beyond the Artstor Digital Library, JSTOR also supports Artstor’s two other core services.
JSTOR has also been optimized for working with images, offering features such as image-only and cross-content searching, options for comparing and presenting images, and more.
Libraries, Collections, & Archives
Yale Announces $150 Million to Support Leadership in AI
Yale University, L.S.A Member, News Story, August 28, 2024
Yale will commit more than $150 million over the next five years to support faculty, students, and staff as they engage with artificial intelligence (AI), the university announced today.
The investment will help the community develop, use, and evaluate AI and apply it to deliver breakthrough research at an unprecedented speed and scale, Yale Provost Scott Strobel wrote in a message to the Yale community. It will support key areas, including compute infrastructure, community access to secure generative AI tools, targeted faculty hires, seed grants, and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.
Elton John’s donated books at Emory’s Woodruff Library
Emory University Library, L.S.A. Member, Blog Post, August 15, 2024
Woodruff Library came to acquire these unique materials out of happenstance. Elton John recently sold his Atlanta condo, which he had lived in since the 1990s. He reportedly often purchased three copies of a photography book – one for each of his residences in Atlanta, London, and Los Angeles.
Upon selling his Buckhead home, the artist’s curation team contacted several local libraries to inquire about donating his thousands of photography books. The email Woodruff Library received from John’s staff noted that “Elton suggested the idea of donating to the Emory library so that his books could have an impact after leaving his collection.” Art history librarian Kim Collins and Randy Gue, Rose Library’s assistant director of collection development, had a unique opportunity to visit Elton John’s condo to select approximately 2,000 items for the Emory Libraries collection.
Emerging Technologies
Artificial Intelligence Blog Series: Introducing the AI Metadata Assistant in the Alma Metadata Editor
Ex Libris, Inc., Voting Member, Blog Post, August 21, 2024
The scope of cataloging is quickly expanding and evolving. Library staff and catalogers will increasingly depend on solutions that harness advanced technologies to ensure better data and discoverability. Cataloging is already challenging and time intensive, but with the continued expansion of resources and a limited staff supply to catalog them, can artificial intelligence be the answer?
With help from our user community, Ex Libris™, part of Clarivate™, is developing a solution to help catalogers accelerate their efforts and impact by suggesting metadata they can use when cataloging a resource. This AI-powered solution aims to save staff time and reduce the work needed to research and search for information, freeing catalogers’ time to tackle more complex tasks.