An update from The Book Trade Charity For those who don’t know our small team at The Book Trade Charity, we are there for anyone who works in the UK book trade. Our mission is simple, to alleviate hardship for colleagues when life takes a turn. Our grants and affordable homes are a safety net for…
BIC Brunch: European Accessibility Act - Digital Content (ePub and PDF) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm GMT This year BIC launched a brand new series of webinars dedicated to the 2025 European Accessibility Act (EAA). In this third session on Thursday 31st October, our expert speakers guide us…
ALPSP wins Most Impactful Mentoring Programme Award 2024 We are delighted to announce that the ALPSP International Mentorship Scheme, sponsored by PLS, is the recipient of a coveted Mentorloop Impact Award. The award recognises the ALPSP scheme for facilitating connections between participants…
We are delighted to announce that we have signed an exclusive agreement with Frontereco SAS, a distribution company that helps develop and market electronic content for universities, research centres and hospitals, to represent us in France.
Open Access agreement between The Company of Biologists and University of California continues for an additional three years The Company of Biologists is delighted to announce a further three-year Open Access agreement with the University of California (UC). This agreement, which follows on from…
Scholarly Communication: Reframing the Dialogue. We will gather in Berlin to celebrate two decades of achievement and innovation in the scholarly publishing world.
• Forum for Open Research in MENA (FORM) has been invited to host a key session at the Science Summit of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 26, 2024. • The session, "Supporting a Positive and Productive Regional Environment for Scientific Collaboration in the Arab World," will…
Survey on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Web-Scale Discovery From the NISO Open Discovery Initiative The NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) aims to define standards and/or best practices for the web-scale library discovery services that are based on indexed search. As…
