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UKSG, the organization that connects the knowledge community, has announced the programme for this year’s November conference. The event, usually held in London as the “UKSG One-Day Conference”, will this year be held online as the “UKSG Online Conference”, over two half days (November 11th and 12th).

University of Buckingham Press (UBP) has announced a wide-ranging partnership with research and publishing network ScienceOpen. As part of the agreement, ScienceOpen will host a Super Collection for all UBP journal content as well as individual collections for each of its Journals.

The members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) have reelected Stephanie Orphan, Portico’s Director of Publisher Relations, to begin her second three-year term on the Board of Directors in September.

Research conducted with publishing leadership during the first stages of the Coronavirus pandemic in May and June shows widespread impacts across the publishing industry, with industry leaders reporting deep financial, sales and operational challenges as a result of the crisis.

The interactive research and discovery platform, ScienceOpen, and publisher, Compuscript Ltd, have partnered to showcase a newly launched open access, biomedical sciences journal: BIO Integration (BIOI). As an open access journal, BIOI is an inclusiveforum that promotes communication between scientific ideas and clinical needs.

As part of STM’s continued commitment to boost the effective sharing of research data, it was announced today that it had deepened its collaboration with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) – a community-driven initiative launched in 2013 which aims to build the social and technical infrastructure to enable open sharing and the re-use of data.

The University of California today (June 16) announced a transformative open access publishing agreement that will make more of the University’s research freely and immediately available to individuals and researchers across the globe.

In October, books, literature and authors are traditionally the focus of life in Frankfurt. To ensure that remains the case in the year of COVID-19, Frankfurter Buchmesse (14–18 October 2020) has developed a wide-ranging digital programme to complement the face-to-face meetings that will take place on the fairgrounds and at the many events in the city.

Four Swiss universities have accepted the Publish & Access offer for 2020 negotiated by Karger Publishers and the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL).

German Minister of State and Culture Commissioner Monika Grütters is supporting the Frankfurter Buchmesse with 4 million euros from the country’s NEUSTART KULTUR stimulus package. The aim of the funding is to enable as many exhibitors from Germany and abroad as possible to take part in Frankfurter Buchmesse (14–18 October 2020) during the ongoing corona pandemic.

De Gruyter is partnering with LibLynx to power identity, access and analytics for their new digital publishing platform. De Gruyter’s goal is a highly customized digital platform that allows the publishing house to become more user-centered and data-driven and react much more flexibly to customer needs.

Underline (www.underline.io) has secured partnerships with several leading scientific associations to produce and host important scientific and academic conferences in Summer and Fall 2020. All of these meetings were initially planned to be held in-person, but organizers have turned to Underline, and a virtual format, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.