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The Microbiology Society, one of the largest microbiology societies in Europe, is pleased to announce a new three-year Publish and Read offering with German consortium ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences, available to its 400 member institutions and 2,000 hospitals. This agreement was established in partnership with HARRASSOWITZ, the Society’s representative agency in Germany.

Pearson, the world’s lifelong learning company, has launched a suite of new AI-powered higher education tools designed to make student learning and studying more personalized. As college students seek simpler, more efficient ways to study that consider their unique needs, Pearson’s AI tools create a frictionless study experience where students can get the individualized help they need without leaving their eTextbooks or study platforms.

IOP Publishing, the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics, is partnering with Hum, the cutting-edge data and AI company, to explore ways to further enhance its author experience and develop its outstanding publishing services.

Karger Publishers is pleased to announce that 38 new medical eBook titles are available under French national licence, as part of the GIS CollEx-Persée acquisitions program. This project to acquire Karger’s eBooks on medicine was led by Université Paris Cité, Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier and Abes, with the support of the Couperin.org consortium and INIST-CNRS.

Access Lab is OpenAthens’ annual international conference where libraries, publishers and technology partners meet to discuss challenges facing the information industry and find solutions to problems.  The conference provides a safe space to share learnings, discuss and debate. Together with your peers, you can explore industry developments, showcase customer case studies and take part in topical panel discussions where you get the chance to ask the questions. 

MDPI is pleased to announce that it has joined CHORUS as an Affiliate Member in support of its mission to provide a sustainable solution for funding agencies and scientists to deliver public access to articles reporting on funded research in the United States. As an original open access (OA) publisher, MDPI has been advancing the global agenda to make OA the standard for over 25 years, consistently meeting funders' open research requirements.

Cengage, the U.S. higher education business of global edtech company Cengage Group, today announced the beta launch of its GenAI-powered Student Assistant, which more than 5,000 students will have the opportunity to test this fall semester.

The American Library Association (ALA) announced today a revised date for its highly anticipated ALA 2025 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Philadelphia. Originally scheduled for June 26 – July 1, 2025, the conference will now take place on June 26 – 30, 2025.

At the MIT Press, we believe that everyone deserves access to scholarship. Our dedication to this mission remains strong as we head into the fourth funding cycle for Direct to Open (D2O), our model for open access monographs. Libraries and consortia can commit to support the program through November 30, 2024.

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that 15 of its Lippincott healthcare journal titles received 37 wins in the 2024 Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) Competition. Seven of these titles received a record ten prestigious Grand Awards: Oncology Times, American Journal of Nursing, Nurse Educator, Neurology Today, Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and Nursing2024. 

IOP Publishing (IOPP) is partnering with the Institute of Systems Engineering (ISE), which is part of the China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), to launch a new diamond open access (OA) journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research on reliability.

OCLC, the worldwide leader in library cataloging and metadata services, is unlocking the power of the Dewey Decimal Classification system to build an increasingly robust linked data infrastructure by creating uniform resource identifiers (URIs) for Dewey numbers.