EBSCO Information Services releases UK & Ireland Points of View Reference Centre

The database will offer equitable perspectives on U.K. and Ireland current events.

CCC acquired U.K.-based Ringgold, a leading provider of organization identifiers in scholarly communications, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary

he acquisition, said CCC, reflects its ongoing commitment to promoting interoperability, addressing market friction and collaborating with stakeholders. It also further solidifies its transformation from focusing on copyright compliance and content to becoming involved with the entire lifecycle of content creation, research management, and information analysis as part of organisation's workflow.

Kudos and Impact Science lead publisher collaboration to help more people find and understand research about war

Publishers are invited to support the initiative and nominate content to be summarized and promoted.

Major Governance Changes at IFLA

After the release of Secretary General Gerald Leitner from his duties in April, followed quickly by resignations of the President-elect, Antonia Arahova, and the Treasurer, Perry Moree, new IFLA elections are scheduled.

Gender neutral journal titles

21 journals to be renamed as Springer Nature and Clarivate work together to enable titles to become gender neutral.

OCLC and Google now connect web searchers directly to library collections

Google now links search results directly to records of print books in hundreds of libraries using WorldCat data

Experience and Publish Scientific Videos with the TIB AV-Portal

The Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology (TIB) operates an open access platform, the TIB AV-Portal, on which scientific videos such as conference recordings, simulations, animations, lectures and visualized research data can be published and viewed free of charge.

Library technology, video preservation and information literacy at virtual Internet Librarian International

While we wait for the opportunity to host an in-person Internet Librarian International conference, we decided to go ahead with another Bite-sized one. On 11 May 2022, we'll have a half day virtual event, featuring librarians from the United States, Germany, and Mexico covering library technology, preserving videos, and information literacy topics.

Bite-sized Internet Librarian International Returns

Bite-sized ILI is back for 2022! Save the date of Wednesday, 11 May 2022, for Internet Librarian International's latest half day of learning and knowledge exchange.

Janeway: A Twenty-First Century Open Access Publishing Platform

Martin Paul Eve takes us behind the scenes to describe the development of Janeway, Birkbeck College's platform for scholarly communication that is used by universities in multiple countries and reveals the origin of the name of the platform.

Karger Publishers Strengthens Service Offering with the Acquisition of Research Publishing International

Cambridge Information Group acquires the Emerald Group

ResearchGate and Royal Society partner to increase accessibility of research

Info Pros React to OCLC's Lawsuit Against Clarivate

Brandi Scardilli, writing in Information Today's NewsBreaks, analyzed some of the tweets that have surfaced regarding the legal action OCLC has taken against Clarivate, including comments from European librarians. Is this a feud between monopolies and is this an opportunity to advocate for open cataloging metadata?

OCLC sues Clarivate

On June 13, 2022, OCLC filed suit against Clarivate PLC and its subsidiaries, Clarivate Analytics (US) LLP, Ex Libris, and ProQuest in the United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio.

NASIG transforms to open