• Springer Nature: Open Access Transformative Agreements in the Americas

According to Publishing Perspectives “The latest of the 17 national transformative agreements Springer Nature has announced are in Canada and Colombia...
Each represents a national first for Springer, the Latin American deal being based in Colombia... while “The North American transformative agreement in Canada is for members of the Federal Science Libraries Network (FSLN)
“Today’s announcement indicates that the company now has 17 national agreements in place, having inked its first such accord in 2014 with a transformative agreement in the Netherlands…”

• ACRL Diversity Alliance Survey

Jesus Espinoza, Deborah Yun Caldwell, and Anastasia Chiu are conducting a survey on library diversity residency programs and their impacts on library organizational hiring and retention practices on behalf of the ACRL Diversity Alliance Task Force. The survey focuses on how libraries’ organization hiring and retention practices change as a result of lessons learned through diversity residency programs…”

MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES

• CHORUS and ChemRxiv Sign MOU to Advance Discoverability of Preprints Associated with Funded Research

• Open Library Foundation Names First Open Source Project to Its Project Incubation Program

• New York Public Library and Brainfuse Partner to Provide Free 24-7 Virtual Job Resources

• Jisc and Coherent Digital in deal for virtual reality and interactive video content

• Indian data scientist creates tool to convert Braille to text and audio using AI

• Draft2Digital to acquire Smashwords, creating self-publishing juggernaut

• Follett Corporation, the parent of Follett Higher Education, acquired by private investor group

• The House of Commons Library Chooses Softlink IC’s illumin