• Thirty-Seven MIT Press Monographs and Edited Collections Publishing Open Access Thanks to Direct to Open Participants

infoDOCKET reports that “Thanks to the early support of libraries participating in Direct to Open (D2O), the MIT Press’s full list of spring 2022 scholarly monographs and edited collections are currently publishing open access on the MIT Press Direct platform. Twelve of the thirty-seven works are are already openly available to readers around the world…”

• BBC: “Timbuktu Manuscripts: Mali’s Ancient Documents Captured Online”

Citing the BBC News, infoDOCKET also notes that “A virtual gallery to showcase Mali’s cultural history has been launched, featuring tens of thousands of Timbuktu’s ancient manuscripts.

MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCE

• SAGE Publishing and SANLiC announce new transformative agreement to support researchers in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia

• Google’s Area 120 Lab Rolls Out Free AI-Powered Video Dubbing Translator Tool

• SPIE and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announce Read and Publish agreement

• Connecticut Introduces Library E-book Bill

• Italian Jewish Communities Look to Digitize 35,000 Jewish Texts

• Library community support for Subscribe-to-Open ensures open access for Mathematics titles in 2022

• IMarEST selects TIND IR and TIND DA

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, & WEBINARS

Design Thinking for Change Management and Leadership in Libraries – Join ACRL from 1:00 PM-2:00 PM (Central) on Thursday, March 29 for the Online Learning webcast “Design Thinking for Change Management and Leadership in Libraries… This webinar will explore how to utilize design thinking methodology for managing and leading in academic librarianship within a rapidly changing landscape