•  Community Consultation for COUNTER Release 5.1

First released in 2017, Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice (CoP) incorporates the concept of continuous maintenance. Thus far changes to Release 5 have been very small. In the last year COUNTER’s volunteer teams, led by the Technical Advisory Group, have been working on a more significant update to the Code of Practice designed to better facilitate Open Access reporting, among other matters, and we’re now opening our work up to community consultation...”

• Technology from SAGE acquires reading, authoring, and collaboration tool Sciwheel

Technology from SAGE, a division of SAGE Publishing, has acquired Sciwheel, an award-winning tool providing library patrons with an easy way to discover, read, annotate, write, and share research. Founded by Vitek Tracz, the entrepreneur behind the Current Opinion journals, Current Drugs, F1000 and BioMed Central. Sciwheel was created to go beyond traditional reference management by assisting students and researchers throughout the entire writing process...”

MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES

• IGI Global Signs the Declaration on Research Assessment

• FOLIO rolls out to the Five College Libraries Consortium

• National Leadership Grants for Libraries, Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Programs Now Accepting Applications

• Library of Congress Releases 2022-23 Recommended Formats Statement

• Scopus now includes preprint content from two additional preprint servers: TechRxiv and Research Square

• Ovid adds BioCyc Pathway/Genome databases to increase researchers’ access to comprehensive data

• Taylor & Francis unveils the Bioethics Open Research publishing platform

• NPD BookScan for June: Another View of the US Market

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, & WEBINARS

Registration for the NISO Plus Forum is now open – NISO Plus Forum — the new, in-person event will provide a bridge between the annual, fully online NISO Plus conferences. With thanks to the American Geophysical Union for their support, this year’s conference will be held at the AGU headquarters in Washington, DC, on September 20, 2022 — the day before SSP’s annual New Directions seminar at the same venue on September 21-22, to minimize travel for those of you planning to attend…”