• SAGE Publishing Partners with The Wikipedia Library to Grant Journal Access to Wikipedia Editors

According to this press release “SAGE Publishing is pleased to announce a partnership with The Wikipedia Library to provide Wikipedia editors full-text access to SAGE’s more than 1,100 journals beginning immediately. The partnership will connect peer-reviewed research to those outside of academia for greater societal understanding and increase research connections…
“The agreement provides experienced Wikipedia editors free and unlimited access to SAGE’s nearly 2 million peer-reviewed journal articles on its SAGE Journals Platform. The peer-reviewed scientific research can then be used as source material to improve Wikipedia articles …”

MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES

• Companion Document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

• University of Illinois School of Information Sciences Awarded Three-Year $498K IMLS Grant to Create Accessible Library Makerspaces

• Connecting Communities Digital Initiative Grant Opportunities: Webinar Recordings Available

• Canadian Science Publishing and Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution announce new partnership

• BMJ releases 2022 impact report, reinforcing commitment to improving health outcomes for all

• Canada’s Literary Press Group: Accessible Ebooks

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS & WEBINARS

2022 Seminar: New Directions in Scholarly Publishing – “Creating the New Possible: Shaping the Future from Lessons Learned” – September 21–22, 2022 | AGU Conference Center | Washington, DC + Online
September 21, 2022: 9:30 am–5:00 pm EDT 
September 22, 2022: 9:30 am–12:00 pm EDT|
“… Featured presentations will highlight the advancement of new ideas, technologies, and collaborations that are currently shaping the future of academic publishing, including new directions in open access; new agreements and collaborations that could change the course of research and research funding; ethics in peer review; new technologies in scholarly publishing and the importance of adapting to a data-driven future; and much more. Topics will be presented by a diverse and passionate group of speakers from academia, scholarly publishers, librarians, and industry service providers…”