• Choice Announces the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2022

ACRL Insider reports that “The Choice Outstanding Academic Titles (OAT) list for 2022 has been announced. This prestigious list, released today, reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice during the previous calendar year, as chosen by the editors. This year’s list features 433 books and digital resources from 115 publishers. …”

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• Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statement on Texas Library Coalition for United Action Agreement with Elsevier

• New Report From the Internet Archive: “Securing Digital Rights For Libraries: Towards an Affirmative Policy Agenda for a Better Internet”

• Springer Nature continues open access drive in Latin America

• Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Announces Pocket Burgundy Awards

• UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Releases Open Access Policy Update (December 2022)

• New Report Finds NYC Publishing, Bookselling Jobs Fell Between 2010 and 2020

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS & WEBINARS

Academic Publishing in Europe Conference (APE) 2023 – 10 Jan 2023 – According to this post on KnowledgeSpeak “The APE has been ‘the’ annual meeting place for all stakeholders in scholarly communication and scientific publishing. APE Conferences are carefully curated and well-known for a central theme and a broad selection of contributions on anything from the basics of academic publishing, reputation, reliable quality, reproducibility to the role of peer review, sustainability, funding, information infrastructure, open data and open science.“
Event Date: January 10-11, 2023
Event Location: Berlin, Germany
Event Website: https://berlinstitute.org/ape2023