• Lived Places Publishing announces the launch of its first university library collection

Citing a press release, Library Technology Guides reports that “Lived Places Publishing was launched in the summer of 2021 with a mission to increase understanding and awareness across human difference. This month, the launch of our first collection of 40 titles represents a major step towards that goal. Each LPP book is part of an inter-disciplinary collection, with a wide array of topic areas such as Disability Studies, Black Studies, Education Studies, Forced Migration Studies, Asian Studies, and Queer and LGBT+ Studies. Each of these collections are led by top academics in their respective fields. …”

MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES

• “Open Access Publishing: A Study of UC Berkeley Faculty Views and Practices” (A New Library Impact Research Report From ARL)

• The American Society for Microbiology adopts CCC RightsLink for Scientific Communications to manage its growing open access program

• Ex Libris Looks at ‘How Library Resource Sharing Is Fulfilling Its Promise’ via Its Rapido Solution

• Announcing five new opera streaming collections on Bloomsbury Video Library

• The Smithsonian Plans Restoration of Late-1800s Sound Recordings

• Report: “Largest-Ever Study of Journal Editors Highlights ‘Self-Publication’ and Gender Gap”

• Iris.ai chosen by prestigious EIC Accelerator to use AI for accelerated scientific text understanding

• Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS & WEBINARS

John Merriman Joint NASIG/UKSG Award (Application)
“NASIG and UKSG seek applicants for a joint venture to allow a member of each group to attend the conference of their sister organization. The purpose of this conference-swap is for people working at a practical level in information resource management (e.g., serials and/or e-resources acquisitions, resource metadata and discovery, scholarly communications, collections management, digital publishing, e-resource or serials sales, scholarly publishing, or knowledgebase management), vendor, agent, or scholarly publisher to learn and share experiences at the UKSG Annual Conference or the NASIG Annual Conference. …”