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- ATG News & Announcements 10/23/20 - Initiative for Open Abstracts According to this announcement the Initiative for Open Abstracts "is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, infrastructure organizations, librarians, researchers and other interested...

Don’t Forget! Apply for ACRL 2021 Virtual Conference Scholarships by October 23 The deadline to apply for a scholarship to attend the ACRL 2021 Virtual Conference is coming up this Friday, October 23.  REGISTER The ACRL 2021 Scholarship program provides...

Open Access Archiving: JISC Announces New Sherpa Romeo Service Enhancement: Browse by Country Citing a JISC Announcement, infoDOCKET reports that "as part of Open Access week, we would like to take the opportunity to announce a Sherpa Romeo [“a summary of publishers’...

Cambridge University Press Seeks Transformative Status by cOAlition S Across a Majority of its Journals According to infoDOCKET "Cambridge University Press will request the majority of its journals be given Transformative Journal status by cOAlition S as part of a...

OCLC signs agreements with publishers and other content providers worldwide OCLC reports that thy have "signed agreements with leading publishers and other content providers around the world to add metadata for high-quality electronic and print books,...

Association of American Publishers (AAP) Releases August 2020 StatShot Report: “Publishing Industry Flat For Month; Down 4.6% Year To Date Trade (Consumer Book) Sales Up Nearly 7% in August” According to infoDOCKET "The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today...

Two New Filings Posted in the Publisher/Internet Archive Lawsuit Including Supplemental Discovery Deadlines infoDOCKET reports that "two new court filings were posted today in the publishers/Internet Archive lawsuit. Both documents are available online via the RECAP...

ACRL 2021 Conference Going Virtual Due to COVID-19 ACRL Insider reports that "the ACRL Board of Directors announced today that the face-to-face portion of the ACRL 2021 Conference scheduled for April 14-17, 2021, in Seattle, Washington, has been canceled because...

Report: “Publishers Escape Fee Award as GSU E-Reserves Case Finally Ends” According to infoDOCKET "After more than 12 years of litigation, Cambridge University Press et al v. Patton et al, known as the Georgia State University e-reserves case, has finally come to...