(14 Oct 2020) Google Play Books is changing their commission structure for publishers and self-published authors. The ebook revenue split has been increased to 70% in 60+ countries. For many publishers, this new revenue split has already gone into effect. Publishers that did not accept the updated Terms of Service (ToS) from June 2019 will need…
(October 2020) The British Library is nearing the end of a project to make 40,000 early maps and views freely available online for the first time. The material forms part of the Topographical Collection of King George III (K. Top) held by the British Library and captures four centuries of visual impressions of places…
(14 Oct 2020) A brand-new initiative will digitize and open free digital access to 180 years of Australian Jewish newspapers, including more than 200,000 pages from Jewish communities across the continent. The project is a collaboration between the National Library of Australia, the National Library of Israel and the Australian Jewish Historical Society. The new…
(11 Oct 2020) China has established the world’s largest language resource library, covering four types of endangered dialects, China’s Ministry of Education announced on Sunday. According to the official website of China’s Ministry of Education, the Chinese Language Resources Protection Project had gathered more than 10 million pieces of data on 123 languages and local…
(14 Oct 2020) iGroup is partnering with University of Toronto Press, Canada’s leading scholarly publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. With more than 115 years of publishing experience serving the changing needs of journal editors and managers, UTP’s Journals…
(8 Oct 2020) Today, arXivLabs launched a new Code tab, a shortcut linking Machine Learning articles with their associated code. arXivLabs provides a conduit for collaboration that invites community participation while allowing arXiv developers to focus on core services. This Code feature was developed by Papers with Code, a free resource for researchers and practitioners to find and…
(12 Oct 2020) Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) recently reached three key milestones in terms of book coverage, unique publishers and future financial sustainability. The number of open access books included in DOAB has grown impressively from just over 10,000 books in 2018 to 31,917 as of today. In terms of publishers, we are…
(6 Oct 2020) From Library Association of Singapore: We’re glad to announce our 2nd Virtual Professional Sharing session for 2020: Reimagining the Libraries in the New Normal Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 Time: 2–5 pm Venue: Online (via Zoom) We are calling for presentations on Reimagining the Libraries in the New Normal. You are…
(19 Sep 2020) From THE: For the first time, we are publishing the methodology for the ranking in advance. This will give universities extra time to prepare the data and compile the evidence that they might want to select for submission. The new methodology document is available here. It is mostly the same as the 2020…
(7 Oct 2020) IWA Publishing, the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the International Water Association based in London, UK, has announced a pilot to transform its complete journal portfolio of 10 subscription titles including the flagship journal “Water, Science and Technology” to Open Access (OA) from 2021 onwards. In partnership with Knowledge Unlatched, IWA Publishing…