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General News
LIBER announces urgent recommendations
European research library advocate LIBER has come up with four urgent recommendations for Open Access negotiations with publishers:
SCOAP3 extended by 2 years
The world’s largest disciplinary open access initiative, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) program, has been extended until the end of 2024. It follows a recommendation by SCOAP3's Tender Working Group to provide members with stability during the COVID19 pandemic. The governing Council agreed that SCOAP3 provides excellent value for money when benchmarked against other initiatives, and members agreed it should be prioritised for support. Read more.
Elsevier buys Interfolio
Publishing giant Elsevier is buying systems provider Interfolio to add to its research intelligence portfolio. Interfolio is a faculty information system for 400+ HE institutions. Read more.
New COPIM website & our next webinar
The Community led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project has launched its new website. The project aims to building community-owned infrastructures to enable open access book publishing. It has just published a Report on Community Governance of Open Infrastructures. We will be speaking with two founders of the project along with other Open Book experts at our next webinar REGISTER HERE
 Open Book Collective launched
The Open Book Collective collective (part of COPIM) will bring together OA publishers, OA publishing service providers, libraries, and other research institutions to create a new, mutually supportive ecosystem for the thriving of OA book publishing. At the heart of the work will be a new platform making it quicker and easier for libraries and others to financially support different OA publishers and service providers via membership offerings. Read more.
DOAB reaches 50,000 milestone
The Directory of Open Access Books now includes over 50,000 books published in 90 languages by 560 academic book publishers. Launched in 2012, the DOAB indexes OA books and provides publication information. Read more.
ORCID and OA Switchboard collaboration
With their April 2022 release, OA Switchboard users will be able to leverage authoritative affiliation data from authors’ ORCID profiles to corroborate affiliation or organizational identifiers (such as ROR or Ringgold IDs) and ensure more accurate routing of the messages being shared between participants throughout the Open Access (OA) research cycle and publication journey, ultimately resulting in more complete and better quality metadata in the OA Switchboard messages for each article published. Read more.
New incentives for Open Science CoP in US
The Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS) is a cohort of colleges committed to collective action to advance open scholarship within universities. Leaders from US colleges have joined this CoP and are working to promote a more transparent, inclusive, and trustworthy research ecosystem. It was launched out of discussions convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science. Read more.
Repositories
COAR Annual report  The 155 member Confederation of Open Access Repositories has released its 2021-2022 annual report. Download the report here.
Scopus data for arXiv member dashboard
The first, specialist Open Access repository, the Cornell University-hosted arXiv will now provide a personalised digital dashboard to members, using Scopus data. The 30 year old repository holds more then 2 millions articles and has 200+ member institutions. Read more.
Reports
Open Science and IP rights report: EU Commission
This report presents the result of a study that explores the interactions and the balance between Open Science and Intellectual Property Rights. It identifies concrete recommendations for policy makers and for IPR practitioners on the promotion of Open Science and its balance with IPR for better knowledge dissemination to the benefit of all.
Plan S
Cambridge sets up pilot rights retention scheme
The University of Cambridge has recently established a pilot rights retention scheme on an opt-in basis, with a view to informing the next revision of the University’s Open Access policy. cOAlition S spoke to Cambridge Head of Open Research Services Niamh Tumelty in this interview.
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Our inaugural (members only) OA101 course will run for 4 weeks from 23 May. 
Year in Review released: CAUL
