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Cambridge University Press is to expand their provision of open research services with the launch of its own early and open content platform Cambridge Open Engage.

Library hub discover, library hub compare, and library hub cataloguing will make it easier for UK higher education libraries and researchers to access, discover and manage academic collections.

As summer gets into full swing and people start to think about the second half of the year, we felt it was time to update you on what the team here at ConTech.Live is working on.

A joint UKSG/ALPSP One Day Conference: The pace of change in our sector has accelerated - and that change has also become more wide-reaching. We are moving beyond the “fall out” from the digital revolution – and its implications for user behaviours, customer expectations, product formats and business models – into a much bigger shift, where established roles and accepted models are being questioned.

eLife is pleased to announce the first working example of its open-source journal hosting and post-production publishing system, Libero Publisher.

UKSG is pleased to announce the preliminary programme for its One Day Conference held in November each year. This year’s conference is being organised in conjunction with ALPSP.

Researchers who post a preprint to Research Square can now access AJE author services and Research Square videos to improve their manuscript and better communicate their findings. After the launch of the multidisciplinary platform in Fall 2018, Research Square has seen record uptake and now hosts more than 3,200 preprints, making it the world’s fastest growing preprint platform.

Publons and ScholarOne, both part of the Web of Science Group (a Clarivate Analytics company), have entered into a new partnership with IOP Publishing to introduce the industry’s first cross-publisher, scalable transparent peer review workflows across some of their leading journals in the physical sciences and beyond.

The new EMS Publishing House leadership team comes with broad and innovative publishing experience and will focus on community and Open Access publishing.

This is the latest development in the ongoing negotiations between Elsevier and the University of California (UC) for a new licensing agreement. UC’s previous contract with the publisher had lapsed at the end of last year—and the university has since been pushing for a deal that combines payments for accessing journals and publishing open-access articles into one fee.

A new open access journal from Cambridge University Press will explore the transformative effect of data science on engineering.

Single sign-on leader OpenAthens revealed a new user-centred identity at the CILIP conference last week. The new brand embodies the software providers’ mission to make access to knowledge easy for its more than 2,600 customers and millions of end users across the globe.