20th July 202012th October 2022

STM Publishing – July 2020

Industry News, STM Publishing Newsletter

cOAlition S Open access initiative cOAlition S has announced a new Rights Retention Strategy. Member organisations will be updating their grant conditions to require the application of Creative Commons Attribution ... Read more

10th July 202020th October 2020

LBF Book Club Book Review – Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving by Michèle Roberts

Blogs, LBF Book Club

“Yesterday ended in disaster. Very late at night, I decided to write down everything that had happened, the only way I could think of coping. So here goes.” Hands up ... Read more

8th July 202020th October 2020

Academic Publishing – July 2020

Academic Publishing Newsletter, Industry News

New board for the AUP The Association of University Presses – formerly the Association of American University Presses – elected Niko Pfund as its new president at its recent virtual ... Read more

8th July 202020th October 2020

An Exclusive Extract from Negative Capability by Michèle Roberts

Blogs, LBF Book Club

An exclusive extract from Negative Capability, Michèle Roberts’s intimate and honest account of the year after her latest novel had been rejected by her then publisher… I couldn’t sleep. I ... Read more

29th June 202020th October 2020

Snapshot for 29 June 2020

Industry News, Snapshot

There is sadness and anger at the collapse of Norwich wholesaler Bertrams. The sadness is felt by those in the industry who remember the company’s heyday in the Eighties and ... Read more