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• Special collection: Repositories transforming scholarly communication

  Guest editors Hellen Ndegwa, Karatina University, Kenya and Iryna Kuchma, EIFL, Ukraine, have curated a new Insights special collection, ‘Repositories transforming scholarly communication’. They have also written an overview of repository development which you can read here.

  This curated collection brings together the articles published on this subject in Insights over the last twelve years. Their contrasting viewpoints, from scepticism about the compromise between green repositories and subscription publishing to the optimistic view of repositories as a liberating force for universities, reflect the tensions and complexity of the scholarly publishing landscape.

  We are proud to share this collection and grateful to all the authors who have submitted articles our guest editors have selected.

• Special Collection: Discovery is the researcher’s dream

  We would like to announce the publication of an Insights special collection, ‘Discovery is the researcher’s dream’, which compiles some previously published articles from the journal spanning the last ten years. 

  This special collection is not an exhaustive history of the work that has been going on during those years in improving metadata and resource discovery, but it gives an overview of some of the debates and ends with some important questions about the role of the library as search engine technology finds and delivers ‘everything’ to the desktop. 

  Our guest editors are Rebekah Cummings, Marriott Library, University of Utah and Magaly Bascones, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

• Special Collection: From Finch to Plan S: and you may ask yourself, well how did I get here?

  We would like to announce the publication of an Insights special collection, ‘From Finch to Plan-S: and you may ask yourself, well how did I get here?’, which compiles some previously published articles from the journal spanning the ongoing discussions since 2012.

  The collection also includes the very recently published article by Rob Johnson, ‘From coalition to commons: Plan S and the future of scholarly communication’.

  It was not our intent to create an exhaustive history of the work that has been going on with regard to open access and open science, but to try to give a compelling and interesting overview of the direction discussions have often gone and are continuing to go. Some of the articles illustrate the timely and robust debates which have happened, while others showcase the inherent anxieties and frustrations that have been the hallmark on the march to making important and essential research openly available. One features a dog named Open Access!

  We also hope that the special collection provides more than a digest of the dialogue which has taken place and rather offers some key historical insights into the efforts so many have worked so hard to make a reality.

  Guest edited by Messrs Graham Stone and Frank Manista, the publication is equally important as we approach the upcoming UKSG 42nd Annual Conference and Exhibition in Telford from the 8^th to the 10^th of April 2019.

  Click here to view the collection!