COASP is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

The preliminary program is online.

Library presenters will share their experiences about measuring and communicating the impact of library resources in terms of value of investment (VOI) rather than just return on investment (ROI).

The conference will cover the latest developments in the RDA cataloguing standard and the Toolkit, with a focus on the potential of RDA for libraries in non-English speaking countries.

The program is online.

The objective of this study is to investigate how Open Science values and practices have influenced open access (OA) journal publishers in Latin American and the Caribbean (LA&C) countries. The key research question is: to what extent are these practices being adopted by LA&C journals? A survey was conducted with a sample of LA&C journals listed on the DOAJ database. The results reveal that if many journals are aware of or informed about most of Open Science practices, only a few have already successfully adopted those practices.

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is likely to have a significant impact on the way libraries  manage personal data. To help libraries consider what they need to do in response to the GDPR, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published an issue brief on the topic. The ARL will continue to monitor developments on GDPR and will publish a follow-up piece focusing on implementation.

Alice Meadows, Director of Community Engagement & Support for ORCID, is reporting on the Fiesole Library Collection Retreat held in Barcelona in April 2018. The topic was Collaboration to Improve Scholarship.