RLUK Bulletin
Library Lending Fit for the 21st Century? Controlled Digital Lending in the UK
Recently, an online event was held to discuss the current status and prospects for Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) in the UK. The event was hosted by Chris Morrison and Jane Secker and jointly run by the National Acquisitions Group and ALT [...]
Becoming a Library Director
RLUK’s New Director Network (NDN) was formed a few years ago as an informal grouping bringing together people who had recently become Library Directors at RLUK member institutions. It acts as a peer network for those newly appointed. Recently the network welcomed a new [...]
Helping small publishers help themselves, & libraries too – what institutions want to see in transformative OA proposals
Earlier in the summer, Information Power published the report How to Enable Smaller Independent Publishers to Participate in OA Agreements. The report addresses some of the special challenges that smaller publishers face in terms of their lack of scale and the difficulties they can have [...]
Research Libraries UK becomes a supporter of the Technician Commitment
STATEMENT OF SUPPORT Read RLUK's statement of support of the Technician [...]
Enabling new forms of remote access to library and archive collections – help us to shape the future
Research Libraries UK (RLUK), in collaboration with the School of Advanced Study, University [...]
RLUK opens applications for new members
RLUK is a library member organisation of international standing. We represent excellence both [...]
Launch of the RLUK-AHRC Research Engagement Programme (REP) event
RLUK recently held a virtual event to launch the Research Engagement Programme (REP) [...]
RLUK Space: Hybrid and blended working approaches and the role of space in libraries
RLUK's Space Programme is a forum for RLUK members to engage in open [...]
The Library Transforming: RLUK’s Strategy for 2022-25
RLUK has launched its new strategy for 2022-2025: The Library Transforming. This strategy [...]
Sector news
UKRI Gap Analysis of Open Access Monographs Infrastructure
In October 2020, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) commissioned OAPEN to carry out a [...]
Russell Group statement on negotiations between HE sector and Elsevier
In the context of ongoing Elsevier ScienceDirect journals agreement negotiations, we are sharing the following [...]
The CounterTenor Project
The CounterTenor Project is a collaboration between the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), [...]
The battle for Afghanistan’s libraries
After Najiba Hussaini was killed in July 2017 by a Taliban suicide bomber, her [...]
Major funding boost for UK’s open research agenda
A consortium of 18 universities – members of the UK Reproducibility Network – has received significant [...]
Jisc licence subscriptions manager now live for Liverpool University Press Opening the Future initiative
Liverpool University Press (LUP) and the COPIM project are pleased to announce a partnership [...]