The International Conference Open Scholarly Communication in Europe: Addressing the Coordination Challenge was organised by the Greek National Documentation Centre (EKT), from 31 May to 1 June , in Athens as part of the European funded project OPERAS.

Distinguished speakers from Europe, North and South America  (John Willinsky, Public Knowledge Project and Abel Packer, SciELO) presented the latest developments in Open Scholarly Communication. The conference targeted all those who promote open scholarly communication, highlighted the challenges arising during the transition to an Open Science paradigm, focusing particularly on the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).

There has been tremendous growth in the amount of digital content created by libraries, publishers, cultural institutions and the general public. While there are great benefits to having content available in digital form, digital objects can be extremely short-lived unless proper attention is paid to preservation. Reflecting on their experience with the digital preservation service Portico, four managers provide background on Portico’s history and evolving practice of sustainable preservation of the digital artifacts of scholarly communications. An overview of the digital preservation landscape is also given, with some thoughts on current requirements for preservation, and on the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

The Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS) framework, developed and implemented by African Journals Online (AJOL) and INASP, has been chosen as a finalist for the 2018 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. JPPS provides detailed assessment criteria for the quality of publishing practices of Global South journals. The framework has been used to assess more than 900 journals. The JPPS team will make a presentation at the ALPSP international conference in Berkshire, UK on 12-14 September 2018, where the winner of the award will also be announced.

The purpose of INASP handbook is to pose the questions that will help journals to judge their level of efficiency, sustainability and quality against internationally accepted criteria.

Mark Edington, the founding director of the Amherst College Press and the publisher of Lever Press, suggests that the scholarly communication community needs clear definitions and standards for how peer review is performed, and that transparent reporting on peer review should be a standard part of a publication.

CRECS (Conferencia internacional sobre REvistas de Ciencias Sociales y humanidades/International Conference on Social Science and Humanities) is one of the main events that brings together scientific and technical editors and those responsible for the dissemination services of Spanish and Latin American journals. The 8th CRECS Conference focused on the Iberoamerican cooperation in scholarly publishing. For the first time, the conference was held outside Spain, in Barranquilla (Colombia) on 2-4 May 2018. In order to maintain continuity with the Spanish participants, a meeting was organised on 7th June together with the Complutense University Library in Madrid.

The videos and presentations are online.

First released in December 2016 – and steadily optimized based on user feedback since then – CiteScore™ metrics have established a brand new standard for measuring journal citation impact. Powered by Scopus, CiteScore’s set of metrics evaluate serial citation impact over a three-year period. Now the CiteScore 2017 metrics are available, revealing the latest annual assessments of thousands of scholarly publications.

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.

The European Commission has released a new set of recommendations to the Member States that offer guidance and propose the best way to implement and support open science practices. The new recommendations include sections on incentives and require action plans from Member States with concrete and measurable objectives.

The provision of community feedback on the exploration of science has evolved with the publication process. The February 2017 approval of open standards for web annotation provides the infrastructure for an interoperable collaborative annotation layer that will make conversations over scientific content ubiquitous and standard. Heather Staines and Maryann E. Martone explain how this community feedback was preserved in the form of annotations that support the FAIR data principles.